Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 192

“What is this? Why are only weak enemies showing up?”

Brachio grumbled, looking through the crystal ball at the beings who had moved from the Black Tower to the Green Tower via the land deed. The Tower Farmer he wanted from the Black Tower was not here.

“Go and collect them.”

Brachio ordered the monsters he used as underlings to collect the land deeds.

And,

“This time, I will use a spell that will work one day after the emotions are moved.”

He sent the land deed with the new spell back to the Black Tower.

“Let’s eat dinner!”

Sejun called the animals in front of the giant crayfish roast being grilled in the mess hall yard. Roasting the whole giant crayfish took a long time. It was already dinner time when it was ready.

Of course, there was a way to eat it for lunch by using Fire Flame’s flame buff, the Flame of Affinity, or other methods, but Sejun deliberately took his time because Aileen’s Healthy Fist Meat Chunk had not yet been digested.

Because once they started eating, there wouldn’t be any left for Sejun.

“Kkueng-ah, please separate the crayfish.”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Kkueng, who received Sejun’s request, grew in size and

Crack!

Crack!

Lightly tore off both claws of the crayfish.

And

Snap!

He neatly separated the body and tail by bending the crayfish’s waist. As expected, the guy who knew how to eat was different.

“Okay. Cut off as much as you want to eat.”

At Sejun’s words, the animals lined up in front of the separated crayfish and cut off as much as they wanted to eat. The size of the crayfish was so large that even cutting off the claws was difficult to eat. Of course, this was excluding Kkueng.

Kkueng!

[Delicious!]

Kkueng was holding one claw and had already eaten more than half of it.

“Vice Chairman Theo, claws.”

“Understood, meow!”

Snip.

Sejun used Theo’s Dragon Claw to cut the crayfish meat into appropriate sizes for easy eating later and stored it in his subspace warehouse.

And after sharing the crayfish roast with Kaiser, Kellion, and Aileen, he finally sat down and began to eat.

“Vice Chairman Theo, let’s eat Churu.”

Of course, starting with Theo. I’m clearly the chairman and Theo is the vice chairman, so why do I feel like I’m assisting him?

“I’ve been waiting, meow!”

Theo answered confidently and lay down on Sejun’s lap, ready to receive the Churu. Just waiting like this means I’ve assisted Chairman Park, meow!

“Here.”

Sejun scooped up tuna porridge with a spoon and brought it to Theo’s mouth.

Chomp chomp chomp.

“Puhuhut. It’s delicious because it contains Chairman Park’s sincerity, meow!”

“Okay.”

After confirming that Theo was eating deliciously, Sejun also began to eat the crayfish.

“Crayfish tastes best when dipped in its innards.”

Sejun deeply dipped the crayfish leg meat into a bowl containing the crayfish innards and put it in his mouth.

“Mmm.”

The smell of cheese and butter filled Sejun’s nose and mouth.

Munch munch.

As he began to chew the crayfish in earnest, he felt a chewy texture and a salty taste containing the flavor of the sea.

However, the salty taste was quickly washed away as if washed away by the waves, and the sweetness that rose as he chewed the crayfish filled Sejun’s mouth with joy.

While everyone was enjoying the crayfish

“Sejun-nim, we have arrived!”

Elka, who had been running hard at Sejun’s call, arrived with his subordinates.

“Elka, you came just in time. Let’s eat together.”

Sejun cut the crayfish meat and offered it to the wolves.

“Sejun-nim, we will enjoy the meal!”

“We will enjoy the meal!”

Elka expressed his gratitude to Sejun, and the subordinate wolves followed suit.

Crunch crunch.

They began to devour the crayfish. The wolves had skipped their meal to rush to Sejun’s call.

“Elka, did you find the farm?”

Sejun asked after Elka finished his meal.

“Yes. It’s a place I already knew.”

“A place you already knew?”

“Yes. That place is…”

Elka began to explain about the farm on the 85th floor of the tower.

“So, the kudzu that grew on the farm spread to other places and killed all the other plants on the 85th floor of the tower?”

“Yes. Kudzu absorbs the nutrients in the soil, so other plants cannot grow around it. That’s why we suffered even greater damage during the Great Famine.”

Kudzu was famous for rooting deep in the ground and having strong vitality, so it seemed plausible.

“But didn’t you eat kudzu during the Great Famine?”

