Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 259

Black Tower, First Floor. The air here was thick with the smell of magic and old stone.

Even on the first floor, you could feel the tower’s immense power.

Kim Dong-shik rushed to the first floor of the Black Tower. He had an important message from Se-jun for his mother, Kim Mi-ran.

“Dong-shik!” someone called.

It was Master Han Tae-jun! He had heard about Se-jun from Lecton. Lecton was sent by Kim Dong-jun. Master Han was going to the fourth floor of the tower.

“Dong-shik, did you find Se-jun?” Master Han asked.

“Well… I did meet Se-jun, but…” Kim Dong-shik told him about what had happened with Se-jun.

“You’re saying you fainted because you couldn’t withstand Se-jun’s energy?!”

“Yes. Even though I was more than a kilometer away from Se-jun, I suffered internal injuries and fainted from his energy.”

“Se-jun is that strong…”

Han Tae-jun was greatly surprised by Kim Dong-shik’s words. It had only been about a year since Se-jun entered the tower. In that short time, he had reached an overwhelming level that no one could approach.

Han Tae-jun was shocked. He had thought about challenging Se-jun to a fight one day. But now, he quickly changed his mind.

He’d probably faint before he even got close… It seemed difficult even to face him, let alone duel.

“So, Se-jun is isolating himself in the tower to avoid harming people…”

“Master, we must help Se-jun stay in the tower! If Se-jun comes out of the tower…”

“Yes, we must help.”

Han Tae-jun answered, recalling the time when the Three-Headed Society had targeted Se-jun’s family.

If they hadn’t stopped the Three-Headed Society back then, and Se-jun’s family had been killed or kidnapped… Se-jun would have surely come out of the tower, and humanity would have faced a terrible disaster.

‘Thank goodness.’

Han Tae-jun was relieved that such a thing hadn’t happened.

And then,

“Didn’t Se-jun say he needed anything?”

He asked, wanting to take care of Se-jun.

“Ah, yes. Se-jun said…”

Kim Dong-shik told Han Tae-jun what Se-jun had requested.

“As expected, Koreans love kimchi!”

Han Tae-jun was incredibly proud that Se-jun had asked for kimchi stew and kimchi.

“Dong-shik, quickly tell Madam Mi-ran what Se-jun said and come back to me.”

“Yes? Why?”

Feeling uneasy at Han Tae-jun’s words to come back, Kim Dong-shik asked in a quiet voice.

“Why?! For special training, of course!”

“Yes?! What special training all of a sudden?”

“We need to get stronger, and fast! So Se-jun doesn’t have to… you know… hold back around us all the time!”

“C-Comfortably?”

‘That seems impossible, even if I die and come back to life…’

Kim Dong-shik had directly experienced Kkuengie’s energy.

But he couldn’t bring himself to say the words that were stuck in his throat. His master was the type of person who would say, ‘Then let’s die and be reborn,’ and push him even harder.

“I’ll give you five hours. No complaining, just go quickly!”

“Yes!”

Kim Dong-shik, whose special training was scheduled in five hours, quickly ran towards Se-jun’s house.

‘Still, I can see my family’s faces before I go.’

Kim Dong-shik thought it was fortunate that his house was next to the house where Se-jun’s family lived.

Meanwhile, higher up in the Black Tower…

Leaving the room and heading to the dining hall.

Sniff sniff.

Kkueng!

[Daddy, I smell something delicious over there!]

Kkuengie, who was clinging to Se-jun’s left leg, smelled the food and got excited.

“Let’s go quickly, nyaang! I’m hungry too, nyaang!”

(Baet baet! Me too!)

The other animals got excited as well. They had just taken a bath after waking up, so it was understandable that they were hungry. Especially Kkuengie, who had really been holding back a lot.

And that was the same for Se-jun, who had bathed the animals. He was very hungry.

“Let’s go quickly.”

Se-jun hurried his steps and walked to the dining hall.

As the hungry Se-jun and the Maengshu arrived at the dining hall,

Slurp.

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Good morning, everyone!”

