Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 150

Kkueng was wandering through the party when he noticed the Boneheads giving Sejun nasty looks. These weren’t just ordinary creatures; they were skeletons with dog heads.

Golden Bat, seeing the Boneheads’ mean looks towards Sejun, pretended to slit their throats with his wings, speaking quietly so only Kkueng could hear. “Bat bat! How dare they look at Sejun like that!!! Kkuengi, my brother, should I slice them up for you?!”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[No! I’ve never seen anyone weaker than Papa!]

(Bat bat. That’s true!)

Finding someone weaker than Sejun on the 99th floor was nearly impossible. So, Kkueng decided he would boost Papa’s confidence!

Kkueng!

[Golden Bat, hide over there!]

(Bat bat! Yes! Kkueng, my brother!)

He hid behind a table, watching the Boneheads approach Sejun.

Just then,

Sniff sniff.

Kkueng and the Golden Bat smelled something delicious.

Kkueng!

[It smells like honey!]

(Bat bat! Kkueng, my brother! It smells fragrant too!)

Unfortunately, there were honey-glazed rice cakes and strawberries on the table they were hiding behind, and they couldn’t look away from the food.

Among the skeletons, there was a ranking system called Bone Rank. It determined their status.

The ranks were divided into five levels based on who the bones originally belonged to, how much power the owner had, and how well the bones were preserved: Sacred Bone, True Bone, Extraordinary Bone, Common Bone, and Mixed Bone.

True Bones and above were treated like nobles among the skeletons.

Sacred Bone Kereu and his son, Bereu, from the 93rd floor, were at the party. The True Bone skeletons from the lower floors spotted a Mixed Bone skeleton. They didn’t know who the bones originally belonged to, but it had less than 0.1% of the original owner’s power, and the bone structure was badly deformed.

‘A Mixed Bone, indeed.’

Finding the lowest Mixed Bone skeleton at a party they had struggled to attend, they thought the Mixed Bone skeleton was a slave following its master.

So, they ordered Koto, the lowest-ranking skeleton among them, to demand the bones as a tribute. Among skeletons, asking for bones was a way to show you were stronger and make someone else look weak. It was like a silly game for the True Bone skeletons.

Koto, a low-ranking True Bone from the 20th floor of the tower, walked up to Sejun and demanded his bones.

“Keuh heup.”

“Heh heh heh.”

The True Bone skeletons watched from a distance, trying hard not to laugh out loud. Koto was being ignored, even by a Mixed Bone.

“Eek! You! Offer your bones now!” Koto raised his voice and reached out to Sejun as he approached. He had already been ignored by a Mixed Bone, and if he returned empty-handed, it would be a lifelong embarrassment.

“Ugh!” Sejun, thinking Koto was attacking, quickly raised his arm to defend himself.

“If you won’t offer them, I’ll take them myself!” Koto grabbed Sejun’s arm.

‘You crazy bastard!’

Sejun, scared by Koto’s demand for his bones, jerked his arm away.

And then,

Thwack!

Koto’s arm was shaken off far too easily. Koto’s arm bone popped out.

“Huh?!” Sejun was surprised by what happened. Then he realized,

‘That’s right! I’ve become stronger!’

He had forgotten, being around the powerful beings of the 99th floor, but Sejun now had the power to easily crush someone from the 20th floor.

Clatter.

Sejun, who had been scared just moments ago, took Koto’s arm and held it in his hand.

And then,

“Heh heh heh. Hey. Bonehead. What did you just say?” He forgot how scared he had been and spoke confidently. He looked like a bad guy.

“You! How dare a lowly Mixed Bone attack me, a low-ranking True Bone?! Where is your master?! I will hold your master responsible for the slave’s misdeeds!”

“What slave? What are you talking about? And Mixed Bone? This is dragon bone! If Kellion heard what you just said, you’d be obliterated.”

“Eek! It’s a duel!” Koto shouted, angry at Sejun’s words.

“Why a duel? Just get hit!”

Thwack! Thwack!

Sejun began hitting Koto with Koto’s own right arm.

Just then,

“That’s enough.” The True Bone skeletons who had sent Koto over approached. All eyes in the party were now on Sejun and Koto. They didn’t want to see Koto being beaten anymore.

“What?! Are you trying to gang up on me?!” Sejun, overly confident, charged in.

“Just because you beat a skeleton from the 20th floor, do you think you can look down on us?!” One of the True Bone skeletons stepped forward and turned his hand bone into a sword. He filled the bone sword with energy and slashed at Sejun.

Thwack!

The bone sword hit Sejun’s bone armor. The armor was strong because it was made of dragon bone, so the bone sword didn’t break through.

However,

‘What?!’ Sejun felt a chill. The bone sword had chipped away about halfway through the armor. If the same spot was attacked again, the armor would break.

However,

“It’s quite sturdy. But how many times can it withstand?!” No matter how much the skeleton hit, Sejun’s bone armor wouldn’t break. The armor healed much faster than the skeleton’s attacks.

‘One hit, two hits…’ Sejun counted how many times the skeleton attacked, thinking about how to deal with these skeletons.

Just then,

Kkueng!

[Papa is in danger!]

Kkueng had finished all the honey rice cakes on the table and his senses returned. He saw Sejun being beaten by the skeletons and his eyes went wide with panic. He had forgotten that he was hiding to boost Sejun’s confidence.

Kkueng!

