Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 186

The Halla Building’s monitor room was quiet, filled with the low hum of machines. People sat in front of dozens of screens, their eyes watching the black and white CCTV footage. It was a normal day, watching empty hallways and offices.

Suddenly,

*Beep. Beep.*

A loud alarm broke the silence. Red lights flashed on the control panel. A motion sensor had been triggered.

“What’s happening?!” the manager called out.

“It’s the 3rd floor!” a staff member replied quickly. “Cleaning supplies storage, room 315!”

Just then, another voice shouted from the 3rd floor section, “Golden Bat spotted! Room 315, 3rd floor! It’s really him!”

The manager spoke into his microphone, his voice urgent. “Monitor room to 3rd floor staff. Golden Bat confirmed in room 315. Go to the cleaning storage now and talk to him.”

A short while later,

“Excuse me, are you the Golden Bat?”

The Golden Bat looked surprised. “Yes,” he said. “But who are you?” The Golden Bat, who had been looking around for ramen, encountered the staff.

“We will guide you to where the items you need are located. What is it that you need?”

“I need ramen.”

“What kind of ramen, perhaps?”

“I don’t really know. Sejun told me to just bring back a lot of ramen.”

“As much as possible? Understood. Please follow us. We will guide you to the ramen warehouse. Please, sit on my shoulder.”

“Okay!”

As the Golden Bat sat on the man’s shoulder,

“Have a little something to eat while we move.” The man opened a fruit box that had been prepared for when the Golden Bat appeared and handed over a grape.

“Thank you!”

Slurp.

The Golden Bat ate the grape and moved to the ramen warehouse. The Halla Building was no longer full of offices. Now, it was a logistics center just for the Golden Bat.

At the ramen warehouse, the Golden Bat and the staff worked together to pack the ramen.

“Bat bat! Thank you so much! I should go now.”

Flap! Flap!

The Golden Bat, clutching 100 packs of ramen in its two feet, thanked the people who had helped and flew toward the tower.

However,

Thud.

“Huh?!”

Out of the 20 bundles of ramen, each bundle containing 5 packs connected together, 19 bundles fell to the floor. In the end, the Golden Bat only managed to take 5 packs of ramen.

“Hehehe. I wonder how many packs of ramen he’ll bring back?” Sejun waited for the Golden Bat to return from Earth, planting cherry tomatoes. Even if he only brought back 2 packs of ramen, he and Kkuengi could at least share one pack each.

He had told him to bring back as much as possible, but he didn’t have high expectations. It was already fortunate enough that he could get things from outside like this.

When the Golden Bat first started going back and forth to Earth, Sejun was greedy and tried to get the Golden Bat to prepare a subspace pocket to bring back large quantities of goods from Earth.

However, Iona stopped Sejun from doing so. Moving between dimensions wasn’t easy, so it was best to avoid variables as much as possible.

Especially in the case of spatial magic like subspace magic, it could cause interference during dimensional travel, causing the Golden Bat to move to a different location or, in the worst case, become trapped in the rift between dimensions.

Just then,

Flap. Flap.

“Bat bat! Sejun, I’m back!” The Golden Bat returned.

“I brought back a lot of ramen!” The Golden Bat shouted excitedly towards Sejun, but then,

“Huh?!”

Feeling lighter than expected, he quickly looked down at his legs. And he confirmed that he was only holding one bundle of ramen.

“Bae-aang… I packed a lot of ramen… Sejun, I’m sorry.” The Golden Bat flew towards Sejun with a tearful voice.

However,

Sejun’s eyes widened. He clapped his hands together, a wide grin spreading across his face. “Golden Bat, you’re amazing! You managed to bring back 5 packs of ramen!”

He had thought it would be great if he and Kkuengi could share one pack each, but the Golden Bat had brought back 5 packs of ramen. Moreover, there was a variety of flavors: 3 kinds of regular soup ramen, 1 black bean ramen, and hellfire chicken ramen. It was the best result.

“Well done, Golden Bat!”

“Bat bat. Did I do well?”

“Of course! Come here!” Sejun said, spreading out his palm.

“Okay!”

