Go Nam-tae used to work at a monster byproduct processing factory.
The boss who had fired him was now out of his mind with shock from the sudden rockfall.
If he had only been startled, it would have been a relief.
Because he had run out of his office stark naked, his affair was exposed to the entire world.
The news immediately reached his wife, who owned half of the company's shares.
The boss begged on his hands and knees to his wife when she rushed over, but all he received was a notification that she was filing for divorce.
“Damn it!”
The boss didn't see any rifts.
Since a rockfall had occurred in a sealed space, he was certain an Awakened was behind it.
Naturally, the police had no chance of catching the culprit.
Unless someone was injured, they wouldn't bother chasing an Awakened over a mere pile of rocks.
Looking at the boulders occupying his office, the boss couldn't contain his anger and shouted again.
“Hey, Team Leader Kim!”
“Call everyone from Team 1 and clear this out!”
“Today's shipment for the Barun Guild is...”
“Just clear this out first and then send it!”
It was exactly as Go Nam-tae had expected.
“Sir, this amount requires professional waste disposal.”
Since the factory only handled organic byproducts, the rocks had to be disposed of separately.
In other words, it would cost money.
“Make a garden or something!”
“Or go dump them in the mountains!”
“Do I have to spell everything out for you?”
Including Team Leader Kim Gu-bok, there were eight employees who moved the rocks.
This meant each person had to dispose of over 100 kilograms of rock if divided equally.
The disposal cost was one thing, but how were they supposed to move those heavy rocks?
Kim Gu-bok, who owned a truck, took on the entire burden.
“I'll take care of the rocks, just load them onto the truck.”
The employees loaded the rocks onto Kim Gu-bok’s truck with a mixture of guilt and gratitude.
Watching the truck fill up with stones, Kim Gu-bok muttered to himself.
“It's finally time for me to leave this company too...”
But such lamentations were just words.
Actually carrying it out felt like a dream.
Kim Gu-bok was someone who felt sorry for and cared about Go Nam-tae, who had been exploited by the boss.
However, he was also just a salaryman who couldn't say a word to the boss.
As the head of a household pressured by financial burdens, he couldn't step up even when Go Nam-tae was leaving.
Giving him some bus fare behind the boss's back was the best he could do.
After finishing overtime work that didn't even pay, Kim Gu-bok got into his car and was about to look up waste disposal services.
At that moment, he discovered a note on the passenger seat.
A short while later.
With trembling hands, Kim Gu-bok searched for the nearest Hunter Association instead of a waste disposal site.
A few hours later.
He was able to deliver joyful news to his wife.
“H-honey!”
“We can pay off our debts now!”
“Let's move house too!”
‘And the company!’
If the boss knew about this, he would throw a tantrum claiming ownership, but fortunately, Kim Gu-bok had made a habit of recording the boss’s verbal abuse.
The boss couldn't claim a single right to the stones.
...It was exactly as Go Nam-tae had designed.
At the Association counter, there was a reception desk for various miscellaneous resources brought in by Hunters.
To accommodate Hunters returning at different times, the resource reception counter operated 24 hours a day.
Although private shops were more active, the Hunter Association counter was easier for ordinary people to use.
While the inspection fees were a bit expensive, their credibility was guaranteed.
The eyes of the official performing the mechanical inspection widened in shock.
“C, C-rank mana-infused stones...”
“By the ton...!”
The appearance of a new mana-infused resource.
Even the Association President jumped out of bed to personally verify the extraordinary stones.
“Where did this come from?”
“Have you confirmed the source?”
“The source is clear, but as for the original owner...”
The moment the mana was confirmed, the first priority was to verify the source.
Since there were many witnesses, a simple investigation quickly revealed the truth.
Stones that suddenly poured from thin air.
It was a situation involving the discoverer of a new energy source and a person with space-related abilities.
According to the testimony of the first witness—the boss—a rift was suspected, but there had never been a rift that only dropped piles of stones.
“Scour that company and find them!”
As a bonus, the corrupt boss's wrongdoings were thoroughly exposed under the Association President's pressure.
Between Kim Gu-bok’s resignation and losing a gold mine worth hundreds of millions, it was a triple combo for the boss.
The original owner who actually ‘threw’ the stones remained a mystery to the end.
A windfall for some, misfortune for others.
The incident concluded that way.
...It was the ultimate interference.
Go Nam-tae woke up after a sweet, deep sleep.
“Power to the morning!”
“It’s a good one!”
[Did you sleep well?]
“Yeah, I slept great!”
Having someone—or rather, a helper—to respond to him in the morning made him feel like life was worth living.
His body felt strange for some reason.
He had heard that your body changes when you Awaken, so he wondered if that was why.
No, his body felt even more refreshed today than yesterday.
‘Is this the refreshing feeling of revenge?’
Smiling to himself at the baseless thought, Go Nam-tae headed to the bathroom but had to come right back out.
“The water isn't running.”
It was only natural.
His house was originally connected to groundwater.
But it wasn't as if the groundwater source had been brought along with the house.
Being unable to use the water that used to come out just by turning the tap was quite inconvenient.
“I’ll have to start with the plumbing today.”
Go Nam-tae grabbed his pickaxe and headed for the stream, but he turned back before even going halfway.
“Let’s eat before working.”
Go Nam-tae opened the furnace door and was startled.
“Huh?”
The efficiency of the firewood was extraordinary.
“How is the fire still alive?”
At this rate, the efficiency was comparable to magic stone fuel.
