Chapter 395: Building the City Walls

If all these experience points were continuously invested in a single person, it would be entirely possible to develop a fairly powerful expert within a short period.

Even if he did not use them for Dal and instead gave them to Gaemi, the ants under her command would quickly be able to develop into a force with low- to mid-tier combat power.

Taking a step back, even if he did not use the experience points on either of them and instead converted them directly into Star Fiend energy, the result would still be useful. Although the conversion loss was enormous, with the ratio approaching twenty to one, it would at least help Byeol recover faster.

Joo Joowon had tested this before using the experience points he had earned himself. Star Fiend energy truly was a rather unique form of energy. Converting experience points into it was extremely inefficient, with roughly twenty experience points needed to produce just one point of Star Fiend energy.

Therefore, unless it was absolutely necessary, Joo Joowon had no plans to use experience points for his own cultivation for the time being. Instead, he would give them to Dal and the others, who could use experience points directly.

After glancing at Byeol, who was still sleeping on the pillow, he opened the door and walked outside.

The moment Joo Joowon stepped outside, he could not help freezing for a moment.

The scenery around him differed so greatly from what he remembered that he could not help feeling a sense of unfamiliarity toward his surroundings. For a moment, he even wondered whether he had somehow transmigrated to another world.

This was simply because the surroundings had changed far too much.

In just one night, the entire mountain had already become completely bare. As far as the eye could see, there was not a single tree left standing. The word desolate could not have been more fitting to describe the scene.

Although Joo Joowon had continuously heard the sounds of trees being chopped down while cultivating the previous night, the noise had distracted him from his cultivation several times. It had taken him a while to get used to it before he could finally treat the sound of chopping wood as white noise.

Even so, Joo Joowon had never expected Kang Taewoo's efficiency to be this high.

He even suspected that he might have been cultivating for several days already. Otherwise, how could Kang Taewoo have finished chopping down every tree on the entire mountain in just one night?

This was truly far beyond Joo Joowon's expectations.

Actually, there was nothing wrong with working quickly. Naturally, Joo Joowon wanted the city walls to be built as soon as possible. After all, he still did not know how many more stages of the quest awaited him afterward.

However, he had also observed Kang Taewoo's chopping speed the previous day. Judging by that, there was no way Kang Taewoo should have been able to finish cutting down all the trees in a single night.

This mountain was not exactly small, either. With Joo Joowon's physical fitness before the apocalypse, he might not even have been able to reach the mountaintop after an entire day of climbing.

Of course, he had actually guessed that the chopping speed he had observed was definitely not Kang Taewoo's limit.

This was not difficult to understand, either. After all, what employee would be willing to devote himself wholeheartedly to working for his boss's BMW, even to the point of working himself to death? As long as an employee could avoid slacking off and goofing around, that alone was enough to count as being dedicated to his job.

Therefore, Joo Joowon genuinely had not expected Kang Taewoo to suddenly become so diligent.

What had stimulated him into doing this?

Joo Joowon vaguely felt that something was wrong.

However, before he could figure it out, he saw Kang Taewoo suddenly appear out of nowhere, wearing a black-and-white maid dress and carrying a tray. He then elegantly bowed to Joo Joowon and greeted him.

"Lord, please enjoy your meal!"

Joo Joowon: "...?"

Help! His toes were already starting to curl up from embarrassment!

After glancing at the maid outfit Kang Taewoo was wearing, Joo Joowon could not help taking a step back. "What are you wearing?"

Kang Taewoo was not suited to this kind of outfit.

The colors of his fur were already rather dark and gloomy. The black parts were so deep that they seemed unable to reflect even the slightest bit of light, while the red parts were a solemn, dark crimson. This made any clothes he wore look somewhat eerie.

Another reason was that he was simply too tall and bulky.

When a doll standing over two meters tall stood upright, it could only give people an overwhelming sense of oppression. Besides, dolls rarely had slender figures. They were all built like double-door refrigerators, round and chubby, with bulky bodies.

Even though Joo Joowon was not particularly short, he still had to tilt his head back to look at Kang Taewoo whenever the latter came close.

To make matters worse, Kang Taewoo was not only tall, but also had a huge head that completely blocked the light overhead.

As a result, most of his facial features were hidden in the shadows. Looking at him gave people the same creepy, spine-chilling feeling as listening to a ghost story late at night while someone held a flashlight beneath their chin and shone the light upward.

If his body were a little smaller, even if he were only 1.7 meters tall, the situation would not be nearly this bad.

Seeing that Joo Joowon did not seem to be falling for his act, Kang Taewoo lowered the plate he had been holding high above his head in disappointment.

"It's like this, Lord. I've already finished chopping down all the trees on the mountain. Do you think we should start construction right away, or should we stockpile some more timber first?"