Chapter 51
Chapter 51
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 51
Chapter Title: Gotta Pay Back?
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[Isekai Destruction Gallery Episode 51 (52/467)]
[Title: lol gotta pay back, right?]
(Judak's investment crates poured into Kellirton - screenshot)
You've successfully founded Kellirton.
Now it's time to pay up lol.
- Lloyd) No way!!!!!
ㄴ Yes way!
ㄴ Oh lol, we helped with such joyful hearts.
ㄴ Now cough up what we invested lol.
Medieval-style investment, medieval-style loans—that's how it works.
Lend it out, then demand back more than you gave.
The kind of interest and pressure that would make modern loan sharks weep with envy. That's the medieval era.
Can't pay? Think you're hot shit?
Oh lol, then go to war.
No wonder territory wars popped off so often.
Looks like it's the same here.
Meanwhile, the investor (me) is just chilling without a care, but the gallery's buzzing with bait.
- Why Kellirton got conquered now...jpg
- Even if Judak himself handed me just one tuna can, I'd never pay it back in my lifetime lol.
ㄴ How the hell do you even make that thin sheet metal lol.
But the gallery folks were misunderstanding something.
I'd already gotten my return on the investment.
Kellirton getting founded became my primary shield.
"Still, I should probably say something."
But that's just something I know.
The gallery peeps would never imagine I've got a bunker buried underground in Kellirton, hiding out.
I figured the time was right, so I posted on the gallery.
[Title: Flying Squirrel]
Author: Judak*
Kellirton teacher^^
Come to collect on my investment now. Open the door^^
- Tuna Can Queen) u ㅁ u...
- Lloyd) You vile investor scum!!
ㄴ What the hell is this lololol
ㄴ But you gotta pay what you owe.
ㄴ Jealous...? You know what to do.
- But isn't investment kinda different from a loan?
ㄴ Where's that concept here?
ㄴ Investment = loan = plunder = business.
ㄴ All the same thing, for real if you didn't know.
- Can't pay? Then war lol.
ㄴ How do you even know where Judak is?
ㄴ Then you lose lol.
ㄴ For sure lololol
ㄴ Didn't you see Adrian get split in two!?
I could see the gallery's attention locked in.
Post refresh rate dropped hard, like they were all waiting on what I'd say next.
And I boldly dropped a reply.
- Judak*) Let's hire some laborers.
ㄴ Tuna Can Queen) Huh?
ㄴ Judak*) Gonna sell sewer work. Kill two birds: handle sludge and prep for heavy rain ㅇㅇ.
Never planned on getting repaid with anything specific anyway.
Just the items I've been getting from everywhere have the warehouse room overflowing already.
Plus, even the magic sword needs days off sometimes.
Can't just be a fan all day.
And those tuna cans, ramen packs I invested? The more you eat, the more you owe—that's the gimmick.
So I posted for my own benefit, and...
- Tuna Can Queen) Really? ㅠ o ㅠ
ㄴ Lloyd) Damn it, Judak! I love you!
ㄴ Judak is a god! Judak is a god! God Judak is! God Judak is! God Judak is!
ㄴ Judak, I wanna grow up and be your mom! Judak, I wanna grow up and be your mom! Judak, I wanna grow up and be your mom!
The gallery started flooding with random praise posts out of nowhere.
*
Goal: Snuff out that medieval city stench.
Judak*: Never kill the Sludge Slime, absolutely.
Not like I was trying to build a full-on fancy medieval sewer right away.
No materials for that, and even with dwarves it'd be tough—no dwarves around anyway.
"So just make something temporary and simple."
A combined sewer where rainwater and sludge flow together—easy to build.
More like a ditch, really. That's what I decided on.
As I got into it, one late question hit me.
"But can we dig deep into the ground with shovels?"
You might think duh, of course shovels for digging dirt.
But heading into winter now, I knew how rock-hard frozen ground gets.
Didn't wanna know, but yeah—even slamming a shovel into it sparks and clangs.
[Title: First Progress Report]
Author: Lloyd
Doing what you said so far...
This right?
Dig deeper?
(Laborers scooping out deep dirt in one go - screenshot)
(Digging down to 5m then thumbs up - screenshot)
- Judak*) wtf how
But this is medieval.
Realized late these are all the survivor genes huddled together.
"No need to dig too deep anyway."
What I had in mind was roadside gutters on every street—about that level.
Cover 'em decently for hygiene, cart out household sludge.
Protects the city from floods too, cleans up the mess nice and tidy.
But the gallery reaction was a bit lukewarm compared to what I expected.
- I get what you mean...
- But won't sludge piles build up?
- Adrian had something similar, but it crapped out from zero maintenance.
Rifts pop up underground too, but not smack in the middle of dirt piles.
No pretty rifts spawning mid-sewer yet.
Easy to imagine sludge pooling, hardening, same old contamination...
"Who am I?"
Sludge Slime owner.
With living rifts around, nothing's impossible.
