Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 232

Han Tae-joon returned from the Tower, a mysterious building that provides special items. He delivered half of the 10,000 Detox Scallions, which Theo had given to Brazil. This was important because eliminating the Purple Locusts, which gathered in large numbers in the Amazon, could cause them to change into Red Locusts.

The remaining Detox Scallions were quickly sent to areas under attack by the Purple Locusts.

The northern border of the Brazilian Amazon.

“It’s amazing that so many can be killed with just one scallion,” said Pedro. “The Tower’s crops are truly incredible.”

Pedro, the world’s 397th-ranked Hunter, someone who fights monsters and explores the Tower, was in charge of the northern border. He was amazed by what he saw. Before him lay the dead bodies of Purple Locusts, killed by the Detox Scallions. They stretched out as far as he could see.

At first, Pedro was confused by Han Tae-joon’s order not to remove the dead Purple Locusts.

Usually, they would remove or burn the corpses to reduce the number of enemies, since the locusts ate their own dead.

But after watching the Purple Locusts die from eating the dead bodies of other locusts, Pedro understood why.

The Detox Scallions were deadly to the Purple Locusts, even though they could withstand poison. The dead locusts still had the detox effect in their bodies. When other locusts ate them, they also died.

This process kept happening. Each dead locust became like poisoned bait. When other locusts ate them, they also died. It was like a chain reaction, killing locust after locust until the detox effect wore off.

When almost all the Purple Locusts in the area were gone,

“Pedro, sir, we have orders from above! Load the corpses onto helicopters and drop them in the central Amazon!”

The government’s instruction had arrived.

“Into the central Amazon?!”

“Yes, sir!”

The Brazilian government decided to drop the dead Purple Locusts, which still had a detox effect, into the central Amazon. They wanted to make the Detox Scallions as effective as possible.

There were so many Purple Locusts in the heart of the Amazon that no one dared to go near it.

So, they had been slowly attacking by planting Detox Scallions around the edges of the Amazon, like they were surrounding it. But the Brazilian government, encouraged by the success of the Detox Scallions, decided to take a risk.

“The government seems to have gained confidence. Good! Hurry and load the dead Purple Locusts onto the helicopters!”

Soon, hundreds of helicopters flew from different directions on the Amazon border towards the center of the Amazon.

And then,

“Drop!”

The helicopters scattered the Purple Locust corpses over the Amazon from the sky.

Flap. Flap.

Huge numbers of Purple Locusts flew in to eat the corpses of their dead. About three hours after the operation began, all the locusts on Earth turned red again.

“Wow! It’s done! We won!”

While Brazil celebrated their victory,

Wriggle. Wriggle.

Black creatures with slimy bodies crawled out of the sea and onto the shores of Hawaii.

***

Swish. Swish.

“Why does fur keep coming out…”

Sejun was stroking Theo’s fur and complaining about the endless shedding.

‘Chairman Park’s face is rotting! It’s time to give him a reward, meow!’

Theo, who had been watching Sejun’s face, jumped up to try and gain favor.

“Hehe. Chairman Park, look at this, meow! I made money, meow!”

“Oh? How much did you make?”

“10.15 million Tower Coins, meow! Here it is, meow!”

He took the money from the auction out of his bag and gave it to Sejun. His plan was to give the money first, then give a massage.

“Good job. Here’s a bonus.”

Sejun gave 1.15 million Tower Coins to Theo.

“Hehe. Thank you, meow!”

Flash.

Theo burned the money as soon as he got it.

And then,

“Chairman Park, lend me money, meow!”

Theo, having burned all his money, immediately held out his paw to Sejun.

“Theo, you remember you still owe me 70 million Tower Coins, right?”

“Hehe. Don’t worry, meow! I’ll pay you back all at once later, meow!”

Theo answered confidently, speaking loudly so Sejun wouldn’t forget the debt.

“Theo, why are you so confident?”

Sejun became uneasy. ‘Did Theo cause some kind of trouble?’

Just then,

“I caught a Pink Pig sucker this time, meow!”

“Pink Pig sucker?”

“That’s right, meow! I went down this time and…”

Theo began to tell the story of how he was eaten by a piece of Jormungandr and came back alive.

“What? You met an Apostle of Destruction? Are you hurt anywhere?”

Sejun had been stroking Theo’s body and knew that he seemed fine, but he checked Theo carefully to make sure he hadn’t missed anything.

‘Hehe. Chairman Park. He cares about me so much…’

“Chairman Park, the important part starts now, meow! I put my paw on his face…”

Theo continued his story, enjoying Sejun’s touch.

“So, the Pink Pig sucker you saved is a Great Merchant, and there are only three of them in the Black Tower?”

“That’s right, meow! A Great Merchant is an honorary title you get if you have a lot of money, meow! That Great Merchant said he would reward me and told me, Vice President Theo, to come to the 65th floor of the Tower, meow! So Chairman Park, don’t worry and lend me money, meow!”

Theo puffed out his chest, his green eyes shining. “That’s right, meow!” he declared, his voice full of pride. “A Great Merchant is an honorary title…”

“Okay. I understand.”

Sejun, learning that Theo had a reliable sponsor(?), gave 8.9 million Tower Coins to Theo. 100,000 Tower Coins were for making rice flour.

Flash!

As soon as Theo received Sejun’s money, he burned it and began to glow with golden light.

‘Hehe. Burning Chairman Park’s money is the most effective, meow!’

Theo looked satisfied as he burned Sejun’s money.

A moment later,

“These are the coins I got from catching the Apostle of Destruction, meow!”

