Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 292

Veronica reached the 53rd floor of the Violet Tower.

“Found it. I need to call Flamy quickly.”

Veronica followed Flamy’s instructions and found the farm on the 53rd floor of the tower.

Plop.

As Veronica planted a piece of the tree root Flamy had given her into the ground, the root began sending signals to Flamy’s root.

Meanwhile,

Whoosh!!

Veronica began dealing with the purple lizards around her.

“I need to do this well to get praised.”

Veronica worked on the farm in the Violet Tower. Flamy often scolded her because she wasn’t good at farming.

She wanted to hear Flamy say she had done a good job. So, she used her twin daggers to slash at the lizards.

Just as Veronica was clearing the area,

Thud! Thud!

A giant lizard appeared.

“Ugh! What is that?!”

Veronica was startled as she looked at the lizard’s mouth.

Wiggle. Wiggle.

Hundreds of tentacles connected to the lizard’s tongue were wriggling around its mouth.

“Aargh! Die! Crescent Moon Decapitation!”

Veronica couldn’t stand the disgusting sight. She swung her daggers in an X shape.

Scritch. Scritch.

Two crescent moon-shaped blades of energy came from the daggers. They cut the giant lizard’s body into four parts.

Thud.

The giant lizard fell.

“Whew···.”

Veronica felt relieved that the enemy was dead.

At that moment,

-Who dares to kill my host?

Wiggle. Wiggle.

Tentacles came out of the lizard! They formed a shape. It was a part of the Kraken. The Kraken was a very strong and dangerous monster, one of the Apostles of Destruction. People said it could swallow the sea.

However,

“What?! What was inside?! Moonlight Soul-Soothing Slash!”

Veronica had never seen a fragment of the Apostles of Destruction before.

She thought it was a parasite inside the lizard and quickly swung her twin daggers.

Whoosh. Whoosh.

The blades of energy she used made a full moon-shaped blade with a saw-like edge. It flew towards the Kraken’s fragment.

However,

-Heh heh. Interesting technique.

Zzzzzing.

The Kraken’s fragment easily destroyed Veronica’s attack with a single tentacle.

“How···?”

Veronica was confused by the opponent’s strength.

Whoosh.

The Kraken fragment’s tentacle moved quickly to grab Veronica.

At that moment,

Boom.

The ground shook, and then,

Plop.

A giant tree root shot up and hit the Kraken fragment’s body.

And then,

[Fire, blaze forth.]

Flamy said,

-Kugh···to think I would end up like this···

The Kraken’s fragment burned and disappeared.

Clink.

Dozens of coins with tentacles drawn on them were left behind.

Pick. Pick.

[Hehe. Should I say someone gave these to me on the way to Master?]

Flamy was excited to pick up the coins. She was thinking about how to give them to Sejun without saying where they came from.

“Thank you for saving me, Flamy.”

Veronica thanked Flamy for saving her life.

[Tsk. You really can’t handle even this. If it were our Master···]

Flamy was going to say something to Veronica but stopped.

She thought, if Sejun had been here, he would have died a long time ago.

“I’m sorry.”

‘Flamy’s master must be good at farming and strong. I admire him.’

Because of this, Veronica thought Sejun was very strong.

[Is this the farm?]

“Yes.”

[Good. Let’s start working.]

Boom.

Flamy moved her roots to make a border around the farm.

[Iyah!]

She began to clean the farm using her power.

Far away, on another floor of the tower…

Nom. Nom. Nom.

“Haa. It doesn’t smell anymore, right?”

“Puhuhu. Approved, meow! It doesn’t smell like poop anymore, meow!”

Sejun ate many fragrant grapes and passed Theo’s breath test.

“Vice President Theo, where did you bring him from?”

Sejun asked Theo about Fenrir.

Whimper! Whimper!

‘I’m hungry! Give me food!’

Peep!

[Stay still!]

As soon as Fenrir woke up, he tried to run away. Bbyot was holding onto his leash tightly.

“Puhuhu. You mean Whimpering? I, Vice President Theo, saved him from inside an Apostle of Destruction, meow! So, he will be my helper, meow!”

Theo answered Sejun.

“Really? Is his name Whimpering?“

Sejun looked at Fenrir.

‘This guy is like me.’

Sejun felt that they were the same.

He felt that Fenrir was weak. Even weaker than himself.

Sejun had never met someone weaker than himself before.

‘I will protect you.’

