Farming In The Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 146

“Just go. We don’t have raffles here.”

Taru, the guard of the lost and found warehouse, tried to politely send the cat merchant away.

However,

“Then let’s start bargaining, meow!”

“I said no!”

The cat merchant wouldn’t listen.

“How about 1 Gold Coin for a raffle, meow?!”

And he was asking such a ridiculous price!

‘Look at this guy…’

Taru felt strangely upset at the price Theo was asking. He tightened his grip on the spear in his hand without realizing it.

Even if there weren’t any valuable items in the lost and found warehouse, 1 Gold Coin?! What did that make him, who had guarded this place for over 100 years?

While Taru was feeling displeased,

‘I need to buy as cheaply as possible to become a good merchant, meow!’

Theo believed that a capable merchant maximizes profit by buying good items as cheaply as possible. He was only thinking of getting a raffle ticket as cheaply as possible.

He wanted to just go in for free and take everything he liked, but Theo still had a conscience.

“Look, I’m telling you, we don’t do that here.”

Taru held back the anger rising in his chest and refused again.

However,

“Then 1.1 Gold Coins!”

Theo’s bargaining had only just begun.

“No.”

“Then 1.2 Gold Coins!”

“I said no!”

“1.3 Gold Coins!”

“I’m telling you, no!”

Theo kept raising the price, even though Taru kept saying no.

‘What a persistent fellow!’

Taru was getting tired of Theo, who was raising the price bit by bit. He had heard that the top wandering merchant was stingy, but he didn’t know it would be to this extent. He was too stingy.

Several hours passed.

“10 Gold Coins!”

“Yeesh! That’s too cheap!!!”

In the end, Taru, enraged by the price Theo was asking, shouted.

“Surprise, meow! If it’s because it’s cheap, you should have said so, meow! How about 20 Gold Coins for a raffle, meow?”

Theo cheerfully doubled the price.

“1000 Gold Coins. Or you can’t enter.”

Taru said firmly. If it was a place he was guarding, it had to be worth that much.

Taru was sure that Theo was hoping for another lucky chance after having drawn an item that Leken wanted last time. So, he was planning to teach this cheeky cat a lesson.

‘If he spends 1000 Gold Coins to draw a useless item, he’ll quickly come to his senses.’

Perhaps if he spent 1000 Gold Coins this time and drew an item that wasn’t worth anything, he wouldn’t come looking to do a raffle again.

“Lower the price, meow!”

When the other party suggested a price, Theo tried to haggle three times. But Taru had no intention of bargaining, so he remained unmoved.

“Then I’ll just do it, meow! Here’s 3000 Gold Coins, meow!”

Theo’s goal was to do what Sejun told him to do.

‘Chairman Park told me to ask for a discount three times, meow!’

Theo confidently handed Taru 3000 Gold Coins. There were three items he couldn’t get last time. He was planning to take them all out today.

“Three?!”

Taru was taken aback by Theo’s reaction.

“You can’t take out three. You can only take out one, no matter what.”

He had been willing to let him get burned once, but the amount was too large for that. Taru, worried about Theo’s loss, returned 2000 Gold Coins.

And

Thud.

He opened the door to the massive lost and found warehouse.

Whoosh.

As the door opened, the torches inside the lost and found warehouse, which had been shrouded in darkness, lit up.

“Why are there so many things I can’t do, meow?!”

Theo grumbled.

“If you don’t want to, just go back!”

“No, meow! Then I’ll go in, meow!”

As Taru tried to close the door to the lost and found warehouse again, Theo hurriedly entered.

10 minutes later.

“Meow! Meow!”

Theo struggled to carry out a shabby box.

“Are you going to take that?”

Taru naturally thought he had chosen the item inside the box and looked inside.

However,

Empty.

The inside was empty.

“You’re not seriously going to choose that box?!”

“That’s right, meow! Then I’ll come again next time, meow!”

Theo put the box in his bundle and left with a proud expression.

“What do you mean come again? You won’t be coming again now…….”

Taru was convinced that Theo had chosen trash.

Meanwhile, far away in the Land of the Golden Dragon…

Thud. Thud.

Kaiser and Kellion arrived at the dragon meeting hall. Golden, red, blue, purple, green, and brown dragons had already arrived.

“Now that everyone is here, let’s begin the meeting.”

As the two entered, Artemis Yul, the head of the Yul family and a golden dragon, announced the start of the meeting.

However, dragons usually don’t get involved in each other’s business, so meetings were often short. The meeting was about preparing for the Black Moon and getting ready to fight. They talked about waking up dragons who were sleeping.

When the meeting was over and the dragons were about to leave,

“Eat these before you go. These are foods made from crops harvested by our Golden Tower’s top farmer.”

Artemis treated the dragons to food, wanting to show off her capable top farmer.

“Hahaha. I feel bad just receiving this treat, so I should take one out too. This is liquor brewed by our Red Tower’s top farmer.”

“Ahem. This is…….”

Other dragons also began to show off things made by the top farmers of their towers.

However,

Kaiser and Kellion silently ate what the other dragons had brought. Kaiser wanted to show off Sejun’s crops, but he held back for Kellion, who was feeling proud next to him.

He was usually like an enemy, but he didn’t want to hurt Kellion’s pride in this situation.

At that moment,

“Kaiser, Kellion, why aren’t you taking anything out? What delicious things do you have that you’re hiding so well? Let’s eat together. Don’t you think so? Haha.”

Tier Peten, the head of the Peten family and a purple dragon, said with a smile. Her eyes showed contempt.

The atmosphere in the meeting hall turned cold at Tier’s words.

The heads did not leave the dragons’ territory, but the other dragons interacted with each other, so they roughly knew the situation of the other towers.

