Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 338

Black Tower Administrator Zone.

Eileen happily munched on a hotcake while scanning the Black Tower with her Doom Detector, a small device that helped her find dangerous magic. “Khee hee hee. Sejun’s hotcakes are delicious! Sejun, wait a little, I’ll find everything for you!”

Just then, the dragons who had been seriously conversing in a corner after Brachio left approached her.

Kaiser spoke on behalf of the group. “Granddaughter, don’t you think it’s unfair that Brachio came in her true form?”

Kellion huffed, “Wrong! Completely unfair! What about us stuck in these smaller shapes?!”

Lamter wrung his paws, “It’s just not proper competition! It has to be… balanced!”

Tier nodded eagerly, “Yes! So, as the newly formed, very important, Four Dragon Council, we say Brachio must be… banished! From the contest!”

The four, who usually bickered, united under the name of the Four Dragon Council when a common enemy arose, chanting, “Down with Brachio!”

The dragons huddled in a corner, having a serious discussion. Turns out, they were actually creating a name for themselves – the Four Dragon Council!

The dragons were trying to eliminate Brachio from the competition under the guise of fairness.

But Eileen wouldn’t change her mind. “Grandma Brachio is Sejun’s customer too!” she declared firmly.

Kaiser smiled, watching Eileen speak her mind without being intimidated, even though the leaders of the four dragon races, including himself, were present. “That’s my granddaughter. She’s stubborn like me.”

Kellion huffed, “Is this really the time for you to be smiling, Kaiser? Should we come in our true forms too?”

Kaiser replied, “That would attract too much attention…”

Lamter added, “That’s right. It’s too dangerous.”

Having four dragon leaders gathered could attract the attention of other dragon races, and potentially even the gaze of destruction.

Tier suggested, “Why don’t we talk to our Sejun instead?”

Kaiser agreed, “Yes! If our Sejun talks to Eileen, it’ll work.”

Lamter added, “Right! Now that I think about it, it’s time for us to buy some Samyang brew from our Sejun.”

Tier said, “I need to go to our Sejun and get some detox green onions!”

The four dragons rushed off to find Sejun.

Meanwhile, far from the dragon drama, Sejun was peacefully working in his garden.

After making hotcakes for Eileen, Sejun, with Theo dangling from his leg, harvested Carrots of Hardness, vegetables known for being incredibly tough and good for teeth. “Hum hum hum.”

Theo purred, “Meow meow meow.”

Sejun harvested a Carrot of Hardness.

Ajak watched Sejun and Theo, a pang of loneliness hitting him as he saw their easy friendship. He longed to be part of that warmth. “I want to get closer to Sejun hyung too…”

Just then, Ajak saw Fenrir running away with one of the Carrots of Hardness that Sejun had harvested. ‘Hee hee! My teeth were itchy, and this is nice and hard!’

Ajak found a way to get closer to Sejun. “Ah! Sejun hyung would be happy if I played with Blackie, right? Then I can get closer to him!”

Ajak picked up a twig to play with Fenrir. “Blackie, fetch!” He said to Fenrir and threw it.

However, Fenrir was busy grinding his teeth on the Carrot of Hardness.

Ajak pointed at the twig and said again. “Blackie, I said fetch that!”

Fenrir sneered at Ajak once and went back to chewing on the Carrot of Hardness. ‘Hmph! You want me, a dragon, to play with you? No way!’

Ajak whimpered. “Eek! Blackie, I said fetch! Huhu… I want to be close to Sejun hyung…”

Fenrir, misunderstanding that Ajak was crying because he wanted to play with him so much, ran and fetched the twig. ‘You want to play with me that badly? I suppose I have no choice. I’ll play with you then!’

Ajak said, “Hehe. You’re having fun because I’m playing with you, right? Here! Fenrir, fetch!”

Fenrir thought, ‘The little dragon is thrilled that I’m playing with him.’

And so, Ajak and Fenrir played happily, each thinking they were playing with the other. ‘Playing with Blackie isn’t so bad.’ ‘Playing with the dragon isn’t so bad either.’

Unintentionally, the two became friends.

Meanwhile, Sejun felt pleased as he looked at the Carrots of Hardness he had harvested. “Hehehe. You’ve harvested a lot.”

His mental strength increased.

“Now I need to harvest potatoes.”

