Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 582

As Sejun entered the alley in the shopping district, the strong smell of herbs filled the air.

“Wow. It smells healthy,” Sejun said, his eyes sparkling with excitement, like a child entering a candy store.

While Sejun breathed in deeply, saying, “Wow. It smells healthy,” the others reacted very differently. Theo wrinkled his nose, complaining, “Nyaa… I don’t like it, nyaa!” Kkueng, in his thoughts, bravely declared he would endure, even though he disliked it. Little Kking simply wished to sleep, and Bbyot sadly announced his appetite was gone.

Sejun and his friends were here to find herbs. Kkueng needed them for his job quest.

“Shall we look for herbs, then?” Sejun asked.

Sejun and his party entered the herb shop at the beginning of the alley.

“Kkueng, how about this one?” Sejun asked, placing an herb in Kkueng’s hand.

Kkueng shook his head. “No!”

Unlike Sejun’s belief that anything good for the body was an herb, the system had to recognize it to complete the job quest.

“Really?” Sejun wondered, “Why isn’t this an herb?”

“How much is this, sir?” Sejun asked and bought the herb cheaply with the 3-times discount.

“Then I’ll give it to you for 1000 Tower Coins,” the shopkeeper said.

Being an herb, the base price was quite expensive.

Sejun bought the herb to eat it himself.

Crunch. Crunch.

[You have consumed a 10-year-old Deodeok.]

[All stats increase by 3.]

[Life force increases by 30% for 12 hours.]

[You have consumed a bitter herb.]

[Talent: Good medicine is bitter, activates.]

[Stamina increases by 1.]

“Heh heh. This much is nothing now,” Sejun said.

He had been trained by eating mugwort and fainting every night!

To Sejun, who had adapted to the bitterness that made him faint, a 10-year-old Deodeok was like a sweet snack.

So, Sejun went around the herb shops, asking, “Kkueng, how about this?”

Kkueng! “No!”

He would hand the herb to Kkueng to check, and if it wasn’t, he would buy it and eat it himself.

When they had gone through half of the herb shops in the alley, they had found two herbs that satisfied Kkueng’s job quest.

Ginseng and He Shou Wu.

Fortunately, they could also buy seeds, so it seemed like herb cultivation would be possible.

After that, they continued to visit herb shops, but the herbs chosen by Kkueng were hard to come by.

“Kkueng, what about this one?” Sejun asked.

Kkueng answered in a subdued voice, feeling sorry for Sejun. “No…”

Grumble.

Is he hungry?

“Let’s have lunch and come back,” Sejun said.

At Sejun’s words, the party cheered at the thought of escaping the place that smelled of herbs.

So, after having lunch, they visited the herb alley again.

Having regained their energy, they visited the herb shops one by one, and before they knew it, they could see the end of the alley without any results.

And they entered the last shop.

Let’s get one here.

As Sejun entered the shop, he recognized the plant with purple flowers and rejoiced. “Oh. Bellflower!”

This is definitely an herb!

Sejun was convinced.

“Kkueng, how about this?” Sejun asked, placing the bellflower in Kkueng’s forepaws.

Kkueng nodded his head vigorously. “That’s right! This is the one!”

“Great! Do you have seeds for this too?” Sejun asked.

“Yes. 30 Tower Coins for 1000 seeds,” the shopkeeper replied.

“Then give me one 50-year-old bellflower and 10,000 seeds,” Sejun said.

“One 50-year-old bellflower and 10,000 seeds will be… 5300 Tower Coins,” the shopkeeper said.

Theo used the 3-times discount to slash the price. “Puhuhut. Give me a discount, nyaa!”

“Ugh. Then I’ll give it to you for 2500 Tower Coins,” the shopkeeper relented.

“Puhuhut. Good, nyaa!” Theo said.

So, after securing three herbs for Kkueng’s job quest and leaving the herb alley, Theo, who was clinging to Sejun’s knee, raised his forepaws and shouted in an excited voice. “Nyaa?! The great hybrid Chairman Park, I feel a pull, nyaa!”

“Really?! Where is it?!” Sejun asked in a delighted voice. The pull might disappear.

Theo pointed his forepaw. “It’s that way, nyaa!”

Sejun quickly ran in that direction.

