Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 100

Sejun was surprised. The old raccoon gave him the colorful bean seeds easily. It was unexpected.

“?!”

Sejun thought it was because he was a great trader.

While Sejun was thinking this, Iona, who was standing behind him, gave the old raccoon a thumbs-up.

‘Well done.’

‘Thank you for letting me know that he is the Great Black Dragon.’

Iona and the old raccoon looked at each other, understanding without words.

“President Theo, did you see that? That’s how you do business,” Sejun said proudly to Theo, feeling happy about the deal.

“Wow, President Park! You are the best trader I’ve ever seen!”

“Heh. Well, not quite the best.”

“No! I have never seen anyone as good as President Park at getting such a good deal, nya! I will work even harder, nya!”

“Yes, yes.”

Sejun, pleased with Theo’s praise, patted Theo’s head and put the colorful bean seeds in his pocket.

Just then,

“Excuse me…”

Four raccoons came up to Sejun.

“What’s going on?!” The old raccoon asked quickly. He stepped forward, worried the raccoons might bother Sejun.

“Elder Emil! Elder Emil!” one raccoon called out excitedly. “We have to buy the honey this person has!”

“It’s unbelievably sweet!” another added, eyes wide. “Imagine selling this with our rice cakes! We’ll make so much more money!”

“This is it!” the third raccoon declared, holding up the small bowl of honey. “This is the perfect thing!”

Emil took out a piece of rice cake from his pocket to try the honey. He dipped the rice cake in the honey, and it glistened.

“Oh!”

Looking at the delicious rice cake, Emil put it in his mouth.

A moment later,

Emil quickly ate the rice cake. Then, he happily licked the honey from his fingers.

‘This will work!’

Emil was sure about the honey. It would definitely sell well. He looked at Sejun, who owned the honey, needing his permission to buy it.

But after learning that Sejun was the Black Dragon, he was afraid to talk to him. So, he asked Iona for help again.

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Sejun, Emil wants to buy the honey.”

“Nya?! Then he should talk to me! Why is he talking to Iona, nya?!” Theo said, feeling like his job was being threatened. He was very eager after seeing Sejun’s successful deal.

“President Park, open the warehouse door, nya!”

“Alright.”

As Sejun opened the warehouse,

“Follow me, nya!”

Theo took the raccoons into the warehouse. He was going to show them the honey and make a deal.

While Theo was selling honey to the raccoons,

[The first event of the Harvest Festival, the Carrot Harvesting Competition, will begin soon.]

[Please come to the Giant Carrot Altar of Red Ribbon.]

A message appeared, announcing the event.

“Carrot Harvesting Competition?”

Sejun looked at the message.

The rabbits ran towards the Giant Carrot Altar. Sejun wasn’t the only one who saw the message. Sejun followed the rabbits.

When Sejun arrived, he saw a carrot field glowing with a warm red light. The carrot stalks were tall and green, ready for picking. The rabbits were lined up in front of the field.

“What is this?”

There shouldn’t have been any carrots in the field because the harvest was finished yesterday. But now, the carrot stalks had grown a lot and were ready to be harvested.

Then, the red light turned green.

Daddy Rabbit entered the carrot field and started picking carrots.

[9:59 – 1 Carrot]

A timer appeared above the carrot field and started counting down. It was a competition to see who could harvest the most carrots in 10 minutes.

Daddy Rabbit grabbed the carrot stalks and ran forward, quickly harvesting the carrots. He was a farming expert. After about 8 minutes, Daddy Rabbit had harvested almost all the carrots.

“Does it end when you harvest everything?” Sejun wondered.

Daddy Rabbit harvested all 400 carrots.

The carrots reappeared all at once. Daddy Rabbit started harvesting the carrots again. After 10 minutes, Daddy Rabbit teleported out of the carrot field.

[Carrot Harvesting Competition Ranking]

1st Place – Bbyik (480 carrots)

Daddy Rabbit’s ranking and score appeared.

Daddy Rabbit handed Sejun the 48 carrot seeds he had won. He didn’t get the harvested carrots, but he received 1 seed for every 10 carrots harvested.

“Oh! They give carrot seeds?!” Sejun cheered. This was definitely worth doing. He quickly lined up behind the rabbits.

Finally, it was Sejun’s turn. Daddy Rabbit was still in first place.

Sejun grinned. ‘First place is as good as mine,’ he thought, picturing himself winning.

But as Sejun entered the carrot field,

[Other buffs besides the Harvest Festival buff will be removed for the fairness of the competition.]

The effect of the carrot soup disappeared.

“No choice.”

Sejun didn’t have time to complain.

Sejun hurriedly picked carrots with both hands and moved forward.

[You have harvested a carrot.]

[74,501 more times until the job quest is complete.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 4 slightly increases.]

There was no experience, but the skill usage was recognized. The job quest progressed, and job experience and skill proficiency also increased.

After 10 minutes, Sejun was pushed out of the carrot field with 41 seeds in his hand. Harvesting the carrots that reappeared after harvesting 400 was more difficult.

“Is there any animal missing?”

Sejun looked around to see if any animals had missed the competition.

Just then,

“Huh?!”

He saw Kkuengi, who was still busy eating rice cakes and honey, and Theo, Iona, and the raccoons coming out after finishing their deal.

