Chapter 98 of 100
Chapter 98. Open the Festival of Abundance (2)
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Chapter 98. Open the Festival of Abundance (2)
"Where can I get the rest of the crops?"
While Sejun was harvesting the remaining carrots, he thought about it.
Squish!
Squish!
Squish!
Squish!
Upon hearing the news, the other rabbits gathered in front of the giant carrot altar of Red Ribbon.
And
'Sejun can do it!'
'Sejun can do it!'
'I believe in you, Sejun!'
The rabbits began to look at Sejun with hopeful eyes.
Gleaming.
The hot gaze from the back of his neck made Sejun unable to turn around.
'It's too much pressure.'
He wanted to get away from this place quickly.
Crunch. Crunch.
[Consumed the Agile Carrot.]
[30g of fat has been broken down, increasing agility by 0.5 for 10 minutes.]
So, to speed up his work, Sejun ate an agile carrot that boosted his agility stat while harvesting carrots. Thanks to this, he managed to harvest 15,000 carrots in just 2 hours.
Then, he hurriedly left the carrot field with the giant carrot altar to check on the other crops.
However, the corn of vitality, the explosive corn of vitality, and the pineapple had not even bloomed yet.
"What should I do?"
For the sake of the rabbits who were looking at the giant carrot altar wistfully, Sejun wanted to hold the Festival of Abundance.
At that moment,
"Ah!"
Sejun thought of the Ents. If the seeds of the Ents could be eaten, they might be considered crops. Moreover, since the population had increased, he thought he could easily get about 100 seeds of purification.
"Kweon!"
Kweon!
Kweon came running at Sejun's call.
"Let's go to the western forest!"
Kweon!
Kweon grew larger. In the meantime, Kweon had grown even bigger, surpassing 15 meters in height.
Thud.
Kweon lifted Sejun onto his head and got ready to run on all fours.
"President Park, sit down quickly. You'll fall."
"Okay."
Following Theo's words, Sejun sat on Kweon's back, and Theo lay on Sejun's lap.
And
"Chirp!"
Theo quietly offered a chirp, having a hidden intention to make Sejun sit.
Whoosh.
"Here."
Sejun peeled the chirp and gave it to Theo.
Chomp chomp chomp.
Theo started to eagerly lick the chirp.
However,
Kweon!
[I want to eat something too!]
Due to Theo eating the chirp, the glutton Kweon also demanded food.
"Kweon, I'll give you honey when we arrive. Got it?"
Kweon!
[I got it!]
Thud. Thud.
Kweon started running quickly towards the western forest on all fours.
A short while later.
Thanks to Kweon's determination to arrive quickly and eat honey, they reached the western forest in just 20 minutes after setting off.
The center of the western forest was still trapped by the ice wall created by Iona's magic, Avalache.
However,
"Wow, what's all this?"
Sejun was surprised to see the entrance of the western forest, which had completely changed from before. Green grass was growing where there used to be wasteland.
And
Crunch. Crunch.
Crunch. Crunch.
Large and small Ents were wandering around the western forest. The number of Ents had increased dramatically in the few days Sejun was away, to nearly 1,000.
Munch. Munch.
The Ents were still eating the many remaining trees.
While Sejun was observing the Ents,
Kweon!
Kweon, who had shrunk again, called Sejun while taking out an empty glass bottle.
"Got it."
Clank.
Sejun received the empty glass bottle from Kweon, opened the subspace storage, put the empty glass bottle in, and took out a glass bottle full of honey.
"Here you go."
Kweon!
Kweon, who received the new honey, cheered and hurriedly opened the glass bottle to start eating the honey.
At that moment,
Crunch. Crunch.
A 5-meter tall giant Ent, the first and strongest Ent of purification, approached. It placed a branch on Sejun's shoulder and began to speak.
[Sejun... sir... there is... fire... tormenting us.]
It started to tell about the fire that was tormenting them.
"Fire?"
Upon closer inspection, there were burn marks all over the Ents' bodies.
"Got it. If that fire appears again, let me know. And I need about 100 of your seeds."
