Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 215

Flames, Sejun’s magical tree, was growing its roots far, far away, searching for monsters in distant places. It was looking for deep-sea creatures and bad enemies to defeat.

[Hehe! Found them!] Flames thought happily.

Delighted to have found its targets, Flames used its strong roots to crush the enemies.

[Yay! It’s an apostle of destruction! Hee hee. I got five coins!]

Flames, pleased, collected the coins dropped by the defeated enemy. But there was one problem.

[How do I give these coins to Master?]

Flames began to think about how to give the coins to Sejun. It was much harder for Flames to give the coins to Sejun without showing how big it was, than it was to catch the enemy.

Just then,

[Huh?! Master?!]

Flames felt Sejun’s eyes on its roots.

[Heing. I’m embarrassed to show Master my roots!]

Flames wanted Sejun to think it was small and cute, not big and rooty. It hurriedly moved its roots from the 98th floor of the Tower. But since it had already taken root, it took time to pull them out.

[That’s right! I’ll throw the coins towards where Master is now!]

Thinking it was a good way to give the coins to Sejun, Flames moved its roots and threw the coins towards Sejun. Coins fell from the sky.

It was unexpected, but

[Great! That was very natural!]

Flames was very happy with itself.

‘Why is Flames here?!’

Kkuenge, who had been waiting to get a melon from Sejun, was surprised to see Flames’ roots in the sky.

Each floor is its own world, but it made sense that if roots were in the sky of the 98th floor, they would be coming from the 99th floor.

Thinking that way, anyone could see those were Flames’ roots.

‘Does Flames have any sense?! How do I hide this from Dad?!’

While Kkuenge was worried,

“Huh?! What’s that?”

Sejun also saw Flames’ roots. The huge roots seemed to be holding onto the sky with small, branching rootlets.

“Why are tree roots there? Vice President Theo, do you know what that is?”

Luckily, Sejun didn’t realize the roots in the sky were connected to Flames.

“Nyang?!”

Theo looked up at the sky after Sejun spoke.

‘Why is the second one here, nyang?’

Theo was also very embarrassed to see Flames. But as the older one, Theo wanted to protect Flames’ secret.

“Chairman Park! Th-that’s a floating… in the sky….”

So, while he was trying to explain,

Creak. Creak.

Clang.

Flames’ roots moved, and coins fell near Sejun.

‘Second, what are you doing, nyang?!’ Theo thought to himself. Roots suddenly throwing coins from the sky. This looks too suspicious, nyang!

“Huh?! These are coins?”

Sejun picked up the coins that Flames had thrown.

“But why is it spitting these out?”

Just as Theo thought, Sejun found it strange. But he misunderstood what was happening. Flames threw them, but Sejun thought it spat them out.

And then,

“Ah! That’s like a bug-eating plant?!”

Sejun thought Flames’ roots were a plant that eats bugs. Flames went from being an apple tree to a bug-eating plant.

“It ate the bad monsters and couldn’t digest these coins, so it spat them out.”

“Th-that’s it, nyang! That’s what I was going to say, nyang!”

When Sejun misunderstood on his own, Theo quickly agreed that Sejun’s thoughts were correct.

Kkuenge!

[Dad, Kkuenge wants to eat more of this!]

Kkuenge kept opening its mouth and asking for more melon, stopping Sejun from paying any more attention to Flames’ roots. Because of that, Sejun focused only on picking melons.

While Sejun was picking melons for several hours,

[You have been recognized as the rightful owner of the melon tree land deed on the 98th floor of the Tower.]

[The land deed skill: Farm Information Lv. Max is activated.]

He was recognized as the owner of the land, and

“Farm Information.”

He checked the farm information that was now available.

[Farm Information Lv. Max]

Size: 5000 pyeong

Crops: 130 melon trees

Workers: 1 (land owner)

Special Features: None

The farm was very ordinary.

While Sejun was checking the farm information,

“Puhuhu. Chairman Park is easy to trick, nyang!”

Kkuenge!

[It’s because Kkuenge distracted him!]

Theo and Kkuenge thought that they were the reason Flames’ size wasn’t revealed.

“Let’s go back.”

Sejun, who had finished picking the melons, called Theo and Kkuenge.

“Okay, nyang!”

Kkuenge!

[Okay!]

As Sejun arrived at the 98th floor waypoint with the two of them,

[Tower 98th Floor Boss Black Eagle Redin]

Redin was huge, like a statue carved from night, with sharp eagle eyes and feathers as black as a storm cloud. He appeared before them.

“Wh-welcome! Sejun-nim!”

Redin, who had been brainwashed by the Ox King, tried to stop Sejun but quickly bowed his head 90 degrees when he saw the black dragon tattoo on Sejun’s left arm and greeted him.

“Yes. Nice to see you.”

[Tower 98th floor waypoint has been saved.]

[Loading waypoints from other saved floors.]

[Saved waypoints from other floors (6)]

-Tower 99th floor

-Tower 85th floor

-Tower 83rd floor

Thanks to this, Sejun easily saved the waypoint and returned to the 99th floor.

Blue Tower 23rd floor.

“He he he. Found it.”

A man with green scales all over his body said as he stepped onto the giant land floating in the sky.

And then,

Step. Step.

As if it were natural, the man walked across the wasteland towards the center of the land.

How long had he walked? A pure white building could be seen in the distance. It was the place where Emila’s flower garden, which Sejun had seen before, was located.

As the man approached the flower garden,

Swish.

The beautiful flowers turned to grey dust. The green land cracked and became dry and empty, like a desert. The area of the flower garden gradually decreased.

When the area of the flower garden was reduced by half,

“Is this the limit?”

