Chapter 195: Lee Do-hee, the Walking Conglomerate
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 195: Lee Do-hee, the Walking Conglomerate
Heehee, launching breast milk! Right in front of everyone.
"......"
"What the...?"
Yes, this was definitely an impulsive act.
But Lee Do-hee had her reasons...
'Why aren't you getting horny looking at this body!'
It was like a celebrity riding the subway. It's a problem if people recognize you, but if no one does, it's just as disappointing.
It was the same for Lee Do-hee. Even if they weren't going to fuck her, why weren't they even getting hard! They should have at least tried to pounce on me once or shown some sign of trying to hide an erection!
So, partly to tease them, partly because it was a hassle to explain my trait and get permission, and partly to quickly show off my ability, I bared my chest and sprayed my breast milk.
But after the deed was done,
'Hmm... What have I just done? I could have just poured a little of what I already had, couldn't I?'
A wave of embarrassment washed over me, but it was already spilt water... no, spilt breast milk. At this point, I decided to just brazen it out.
Surprisingly, the technicians were shocked for a different reason.
They had, of course, heard about Lee Do-hee's breast milk, but they were unaware of the trait she had acquired today.
To them, it was as if an unknown elixir with unknowable effects had just been administered to the spiritual herbs they had so carefully planted and optimized.
They knew how sensitive these herbs were, which is why they were so flustered. If something went wrong with the spiritual herb garden, they would have to sort out who was to blame. As the contractors, they couldn't afford any trouble.
"Hey, Ms. Do-hee! What do you think you're doing, suddenly spraying that! An unknown elixir is not good for... huh?"
[The Yale Aria Flowers are undergoing growth promotion...]
[Growth Power +2800%, Time Remaining: 12 days, 8 hours]
"Oh... do you see this?"
"Wait, what is this?"
"What's going on?"
"Am I the only one who can't see it?"
"Did something pop up?"
It seemed the others couldn't see the message, but one of them, a spirit user and botanist, checked the plants' condition.
The man, who wore round glasses, frowned, adjusted them, and read it again...
"Growth promotion of 2800 percent...? Is this for real? What in the world—no, I've never heard of a number like this! How on earth did you do that?"
He was a scholar who had spent countless hours researching how to promote the growth of plants, especially spiritual herbs. He was helping with this project to secure research funding.
Despite all his skills and research, the most he had ever managed to achieve was a 200% promotion. Even then, the effect varied for different herbs, and there were numerous problems, from cost to other issues, that prevented it from being commercialized.
And yet, Lee Do-hee had just exposed her breasts, squirted some milk, and produced this unbelievable effect!
"Th-this is impossible! How, just how did you do it?!"
He exclaimed, slightly agitated, his eyes glued to my large breasts, his hands hovering as if he wanted to touch them but couldn't.
'Hah, so you're finally looking at my breasts!'
"Hehehe... Well, you see~"
A moment later.
After I proudly told them about my trait, their eyes grew even wider than when I had sprayed my milk.
"Wait a minute... this is revolutionary. It must be an SS-rank trait... No, that can't be all. It's only possible because it's you, Ms. Do-hee."
"Didn't she say something about a god recently? Is it related to that?"
"The milk of a god..."
If an ordinary woman had obtained this trait at SS-rank, she would never have achieved the same effect as me.
First, the volume of breast milk would be an issue, and since she wouldn't have breasts and a butt as large as mine, the stats would be much lower. And that's not all. Her efficiency wouldn't be quadrupled by a trait like my Lewd Power, so the performance would probably be around 50-100%.
Of course, that alone would still be a very good trait, but look at this. Look at my glorious, ridiculous figure of +2800 percent!
"Ms. Do-hee. If you give us a little more of your breast milk, we can set it up so that your garden is constantly supplied with it!"
I immediately squeezed out 200ml of milk on the spot and gave it to them.
Squeeeeze...
"Here you go."
"Ooh..."
"It's the milk of a god..."
They received the freshly squeezed milk reverently with both hands, then quickly modified the automated watering system and poured my milk into the nutrient tank.
And the result of the experiment.
[The Yale Aria Flowers are currently undergoing growth promotion...]
[Growth Power +2800%, Time Remaining: 4 hours]
Every seed in the spiritual herb garden showed the same result. Yale Aria Flowers? I think they're flowers that help with mana recovery. All of them had exactly 4 hours remaining.
"Oh... Ms. Do-hee. A day's worth of nutrients was just sprayed, and it came out to 4 hours. That's six times... so with just 1200ml, your spiritual herb garden will receive a 2800% growth buff for an entire year."
"What? For a whole year?"
Even I was surprised by this.
I had just squeezed out 10L in a single day, and a mere 1200ml could last a whole year? Isn't that overwhelmingly efficient?
