Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 482

Inos was a world in pain, being destroyed by the fifth disaster: the Slimes.

The Inos people looked like humans, but they had fluffy fur on their arms and legs like warmers. They were survivors, and they came together to make a strong line to defend themselves.

“If we lose this place, Inos is finished!”

“We have to protect it!”

They were getting ready for the last fight to save the last brown tower, their symbol of hope.

Suddenly,

(Bat bat!)

A golden bat appeared between them and the Slimes.

“What is that?”

“Is it another disaster?!”

The Inos tribe was worried as they looked at Batbat. Even though he looked cute and small, he had a lot of power.

(Batbat Storm Fist!)

Batbat didn’t care about the Inos tribe. He made magic blades with his wings to destroy the Slimes.

It’s usually hard to beat Slimes. You have to hit their core to kill them, but the core moves fast inside the Slime’s body.

But,

(Batbat Storm Fist!)

Flap. Flap.

The Slimes were no match for Batbat, who sent out thousands of magic blades. He sliced them all up.

“Oh! He must be the guardian deity of Inos, here to protect us!”

“Glory to Inos! Glory to the guardian deity!”

“Let’s help the guardian deity and beat the enemy!”

The Inos tribe felt brave after watching Batbat defeat the Slimes. They charged forward behind Batbat.

They finished off the Slimes whose cores weren’t completely destroyed.

The battle was over quickly.

“Wow! We won!”

“Long live the guardian deity! Long live Inos!”

The Inos tribe cheered, happy to win against the Slimes for the first time.

The leaders of the Inos tribe went to Batbat to thank him.

(Bat bat!)

“Huh?!”

“What is the guardian deity doing?”

They saw Batbat flying around, putting the Slime remains into a small hole.

“Um… can I help you?”

Druika, the main leader of the Inos tribe, carefully spoke to Batbat as she got closer.

(Bat bat?! Who are you?)

Batbat asked, wondering if she wanted the Slime parts he had collected. He sounded worried.

“Ah, I’m sorry for being late. I am Druika, the main leader of the Inos tribe. Are you the guardian deity?”

(Bat bat? Guardian deity?)

“Yes. Aren’t you the guardian deity of our Inos tribe?”

(Bat bat! No! I am Batbat, Sejun’s helper!)

“Ah. I am sorry. Batbat-nim is the apostle of Sejun-nim, the guardian deity of Inos.”

(Bat bat?! Is that… right?)

Batbat was going to say no at first.

‘Apostle?! That sounds good!’

Batbat, the apostle of Park Sejun, the tower farmer of the Black Tower, liked the title a lot.

“Listen, everyone!”

Druika started to introduce Batbat to all the Inos tribe members.

“This person is the guardian deity of Inos, Sejun-nim’s…”

(Bat bat! Park Sejun! The guardian deity’s name is Park Sejun!)

“Ah. Yes! This person is Batbat-nim, the apostle of Park Sejun-nim, the guardian deity of Inos!”

“Waaah!!!”

“Thank you, Batbat-nim, the apostle of Park Sejun-nim!”

The Inos tribe members were excited and thanked Batbat after Druika introduced him.

“Batbat-nim, the apostle of the guardian deity Park Sejun-nim, please let us help you.”

(Bat bat! Yes! Let’s do it together!)

“Put the Slime parts here!”

“Yes!”

The Inos tribe members helped Batbat put the Slime parts into the dimensional gate, a doorway to another place.

As thousands of baseball-sized pieces of Slime parts went through the dimensional gate,

The dimensional gate had only grown a little after being opened hundreds of times, but now it started to grow more.

Ah! It wasn’t about how many times they opened it!

Batbat realized that to make the dimensional gate bigger, they needed to send many things through it, not just open it a lot.

Until now, only Batbat had gone through the dimensional gate, which was why it wasn’t growing fast.

Just then,

Wobble. Wobble.

A group of Slimes came closer.

(Bat bat! Everyone, keep putting in the parts!)

Batbat had the Inos tribe members keep putting Slime parts into the dimensional gate.