When Sejun went to the potato field, his next destination, and was harvesting potatoes, Kaiser and the other dragons came to find Sejun. “What were you doing, our Sejun?”

Kaiser began to speak on behalf of the group in response to Sejun’s question. “Ahem. We…”

Sejun refused. “So, you’re saying we should ban the Green Dragon, Brachio, from entering the Black Tower? I don’t want to. I’m happy if even one more person buys my crops.”

The dragons suggested an alternative, trying to persuade Sejun. Of course, they were planning to take a commission in the middle. “Ahem. We’ll sell them to the other dragons.”

Tier added, “Yes. We’ll sell them to the other dragons!”

Sejun refused. He knew all too well what the dragons would do with his crops. “I can’t allow that.”

Theo stepped forward, agreeing with Sejun’s words. “Puhu! That’s right, meow! Only I, Vice Chairman Theo, Park’s right-hand man, can sell Chairman Park’s goods on his behalf, meow!”

Theo declared that he would open an auction house to sell Sejun’s crops to the nine dragon races. “That’s right, meow! An auction, meow!”

Sejun imagined the scene. Theo selling his crops in front of the nine dragon races. Just thinking about it made his heart swell. “Oh!”

The dragons hurried back to the fountain to figure out how to get more Top Coins, the special money used in this world. “An auction… Then it will cost a lot of money? We need to work the kids harder. Do we have anything to sell?”

Meanwhile, the name of the auction house was decided.

The terrible name, Dragon Dragon Market, was naturally created by Sejun, who had terrible naming sense.

Theo lay on his back, exposing his belly to Sejun’s praise. “Hehehe. Vice Chairman Theo, well done. Stroke here, meow! I know, meow!”

Sejun asked Theo about his future plans for the Dragon Dragon Market while stroking Theo’s belly. “But Theo, what are you going to do now?”

Theo looked at Sejun with eyes that asked why he was asking him that. Theo had no plan. “Meow? Of course, I, Vice Chairman Theo, don’t know, meow! But everything will be fine, meow!”

Sejun reflected on himself for expecting too much from Theo and began to think about how to run the Dragon Dragon Market. He had a feeling this Dragon Dragon Market was going to be a lot more work than he expected, but also, maybe, a lot of fun.

Sejun tapped his chin, thinking hard. “Okay… where should we put the marketplace?” Setting up this marketplace was turning out to be much harder than he thought. Where should it be? What should they sell? His mind was spinning.

Right when Sejun was wondering about this, Ajax flew over, carrying a sleeping Ggamyang in his claws. “Hyung! You’re opening a marketplace? I’ll help!” Ajax landed gently, Ggamyang still fast asleep.

“If Ajax helps, I’d be glad,” Sejun said, smiling.

“Of course, Hyung! I’m really good at setting up marketplaces! You’ll see!” Ajax puffed out his chest.

Just then, they heard fast footsteps. Tap tap tap! Then a loud shout: “Kkueng!”

[Kkuengi will help too! I’m strong!]

Kkuengi, running back from the herb field, joined them, his eyes shining with excitement.

With Kkuengi and Ajax now part of the Yongyong Market team, a message suddenly appeared:

[The Tower’s Administrator says they have found the Power of Destruction.]

Aileen had found the Power of Destruction.

[The Tower’s Administrator says the Power of Destruction is felt on the 49th floor of the Tower.]

“Tower 49th floor? Let’s go right away,” Sejun said, forgetting about the marketplace for a moment.

Sejun’s head was already hurting from thinking about the Yongyong Market. He decided to go down the Tower to clear his mind.

A short while later, he arrived at the 49th floor.

[You have arrived at the 49th floor of the Black Tower.]

[You have moved from the highest floor, the 99th floor of the Tower, to the 49th floor.]

[You have descended 50 floors.]

[Due to the effect of >Title: Retrogresser>, all stats increase by 50.]

Sejun arrived on the 49th floor. The air was warm and smelled sweet. Rows and rows of green scallions stretched out, and in the distance, he could see trees heavy with orange persimmons.

“Hello, Sejun. Welcome back. It’s good to see you again on the 49th floor.”

Duku, the Horned Mole and boss of this floor, greeted Sejun.

“Yeah,” Sejun replied.

Sejun greeted Duku and took out a purified fragment of Fenrir’s core.

But nothing happened.

