TL: Hanguk

Krueng?

While wandering around the party hall, Cuengi noticed some skeleton dogs staring at Sejun with malicious intent. It’s not that Cuengi has learned bad language, but they were actually skeletons with dog heads.

(Pip-pip! How dare they look at Sejun like that!!! Brother Cuengi, should I take care of them?!)

The golden bat, angered by the skeleton dogs looking at Sejun with hostile gazes, whispered to Cuengi while making a throat-slitting gesture with its wing.

Krueng! Krueng!

[No! I’ve never seen anyone weaker than dad!]

(Pip-pip. Well, that’s true!)

Finding someone weaker than Sejun on the 99th floor was like plucking stars from the sky. Therefore, Cuengi decided to restore his dad’s confidence!

Krueng!

[Golden bat, hide over there!]

(Pip-pip! Yes, Brother Cuengi!)

They hid behind a table and kept an eye on the skeleton dogs approaching Sejun.

Then,

Sniff sniff.

Cuengi and the golden bat smelled something delicious.

Krueng!

[It smells like honey!]

(Pip-pip! Brother Cuengi! I smell something fragrant too!]

Unfortunately, the table they hid behind had Garaetteok (rice cakes) smeared with honey and strawberries, and they got distracted by the food.

***

Among the skeletons, there is a caste system called ‘Bone Rank,’ which determines one’s status based on the bones.

It classifies the skeletons into five levels based on who owned the bone originally, the power of the bone’s original owner, and how well its shape is maintained.

Sacred Bone – True Bone – Noble Bone – Common Bone – Mixed Bone.

From True Bone onwards, skeletons are treated as nobility.

True Bone skeletons from the 93rd floor, following Sacred Bone Ker and his son Ber to the party, discovered a skeleton. Although they couldn’t determine the original owner of the bone, it had less than 0.1% of its original power and was greatly deformed.

‘A Mixed Bone.’

They assumed the Mixed Bone skeleton was a slave following its master since they too had struggled to attend the party where the lowest Mixed Bone skeleton was present.

So they ordered the lowest-ranking true bone skeleton among them to collect the bone. Offering one’s bone signifies submission in skeleton society. It was a light jest by the True Bone skeletons.

That’s why Koto, a lowest-ranking true true bone skeleton from the 20th floor, approached Sejun and demanded the bone.

***

“Keuk.”

“Kuk kuk kuk.”

From afar, the sound of True Bone skeletons holding back their laughter could be heard, all because of Koto being ignored even by a slave.

“Hey! You! Quickly offer your bone!”

As Koto raised his voice and reached out towards Sejun, If he returned empty-handed after being ignored by a Mixed Bone, it would be a stain on his reputation forever.

“Ugh!”

Sejun, thinking Koto was attacking, quickly raised his arm in defense.

“If you won’t offer it, I will take it myself!”

Koto grabbed Sejun’s arm.

‘Crazy bastard!’

Frightened Sejun, seeing Koto demanding the bone, swung his arm to shake off Koto’s hand.

And then,

Thwack!

Koto’s arm was detached way too easily. More precisely, the bone in Koto’s arm came off.

“What?!”

Sejun was startled by the unexpected situation and then realized,

‘Right! I’ve become strong!’

He had forgotten because he had been with beings from the 99th floor, but Sejun had the ability to easily overpower those from around the 20th floor.

Cling clang.

been nervous just moments before, now held the detached arm of

And then,

dog. What did you just

with a confident expression, forgetting his earlier nervousness. It was the

lowly Mixed Bone like you attack me, a lower True Bone?! Where is your master?! I’ll hold him accountable for the mistake

And Mixed Bone? This is a dragon bone! If Kellion heard what you just

I challenge you

Sejun’s words hinting ‘you

Just

Thwack! Thwack!

Koto with Koto’s own

Then,

“Enough.”

who

was not good for the other skeletons to see Koto continuously being

trying to fight with

a completely different aura than Koto, Sejun, who had already gained too much confidence, charged at them like a

think we’re a joke just because you defeated a single skeleton

behind stepped forward, transforming its hand bone into a sword. Then, it infused mana into the bone sword and

Thwack!

collided with the bone armor, but thanks to the hardness of the dragon bone, the sword could not fulfill its

However,

‘What the?!’

The armor’s bone was about half cracked because of the bone sword. It meant that if he got hit in the same spot again, the armor would

However,

sturdy, aren’t you? But how many

Thwack! Thwack!

attacked, Sejun’s bone armor was not penetrated. The regeneration speed of the bone armor was much faster than

‘One hit, two hits…’

times the skeleton attacked and thinking about how to deal with

Then,

Krueng!

[Daddy’s in danger!]

focused on Sejun, saw Sejun being beaten by the skeleton. He even forgot that he was hiding to boost

Krueng!!!

the

Kwang!

pieces

And then,

Kwang!

was heard as a hole appeared in the newly constructed

“……”

the party were frozen in place, staring at Cuengi, who had dared to

Krueng?!

[Is Daddy okay?!]

and checked

I’m fine… Shall we leave, Vice

wizard tower’s wall, Sejun quickly called

“What happened, meow?!”

who was busily bragging to a wealthy wandering merchant, ran

“We have to go!”

and hurriedly left the tower,

boost Sejun’s confidence ended in a rather ambiguous state, neither a

Shortly after,

“Kyoo-kyoo-Who did this?!!!”

seeing the hole in the wizard tower wall, was

***

Hey! Did they

and Iona, who were

Cuengi after the tower completion celebration

could you let Cuengi do such a thing

the tower wall

down, Iona. The truth

with the skeletons and

And then,

is an irresistible

price. The price was one more day of

“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. Okay!”

Iona and Sejun

did

lap, unknowingly protested against the

However,

Vice Chairman tenure by one

you use it for a few

accepted the extension of his

and Theo spent two days at the wizard tower with Iona while she worked during the day and returned with her after she finished her work at

***

“Mewwwwo…”

and attached him

Swoosh.

Sejun started the morning of

what’s the

curious about the date, Sejun started

got stranded

the calendars of March, April, and May on the ground and counted 55 days backward

is March… 16th?! Huh?! That means

No wonder he wanted to calculate the

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