(Batbat Storm Fist!)

(Batbat Hoo!)

(Batbat Godly Transformation!)

(Batbat Protection!)

Using his brothers’ skills, he worked hard to destroy the Slimes all over Inos for hours.

Now that Sejun was known as the guardian deity of Inos, Batbat didn’t want the Slimes to win.

Batbat destroyed all the Slimes that had invaded Inos.

(Bat bat… I’m tired now.)

He was tired from destroying the Slimes and from the effort of sending things through the dimensional gate.

(Bat bat! Thank you, everyone! I’ll be going now!)

“Goodbye!”

“Long live Apostle Batbat-nim! Long live Guardian Deity Park Sejun-nim!”

The Inos tribe waved goodbye as Batbat returned to the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

(Bat bat… Sejun-nim needs to know what I did…)

Tired, Batbat made a sign and put it in front of the Slime parts.

(Fire, I’m back…)

As soon as he greeted Fire,

Bae-rorong.

He hugged Sejun’s arm and fell asleep.

Seed Shop Headquarters.

“Why haven’t I heard any news?”

Mirna, the Dragon God, was making dragon fruit to sell at the Seed Shop. She sounded a little sad.

Sejun had recently grown the special seed of Po, the Jelly God, who was the youngest of the non-fighting gods. Po had gained a lot of divine power and temples.

“Brothers and sisters, I’ll treat you from now on!”

Po was sharing her divine power with the other non-fighting gods, trying to pay back what she felt she owed for only receiving divine power until now.

I’m jealous…

Mirna watched with envy.

She was waiting for Sejun to harvest the dragon fruit.

Just then,

[Black Tower Farmer Park Sejun has grown a special seed and harvested dragon fruit.]

[You have received 50,000 divine power as a reward.]

[Black Tower Farmer Park Sejun has built a temple for you.]

[Your divine power increases by 100.]

[The temple is next to the Creation God’s monument, so the amount of divine power you receive is doubled because of the Creation God’s blessing.]

[3,000 mushroom ants, tenant farmers of Black Tower Farmer Park Sejun, are visiting your temple.]

[Your divine power increases by 0.6.]

“Oh! Park Sejun is the best! I knew I could trust him!”

The Dragon God Mirna was happy as she read the messages.

Special seeds give you a lot of divine power when they grow and are harvested, unlike regular seeds.

And she finally had the temple she had wanted.

Trusting Park was always the right thing to do.

The morning of the Harvest Festival’s sixth day arrived with a bright sun. Sejun stretched in his bed, letting out a happy sigh. He felt full of energy, ready for a new day.

A Message Appeared: The people of Inos have chosen you to be their Guardian Deity.

Another Message: You don’t have enough power to be the Guardian Deity right now.

Message: Please choose someone else to be the Guardian Deity for now. You can change this choice later.

Sejun blinked, reading the strange words in front of him. ‘Guardian Deity?’ he thought, confused. ‘What is going on?’ And then, ‘a proxy? Someone else to do it for me?’ He frowned for a moment. ‘Well,’ he thought, ‘it’s still something good, right? Who should I pick?’

While Sejun was thinking about this…

[Good morning, Master!]

Firefly, who had noticed Sejun waking up, greeted him happily.

“Yeah. Good morning. Weren’t you bored at night?”

[No! Because I’m on Sejun’s palm, I wasn’t bored at all!]

Firefly only ever said pretty things.

Meow…

Squeak…

Sejun glanced at Theo and Blackie’s family, who were still sleeping soundly. Then, he got up.

“Let’s go outside and enjoy the sunshine,” Sejun said.

[Yes!]

Firefly chirped happily. Sejun carefully carried Firefly outside, wanting to let her feel the warm sun.

He stepped outside and stopped, surprised. ‘Huh?!’ It looked like a giant slime! It was huge, like a small hill had appeared overnight.

But then he looked again. ‘Wait a minute…’ It wasn’t a slime monster. It was a mountain of slime meat, all cut into pieces.

“Hehehe. What a load of meat!”

Sejun grinned widely and approached the meat.

