Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 298

Veronica asked, carefully wrapping sweet potatoes and potatoes in large green leaves. The leaves smelled fresh and slightly sweet.

The cooking, which had paused briefly due to Veronica’s appearance, resumed.

Sejun started cooking, and Veronica offered to help.

“Perfect,” Sejun said. “Now, do it like this.” He showed her again, his hands moving quickly and efficiently.

Veronica tried her best to copy him, a little clumsy but eager to learn. “Like this?”

“Yes. Just like that. Then, into the fire they go.” Sejun tossed the wrapped potatoes into the crackling fire. Sparks flew up, and the smell of roasting food filled the air.

“Okay! I can do this!” Veronica said with a smile. She was happy to help Sejun.

Sejun nodded. “Great. You take care of the roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes then.” He trusted Veronica completely.

Climbing onto the giant brazier, Sejun put Tower Coins into his magic pot, the Wealth-Eating Pot.

Sssssss.

He began pouring rice flour into the crab shell pot where the water was boiling.

Since rice flour could be produced infinitely as long as you had money, Sejun was planning to make dishes with rice flour as the main ingredient.

The menu he decided on was Farmer’s Soup and Locust Porridge.

He was making Farmer’s Soup, a simple but hearty soup with vegetables and rice flour. Next, he would make Locust Porridge, a thick porridge with locust meat and rice flour.

It was easy to make and could be made in any quantity.

“Kkueng-ah, get me some fish.”

“Kkueng!”

[Understood!]

At Sejun’s request, who had no hands free to pour rice flour, Kkueng took out the prepared fish from the subspace warehouse and

Plop. Plop.

Put it in the crab shell pot.

A moment later,

Sssssss.

Sejun began pouring rice flour into another crab shell pot.

At that moment,

“Fuhuhu. Chairman Park, I’m here, meow!”

Thwack.

Theo said, clinging to Sejun’s knee.

“Vice Chairman Theo, have you finished all the contracts already?”

“Fuhuhu. That’s right, meow!”

Theo missed Sejun’s knee after being away for a short while. He wanted to go to Chairman Park, meow!

He wanted to go to Sejun, but there were still hundreds of thousands of people left for the slave contract.

At this rate, he wouldn’t be able to go to Sejun even after a few hours. This wouldn’t do, meow!

So Theo immediately put those who had just become slaves into writing contracts.

As the slave contracts progressed, the number of slaves increased, so he was able to finish the contracts in an instant.

Theo returned to Sejun’s knee.

“Vice Chairman Theo, welcome back.”

Sejun welcomed him greatly. He needed Theo, and he returned at the right time.

“Fuhuhu. Did Chairman Park miss me, meow?”

“Yeah. Chop this up finely.”

Sejun said, throwing frozen locust meat from the subspace warehouse into the crab shell pot.

“Fuhuhu. Leave it to me, meow!”

Ppatting.

Theo pulled out his Dragon Claws and

“Nyanyang!”

Diced the locust meat flying into the crab shell pot.

“Go!”

“Come on, meow!”

When Sejun threw the locust meat, Theo chopped it up, threw it, chopped it up, threw it, chopped it up, repeating,

“What is it?!”

Veronica, who was wrapping sweet potatoes and potatoes with leaves, felt an eerie premonition.

It was an eerie feeling.

Veronica stood up and turned her head in the direction where the premonition was felt.

“Could it be?! Those are Dragon Claws?!”

Veronica was shocked to discover the black claws on Theo’s forepaws.

Dragons never give their bodies to insignificant beings.

I haven’t even received one…

Veronica was jealous of Theo’s claws.

However,

Tens of thousands of dragon scales with Dragon Skin magic engraved on them.

Hundreds of Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

A bracelet made of dragon horns.

If Sejun had seen the items he received from the dragons… and even the dragon blood of the Nine Dragon Tribes he would soon receive, it was something Veronica, who was scolded by Tia Peten every day, couldn’t even imagine.

“Fuhuhu. How is the skill of the handsome Vice Chairman Theo, meow?!”

“Our Vice Chairman Theo is doing well!”

