Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 717

The Land of Destruction.

Uh.

Not that I’m curious, of course.

Sejun wanted to joke, but no, he should be curious!

The Ruin glared at Sejun, its eyes seeming to burn as a silent warning not to disagree. But Sejun saw something else in those fiery eyes – a flicker of fear, hidden deep down. It reminded him of a small hedgehog, puffing up its spikes to hide its soft belly.

Knowing this, Sejun decided against a joke. Instead, he leaned forward, eyes wide with fake excitement. “Oh! Really? You’re finally going to tell me? Yes! Please, tell me quickly! I’m so curious!” He played along with Ruin’s mood, showing exactly the reaction Ruin seemed to want.

It was a clever move.

What if Sejun had joked?

‘Sejun didn’t want to meet me after all!’

‘No one likes me!’

‘Boo-hoo!’

The Ruin would have closed the door to its heart in disappointment and moved to destroy the world again, and this time it would have gone to the very end without stopping, like before.

“Heh heh heh. I knew it.”

The Ruin said it was obvious because of Sejun’s reaction, but it had been worried that Sejun wouldn’t be curious.

Whew, what a relief.

“My location is in the north…”

The Ruin told Sejun where it was.

That’s going to be quite difficult.

Sejun’s expression darkened slightly after hearing Ruin’s words, because it was too far to meet soon.

To get to Ruin, he had to pass through five walls called the Walls of Destruction, which were said to be walls of solid Destruction energy.

And the distance between the walls was about 1000km, in other words, a long journey of breaking through five Walls of Destruction and moving 5000km.

It was an even more difficult path for Sejun, who had just been able to wander around 5km around the waypoint.

Ruin could meet Sejun directly without this trouble if it went to find Sejun, but the fear that Sejun might not welcome it prevented Ruin from moving.

If Sejun was outgoing, Ruin was shy, and Ruin wanted to test if Sejun really wanted to meet it, even if it meant enduring these hardships.

Thud! Thump! Thud! Thump!

Watching Sejun’s darkened expression, Ruin’s heart pounded with anxiety.

What if Sejun says it’s too far?

Should I break a few walls?

I’m worried Sejun won’t come.

“Okay. Just wait there. But it’s going to take some time.”

Unlike Ruin’s worries, Sejun said he would go find Ruin.

“Heh heh heh. Come if you can.” Ruin said something it didn’t mean.

At that time,

“Eat this.” Sejun handed Ruin a basket of small, round chocolates filled with crunchy peanuts, with a slightly expectant look.

And this is different from what I ate last time?!

Ruin was impressed after eating the peanut chocolate balls Sejun gave.

“How is it?” When Sejun asked Ruin,

-What is this? It’s cold and hard, but very soft! And it’s delicious!

Ruin replied in an excited voice, too excited to hide its emotions.

“Hehehe. This is my new dish, Choco Peanut Ice Cream. It’s made with peanuts from the land of extreme cold, so it never melts at room temperature. The way I made this is by coating the outside of the peanut ice cream with chocolate…” While Sejun was explaining hard,

Munch. Munch.

So delicious!

Ruin was busy eating the Choco Peanut Ice Cream.

Crack.

The coated chocolate broke and was chewed deliciously with the cold peanut ice cream inside.

Besides,

Crunch.

The peanut granules embedded in the ice cream added texture and savory flavor as they were chewed.

As I ate like that,

-Huh?!

The basket was empty before I knew it.

“Hehehe. How is it?”

-It’s a mysterious taste. It was so delicious…

“Hehe. That’s all because I made it.” As Sejun made a proud expression,

“Nyaang?! What are you doing, Chairman Park?! Your face is rotting! Nyaang!”

“Kkyut?! Sejun, please fix your face quickly!”

Squeak?!

[Butler?! Get a hold of yourself?!]

The party members rushed to Sejun’s face in a hurry.

And weaker than I thought!

Ruin was horrified to see such Sejun, because I just saw signs of the body collapsing as the balance of the body collapsed.