They arrived at a place where a Lizardman hunter in shabby clothes was selling a few pieces of leather in a blunt voice. “Small leather is 1 Tower Coin, large leather is 5 Tower Coins.”

“Vice Chairman Theo, do you feel the pull from this leather?” Sejun asked.

Theo shook his head. “No, nyaa! It’s here, nyaa!”

Theo pointed to the hunter’s worn-out leather bag and said with an innocent face, asking him to show his bag. “Puhuhut. What’s in the bag, nyaa?! Show it to me, nyaa!”

What is this? This rude cat? And why are you curious about what’s in this bag?

The Lizardman hunter, Olivio, looked at Theo with a displeased expression but obediently opened his bag.

Thump, thump.

He dumped all the contents out. Contrary to his expression, he was very kind.

Tools needed for hunting and skinning, and raw meat wrapped in dark-colored bark, fell onto the leather displayed on the floor. A scent that was a mixture of sweet and slightly spicy spread around.

“Oh?! Cinnamon?” Sejun smelled the cinnamon and followed the scent to the bark wrapping the raw meat.

Olivio was surprised that Sejun recognized the cinnamon and kindly explained. “Oh. You know cinnamon. If you put it around raw meat, it doesn’t rot easily, so everyone in our village stores meat like this.”

“Can I touch it for a moment?” Sejun asked.

“Of course. Here you go,” Olivio said, handing Sejun one of the cinnamon barks that wrapped the meat.

“Kkueng, how about this?” Sejun asked, placing the cinnamon in Kkueng’s forepaws.

Kkueng, holding the cinnamon, nodded his head enthusiastically and got excited. “That’s right! Kkueng only needs to find one more!”

“Is it possible to get cinnamon seeds here?” Sejun asked.

“We don’t have them now, but there are many on the mountain behind the village,” Olivio replied.

Sejun looked around the busy market. “Where is the village?” he asked the person selling vegetables.

Since Sejun didn’t have permission to grow things on the 63rd floor, he asked Olivo for cinnamon seeds.

“How many do you need?” Olivo asked.

“I need about 10,000,” Sejun replied.

Olivo looked surprised. “10,000? That’s a lot! Let me see… for that many, and the trip to get them… it will be 12 Tower Coins.”

Olivo’s eyes widened. 12 Tower Coins! He usually only earned one coin a day, and that was hard work. This was like a dream. The thought of earning four months’ worth of income at once made Olivo speak with a slightly nervous voice. The travel time needed was 10 days, and gathering seeds from Mount Simon with the whole family would take two days. The 12 Tower Coins was a sum calculated by simply valuing one day at 1 Tower Coin, without considering the labor mobilized. It was a perfectly reasonable amount for Olivo.

Just then,

“You shouldn’t do that, nyaang!” Teo stepped forward. Teo usually let people have their way, but this time was different.

“That’s right. I’ll give you 200 Tower Coins for the cinnamon seeds,” Sejun said, stepping in to raise the price.

He matched the price to be a fair price by visiting herb shops and added the cost of traveling back and forth to the 63rd floor of the Tower.

“Oh. Really?!” Olivo asked, surprised by the offer that increased the price more than tenfold.

“Puhu-hut. That’s right, nyaang! Our great Hybrid Park is not a liar, nyaang! He always gives good deals, like when he gives me extra fish!” Teo shouted in a triumphant voice.

“Hey!” Sejun hurriedly covered Teo’s mouth.

Olivo’s eyes were wide with happiness. “Really? 200 coins?” He quickly put the seeds in his bag, his hands shaking a little. “I… I should go now before you change your mind!” He hurriedly packed his things into his bag and prepared to leave.

“Ah. Now that I think about it, I’m late in introducing myself. My name is Olivo. So, should I come here in 12 days?” Olivo asked.

“Yes. And my name is Park Sejun. This is the deposit,” Sejun said, introducing himself, and handed Olivo 50 Tower Coins. He looked like he needed money, judging by his appearance.

“…Thank you,” Olivo said, hesitating, took the money and hurriedly left.

“Nyaang… Olivo didn’t ask me my name, nyaang…” Teo was ready to proudly say his name when Olivo asked, but became sulky.

As Sejun patted Teo’s bottom without a word,

Grrr.

The sound came from Kkuengee’s stomach.

“Let’s go eat,” Sejun said.