“Fuhuhu. Of course, meow! Chairman Park, throw it quickly, meow!”

While he was chopping the locust meat finely with Sejun’s support,

-Hehehe. He’s here.

-Ehehehe. As expected of Tia. She came running right away.

-Fehehehe. Since the Tower Farm was taken away… I should go and see it quickly.

The dragon statues stopped all at once.

***

“Kaiser, you rascal!!!”

Tia Peten, the furious leader of the Violet Dragons, soared towards the Black Tower.

“You’ve come?”

Kaiser came out to greet Tia.

“You’ve come?! You took my Tower Farm and you’re saying that?!”

Tia was even more furious at Kaiser’s relaxed appearance.

Kaiser had a lot of pent-up feelings from Tia’s constant nagging. He was deliberately acting like that to make her angry.

And then,

Gooooo.

As Kaiser expected, Tia, enraged, gathered her energy as if she was about to fight.

However,

“What are you talking about? Taking the Tower Farm? Yeah, your Tower Farm just walked right over here. Said it liked our tower better.”

Kaiser said in a teasing voice, provoking Tia’s anger.

Since he was already winning, there was no reason to get excited.

Of course, that made Tia even more furious.

“What?! Do you think I’ll believe that?! Your Tower Farmer must have kidnapped our Beka!”

Tia thought Sejun had infiltrated the Violet Tower and kidnapped Veronica.

But that was because she didn’t know Sejun’s abilities.

“I’m telling you, that’s not it. Veronica came using the land document herself. Oh?! Witnesses are coming just in time.”

“What?! Witnesses?”

At Kaiser’s words, Tia looked around,

“Ehehehe. Witness 1 appears.”

“Fehehehe. Witness 2 appears.”

Kellion and Lamter, who came to see the enraged Tia, approached with a smile.

And then,

-Kaiser is right. She came to the Black Tower herself.

-Yes. And Veronica said she was defecting without any coercion.

The two testified that Kaiser’s words were true.

“How could our Beka…?”

Tia was shocked by the words of the three dragons.

“I… I have to go inside the tower and talk to Beka myself.”

She thought she should talk to Beka first.

However,

“No.”

Kaiser refused firmly.

Tia might harm Sejun,

‘Then the competition will increase.’

One more competitor to buy Samyangju and black beans.

Kellion and Lamter shook their heads no from behind, as if they had the same thought as Kaiser.

At that moment,

“Grandfather! What are you doing?!”

Aileen appeared.

Aileen felt Kaiser’s movements were suspicious and had been watching from afar.

‘Is our Sejun chasing away a guest?!’

When Kaiser refused Tia’s offer, she hurried to appear.

Aileen Fritani, the manager of the Black Tower, bowed politely to the imposing figure before her. “Greetings, Tier Petten, Chieftain of the Violet Dragon Clan,” she said clearly.

Tier looked at Aileen, a slight smirk on his face. “Hmm,” he said, “you are much more respectful than your grandfather, Kaiser, I see.”

“Heh heh heh. Of course. How outstanding our granddaughter is!” Kaiser chuckled, completely ignoring Tier’s jab. He was clearly very proud of his granddaughter.

Kaiser started to boast, “Our granddaughter, you see…” but Aileen quickly interrupted him with a polite cough. “Grandfather,” she said gently, stopping him from praising her too much.

Aileen explained that the dragon sculpture was needed as a key to enter the Black Tower, and the contract was to ensure peace within its walls.

“Understood. Then I shall go and create a dragon sculpture!” Tier hastily returned to the Violet Tower to make the dragon sculpture.

“Ah, Tier, just in case, bring plenty of Tower Coins too!” Aileen shouted towards the departing Tier.

Meanwhile, back in Sejun’s living space, Theo was busy with his own important task.

“Vice Chairman Te, good work.” Sejun said.

“Pu-huhut. That’s right, nya! I did good, nya!” Theo praised himself.

He jumped off Sejun’s lap and went to the Creation Stone monument.