My plan: Big pit at the sludge collection point, toss in a Sludge Slime.
- But how do you contain the slime?
ㄴ It's a slime, idiot, it contains itself.
ㄴ Why curse, idiot.
ㄴ Calm down, idiots. Slimes got no fixed shape.
Slimes flow like water if the volume fits—can hold 'em anywhere.
"Literal cheat-code sludge processor..."
Work went smooth as butter.
Sewer build was quicker than expected—just fill the empty pit with Sludge Slime now...
"Wait, where's the slime?"
The key piece is MIA.
No way a fine slime just vanished, so I scrolled back and found it.
[Title: Sludge Slime Cut lol]
(Sludge Slime dying and vanishing - screenshot)
(Thumbs-upping monster hunter frog icon)
Easy peasy lol.
- Judak*) You fucker.
ㄴ Author) ????
Season 53424 profanity.
My head spun.
*
No need to hunt the perp—they bragged about the crime scene.
[999-Day Ban]
Before hitting ban, I gave 'em one last shot at rebuttal.
- Judak*) Why'd you kill it?
ㄴ Author) But you said "never kill the Sludge Slime";
ㄴ Judak*) ?
ㄴ Author) So I thought you meant kill it;
What the hell?
Scrolling my posts, yeah, I really did say "never kill."
"Ah, my bad."
In the gallery, "never do X" means "absolutely do X."
Got pissed and almost banned, but nah, can't now.
Plus, Sludge Slime wasn't exactly behaving.
While building sewers, it'd pollute everywhere—not ideal.
No complaints there.
But no problem.
Planned ahead for this.
Tuna Can Queen: What do we do now? ㅠ o ㅠ
Judak*: Ever heard of gacha?
Tuna Can Queen: Gacha...?
Time for a rain dance.
I dumped every city's sludge into one massive pit.
Pit was huge, but city's sludge filled it in hours.
[Title: Whoa lol looks delicious.jpg]
(Kellirton sewer pit - screenshot)
lol jk
Bon appétit~
[Upvote 1] [Downvote 15]
- Fucker.
- Why do I always click bait even knowing it's bait?
ㄴ That's gallery life...
ㄴ jpg ← this bastard makes me so curious lol.
Even good-stomach gallery could use it as bait pic—pit was that full.
- So what now?
- How you processing this?
- Nature absorbs some, but this much? Nature'd die lolol.
Thought it was temp fix sans slime, but I had different plans.
- Judak*) Wait a bit more.
Stared at the sludge-filled pit screenshot, waiting.
One hour, two.
Time to kill anyway.
Soon enough, the city's sludge pit got the rift touch.
[Title: Wtf is this]
(Rift making variant monster in the pit - screenshot)
Rift using sludge to spawn variant monster?
Judak this normal?
- Oh fuck no it ain't.
- Yeah I don't live in Kellirton lol.
ㄴ As long as it's not me.
- Judak*) So whatcha get?
ㄴ Author) Sludge blob came out;
ㄴ Judak*) Ah okay lol.
ㄴ ????
ㄴ Gg?
Sludge blob spawned as variant monster.
Knights waiting nearby shot it with arrows—back to blob it went.
No sweat though.
Respawn and done.
- Judak*) Rain falls eventually.
Not called Indian rain dance for nothing.
It'll happen. Eventually.
- Wait, this can't be...?
- Damn Judak you're a genius!
- Holy shit Judak what even is this idea!
Some gallery folks caught on—like, Sludge Slime gacha.
Rifts spawning variants over and over. Finally, Indian rain dance success.
[Title: Did it drop?]
(Sludge Slime - screenshot)
(Eating surrounding sludge right away - screenshot)
lololol dropped so posting.
First time a monster's lovable lol.
- Nice.
- Look at that eating speed ㄷㄷ
- Using monsters like this?
Sludge Slime devours everything nearby.
But incoming sludge outpaced what it ate.
No escape worries.
- Damn had faith!
- Gallery scared of Judak's exploits?
I soaked in the gallery posts, satisfied, back to bed.
"This should do it for now."
Never knowing bigger problems might brew.
*
"This is seriously convenient."
Gallery user Alex in Kellirton dumped his sludge bucket into the sewer.
No more tossing trash out the window.
Just dump in the back alley sewer nearby—done.
No big regrets over no rifts in his house anymore.
"Now back up for more gallery time."
He grabbed his stuff and left the alley.
Alley still dirty.
No, dirtier even.
But visible parts cleaner than before—so good enough.
-Chk, chikchik.
Then a rat caught Alex's eye.
He glared like it was unholy, shrugged it off.
"Go elsewhere, not my house."
Faked a chase, rat bolted straight into the sewer fleeing Alex.
He didn't pursue.
Used to kill 'em fearing infestation, but now?
"Ugh, gross. Time for a bath."
He had no clue.
His house had few rats now.
But in the sewer behind his house, dozens, hundreds of rats started swarming.