Chapter 60: Fire the Fertilizer!

What kind of matches would be held at the Outdoor Event?

Led by the Farming Team, each team proposed match events that would be advantageous to themselves.

Harvesting Flesh Rebirth Flowers, Kimjang, carrying fertilizer sacks, wasteland quarrying, stadium construction work….

Of course, all the ones that “didn’t make sense timing-wise” were weeded out.

“…You’re saying stadium construction after starting the Outdoor Event is a match?”

“Tsk.”

They seemed a bit sulky, but their reaction suggested they expected as much.

However, it was no exaggeration to say the Facilities Team was the core of this Outdoor Event.

The Promotion Team knew this well and had no intention of missing out.

So, they offered a sacrifice.

“Use him however you please.”

That sacrifice was none other than Zack.

Knowing full well Zack’s ability to read the “Mac,” they were determined to utilize him to the fullest.

As a result, Zack was able to test his power in various ways, such as making the ground of Western Heaven surge up or sink down.

“As precise as I want, as smooth as I want.”

That was the goal both Zack and everyone else desired.

After ten days of quite persistent practice, Zack became capable of playing with the ground of Western Heaven like modeling clay.

However, the Promotion Team’s concerns did not end with the Facilities Team.

They wanted the second day’s matches to be slightly more differentiated from the first day.

Until the Seocheon Flower Garden, which used to be famous only as the Flower Field of Jeoseung, gained its current pleasant image, the Promotion Team had taken on numerous challenges.

If that’s the case, we should try out new events too.

Unless it was just going to be a field experience to show what was in Seocheon Flower Garden.

[‘Fire the Fertilizer!’ Each team consists of five people in a group, and players are immediately eliminated upon being hit.]

[The last team standing wins!]

[The cannonballs were developed by our Research Team, and when they explode, the fertilizer inside is sprayed evenly.]

“Gah!”

“Wow… then are we going to be covered in fertilizer too?”

Anxiety crept over the audience listening to Mujae’s explanation of the rules.

Predicting this, Mujae shouted cheerfully.

[But dear audience members, don’t worry! The Leaf Tent installed today will block it for you.]

[Still, just in case of any lingering scent, please be sure to wear a mask.]

*Wink!* At Mujae’s slick wink, a wave of gentle laughter broke out in the spectator seats.

Among them were those who remembered seeing the Promotion Team doing a Mukbang at the Fertilizer Team’s workshop.

“Is that the Fertilizer Team’s fertilizer? That stuff is incredible!”

“Ugh… so that’s why they fed us lunch early…”

A reaction mixed with anxiety and anticipation.

Now even more brazen as his acting skills had improved, Mujae put on a surprised expression as if he had genuinely forgotten something.

[Oh, right! If we proceed like this… it wouldn’t be fun, right?]

Mujae snapped his fingers as planned.

*Snap!*

*Rumble…*

As if responding to him, the ground rose up once again.

This time, it wasn’t the spectator seats; the hill of cannons where the players stood surged up haphazardly.

Then, eight hills were arranged in a circle, each at a different height.

“Whoa! You have to hit the opponent like that?!”

“No… then the team on the higher side would definitely have an advantage…”

[Many of you are now becoming concerned about the fairness of this match.]

Mujae, who was emceeing, reacted while checking the Comment Section that appeared on the monitor.

As expected, the comments watching the live stream didn’t hold back.

@CoolMood_1: The highest team looks like they have too much of an advantage.

@DD: The team at the top won’t get hit even if they miss a bit, but the teams below T_T

@ImaginingTheSmell: Lol, either way, it’s a scenario where everyone ends up covered in it lol

[You don’t… have to worry about that! Our Seocheon, we don’t just coast like that~]

Mujae gave a bright smile toward the audience.

Just as people’s curiosity grew even further, Hallakgoong gave a signal to Mujae.

[Then, the third match of the 1st Seocheon Flower Garden Outdoor Event~!]

[Fire the Fertilizer! Let’s begin!!]

*Boom!*

As soon as Mujae finished speaking, the match began with someone’s merciless bombardment.

And the audience couldn’t believe their eyes.

*Rumble…*

Mujae’s words about putting aside worries concerning the match’s fairness were true.

“Just how… is the ground wriggling like that?!”

The Soil hills each team stood on began to spin in a circle like a traditional round dance!

Heights were reversed, slopes ebbed and flowed, and the previous calculations of advantage were completely neutralized.

Furthermore, to capture that vividness, a Camera was installed on the Soil pillar rising in their center.

*Boom!*

*Splat.*

Thanks to that, viewers watching the live stream could get a taste of what it felt like to be covered in fertilizer.

@TwistAndTurnDragon: Gross

@RemoteCastle: Why are you doing this to me? lol

@AbitSlow: Crazy lol I’m getting motion sickness T_T

Even the speed increased and decreased, moving at its own whim.

The arena was no different from a giant roller coaster. Controlling all of this was Zack’s ability.

Hallakgoong, in charge of the live production, looked at Zack, who was focusing with his Hands on the ground behind the hills.

“I opposed it when I first heard the idea…”

No matter how much Zack was offered as a sacrifice to the Facilities Team, and no matter how much it was for a more interesting match.

He had thought it was dangerous to rely entirely on Zack.

“What if Zack collapses from exhaustion while using his ability? Then what?”

“Don’t even think about that.”

Zack had shown a relaxed smile.

