Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 272

A worker honeybee led Sejun to the Honeybee Queen’s room. When he arrived, the Queen greeted him.

“Ah, welcome. But what have you brought for me?”

The Honeybee Queen retrieved a golden honey jelly from a small hole in the wall and placed it on Sejun’s palm. It was a royal jelly of a different color than the last one.

[Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery]

Not only was the color different, but the name as well.

“Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery?” Sejun examined it closely.

[Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery]

Made by refining various types of honey jelly with the Honeybee Queen’s ancestral secret method. Sweetened with honey.

Upon consumption, one of the four major stats increases by 30.

Upon consumption, the skill proficiency of one of the acquired skills greatly increases.

Expiration Date: 100 years

Grade: A+

“Oh! That’s good.”

While Sejun was examining the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery, the Honeybee Queen continued to take out honey jellies and place them on Sejun’s palm. It wasn’t just one honey jelly; she piled a total of 10 golden honey jellies there.

“Hehehe. I should eat only 5 here.”

Sejun decided to secretly devour 5 out of the 10 all by himself, now that no one was around.

‘I’ll raise my stats here and narrow the gap with the others a little.’

Sejun, feeling a little greedy, was devising a plan on how to eat the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery.

‘The remaining 5, I’ll pretend I didn’t eat them and give one to me, one to Theo, one to Kkuenge… but what about the Golden Bat?’

There was a flaw in the plan.

“Golden Bat?”

With a worried heart, Sejun hurriedly touched his back, calling for the Golden Bat. The Golden Bat often lacked presence, so he often didn’t know when it was clinging to his back.

Fortunately, he didn’t feel anything on his back, and he didn’t hear the Golden Bat’s reply either. It seemed that it had gone to the western forest following Kkuenge.

“Phew.”

Sejun let out a sigh of relief and put the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery in his mouth.

[You have consumed the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery.]

[Magic increases by 30.]

[Proficiency of Farmer’s Warm Touch Lv. 4 greatly increases.]

[The proficiency of Farmer’s Warm Touch Lv. 4 is filled, and the level increases.]

The first Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery increased magic by 30 and raised the skill level of Farmer’s Warm Touch by increasing its skill proficiency.

Sejun ate another one.

[You have consumed the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery.]

[Magic increases by 30.]

[Proficiency of Farmer’s Warm Touch Lv. 5 greatly increases.]

The second Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery that he ate also raised magic and the skill proficiency of Farmer’s Warm Touch.

Clearly, both stats and skills are random, but for some reason, the same stat and skill rose twice. Well… it could happen twice.

Sejun ate another one.

[You have consumed the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery.]

[Magic increases by 30.]

[Proficiency of Farmer’s Warm Touch Lv. 5 greatly increases.]

“Again?!”

This time again, magic and the skill proficiency of Farmer’s Warm Touch increased. Sejun felt like he was possessed by something.

And then, he ate two more.

“No way… until the last one…”

The probability of simultaneously raising magic, one of the four stats, and the Farmer’s Warm Touch skill proficiency, one of the 16 skills, after consuming the Golden Royal Jelly of Mastery is 1 in 64.

The probability of getting the same result 5 times in a row is approximately 1 in 1.1 billion.

Sejun achieved the feat of raising the proficiency of magic and the Farmer’s Warm Touch skill 5 times in a row, breaking through such an incredibly low probability.

Thanks to this, Sejun’s magic increased by 150, and he raised the Farmer’s Warm Touch skill level by 3, reaching level 7.

“Something’s fishy…”

Sejun felt from this incredible coincidence the world was trying to make him focus on only specific stats and skills in order to exploit him.

“Nah. Probably not? What am I…”

Sejun, thinking that he was going too far even by his own standards, left the uneasiness behind and said,

“I’m leaving.”

The Honeybee Queen replied.

“Yes. Goodbye.”

Sejun said goodbye to the Honeybee Queen and returned to the farm.

The Flame had taken root on the 89th floor of the Violet Tower.

