Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 162

Sejun sat in his cozy Black Tower kitchen, a thoughtful frown on his face. He was thinking about Ajax, the White Dragon he now controlled. *Where should I use this grumpy dragon?* he wondered. *If I went to Ajax myself and started ordering him around, the dragon might just blast me to ashes!* He shivered at the thought. *No, meeting Ajax face-to-face is definitely not an option.*

“I suppose I’ll have to send instructions through Kellion,” Sejun murmured to himself, stroking Theo who was purring on his lap.

Just as he decided this, a bright blue message flashed in front of his eyes.

[Would you like to summon Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower?]

“What?!” Sejun jumped back, nearly knocking Theo off his lap. “No! Absolutely not!”

He stared at the message, horrified. Summon a dragon? Was the system trying to get him killed? He was safe *here* in the Black Tower, but summoning a dragon, especially one who clearly hated him, was pure madness.

“Nya?! President Park, is me eating two Churus absolutely not allowed, nya?”

Theo, who had been lying on his back, straightened up and said in a dejected voice at Sejun’s words. He misunderstood the words in the message as being directed at him.

“Ah… No! I wasn’t talking to Vice President Theo. Here, eat your Churu.”

Sejun brought the Churu to Theo’s mouth.

“Puhu! I knew it, nya! There’s no way President Park would do that to me, nya!”

Theo, quickly becoming arrogant at Sejun’s attitude, lay back down. He was such a simple fellow.

“Yes, yes. Now, eat up.”

Pat pat.

Sejun stroked Theo’s belly as he ate the Churu, reassuring him.

“Puhu! Feels good, nya!”

Chomp chomp chomp.

As Theo began to eat the Churu again, Sejun checked the newly appeared message.

[The summoning of Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, has been rejected.]

[You can remotely give simple instructions to Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, once a day.]

‘I can give instructions remotely?!’

[Current tasks that can be instructed to the Tower Farmer of the White Tower]

-Elixir: Harvest and offer cherry tomatoes with powerful magic (0/2115)

“Huh?! What is this?”

He didn’t know what he had done, but there were over 2000 elixir-grade cherry tomatoes to harvest. It seemed that planting them in land with strong magic greatly increased their growth rate.

“Hehehe. Work, slave.”

Sejun laughed like a villain and instructed Ajax to harvest and offer the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes.

However,

[Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, refuses the instruction.]

[You can punish Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, for refusing the instruction.]

-Water dousing

-Fire dousing

-Stone dousing

-Tickling

“What is this?”

Since the opponent was a dragon, the punishments seemed very trivial. Water, fire, and stone dousing seemed to have no impact at all.

‘Does a dragon even get ticklish?’

Tickling seemed like the most likely to have an effect as a punishment. Sejun thought about it a bit more and chose tickling as the punishment.

A moment later,

“Oh! So dragons do get ticklish?”

[Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, has harvested 1 Elixir: Cherry tomato with powerful magic.]

Ajax began harvesting, letting Sejun know that dragons do indeed get ticklish.

[1 Elixir: Cherry tomato with powerful magic is offered to Park Sejun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower.]

[To transport agricultural products weighing less than 100kg from the White Tower to the Black Tower, a tower transportation fee of 1 million Tower Coins is required.]

“What? 1 million?”

[Would you like to transport it immediately?]

“Why even ask? Of course not.”

1 million Tower Coins for one elixir-grade cherry tomato was too expensive. Sejun chose to wait and send many cherry tomatoes together later, to save money.

[1 Elixir: Cherry tomato with powerful magic is stored in the temporary storage of the White Tower.]

[Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, has harvested 1 Elixir: Cherry tomato with powerful magic.]

[2 Elixir: Cherry tomatoes with powerful magic are stored in the temporary storage of the White Tower.]

After that, elixir-grade cherry tomatoes were stored in the temporary storage. After confirming that Ajax was working, Sejun kept making rice cakes as soon as the previous batch was finished.

