Chapter 51

[Title: Hehe, Should I Pay Up?]

(Jokes about the item boxes that Ju-Dak invested in Kellierhton)

You successfully founded Kellierhton, right?

Now it’s time to pay up, hehe.

– Lloyd) No way!!!!!

ㄴ Yes way!

ㄴ Aha, I helped out with a joyful heart.

ㄴ Now cough up what you invested, haha.

Medieval-style investing and lending, that’s how it goes.

You lend it, you gotta pay back more.

The interest and pressure that would make modern loan sharks astonished, that was the medieval way.

Can’t pay? Too bad?

Aha, then let’s go to war.

It wasn’t called a frequent territory battle for nothing.

It seems it’s similar here too.

Meanwhile, I, the one who invested, was lying around without a care while juicy gossip was circulating in the gallery.

– The reason why Kellierhton is now a joke…jpg

– Ju-Dak, if you just give me a tuna can, I’m sure I can’t pay you back for a lifetime, haha.

ㄴ How do you create such thin iron, haha?

But there was a misunderstanding among Gallums.

I had already received the price for my investment.

Kellierhton was established and became my primary shield.

“Still, I guess I’ll have to say something.”

But that was something only I knew.

The Gallums would never imagine that I was hiding with a bunker under Kellierhton.

I decided it was time to leave a post in the gallery.

[Title: Squirrel]

Author: Ju-Dak*

Kellierhton Sensei^^

I’ve come to collect what I invested in. Please open the door^^

– Tuna Can Queen) u ㅁ u…

– Lloyd) This wicked investor!!

ㄴ What the heck is this haha.

ㄴ But you have to pay back what you owe.

ㄴ If you’re upset… you know what to do?

– But, isn’t the concept a bit different since it’s an investment?

ㄴ Where’s that kind of thing here?

ㄴ Investment = Loan = Pillage = Business

ㄴ Aren’t they just the same thing? Seriously, I don’t know.

– If you can’t pay, you gotta go to war, haha.

ㄴ Do you know where Ju-Dak is?

ㄴ Then you lose.

ㄴ I’m sure of it, hahaha.

ㄴ Aren’t you seeing that Adrian is split in two!

The attention of the gallery was focused.

It seemed they were waiting for what I would say next, as the post-refresh speed dramatically slowed down.

And then, boldly, I left a reply.

– Ju-Dak*) Let’s hire some workers.

ㄴ Tuna Can Queen) Huh?

ㄴ Ju-Dak*) I’m gonna sell the sewage system. For waste processing and to prepare for heavy rain, you know.

I never planned to repay with anything from the start.

The items I received from here and there were piling up in that storage room and were about to burst.

Plus, the legendary sword also needed a day off once in a while.

It couldn’t just play the role of an exhaust fan all day long.

And the tuna cans I gave as an investment, meal items like ramen? The key point was that I would earn more the more I bought.

So I casually left a reply.

– Tuna Can Queen) Really? ㅠ o ㅠ

ㄴ Lloyd) Damn, Ju-Dak! I like you!

ㄴ Ju-Dak) Is he a god? Is he a god? Is newcomer Ju-Dak a god? Is newcomer Ju-Dak a god? Is newcomer Ju-Dak a god?

ㄴ Ju-Dak) I want to be a mom when I grow up! I want to be a mom when I grow up! I want to be a mom when I grow up!

Suddenly, praise posts for Ju-Dak began flooding the gallery.

*

The goal was to capture the smell of a medieval city.

Ju-Dak*: Never kill the Waste Slime.

That doesn’t mean I was about to build a sophisticated sewage system in a medieval city right away.

There were no materials for that, and to build such a structure, I would need the help of dwarves, but there were no dwarves around.

“So, I guess I just need to make a simple temporary solution.”

A combined sewage system where rainwater and waste could go through easily.

To be precise, I decided to create a sewer close to a ditch.

As I was moving forward with this, I suddenly had a question.

“But can I dig deep into the ground with a shovel?”

Of course, you think you dig with a shovel, right?

But as winter approached, I knew just how hard frozen ground could be.

I really didn’t want to know, but that when you hit soil with a shovel, it sparks and makes a clanking sound, I knew that too.

[Title: First Report]

Author: Lloyd

I’m following the plan…

Is this really how it’s supposed to be done?

Should I dig deeper?

(Workers immediately shovel dirt and carry it away)

(After digging down 5m, giving a thumbs up)

– Ju-Dak*) How the heck did you do that?

However, this was medieval times.

I realized late that this was just a gathering of the prosperous beings who survived in medieval times.

“You don’t need to dig too deep.”

What I had in mind was a sewer that you see along the streets, that kind of level.

Something that could reasonably cover with a lid for hygiene and carried the waste from homes.

On one hand, protecting the city from heavy rain and on the other, cleaning up the waste neatly.

But Gallums’ reactions were a bit nonchalant than I expected.

– I get what you mean, but…

– But won’t it just turn into a pile of dirt or waste;

– There’s something like that in Adrian, and it’s been left unmanaged to the point of collapsing.

Though rifts would appear underground, they wouldn’t just randomly appear in the middle of a pile of dirt.

Taking a good look at how the sewer would look in the middle was still impossible at this stage.

You could easily think of a future where the waste that flowed naturally would gather in the middle of the sewer and harden, becoming equally polluted…

“But who am I?”

Owner of the Waste Slime.

As long as there was a living, moving rift, I could do anything.

I was thinking of creating a big pit at the center where the waste would gather and throwing the Waste Slime in there.

– But how do we contain the slime?

ㄴ It’s a slime, it’ll fit in, dummy.

ㄴ Why are you cursing, dummy.

ㄴ Alright, calm down, you dummies. A slime doesn’t have a definite shape.