Surely, the firewood didn't have mana too...?
[The Boss's house possesses mana.]
[The same applies to things that originally belonged to the house.]
[Also, like those stones yesterday, the trees within the Boss's territory possess mana.]
“Really...?”
If so, it meant this firewood also possessed mana.
No, not just this firewood.
The number of trees he had knocked down yesterday must have been dozens.
It meant all those trees possessed mana.
He had heard that wood infused with mana was treated as a special material.
“Then can I make weapons or items with those?”
[It is useless for the Boss to make weapons.]
[It is recommended to use them only as lumber or farming tools.]
“Why?”
[It is because of the Boss's trait.]
[If the Boss holds something that is not a farming tool, you can only exert the strength of an ordinary person.]
“...I used the knife just fine, though?”
[That is because a knife is also a type of farming tool.]
[Is it not used for various harvesting or trimming crops?]
[If you use a blade that deviates from a farming tool, a penalty will be applied.]
Go Nam-tae pursed his lips.
What kind of Boss was this?
The Go Nam-tae who had been puffing out his chest thinking ‘This is what a Boss is!’ was already a thing of the past.
However, he soon calmly readjusted his grip on the pickaxe.
‘Anyway, as long as I can smash crayfish well with a pickaxe, it’s fine.’
The fact that a pickaxe wasn't a hunting tool was no longer a concern to him.
At any rate, it meant lumber was an option.
“Then can I use that wood to fix the house?”
[If you intend to touch the house, you ABSOLUTELY must not.]
Toto spoke with emphasis, using thick bold letters.
“And why is that?”
[Because the Boss's house is currently at its most perfect state.]
Go Nam-tae looked at his house with incredulous eyes.
‘That thing is “perfect”?’
Where exactly was that dilapidated building perfect?
But looking at it again, the house was a bit strange.
A house built so long ago should have been leaning slightly as the main beams rotted.
It was a house in such serious condition that it needed demolition or major repairs.
Yet now, for some reason, it seemed to be standing perfectly straight.
It might be strange to describe it this way, but it felt like a brand-new house that had only been painted over with the color of time.
“Why does it feel like a new house?”
Toto provided an answer to his monologue.
[Because the absorption of the previous Boss has been completed.]
“Huh?”
He had been trying his best not to look under the house, so he only realized it after hearing those words.
The previous Boss who had been pinned under the house was gone.
The hair poking out from under the hat and the ankles wearing colorful socks were all gone.
Instead, only the hat and shoes remained abandoned under each wall.
At any rate, he had escaped the situation of living on top of a corpse.
“The house absorbed the Boss?”
[The house and the Boss shared the absorption.]
“Me too?”
[That is correct.]
[That is why the Boss was able to obtain the shoes and the hat.]
Come to think of it, he had picked up the shoes and hat quite naturally.
Yesterday, he hadn't been able to lift even a single strand of hair.
[The Boss may take those two items.]
“Can I even wear something this big?”
[The appearance and size change to suit the Boss's preference.]
When he actually tried them on, the hat and shoes transformed.
The hat became a straw hat to block the sun, and the shoes became work boots.
Just in case, he imagined other shapes, and they changed... before returning to their original forms.
“Wow, these are quite useful.”
In fact, were they just useful?
They were shoes and a hat that could withstand stepping on lava and block bullets.
“I need to eat quickly and start working!”
Go Nam-tae tore into the remaining crayfish for breakfast and picked up his pickaxe again.
Before he could even reach the stream, his jaw dropped.
“Wow...”
“...These grew this much already?”
Sprouts were coming up in the paddy and the field where he had planted seeds just yesterday.
They had all grown more than a span high.
It felt like they were growing in real-time.
[It is because the Boss personally tilled the soil and sowed the seeds.]
[Also, this is the Boss's territory.]
[As the Boss becomes more proficient, they will grow much faster and better.]
‘Faster than this?’
He knew he was ‘good’ at farming, but this was incomparable to a game farm.
No, this wasn't a game.
[Go Nam-tae: 100th Floor Boss - Good at farming]
These were all abilities derived from this trait.
While he could check his skills, things like level or mana amount weren't displayed like in a game.
He had even fainted after overusing mana.
“...I'll get better at it as I keep going.”
Go Nam-tae picked up his pickaxe and began digging a water channel.
The work of creating a water path wasn't difficult either.
[Tilling, Tilling]
Even if it wasn't actually creating a field, it seemed this level of loophole was permitted.
It was different from when he was making the paddy and the field.
‘Not too deep!’
Though he only chanted it in his mind, the ground was dug out exactly as much as needed.
Thump, thump, thump!
After only a few strikes, a water path was created between the stream and the house.
Water would reach the front of the house if he just broke the stream bank, but that wasn't what Go Nam-tae wanted.
What he wanted was for water to pour out from a faucet.
“I saw some good things around here yesterday...”
Among the mountains of piled-up wood, there were some that were hollow inside.
He had thought they were terrible for firewood, but they all had a use.
Since they didn't have joints like bamboo, they were perfect as water pipes.
But after lining them up, he discovered a problem.
“I need to connect these at every joint so the water doesn't leak.”
“Is there anything suitable?”
[There is a very good material that can be used as connection tape.]
“Really?”
“Where?”
“What is it!”
Toto displayed a holographic map showing the identity and location of ‘it’.
Setting aside the fact that he had discovered a new function of Toto.
Go Nam-tae’s mouth hung wide open.
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