Thank goodness.

It was right to meet later.

At the same time, I was relieved that it would take a long time for Sejun to come to me.

I needed time to weaken my power a little more.

A moment later.

“Goodbye.”

-Okay.

Tarick was hit by Seobeam and disappeared.

And a week passed.

“Ugh!” Sejun woke up energetically today.

As usual, he hunted disasters, ate breakfast, visited the 10th Tower and the Black Demon Castle, and headed to the Temple of the Creator God.

Of course, today, Kkuengi is sent to work, and Batbat and Blackie are sleeping in bed.

Squeak?!

[Butler! The great Blackie will follow you today too!]

Blackie stayed up without sleeping, saying that he would follow Sejun too, but after feeding him a full meal and stroking his stomach a little,

Kkihi···kkirorong.

I immediately fell asleep.

If you close the bedroom curtains here to block the sunlight, you will never wake up for about 5 hours.

“Hello.” When Sejun arrived at the Temple of the Creator God and greeted Emila and Amur,

“Oh! Sejun is here! Give me some snacks!” Amur jumped up and demanded a snack.

“Here you go.” Sejun, knowing the situation, hurriedly took out garaetteok, roasted sweet potato jerky, corn, etc., and gave it to them.

“Park Sejun, we’ll go over first.”

“Yes.” Sejun, Theo, and Iona followed Emila to the waypoint and crossed over to the Land of Destruction.

And

Knock. Knock. Knock.

Amur knocked on the Creator God’s door with the snacks Sejun gave him.

Emila went over with Sejun first because she couldn’t open the door if Sejun was there.

A moment later.

Creak…

The door opened carefully and

“Snacks?” The haggard Creator God asked quietly.

“Here it is.” Amur also answered quietly and handed over the snacks.

“Okay. Good job.”

Quietly, the Creator God closed the door, relieved that no one had woken up.

But then, a tiny movement. The Creator God’s relief vanished as one of the children’s eyelids fluttered open.

Flutter.

Flutter.

As soon as one opened their eyes, the others followed suit, like they had planned it.

And then,

“Gimme!”

“Gimmeh!”

“Gimmeh!”

Three children reached out their hands, demanding food.

Sejun gave them another snack from the Land of Demise.

“Here you go,” he said softly.

Thank goodness he had grabbed snacks earlier.

The Creator God placed a snack in each outstretched hand.

However,

“Not this!”

The child holding the rice cake suddenly shook his head, agitated.

“Huh? What’s wrong? Ah, the honey….”

It’s not here?

Sejun had forgotten to bring the honey by mistake.

“Dip it, gimme!”

“Oh dear, I forgot the honey! How about we eat it like this for now? I promise I’ll get you honey later.”

“No! Dip it, gimme! Now!”

Thanks to that, the Creator God had to struggle to calm down the child.

The Land of Demise.

“This is the Wall of Demise?”

It’s really big.

After traveling north from the Waypoint for an hour, Sejun looked up at the massive, dark reddish wall that seemed to touch the sky and spoke.

Thanks to the Demise Devourers diligently clearing the path north for a week, Sejun was finally able to see the first Wall of Demise today.

And then,

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

About one trillion Demise Devourers were diligently absorbing the energy of Demise around them.

There used to be even more Devourers, but many were lost in the snake attacks.

Before, Demise Devourers could not grow so fast because there wasn’t enough Demise energy. But the Land of Demise was full of it.

It was a place overflowing with Demise energy to devour.

So, the Demise Devourers absorbed the energy of Demise and diligently spat out seeds, and as Sejun and the Demise Pioneers diligently planted the seeds, the number of Demise Devourers rapidly increased.

There were so many seeds, they were piling up because they couldn’t plant them fast enough.

At that moment,

Wriggle. Wriggle.

Dark reddish snakes began to wriggle and crawl out from the surface of the Wall of Demise.

They were there to eliminate the Demise Devourers attached to the Wall of Demise, absorbing its energy.