[Understood...]
A short while later,
Crunch. Crunch.
Young Ents with white seeds on their heads approached Sejun and tilted their heads.
[Please... pick... the seeds...]
"Okay."
Snap.
As Sejun picked the seeds from the Ents' heads,
[Obtained the seed of the Ent of purification.]
[Job experience increased slightly.]
[Seeding skill level 3 proficiency increased significantly.]
[Thank... you...]
The Ent expressed gratitude to Sejun and went back to eating trees.
After about two hours,
Sejun managed to collect 98 seeds of purification.
"What should I use for the last one?"
While Sejun was waiting for the Ents with seeds and thinking about the crops to offer at the giant carrot altar,
Crunch. Crunch.
Crunch. Crunch.
The Ents started to move busily, picking up fallen branches from the ground.
And the powerful Ent of purification approached Sejun.
"What's going on all of a sudden?"
Sejun placed his hand on the body of the powerful Ent of purification and asked.
[The fire... has come.]
Squeal!
At the same time, a monstrous sound came from the south.
"Let's go, Theo, Kweon."
"Got it!"
Kweon!
Feeling uneasy about going alone, Sejun took Theo and Kweon as bodyguards and followed the Ents to the south.
Squeal!
The monstrous sound continued to be heard throughout the journey.
"Guys, can we get closer?"
"Sure!"
Kweon!
Sejun, feeling scared, made Theo and Kweon stick close to him as they moved.
When Sejun arrived at the front of the line of Ents where the monstrous sound was coming from,
"Fire ants?"
He saw 100 red ants, each 1 meter in size, fighting the Ents. The battle was heavily in the ants' favor.
Most of the young Ents were much smaller than 1 meter,
Squeal!
Crunch.
The red ants subdued the Ents with their large bodies and cut them with their powerful mandibles.
At that moment,
Crunch. Crunch.
As the giant Ents approached to block the red ants, the red ants spewed fire from their two antennae, attacking the Ents.
Whoosh.
The bodies of the Ents began to burn from the fire spewed by the red ants' antennae.
"Make a rain cloud! Rain!"
Pitter-patter.
Sejun quickly made it rain to extinguish the fire on the Ents' bodies.
Pshh.
"Where did these come from?"
This 99th floor of the tower keeps producing new things.
"Phew. How many died..."
Watching the battle, Sejun thought that the original number of Ents must have been much larger. Many Ents had died from the ants' attacks.
"Kids! Attack!"
"Come out, Golem!"
Kweon!
At Sejun's command, the animals attacked the red ants.
Crunch!
The ground beneath Theo's feet turned into a black swamp, and a 30-meter-tall Golem appeared.
And
Roar.
Sejun sucked up the rain with his mouth and
-Water Cannon!
Whoosh.
spewed it at the ants.
Whoosh!
The water spewed by the Golem had tremendous power, capable of piercing through rocks, but the ants' exoskeletons easily withstood the Golem's attacks.
Instead, the internal organs, unable to withstand the water pressure, started to be destroyed.
[The Watchman Theo's slave, the Bug Hunter Golem, has eliminated a Fire Ant Worker.]
[The Watchman Theo has obtained 90% of the experience points gained by the Bug Hunter Golem.]
[The Watchman Theo has obtained 450 experience points, which is 50% of the experience points gained.]
...
..
.
Kweon!
With the giant Kweon stepping on and killing the Fire Ant Workers, the battle ended quickly.
Sejun examined the exoskeleton of a Fire Ant Worker. He found it interesting that it could withstand the Golem's attacks. Of course, it turned to powder under Kweon's foot.
Ding.
Ding.
When he stabbed it strongly with a dagger, the exoskeleton dented slightly and vibrated, spreading the impact around.
"This could be useful?"
It seemed like it could make good armor.
"I should collect a few."
Sejun put a few Fire Ant Worker corpses into the subspace storage.
After the battle,
"Rain!"
To prevent the Fire Ant Workers from easily approaching, Sejun had Kweon dig a long puddle. He had noticed that the Fire Ant Workers avoided water when it touched their bodies during the rain.