“Huh?”

[Sejun, enjoy the meat. – Batbat]

He found a sign written clearly in Korean by Batbat.

“Our Batbat got this?”

Sejun wanted to praise Batbat.

However,

But where is our Batbat?

Batbat was very good at hiding, and Sejun couldn’t see him anywhere.

“Vice Chairman Theo, where is Batbat?”

“Batbat, meow?”

Theo, who had been perched on Sejun’s shoulder, blinked.

“Pfft. Chairman Park, Batbat is here, meow!”

He said, pointing to the back of Sejun’s head.

“Really? Thanks, Batbat!”

Sejun reached up and gently patted the back of his head. “Thank you for the meat!”

Then,

(Behehe…)

A soft giggle, (Behehe…), could be heard, as if Batbat was happy to be thanked.

Just then, a loud cry came from nearby. ‘Kroooooh!’ Squeaks of excitement followed. It was Kkuenge, who was holding Pink Fur and Pink Fur’s paws. He had seen the mountain of meat and was jumping up and down with joy. ‘Meat! So much meat!’

Soon, Sejun was bringing out big pots of food from the cooking area. There was steaming pork, spicy stew, crispy cutlets, and many other delicious dishes. ‘Hehehe. Eat up, everyone!’ Sejun said happily.

“And now, let’s make sweet and sour pork!”

Sejun announced. He started to prepare the ingredients. As he worked, a magical energy flowed from his hands into the food. Suddenly, a huge amount of sweet and sour pork appeared, much more than he could have made normally. Because of his special cooking skill, he could make food very quickly and easily.

Everyone ate with big smiles, enjoying the delicious breakfast.

Kkuenge giggled, ‘Hehehe. I’m so full! I can’t eat another bite!’ Yuren laughed too, patting her stomach. ‘Me too! So full…’

Just as they were finishing their meal, a new message popped up in front of Sejun. ‘The Seed Shop is now open.’

Message: Welcome to the Seed Shop!

Message: Your rank is: Transcendence.

Message: Today’s seeds are:

Seed of Abundance (Very Rare) – 350 coins + 1000 energy points

Star Fruit Seed (Very Rare) – 100 coins + 250 energy points

Acorn Seeds (100 seeds) – 40 coins

Butternut Squash Seeds (20 seeds) – 30 coins

Peanut Seeds (100 seeds) – 10 coins

‘Transcendence grade seeds again!’ Sejun thought excitedly. ‘I definitely need to get those. That will cost me 450 coins… leaving me with 50 coins left. Let’s see… acorns are the only seeds I don’t have yet. Acorns it is!’

Sejun had plenty of coins and energy points to buy seeds. He got coins from selling things and from monsters they defeated. He also got energy points, which were another kind of special currency.

“I’ll buy these three.”

Message: Purchase complete! You bought: Seed of Abundance, Star Fruit Seed, and Acorn Seeds. Coins spent: 490. Energy points spent: 1250. You earned 4900 Seed Shop points and 1250 coupons.

Sejun looked at the coupons he received. He could exchange them for special items. There was a ‘Seed Exchange Ticket’ and a ‘Random Time Ticket’. He decided to get one Seed Exchange Ticket to see what it was, and then use the rest of his coupons for ‘Random Time Tickets’.

“He was curious about the Seed Exchange Ticket, so he got one. For the rest of his coupons, he chose the Random Time Tickets. ‘Hehehe,’ Sejun chuckled. ‘Theo is right here with me this time! Maybe the Seed Shop will open again very soon!'”

Message: Thank you for visiting the Seed Shop! See you again in 30 days.

The Seed Shop disappeared, leaving behind three small pouches of seeds, one white coupon, and seven yellow coupons in Sejun’s hand.

“‘Hehehe. Vice Chairman Theo, let’s do it!’ Sejun said excitedly. ‘Pfft! Let’s go, meow! Quickly!’ Theo replied. Sejun held Theo’s paws and smiled, knowing Theo thought they were going on an adventure. Then, with a quick rip, Sejun tore one of the Random Time Tickets.”