At that moment,

Kkulorong.

He heard Kkuengi’s snoring.

“Kkuengi, are you sleeping?”

Sejun quietly called out to Kkuengi and looked around the giant sweet potato where Kkuengi was.

“Pfft.”

He found Kkuengi and laughed silently. Kkuengi, who had been digging into the giant sweet potato and making a hole inside, was sleeping inside the sweet potato.

Odok odok…

Kkuengi was eating the sweet potato even while sleeping. His appetite was truly amazing.

“I need to give him a bath later.”

Sejun said, looking at Kkuengi, whose fur was clumped and matted because of the sticky liquid from the sweet potato. It seemed like he had eaten the sweet potato with almost his entire body.

“President Park, I won’t take a bath, nya! I am clean, nya!”

At the word ‘bath,’ Theo hurriedly began to lick his body.

“Alright.”

Sejun, with Theo clinging to his leg, headed back to the kitchen. He had to continue steaming rice cakes until tomorrow morning to complete the large rice cake cake at night and show it to everyone with a flourish on the day of the birthday party.

After steaming rice cakes several times, Sejun, waiting in front of the pot where the rice cakes were being steamed, gradually became drowsy from the warmth.

Nod. Nod.

His head gradually lowered, and Sejun began to doze off.

And then,

“Puhu…”

Kkulorong.

Theo didn’t miss the opportunity and fell asleep, hugging Sejun’s knee.

[Park Sejun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, has instructed you to harvest and offer Elixir: Cherry tomatoes with powerful magic.]

“What?! He’s telling me to pick all of those and offer them myself?!”

Ajax hated moving. And now he was being told to take orders from someone else? And to give orders to him, the great White Dragon?!

“I refuse!”

Ajax, his pride wounded, naturally refused.

[Park Sejun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, inflicts the punishment of tickling on you for refusing the instruction.]

“What?! Fwahaha!”

Along with the message, Ajax suddenly began to feel itchy all over his body. He was a dragon, and a very ticklish one at that.

“Fwahaha! Ah… Alright! I’ll do it! I’ll do it!”

To avoid the punishment of tickling, Ajax decided to follow the instructions for now.

Park Sejun!” Grinding his teeth. “I’m going to kill you! Hey! You guys, pick those now!”

Ajax, grinding his teeth in anger, ordered the monsters to work. He had no intention of following the instructions obediently.

However,

[The instruction has not been carried out for 5 seconds.]

[If the instruction is not carried out for more than 10 seconds, the punishment of tickling will begin again.]

The tower’s system was subtly meticulous.

“Ah! This is so annoying!”

In the end, Ajax decided to move himself and harvest the cherry tomatoes.

“Hmph! I’ll harvest them and eat them all myself!”

Judging from the previous situation, planting them was the problem, not eating them.

Pop.

Ajax harvested one elixir-grade cherry tomato.

[You have harvested Elixir: Cherry tomato with powerful magic.]

[Your job experience has greatly increased.]

His rank rose to E-class in an instant, and the level of his Harvesting skill increased to level 2.

“Puhuhu. Good. Now that it’s come to this, I’ll take advantage of this situation.”

He could eat the cherry tomatoes and raise his job rank and skill level, so it was a win-win.

At that moment,

[1 Elixir: Cherry tomato with powerful magic is offered to Park Sejun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower.]

“Huh?”

The cherry tomato in Ajax’s hand disappeared as it was offered to Sejun.

“Eek!!!”

He was upset, but he couldn’t disobey the instructions, so he harvested the cherry tomatoes for now.

In the meantime,

“Found it.”

Ajax found a way to not disobey the instructions without actually working. That was to put his hand on the cherry tomatoes without harvesting them.

“Hey! Pick them quickly and bring them to me!”

“Yes!”

So, Ajax put a bed in front of the cherry tomatoes, lay down, put one finger on them, and had the monsters pick the cherry tomatoes and bring them to him.

And then,

“Ah! Delicious.”

