Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 193

“Golden Bat, fly to the 83rd floor of the tower. Ask the hedgehogs and poison honeybees to come help me here.”

The Golden Bat, who had been resting on Sejun’s back, immediately flew to the 83rd floor of the tower at Sejun’s command. Sejun wanted the hedgehogs from the floor above to help him pick the kudzu berries faster.

He also called the poison honeybees because the kudzu flowers smelled sweet. He wondered if they could make honey from these flowers.

Even if they couldn’t make honey, they could still collect pollen. It was worth trying.

While the Golden Bat went to the 83rd floor to bring reinforcements,

Thud. Thud.

Sejun dug up the kudzu roots, washed them clean, and then

“Kkueng, squeeze them tight.”

He cut the kudzu roots into fist-sized pieces and had Kkueng squeeze them. He was thinking of making kudzu juice. He had never tasted kudzu juice before, but he had seen it for sale often. He was curious about the flavor.

Kkueng!

[Understood! Squeezing tight!]

Kkueng grabbed the kudzu root with his two front paws and lightly pressed down,

Creak.

Drip. Drip.

With the sound of the root being pressed, kudzu juice began to come out. Sejun hurriedly placed a tumbler on the floor and received the kudzu juice.

Kkueng!

[No more is coming out now!]

Kkueng threw away the kudzu root in his hand, grabbed a new kudzu root, and began to squeeze again. Sejun touched the kudzu root that Kkueng had thrown away.

“Wow, at this rate, I could use it as dry firewood right away?”

The kudzu root that Kkueng threw away had almost no moisture left and was almost like a dry twig. Kkueng was doing an amazing job squeezing the juice. The squeezed kudzu roots seemed like they could be collected separately and used as firewood later.

Slosh. Slosh.

When the amount of kudzu juice had gathered to some extent,

Slurp.

Sejun tasted the kudzu juice. As he drank the kudzu juice, the unique fragrance of kudzu swirled in his mouth, and a strong bitter taste hit him. But for Sejun, who had become accustomed to the bitter taste, it wasn’t that bitter.

Gulp.

After swallowing, a sweet taste stayed in his mouth, a nice surprise at the end.

“Hmm. Good.”

While Sejun was smiling and enjoying the lingering taste of the kudzu juice,

Lick.

Daddy said it was good! Kkueng, who had been watching Sejun’s expression, put his tongue on the kudzu juice on his paw. He was expecting it to be subtly sweet.

But

Ack!!!

[It’s bitter!!!]

Kkueng, who had licked the kudzu juice with his tongue, grimaced and shuddered. It was too intense a bitter taste for Kkueng, who had never experienced such a bitter taste before.

“Here. Here you go.”

Sejun put a honey jelly in Kkueng’s mouth.

Hee hee hee. Kkueng!

[Hee hee hee. I’m okay now!]

Thanks to the honey jelly, Kkueng’s face brightened up, and he tried to squeeze the kudzu root again. This juice is just for Daddy now! Kkueng decided to let Sejun have all of it.

But

“Kkueng, stop squeezing.”

Sejun also thought it wasn’t a taste he would eat often, so he put the lid on the tumbler and stored the remaining kudzu juice.

“Let’s pick berries again.”

About 5 hours after Sejun harvested the kudzu berries,

(Sejun!)

Whirr! Whirr!

The Golden Bat and about 5,000 poison honeybees appeared.

And

Scuttle! Scuttle!

Behind the Golden Bat and the poison honeybees, 10,000 hedgehogs, following Godori, were running diligently.

“Thank you for coming, everyone.”

Sejun expressed his gratitude to the reinforcements who had come all the way here.

Whirr!

[We see Sejun. We have heard a lot from Mother]

The queen honeybee leading these bees was new. She was the daughter of the queen on the 83rd floor. When Sejun asked for help, the older queen sent her daughter and some worker bees to start their own group.

“Yes. Nice to meet you. First, harvest the honey from the flowers here.”

Whirr!

[Yes!]

At Sejun’s words, the poison honeybees scattered and began to stick to the kudzu flowers, sucking up the honey.

Scuttle?

[What should we do?]

Godori, the leader of the hedgehogs, asked with an expression that said he would take on any task.

“You guys help me pick the kudzu berries. This is a kudzu berry. Harvest it like this.”

Sejun showed them how to harvest the kudzu berries.

Scuttle! Scuttle!

At Sejun’s demonstration, the hedgehogs nodded their heads diligently, saying they understood.

“Then let’s each harvest only 10,000.”

Scuttle! Scuttle!

Swish swish.

At Sejun’s command, the hedgehogs quickly scattered and began to harvest the kudzu berries. If 10,000 hedgehogs harvest 10,000 kudzu berries each, a total of 100 million kudzu berries would be created.

“Hehehe. Just wait a little.”

Sejun was delighted at the thought of detonating a 100 million kudzu berry bomb in the Green Tower, and he put the kudzu berries harvested by the hedgehogs into boxes and placed them in his subspace warehouse. Kkueng and the wolves also helped Sejun move the berries.

At that time,

[Tenant Farmer has acquired 5 kudzu berries using Seed Harvesting Lv. 6.]

[The Wealthy Landowner receives a 7% skill proficiency reward.]

[The proficiency of the Wealthy Landowner’s Seed Harvesting Lv. 6 slightly increases.]

[The proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 6 is filled, and the level increases.]

Sejun’s Seed Harvesting skill level increased. This was because Sejun had designated 500 of the hedgehogs who had come to help as tenant farmers and was receiving skill proficiency rewards. Sejun knew he had to take advantage of this chance.

After harvesting 100 million berries with the help of the hedgehogs,

“I’ll go up for a bit, so stay here and keep harvesting the berries.”

Scuttle!