“Eat this.” Sejun handed a white cherry tomato to the Golden Bat, who had climbed onto his palm. It was a potion-grade cherry tomato.

“I will enjoy it!”

Slurp.

The Golden Bat hugged the cherry tomato and began to suck the juice out of it diligently.

‘As expected, Sejun’s fruits are the best!’ The Golden Bat had just been treated to fruits, but the fruits he ate on Earth were nothing compared to this.

“Hehehe. I should eat it for dinner later.”

It took time to digest Eileen’s healthy fist-sized meat chunk. Having secured 5 packs of ramen thanks to the Golden Bat, Sejun diligently planted cherry tomatoes to quickly empty his stomach.

And then,

[The magic cherry tomato expresses its gratitude to the farmer’s footsteps and lends its strength.]

[The potential of the magic stat increases from 105 to 106.]

Thanks to diligently wandering around the cherry tomato field, his magic potential also increased by 1.

While Sejun was working hard,

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Looks delicious! Kkuengi wants to meet Kkuengi’s grandma and eat Kkuengi’s grandma’s cooking too!]

Kkuengi watched his grandmother cooking through the bronze mirror of longing, drooling. Kim Mikyung was not only mistaken for a grandmother but was also filming a cooking show.

Crunch. Crunch.

Kkuengi, who was watching the cooking show, took out a raw sweet potato from his snack pouch.

Kkueng?

[But what is Black Rabbit doing?]

Suddenly, he missed Black Rabbit. So, he infused magic into the bronze mirror and thought of Black Rabbit.

Then, Black Rabbit appeared in the bronze mirror. Black Rabbit was carrying a squeaky hammer on his back, suppressing a smile, and approaching someone’s back.

Kkueng?

[That back looks familiar?]

But that back looked quite familiar.

Just then,

Screech!!!

“Ack! You scared me!” Sejun’s scream was heard along with Black Rabbit’s roar from where Sejun was working. Black Rabbit had played a prank on Sejun as soon as he arrived on the 99th floor of the tower.

“Hey! You surprised me!” When Sejun was about to get angry at Black Rabbit, who suddenly appeared from behind and shouted,

Screech!

[Uncle, I missed you!]

Hop!

Snuggle snuggle.

Black Rabbit quickly climbed onto Sejun’s shoulder and rubbed his cheek against Sejun’s face. Showing affection like this was against the rules.

“Have you been well?” Sejun stroked Black Rabbit’s head and said in a gentle voice. His anger had long since subsided due to Black Rabbit’s cuteness.

Screech! Screech!

[Yes! I came because of this!]

Thump.

Black Rabbit took out a piece of paper.

“Oh?! This is?” It was a wedding invitation, inviting him to the founding ceremony announcing the establishment of the Red Ribbon Kingdom on the 55th floor of the tower in a month, along with Black Rabbit and Ppyuppyu’s wedding.

“Congratulations, Black Rabbit, and thank you for your hard work!”

Screech! Screech!

[That’s right! I worked really hard!]

Black Rabbit immediately rubbed his head against Sejun’s cheek again, whining at Sejun’s praise. It would have been difficult to do this with his status on the 55th floor of the tower.

While Sejun was stroking Black Rabbit,

Screech?

[Uncle can’t come, can he…?] Black Rabbit asked, looking at Sejun with hopeful eyes. He spoke in a negative form to avoid disappointment, but his eyes were full of anticipation.

However,

“Sorry… you know that, Black Rabbit.” Sejun couldn’t meet Black Rabbit’s expectations. To move to the 55th floor of the tower, he needed to have a waypoint registered or a land deed for the 55th floor of the tower, but Sejun had neither.

It would be great if Black Rabbit could simply issue a land deed, but the land deed item was different from ordinary land deeds. The land deed item was created by the tower and even the Dragon race couldn’t interfere with it.

Screech…

[It’s okay….] Black Rabbit replied in a gloomy voice.

Just then,

“Black Rabbit, when did you get here, nya?!” Theo, who had woken up from sleeping on Sejun’s lap, discovered Black Rabbit and greeted him.

Screech! Screech!

[I just got here! I’m getting married in a month!]