They were called ‘Thread Snakes Parasitizing the Corrupted Demise.’ Even though ‘thread’ suggests something small, these snakes were huge. The smallest were over 10 meters long.

Their thickness had also increased by about one and a half times, and the largest thread snakes were nearly 30 meters long.

“Nya nya nyang! Nya nya nyang!”

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Power of the meteor. Fall upon my enemies. Meteor.”

Of course, they were still just thread snakes, and they were easily dealt with by Theo and Iona.

And then,

[Black Tower Luck Beneficiary, Park Theo, has eliminated a Thread Snake Parasitizing the Corrupted Demise.]

[You have acquired 50 million experience points, which is 50% of the experience acquired by Black Tower Luck Beneficiary, Park Theo.]

[Guardian Iona has eliminated a Thread Snake Parasitizing the Corrupted Demise.]

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[Congratulations.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have acquired 10 bonus stats.]

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Sejun chuckled, watching their battle from behind, leveling up with a satisfied expression.

Sejun’s level was now 233.

It was all thanks to diligently hunting in the Disaster Farm and the Land of Demise every day.

Just as Sejun leveled up and was feeling pleased,

Rustling loudly!

[Sejun, you don’t have time to rest!]

The Demise Pioneers urged him to plant the seeds.

Even if they diligently planted the piled-up seeds, the Demise Devourer seeds were being spat out at an even faster rate.

Sejun chuckled. “Don’t worry.”

That’s why I brought this.

Sejun thought, taking out one drop of the Elixir of Enhancement he had received from the God of Farming, Hamer, that morning.

He carefully squeezed a single drop of the Elixir of Enhancement onto a Demise Pioneer seed. Drip.

[Demise Pioneer Seed (+2)]

This is a seed that has newly evolved after the magic cherry tomato of Black Tower Top Farmer Park Sejun mutated into a mutant cherry tomato due to the influence of the medicine, and then was corrupted by Demise and evolved into a Flesh Devourer. The power of Demise has been purified.

It hates the power of Demise more than the Demise Devourers.

It cannot directly devour the power of Demise, but it plants the seeds of the Demise Devourers to directly pioneer Demise.

Combat is possible.

Demise Pioneers cannot plant their own seeds.

Spits out 2 seeds for every 1 million Demise Devourer seeds planted.

Enhanced twice with the Elixir of Enhancement.

It was a seed of the highest quality.

The options for the Demise Pioneer seed had changed.

However,

“Haa.”

Sejun sighed as he looked at the options.

Instead of the planting speed increasing or the number of seeds spat out increasing, which Sejun had hoped for, other options were enhanced.

Sejun sighed. He had hoped for faster planting, not better fighting. Even ‘combat’ didn’t sound much stronger than ‘slight combat.’

With a sigh of disappointment, Sejun pushed the Demise Pioneer seed into the ground. Plop.

Almost instantly, the +2 enhanced Demise Pioneer sprouted, growing quickly.

The creative energy created by the Demise Devourers was offset by the energy of Demise, so there was no accumulated creative energy to evolve other Demise Pioneers into +2 enhanced Demise Pioneers.

Thus, the +2 Demise Pioneer made its first appearance in the world.

With a sudden rustle of leaves!

Moving its roots so quickly that Sejun’s eyes couldn’t follow, it rushed towards a thread snake, and then, striking it hard with its leaves,

Was this really just from removing ‘slight’?

Sejun thought, shocked.

Meanwhile, ten thousand Demise Devourers surrounded one Demise Pioneer,

A low rumbling sound came from the Demise Devourers as they surrounded the Pioneer, and then they released streams of creative energy.

And then,

Kiki!

The Demise Pioneers who absorbed the creative energy began to be enhanced to +2 one by one.

“Even the plants are better fighters than me,” Sejun thought, feeling a familiar pang of self-deprecation.

Sejun sighed, feeling outdone by plants once more.

Three days later, a deep rumble shook the Land of Demise.

The first Wall of Demise was collapsing.