Sejun, who knew kudzu as one of the famine relief crops, asked. If kudzu was abundant on the floor, it would have been enough to fill their hungry stomachs.

“We initially filled our stomachs with kudzu, but after seeing wolves who ate kudzu for a long time die for no reason, we stopped eating kudzu.”

“Really?”

Sejun was lost in thought at Elka’s words. Was there poison in the kudzu? He thought he should bring Detox Green Onions just in case.

At that moment,

Kkueng!

[Daddy, Kkueng found this!]

Tap tap tap.

Kkueng, covered in crayfish innards, ran over with a blue jade bead.

Kkueng!

[Daddy eats this!]

Chuck.

Kkueng proudly held out the bead to Sejun. It looked like the crayfish’s inner core. It probably tastes bitter.

“Thank you.”

Sejun stroked Kkueng’s head and examined the inner core.

[Giant Crayfish Inner Core of the Deep Sea]

This is the inner core of a crayfish that has lived for over 2000 years in the deep sea of the dimensional sea.

Consuming it will increase all stats by 20.

It tastes bitter.

Usage Restriction: Lv. 50 or higher, all stats 50 or higher

Grade: B+

As expected, the inner core tasted bitter. But this time, the word ‘strongly’ was missing, so he was relieved.

Pop.

Sejun boldly put the inner core in his mouth. Maybe it was because he had eaten it a few times, but he was used to the bitter taste and it was bearable. It was literally just ‘bearable’.

Gulp.

[You have consumed the Giant Crayfish Inner Core of the Deep Sea.]

[All stats have increased by 20.]

“Kuh.”

Sejun quickly put Honey Jelly in his mouth to get rid of the bitter taste left in his mouth.

Melt.

As soon as he put it in his mouth, the Honey Jelly melted away, taking the bitter taste with it.

[You have consumed Poison Honeybee’s Cherry Tomato Honey Jelly.]

[Talent: The Enhanced Magic Circuit talent is slightly enhanced.]

Pop.

Seeing the message that his talent had been enhanced, Sejun put Honey Jelly in Kkueng’s mouth, who was staring at him intently.

Kkueng…

However, not satisfied with just one, Kkueng didn’t close his mouth and continued to look at Sejun with a pitiful sound.

Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.

Sejun, whose heart weakened, put 10 Honey Jellies in Kkueng’s mouth.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. Delicious!]

Only then was Kkueng satisfied and ran back to eat the crayfish. Kkueng had not yet finished his meal.

While Kkueng was finishing his remaining meal,

[You have harvested Detox Green Onions.]

[Job experience has slightly increased.]

[Harvesting Lv. 7 proficiency has slightly increased.]

[You have gained 50 experience.]

Sejun pulled out the Detox Green Onions and put them in his subspace warehouse.

And

Tap tap tap.

Kkueng!

[Kkueng is now full!]

Kkueng ran to Sejun after finishing his meal. With crayfish innards smeared all over his fur.

“Wait. Let’s bathe Kkueng first.”

Kkueng?

Sejun picked up Kkueng, who was trying to cling to his leg, and moved him to the fountain to bathe him.

A moment later,

Kkueng!

[Refreshed!]

“Guys, go into the subspace warehouse for a moment.”

Sejun, who had bathed Kkueng, had Theo, Kkueng, and Elka enter the subspace warehouse. He was planning to go down to the 85th floor of the tower to see the state of the farm.

Swish.

As Sejun unfolded the land deed of the 85th floor of the tower,

[The summoning function for imprinting the first owner of the Black Tower 85th floor farm land deed is activated.]

Sejun disappeared to the 85th floor of the tower.

[You have arrived at the Black Tower 85th floor farm.]

[You have moved from the top floor, the 99th floor of the tower, to the 85th floor.]

[You have descended 14 floors.]

[Due to the effect of >Title: Retrogressor>, all stats increase by 14.]

“Wow.”

Sejun arrived on the 85th floor. Green vines, thick as snakes, twisted everywhere he looked. They covered the ground, climbed the dark stone walls of the tower, and hung down from above like curtains, blocking out much of the light. The air felt heavy and damp, and a strange, sweet smell, like rotting flowers, hung in the air.

“Is that all kudzu?”

Endless kudzu vines. Moreover, it was obvious that they were deeply rooted in the ground.

