Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 196

[Black Tower 55th Floor Land Document]

“Thank you.”

Sejun, having received the land document for the 55th floor of the tower, expressed his gratitude to the Black Rabbit, placing it on his palm and stroking it.

Squawk!

[So, please come to my wedding!]

The Black Rabbit, enjoying Sejun’s stroking, rubbed its head against Sejun’s hand and said in a pleasant voice.

“Alright. It’s our Black Rabbit’s wedding; of course, I have to go.”

Sejun had a few more words with the Black Rabbit and moved the salt obtained from the White Tower’s salt mine into Sejun’s subspace warehouse.

And then,

Squawk!

[Uncle, take this!]

The Black Rabbit handed Sejun a purple coin obtained after defeating the Apostle of Destruction in the White Tower. He didn’t know what it was for, but with this, he had collected 21 coins.

“Thank you.”

Squawk!

[Then, see you at the wedding!]

As the conversation ended, the Black Rabbit hurriedly said goodbye and prepared to leave. As a groom-to-be, he had much to prepare.

“Chairman Park, I’ll be off! Meow!”

Theo, who was going down the tower with the Black Rabbit, hugged Sejun’s knee tightly and said goodbye.

This was because Sejun had asked him to go down and ask about his family’s well-being. He had confirmed that his family was safe through the Bronze Mirror of Yearning, but he wanted to know more details about their situation.

“Alright. Did you pack your Churu well?”

“Yes, meow! I packed a lot, meow!”

Tap! Tap!

Theo answered, patting his bundle at Sejun’s question.

“Come back safe.”

“I will, meow! I’ll be back soon, meow!”

With Theo and the Black Rabbit gone,

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Sejun worked hard until evening, scattering kudzu fruits to complete the job quest.

Thanks to this, he achieved more than half of the job quest’s completion rate and raised the field level once more. Because the level was low, it quickly went up with just a little bit of proficiency.

“I should start preparing dinner soon. But where did Kkuengi go?”

Sejun looked around, searching for Kkuengi, who should have already come a while ago, whining about being hungry.

Just then,

Tap tap tap tap!

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[Daddy, Kkuengi is hungry! Kkuengi brought Daddy’s meal!]

Just then, Kkuengi came running. He looked dirty, as if he had been digging somewhere, calling for Sejun.

But my meal? What meal? Sejun looked closely at Kkuengi, who was running towards him, and saw that Kkuengi was holding something in his front paws.

“Huh? That’s?!”

Sejun’s face turned pale as he realized what Kkuengi was holding in his front paws. Don’t tell me that’s it?! I know it’s good for the body, but… I don’t want to eat it again! Just thinking about eating it made him shudder.

However,

Kkuengi!

[Daddy, eat this and become strong!]

Kkuengi betrayed Sejun’s expectations and handed Sejun a golden kudzu root with a proud expression. Three of them, in fact. Hee hee hee. Kkuengi will make Daddy strong!

“Tha… Thank you.”

Sejun decided to accept the kudzu roots for now. He would think later about how to eat them without suffering. But then,

Kkuengi?

[Why aren’t you eating it?]

Kkuengi looked at Sejun, urging him to eat quickly.

“Daddy is not hungry right now…”

Gurgle.

Unfortunately, Sejun’s stomach chose that moment to rumble. The timing was terrible.

Kkuengi?

[Daddy just lied?]

Kkuengi reacted sensitively to Sejun’s lie. He began to take out the club he carried on his back. It was the karma of teaching him that lying was bad.

“Not that, but I was very hungry! I’ll eat well.”

Crunch. Crunch.

Sejun hurriedly began to eat three kudzu roots at the same time. It’s not because he absolutely didn’t want to get hit. He was eating it out of consideration for Kkuengi’s sincerity. He would be disappointed if I didn’t eat it.

However,

[You have overcome a deadly crisis.]

[Talent: The maximum health of Tough Vitality increases by 12.]

The message made Sejun’s excuses pale.

“Keuh!”

He had eaten it once before, but eating three at the same time felt completely different.

Shiver shiver.

Sejun’s body trembled with cold sweat from a taste like bitter medicine mixed with sour lemons. He felt like his mind was becoming hazy.