Without thinking, Kkueng ran towards the skeletons and punched. WHAM! The skeletons were hit by Kkueng’s fist, shattered into pieces, and crashed into the Magic Tower wall.

And then,

Wham!

Another explosion was heard, and a hole appeared in the newly built Magic Tower wall.

The monsters at the party froze, watching Kkueng, who had dared to make a hole in the Magic Tower.

Kkueng?!

[Papa, are you okay?!] Kkueng rushed over and checked Sejun’s body.

“Uh-huh… I’m fine… Should we leave? Chairman Theo!” Sejun, seeing the hole in the Magic Tower wall, quickly called for Theo.

“What’s going on, nya?” Theo, who had been talking to the Excellent Wandering Merchant, rushed over.

“We have to go!” Sejun quickly put Theo on his knee and ran away from the Magic Tower, escaping to the farm.

Kkueng’s project to boost Sejun’s confidence ended without a clear result.

A little later,

“Kyu-kyu-who did this?!!!” Iona was furious when she saw the hole in the Magic Tower wall. This tower was very important to her, a symbol of her magic and hard work.

“Oof! Oh! Did they come in the early morning?” Sejun said, waking up and seeing Theo and Iona sleeping on his knees.

Three days earlier, after the Magic Tower party, Iona came to demand an explanation for Kkueng breaking the Magic Tower.

“How could you let Kkueng do such a thing at the party?!” There was a giant bear paw-shaped hole in the Magic Tower wall, so he couldn’t deny it. Besides, there were many witnesses.

“Iona, calm down. Actually…” Sejun explained what had happened with the skeletons, calming Iona’s anger.

And then,

“I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse.” He offered an extra day of using Theo’s tail. Theo’s tail has special magic powers that Iona needs.

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Okay!”

Just as they reached an agreement with Iona,

“Nya?! What are you talking about, nya?!” Theo, who had been sleeping on Sejun’s lap, protested because he didn’t agree to the deal.

However,

“Instead, Chairman Theo gets a one-week extension.” Sejun said.

“Good, nya! You can use it for a few more days, nya!” Theo agreed to the use of his tail at Sejun’s words, even encouraging it further.

Sejun made both Iona and Theo happy. Theo stayed with Iona in the Black Field Magic Tower for two days, returning with Iona after she finished her work in the early morning.

Thud.

“Nyaaang······.” Sejun picked up Theo, put him on his knee, and went to the bedroom wall.

Scribble.

Sejun added a stroke to the wall, marking his 310th day of being stranded.

“But what day is it today?” Sejun, suddenly curious about the date, began to count.

“I was stranded on May 11th, so…” Sejun drew calendars for March, April, and May on the floor and counted back 55 days from the day he was stranded to find today’s date.

“So today is March… 16th?! Oh?! Then my birthday is in a week?” Sejun’s birthday was on March 23rd. No wonder he wanted to know the date…

“Whew. I almost missed my birthday.” Sejun was relieved, as if something terrible had almost happened.

And then,

“My birthday is in a week!” Sejun announced to the animals eating breakfast in the kitchen.

However,

“What’s a birthday, nya?”

“Kkyut? What is that?”

Kkueng?

[What is that?]

(Birthday?)

Bbiik?

Ppaa?

The animals didn’t know what a birthday was. He had never seen anyone celebrate a birthday in the tower.

“A birthday is the day you were born. On your birthday, people congratulate you and give you gifts for being born.”

“Born date, nya?! Then if you don’t know it, does that mean you don’t have a birthday and can’t get gifts, nya?!”

“Kyu-that can’t be!”

Kkueng?!

(Bat bat! That can’t be!)

Bbiik!

Ppaa!

The animals were shocked by Theo’s words. There were no calendars here. The animals only knew the passage of time through instinct.

Sejun’s announcement caused chaos on the farm.

After breakfast,

“I don’t have a birthday, so I can’t get gifts, nya…”

“Kkyung… Even with great magic, I can’t know the date I was born…”

(I’m just a bat without a birthday…)

Bbiik……

The animals all sat sadly with gloomy faces.

Moo……

The Black Minotaurs also became sad after hearing about birthdays from the other animals.

Just then,

Kkueng……

[Mom doesn’t know when Kkueng was born…] Kkueng returned with a disappointed look after asking the Pink Fur about his birthday.

‘I have no choice.’

The animals would be sad all day if he didn’t do something.

“Actually, I can give my birthday to other people. If you need a birthday, I’ll give you mine.” So, Sejun made up an ability he didn’t have.

“Really, nya? Chairman Park! Give me a birthday, nya!”

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut! Really?! Give me a birthday too!”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Kkueng needs a birthday too! I want 100 jars of honey as a birthday present!]

(Bat bat! Sejun, my lord! Give me one too!)

Bbiik!

Ppaa!

All the animals wanted a birthday, so everyone’s birthday became March 23rd, the same as Sejun’s. In the end, Sejun’s birthday party in a week became everyone’s birthday party.

Later, the animals who received birthdays from Sejun shared their birthdays with other monsters, and March 23rd became a festival in the Black Tower.

And then,

“Heh heh heh. Is that even possible?! Sejun, give me a birthday too!” Aileen, who already had a birthday, wanted to get birthday presents twice a year.

However,

“No. I can’t give a birthday to someone who already has one.” Sejun’s convenient ability stopped Aileen’s trick.