“Huh? There’s a Violet Tower here too?”

The surroundings were filled with poisonous frogs, 3~5m in size, with flamboyant colors. They were bright red, green, and yellow.

“Hehet. I’m going to work hard for Master and secure the land deed!”

The Flame didn’t care about the frogs and began to spread its roots around.

The poisonous frogs, seeing the Flame’s moving roots, rushed in and bit them. Frogs eat things that move. That’s why they bit the roots.

But the Flame’s huge roots were not the size they could eat.

The poisonous frogs were pierced by the Flame’s roots and died. There was no need to use magic to burn them. The dead frogs would become food for the roots.

“I wish I could give this experience to Master…”

While the Flame was regretting not being able to give the experience it gained from defeating the poisonous frogs to Sejun, the Flame’s roots continued to spread out, luring the poisonous frogs. The poisonous frogs swallowed the Flame’s roots and died.

As the Flame was spreading its roots without hesitation, it found the farm on the 89th floor of the tower.

“Hello, everyone. I’m the Flame.”

The plants on the farm, suffering from the surrounding poison, asked the Flame for help.

“Flame… please… help… us. The poison… it burns… help us!”

“Okay. Just hold on a moment! Ee-yah!”

The Flame wrapped its roots around the farm, blocking the poison from entering, and used the first leaf’s ability, the Flame of Purification, to purify the farm’s land.

“Flame… thank… you.”

The land deed for the 89th floor of the tower fell in front of the Flame.

“Alright. This makes the third Violet Tower land deed acquired!”

The Flame protected the plants on the farm and spread its roots around.

At that moment, Veronica, the tower farmer of the Violet Tower, who was looking around the tower for plants that could grow in the poisonous land, discovered the Flame.

“Huh?! What is this plant? Seeing how big it has grown, it seems to be a tree that grows well here too. But where are the seeds? Should I cut off the roots and plant them somewhere else?”

Veronica’s hand trembled slightly, but she held the shiny silver dagger firmly. She bravely stepped forward, aiming to cut one of Firey’s thick, dark roots that snaked across the muddy ground.

Firey roared, “How dare you! How dare you touch me?! I belong to Master!” His voice was like thunder.

The ground shook. *Rumble. Rumble.*

Firey was furious at this strange attack. He moved his roots, which were as thick as tree trunks, to wrap around Veronica like giant snakes.

“Please… spare me…” Veronica whispered, her voice choked with fear. Firey’s massive roots loomed over her, blocking out the light.

“Very well. I’ll spare you. But in exchange, you’ll work on the farm.”

“Huh?!”

Veronica was the most important person in the Violet Tower, except for the dragons. So, being told to work on a farm was a shock.

However,

“Come and work, I say!”

“Yes!”

She couldn’t possibly defy Firey, who looked ready to constrict and kill her with his roots at any moment.

And then,

“How could you prune like that?! Our Master is incredibly skilled, but why are you so bad at this, Veronica?!”

“I’m… I’m sorry.”

Veronica had to endure Firey’s scolding, a mixture of boasting about Sejun and nagging.

Thus, Veronica, the Violet Tower’s top farmer, began learning agriculture from Firey.

*Time passed. Veronica worked hard on the farm, listening to Firey’s complaints.* Later, Sejun was walking back to the farm…

Rumble.

“A little hungry?” Sejun asked, on the way back to the farm riding Torongi.

Munch.

Feeling a pang of hunger, Sejun ate the meat Eilean had given him.

[You have consumed a piece of Eilean’s Healthier Fist Meat.]

[The effect will only be activated when all the food is consumed.]

[499 pieces remaining.]

As he was walking along, having filled his stomach,

Tap tap tap!

Squeak!

[Where did Daddy go?!]

Queng, running swiftly from afar, came into view. Having returned from gathering herbs and finding Sejun absent from the farm, Queng immediately sought out Sejun’s scent.

“Torongi, go inside for a bit.”

-Yes.

As Torongi burrowed into the ground,

Thwack.