“Congratulations, nya! I’ll give you a good gift at the wedding, nya!” While Theo and Black Rabbit were talking,

Kkueng!

[It’s little brother!]

Kkuengi called out to Black Rabbit and ran over.

2nd floor of the Black Tower.

“Now we can just go up to the 2nd floor?”

“It’s all thanks to Gagel.” Hunters who had just awakened with tickets were looking at the experience farm that stretched endlessly to both sides.

Gagel’s experience farm was gradually expanding and had taken over the entire 2nd floor of the tower, and the skeletons on the 2nd floor of the tower had completely disappeared, turning into nutrients for the contaminated cherry tomatoes.

Thanks to this, the hunters could easily go up to the 3rd floor of the tower without fighting monsters.

While admiring the experience farm, the hunters arrived at the waypoint on the 2nd floor of the tower and touched the red crystal.

[You have cleared the 2nd floor of the tower.]

The floor was cleared easily.

[As a reward for clearing the 2nd floor of the tower, you have acquired 5000 experience points, 1 tower coin, and a novice’s sword.]

Moreover, there was even a reward for clearing the 2nd floor. It was a situation that Sejun, who had never received a floor clearing reward, would have felt wronged by if he had seen it.

[The waypoint on the 2nd floor of the tower has been saved.]

[Moving to the 3rd floor of the tower.]

The hunters arrived on the 3rd floor of the tower.

“Oh! An experience farm is being created here too?” The hunters discovered the contaminated cherry tomatoes planted in the ground. An experience farm was being created in a part of the 3rd floor of the tower as well.

“You can use the treasures in the treasure vault, Black Rabbit.” Sejun said, handing the rabbit statue, the guardian of the treasure vault that could take out items from the Red Ribbon Kingdom’s treasure vault, to Black Rabbit as a wedding gift.

From the moment he obtained this, Sejun had been thinking of handing these treasures over to Black Rabbit when he married Ppyuppyu.

‘With this much treasure, our Black Rabbit won’t be lacking!’ It was to boost Black Rabbit’s morale.

“Now I have to work again. Black Rabbit, eat this while you’re at it.” Sejun handed over 5 potion-grade cherry tomatoes. Black Rabbit, who would become king in the future, needed to become stronger.

Screech!

[I will enjoy them!]

After feeding Black Rabbit to help him recover,

Step. Step.

When Sejun was working in the cherry tomato field again,

Slurp.

Screech?

[What is this?]

Black Rabbit, who was looking at the items in the treasure vault while eating cherry tomatoes, took out a document and unfolded it absentmindedly.

And then,

Whoosh.

Black Rabbit disappeared.

Kkueng?

[Where did little brother go?]

Kkuengi, who had been eyeing Black Rabbit’s cherry tomatoes, panicked and looked around.

Kkueng!

[Daddy! Daddy! Little brother gone! Gone!]

Kkuengi urgently called for Sejun.

“What?! Why is Black Rabbit?”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[I don’t know! He unfolded a rolled-up document like Daddy and disappeared!]

“What?! A rolled-up document?” At Kkuengi’s words, Sejun remembered the land deed he had put in the treasure vault.

And then,

“Gasp!” He was horrified. The land deeds he had put in the treasure vault were the land deeds for the White Tower and the Blue Tower.

“Why did he open that?!” It wasn’t Sejun’s place to say, as he had unfolded the land deed and moved to the 77th floor of the tower alone, turning the 99th floor upside down. Like uncle, like nephew.

“Kkuengi, keep an eye on Black Rabbit with the bronze mirror to see if he’s safe! I’ll ask the dragons for help! Eileen!” Sejun told Kkuengi and ran to where Kaiser and Kellion were, calling for Eileen. If he had gone to the White Tower, he could have asked Kellion or Ajax for help.

Kkueng!

[Okay!]

Kkuengi hurriedly checked Black Rabbit’s condition with the bronze mirror. The surroundings were covered in white and sparkling rocks, so Black Rabbit’s appearance was very clear. Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with Black Rabbit.

Just then, Black Rabbit took out his squeaky hammer from his back and began to be wary of his surroundings.