Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 368

“Oof,” Sejun groaned, pushing himself up in bed. He rubbed his eyes, feeling heavier than usual. He looked down at his knees. “It feels harder to wake up without Theo,” he mumbled to himself. A hollow ache sat in his chest where his little bird friend usually perched.

But even without Theo’s cheerful chirps, the rhythm of Tower life pulled Sejun forward. Habit was a strong current. He swung his legs out of bed and stood, marking another line on the rough stone wall – day 384. Another morning in the endless Tower had begun.

As Sejun shuffled towards the door, a soft “Cluck…” sounded behind him.

“Hyung…” Ajax mumbled sleepily.

“Whine…” Fenrir whined, stretching his legs.

The Black Rabbit, Ajax, and Fenrir, woken by Sejun’s movements, blinked at him with sleepy eyes and followed him out of the small house.

When Sejun stood in front of the house, bathed in warm sunlight, the three stood side by side next to him.

“Eekyakyakya!”

Squeaaaak!

“Agyagyagya!”

Screeeech!

They all stretched slowly and lazily in the warm sun.

For the record, Ajax had eaten dumplings yesterday, taken a hot bath with Sejun in the bathhouse, and then passed out.

While the four were stretching,

Koo-eh-eh-eh!

Kkoengee also appeared, stretching.

The five who had gathered then scattered again to do their own things.

Sejun went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, while the Black Rabbit, Kkoengee, and Ajax harvested crops before eating.

Kee hee hee. Whine?

‘Hee hee. Is my secret stash doing well?’

Fenrir headed to the Creation God’s monument to check his secret stash.

However,

Whine?!

‘Who is it?!’

There were traces of someone digging through the secret stash.

‘Did that bear cub come again?’

Fenrir thought Kkoengee had been there again. ‘That bear cub!’ he thought. He dug excitedly, hoping for even more snacks than before.

And as Fenrir expected, the amount of snacks in the secret stash had increased.

However, it wasn’t Kkoengee’s doing. The types of snacks were different. The secret stash was full of carrots and cherry tomatoes.

Whine?

‘Who is it?’

As Fenrir looked around to find the culprit,

Cluck!

The Black Rabbit gave Fenrir a thumbs up.

Having a good sense of hearing, he knew Fenrir had a secret stash and put his favorite snacks in it.

Thanks to his kind older brother taking care of his snacks, Fenrir was able to fill his belly with snacks before eating breakfast,

Whine! Whine!

‘I want to eat too! Give it to me!’

“No. How can you eat this with that belly? Eat it later.”

Instead, Sejun couldn’t eat the freshly baked warm pancakes for breakfast.

Whine…

Watching the pancakes getting cold, Fenrir fell asleep, resolving to eat only a little snack before meals from now on.

After finishing breakfast, Sejun took his companions to the pineapple field.

Sejun could harvest regular pineapples alone, but today he had to harvest the Screaming Pineapples as well.

Sejun had also become stronger now, so he could withstand the screams of the Screaming Pineapples well enough.

However, it was difficult for Sejun to create a ‘Once Silenced Screaming Pineapple’ with his own strength. His power was insufficient, and the screams leaked out.

If they weren’t going to eat them all today, post-processing was necessary. That’s why he was taking his strong companions with him.

“Then, let’s cut them.”

Sejun, who needed to raise his farming skill, and Ajax harvested the Screaming Pineapples,

Cluck!

Kkoengee!

The Black Rabbit and Kkoengee pressed down hard on the harvested pineapples to prevent them from screaming.

The Once Silenced Screaming Pineapples, harvested in pairs, piled up on one side of the field.

When the harvest was over,

“Shall we eat one?”

Sejun grabbed a pineapple and cut it in half.

Screeeeeech!!!

A Screaming Pineapple accompanied by a shockwave.

“Ugh. My ears hurt.”

Was there no way to eat this quietly? It was delicious, but too noisy.

So, he proposed to the Black Rabbit, Kkoengee, and Ajax that he would give a golden spoon as a reward if they could find a way to eat it quietly.

If they gave the received golden spoon to Sejun, they could ask him to make any food they wanted.

“Then, I’ll be researching.”

Sejun said to the three and went to harvest regular pineapples.

