Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 212

“Wait! Nyang! I feel something is wrong!”

Jeff asked as Teo, who had been descending the tower, suddenly stopped.

“Nyang… It’s alright, nyang! He fainted, but Chairman Park’s condition has improved, nyang! He must have eaten something bitter again and fainted, nyang!” Teo said.

Teo, being a cat, had a special sense for Chairman Park’s health, a “Chairman-sense”. This helped him accurately assess Sejun’s state.

“Vice Chairman Teo, are you able to know the Chairman’s condition even from a distance?” Jeff asked.

“Puhu-hut. That’s right, nyang! I, Vice Chairman Teo, can know everything about Chairman Park even from afar, nyang!” Teo replied proudly.

“Vice Chairman Teo, you’re amazing!” Jeff exclaimed.

“Puhu-hut. This much is nothing to the great black dragon’s subordinate, the deadly dragon claw, Yellow Cat Teo Park, nyang!” Teo said with pride.

Receiving the cats’ respect, Teo arrived at the hunters’ camp on the 41st floor of the tower with a proud gait.

“Humans, Vice Chairman Teo has arrived, nyang!” The cats announced.

“What?! Vice Chairman Teo?!” a hunter exclaimed.

“Teo came this early?!” another added.

The hunters began to bustle about at Teo’s earlier-than-expected visit. It had only been four days since Teo’s last visit. The hunters from the guilds who had bought crops from Sejun were out selling them to make money to buy more things from Teo/Sejun.

“Vice Chairman Teo, welcome! But, uh, we weren’t expecting you so soon,” a hunter said. “Many of our hunters are out selling the crops we bought last time. Could you maybe wait a little while until they get back with the money?”

“Alright, nyang! You guys stay here and sell cherry tomatoes, nyang!” Teo agreed.

“Yes!” the hunters responded.

Teo had no intention of selling Sejun’s crops for small change either. So, he had the cats sell cherry tomatoes and headed to the Black Oak’s base.

“Umm…” Sejun mumbled as he opened his eyes.

Sejun had fainted after experiencing a terrible bitter taste.

(Sejun, you’re awake?) Eileen asked.

The golden bat, who had been hanging from the bedroom ceiling watching Sejun, flew down and landed on Sejun’s chest.

“Yeah. How long was I out?” Sejun asked.

(It’s three hours before breakfast. You slept through the entire night.) Eileen replied.

“Really? No wonder I feel refreshed,” Sejun said.

Sejun got up while talking with the golden bat.

He went to the bedroom wall that marked the days and added another stroke, starting day 336 of his isolation.

“Huh?! What’s that?” Sejun wondered.

As soon as he came outside, Sejun discovered a magnificent tree stump in his yard. It glowed with a soft, golden light, and it looked ancient and powerful, like something from a fairy tale. Eileen had put it there in front of the house after Sejun fainted from eating kudzu root yesterday.

Sejun approached the tree stump and examined its options.

[Golden Tree Stump Planter of Abundance]

This mystical object was created with the divine power of Rhea, the goddess of abundance, who cherished the tree when it died.

Rhea, the goddess of abundance, has written her name on the side.

Crops planted in the Tree Stump Planter of Abundance, filled with life force, will grow 10 times faster due to the power of abundance.

The golden light will disappear when the power of abundance is exhausted. (It can be used again when the golden light recovers.)

Usage Restriction: Those who have cultivated crops, Magic Power 100 or higher

Creator: Rhea, Goddess of Abundance

Rank: SS

“Hehehe. This was a mystical object?!” Sejun couldn’t hide his joy after checking the item’s options, especially the 10x growth rate. If he planted rice here, he thought he could harvest rice within a month.

Sejun took out 50 rice seeds he had planted in the field and transplanted them into the tree stump planter.

“Grow quickly,” Sejun said.

Sejun looked at the spot where the rice seeds were planted with loving eyes and got up.

“Eileen, thank you,” Sejun said.