Gulp.

Sejun firmly resolved to find a way to eat this deliciously and swallowed the kudzu root with desperate determination.

[You have consumed three golden kudzu roots of life simultaneously.]

[The effect of the golden kudzu root of life is enhanced.]

[Health potential increases by 80.]

[Talent: The maximum health of Tough Vitality increases by 3.]

“Unfair… Heh…”

Sejun said, looking at the last message. He felt like he had been on the verge of death dozens of times, but only got a maximum health increase of 3?! Are you kidding me?!

Plop.

Sejun fainted. He learned that you could faint from eating something too disgusting.

Kkuengi!

[Daddy is too weak!]

He fainted from eating something so disgusting that he passed out, but Kkuengi misunderstood that Sejun had collapsed because he was weak.

Kkuengi.

[Daddy is sleeping soundly.]

Kkuengi felt upset and made his body bigger, put Sejun on his belly, ate snacks from his snack pouch, and fell asleep.

The next morning.

Kkulorong.

“Umm…”

Sejun woke up to the sound of Kkuengi snoring.

“Did I faint yesterday and keep sleeping? But my body feels very refreshed?”

Umm… Sejun woke up. ‘Did I faint?’ he wondered. He stretched. Wow! His body felt amazing. Like he had slept for a week. All his tiredness was gone.

Just then,

Gurgle.

The sound of Kkuengi’s stomach rumbling came from Kkuengi’s belly.

“I need to make food quickly.”

Sejun carefully got off Kkuengi’s belly so as not to wake him up and hurriedly prepared breakfast.

After eating breakfast,

[You have planted 94 kudzu in the field.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Proficiency of Field Lv. 3 slightly increases.]

[Proficiency of Magic Seed Sowing Lv. 6 slightly increases.]

[Due to the effect of Field Lv. 3, kudzu grows stronger.]

[Due to the effect of Magic Seed Sowing Lv. 6, the probability of kudzu taking root increases.]

[Kudzu is listening to the farmer’s footsteps, so the growth rate of kudzu is accelerated.]

[4,150,035 more times until job quest completion.]

While Sejun was diligently planting kudzu fruits,

Kkuengi!

[Daddy, Kkuengi dug up kudzu roots to make Daddy strong!]

Kkuengi dug up golden kudzu roots again. This time, 5 roots.

Kkuengi!

[Daddy, eat quickly!].

Kkuengi stared intently at Sejun to make sure he ate properly.

‘What should I do?’

Sejun fell into 고민, looking at the 5 golden kudzu roots. He didn’t want to faint again after eating this. No, before that, he didn’t want to feel that terrible taste again.

“Our Kkuengi is amazing, isn’t he? But where did you find these?”

Sejun stroked Kkuengi’s head and asked, to buy time to come up with a solution in his head.

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[These are easy to find because they have a bitter and sour smell together! Kkuengi can find more!]

Kkuengi puffed out his chest, so proud of himself, thinking Sejun’s question was a compliment, said in a 자랑스러운 voice.

“Is… Is that so?”

Sejun’s mind was in a state of emergency at Kkuengi’s words that he would find more. This wasn’t the end. He didn’t know there were so many kudzu with medicinal properties in the kudzu field.

Just then,

“Ah! That’s it!”

A memory flashed through Sejun’s mind.

“Cough. Cough.”

“Sejun, try eating this.”

Ginseng lemon honey preserve that his mother always made for him when he had a cold. Ginseng was bitter and lemon was sour, but honey neutralized the taste in the middle, and he remembered eating it deliciously.

Kkuengi!

[Daddy, eat quickly and get healthy!]

Kkuengi urged Sejun to eat quickly because he wasn’t eating the kudzu root.

“Kkuengi, wait a minute. I thought of a way to eat this deliciously.”

Kkuengi?

[Can you make this delicious even though it tastes bad?]

You little rascal! So, you gave it to me because it tasted bad.

“Yes. Just soak the kudzu root in honey like this, and it’s done.”

Sejun answered and took out a glass jar filled with honey from the subspace warehouse and soaked the kudzu root in it.

Kkuengi?

[Does that make it delicious?]

