Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 274

Violet Tower, 52nd floor.

A giant tarantula climbed onto the huge floating island.

At that moment,

Countless tentacles began to grow, tearing through the tarantula’s back.

Quickly, the tentacles ripped apart the tarantula’s body. They moved on their own now, no longer part of the tarantula.

A strange, raspy voice echoed, “Kekehek. I have arrived.”

This was the Kraken. It was a piece of a huge, monstrous creature that could swallow the sea. It was one of the Twelve Apostles of Destruction, ranked sixth.

Now that it had found what it wanted, it didn’t care about the tarantula anymore. It showed its true form.

The Kraken fragment, now revealed, crawled across the wasteland, moving towards the center of the land.

And then,

“Kekehek. Found it. The Temple of the Creator God.”

The Kraken’s fragment spotted a very clean and white building surrounded by Emily’s flower garden in the distance. The Temple of the Creator God, guarded by the Creator God’s apostle.

The Apostles of Destruction kept coming to the Tower because they were searching for this place.

“Kekehek. I sense a delicious energy.”

More precisely, it was to absorb the power coming from the Temple of the Creator God.

For the Apostles of Destruction, the power of creation was like a delicious meal. It would make their power of destruction even stronger. The more they absorbed the power of creation, the stronger their power of destruction became.

And so, the Kraken’s fragment, moving towards the Temple of the Creator God, finally arrived at Emily’s flower garden.

Upon touching the Kraken fragment’s tentacles, the crops turned to ash, and the flower garden began to turn into a wasteland.

When the tentacles had destroyed about a quarter of the flower garden,

“-This is far enough. I can now undo the third seal.”

Right after it said this, the Kraken fragment disappeared. The land with the Temple of the Creator God moved again to a different place.

“Okay, here are the black beans. Take two each. That will be 50 billion Tower Coins each, please.”

Sejun showed the dragons the black beans in his left hand and extended his right hand.

“Money first, please.”

“-Kahaha. Understood.”

“-Sejun, here it is.”

“-Me too.”

The dragons, excited at the sight of the black beans, hastily gave Sejun the money and took two black beans each from Sejun’s left hand.

‘Wow, this is light.’

The money pouch was so light it was hard to believe that 150 billion Tower Coins were sitting on his hand.

It was enchanted with a higher level of weight-reduction magic than Theo’s money pouch, making the weight almost impossible to feel.

‘Hehehe. I should get our kids’ pouches changed to these.’

Pleased with the unexpected extra income, Sejun began counting the Tower Coins in the money pouch.

“It’s exactly 150 billion Tower Coins.”

Sejun confirmed the money he received from the dragons. Thanks to them, he had enough money to buy a new authority again, but he didn’t have time to buy an authority right now.

Sejun came down from the fountain and called for Kkuenge.

At Sejun’s call, Kkuenge ran diligently.

Kkuenge, Kkuenge?

[Did Daddy call Kkuenge? Is it Kkuenge’s mealtime?]

Kkuenge, who had run excitedly thinking it was mealtime, clung to Sejun’s leg.

However,

“Kkuenge, just wait a little. Earth Dragon!”

Sejun rode the animals and the Earth Dragon towards the Waypoint. He had to hurry to not be late for the founding ceremony.

On the way to the Waypoint riding the Earth Dragon,

“Alright. Let’s have breakfast now.”

Sejun fed the animals their breakfast on top of the Earth Dragon’s head.

Theo had Churu.

Kkuenge had a giant sweet potato.

The Golden Bat had grapes.

Piyot had peanut powder.

While the animals were eating their food, Sejun also filled his stomach by eating dried sweet potato.

At that moment,

“-President Park, I have something to give you, meow!”

Theo, who had finished his Churu, stood up from Sejun’s lap and shouted.

“-Piyot, now is the time, meow!”

Piyot!

[Mr. Sejun, here I am!]

Piyot, having received Theo’s signal, hurriedly picked up Theo’s bundle and flew to Theo.

“-Puhuhut. Piyot did well, meow! President Park, receive this, meow!”

Theo, having received the bundle, took out two items from the bundle that he had picked from the 75th floor ghost warehouse and handed them to Sejun.

One was a book with a shabby leather cover, and the other was a wooden stick.

[Book]

???

Usage Restriction: Magic Power 50

Creator: Unknown

Rank: B

[Stick]

???

