Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 269

Dawn of Day 359 of Isolation.

Sejun snored loudly, a sound like ‘Kuh-uh-uh,’ while Theo’s snores were a deeper ‘Goro-rong.’ The sounds filled the bedroom.

Bee-yot stirred, thinking, “I don’t understand…”

Bee-yot, who had gone to bed early and woken up early, watched Sejun sleeping soundly, lost in thought.

After pondering deeply, he concluded that being good at filleting fish wasn’t the key to becoming the top dog.

“Poo-oong… Bee-yot?”

Bee-yot wondered, “Then what determines the hierarchy?”

Bee-yot’s head ached from the difficult, incomprehensible problem. To clear his head, he went outside to look around the farm.

“Bee-yot! Bee-yot!”

Bee-yot exclaimed, “Oh! The farm is huge!” He hadn’t had the chance to properly look around the farm yesterday and was amazed by its vastness.

Ppa-dak. Ppa-dak.

Bee-yot diligently flapped his wings as he explored the farm.

Ppa-da-dak. Ppa-da-dak.

“Bee-yot!”

Bee-yot thought, “It’s refreshing!” After touring the farm, he splashed around in the fountain, enjoying a refreshing bath.

Chuck.

“Bee-yot!”

Bee-yot thought, “I’m the highest up here!” He climbed onto the head of the black dragon statue spouting water in the center of the fountain, happily looking around and drying his feathers, when—

Kaiser’s voice boomed, “Who dares to climb on me?” The eyes of the black dragon statue glowed and began to move.

“Bee-yot?!”

Ppa-dak. Ppa-dak.

Startled, Bee-yot quickly flapped his wings and landed on the fountain’s railing.

Gooo-ooo.

“What are you doing?” Kaiser asked, gathering his energy.

“Bee… Bee-kkuk!” Bee-yot hiccuped, utterly terrified by Kaiser’s immense pressure.

“I asked you what you’re doing! Why can’t you speak up!” Kaiser scolded, eyeing the suspicious intruder. Could this be an assassin targeting Sejun?!

“Bee…” Bee-yot was even more frightened by Kaiser’s scolding.

Koo-koo-goong.

Kaiser gathered even more energy. If he was indeed an assassin, he intended to eliminate him swiftly to prevent any harm to Sejun.

The pressure intensified.

“Bee…” Bee-yot desperately wanted to answer, but his body was frozen with fear, and he couldn’t utter a word.

Just then, Sejun said, “Kaiser, calm down. That child is Bee-yot, and Theo brought him here.”

Sejun, who had woken up early like Bee-yot thanks to Theo, quickly came outside upon hearing the commotion and answered in Bee-yot’s stead.

“Huh?! Hahaha. If Theo brought him, why didn’t you just say so instead of keeping your mouth shut? I almost killed you,” Kaiser said, slightly flustered by Sejun’s appearance, laughing heartily.

“Bee-yot?!!!!” Bee-yot was horrified by Kaiser, who spoke so casually about such a gruesome thing. This place is scary!

Ppa-dak! Ppa-dak!

Bee-yot quickly flew towards Sejun. You’re the only one who can protect me here, Sejun! There’s a reason you’re number one!

“Were you surprised?” Sejun asked Bee-yot in a warm voice, extending his hand.

“Bee-yot! Bee-yot!” Bee-yot sat on Sejun’s finger, rubbing his head against it as he replied, “Yes! I was so scared!”

Bee-yot realized, ‘It was guts!’ He understood why Sejun was number one.

To withstand such immense pressure from such a terrifying being while being weaker than him and talking to him so casually… it was impossible without incredible guts.

It was Sejun’s hidden talent, specialized in enduring energy, often fainting from the sheer amount of it.

Of course, even so, enduring the energy that Kaiser deliberately unleashed was absolutely impossible with Sejun’s abilities alone.

“Theo has learned something strange again… it’s fascinating the more I see it.”

“Nyaaang…”

When Sejun was in danger, Theo used his talent, Energy Drain, while sleeping, absorbing only Kaiser’s energy, which allowed Sejun to remain comfortable.

Bee-yot, unaware of this fact, looked at Sejun with admiration and began to make strange assumptions again, thinking, ‘I’m going to develop guts like Sejun!’

Christie’s Auction House, USA.

“So, this is food from the Tower?”

“Yes!”

“And it’s grown by Park Sejun, the Top Farmer?”

“Yes!”

The people answering the auctioneer’s questions were the hunters who had received grapes as wages from the Black Skeleton on the 4th floor of the Tower.