With the man’s words, Emila’s flower garden moved away from the man and went to another location.

Kkuenge! Kkuenge!

[It’s home! Kkuenge will go see the herbs!]

As soon as they arrived at the 99th floor farm, Kkuenge ran to the western forest, saying it would check on the herbs.

And then,

“Shall we take a nap?”

“Good, nyang! I’ll eat Churu before I sleep, nyang!”

“Okay.”

Sejun headed home with Theo to take a nap.

At that moment,

[An urgent job quest has occurred.]

[Quest: Emila’s flower garden has suffered significant damage and needs recovery. Create a new variety today and restore the flower garden with the power of creation!]

Reward: A large amount of job experience

Suddenly, a quest appeared.

“Huh?!”

Create a new variety today? It was too sudden, but he was tempted by the large amount of job experience he would get as a reward. It was a very attractive offer for Sejun, whose Tower Farmer rank was stuck at B.

“Chairman Park, what’s wrong, nyang? Don’t tell me?! Did the Churu run out, nyang?!”

Theo, sensing something was wrong when Sejun stopped, asked.

“No. It’s not that, but a quest suddenly came up, so I don’t think I can sleep.”

“It’s okay, nyang! Because Chairman Park has two hands, nyang!”

Theo didn’t care about Sejun’s situation and wanted to eat the Churu that Sejun fed him and go to sleep.

Rustle.

[You have harvested 6 magic cherry tomatoes.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Harvesting Lv. 7 proficiency slightly increases.]

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

[You have gained 300 experience.]

“Here.”

Chomp chomp chomp.

Sejun had no choice but to cut the cherry tomato branches with the Scythe of Freshness in his right hand while feeding Theo Churu with his left hand.

A moment later,

Purrrr.

Theo, who had eaten the Churu deliciously, snuggled into Sejun’s lap and fell asleep in the most comfortable position, while Sejun continued to harvest, hoping for a new variety to appear.

“There are no more cherry tomatoes to harvest. I should go to the sweet potato field.”

Sejun, who had harvested all the cherry tomatoes, moved to the sweet potato field.

And then,

“Move Earth!”

He harvested sweet potatoes using Miler’s hoe.

[You have harvested 500 power sweet potatoes.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Harvesting Lv. 7 proficiency slightly increases.]

[You have gained 25,000 experience.]

“This is the end too.”

Sejun finished harvesting the sweet potato field and quickly continued harvesting crops in the potato field, carrot field, peanut field, and green onion field in that order.

When there was about an hour left before the day changed,

“I won’t be able to complete the quest.”

Sejun, who had harvested almost hundreds of thousands of crops, was about to give up on the quest. Even if he wanted to do more, there were no more crops left to harvest on the farm.

At that moment,

Squeak!

Dad Rabbit called Sejun and pointed to the radish field. There were 5 radishes left there that had not been pulled out after seed collection.

“Oh! There were still radishes left?”

Sejun hurriedly ran to the radish field and

Pulled out the radish.

[You have harvested a stamina radish.]

The first radish was a dud.

Pulled.

Pulled.

The second and third radishes were also duds. Now there were 2 radishes left.

“Vice President Theo, which one should I pull first?!”

Sejun, becoming cautious, asked Theo.

“Nyaang······.”

At Sejun’s question, Theo brought his front paw to the radish and felt if there was any pull.

But

“Chairman Park, there’s no pull, nyang!”

Theo didn’t feel any pull.

“Okay.”

Sejun wasn’t expecting much, so he tried to pull the left radish.

At that moment,

“But strangely, my whiskers are drawn to this radish, nyang!”

Theo said, looking at the right radish where his whiskers were pointing.

“Really?”

Sejun, with a hopeful heart, trusted Theo’s words and

Pulled.

Pulled the right radish.

[You have obtained a strong lower body radish.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Harvesting Lv. 7 proficiency slightly increases.]

[You have gained 50 experience.]

“Huh?! A strong lower body radish?”

[You have achieved the feat of creating a new variety in the Tower.]

[The Tower recognizes your exclusive cultivation rights for the new variety.]

[The strong lower body radish cannot be cultivated without your permission.]

[Job experience greatly increases.]

[All stats increase by 10 due to job characteristics.]

The message that Sejun had been waiting for, the birth of a new variety, appeared.

“Vice President Theo, you did well!”

“Puhuhu. I knew everything would be alright, nyang! Chairman Park, always trust me from now on, nyang!”

Theo, wanting to show off, worked hard to take credit for Sejun’s praise.

‘Puhuhu. I helped Chairman Park again today, nyang!’

Theo, feeling proud that he had helped Sejun, rubbed his face against Sejun’s lap to his heart’s content.

While Sejun was listening to Theo’s boasting,

[You have created a new variety within the time limit.]

[You have obtained a large amount of job experience as a quest completion reward.]

The quest completion message appeared.

[Job experience greatly increases.]

[Job experience is full.]

[The Tower Farmer (B) rank increases.]

[You have become a Tower Farmer (A).]

[Job characteristics are enhanced as the job rank increases.]

Sejun finally became a Grade A Tower Farmer. He felt relieved and happy.

“Great!”

Sejun, with a proud expression, read the message that his rank had increased over and over again.

Flash.

A burst of golden energy exploded from Sejun’s straw hat.

And then,

[Artifact: Saint Patrick’s Straw Hat of the Earth confirms the wearer’s job rank increase.]

[Tower Farmer (A) has been confirmed.]

[Artifact: The restrictions on Saint Patrick’s Straw Hat of the Earth are completely lifted.]

Saint Patrick’s Straw Hat of the Earth revealed its true form, shimmering with light.