After making the puddle and returning,
Crunch. Crunch.
[Sejun sir... please... pick... the seeds...]
A 2-meter-tall Ent approached, asking Sejun to pick 5 seeds from its head. It was the Ent Sejun had saved from the fire earlier.
Tick. Tick.
It seemed to be making a playful gesture by tickling Sejun's body with a branch.
Thud!
"Don't mess around!"
Theo, on guard, punched the Ent's branch.
Smack.
The Ent hit Theo with another branch.
"Roar! How dare you touch me, Theo the Watchman?! Let's fight!"
Jump.
Enraged, Theo jumped at the branch,
Whoosh.
but the Ent dodged by moving the branch.
"Meow!"
Smack.
Theo chased the branch more enthusiastically.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
The Ent dodged Theo's front paws by moving the branch back and forth. Eventually, Theo ended up running around alone.
Snap.
[Obtained 5 seeds of the Ent of purification.]
[Job experience increased slightly.]
[Seeding skill level 3 proficiency increased significantly.]
[Seeding skill level 3 proficiency is full, and the level has increased.]
While Sejun was harvesting 5 seeds from the Ent's head, his seeding skill level increased to 4.
And
-There is a low chance that the number of seeds obtained when seeding will increase 2 to 5 times.
A new effect was added to the level 4 seeding skill.
"Let's go now."
"Good fight! See you next time!"
Although Theo had been toyed with by the Ent, his expression was very satisfied, as if he didn't even notice.
"Now I just need one more."
Sejun was lost in thought on his way back home. Since there was no rush to get back, Kweon moved slowly.
When he returned home,
Thump!
Squish!
The black rabbit and Squish were waiting for Sejun and scolded him for going somewhere.
"No... I went to get crops."
Thump?
[There are already 10 crops here. Where did you go?]
The black rabbit said, frustrated.
"10 crops?!"
Thump!
The black rabbit nodded and led Sejun to the carrot field.
Sejun followed the black rabbit, thinking, 'What nonsense is this?' and saw the crops in front of the giant carrot altar.
"Hey?! What's this?!"
There were two crops he hadn't seen before: ripe red strawberries and shiny green bell peppers.
"Ah! Why didn't I see these?!"
Sejun then remembered that on the 215th day of the disaster, when the 5th seed shop opened, he had bought 100 seeds each of strawberries and bell peppers along with 20,000 carrot seeds.
Thump!
"What? They were hidden by the corn? I see."
Why he hadn't noticed the strawberries and bell peppers was no longer important. There was something else that mattered.
"Yum."
Just looking at the strawberries made Sejun's mouth water. He desperately wanted to taste them, but the rabbits' sharp gazes from behind made him unable to eat them.
'Right. This comes first.'
Sejun regained his composure and approached the giant carrot altar, placing his hand on it.
[Do you want to offer crops to the giant carrot altar of Red Ribbon?]
"Yes."
As Sejun answered, the crops started to be sucked into the giant carrot altar one by one.
And an alert appeared in front of Sejun.
[1 type of crop has been offered 100 times.]
[2 types of crops have been offered 100 times each.]
...
..
.
[10 types of crops have been offered 100 times each.]
[The quest is complete.]
[As a quest completion reward, the Festival of Abundance will be held.]
[The giant carrot altar of Red Ribbon will summon 1,000 random rabbits to enjoy the Festival of Abundance.]
[The entire floor where the giant carrot altar of Red Ribbon is located will be blessed with the blessing of abundance.]
[As a quest completion reward, you have obtained the job skill - Crop Gigantification Level 1.]
Finally, the Festival of Abundance was held.
Squeak!
Whoosh!
Thump!
Squish!
While Sejun was watching the rabbits cheer,
"Huh?!"
The seeds of the Ents he had put in his pocket were sucked into the giant carrot altar.
[11 types of crops have been offered 100 times each.]
[The Festival of Abundance has been enhanced to a festival overflowing with abundance and mana.]