While Sejun was harvesting pineapples,

“Hyung! I found it!”

Ajax came to Sejun and cut a pineapple with Silent Magic cast on it.

The pineapple split quietly without any sound.

However,

Thud.

The shockwave remained.

“The shockwave remains, so disqualified.”

“Eung…”

Ajax, who was disqualified, returned disappointed,

Cluck!

[Uncle, I found a way too!]

The Black Rabbit rushed over with a confident expression.

And after digging a hole and burying the pineapple deeply,

Pop!

He hit the ground with a hammer. It was an advanced technique that precisely moved with magic power to only shock the pineapple.

Boom.

The shocked pineapple exploded, and the ground shook slightly.

When the shaking disappeared, the Black Rabbit dug into the ground and brought out the pineapple, split in half.

There was a slight vibration, and the eating method was very cumbersome, but it was relatively quiet.

“Hmm, not bad, Black Rabbit. It’s quieter, but still a bit messy. We’ll see what Kkoengee does before I decide.” Sejun said, thinking it was a good try but not perfect.

At that moment,

Kkoengee! Kkoengee!

[Daddy, Kkoengee won! The golden spoon is Kkoengee’s!]

Kkoengee handed Sejun the pineapple in his forepaw with a confident expression.

[Three Times Silenced and Delicious Pineapple]

“Huh? The name is different?”

The pineapple Kkoengee held had a different name from the other pineapples. Just looking at the name, he could guess what Kkoengee had done.

‘He just suppressed it with force until it became quiet.’

Still, whether it was effective or not, the name had changed from ‘Screaming’ to ‘Delicious.’

“Shall we take a look?”

Sejun checked the pineapple’s options.

[Three Times Silenced and Delicious Pineapple]

It is delicious because it has been sufficiently nourished by growing inside the Tower.

The magic power that failed to explode three times lost its explosive nature and was absorbed into the pineapple flesh, making the flesh more delicious.

Magic power increases by 5 upon consumption.

Talent: Three Times Endurance may bloom with a low probability upon consumption.

Cultivator: Tower Farmer Park Sejun

Expiration Date: 150 days

Grade: A

“Wow.”

He could only exclaim. So it could turn out like this… The scream was sublimated into taste, stats, and talent.

“Kkoengee, you pass.”

Sejun handed the golden spoon to Kkoengee.

Then,

Koohehehe. Kkoengee!

[Hehehe. Kkoengee wants to eat a belly-filling pho!]

Kkoengee immediately handed the golden spoon to Sejun and demanded the food he wanted to eat.

“Belly-filling… you want to eat *so much* pho that you are completely full?” Sejun asked, a little worried.

‘How much do I have to make for Kkoengee to eat his fill?’

Kkoengee’s eating habits had decreased recently, but that was definitely not because he was full. He was refraining because he knew Sejun would have a hard time if he ate a lot.

He couldn’t imagine how much he could eat if he said he wanted to eat his fill. Besides, he had seen Kkoengee drink and eliminate the entire Milk Lake not long ago?

But he understood. How much had he wanted to eat his fill all this time to use the golden spoon as soon as he received it?

“Kkoengee, trust Daddy! Kkoengee, don’t do anything today. Just eat!”

My son wants to eat, and Daddy can do that much!

It was fortunate that it was a soup dish.

With a determined expression, Sejun took out the Relic: Magical Rice Dough and filled a black pot, enlarged to a gigantic size, with rice flour.

Filling the black pot to the brim cost 10 million Tower Coins.

“Ajax, release the seal!”

Sejun released Ajax’s seal. A huge force was needed for the massive dough.

“Ajax, knead it!”

“Okay, Hyung!”

Sejun had Ajax knead the pho dough and began preparing a large-capacity broth.

“Cheer up! We’re almost at the 40th floor!”

“Yes!”

The other subordinates answered vigorously to Koto, the leader of the Weeping Skull Brigade.

The Weeping Skull Brigade was diligently climbing the Tower for the great cause of abolishing the Golpoom system.

However, it was a very difficult and dangerous journey for the six from the lower floors to climb to the 76th floor of the Tower.

The path was rough, and dangerous monsters were abundant.

However, there was something that made them even more difficult than the monsters.