They frantically fled towards the exit point on the 4th floor of the Tower and only checked the grapes’ options after arriving on the 1st floor.

“Huh?! The grower of these grapes is Park Sejun?!”

When the hunters confirmed the name ‘Top Farmer Park Sejun’ as the grower of the grapes, they exclaimed, “Oh, God! We’re going to be rich!” They hugged each other and cheered.

The popularity of Sejun’s crops on Earth is immense these days. Due to their immense popularity, Sejun’s crops are mostly sold at high prices at auction houses.

Of course, the effect of the vibrant, fragrant grapes was somewhat ambiguous, but this was Sejun’s crop, which had never been sold before.

Just the fact that it was a crop grown by Sejun made it highly likely to sell at a high price.

Thus, they came to Christie’s Auction House to sell the vibrant, fragrant grapes.

A few hours later, the auctioneer announced, “One bunch of vibrant, fragrant grapes grown by Top Farmer Park Sejun has been sold for $100,000!”

The auction began, and they made a total profit of 10 billion. Dividing that equally among 10 people, it was 1 billion per person.

The time they worked in the grape farm was roughly 10 hours, so… they had done a job worth 100 million per hour.

“Okay, everyone, listen. We need to keep quiet about where we got these grapes, understand?”

“Of course! Let’s keep it to ourselves!!!!”

“Good. Then let’s meet at the Tower entrance in 3 hours.”

“Got it!”

Just as the 10 novice hunters finished talking about meeting in 3 hours to go to the grape farm, five hunters, carefully holding sacks identical to the ones they received from the Black Skeleton, passed by them and entered the auction house.

“To get Park Sejun’s crops… we’re rich now!” one hunter exclaimed.

“Shh! Be quiet! Someone might hear!” another hunter cautioned.

The sweet, strong smell of grapes filled the air, coming from the sacks. It was the smell of vibrant, fragrant grapes.

“We weren’t the only ones working there…,” one of the novice hunters said, shocked. Thinking about it, it was obvious. They couldn’t have been the only ones passing through there.

If other hunters who worked at the grape farm sold the grapes in this way, the market price of the grapes would inevitably decrease.

“No rest! Let’s go to the Tower right now!”

“Got it!” The hunters hurriedly ran towards the grape farm.

Click.

Sejun opened the special storage, the Golden Box of Plenty, and took out two black beans, just like yesterday.

Click.

He closed the box again.

“Now there are four,” Sejun said, looking at the four black beans he had carefully placed next to the Golden Box of Plenty. “Tomorrow, there will be six black beans.”

Clang! The metal door of Sejun’s subspace warehouse slammed shut. Sejun, holding a bag of black beans, stepped back into the regular world.

Just then, he heard a familiar voice.

“Piyot, could you give me some Egg Fruits? Here are some peanuts.”

Piyot! Piyot! [Yes! Here you go!]

Sejun gave Piyot a handful of peanuts, and Piyot gave him 100 Egg Fruits.

“Are you sure it’s okay to give me this many?” Sejun asked.

Piyot! Piyot! [Yes! We have so many at home!]

Piyot spread his tiny wings, which were no bigger than leaves in Sejun’s hand. Sejun looked at the small wings and wasn’t sure if Piyot really had that many Egg Fruits at home.

“Heh heh heh. You have that many?” Sejun asked again with a smile, thinking they probably had more than 100.

Piyot! Piyot! Piyot! [Yes! Everyone dislikes Egg Fruits, so no one eats them unless we come out like this! We throw away so many!]

Piyot chattered excitedly, happy to get so many peanuts.

As Piyot said, the birds did not like Egg Fruits.

However, leaving the fruits grown on the Mother Tree as they were would cause them to rot and emit a terrible stench, so Egg Fruits were a troublesome fruit for the birds to dispose of.

“You throw these away?!”

Then, I can take them all?

“Piyot, bring me a lot later. I’ll buy them all.”

Piyot!

[Yes!]

“This is an advance.”

Sejun made 10 peanut pouches, each holding about a handful of peanuts, and handed them to Piyot. It was sized to fit the maximum expansion of Piyot’s bag.

Piyot! Piyot! [Thank you! I’ll bring them all!]

Piyot, filling his bag with peanuts, replied happily.

“Okay. Then rest well. Hmm hmm hmm. I should eat an egg roll for breakfast today.”

Holding the Egg Fruits, Sejun hummed as he headed to the kitchen.

