Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 303

Purple Dragons were mighty, masters of poison. But their power was a curse. With every breath, every roar, every flick of their powerful tails, a sickly sweet, purple mist of poison drifted from their scales. This poison tainted everything it touched. Plants withered and died. Stone crumbled to dust. Even other dragons, their own kin, kept far away, avoiding the Purple Dragons and their deadly aura.

Weaker creatures could not survive near Purple Dragons. The poison made everything, living or not, die or break apart.

Because of their poison, Purple Dragons lived in empty, ruined places. They became sad because they had no one to love or care for. Slowly, they got used to not caring. They even forgot how to care about others.

The poison inside Purple Dragons became stronger. It turned into a very strong poison in their bodies. This strong poison became like a seed, growing in their hearts. We call it heart-poison.

This heart-poison was sneaky. The Purple Dragons didn’t even know they had it. The heart-poison made them selfish and strange. They only thought about themselves.

Purple Dragons became jealous of other dragons. They didn’t like seeing other dragons happy. So, they started fighting with other dragons. Fighting made the heart-poison worse, and they became even more jealous and angry. It was a bad circle that kept getting worse.

As the Detox Daepa’s detoxification ability vanished,

[The Detox Daepa has slightly detoxified the heart-poison.]

The message appeared.

Whirr!

Something in the heart reacted violently.

“Heart-poison?!”

Tia, only now, discovered the heart-poison crouching in her heart.

Tia was shocked by the venomous energy she felt in her heart.

She was a Purple Dragon who controlled poison, and their leader.

“That I was poisoned by poison…”

The heart-poison had already significantly encroached upon Tia’s heart, and it wouldn’t be strange if she went berserk at any moment.

“If I had continued like this…”

I would have become a Mad Dragon. The thought of herself, the great Purple Dragon, becoming a Mad Dragon was horrifying.

“I have to eat more of this!”

Tia hurriedly moved the Purple Dragon statue, picked up the plate of grilled daepa, and poured it into her mouth.

[You have achieved the feat of detoxifying heart-poison with Detox Daepa.]

[As a reward for achieving the feat, you can harvest a Detox Daepa one level higher for a week.]

“Heart-poison?”

When Sejun was puzzled by the message that suddenly appeared in front of him,

Crash!

The Purple Dragon statue poured the plate of grilled daepa into its mouth.

“It’s Tia.”

Thanks to that, Sejun quickly knew who was afflicted with heart-poison.

Kooeng…

[Kooengie wants to eat too…]

Kooengie could only stomp his feet, helpless because the opponent was a dragon.

There was nothing he could do but watch the disappearing grilled daepa with pitiful eyes.

Ah. There was one thing he could do.

Kooeng!

[Daddy, Kooengie’s grilled daepa is gone!]

Telling Sejun.

Pat. Pat.

“Kooengie understands. Tia needs to eat a lot of daepa because she’s sick.”

Sejun patted Kooengie’s head, coaxing him.

Kooeng?

[Do dragon-nims get sick too?]

“Yes. So, let’s Kooengie understand.”

Kooeng! Kooeng!

[Kooengie understands! Then Kooengie will give the dragon-nim more daepa to get well soon!]

“That’s right. Our Kooengie is so good.”

Sejun praised Kooengie. My baby is doing so well!

Koohehehe.

Kooengie, thrilled by Sejun’s praise, hugged a bunch of fresh daepa from the subspace warehouse,

Plop.

Kooeng!

[Tia-nim, eat lots of daepa and get well soon!]

He cheered for Tia, generously piling daepa on the plate.

-…!

Tia’s heart fluttered at Kooengie’s pure heart, sincerely cheering for her recovery.

“…Thank you…”

Tia conveyed her gratitude in a soft, inaudible voice.

It felt awkward and ticklish to say unfamiliar words.

However, Tia was misunderstanding something.

“President Park, 105 roots, meow!”

Theo, who accurately checked how many daepa Tia had eaten, told Sejun.

“Hehehe. Vice President Theo, well done.”

“Fufu. I know, meow!”

Kooengie’s heart in delivering the daepa was pure, but the background was not.

“Hehehe. Tia-nim, this is all on credit.”

Thus, Sejun increased sales with credit that Tia herself didn’t know about, thanks to Kooengie.

“Let’s eat now. It’s all ready.”

Sejun ladled kimchi egg porridge into bowls and had lunch with the animals.

“Tia-nim, I hate you.”

Veronica, not knowing why, glared at Tia, who had eaten all the grilled daepa, with resentful eyes,

Slurp.

“…!!”

But after eating the kimchi egg porridge, she quickly fell in love with it.

“Hoo. This is it.”

Tia, who had been diligently detoxifying her heart-poison by eating Detox Daepa, said with a regretful voice.

Although she could reduce the size of the heart-poison with daepa, she couldn’t completely eradicate it.

Still, if she kept eating, she could prevent the heart-poison from growing.

Thus, Tia somewhat escaped the crisis of heart-poison.

“I hope the other Purple Dragons aren’t like this too?”

Tia, with a worried thought, went to find her son, Poi, who was nearby.

“Why did you come?!”

Poi asked with a voice full of annoyance when he saw Tia.

“I knew it…”

As soon as Tia saw Poi, she felt the vicious energy of heart-poison wriggling in Poi’s heart.

“Poi, let’s eat first and talk!”

“No. What…”

Plop!

Tia forcibly stuffed Detox Daepa into Poi’s mouth without explanation.

Gulp! Gulp! Gulp?!

Crunch. Crunch.

Poi, who initially resisted, began to quietly chew the Detox Daepa, feeling a refreshing sensation in his chest.

A moment later,

“Summon all the Purple Dragons!”

“Yes! Father!”