"Yes! And what's even more amazing is that it doesn't require any other substances. Normally, growth promoters increase the need for nutrients in proportion to the accelerated growth. The biggest drawback was that the soil would dry up and become barren. But... your breast milk doesn't have that effect. This is a miracle!!!"
It was a physical law everyone knew.
If you put in 1, you get out 1.
The law of conservation of mass, the law of conservation of energy, the laws of thermodynamics, and so on—these were the clear and simple laws that governed the universe.
But Lee Do-hee's breast milk alone twisted that common sense.
The plants were growing 28 times faster with the exact same amount of nutrients.
Divine power, mana, internal energy, psychic energy—all were powers that created miracles.
And Lee Do-hee's breast milk was made of divine power.
As you know, while everyone's energy is centered in their heart or their core, Lee Do-hee's is in her breasts. Naturally, what would be most affected by that energy?
Her breast milk.
That's why the system judged that it was acceptable for her milk to be capable of such an absurd, physics-defying feat and granted it this trait.
"Ooooh... This isn't breast milk. This is a blessing from a god. It must be Holy Milk! I've never seen anyone, not even an Awakened, who could create such a substance!!!"
"It's Holy Milk!!"
"God's Milk!"
"God's Breasts!"
'How did things turn out like this...'
The rest of the crew stared at my milk with wide eyes, while the botanist raised his hands toward my chest in praise.
He had an expression similar to the fanatics I met on the 35th floor.
'This is insane...'
While it was true that Lee Do-hee was a god, she wasn't a perfect one yet, and right now, she was practically human.
To meet someone who worshipped her breast milk and breasts in this state brought a fresh wave of embarrassment.
It felt like my sanity was returning.
Lee Do-hee, her act of insanity fading, quickly pulled her clothes down to cover her chest.
When my breasts were hidden, the botanist looked as if he had lost the world.
He seemed to snap out of it just as he was about to touch my chest, and instead grabbed my hand and pleaded.
"Urk... Th-the breasts... Ms. Do-hee. Would it be possible for you to sell me some of your Holy Milk? Not for any other purpose, I just want to use it for research. With this... if I dilute it a little, I think I could mass-produce a side-effect-free growth promoter!"
"Hmm... This product already has a long waiting list."
My breast milk was already reserved. Most of the reservations were from wealthy people who wanted to raise intelligent children, and the rest I was keeping for emergencies and for my guild members.
"But how much should I charge for it?"
There were about 60 spiritual herbs planted in my garden. Each one restored about 0.25 divine power.
On the market, a single spiritual herb costs about 30 million won. Just growing and selling them could generate a substantial income.
Of course, I'd have to buy seeds every year and nutrient elixirs, but that would only be about a third of the total revenue.
And what about the profit from increasing the harvest by 28 times for a whole year?
'Umm... I can't calculate that.'
It wasn't a simple matter of multiplying by 29. I had to factor in the 60 herbs I could plant at once and the 1200ml of breast milk used... and the cost of the seeds had to be subtracted separately.
'Ugh... my head hurts.'
An Awakened's stats increasing doesn't necessarily make them smarter. It might be different if one acquired a trait that improved intelligence, but right now, Lee Do-hee had the mind of an ordinary person.
It's definitely not because my breasts are big that my head is empty!
You guys can't do mental math without a calculator either!
"Anyway, I'll promise to sell you ten 200ml portions for research. It's hard to decide on a price right now, so please discuss it with our administrative agent, Ji-hye."
Ji-hye, you handle it.
In fact, if you were to punch the numbers into a calculator, the value of 200ml of Lee Do-hee's breast milk comes out to about 5 to 5.5 billion won.
That's right.
Lee Do-hee might not realize it yet, but she had become incredibly wealthy!
Of course, if the actual selling price was set that high, the buyer wouldn't profit, so it would be lowered to some extent, but it was still highly likely to be priced at a minimum of 3 billion won.
If the 10L of milk Lee Do-hee made today were sold in 200ml portions for 3 billion won each, it would total 150 billion won!
Lee Do-hee was a walking, super-massive milk-jug... no, a super-massive conglomerate, producing 150 billion won a day!
Ji-hye, the administrative agent watching the broadcast, had already finished her calculations. For a moment, she was ecstatic about the enormous sum of money, but her head was now exploding with the thought of how to handle the flood of purchase requests and the existing reservations that needed to be delivered.
And so, the technicians finished setting up my spiritual herb garden for a year of accelerated growth and departed.
The botanist, in particular, thanked me profusely, practically bowing to the ground as he left.
*
'It's quiet now.'
Left alone again, I gazed at my spiritual herb garden.
"Ah, but if I have to harvest this almost every week, I'll need someone to manage the garden..."
