Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 261

Elge Kaiman looked completely defeated. He had failed to break the contract, and now he seemed lost and confused.

Theo pointed at Elge Kaiman and said to Kona, “Kona, accept your subordinate, nyan!”

Kona shouted bossily, kicking the ground with her little feet, trying to show Elge Kaiman who was in charge. “Yes! Theo-nim! Peng! Peng! Come here, peng!”

‘I’m a subordinate to someone like that…,’ Elge Kaiman thought miserably. He was very angry. ‘Me, the third prince of the Kaiman Kingdom, a subordinate to the person I was just bullying?’ he thought furiously.

“Uncle Hannibal…” Elge Kaiman looked at Hannibal, pleading for help, hoping his uncle would help him rise to a higher position.

“Ahem…” Hannibal avoided Elge Kaiman’s gaze.

Hannibal thought, ‘Elge should have just stayed quiet and not done anything foolish.’ He felt a flicker of pity for his nephew, but Elge’s constant scheming was exhausting. ‘No,’ Hannibal thought, looking away. ‘He made his own bed.’

“Disappointing, nyan…” Theo said, disappointed that he wouldn’t gain another good subordinate. Hannibal worried that Elge’s mistakes would also hurt him.

“Uncle…” Just as Elge Kaiman, abandoned by his trusted uncle, was about to give up—

Thud. Thud.

Moo!

With heavy footsteps, the strongest being on the 99th floor of the tower, the Ox King, entered the wedding hall.

“We greet the Ox King!” The people around him knelt and paid their respects.

Then, the heavy footsteps grew louder, and the Ox King walked towards Elge Kaiman.

‘The Ox King recognized me!’ Elge Kaiman was moved as he watched the approaching Ox King.

Some time ago, Croker Kaiman, the king of the Kaiman Kingdom, received a request from the Ox King to search the 84th floor of the tower.

Rumor had it that those who refused the Ox King’s request no longer existed in the Black Tower, so Croker Kaiman readily accepted.

In addition, Croker Kaiman sent his five sons, the princes, as guides for the Ox King.

He hoped that at least one of the princes would connect with the Ox King.

Elge Kaiman, the third prince, also went with the Ox King as a guide and exchanged a few words with him.

At that time, he resented his father for forcing him to go, but… it seemed like he had found a way out of here thanks to it.

‘Thank you, Father,’ Elge Kaiman thought as he watched the Ox King approach.

Shake shake.

Theo shook his head, watching Elge Kaiman thinking of escaping again. He really was an unlucky fellow, nyan…

‘I need to tell Chairman Park, nyan!’ As Theo looked at Sejun to tell him that Elge Kaiman had other intentions—

‘Hehehe.’ Sejun was smirking slyly. He had already noticed that Elge Kaiman was plotting something.

It was fun to crush such tricks. No matter how much he struggled, he was still in Buddha’s palm.

Chuckle.

‘Hehehe.’

‘Puhuhu.’

So, Theo clung to Sejun’s leg to watch Elge Kaiman’s last struggle together.

Meanwhile,

“We greet the Ox King!”

Thud. Thud.

The Ox King approached, receiving the greetings of the surrounding monsters. Even Hannibal, the head of the Mercenary Association, bowed his head in respect.

“Ox King-nim, it’s been a while! I am Elge Kaiman, the third prince of the Kaiman Kingdom, and I would like to greet the Ox King-nim…” Elge Kaiman greeted loudly, trying to ask for help from the Ox King first, to prevent Sejun from talking to the Ox King.

At that moment,

Kkweaeng!!!

Wham!

The baby bear, who had been eating the food brought by the golden bat while clinging to the leg of a lowly guy, suddenly jumped out and body-slammed the Ox King.

Everyone froze at the sudden attack.

Wham! Wham!

The baby bear, as if gone mad, continued to attack the Ox King with its front paws. The Ox King was just taking the baby bear’s attacks without any reaction. There seemed to be no impact at all.

‘Hahaha! You guys are all dead now because of the Ox King!’ Elge Kaiman inwardly cheered at the situation that was flowing so favorably for him.

“Ox King-nim, are you alright?! You guys! How dare you attack the strongest being of the Black Tower, the Ox King-nim?! Ox King-nim, be careful! They are very wicked people!” He pretended to worry about the Ox King, giving the Ox King a reason to attack Sejun and his group.