Scritch scritch. Scritch scritch. He began sharpening his dragon claws on the Creation Stone monument, honing the edges of his claws. Theo chose the Creation Stone monument because it was the only thing hard enough to sharpen his dragon claws.

“Pu-huhut. I must always cherish my dragon claws, nya!”

Scritch scritch. Scritch scritch.

Veronica, her eyes wide with envy, approached Theo. “Excuse me,” she asked, her voice filled with curiosity, “where did you get those?”

“Pu-huhut. Envious, nya?!” Theo asked in a boastful voice, his mood lifted.

“Yes! I’m so envious! How did you get them?”

“Pu-huhut. Kaiser gave me these dragon claws, nya!” Theo proudly showed off his dragon claws, strutting about.

“Yes?! Kaiser himself?!” Veronica was astonished by Theo’s words.

“H-How did you receive them?!” Veronica asked in an excited voice.

“Pu-huhut. It’s because this body is Chairman Park’s right-hand man, nya!”

“Really?! That’s amazing!” Veronica’s mind raced. ‘If I become Sejun’s most loyal follower,’ she thought excitedly, ‘maybe I could get dragon claws too!’

“All done!” Sejun finished the Mudfish Porridge and Locust Porridge.

“Kkuenga, please move this over there.”

Kkueng! [Understood!]

Kkuengi held the crab shell pot with his front paws and moved it to where the party participants were gathered.

“You guys, move this.” Sejun had the Mushroom Ants move the fruits.

Sejun brought personally harvested persimmons, and other animals brought melons, bananas, and peaches.

Using the skill, he made cherry tomatoes and grapes gigantic.

While the Mushroom Ants were moving the fruits, Sejun gigantified about 1000 magical cherry tomatoes.

“Now I need to grow the grapes.” He took out a few bunches of the vibrant, fragrant grapes brimming with life to use Crop Gigantification on them.

Fenrir, who had been watching Sejun, suddenly spotted the dark purple grapes. “Grapes!” he barked excitedly, running towards them.

“Blackie, no!” Sejun quickly raised the hand holding the grapes and stopped Fenrir. He had definitely seen on Tube that grapes were one of the foods that should not be given to dogs.

Of course, Fenrir did not understand Sejun’s words.

Kking! Kking! ‘Hey! I sat down! Give me the black fruit!’

He sat obediently in front of Sejun and looked at the grapes. ‘Now, are you going to give them to me?’

‘I have no choice.’ It would be troublesome if he did this every time he took out the grapes, as he needed to keep taking them out.

Sejun pretended to pluck a grape from the vibrant, fragrant bunch and took out a black royal jelly.

“Here you go.” He gave the black royal jelly to Fenrir.

Kking! ‘Black fruit, mine!’

Fenrir was blindly obsessed with the black fruit, not even noticing that it had been replaced with black royal jelly.

Nom.

Fenrir put the black royal jelly in his mouth.

“It’s… bitter…” Fenrir mumbled, trying to fight the taste, but then he suddenly fainted.

‘Sorry, Blackie,’ Sejun thought, a small smile playing on his lips. ‘But it’s for your own good.’ He knew the black royal jelly was very healthy for Fenrir, even if it tasted terrible.

He picked up Fenrir, laid him down in the bedroom, and started working again.

“Excuse me… Sejun, could I try just one?” Veronica, captivated by the fragrant grape scent she was smelling for the first time, looked at Sejun with pleading eyes.

“These grapes?”

“Yes.”

“Sure. Eat them.” Sejun readily handed Veronica five bunches of the vibrant, fragrant grapes brimming with life.

“Thank you!”

Nom.

Veronica thanked Sejun and ate the grapes.

“Oh my!” Veronica exclaimed after eating the vibrant, fragrant grapes brimming with life.

Veronica had only ever eaten poisonous, tasteless food in the Violet Tower.

Veronica’s eyes widened in amazement. ‘Food like this exists?’ she thought, savoring the sweet taste. ‘The Black Tower is truly amazing!’

One more reason not to want to return to the Violet Tower had been added.

Veronica took another bite of the grape, a determined look in her eyes. She was never going back to the Violet Tower.