Iona, who had already finished her meal and was drinking coffee, greeted Se-jun and the animals.

Iona was dressed in an adorable amber dress and wore a red ribbon around her neck.

The dress code was black bow ties or ribbons for the groom’s side and red for the bride’s side.

Just then,

Grrr.

Kkueng!

[I’m hungry!]

Kkuengie frowned as his stomach rumbled.

“Here, anything that comes out the fastest! Kkuengie, let’s eat this first.”

Se-jun gave Kkuengie honey to keep him from turning from a Maengshu into a ferocious beast, and in the meantime, the servants quickly began to bring out the food.

A short while later, after the urgent breakfast was over,

“Let’s go to the wedding hall now.”

Se-jun took the animals to the place where the Black Rabbit and Bbyu-Bbyu’s wedding hall was located.

Thud. Thud.

Se-jun had the Golden Bat on his shoulder, Theo, Kkuengie, and Iona clinging to his legs, so everyone could move if only Se-jun walked.

They arrived at the wedding hall.

The wedding hall was enormous. Hundreds of tables stretched out like a sea of white cloth on both sides of a long red carpet. The air buzzed with chatter and the clinking of glasses. It felt like a festival, and it was only for the important guests – enough space for three thousand people, at least.

Of course, the wedding guests of the king and queen couldn’t be just 3,000 people.

This was a place only for important figures, and it was said that there were places outside the castle that could accommodate hundreds of thousands more people in several squares.

“A lot of people are already here.”

There was still quite some time left until the wedding, but more than half of the tables were already filled.

Since there hadn’t been such a large-scale event in the Black Tower recently, many emerging forces were participating to expand their networks.

“Where are our seats?”

“I will guide you.”

At Se-jun’s words, Coco, the leader of the escort team who had been hiding, appeared and guided Se-jun.

As Se-jun was walking to the table at the very front where his seat was, guided by Coco,

“Do you even know where this is, you dare come here, you tin knocker?!”

Se-jun heard a loud voice.

“Huh?”

Se-jun turned his head in the direction of the sound and saw crocodile-headed monsters, their scales gleaming like dark metal, their teeth sharp and menacing, oppressing a penguin. A penguin with blue back wearing a small bag.

“Huh?! Theo’s hatchery, isn’t that Kona?”

Se-jun recognized Kona and asked Theo.

“Nyaang? That’s right, nyaang! Who dares to bully Kona, the subordinate of the vice president of Theo?! President Park, let’s go punish them, nyaang!”

Theo, who found Kona, got excited and waved his front paws.

And then,

“Okay!”

Se-jun ran hard to Kona.

Kim Dong-shik told Kim Mi-ran what Se-jun had said and hurried home.

“Honey, I have to leave right away, so please make me some food.”

“Okay.”

Kim Dong-shik asked his wife to prepare a meal so he could eat home-cooked food before going into special training, and quickly took a shower.

This was his last shower, as he wouldn’t be able to leave the tower for at least a month once he went in.

After showering and going to the kitchen, his wife was preparing the meal and his daughter, Sera, was sitting at the table.

“Sera, do you have any schedules today?”

“No. Today is my day off…”

Stare.

Kim Dong-shik’s daughter, Sera, who was talking, stared intently at Kim Dong-shik’s face.

“Why? Is there something on my face?”

“Yes. Handsomeness is on Dad’s face?”

“Hehehe. What? Sera, are you saying that to make Dad feel good? Are you short on allowance these days?”

Kim Dong-shik, feeling good at Sera’s words, smiled and took out his wallet.

“No. I’m not saying it to make Dad feel good, but Dad’s face really looks handsome. Mom, look at Dad’s face! Did Dad go somewhere alone to get a procedure done?!”

Sera, who was a celebrity, recognized the touch of an expert(?) as soon as she saw Kim Dong-shik’s face.

“What?! Oh, it’s true! Honey, which hospital is it?!”

“Huh?”

The atmosphere was flowing strangely.

“Honey, are you really not going to tell me which hospital it is?”

“No. I’m telling you, I didn’t go to the hospital.”