He was trying to break the contract by killing Sejun. Elge Kaiman aimed for a deadly plan, using the Ox King to kill Sejun.

“Ox King-nim, behind these guys is a wicked villain named Eileen Fritani.” Elge Kaiman also mentioned Eileen’s name because both of the people written on the contract had to die for his contract to be invalidated.

He was planning to use the Ox King as something that changes everything to completely overturn the entire game.

‘Hehe. Now, all I have to do is find Eileen Fritani. The contract wasn’t made that long ago, so she must be nearby.’ Thus, Elge Kaiman was excited at the thought of finding freedom, unaware that he had crossed a line he should not have crossed.

“Kkweaeng-ah, go ask the Ox King to play with you.”

Kkweaeng!

[Understood!]

At Sejun’s words, Kkweaeng used telekinesis to rush towards the Ox King.

To others, it looked like a complete fight, but this was Kkweaeng and the Ox King’s way of playing.

He thought that this would make Elge Kaiman act more easily.

Wham!

Compared to the huge explosion, the aftermath was not significant. The Ox King absorbed all the impact with his abdominal muscles to prevent any damage to Sejun, who was nearby.

Kkweaeng?!

[Ox King Uncle, have I become much stronger?!]

Moo! Moo!

[That’s right! Uncle is having a little trouble now too!]

Wham! Wham!

Kkweaeng continued to hit the Ox King’s abs, and the Ox King absorbed the impact.

While the two were playing and talking—

“Ox King-nim, are you alright?! You guys! How dare you attack the strongest being of the Black Tower…” As Sejun expected, Elge Kaiman acted.

He was so impatient that he didn’t even understand what was happening between Kkweaeng and the Ox King, and just pushed forward with his plan.

If it had stopped there, he would have just let it go with him rolling around as Kona’s subordinate for about 100 years, but—

“Ox King-nim, behind these guys is a wicked villain named Eileen Fritani.” He crossed the line by mentioning a name that should not have been spoken.

Sejun’s voice dropped, becoming dangerously low. “Did you just call Eileen a villain? *You dare* speak her name with such disrespect?” His eyes narrowed, fixing Elge Kaiman with a cold stare. “You have crossed a line you will deeply regret.”

“Line?! You guys crossed the line by attacking the Ox King-nim! Eileen Fritani and you guys are all finished now!” Elge Kaiman shouted arrogantly. He still hadn’t understood the situation and had completely crossed the line.

“Haa! To mess with Eileen noona, I’m going to punish you, nyan!” As a result, Theo’s additional punishment was inflicted,

Pow!

Elge Caiman gasped as quick punches landed on him, first from Theo’s right paw, then his left.

‘This one is for mentioning Aileen noona’s name! And this one is for talking back to Chairman Park, nya!’ Theo declared, his eyes bright with anger.

Theo stepped back, pleased with his work, and looked down at Elge. A small smile played on his lips.

*Thwack!*

‘And this last one,’ Theo said, his voice sharp, ‘is for making me, Vice Chairman Theo, get involved, nya!’

He hit the back of Elge’s head one more time, even though Elge was already out cold.

And then,

Rummage. Rummage.

He began to rummage through the unconscious Elge Caiman’s pockets.

“Puhuhu. Chairman Park, this guy has a lot on him, nya!”

“Good. First, let’s take the wedding gifts.”

“Understood, nya!”

Thus, Theo stripped Elge Caiman of everything, leaving him penniless. It was a small problem compared to the tough times coming for him.

Purple Tower, 99th floor.

Tier Peten asked, “Beka, how is the acquisition of the Black Tower land deeds going?”

“Well… we had secured up to 30, but the 80th floor of the tower was attacked, and most were lost. Now we only have 5.”

“What?! Attacked?! Who dares?”

“We were attacked by the White Dragon.”

“What…?”

The 80th floor of the tower was used to steal land deeds from the Black Tower. They kept people, tools, and offices there for this job.

He could understand if the Black Dragon had attacked, but the White Dragon? There was no reason for them to be involved.

Tier Peten said, “Beka, from now on, summon all personnel from the other towers and focus on securing the Black Tower land deeds.”

“Yes!”

Tier Peten decided to deal with the White Dragon later and focused all efforts on securing the Black Tower’s land deeds.

‘The Black Tower comes first,’ he thought.