The Black Tower did not have a top farmer because of Kaiser’s granddaughter, Eileen, and the White Tower was not farming at all because Kellion’s grandson, Ajax, suddenly became the top farmer.

Tier brought it up knowing all that.

Kaiser glared at Tier silently, and Kellion swallowed his anger and endured.

‘Hehehe. Go ahead and get angry.’

Tier, who had always resented the two, secretly hoped that they would get angry. If Kaiser and Kellion got angry here, she could pretend she didn’t know and step back, making only the two of them look foolish.

At that moment,

“Tier, you don’t have to take it out if you don’t want to. I don’t think there’s any need to force it.”

Brachio Iolgue, the female head of the Iolgue family and a green dragon, said to Tier in a cold voice, defending Kaiser and Kellion.

Her granddaughter Ophelia was also a top farmer, so Kellion’s situation felt personal. Green dragons were the most nature-friendly race among dragons and the farming elites.

However, Brachio was greatly surprised by the crops from the Black Tower that she received as a reward at the harvest festival recently held in the Green Tower.

She was surprised that the Black Tower had a top farmer, and she was even more surprised by the crops harvested by the Black Tower’s top farmer.

The crops of Black Tower’s top farmer, Park Sejun, were still low in grade, but they were perfect, with both great taste and effect.

So, she was going to have a separate conversation with Kaiser after the meeting, but Tier was ruining the atmosphere.

“Ahem. I was too rash. I’m sorry. You don’t have to take it out if you don’t want to… Well, I was going to share some if you two didn’t have anything to take out.”

Tier was sarcastic until the end.

“Let’s stop here today and meet again in 3 months.”

The atmosphere was not good, so Artemis hurriedly stepped in and ended the meeting. When the dragons started a meeting, they held a meeting once every three months in each family’s land, starting with the Yul family. That was the law of the dragons.

Stranded Day 301, Night.

“The rabbits, poison honeybees, and mushroom ants have all gone home…….”

Sejun prepared for the upcoming 11th Blue Moon.

[The Tower’s administrator apologizes for not being able to help.]

Eileen diligently charged the searchlight that Kaiser had made with magic power, but the searchlight needed two bars to operate. It was difficult for Eileen’s magic power to even charge one bar.

“It’s okay. I’ve prepared enough for today.”

Sejun said, looking at the farm guarded by the Pink Bear and five Black Minotaurs. It was reassuring just to look at them.

Sejun had been using Flame’s purifying flames on the Black Minotaurs whenever Flame could use it. As a result, five of them were no longer affected by the Blue Moon.

Plus, there was Kkueng, so that was enough to protect the farm.

At that moment,

Kkueng!

[Dad, nothing’s wrong!]

(Bat bat. Mr. Sejun, nothing’s wrong!)

Kkueng and the Golden Bat returned after patrolling to see if there were any fire ants or poison honeybees invading the farm.

“Good job. Then let’s have a late-night snack.”

Sejun prepared a late-night snack for the animals who were working hard without sleeping.

Kkueng!

[I like it!]

Kkueng raised his short forelimbs and got excited at the word late-night snack.

“I’ll make garaetteok (Korean rice cake) today.”

Yesterday, the wizards of the Magic Tower, who couldn’t come out during the Blue Moon, bought snacks and brought money back.

And with that money, he put money into the Relic: Rice Dough Swallowing Wealth, obtained rice flour, made garaetteok dough, and put it in the Red Ribbon Kingdom’s treasure vault. Then he realized.

“Ah! I’m rich…….”

Even if he sold just one gold bar in the treasure vault, he would have enough for dozens of coins… Sejun had completely forgotten about the treasures in the treasure vault.

‘I’ll buy authority with this later.’

Sejun closed the treasure vault, resolving to buy new authority with the wealth in the treasure vault.

As another day passed,

[List of items currently available for shipment from the Red Ribbon Kingdom’s treasure vault (total of 23,918,120)]

Chewy Dough 1kg X5

The dough had turned into chewy dough. The Black Rabbit had been diligently pounding the rice cake and putting it back in.

“I’ll take out 5 1kg of chewy dough.”

[Shipping 5 1kg of chewy dough from the Red Ribbon Kingdom’s treasure vault.]

“Okay. Press it slowly and gently!”

Sejun said, putting the dough into the manual garaetteok machine that Kkueng was holding.

Kkueng!

Kkueng skillfully began to pull out garaetteok because he had already done it several times.

[Completed chewy garaetteok.]

[Cooking Lv. 4 proficiency slightly increases.]

[Due to the effect of Cooking Lv. 4, the taste and effect of chewy garaetteok slightly increase.]

The garaetteok was completed. As the Black Rabbit’s skills improved, the word ‘slightly’ that had been attached to the garaetteok also disappeared.

“Okay. Let’s eat!”

Sejun cut the garaetteok into bite-sized pieces and gave it to the Pink Bear, Kkueng, and the Golden Bat. Of course, honey could not be left out of the garaetteok, so he took out a lot of honey.

“Okay. You guys eat this.”

Moo!

(Thank you for the food!)

The Black Minotaurs didn’t like the texture of the rice cake, so they didn’t eat it. Instead, he gave them plenty of cut cherry tomato vines.

As Sejun and the animals finished their late-night snack amicably,

“Oh?! It’s the Blue Moon!”

A blue moon rose in the sky.

“Let’s get to work now.”

Sejun said, getting up. They had to spread out and identify the location of the crops imbued with the Blue Moon’s energy.

At that moment,

“Chairman Park! I’ve arrived, meow!”

Theo, who had arrived just in time, threw himself towards Sejun.