Usage Restriction: None

Creator: Unknown

Rank: D

Perhaps because they were items that haven’t been checked yet, the inside of the book was blank, and there was nothing special about the stick either.

“Aileen, can you tell me what these are?”

[The Tower administrator says they will take care of it.]

While Sejun was asking Aileen to appraise them,

“-Meow?”

Theo, who was organizing the bundle, found an item.

“-What is this, meow?”

The item Theo took out from the bundle was a land deed. It was a land deed for the 79th floor of the Tower.

‘That’s right, meow!’

Thanks to that, he remembered his promise with Louis to take Sejun to heal the Mother Tree and receive a reward.

And Theo pictured in his mind the image of himself giving the reward he had chosen with his own paws to Sejun, and lying on Sejun’s lap, making a loud noise.

‘Puhuhut. Just thinking about it is exciting, meow! I need to take President Park to the 79th floor of the Tower quickly, meow!’

Theo was excited at the thought of giving Sejun orders.

“-President Park, we need to go to the 79th floor of the Tower, meow! We need to heal the Mother Tree, meow!”

He urged Sejun, who had to go to the Black Rabbit’s founding ceremony, to go to the 79th floor of the Tower.

Piyot!

[Mr. Sejun, we have to go heal the Mother Tree!]

That’s right! I was on a mission! Piyot, who was reminded of his messenger bird mission by Theo’s words, shouted loudly.

“Calm down, everyone. We have to go to the founding ceremony now. Let’s go after the founding ceremony.”

“-Okay, meow! Then let’s go after the founding ceremony, meow! Here’s the land deed, meow!”

Theo handed Sejun the land deed for the 79th floor of the Tower.

“Okay. But how did you get this?”

When Sejun asked how he got the land deed,

“-Puhuhut. This body, in order to save President Park’s Egg Fruit…”

Theo lay down on Sejun’s lap and began to explain, bringing Sejun’s hand to his belly.

“-Pet me while I talk, meow!”

“If that’s the case, then of course we have to go.”

Sejun’s attitude changed to a more active one after hearing Theo’s words.

‘I can’t let the tree where the Egg Fruit grows die!’

Sejun carefully touched the smooth skin of the Egg Fruit. It felt warm in his hand, a reminder of the long days he had spent tending to it. But now, his chat with Theo was finishing, and the strange, heavy feeling in the air was lifting.

Then, a voice, not loud, but clear as a bell inside his mind, announced, “The emotion has ended.”

Just as Eirin had said, two things suddenly appeared in front of him, resting gently in his outstretched hands. One was a book, bound in thick, brown leather that smelled faintly of old paper and dried herbs. The other was a staff, made of dark, polished wood, cool and smooth to the touch.

Embossed in gold letters on the book’s cover were the words:

“[Experienced Farmer’s Plant Encyclopedia]”

And floating beside the staff, a small, shimmering label read:

“[Unbreakable Staff]”

“Chairman Park, look at the staff first, nya!”

Theo, always thinking practically, pointed at the staff. “The staff looks less exciting, nya! Look at that first, so you can save the best for last!”

“Staff?”

Sejun picked up the staff and examined it closely, discovering that its only ability was to grow longer when he put mana into it.

“I can use it when there’s no firewood.”

After checking the staff,

“Shall we look at the book?”

Sejun picked up the book and examined it.

“[Experienced Farmer’s Plant Encyclopedia]”

An encyclopedia where an experienced farmer recorded his knowledge.

If you write the name of a crop on the book’s blank page, it will tell you the location of the crop growing inside the Black Tower.

Once a page is used, it cannot be used again.

Usable pages: 0/200

Usage restriction: Mana 500 or higher, those with farming-related jobs

Creator: Experienced Farmer Figaro

Grade: S+

“It tells you the location if you write the crop’s name on a blank page?”

Seeing the explanation, Sejun wanted to test the book’s performance.

However,

‘But I don’t have a pen?’

Sejun didn’t have a pen. Is there anything he could use instead? Sejun looked around, searching for something to use in place of a pen.

At that moment,

(Bat bat. Grape seeds are for Sejun! Throw away the grape skins!)

Sejun saw the Golden Bat separating the seeds from the grapes after eating all the grape juice. He thought, ‘I need something to write with… but what?’ That’s it!

“Golden Bat, give me some grape skin.”

(Yes!)

Without asking any questions, the Golden Bat brought the grape skin at Sejun’s words.

Squeeze.

Sejun received the grape skin and squeezed it with all his might.