Poi, after hearing the explanation from Tia, answered in an obedient voice and began to summon the Purple Dragons.

“I need to grill more of this daepa!”

She moved the Purple Dragon statue to find Veronica. Veronica was needed to trade with Sejun.

Slurp.

When Sejun was drinking coffee after eating lunch,

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Sejun-nim, congratulations on your 1st anniversary of survival. This is my gift!”

Iona handed Sejun a glass bottle containing a blue liquid.

“Yes. Thank you.”

Sejun expressed his gratitude to Iona and examined the glass bottle.

[Essence of High-Grade Mana]

An essence where pure mana has condensed and materialized.

Mana +100 upon consumption.

Mana-related talents are greatly enhanced upon consumption.

Expiration date: None

Grade: S

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Please drink it quickly!”

“Yes.”

Gulp.

At Iona’s urging, Sejun immediately drank the Essence of High-Grade Mana. The essence had no taste.

Whoosh!

Instead, a cool and refreshing feeling was felt down his throat.

[You have consumed the Essence of High-Grade Mana.]

[Mana +100.]

[Talent: Overflowing Mana Circuit is greatly enhanced.]

[Talent: Overflowing Mana Circuit evolves into Accumulating Mana Circuit.]

The message appeared. Mana-related talents were enhanced and evolved.

“Accumulating Mana Circuit? Gasp! Huh?!”

Sejun was suddenly flustered by the feeling of mana entering his body with his breath.

And hurriedly checked the talent Accumulating Mana Circuit.

[Talent: Accumulating Mana Circuit]

A talent that allows the mana circuit to accumulate mana by drawing in surrounding mana through breathing.

-Mana +0.1 permanently every 24 hours

-Mana stat +50

-Mana recovery speed +300%

-Mana potential +1000

“Huh?! Mana rises just by breathing?!”

When Sejun was amazed by the talent’s description,

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Sejun-nim, congratulations! You’ve finally taken your first steps in mana!”

“This is the first step?”

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Yes!”

Iona answered as if it were obvious. So, you’ve been crawling until now?

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. Later, when Sejun-nim’s talent grows and you can access the mana stream, mana will increase even faster!”

Iona, who was more excited than Sejun that he had taken his first steps in mana, chattered in an excited voice.

“Mana stream?”

“Kkyut kkyut kkyut. It refers to the nine great streams of mana flowing through the world! For reference, I am connected to 3 streams of mana.”

“Oh. There’s such a thing.”

Sejun gained new information while listening to Iona’s words.

‘Oho! So, if I connect to 3 mana streams, will I become as strong as Iona?’

Sejun was daydreaming. Of course, that was impossible.

You don’t get stronger just by having a lot of mana.

Thus, Sejun gained new knowledge while talking with Iona.

“I have to work now.”

Sejun moved to the daepa field.

He was going to take a good rest today, but suddenly, a reason to work had arisen.

Because of the reward of being able to harvest a Detox Daepa one level higher for a week.

“Hehehe. I can’t miss out on S-grade daepa.”

Sejun smiled and moved.

“Move the earth.”

Plop.

He used Miler’s hoe to harvest a large quantity after a long time.

Rumble!

The earth rose, and the Detox Daepa planted in the ground was pulled out.

[You have harvested 3000 Detox Daepa.]

[Job experience greatly increases.]

[Proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 8 greatly increases.]

[You have acquired 300,000 experience.]

[Experience is not accumulating because the job quest has not been completed.]

It was a shame that experience wasn’t accumulating because of the job quest, but he didn’t feel too bad thanks to the S-grade daepa.

Thus, Sejun harvested about 100,000 S-grade Detox Daepa without rest.

Squawk!

Squawk!

While the mushroom ants were diligently moving the Detox Daepa that Sejun had finished harvesting to the subspace warehouse,

Flap. Flap.

-Wait! Veronica will buy all of that!

Tia shouted urgently as she flew over,

“Yes! I’ll buy it all!”

Veronica shouted as she followed behind.

“Are you really going to buy all of this? This is expensive, you know.”

Sejun began to build up the price to receive a high price.

“…?!”

Veronica was too soft, unlike her appearance, to the point where a build-up wasn’t needed.

-So, how much is it?!

Tia also.

‘Fufu. President Park, both of them are suckers, meow!’

‘Hehehe. Vice President Theo, let’s cook them well!’

‘I understand, meow!’

Sejun and Theo exchanged glances with sly smiles.

“Fufu. Veronica, this Detox Daepa is 15,000 Top Coins per piece, meow!”

Theo called out 100 times the price when selling Detox Daepa to the hunters.

“Hehehe. Then, since there are 100,000 S-grade Detox Daepa here, that’s 1.5 billion Top Coins.”

Sejun smiled and kindly calculated how much it would cost to buy all the Detox Daepa.

“1.5 billion Top Coins? Um… Tia-nim, what should we do?”

Veronica looked at Tia at Sejun’s words.

-Of course, we have to buy it! Buy it quickly!

Tia made Veronica buy all the S-grade Detox Daepa without hesitation.

-Also, reserve 2 million more Detox Daepa that you will harvest in the future.

Moreover, Tia gave all the money she had to Veronica to buy black beans and reserved Detox Daepa.

Right now, detoxifying the Purple Dragons’ heart-poison was more urgent than black beans.

Thus, after finishing the daepa transaction,

“Hehehe. I made money!”

“Fufu. It’s all thanks to me, meow!”

The two were happy about selling the Detox Daepa at a high price.

“Yes. So, go down and buy something to eat.”

“Meow?!”

“We need to enjoy the party a bit more.”

Sejun, who had become too lazy to cook, sent Theo down.

Day 366 since entering the tower. The party is not over yet.