That was…

“Captain, we don’t have the money to use the merchant passage!”

Money. Money was needed to use the fast and safe merchant passage.

Moreover, they were not registered with the Merchant Association, so the usage fee was even more expensive.

Originally, the amount of money the Farming King had prepared to give to Sejun was considerable, so the Weeping Skull Brigade, who had stolen that money, should have had a lot of money.

However, the Weeping Skull Brigade met other robbers along the way and had all their money stolen.

‘If I was going to get robbed like this, why did you take my money?’

The Farming King really wanted to cry when his money was being taken by other robbers.

The Weeping Skull Brigade became penniless. Perhaps because of their name, sad things seemed to happen often.

“There’s no choice. Prepare for business!”

Still, the robbers didn’t take their weapons because they were in the same industry, so they could do business.

The Weeping Skull Brigade hid and began their main job as robbers, waiting for someone to pass by.

At that moment, a Black Orc passed in front of them.

“Captain, shall we hit him?”

“Wait…”

As mentioned earlier, there were many dangerous monsters in this area for the lower-level monsters. They waited a long time for an easy opponent to appear.

Cluck!

[Uncle, here!]

The Black Rabbit went into the water and caught seafood to use for the broth.

The Black Rabbit easily caught eels, octopuses, squids, crabs, and more, as if he were harvesting from a fish farm.

All of them had inner cores and had lived in the Dimensional Sea for over 1000 years.

It was thanks to Bulkkochi driving the marine monsters towards the pond when Sejun said he wanted seafood.

Sejun obtained a lot of high-quality seafood with the help of Bulkochi and the Black Rabbit.

Scritch. Scritch.

He prepared a large crab with the Amplification Greatsword to make crab shell pots, added water, boiled it, and added other seafood and vegetables to make the broth.

Fortunately, there were many crabs, so he could make 10 crab shell pots.

When the broth preparation was finished,

“Ajax!”

He called Ajax, who was making dough far away for Sejun.

“Good. Well done. Ajax, seal!”

Sejun sealed Ajax after confirming that the pho dough was properly completed.

And

“Press!”

“Okay, Hyung!”

He put the pho dough into the black noodle maker and pressed it to extract the noodles. The noodles went straight into the boiling broth and quickly cooked.

Almost 100 servings of pho went into the crab shell pot.

However,

Slurp.

100 servings of pho was one chopstick for Kkoengee.

“Ajax, press!”

Sejun hurriedly extracted pho into the remaining 9 crab shell pots, and Kkoengee followed behind, eating the pho.

It was like a funny, new kind of restaurant. Instead of the noodles moving, Kkoengee walked around the pots, eating as he went!

Sejun and the Black Rabbit added more water or seafood and vegetables to season the broth.

Thanks to that, Kkoengee was able to eat delicious pho until the end.

When Kkoengee had spun exactly 39 laps,

Koohehehe… Kkoengee.

[Hehehe… Kkoengee is really full.]

Kkoengee patted his belly and made a satisfied expression.

And

“Good job…”

Cluck…

“Yeah… Hyung too…”

Sejun, the Black Rabbit, and Ajax, utterly worn out from making so many noodles, collapsed on the floor.

‘I can’t do it twice.’

When Sejun was thinking about sealing the golden spoon for the time being,

[The Tower’s administrator says they have found the power of destruction on the 44th floor of the Tower.]

Aileen spoke to him.

“44th floor?”

The 44th floor of the Tower was where Sejun had registered a waypoint.

“Shall we go see the penguins after a long time?”

Sejun said in an excited voice.

The 44th floor of the Tower was about halfway up the Tower, so if Theo was nearby, he might come to find him. Or he could go find him.

“Toryong!”

Sejun rode Toryong and moved to the waypoint with his companions.

Black Tower, 40th floor.

‘Just the right prey.’

Koto, who had been waiting for an easy target for several hours, smirked as he saw a yellow cat, a pink pig, and a fist-sized white bird approaching from afar.

“Alright! Weeping Pirate Brigade, move out!”

Koto shouted and ran out in the lead to show the captain’s bravery.

“Puhuhut.”

An ominous laugh was heard from the opposite side, but he tried to ignore it. They clearly hadn’t seen them yet.