Clang.

“Guys, come out.”

Sejun decided to think about it later and had the animals come out of the subspace warehouse.

“Chairman Park, I feel a pull from the sky, meow!!”

Theo, who came out of the subspace warehouse, suddenly pointed to the sky with his front paws.

“The sky?”

Could it be?! Emila’s flower bed that disappeared from the 49th floor of the tower seemed to be here.

Thud.

“Land Moving.”

Sejun took out a Bean Reaching for the Sky and planted it on the ground.

[You have planted a Bean Reaching for the Sky in magic-infused land.]

[The Bean Reaching for the Sky is listening to the farmer’s footsteps, so the effect of Magic Seed Sowing Lv. 6 is enhanced.]

[Due to the effect of Magic Seed Sowing Lv. 6, the growth rate of the Bean Reaching for the Sky is doubled for 24 hours.]

However,

[There are no nutrients in the soil.]

[The surrounding crops are absorbing the magic power of the land.]

[The surrounding crops are starting to steal the nutrients from the Bean Reaching for the Sky.]

The kudzu was not easy to deal with.

“Huh?!”

Sejun saw the message and hurriedly dug into the ground again.

Wriggle. Wriggle.

Kudzu roots were rooting into the Bean Reaching for the Sky and absorbing nutrients. The kudzu roots had become even more active thanks to the magic power Sejun had supplied to the ground.

The number of Bean Reaching for the Sky he initially obtained was 3. Originally, this was the last bean.

But

“I’m glad I increased it in advance.”

Thanks to Sejun putting them in the Golden Box of Plenty, Sejun now had 5 Bean Reaching for the Sky in his pocket.

As Sejun was relieved,

[A quest has occurred.]

[Quest: Normalize the farm that has been taken over by kudzu and reclaim the rights to the land.]

Reward: Recognition as the rightful owner of the land deed, one tangerine tree

A quest message appeared in front of Sejun.

“Huh?! A tangerine tree?”

It seemed that this place was a tangerine tree farm before it was taken over by kudzu.

“Okay! Kkueng, grow in size and turn the land upside down!”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Sejun decided to try to solve it with force first. After all, even if the kudzu was rooted in the ground, it wouldn’t be able to withstand Kkueng’s power.

Thump!

The enlarged Kkueng put his hands on the ground and

Kkuengeeeh!

Gave strength to lift the ground. Almost 10m thick and about 1000 pyeong of land was lifted. But the kudzu roots went down even deeper than 10m. Most of the kudzu roots in the land that Kkueng turned over were cut off at the ends.

“Land Moving!”

Sejun turned over the 10m deep land once again.

Thud.

Unlike Kkueng, about 50 pyeong of land was turned over with a thickness of about 5m.

“The roots went down that deep?”

Sejun was taken aback as he looked at the kudzu roots that still had no end in sight.

Kkueng!

[I’ll try again!]

Kkueng went down to the deeply dug ground and turned the land over once more. This time, he put more strength than before and turned over 20m thick of land. Only then did the kudzu roots that were not cut off appear.

Still, about half of the roots were still cut off.

“Land Moving.”

Sejun moved the land again, and only then did the ends of all the roots become visible.

“This is going to be difficult…”

Sejun shook his head at the situation where he had to dig all the way down to 40m deep on the 85th floor of the tower to completely remove the kudzu roots.

Even if he somehow managed to remove all the kudzu around the farm, it was impossible to remove all the kudzu on the 85th floor of the tower. It seemed that the rate of regrowth would be faster than the rate of removal.

And even if he removed all the kudzu from the farm, the surrounding kudzu would quickly come over, so there was not much point in removing it.

“What should I do?”

[You have obtained 4 kudzu fruits.]

[Job experience has slightly increased.]

[Seed Harvesting Lv. 6 proficiency has slightly increased.]

Sejun harvested the kudzu fruits as he couldn’t see an answer. Sejun harvested the kudzu fruits so naturally. He was indeed a Tower Farmer.

At that moment,

“Huh?!”

A good idea came to Sejun’s mind. What if he planted these kudzu fruits in the Green Tower? Something very interesting might happen.

“Hehehe. Guys, let’s pick the fruits first!”

I don’t know about the quest, revenge first. Sejun decided to take revenge on the Green Tower, which had dared to kidnap him and Aileen, first.