He had a good time eating the cherry tomatoes that the monsters brought.

“Tsk. Did I doze off?”

Sejun, who woke up from dozing off, hurriedly wiped the drool around his mouth and the drool that had fallen on Theo’s back.

At that moment,

“Huh?!”

Sejun turned around, feeling warmth in his right buttock.

Kkulorong.

Kkuengi was sleeping with his butt pressed against Sejun’s butt.

“When did he come here?”

“Nyaa…”

Sejun carefully picked up Theo and put him on his lap, then approached the pot and opened the lid.

Whoosh.

The smell of perfectly cooked rice cakes tickled Sejun’s nose along with the steam.

“It’s cooked well.”

Sejun moved the finished rice cakes to the side, put new rice cakes in a new pot, and then sat down next to Kkuengi again.

Then,

Kkuengi…

Kkuengi moved his body little by little and stuck his butt right against Sejun’s butt again.

“Cute.”

Pat pat.

Sejun stroked Kkuengi and Theo’s backs and checked his status window for the first time in a while.

[Park Sejun Lv. 57]

Talents: Average, Friend of Nature, Landowner, Enhanced Magic Circuit, Skilled with Fire

Stats: Strength (30) Stamina (78) Agility (45) Magic (109)

Job: Tower Farmer (B) [Subordinate Tower Farmer: Ajax Mamーブ (F) of the White Tower (Executing Instructions)]

Skills: Magic Seed Sowing Lv. 6, Harvesting Lv. 7, Seed Shop Lv. 3, Seed Collection Lv. 6, Farmer’s Warm Touch Lv. 4, Crop Giantification Lv. 2, Beekeeping Lv. 8, Thunder Lv. 3, Cooking Lv. 5

Sejun’s status window had grown a lot because he had been busy with many tasks.

And recently, he had learned how to hide his scent by eating mushroom elixirs and honey, and he was steadily increasing his stats by secretly consuming elixirs without Kkuengi knowing.

At that moment,

“He’s still executing instructions?”

Sejun was puzzled as he looked at Ajax’s status. He understood that he couldn’t farm until now because he was F-class, but he couldn’t understand why he hadn’t harvested about 2000 cherry tomatoes by now. He should have finished a long time ago.

Sejun clicked on Ajax’s name in the status window, feeling strange.

[Current instructions given to Ajax Mamーブ, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower]

-Elixir: Harvesting cherry tomatoes with powerful magic (200/115)

The progress of the instructions Sejun gave to Ajax appeared.

“Huh?! 200?”

The number of elixir-grade cherry tomatoes to be harvested had decreased by 2000, but the number of cherry tomatoes harvested was 200. Even after waiting for a long time, the number on the left did not change.

The harvest had stopped. Ajax had learned a trick to not get punished while not working.

(200/110)

On the other hand, the number on the right continued to decrease. Sejun hated seeing workers idle even when playing games. But this guy was wasting resources.

“This sneaky bastard!”

Sejun was furious and went to complain to Kellion. In the meantime, the number of cherry tomatoes became 0.

“The harvest is over.”

Ajax got up from the bed as soon as the cherry tomato harvest was over.

“Keep harvesting cherry tomatoes until I come back!”

“Yes!”

Ajax, who gave instructions to the monsters, left the tower through the tower’s administrator area.

“Dare to control me and give me instructions?!”

Puaaaah!

Ajax, who transformed into his true form, began to fly towards the Black Tower. Ajax knew the location of the secret passage that Kellion had used to enter the Black Tower.

“Park Sejun, just wait a little longer. I will make you pay the price for insulting me!”

Ajax, burning with anger towards Sejun, was about to enter the secret passage entrance of the Black Tower.

At that moment,

Thwack!

“Kerk!”

A black dragon with a beautiful body quickly flew in and punched Ajax in the stomach.

“Who said you could touch our Sejun?!”

Thwack thwack thwack!

Aileen, furious, began to beat Ajax.