Sejun had the hedgehogs continue to harvest the kudzu berries and moved towards the waypoint on the 85th floor of the tower.

“This place is empty?”

Sejun said, looking at the waypoint. The boss who should have been guarding the red crystal was not visible.

“Yes. There was originally a boss guarding it, but the floor is like this, so they gave up and left.”

“Really?”

Sejun listened to Elka’s words and placed his hand on the red crystal.

[The waypoint on the 85th floor of the tower has been saved.]

[Loading saved waypoints from other floors.]

[Saved Waypoints]

-Tower 99th floor

-Tower 83rd floor

-Tower 77th floor

-Tower 49th floor

“You guys go in.”

“Got it, meow!”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Sejun let Theo and Kkueng into the subspace warehouse.

And

“Elka, guard this place.”

“Yes. Don’t worry!”

“Okay. Then I’ll be back.”

He entrusted the remaining hedgehogs and poison honeybees to Elka and moved to the 99th floor of the tower.

Purple Tower 99th floor.

-How is the land deed acquisition going? Beka.

“Currently, we have secured 77 land deeds from the Purple Tower, 13 from the Black Tower, 12 from the Golden Tower, 5 from the Blue Tower, and 1 from the Green Tower,”

Beka, a dark-skinned tower farmer kneeling in front of the purple dragon statue, answered with trembling fear.

-Hurry up!

“Yes!”

As Beka turned around,

Flutter. Flutter.

Tier Peden flew to the monument erected in the center of the 99th floor of the tower. The monument was the monument of the Creator God, and it contained the reason why Tier was collecting land deeds.

[Ninth Commandment – If a tower farmer collects more than half of the land deeds of another tower, they can seize ownership of the tower.]

In other words, if you collect only the land deeds, the tower farmer can take over another tower. If the ownership of the tower is taken away, it would be quite a blow to the dragons’ pride.

In Tier’s judgment, each tower had a total of 99 land deeds, one for each floor. In other words, by collecting only 50 land deeds, they could take over a tower ruled by another dragon.

-Hehe. Be careless. Because I will take everything away in an instant. I alone will enjoy the glory of carrying out the Creator God’s task.

Tier Peden didn’t even know what the Creator God wanted, but he planned to take over the tower for himself.

Kkueng!

[We’ve arrived home!]

Kkueng, who had been carrying Sejun and Theo, shouted.

“Good job.”

Sejun stroked Kkueng’s head,

Hee hee hee. Kkueng!

[Hehe. I’m going to sleep with Kkueng’s mom!]

Kkueng smiled and ran towards the pink fur. It was late evening.

“Let’s go to sleep too.”

“Got it, meow!”

The next morning.

As soon as Sejun had breakfast, he went to Kaiser and asked if there was an easy way to spread kudzu in the Green Tower.

He also had the land deed to the Black Tower, so Sejun could go to the Green Tower himself to spread the kudzu and come back, but he didn’t want to. For Sejun, who pursued safety first, that was too risky.

-Hmm.

At Sejun’s question, Kaiser looked at the land deed of the Green Tower and pondered. This was because spatial movement is only activated when there is an entity that can possess the land deed.

-No, I can’t just send the land deed and berries alone.

Kaiser answered, having come to a conclusion.

“Is that so? Then there’s no helping it.”

Sejun was not disappointed by Kaiser’s answer. He had another idea for spreading the kudzu berries in the Green Tower.

-But what are you going to do by sending something like this to the Green Tower?

Kaiser couldn’t understand why he was giving 100 million of the useless berries that he had harvested with such difficulty to the Green Tower, even though he said he was going to take revenge.

“Hehehe. Something interesting will probably happen. Kellion, can I send Ajax to the Green Tower for a bit?”

Sejun, who was laughing like a villain, looked at Kellion next to him and asked.

-What?! What are you talking about?! Why are you sending our grandson to the Green Tower?!

Kellion was agitated at Sejun’s words.

“If Kellion gives the kudzu berries to Ajax, Ajax can just go to the Green Tower for a bit and spread the kudzu berries and come back. I’ll give you 100 bottles of soju in return.”

-What?! Why are you giving 100 bottles for something that’s not even difficult?!

Kaiser was agitated at Sejun’s words. It was dangerous for Sejun, but it was not dangerous for Ajax at all.

Of course, the manager of the tower would not stand still if someone invaded their tower, but since he would be back soon, it wouldn’t be a big problem.

But for Sejun, it was a reasonable deal.

Moving the kudzu berries to another tower would cost a lot of money, almost 100 million tower coins. In addition, Ajax could use the land deed of the White Tower to return, so Sejun could save the Black Tower land deed he had.

-150 bottles! Then I’ll send our grandson.

-Hey! You swindler! Why are you taking 150 bottles?!

Kaiser was agitated because the soju he would get later would be reduced by the amount Kellion took.

-What do you mean, ‘taking’ from a friend?

-I say ‘taking’ because you’re taking!

While the two dragons were fighting,

“Guys, help me take out the kudzu berries.”

‘Got it, meow!’

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Sejun began to take out the 100 million kudzu berries in the subspace warehouse with the help of Theo and Kkueng.

-Ahem. Then you know later?

-Okay. I understand.

Kellion, who had decided to drink the 10 bottles of soju he received from Sejun with Kaiser in the evening, answered with a voice full of annoyance. Kaiser had convinced him to agree.

-I’ve delivered the kudzu berries to Ajax.

Ajax was furious and protested why he had to go, but Kellion quietly handed over the kudzu berries. Sejun would take care of the rest.

“Yes. Thank you. Here’s the soju.”

Sejun handed Kellion 150 bottles of soju he had brought from the brewery.

And

“Go! Ajax!”

Sejun sent the bombing dragon Ajax, armed with a kudzu berry bomb, to the Green Tower.