[The Tower’s Administrator boasts that he can now appraise any mystical object as a black dragon.]

[The Tower’s Administrator says that he will perfectly appraise your items from now on.]

Eileen said, feeling proud of Sejun’s gratitude.

Eileen had listened intently to Kaiser about the names of gods and mystical objects, and had also studied separately in the library.

As soon as she saw the name ‘Rhea’ written next to the mystical object, Eileen thought of Rhea, the goddess of abundance, and perfectly appraised the mystical object without Kaiser’s help.

“Yeah. Of course, I only trust Eileen,” Sejun said.

[The Tower’s Administrator says that he only trusts you too.]

The focus was slightly different, but their conversation continued naturally.

[You have learned the name of Rhea, the forgotten goddess of abundance.]

[You have an item related to Rhea, the goddess of abundance, in your possession.]

[The rank of the perfectly appraised Golden Box of Abundance increases by one level to S+.]

A message appeared saying that the rank of the Golden Box of Abundance had increased. It seemed that the Golden Box of Abundance was also made by Rhea.

Sejun opened the subspace warehouse and checked the options. The effect of one crop turning into two the next day had now changed to an effect of two crops increasing. Now it was 1+2 instead of 1+1.

“That’s right! Eileen, are the cherry tomatoes running short? Here, I’ll give you more,” Sejun said.

Sejun handed over 3,000 cherry tomatoes to Eileen with a satisfied expression. A few days ago, he had received 5,000 elixir-grade cherry tomatoes harvested by Ajax via inter-tower transport.

He planned to use the remaining cherry tomatoes as snacks for the animals.

“I should go to the brewery,” Sejun thought.

Sejun gave the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes to Eileen and headed to the brewery. He realized he hadn’t tasted the Igyangju yet. He was curious about how the taste would change when makgeolli became Igyangju.

As he headed to the brewery,

“Ah!” Sejun exclaimed.

Sejun remembered that he hadn’t checked the talent he had acquired yesterday. When consumed, there was definitely an effect of awakening a talent related to stamina besides the 100 increase in stamina potential.

“Let’s see. What talent do I have?” Sejun wondered.

Sejun opened the status window and checked the talent window.

“Huh? A Bitter Medicine is Good for Health?” He checked the talent with a strange name.

[Talent: Bitter Medicine Benefit]

-When eating bitter medicinal herbs, stamina increases by 1-10 depending on the degree of bitterness.

-If poison of D-grade or lower tastes bitter, it has the effect of medicine, not poison.

“Is it good?” Sejun wondered.

It was definitely good that his stamina would increase additionally if he ate something bitter in the future, and that bitter-tasting poison below D-grade would have the effect of medicine… but strangely, he felt uneasy. He shivered, thinking about having to eat more bitter things in the future.

He felt a great malice trying to push all the bitter-tasting foods onto him in the future. With unease in his heart, Sejun headed to the brewery.

The Red Dragon’s Territory.

“Hmm…” Lamter, the great red dragon and leader of Zahirga, let out a groan.

“As expected, there’s no one making the essence of fire,” Lamter said.

Lamter was greatly surprised to hear from Anton that the essence of fire had been discovered in the Black Tower.

Moreover, he was once again surprised that they had forgotten the very fact that they had to create the essence of fire themselves.

And he hurriedly ordered the red dragons to create the essence of fire, but the red dragons, who were not yet 10,000 years old, gave up without even filling a few hours. They had forgotten that they had to create the essence of fire in just a few hours.

Lamter realized the seriousness of the situation and personally visited each of the red dragons to instruct them to create the essence of fire. Because he didn’t know when he would forget the fact that he had to create the essence of fire himself.

Anton said he would come in the middle and check if the red dragons had forgotten to create the essence of fire, but…

“Asking another dragon for help? Never! My pride won’t allow it!” Lamter thought.

“Huh?” Lamter discovered a red dragon creating the essence of fire without being told to do so. Felix Zahir. A dragon who had just turned 5,000 years old and had been the Tower’s Administrator until a few days ago.