“What’s wrong? Is it because I’m too far away? Ttorungi!” Sejun called Ttorungi, holding the core fragment, and began to wander around the 49th floor.

“Wow, they’re growing well,” Sejun said, looking at the tall, green scallions with wide leaves, like a sea of green waves.

The ones he had planted before had grown this much. Moles were working hard, picking scallions in the fields.

A little later, as he walked through the scallion field, Sejun saw persimmon trees covered in bright orange persimmons, so ripe they looked like they might burst with sweetness.

“Wow! Let’s pick persimmons!”

[You have harvested a sweet persimmon.]

[Your job experience slightly increases.]

[Proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 8 slightly increases.]

[You have gained 1 experience.]

Sejun, of course, went to the farm and started harvesting persimmons. How could he pass by such ripe persimmons?

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. Delicious!]

“Ehehehe! Sweet!”

As Sejun and his party were happily picking and eating persimmons…

Kkihihi. Kking!

‘Hehe. Found my core!’

Thump. Thump.

While Sejun was busy harvesting persimmons, Fenrir woke up in his pocket, grabbed his core in his mouth, and ran away.

Sejun had put the core fragment with Fenrir.

Then…

Nom.

Fenrir ran to a quiet spot and tried to swallow his core.

However…

[You cannot consume it because you do not meet the usage requirements.]

Kking?!

‘This is my core, so why can’t I swallow it?!’ Fenrir cried out in shock. ‘This is MY core! Why won’t it work?’ He felt confused and angry.

Because the aura of destruction had been removed, Fenrir’s core fragment didn’t recognize its owner.

Kking!

‘Hey! It’s me! Your owner!’

As Fenrir was trying to swallow the core…

Ting.

Kking?

The core slipped from his mouth and bounced.

Roll roll roll.

It fell on the sloping ground and began to roll down the slope.

Kking!

‘No!’

Thump. Thump. Fenrir’s little legs pumped as fast as they could. He *had* to get his core back!

“Delicious. Huh?! Where did our Ggamyang go?” Sejun, who was eating a sweet persimmon, belatedly realized that Fenrir, who should have been sleeping in his pocket, had disappeared.

And Fenrir’s core fragment was gone too.

‘Did Ggamyangi take it?’

“Kkueng, find Ggamyangi for me.”

Kkueng!

[Understood!]

Sniff sniff.

At Sejun’s request, Kkuengi sniffed with his nose and tracked Fenrir’s scent.

As Sejun was looking for Fenrir…

Kking!

‘Stop there!’

Fenrir was diligently chasing the core fragment.

At that moment…

Rumble.

-This is Fenrir’s energy?!

Violet, the 11th Apostle of Destruction, the Crystal Giant of Destruction, who had been hiding in the ground, reacted to the power of Fenrir’s core fragment and rose up. She was made of sharp, purple crystals that glittered in the light.

Kking! Kking! Kking!

‘Violet, nice to see you! It’s me! The noble wolf Fenrir!’

Fenrir barked happily at Violet.

However…

-What is this?

Violet did not recognize Fenrir.

Then…

-Hehe. But is that Fenrir’s core?

She lost interest in Fenrir and looked at the core fragment containing Fenrir’s power with greedy eyes. “-If I eat this, I will become even stronger!-”

As Violet was about to grab Fenrir’s core fragment to absorb it…

Kking!

‘It’s mine!’

Fenrir quickly grabbed the core fragment and started running.

However…

Thump! Thump!

No matter how hard he ran with his short legs, he couldn’t even reach Violet’s toes.

-You little rascal! Give it to me!

Violet stretched out his fist towards Fenrir. There was no reason to control his strength since the core couldn’t be broken.

At that moment…

“Stop!” Along with Sejun’s shout…

“Nyan Nyan Nyan! Nyan Nyan Nyan!”

Kkueng!

[Kkuengi’s new skill, Kkueng Crusher Fist!]

“Giga Thunder.”

Theo, Kkuengi, and Ajax’s attacks poured down on Violet.

Clang.

Violet dropped a purple coin and disappeared.

Then…

“Ggamyangi, what are you doing wandering around alone? And something terrible will happen if you eat that.”

Kking…

‘My core…’

Fenrir eventually had the core fragment taken away by Sejun again. It was ironic, because he kept causing problems for his own friends, not the bad guys.