“Puhu-hut. Good, nyaang!” Teo replied.

Kkueng!

Squeak!

Beep!

“Uheheh. Yes!” Sejun, realizing it was dinner time thanks to Kkuengee’s stomach clock, went into a restaurant with his companions.

“Give us three servings of everything on the menu. And make the fastest ones first,” Sejun said as he ordered the food.

“President Park, Vice President Teo will eat Churu, nyaang!” Teo, lying on Sejun’s lap, demanded Churu.

“Here,” Sejun said.

“Puhu-hut.”

Chomp chomp chomp.

Sejun gave Churu to Teo and took out peanuts for Bbyot.

Bbyot!

[Thank you, Sejun!]

Kogogok.

Bbyot expressed gratitude to Sejun and diligently pecked at the peanuts with its beak.

Caw?

Chirp?

The crow Karreureu and the blue chick Shari showed interest. They had seen peanuts before, but Bbyot was really enjoying the peanuts.

Caw!

[Sejun, we want to eat peanuts too!]

Chirp!

[Give us peanuts!]

Karreureu and Shari demanded peanuts from Sejun.

“Okay,” Sejun said.

Sejun shared some peanuts with them.

Peck.

Peck.

The two diligently and deliciously pecked at the peanuts with their beaks. However, their eating speed gradually slowed down, and soon they stopped eating. As expected, the roasted sweet potato jerky that Sejun makes is the best. Peanuts were delicious, but they couldn’t compare to their soul food, roasted sweet potato jerky.

A little later, the food started to come out one by one, and Sejun and his party enjoyed their meal. When about half of the food had come out,

“Hey, fat pig! Looks like you have too much food. Share it with us!”

Wham!

Five raccoons, who had messy fur, sneering faces, and ripped clothes, surrounded Yuren and slammed the table hard.

“Master Teo, shall I take care of them?” Yuren, who had attracted customers, looked at Teo, who was receiving Churu from Sejun’s lap.

“Haa… Haa…” Teo was greatly enraged, with his fur standing on end.

Drip.

The food that the raccoon had knocked off the table was dripping from Sejun’s head.

Kkueng!

Squeak!

Kkuengee and Kamang, who belatedly grasped the situation, were also furious.

Teo jumped off Sejun’s lap, a furry ball of fury. Kkuengee charged forward, and Kamang snapped his beak. The raccoons didn’t stand a chance. One by one, they fell to the ground with a *thwack*, *stomp*, and *thud*.

Sejun waved his hand, and the spilled food vanished.

“Puhu-hut. President Park, that’s 1000 Tower Coins, nyaang!” Teo, who had searched the raccoons’ pockets and taken the money, handed it to Sejun. Thanks to that, dinner was solved for free.

After dinner,

“Puhu-hut. Let’s go to Zeras, nyaang!” Teo said.

On the way to take the raccoons to the guards,

“Huh?” A familiar bag was lying on the floor. And next to it, a fallen Lizardman. It was the Lizardman hunter Olivo, who should have left a long time ago.

“Olivo!” Sejun hurriedly called Olivo’s name and ran to him.

“Se… Sejun?” Olivo regained consciousness. Fortunately, his life was not in critical condition.

“Olivo, what’s wrong?” Sejun asked.

“Sejun, it’s dangerous. They must be nearby. Run away quickly,” Olivo said.

“What?! What are you talking about?” Olivo looked around and hurriedly tried to send Sejun and his party away.

Just then,

“Heh heh heh. I told you, didn’t I? If we leave Olivo here, they’ll definitely get caught,” one of the Black Lizardmen said.

“I guess so. Timmy, you’re smart, aren’t you?” another one said.

“Don’t forget that it was I, Idriel, who discovered Olivo receiving money. Heh heh,” a third one said.

Ten Black Lizardmen with black scales appeared, surrounding Sejun and his party. They were laughing loudly, cleaning their claws, and playing a game.

How dare you interfere?!

“Water Bomb!” Sejun shouted.

Wham!

They fainted after being hit by the Water Bomb attack from the enraged parent, Sejun.

“Puhu-hut. Our President Park has grown so much, nyaang! Wow, President Park! You defeated them all with one attack, nyaang!” Teo looked at Sejun with a very pleased expression and took out his stamp.