‘Why is only that guy okay?’ Lamter wondered, filled with doubt, and watched Felix closely.

Gulp. Gulp.

“Phew! Good!” Felix exclaimed.

Lamter discovered Felix drinking alcohol in between creating the essence of fire.

“Does alcohol have an effect?” Lamter wondered.

Since there was no other suitable method right away, Lamter had 5 dragons under the age of 10,000 drink alcohol and create the essence of fire.

“It has an effect,” Lamter confirmed.

The effect was tremendous. The red dragons who made the essence of fire while drinking alcohol did not forget to make the essence of fire even after a day.

“This is Igyangju? Wow. The aroma is amazing, like sweet flowers mixed with ripe fruit and a hint of something warm and spicy. It made his mouth water,” Sejun said as he admired the aroma of Igyangju in the glass.

Ooh-ooh!

Ooh-ooh!

The monkeys were delighted. They had received recognition from the god they served.

Slurp.

Although it was still morning, Sejun drank the alcohol. In one shot, too. He couldn’t help but drink it after smelling the aroma.

Gulp.

“Kuh… Sweet,” Sejun said.

He wanted to drink a few more glasses, but Igyangju was an intermediate stage of alcohol. Samyangju is completed by adding mash to Igyangju and fermenting it for about 5 days.

“Fall off,” Sejun said.

Shake shake.

As Sejun was shaking off the remaining alcohol in the glass with a regretful heart,

Kooeng!

[Daddy, Kooeng is hungry!] Kooeng called out to Sejun in front of the brewery. This was not the time to be doing this. He didn’t know when Kooeng would turn into a ferocious Maengshu.

“Just a moment!” Sejun hurriedly pulled himself together and came outside.

“Crop Gigantification. Kooeng, wait while eating this,” Sejun said.

Sejun made one sweet potato gigantic and gave it to Kooeng, then went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

“Everyone, let’s eat breakfast!” Sejun called out.

Sejun made cabbage soup for the first time in a while and called the animals. Sejun had not yet given up on the wind attribute talent. But this time, too, it was a failure.

“Ah. I should have made it and eaten it yesterday…” Sejun regretted it belatedly, but luck had already passed.

“Is today the day to pick corn?” Sejun wondered.

Sejun went to the cornfield after eating breakfast. Because the farm was so large and there were so many crops planted, almost every day was harvest day.

“Shall I do some harvesting?!” Sejun said.

Sejun picked up his penguins’ freshness scythe, its blade gleaming like ice in the sunlight. It was a simple tool, but it was perfect for the job, and began to cut the base of the corn.

Scritch.

[You have harvested 7 Stamina Corn.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 7 slightly increases.]

[The expiration date of the harvested crops is extended by 5 days due to the cold effect imbued in the Freshness Scythe.]

[You have gained 350 experience.]

The expiration date is extended due to the Freshness Scythe effect. Honestly, Sejun thought that this C+ grade scythe, which extended the expiration date by 5 days, was better than the S+ grade Amplification Greatsword. He was a farmer after all.

After harvesting corn for about an hour,

[The Stamina Corn expresses its gratitude to the farmer’s footsteps and lends its strength.]

[The potential of the Stamina stat increases by 1.]

Sejun’s stamina potential increased.

“Yeah, this is it,” Sejun said.

Sejun wore a proud expression. The stamina potential 1 he gained from moving his body and harvesting corn, and walking diligently, was more satisfying than the stamina potential 100 he gained from eating something bitter and fainting yesterday.

“Ah, it’s rewarding,” Sejun said.

As Sejun was happily harvesting corn again,

Kooeng!

[Daddy, Kooeng brought something for Daddy to eat!] Kooeng called out to Sejun with a loud cry, holding a really big, funny-looking bitter herb, showing he’s trying to be helpful but doesn’t understand Sejun’s taste.

“No. I’m alright…” Sejun was burdened by Kooeng’s filial piety.