If he secured more than half of the Black Tower’s land deeds and took ownership of it, the tower farmer of the Black Tower would become his.

Then, the crops grown by the tower farmer would also become his, and he could get the beans that Kaiser had eaten.

Tier Peten continued, “And Beka, from now on, you will grow crops.”

Tier Peten wanted to get other crops as well, so he ordered his tower farmer to farm.

“Me?!” Beka asked, surprised. Farming was not her skill; she was much better at stealing land deeds.

“Yes. Grow crops that work even on dragons.”

“What?! There’s no way such a thing exists…”

“It does! The Black Tower’s tower farmer grew them! So, create them somehow!” Tier Peten shouted, remembering how weak he felt when Kaiser beat Halphas easily.

“Yes…”

Thus, Veronica, the dark elf tower farmer of the Purple Tower, began farming.

But,

“Huh? Why isn’t it growing?”

Finding crops that could grow in the poisonous land was the first task. The land was cracked and black, smelling of sulfur.

“Are these the wedding gifts you guys lost?”

Squeak!

Ooh-key!

Doo-doo!

The animals lined up in front of Sejun answered. About 20 of them. They really had lost a lot.

“Take it.”

While Sejun was giving the wedding gifts back to the animals who had them stolen by Elge,

Thud. Thud.

Moo!

[Sejun, you’ve arrived first,]

The Ox King, who had played with Kkuengi enough, came up to Sejun and greeted him.

“Yeah. Thanks for playing with Kkuengi.”

Moo! Moo!

[It’s nothing! It was good training for me too!]

To call Kkuengi’s body slam training… he was the strongest on the 99th floor for a reason.

However,

Throb. Throb.

The Ox King’s skin was black, so Sejun couldn’t see it, but his entire abdomen was covered in blue bruises.

As Sejun was talking with the Ox King,

“Nya… there’s one more item, but I’m wondering how to get it out, nya!”

Theo was thinking hard, looking at the solar plexus of the unconscious Elge Caiman. He felt something pulling from the solar plexus, but there was no way to get it out.

At that moment,

Tap tap tap.

Kkuengi? Kkuengi?

[Big brother, what are you doing? Is there something fun?]

Kkuengi, who had relieved his stress by playing with the Ox King, ran excitedly toward Theo.

Then,

Squish. Kkuengi’s heavy foot landed squarely on Elge’s stomach.

Kkuengi didn’t see Elge lying on the floor and stepped hard on his stomach.

Gack!

The pressure on his stomach pushed the bead in his solar plexus out, and Elge spat out a black bead.

Thud.

“Puhuhu. Good job, Kkuengi, nya!”

Theo snatched the bead floating in the air and praised Kkuengi.

Kkuengi?

[Did Kkuengi do well?]

“That’s right, nya! Kkuengi, let’s have a race to see who gets to Chairman Park first, nya!”

Theo, having no more business with Elge, shouted and ran toward Sejun.

Kkuengi! Kkuengi!

[Okay! Kkuengi won’t lose!]

Kkuengi was also excited that Theo was playing with him and immediately ran toward Sejun.

After Theo and Kkuengi left,

Slap. Slap.

“Wake up, minion! Wake up!”

Kona, who still had business with Elge, slapped Elge’s cheeks with his short wings to wake him up.

“Ack! That hurts so much!”

Elge groaned in pain and regained consciousness.

And then,

“Peng?”

‘The fact that I hit him hurts?!’

“Huh?!”

‘Why does it hurt when he hits me?!’

They both realized something was wrong.

At that moment,

“Huh?!”

Elge felt something was wrong with his solar plexus. It should have felt heavy, but it felt empty.

‘My… my core….’

What Theo had taken was Elge’s core.

“Wake up, minion! Hurry up and come!”

Meanwhile, Kona, realizing that he didn’t need to be afraid, grabbed Elge and began dragging him away.

“Chairman Park, look at this, nya! Vice Chairman Theo and Kkuengi found it, nya!”

Being dragged away by Kona, Elge saw Theo handing his core to Sejun.

“Huh?! Wait a minute! No!”

Elge shouted to stop Sejun from grabbing his core, but

Ta-da-da-daaa.

Elge’s shout was lost as the loud wedding music began. He watched, helpless, as Sejun looked at his core.

It was a chaotic wedding hall, but fortunately, everything was peacefully (?) concluded before the wedding.