Sejun decided to take care of Fenrir so that he wouldn’t die.

“Okay. Then, first of all···”

Sejun took out the Black Dragon’s Scale and used it on Fenrir.

Whoosh.

Fenrir’s body turned black.

Fenrir’s magic was weak. The Black Dragon Tattoo grew large enough to wrap around Sejun’s body, but Fenrir’s body was too small.

As he put the Black Dragon Tattoo into Fenrir’s small body, the tattoo disappeared, and Fenrir turned completely black.

“Now your name is Blackie.”

Sejun didn’t like the name Whimpering.

He looked at the black Fenrir and named him Blackie.

Sejun thought both names were okay. They were not very different.

“He looks like a country dog. It suits him.”

Sejun was happy with his naming.

Whimper?! Whimper?!

‘What are you looking at?! I’m hungry, are you picking a fight?!’

Fenrir looked at Sejun and got ready to fight.

“Blackie, shall I give you food?”

Sejun took out dried sweet potato.

Whimper!

Fenrir looked at the dried sweet potato.

Plop.

Like a trained dog, he sat quietly on the floor.

Wag. Wag.

He wagged his tail and drooled.

“You were hungry? Eat up.”

Sejun gave him a piece of dried sweet potato.

Whimper!

Fenrir ate the dried sweet potato.

···!!!

Fenrir was very surprised. It’s delicious!

Smack. Smack. Smack.

Fenrir enjoyed his first dried sweet potato.

Whimper!

Fenrir looked at Sejun with kindness.

“Hehehe. Sharing food makes everyone friendly. Blackie, eat more.”

Sejun gave Fenrir another piece of dried sweet potato.

Smack. Smack. Smack.

Fenrir ate it.

A short while later.

Gero-rong.

Fenrir’s belly was full of sweet and chewy dried sweet potato. He fell asleep again.

Still weak, each day was exhausting for Fenrir.

Alright, you two, let’s go to bed. Kamang is so small, someone might step on him if he sleeps here…

Thump.

Sejun picked up Fenrir and headed to the bedroom.

Meanwhile, far away on Floor 44 of the Tower…

Whoosh.

Han Tae-jun and Kim Dong-shik arrived at the waypoint. They were carrying huge containers, each filled with the strong smell of kimchi and other side dishes. Together, they had brought 1000kg of food!

They’ve arrived!

The blue-backed penguins guarding the waypoint shouted at their appearance.

Then,

Tap tap tap.

The Black Wolves and Silver Wolves, who had been waiting nearby, rushed over and said,

“Load them up.”

They sat down on the ground so the items could be loaded.

This is sensitive to temperature, so you have to be careful,

Kim Dong-shik said, explaining the precautions as he loaded the kimchi and side dish containers.

“Don’t worry! We’ll keep the temperature right on the way!”

The blue-backed penguins replied, each climbing onto the backs of the wolves.

They would keep the kimchi cold using their ice magic.

“Then we’ll depart!”

With that, the wolves, carrying penguins on their backs and food for Sejun, quickly began running towards the 99th floor of the tower.

The next morning.

Squeak?

Fenrir woke up on Sejun’s soft pillow.

And then,

Cooore.

Goro-rong.

Fenrir gazed at Sejun and Theo, who were fast asleep.

Squeak!

‘You gave me something delicious, so I’ll spare you later!’

Tap. Tap.

He patted Sejun’s face and started running away outside.

In the midst of it all.

‘I smell something like what I ate yesterday.’

Smelling something similar to the sweet and chewy dried sweet potato he had eaten yesterday in the sweet potato field,

Scratch. Scratch.

Fenrir dug up the sweet potatoes in the ground.

Crack!

Squeak!

[I did it!]

Crunch. Crunch.

He barely managed to dig up one sweet potato and began to eat it.

The texture and taste were different from what he had eaten yesterday, but it was still edible.

Squeak!

[I feel energized eating this!]

Having filled his belly like that,

Squeak!

[I’ll save this for when I’m hungry!]

Dragging. Dragging.

Fenrir, carrying a sweet potato as big as himself, almost dragging it, ran away again with all his might.

After Fenrir had run away for a while and left the front yard of the house,

Flap. Flap.

“Who in the world are you?”

Kaiser, who had discovered Fenrir, approached.

Squeak?!

[Oh no! That powerful energy… it’s Kaiser! What are Kaiser, Kellion, and Lamter doing here together? If they find out it’s me, I’m finished!]