Arriving at the kitchen, which was small but tidy, Sejun…

Tap. Tap.

Sejun poured the contents of 50 Egg Fruits into a bowl and added water.

And then,

Chop chop chop.

He carefully stirred the egg mixture with chopsticks, making sure there were no lumps. The egg mixture, with the yolks and whites blending together, turned into a milky yellow color.

Furthermore,

Chop chop chop.

He chopped green onions and carrots and added salt to season it.

Next,

Sssssss.

He thinly poured the egg mixture onto the preheated frying pan, enough to cover it, and once the egg was cooked to some extent, he began to roll the egg with chopsticks.

Sssssss.

Sejun poured more egg mixture onto the end of the egg roll, continuing to make the egg roll.

While Sejun was preparing breakfast in the kitchen,

Piyot! Piyot! [I need to grow my guts like Sejun and become Theo’s right forepaw! Then I’ll be the right forepaw of Sejun’s right arm!]

Piyot imagined himself sitting on Theo’s right forepaw, which was clinging to Sejun’s right leg. Pfft. How cool.

Piyot watched Theo, who was calmly eating his egg roll. Theo was so cool and strong! Piyot wanted to be just like him.

And then,

Tap! Tap!

He pecked at the Red Dragon armor that Sejun had placed in front of the Creation God’s monument, training diligently.

Because the Red Dragon armor emitted a similar feeling to the pressure he had felt earlier.

At that moment,

Kkweang?!

[Piyot, are you breaking Daddy’s toy right now?!]

Kkweang, who was strolling along looking for Sejun, discovered Piyot attacking the Red Dragon armor.

Piyot!

[No, I’m not!]

Piyot replied, focusing his eyes and looking at Kkweang. I’ll subdue you with my gaze! I’ll show you the results of my training!

However, he was too enthusiastic from the start. Kkweang was Sejun’s left arm. He had chosen too strong an opponent.

Kkweang!

[Piyot, stop staring like that!]

Piyot?! Piyot! [Did I?! Absolutely not!]

Kkweang, who was on the verge of becoming a ferocious Maengshu due to hunger, slightly focused his eyes, instantly overwhelming Piyot. Piyot quickly released the power from his eyes.

And then,

Beeing… Piyot…

[Heeing… It’s too scary here….]

He hurriedly flew to the kitchen where Sejun was. Piyot was getting pushed around here and there after causing trouble from the morning.

A short while later,

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

“Here. Let’s eat one each.” Sejun handed out the egg rolls to the animals one by one.

And then,

Honk honk.

A particularly thick egg roll. It was an egg roll for Kkweang made with 20 Egg Fruits.

Kkweang!

[Yummy! I’m going to eat this all up!]

Kkweang picked up a piece of the egg roll, which was cut into 10 slices, and ate it.

Nom.

Sejun also hurriedly put a piece of egg roll in his mouth.

“Hmm. Delicious.”

Thanks to the diligent stirring, the egg roll crumbled softly like a fluffy bread.

Crunch crunch.

The green onions and carrots were chewed, providing a good texture and sweetness.

After eating breakfast like that,

Kkweang!

[Kkweang will go check on the medicinal herbs!]

As Kkweang packed a lunchbox in his snack pouch and left,

Slurp.

Sejun drank his morning coffee and took a moment to relax.

“Kuh. It’s bitter.”

Of course, the coffee tasted very bitter today as well.

[You have consumed a bitter medicine.]

[Talent: Good medicine is bitter for stamina is activated.]

[Stamina increases by 2.]

It was somewhat comforting that it was less bitter than yesterday.

“Shall we work hard today too!”

As Sejun drank his coffee and stood up,

“Puhuhut. Piyot, you want to become my right forepaw, nyaang?”

Piyot! Piyot! [Yes! I want to become Theo-nim’s right forepaw!]

“If you want to become my right forepaw, you have to work hard, nyaang!”

Piyot! Piyot! [Yes! I will work hard! Just tell me what to do!]

“Puhuhut. Then follow me, nyaang!”

Piyot! Piyot! [Yes! Let’s go!]

Flap. Flap.

Piyot, flapping his wings, flew to Theo’s right side. Pfft. I am the next right forepaw.

Piyot?

[But where are we going?]

“Puhuhut. We are going to the 75th floor of the tower, nyaang! Chairman Park, I’ll be back, nyaang!”

“Okay. Bring back something good.”

“Puhuhut. Trust me, nyaang!”

Theo greeted Sejun and went to the 75th floor of the tower with Piyot to draw lots.