Theo began to take out the white coins he had won by defeating the piece of Jormungandr.

“Meow?! Why are these combined, meow?”

Theo, taking coins from his sack, saw that the small coins he had gotten from catching the white snakes in Jormungandr’s belly were stuck together. ‘Failure, meow…’

Theo had planned to show off to Sejun by taking out a lot of coins. Disappointed, he took out 50 white coins.

“What?! 50 coins?!”

Sejun was surprised by the number of coins Theo had. The number of coins you get when an Apostle of Destruction dies shows how strong it was.

‘But 50 coins…’

That was a strength Sejun couldn’t even imagine. ‘Theo easily caught such an Apostle of Destruction…’

‘It was worth spending 70 million Tower Coins!’

Sejun thought Theo had burned 70 million Tower Coins to defeat the Apostle of Destruction worth 50 coins, but he was wrong.

He didn’t know that Theo had burned 1.2 billion Tower Coins from the Great Merchant Yuren. Theo didn’t tell Yuren that he had received and burned 1.2 billion Tower Coins.

And Theo couldn’t burn that money properly. There was a limit to how much money Theo could burn at once. He could only burn about 100 million Tower Coins at a time.

Theo didn’t know this and almost died trying to burn 1 billion Tower Coins at once, which he couldn’t handle.

Luckily, Theo suddenly used a hidden ability called ‘trivial wealth’. This ability turned some of the money being burned into a force that attacks the enemy.

Because of this, Theo was able to defeat Jormungandr by turning the unmanageable 900 million Tower Coins into an attack.

If the piece of Jormungandr hadn’t appeared at the right time, or if turning wealth into attacks hadn’t worked well, the result might have been bad instead of good.

Dozens of merchant routes could have been destroyed by Theo’s attack, and Theo would have had to pay a lot of money.

‘If Theo burns about 100 million Tower Coins more in the future, can’t he fight Uma King too?’

Sejun was misunderstanding Theo’s strength.

“Meow?! What is that, meow?!”

Theo, about to lie down on Sejun’s lap again, was surprised to see the pile of fur next to Sejun.

“What else could it be? It’s your fur.”

Sejun answered and began to stroke Theo’s body again, sweeping away the fur. Theo’s fur hadn’t gotten wet during the bath because he used his water ability, so there was a lot of fur left on his body.

After Sejun stroked Theo’s body for about 30 minutes, less fur was coming out.

“Okay, all done.”

“Meow…”

Sejun grabbed the back of Theo’s neck, who was lying on his lap, and put him on the ground. Then, he gathered Theo’s fur into a pile to throw it away easily.

Press. Press.

Sejun pressed the fur to clump it together. As he pressed, the fur gradually formed a ball.

“Oh! This is fun?!”

Sejun moved his hands and rolled the fur clump into a ball, like he was making dumplings.

And then,

“Ta-da! Theo Ball complete!”

He had created a yellow fur ball about half the size of a fist.

“What is that, meow?!”

Theo, sitting on the floor and grooming his fur that Sejun had messed up, became interested in the ball made of his fur.

Just then,

“Oink oink oink. I’ll buy that!”

Iona, curled up on Theo’s tail, shouted. She felt like she could sleep soundly anywhere if she had that.

“You’re buying this?”

“Oink oink oink. Yes! Please let me buy it!”

Iona shouted, taking out her money pouch at Sejun’s words.

“Okay. Iona, take it.”

Sejun handed the Theo Ball to Iona.

“Oink oink oink. Thank you, Sejun.”

Kyurorong.

Iona held the Theo Ball, which was as big as her body, in her arms and quickly fell asleep, feeling happy. It had an amazing sleep effect.

“Here.”

Sejun gave the money pouch he received from Iona to Theo. He thought it was right to give it to Theo because it was money made from Theo’s fur.

But,

“I don’t need it, meow! Chairman Park, take it all, meow!”

Theo coolly gave the money pouch to Sejun.

“Really? I can take it all? Gasp! There’s 1 million Tower Coins in here?!”

Sejun opened the money pouch Iona gave him and was surprised to see the money inside. He could feel how much Iona wanted it for sleeping.

“That’s right, meow!”

Sejun asked again, but Theo readily gave all the money to Sejun.

“Lend me some money instead, meow!”

Of course, he had another reason.

“You’re going to burn the money, aren’t you? You can just take this money.”

“I don’t want to, meow! I want to burn Chairman Park’s money, meow!”

“What?!”

Sejun was shocked by Theo’s words.

Crack!

‘Theo, you… you little rascal! Do you like burning my money that much?!’

Sejun’s mood darkened at Theo’s words, as if he were making fun of him.

And then,

“Vice President Theo, if you don’t pay back the money within a month, I’m demoting you to President Theo.”

He decided to punish Theo with a harsh demotion.

“Meow?! What does that mean, meow?!”

Theo looked as if the world had ended at Sejun’s words.

“Th-Then, if I get demoted to President Theo, does that mean I can’t eat two Churus at once anymore, meow?!”

Eating only one Churu was too much of a shock for Theo, who was used to eating two at once.

“Of course. President Theo only gets one Churu at a time.”

“Chairman Park, that’s too much, meow! That’s stingy, meow!”

Theo began to whine to Sejun.

But,

Grumble.

Theo whined a little and then quickly fell asleep, clinging to Sejun’s cozy lap.

Thud. Thud.

Because of that, Sejun was able to knead comfortably without fur flying around.

Thud. Thud.

Grumble.

Kyurorong.

The sound of Sejun kneading and the sound of Theo and Iona snoring peacefully filled the kitchen.