“Guys!” Sejun called the animals.

“President Park! I sold 100 bottles of honey for 50 Top Coins each, nya! Did I do well, nya?” Theo ran up and clung to Sejun’s knee, reporting the results.

“Yes, you did well.”

Iona, who followed along clinging to Theo’s tail, smiled quietly. Theo was used to it now.

Kkuengi also ran up and rubbed his body against Sejun’s leg, making a happy sound. He was very happy to have eaten something delicious.

Just then,

“Did you call us?” The raccoons ran up.

“Huh?!” Sejun had only called Theo, Iona, and Kkuengi, but the raccoons seemed to have misunderstood. But the more, the merrier, so he didn’t send them back.

“Okay. Go in and harvest the carrots. Got it?”

“I understand, nya! It’s annoying, but I’ll do it because President Park told me to, nya!”

“Leave it to me!”

“I’ll do my best!”

Sejun put the animals into the Carrot Harvesting Competition.

“President Theo, why did you come out empty-handed?”

Theo’s ears drooped even lower. He really wanted to find something amazing for President Park.

“Good job.”

Sejun placed Theo, whose ears were drooping, on his lap and looked at Iona, who had entered the carrot field. ‘I believe in you! Iona!’

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Reverse Gravity!”

Blue light surrounded the carrots as Iona cast her spell. They lifted from the ground all at once, floating in the air like they were weightless.

The carrots reappeared in an instant.

“Reverse Gravity!”

The carrots were pulled out again, and the carrots regenerated.

“Reverse Gravity!”

From this point on, it became difficult to pull out the carrots, and Iona started to struggle. ‘Oh no, this is harder than I thought,’ Iona thought, but she was too proud to stop now.

Reverse Gravity magic was high-level magic. Iona was using a lot of mental and magic power because she was writing on each of the 400 carrots to show off her skills. It was magic that could be used like this because of the Blessing of Magic Power.

‘Kkyung—I shouldn’t have done it!’

Iona regretted it. She wanted to use another magic, but her pride wouldn’t allow it.

After 10 minutes,

[Carrot Harvesting Competition Ranking]

1st Place – Iona (2000 carrots)

2nd Place – Bbyik (480 carrots)

Iona made a groaning sound and started sleeping, covering Theo’s tail.

“Kkuengi, I’ll give you 10 bottles of honey if you get 1st place.” Sejun set a condition to motivate Kkuengi as much as possible.

Kkuengi’s motivation blazed. He ran to the center of the carrot field.

Kkuengi!

The ground cracked loudly where Kkuengi hit it. The earth buckled and folded, and with a whoosh, carrots exploded upwards like a fountain.

[9:55 – 400 Carrots]

The number of carrots rose quickly.

“Our Kkuengi is a genius?!” Sejun admired Kkuengi’s talent.

The ground returned to its original state, and the carrots regenerated.

Kkuengi!

Kkuengi struck the floor again.

After Kkuengi plowed the carrot field 25 times, the carrot field disappeared.

“What is it?”

Sejun checked the time and saw that there were still 3 minutes left.

Kkuengi was flustered because there were no carrots to harvest. ‘I have to get 1st place!’

Just then,

[Carrot Harvesting Competition Ranking]

1st Place – Kkuengi (10,000 carrots)

1st Place – Iona (2000 carrots)

2nd Place – Bbyik (480 carrots)

Kkuengi rose to 1st place, and the ranking was updated.

[The Carrot Harvesting Competition has been stopped early because all the carrot fields are gone.]

The competition was over. There was a limit to how many times the carrot field could regenerate.

[Rewards will be given to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of the Carrot Harvesting Competition.]

Kkuengi!

[Daddy is weak, so you have to eat this and dodge well!]

Kkuengi handed Sejun 5 wrinkled carrots, which he had received as a reward. They didn’t look good.

“Thank you.” Sejun, who was now naturally treated as the weakest, checked the carrots Kkuengi gave him.

[Agility Carrot Infused with Magic Power]

A carrot that has been exposed to strong magic power for a long time.

It was grown by a bad farmer who doesn’t know anything about farming, so it doesn’t taste good.

Agility permanently increases by 1 when eaten.

Cultivator: Green Tower Farmer Ophelia

Expiration Date: 100 years

Grade: C+

“Green Tower Farmer Ophelia?”

Sejun was happy to know there was another Tower Farmer besides him.

‘But is there another Tower?’

Sejun wondered about the name Green Tower and chewed on the carrot.

“Ugh. What is this?”

It tasted terrible, even worse than he thought. It was the worst carrot he had ever tasted. It didn’t taste like a carrot and was just bitter.

‘He really doesn’t know anything about farming. My carrots are much better. Hehehe.’

His mouth was bitter, but he felt good that he had beaten another Tower Farmer in farming.

Sejun chewed and swallowed the carrot to increase his agility.

[You have eaten an Agility Carrot Infused with Magic Power.]

[Agility permanently increases by 1.]

When he had eaten all 5 of the tasteless carrots,

“Sejun, here you go.”

Iona and Daddy Rabbit passed the tasteless carrots to Sejun.

Day 265 of being stranded. Sejun’s agility increased by 9 after getting the tasteless carrots from the animals.