King Pig? That guy would probably forget because he's sleeping, or just eat them himself.
Necroumbra was at the landlady's house, and I couldn't ask Bicorn to do this kind of work.
One of the viewers... that felt too much like using someone as a slave. But don't I have one slave left?
"From now on, you are the caretaker of the spiritual herb garden."
I entrusted the management of the garden to the Pig Magician, who was diligently practicing and studying magic in the corner as always.
"M-me, ma'am? Can I really be entrusted with such an immense task...?"
"No, you are the right person for the job. Do it."
"...Yes, ma'am."
At the firm command of the dignified Do-hee, the Pig Magician bowed his head.
The reason I chose the Pig Magician as the garden's caretaker.
Every time I came here, this guy was hard at work training, without missing a single day.
While King Pig was lazing around on my bed every day, this one was constantly doing something.
His diligence was second to none.
To be honest, I had high hopes for him at first, but his use had become ambiguous lately, so I had left him alone for a while. I felt a little sorry about that.
Ultimately, he would only become useful if I gave him my Skill Growth Ticket and had him learn proper secret manuals and magic books, but it was still too much of an investment for now. It was more accurate to say I was too busy with my own growth to pay him any mind.
I casually glanced at his status window.
[Hosu]
Race: Peokt
Unique Trait: [S-rank Mana Sensitivity]
Manuals: [B-rank Introduction to Basic Mana], [B-rank Basics of Flame Magic]
Skills: <Fireball Lv.17>, <Fire Bolt Lv.5>, <Fire Blast Lv.2>, <Fire Rain Lv.8>, <Meditation Lv.15>
Stats: (Currently under the effect of 20% of the master's lowest stat)
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"Huh...?"
Something about his status window... was strange?
I remembered the manuals.
I recalled buying them for him with the leftover money from the other pigs. They were common B-rank manuals that had already been distributed to many magicians, so I just bought them cheap.
I think they were about 50 million won each.
But that aside...
"Wait a minute. You actually learned the manuals? Your skill levels went up? That's not supposed to happen just from training, is it?"
Shocking.
Of course, most Awakened don't actually learn from manuals. I mean, I properly learned from Irene's manual, but that was a unique, SSS-rank manual passed down to a single person.
For most people, it's closer to just clicking a button; no one actually understands the theory. But a pig managed to do what even humans couldn't?
And could summons even level up their skills? The others were all the same.
'Is this a difference in talent? No, a difference in effort?'
Just as there are differences between humans, there are differences between pigs.
Hosu, the Pig Magician, a genius of hard work.
His spot was filled with countless traces of effort and training. The walls were scorched black, and the floor tiles were worn smooth.
Even while I was getting laid in the Tower, this guy was here, repeating his training.
As a summoned spirit, he didn't need to sleep, but he could have just slept all the time. Yet, he didn't.
Seeing King Pig still sprawled out in the middle of my bed made this guy seem even more amazing.
He's got a bright future.
"Ahem, were you not disappointed that I haven't summoned you all this time?"
"Not at all, ma'am. These have been truly happy days, as I've been able to learn magic!"
'Wow...'
Look at this.
A good pig equipped with an exemplary mindset.
"Next time I need something, I'll be sure to call on you."
I gave him a rough explanation of how to manage the spiritual herb garden.
And now, it was time to climb the Tower again.
"Ah, please prepare the party members for the 38th floor in advance. This time, I'll accept people with real combat power."
I wasn't too worried about the 37th-floor trial.
[The appropriate number of participants is 8. Do you wish to challenge it?]
"Of course!"
Shwing!
*
I open my eyes.
The scent of a deep blue forest.
A single, enormous tree stretched high into the sky, and beneath it, a race with pointed ears was looking at me.
Elves, without a doubt.
[Ding~]
[Help the elves prevent the World Tree from being destroyed.]
A very simple mission.
All I had to do was protect the World Tree from enemies alongside the pretty elves.
"Are you the hero who has come to support us?"
At the sacred yet authoritative voice, I lifted my head to see a platinum-blonde woman who looked like an elf queen looking down at me.
'Hmm. That kind of concept.'
"Yes. That's right."
So far, so good.
However,
"But... why, why do you reek of the corpses of our people!!!!!"
The queen's thunderous roar echoed loudly.
"Eh...?"
Shudder...
The atmosphere froze in an instant.
It changed from the warm and friendly mood of an alliance to the chilling, murderous air of confronting a mortal enemy.
The nearby elves, startled by the queen's declaration, backed away and aimed their spears.
The elite elven warrior unit nocked arrows from the treetops and summoned spirits.
In an instant, they were ready for battle.
"Eliminate the wicked human!"
'What the hell.'
A rain of mana-infused arrows poured down from the sky.