Drip. Drip.

Two drops of deep red juice fell.

“Good.”

Dab.

Sejun dipped his index finger in the crimson juice.

Scritch. Scritch. Scritch.

And started carefully writing on the book.

“Swee…t…pota…to.”

First, he wrote a crop he knew to check if the information was accurate.

As Sejun wrote on the book’s blank page,

>Location where sweet potatoes grow< [Power Sweet Potato – Tower 99th floor, Tower 55th floor] [Sun Sweet Potato – Tower 99th floor, Tower 55th floor] [Chestnut Sweet Potato – Tower 70th floor] The location of the sweet potatoes appeared. The top two were sweet potatoes Sejun knew well. However, "Huh?! Chestnut sweet potato?" Sejun was surprised that a different kind of sweet potato existed in the Black Tower. "Then other crops too..." As Sejun was about to write the names of other crops on the blank page of the Experienced Farmer's Plant Encyclopedia to see if there were any crops he didn't know in the Black Tower, -Master, we have arrived. Toryongi announced their arrival at the waypoint. Clang. "Go inside, everyone." Sejun put the animals into the subspace warehouse and placed his hand on the red crystal, preparing to move to the 55th floor of the tower. He thought, "Okay, time to go to the 55th floor and see what's happening." *** Inside White Castle on the 55th floor of the tower. "Has the delegation not arrived yet?" Merchant Jeto, sitting in the VIP seat, asked his subordinate. "Yes... well... we have released all the merchants to search, but there is still no contact that the delegation has been found." "Hmph... the founding ceremony will begin soon... where on earth is the delegation doing what...?" Jeto sighed in frustration at his subordinate's answer. There was very little time left until the founding ceremony began. The delegation Jeto was waiting for was the delegation from the Cove Kingdom, and Merchant Jeto, originally from the Cove Kingdom, was responsible for the delegation's gifts. "Still, just in case, have a merchant waiting at the kingdom's entrance." "Yes!" The subordinate who received Jeto's instructions left. "I need a plan..." Jeto began to devise a plan for what to do if the delegation did not arrive. However, no suitable plan came to mind. There was not enough time. Not sending an official delegation to another country's founding ceremony was a serious discourtesy to the other country. If things went wrong, it could develop into a diplomatic problem, and in the worst case, they would have to consider war. 'Of course, the king and queen's personalities are not bad, so that won't happen... but they will still feel upset...' As Jeto was thinking about how to handle the situation, "Lord Jeto!" A subordinate quickly ran to Jeto to report something. "Really?!" "Yes! He was definitely wearing the Cove Kingdom's chief diplomat badge!" "Good. Guide him in!" "Yes!" Jeto hurriedly followed his subordinate. *** Tower 55th floor. As Sejun arrived at the 55th floor at the waypoint, Thwack! Coco bounced with excitement. "Sejun! You're here! Welcome, welcome! We've been waiting!" "Yeah. We're not late, are we?" Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! "No! There's plenty of time! Follow me!" "Wait a minute. Come out, everyone." Sejun hurriedly called the animals in the subspace warehouse. "Nya!" Bat bat! Peep! As expected, Theo, the Golden Bat, and Peep came out of the subspace warehouse at Sejun's call. However, Kkuengi did not come out because he was busy filling his snack pouch. "Kkuengi, Dad will give you something delicious later. Let's fill the snack pouch later." Grasp. Inevitably, Sejun went into the subspace warehouse, coaxed Kkuengi, and carried him out with both hands. "Let's go." Thwack! "Yes!" As Sejun and the animals followed Coco into White Castle, "Diplomat, where have you been now?!" Merchant Jeto, coming out of the castle, shouted as he looked at Sejun's party. Or rather, he shouted as he looked at Peep. Peep? Peep? [Diplomat? Me?] Peep, receiving Jeto's gaze, tilted his head and asked. I'm not a diplomat? This time, Peep didn't forget, he really didn't know. Louis gave Peep the badge symbolizing the Cove Kingdom's chief diplomat in case something difficult happened to Peep, but he didn't tell Peep about it. Seeing Theo next to him, he strongly felt that he shouldn't tell him. And, "Hee hee hee. Jeto, nice to see you, nya! But if I'm a diplomat, what can I get, nya?" As Louis worried, Theo, with expectant eyes, wagged his tail full of excitement and asked Jeto. 'Hee hee hee. I'm excited, nya!' Theo started his engine, ready to make a fortune today.