“Dad, if it’s difficult to say, just tell me secretly!”

“I’m telling you, it’s not true.”

Kim Dong-shik didn’t understand why he suddenly looked handsome. His wife and daughter teased him a lot. He felt so overwhelmed he could barely eat. He quickly finished his meal and used the ‘special training’ as an excuse to leave.

Kona, as the representative of the Blue Penguin tribe, attended the wedding to present the new king of the Red Ribbon Kingdom with the gifts they had made.

“Peng! This is delicious!”

He was having a good time eating the high-end food set up on the table for the guests waiting for the wedding.

Just then,

“Peng peng. I should try that too.”

Kona slightly got up to eat the food placed far away, and the chair slightly moved.

The hammer handle bumped the chair and fell to the floor with a THUD.

And then,

“Who is it? Who dares to block the path of Elge Kaiman, the third prince of the Kaiman Kingdom?!”

The leader of the crocodile-men walking by stopped and glared at Kona. He started shouting angrily.

“Peng?! I’m sorry…”

Kona apologized first. But he had no idea why the other party was acting like this.

The reason was that there was a distance of about 5m between the place where Elge Kaiman was passing and the end of the hammer’s handle.

Even if the hammer fell, it had nothing to do with Elge Kaiman passing by.

But Kona apologized anyway,

“Do you even know where this is, you dare come here, you tin knocker?!”

The other party went even further and began to scold him in an even louder voice.

“Peng… I’m sorry… I’m just going to deliver the gift and leave…”

Kona didn’t know what to do and apologized again. Kona had entered with the guidance of the kingdom’s guards, but he somehow felt like he had done something wrong.

But the other party wasn’t making such a fuss just to receive an apology.

“Good. If you’re really sorry, then I, Elge Kaiman, the third prince of the Kaiman Kingdom, will specially forgive you for receiving the hammer that blocked my path.”

From the beginning, what Elge Kaiman was aiming for was the hammer that Kona had. The moment he saw the hammer with an unusual aura, a faint blue glow seemed to pulse from the metal, he decided to take it.

“Peng?! N-No! This hammer is a gift for the king of the Red Ribbon Kingdom!”

Kona, who was briefly embarrassed by Elge Kaiman’s words, hurriedly grabbed the hammer and shouted.

“Humph! What kind of hammer is this to be given as a gift?! Isn’t it too big for the Black Rabbit who will become king this time?!”

“That’s…”

Kona, who was upset at the disregard for the hammer in which all the artisans of the Blue Penguin tribe were invested, tried to answer diligently,

“There’s no need to listen. Take that hammer.”

“Yes!”

Before Kona could answer, Elge’s subordinates moved to take the hammer.

It was too rude to try to steal a gift that was being given to the king by the prince of another kingdom.

But all the guests around ignored what Elge Kaiman was doing.

The Kaiman Kingdom was a kingdom on the 84th floor of the tower, and it was one of the top two kingdoms in the Black Tower in terms of military power.

If they intervened and things got bigger, and the Kaiman Kingdom’s military moved, their forces could completely disappear from the Black Tower.

‘Hehehe. Who dares to touch me?’

The real existences who would control the Black Tower would only come right before the ceremony started, so now this place was his own world where he could do whatever he wanted.

He had already stolen dozens of gifts to be given to the Black Rabbit in this way, but no one could say anything to him.

“Peng… I can’t…”

As Kona was helplessly being robbed of the hammer to be given as a gift to the Black Rabbit,

“Stop!”

Se-jun, who had rushed over, shouted at Elge Kaiman.

‘Where is this power trip coming from? And you dare to steal the Black Rabbit’s things?!’

As Se-jun was furious,

“How dare a lowly thing raise its voice to me?! Don’t you know who I am?!”

Elge Kaiman shouted at Se-jun in an arrogant voice.

‘This guy!’

Se-jun’s anger flared up even more at the word ‘lowly.’

But unlike his burning heart, his head became even colder,

“I don’t care who you are. But maybe you should care who *I* am.”

Se-jun asked Elge Kaiman in a cold and calm voice.