Just then, Queng arrived and clung to Sejun’s leg.

Queng!

[Queng was worried about Daddy!]

“Sorry. I had to visit the Poison Honeybees.”

Pat pat.

Munch.

Sejun stroked Queng’s head with his left hand as Queng clung to his leg, and with his right hand, he placed a special royal jelly into Queng’s mouth.

Queng?! Queng!

[What is this?! It’s super yummy!]

Queng quickly cheered up after eating the sweet treat.

Queng’s Strength increased by 30 after eating the special royal jelly, and the proficiency of one of his skills increased, raising the skill level.

The skill that leveled up was Aura Emission.

Gooo…

Queng!

Queng tensed his body and hurriedly stopped the skill. No! Daddy will die!

Thanks to Queng’s quick reaction, Sejun’s life was spared,

“Here. Let’s eat the Golden Bat too.”

Unaware that he had almost died again, he summoned the Golden Bat and gave it the special royal jelly.

Munch.

(Squeak squeak. Delicious.)

The Golden Bat, emerging from Queng’s back, rejoiced after eating the special royal jelly.

And then,

“Huh?!”

Swoosh.

The Golden Bat vanished before Sejun’s eyes.

The Golden Bat’s Stealth skill proficiency increased, raising its level, and now it could even hide in the air.

After feeding Queng and the Golden Bat each a special royal jelly and attempting to return to the farm,

“What’s this?!”

Sensing something approaching, Sejun hurriedly covered his face with both hands, to prevent fur from entering his mouth.

Poof.

Simultaneously, a yellow fur ball pounced onto Sejun’s face.

“President Park! I’m back, meow!”

It was Theo.

Flap flap.

Peep! Peep!

[Hello! Peep is here too!]

‘Ah. I didn’t think about Peep.’

Thanks to that, Sejun realized that he was one special royal jelly short.

Sejun’s plan was to give the five remaining special royal jellies, after he ate one, to Theo, Queng, the Golden Bat, Iona, and himself.

Sejun hadn’t considered the newcomer, Peep.

‘Oh well.’

Sejun decided to give his share of the special royal jelly to Peep.

“Vice President Theo, did you have a good trip?”

Sejun asked, covering his mouth with his right hand and grabbing Theo by the back of his neck with his left, pulling him away from his face.

“Indeed…”

Munch.

Sejun hurriedly stuffed a special royal jelly into Theo’s mouth as he answered. Since he wouldn’t eat anything other than fish and Churu, such a surprise feeding was necessary.

“Meow?! Meow! President Park, what is this, meow?!”

As expected, Theo became annoyed as soon as something other than fish and Churu entered his mouth.

Meanwhile, the special royal jelly quickly melted and disappeared from Theo’s mouth.

“President Park, this is too much, meow! How could you give me something other than fish and Churu…”

Plop.

As Sejun placed the complaining Theo on his lap,

“Meeeooow…”

Theo hugged his knees and became quiet.

“Now, only one left.”

Sejun said, looking at Peep.

Peep?

Sejun fed the special royal jelly to Peep as well.

However, only Theo and Peep’s stats and skill proficiencies increased, with no major changes.

“Theo, give the last one to Iona, okay?”

“Understood, meow!”

As Sejun handed the last special royal jelly to Theo and was about to head towards the farm,

Stare.

Queng looked at Sejun with suspicious eyes. There’s no way Daddy wouldn’t eat one himself!

Considering Sejun’s actions so far, it was a very reasonable suspicion.

Sniff sniff.

Queng climbed onto Sejun and began sniffing around Sejun’s mouth.

“Queng, why?”

Sejun remained calm at Queng’s actions.

‘Hehe. Knowing this would happen, I already rinsed my mouth clean.’

Sejun had already eliminated the evidence.

However,

Queng! Queng!

[Daddy’s magic power has greatly increased in just a few hours! Very, very suspicious!]

Even if the smell was hidden, the changes in the body could not be concealed. Detective Queng caught the secret eater once again today.