The slime could flow like water and fit anywhere as long as it matched the total volume.

“That’s one crazy waste treatment station…”

In reality, things were going smoothly.

Making the sewage system was quicker than I expected, and now all that was left was to put the Waste Slime in the empty pit…

“Wait, where’s the slime?”

The most crucial slime was nowhere to be found.

There’s no way that the perfectly fine slime just disappeared, and I found a clue while digging through previous posts.

[Title: Waste Slime Cut Haha]

(The Waste Slime dead and disappearing picture)

(Thumbs up from the monster hunter Frog Cone)

Easy, haha.

– Ju-Dak*) You piece of trash.

ㄴ Author) ????

Season 53424 curses.

I felt my head spinning.

*

I didn’t even need to find criminals, I found a post boasting about the crime scene.

[999-Day Ban]

Before laying my hand on the ban, I figured I’d hear the last argument.

– Ju-Dak*) Why did you kill it?

ㄴ Author) No, you said never kill the Waste Slime.

ㄴ Ju-Dak*) ?

ㄴ Author) So I thought you meant to kill it, so I did;

What kind of nonsense is this?

As I posted, I realized I had indeed said never kill it.

“Oh, this is my fault then.”

In the gallery, saying absolutely don’t do something is basically saying to absolutely do it.

In a moment of anger, I considered banning them, but well, what could I do?

Besides, it wasn’t like the Waste Slime was just sitting there obediently.

While making the sewage system, it was contaminating all the neighboring places, which was a problem, so there was nothing to complain about.

But no problem.

I had anticipated this and had thought of a new countermeasure.

Tuna Can Queen: What are we gonna do now? ㅠ o ㅠ

Ju-Dak*: Is it perhaps a gacha?

Tuna Can Queen: Gacha…?

It was time for the rain dance.

I poured all the waste from the cities into the pit.

The pit was quite big, but a few hours were enough to fill it with waste from the cities.

[Title: Wow Haha, This Looks Delicious.jpg]

(Picture of Kellierhton sewage pit)

Haha, just kidding.

Enjoy your meal~

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– You bastard.

– Why do I always come in knowing it’s fishing posts?

ㄴ That’s because they are Gallums…

ㄴ jpg ← When this guy is written, it just makes you super curious, haha.

Even the Gallums with strong stomachs could use fishing posts as they were so full of waste.

– So what are we doing now?

– How are we going to deal with this?

– Natural absorption has its limits; at this rate, nature will just dry up to death, haha.

Everyone thought that the Waste Slime disappearing meant they had poorly handled it temporarily, but I had a different outlook.

– Ju-Dak*) Just wait a little longer.

I waited, looking at the pit filled with lumps of waste.

One hour, two hours.

I had the time to spare, so there weren’t any hardships.

Soon, the pit filled with the city’s waste was, as expected, touched by the rift.

[Title: What the hell is this]

(A picture of a Variant Monster created by the rift in the pit)

The rift is using waste to create a variant monster?

Ju-Dak, is this how it’s supposed to be?

– Ah shit, doesn’t seem like it.

– Yeah, I don’t live in Kellierhton, haha.

ㄴ As long as I’m not there, it’s fine.

– Ju-Dak*) So what’s coming out?

ㄴ Author) A lump of waste came out, by the way;

ㄴ Ju-Dak*) Oh hell, haha.

ㄴ ????

ㄴ Oops?

A lump of waste had turned into a Variant Monster.

And the monster was quickly shot by the knights standing by and disappeared back into the lump of waste it once was.

But there was no need to be disappointed.

I could just draw again.

– Ju-Dak*) Eventually, it will rain.

It’s no wonder it’s called an Indian rain dance.

It will happen eventually. Someday.

– Oh wait, is this…?

– Damn Ju-Dak, you’re a genius!

– Damn Ju-Dak, what is this thought!

As some Gallums began to catch on, they were waiting for the Waste Slime gacha.

The rift was creating Variant Monsters countless times, eventually leading to the success of the Indian rain dance.

[Title: Did it come out?]

(Picture of Waste Slime)

(As soon as it appeared, it devoured all the waste around it)

Hahaha, it came out, so here, I’ll post it.

This monster looks adorable this time, haha.

– Wow.

– Look at how fast it eats, whoa.

– Can you really use a monster like that?

The Waste Slime devours everything around it.

Born from the polluted and dirty, it particularly favors filth, where waste is its representative food.

However, the amount of waste gathering was greater than the amount the Waste Slime could eat, so escape didn’t seem to be a concern.

– Damn, I believed in you!

– Are the Gallums afraid of Ju-Dak’s prowess?

As I took in the posts in the gallery, I satisfiedly lay back in bed again.

“Well, I guess this settles things for now.”

Unbeknownst to the fact that perhaps an even bigger problem might arise.

*

“This is really convenient.”

Alex, a Gallum living in Kellierhton, was dumping the waste container into the sewage system.

He no longer needed to throw trash out the window of his house.

It was enough to gather his waste in the alley’s sewage, and that was it.

He didn’t have to regret not having rifts in his house any longer.

“Now I can go back up and resume Gallum activities.”

He picked up his shovel and exited the alley.

Although the alley was filthy.

No, it was dirtier now.

But at least he thought it looked cleaner than before.

– Snap, snap, snap.

At that moment, a rat caught Alex’s eye.

He looked at the rat with disdain and thought nothing of it.

“Go away, just don’t come to my house.”

As he pretended to chase it away, the rat immediately scurried into the sewage to escape Alex.

With that, Alex didn’t chase the rat anymore.

In the past, he would’ve killed it, fearing a potential infestation, but now it was different.

“Ugh, disgusting. I need a bath.”

Little did he know.

He had only a few rats in his home.

But in the sewage behind his house, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of rats were starting to flourish.