Kkuengi asked with a puzzled expression, looking at the kudzu root soaked in honey. How can something that tastes bad become delicious?

“It really becomes delicious.”

Sejun took out one of the kudzu roots soaked in honey and put it in his mouth.

Crunch. Crunch.

The kudzu root was not yet soaked in honey, so the sweetness had not yet permeated, but the golden kudzu root of life was edible enough with just the honey on the outside.

The sweetness of the honey weakened the extreme bitterness and sourness of the kudzu root, balancing it in the middle. The taste would be even better if it was soaked in honey for a few days.

Gulp.

[You have consumed the golden kudzu root of life.]

[Health increases by 50.]

[Talent: The maximum health of Tough Vitality increases by 1.]

This time, the potential of health was not 부족하지, so the health stat increased.

Kkuengi?

Kkuengi also took out the kudzu root in the glass jar and carefully put it in his mouth, following Sejun.

Crunch. Crunch.

The kudzu root was bitter, but it was edible because of the honey taste.

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[It really became delicious! Daddy is amazing!]

Kkuengi’s eyes widened in amazement, admiring Sejun’s magic, Kkuengi tried to grab another kudzu root in the glass jar. Kkuengi’s trick to 은근슬쩍 eat more honey.

However,

Click.

Sejun closed the glass jar lid.

“Trust Daddy and wait 3 days to eat it. Then it will be more delicious.”

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[Okay! Kkuengi trusts Daddy!]

The 의심 from a while ago was gone, and he was about to believe everything Sejun said.

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[Daddy, wait a little bit! Kkuengi will dig up more kudzu roots!]

Tap tap tap tap.

Kkuengi, who wanted to eat a lot of kudzu root honey 절임, started digging up the kudzu field again to find kudzu roots.

Around lunchtime,

Kkuengi!

[Daddy, Kkuengi is hungry!]

Kkuengi, who was completely 거지꼴, ran with 10 golden kudzu roots.

And then,

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[Daddy, here are the kudzu roots I dug up! Soak them in honey!]

When Kkuengi handed Sejun 10 kudzu roots,

[Guardian Kkuengi is showing great passion for finding herbs.]

[You can create a job: Herbalist for Guardian Kkuengi and change job for Kkuengi to Herbalist.]

[It requires 20 pieces of world energy to create a job: Herbalist and change job Guardian Kkuengi to Herbalist. Would you like to use it? (Currently has 21 pieces of world energy)]

“Huh?! Herbalist?”

Sejun was surprised by the message. ‘Herbalist?’ he thought. ‘How much passion does Kkuengi have to get a job offer?’

“But what is world energy?”

Sejun was 의아해하며 at the word he heard for the first time. Moreover, he already had 21 pieces without Sejun himself knowing.

Just then,

“Could it be?!”

At the number ’21’, Sejun took out 21 coins he got from 해치우고 the Apostles of Destruction. He somehow felt that this was world energy. The 추측 was only half right. To be exact, the energy of the world was in the coin.

“You can use this like this?! Kkuengi, do you want to try being a herbalist?”

Sejun asked Kkuengi, 신기해하며.

Kkuengi?

[What is a herbalist?]

“Herbalist? You can say it’s a job that finds herbs that are good for the body well.”

Kkuengi!

[Then I will do it!]

Kkuengi nodded strongly at Sejun’s words. Kkuengi will become a herbalist and find a lot of herbs that are good for Daddy’s body! As expected, a 효자 Kkuengi’s thought.

“Okay. I will change job Kkuengi to Herbalist.”

Pasususu.

With Sejun’s words, a bright light 빠져나오며 from 20 of the 21 coins in Sejun’s hand, and the coins turned into 가루 and 사라졌고

[Using 20 pieces of world energy, create a job: Herbalist and change job Guardian Kkuengi to Herbalist.]

[Guardian Kkuengi has changed job to Herbalist.]

A bright light 감싸며 Kkuengi’s body, and Kkuengi 전직 to Herbalist.

And then,

[Herbalist Kkuengi has 개화 job talent: Herb Detection.]

Kkuengi!

[There are herbs around!]

Kkuengi, who 감지한 herbs while 개화 talent, dug the ground incredibly deeply and 캐냈다 a red kudzu root.