Chapter 226: Did I Feed It For Nothing?

“Uhaam!”

Sejun, waking up in the morning, came outside and stretched lazily with a yawn.

“Meow!”

Krueng!

Following Sejun, Theo and Cuengi also stretched beside him, raising their arms in a yawn.

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Sejun, whose stomach had already digested the crab stew he ate to bursting point the previous night, leaving him feeling hungry again.

“Guys, let’s eat breakfast quickly.”

“Got it, meow!”

Krueng!

[Great idea!]

At Sejun’s words, Theo and Cuengi clung to Sejun’s legs.

Then,

Swish.

He made crab stew porridge by adding rice flour to the leftover crab stew broth from yesterday. It wasn’t out of laziness... it was just too wasteful to throw away food. Definitely not just for convenience.

“Guys, isn’t it delicious?”

Krueng!

Squeak!

Ook!

The animals nodded vigorously and responded to Sejun’s question.

“I should eat too.”

After getting an all-clear from the animals’ taste test, Sejun began to eat the crab stew porridge in earnest.

“Hoo. Hoo.”

Slurp.

Blowing on the hot porridge to cool it down and taking a bite,

“Mmm...”

The flavor of the sea filled his mouth.

Gulp.

“Ah. This is great!”

The hot porridge warmed his stomach and spread heat to the parts of his body that were still waking up.

Scrape, scrape.

After neatly scraping off and eating everything that was stuck to the crab shell,

“Ice cube.”

While Sejun was making an iced Americano for his morning coffee,

Whirr!

[Hello, Sejun~nim!]

A poisonous honeybee flew to Sejun and landed on his shoulder, rubbing its body against his face as a greeting.

“Hmm. What’s up?”

Whirr!

[Our queen wants to meet you!]

“Queen?”

Sejun was puzzled and asked since, although there had been interactions between Sejun’s domesticated poisonous honeybees and wild ones since he last visited the poisonous honeybee queen’s hive, the queen had never sought him out directly.

Whirr! Whirr!

[Yes! The queen has something to give you!]

“Really?”

Recently, Sejun was considering taming another poisonous honeybee queen after recently leveling up his beekeeping skills.

“Guys, let’s go.”

Sejun woke up Theo and Cuengi, who were sleeping beside him, and headed towards the hive of the eastern poisonous honeybee queen.

***

Kaiser and Kellion emerged from the Silver Dragon’s territory.

Flap. Flap.

“Since we’re here, shall we go drink there?”

“Should we?”

While flying towards their own territory, the two landed on a floating island of a suitable size midway and polymorphed.

They usually clinked their cups as statues and drank together, but they had never actually faced each other and drank like this.

Clink.

“Ahh, this is great! Do you know how hard it was to hold back from telling everyone that Sejun made this?”

“Kek kek kek. I almost spilled it too.”

The two began to drink, clinking their golden cups filled with Samyangju. The cups, though made of gold, had a simple appearance that complemented the clear Samyangju inside.

“Kahaha. The best snack with alcohol is definitely the roasted sweet potatoes Sejun made.”

After a gulp of cold alcohol, Kaiser took a bite of the steaming roasted sweet potato.

Kaiser had preserved these sweet potatoes, received in thousands from Sejun, with preservation magic, maintaining them in freshly roasted condition.

“Here’s to us drinking Samyangju alone from now on. Cheers!”

“Right. Cheers!”

As the two emptied several bottles, planning to continue drinking Samyangju alone, when

“What are you guys talking about? And where did all this Samyangju come from?!”

Red Dragon Ramter, who had followed them out of concern, asked upon seeing dozens of bottles laid out around them.

Gulp.

Overwhelmed by the strong aroma of Samyangju, Ramter involuntarily drooled.

“Huh?! Ramter?! Ah. This isn’t Samyangju.”

“Yeah. Right! It’s soju!”

Startled by Ramter’s arrival, the two blurted out excuses, but

“Don’t lie. The smell of Samyangju is unmistakable.”

Sejun shared one with Theo, Cuengi, and the golden bat, then

Gulp.

Sejun then ate the Incomplete Platinum Royal Jelly.

Ssssss.

As soon as the royal jelly entered his mouth, it melted away, and Sejun felt as if he were in the middle of a flower garden, so intense was the fragrance of flowers.

While Sejun was intoxicated by the floral scent,

Gulp.

[You have consumed Incomplete Platinum Royal Jelly.]

[All stats increased by 30.]

[A latent talent is forcibly awakened.]

A weak light began to emanate from Sejun’s body.

And

[Talent: Insignificant Presence has been awakened.]

One of Sejun’s latent talents awakened.

“......”

Seeing the name of the talent, Sejun was speechless with rising irritation. This was too much! No matter how insignificant he might be, to blatantly label it as a talent?!

Sejun checked the talent anyway, hoping against hope.

But,

[Talent: Insignificant Presence]

-A talent only possessed by beings with a low presence.

-Among others, you are the last to be noticed.

-Enemies underestimate you.

The talent’s description was not far from Sejun’s expectations.

At that moment,

Kuehehehe. Krueng!

[Hehehe. It’s delicious!]

(Tasty!)

Sejun saw Cuengi and the golden bat swallowing the royal jelly.

“What talents did you guys get?”

Sejun hurriedly asked them, hoping for something worse than his own.

However,

Krueng! Krueng!

[Cuengi has acquired the talent ‘Gluttony’! It’s a talent that makes me stronger the more Cuengi eats!]

(Pip-pip. For me, it’s ‘Unrelenting Grip’. It’s a talent that doesn’t easily let go of things caught by the feet.)

Both had awakened far better talents than Sejun.

“Theo, Vice Chairman, what about you?”

Sejun asked Theo, his last hope, though he expected the answer. Such was human curiosity.

“Meow?! I didn’t awaken any talent, meow...”

“What?! You didn’t awaken a talent?”

“That’s right, meow...”

Theo responded in a dejected voice to Sejun’s question.

“Really? That’s okay. Not everyone awakens a talent. Cheer up! Vice Chairman Theo, want some Churu?”

Sejun offered Churu to console Theo.

Then,

“Great, meow! And pet my stomach too, meow!”

Theo promptly flopped onto Sejun’s lap.

Chomp, chomp, chomp.

While Theo was enjoying the Churu and getting petted by Sejun,

Sniff, sniff.

Krueng!

[This is where that delicious smell came from!]

Cuengi started sniffing around Theo’s bag.

“......”

Theo’s body stiffened.

And

Krueng!

[Found it!]

Cuengi pulled out the royal jelly from Theo’s bag.

“What? You didn’t eat it?”

Sejun interrogated Theo. Was he tricking me?!

“Sorry, meow... I didn’t want to eat it, meow...”

Theo spoke, glancing at Sejun. He, who only ate grilled fish and Churu, had hidden the royal jelly in his bag, not wanting to eat it.

“Eat it now, quickly.”

“Okay, meow!”

Gulp.

Under Sejun’s watchful eye, Theo reluctantly swallowed the royal jelly.

And

Boom!

A golden light exploded from Theo’s body.

‘Did I feed it for nothing?’

Sejun regretted forcing Theo to eat the royal jelly.

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