Fenrir froze at Kaiser’s approach. If he was found out to be Fenrir, it would mean instant death.

At that moment,

Flap. Flap.

“Kaiser, what’s wrong?”

“What’s this dog? Did Sejun bring it to guard the house?”

Kellion and Lamter also flew over to observe Fenrir.

Squeak?

[Why are Kellion and Lamter here?]

Fenrir was bewildered looking at the dragons.

The leaders of the dragon race each guarded their own towers and were not beings who traveled together like this.

Moreover, they originally did not allow other dragons to enter their towers.

“No idea. Maybe Theo brought it?”

“Theo? Really?”

“Yeah, but… doesn’t it feel a bit familiar? That energy?”

“Hmm… now that you mention it… I faintly sense the power of destruction.”

“Then is it a fragment of Fenrir?”

Among the Twelve Apostles of Destruction, Fenrir’s appearance was the most similar.

While the dragons were pondering about Fenrir,

“Kamang-ah!”

Sejun’s voice calling for Fenrir was heard.

Sejun, who had woken up and found Fenrir not by his side,

‘How dare that glass-boned mutt wander around without any fear?!’

Hastily came out to find him.

As Sejun approached Kamang with Theo dangling from his leg,

“Sejun, step back. I sense the aura of an Apostle of Destruction from that thing!”

“Yes! Step back!”

“Sejun, stay away!”

The dragons blocked Sejun from approaching Fenrir. It was to protect Sejun.

“Um… just a moment. Theo said he rescued it from the Apostle of Destruction’s belly. Its aura is so weak, maybe it just absorbed some of the Apostle of Destruction’s aura?”

Sejun hastily spoke his thoughts, afraid that the dragons would kill Fenrir.

“If it’s a pup…”

“Is that so?”

“That might be possible.”

Fortunately, the dragons thought Sejun’s words were more plausible.

The being in front of them was too weak to be called a fragment of Fenrir.

Fenrir, who always boasted of being a noble wolf, would never create such a pathetic fragment.

Moreover,

“Nyaaang…”

Theo was also helping. While Fenrir slept, Theo was taking away the dark energy Fenrir was giving off. Soon, it would be all gone.

“Well… it doesn’t seem dangerous to Sejun.”

Thanks to this, Fenrir narrowly escaped death, being treated as an insignificant being who couldn’t harm the unimportant Sejun by the dragons.

As the dragons’ suspicion disappeared,

“Please have some of this. It’s freshly picked grapes from yesterday, and they’re delicious,” Sejun offered the dragons the vibrant, fragrant grapes.

Meanwhile,

Thump thump.

As the dragons’ attention was focused on the grapes, Fenrir was once again running away with all his might.

Squeak?! Squeak!

‘Huh?! Now that I think about it, this place is too strange!’

Fenrir, belatedly realizing that there was something here, stopped in his tracks.

His goal was to obtain the black, round, oval fruit that Kaiser had eaten.

There was no place more suspicious than this, guarded by Kaiser and the other dragon leaders.

Squeak! Squeak!

‘Hehe. I’m a genius after all! I’ve infiltrated the enemies’ secret base without even realizing it!’

Thump thump.

Fenrir praised himself and came back to sit next to Sejun’s leg, looking up at Sejun.

It was definitely not because he wanted to eat more dried sweet potato.

However,

Drip. Drip.

Contrary to Fenrir’s thoughts, a pool of drool was overflowing from his mouth.

At that moment,

Whirr!

[Sejun-nim~!]

The Poison Honeybee Queen, who had finished her royal jelly-making practice, called out to Sejun, holding black royal jelly. It looked thick and dark, almost like black honey, and had a strange, strong smell.

And then,

Squeak!

‘That’s it!’

Fenrir, seeing the black royal jelly, scratched Sejun’s leg with his front paw and,

Squeak! Squeak!

[Give me that! Hand it over!]

Demanded the black royal jelly. Black and round. It was definitely what he was looking for.

“Kamang, you want to eat this? Hehehe. Then you should eat it,” Sejun said with a grin, happily putting the black royal jelly into Kamang’s mouth, who was troubled by it.

And then,

Squeaaak?!

[Kaiser ate *this*?!]

Fenrir fainted from the bitter taste of the black royal jelly. His eyes rolled back, and he fell to the ground with a thump. It was the worst taste he had ever experienced!