After practicing tens of thousands of times with the Facilities Team and the Research Team, he had been full of confidence.

“I want to try it.”

And Zack was manifesting his thoughts with complete freedom.

*Bang!*

*Boom!*

“Gah!”

The fertilizer shells fired from both sides met in the middle and exploded.

As a result, the fragrant fertilizer splattered in all directions.

[Oh! Of all things, the largest fertilizer shells we’ve seen so far have met!]

*Fshhhhhh~*

With Mujae’s words, fertilizer powder flew vigorously toward the spectator seats.

And that… smell spreading to the spectator seats.

“Ugh!”

Everyone was already wearing masks as Mujae had instructed, but they couldn’t help but feel like they could smell that funky scent just by looking at it.

[Today’s match is like a 4D movie! Vividness is just flying at you!]

Now, the Shinsomis who had been waiting throughout the spectator seats quickly swept away the fertilizer powder.

Yesterday, the tourists enjoying all sorts of delicious food were the winners, but today, it felt like those watching the live stream from afar were the winners.

@KickInBed: Luckily the technology to broadcast smells doesn’t exist yet lol

@Sob: It smells just looking at it T_T lol

@BlinkLight: Wow, the players are truly amazing.

Having already known the rules and practiced within their teams, the Shinsomis were holding on desperately.

A passing shell or two was nothing to them, but…

“Aaaah!”

“Eek!”

*Bang!*

The Shinsomis who fell after being directly hit by a fertilizer shell were rescued as airbags installed below inflated.

There was no time to think about how to hold on.

It was just as the Farming Team, who had held on well but unfortunately fell to 3rd place, was getting up from the airbags.

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

The shells they fired at each other met in the middle again and exploded.

Naturally, the Farming Team players, expecting the Soil-like fertilizer they had seen until now to fall, quickly covered their heads with both arms.

*Splash…*

“Gah!?”

“…What is this?”

What they felt was a cold sensation soaking their heads completely. It felt as if someone had dumped a bucket of water on them.

When they opened their eyes and looked at each other, they looked like drowned rats soaked in deep beet-colored water.

[…It seems to be a different kind of fertilizer than before! Thanks to that, the fertilizer that had piled up on each other has been washed away!]

Mujae continued emceeing without wavering despite the sudden situation.

However, Hallakgoong, Mujae, and Zack all noticed the identity of this smell.

“It’s the ‘Stalker.'”

Hallakgoong, who was supervising the broadcast production, tapped the Security Team Shinsomi next to him and ran out.

“Please take over the production here!”

“Yes, sir!”

As if they had already discussed it, the Security Team Shinsomi nodded with a tense face.

Meanwhile, the players were still in the middle of the match.

The Meal Service Team players, who were holding the cannons like horse reins, sniffed as they sneezed.

“Pfft… huh, why does it smell like alcohol instead of fertilizer…?”

“Sniff sniff, this smells like wine!”

The Meal Service Team players identified the nature of the changed fertilizer shell just by the scent.

The opposing team, the Education Team players who heard this conversation, shouted.

“Then that’s even better!”

“Alcohol is better than being covered in fertilizer!”

“Gah!”

Whatever the reason, the Education Team’s cannon pointed toward the distracted opposing team.

The Education Team player shouted vigorously.

“Aim!”

[Oh, the Education Team is one step faster than the Meal Service Team!]

“Fire!”

*Boom!*

The Meal Service Team tried to fire their cannon late, but it was already too late.

As the shell that met in the middle exploded, a pink sparkling spread like an arch and swallowed the Meal Service Team.

“Aaaah!!”

Just like the Farming Team that fell earlier, a rain of wine poured over the heads of the Meal Service Team.

*Splash…*

The Meal Service Team players, who had fallen into the airbags and looked like they had taken a Shower in wine.

One of them licked their lips.

“…It’s delicious?”

“Ew, that’s dirty!”

After all, wasn’t it a mixture of funky-smelling Soil fertilizer and sweet wine?

There was no way their faces, which were being covered in Soil fertilizer until a moment ago, would have been completely washed by pouring wine a few times.

As the match assistant Shinsomis quickly brought towels to the players who were repulsed, the players wiped their faces.

The players who caught their breath grumbled.

“What on earth? Do they use wine as fertilizer these days too?”

“There’s no way…”

While the Shinsomis were debating the incomprehensible phenomenon, Mujae announced the winning team that had survived until the end.

[…Has the winning team been decided?! The winning team is… the Education Team!]

At this moment, it was the Education Team who wore the dirtiest but brightest smiles here.

The audience sent them cheers and thunderous applause.

[Wait, I didn’t know our benevolent teachers had this kind of combat power?!]

[Our young The Dead~ you should really listen to your teachers well~]

Laughter erupted from the audience at Mujae’s emceeing.

The live comments were also quickly flooded with laughter.

*Rumble…*

Once the match ended, the hills that had stopped moving slowly lowered.

When they got close enough to the ground, the winning Education Team smiled brightly and waved their hands.

Only then did Zack take his Hands off the ground and straighten his back.

“That was awesome! Education Team!”

“Teacheeeer! Our teacher won!!”

The young The Dead who came out to cheer for the Education Team Shinsomis and teachers shouted with joy.

Through them, a figure wearing a black robe passed by.

The man, who made eye contact with Zack, nodded slightly.

It was Hallakgoong.