Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 366

Theo remembered Sejun’s words about catching criminals. “They always come back to the place of the crime!” Sejun had said. “So, the culprit came to the scene, meow!”

Black Tower, 20th floor.

“Hey, newbie. Do you know why I, a *low-rank skeleton* – that’s what Jingol means – want to get rid of this skeleton ranking system?”

Koto, the boss of the Crying Skull Brigade and owner of the ‘Crude Skull Castle’ on the 20th floor, looked down at Farmer King.

*Thump.*

Koto put his hand on his sword. Just a little, but Farmer King saw it.

“No… I don’t know,” Farmer King said, shrinking back. *How would I know that?* he thought, scared.

He really didn’t care. He was a priest of Rhea, the Goddess of Plenty. He had to do her work. He didn’t have time for skeleton fights.

*Please just let me leave,* Farmer King thought, but didn’t say it. If he did, Koto might cut him with that sword.

“Exactly! You’re new here. You wouldn’t know,” Koto said.

*Then why did you ask?* Farmer King thought, but kept quiet.

“Newbie, listen up!” Koto’s voice changed, like he was remembering something.

“It was a long time ago, exactly 77 days ago…”

The opening ceremony of the Magic Tower was held at the Black Box on the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

Because the Great Destruction Magician Iona had invited them, most of the well-known monsters in the Black Tower participated.

They couldn’t refuse, or who knew what they would suffer later.

Koto wasn’t directly invited, but he attended the opening ceremony to serve the high-rank skeleton Ker, the ruler of the 93rd floor of the tower, and his son, Ber.

“I met that person there…”

Koto was ordered by the skeletons of higher rank than himself to go to some Jabgol and offer his bones.

“But in the fight, the Jabgol instead took my right arm bone, and I was beaten terribly with my own arm bone.”

Later, other skeletons of higher rank tried to help. But the bear with the Jabgol was too strong. It beat them into dust. They are still getting better now.

“At first, I was angry at being beaten by the Jabgol… but seeing other skeletons being turned to dust made me really excited.”

Koto said he realized it then.

“Ah. What does it matter if they are Jabgol? If they are strong, that’s all that matters… this outdated skeleton ranking system is unnecessary.”

So Koto returned to the 20th floor of the tower, created the Crying Skull Brigade, and was gathering comrades who shared his ideals.

“That Jabgol back then was that person. That person punished the skeletons and disappeared without a trace. And this right arm is the glorious arm that person wielded back then. Would you like to touch it?”

Koto proudly held out his right arm.

He wanted to say no, but if he did, he would definitely draw his sword, so Farmer King only pretended to touch Koto’s right arm.

“How is it?” Koto asked, sounding hopeful.

“Yes? What about it?”

“Doesn’t the excitement to fight against the skeleton ranking system arise?”

“Yes…”

The answer that wouldn’t invite a sword was predetermined.

That’s how Farmer King came to hear the story of how the Crying Skull Brigade was founded.

“We will soon attack the Skull Castle of Seonggol Dor on the 76th floor of the tower to get rid of the skeleton ranking system.”

Koto spoke of his plans for the future.

At that moment

“Koto-nim, those climbing the floor are coming!”

A subordinate of the Crying Pirates, who was on the lookout, reported the approach of a hunter.

“Good! Let’s show the skills of our Crying Pirates!”

“Yes!”

Koto and the remaining four subordinates collapsed. They were pretending to be dead.

Farmer King also hurriedly followed them and pretended to be dead.

He resented the Jabgol who brought the bear, who hit Koto and made him think of the strange idea of ‘overthrowing the skeleton ranking system’.

Black Tower, 99th floor.

[You have harvested 20 Sweet Potatoes of Strength.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 8 slightly increases.]

[You have gained 1400 experience.]

Sejun finished harvesting walnuts and was now harvesting sweet potatoes.

And next to him, Black Rabbit, Kkuenge, sat plop on the floor, wrapping the sweet potatoes Sejun harvested in pai-ipai leaves and putting them in the bonfire.

The dried roasted sweet potatoes he had made in the meantime had run out, so he was making them again.

Fenrir also pulled hard on the sweet potato vines stuck in the ground to help make dried roasted sweet potatoes.

However

Before the sweet potato came out, the vine broke first, and Fenrir couldn’t overcome his own strength and rolled around for a while.

Fenrir, who doesn’t know how to give up, rolled around on the ground a few times like that.

Thinking that this wouldn’t work, he started digging in the ground to dig out the sweet potatoes. Thanks to that, his whole body was completely covered in dirt. Bath reservation was made.

When everyone was doing their job like that

[Daddy, Kkuenge is hungry!]

Kkuenge’s tummy clock rang, announcing lunchtime.

When Sejun was about to say let’s eat roasted sweet potatoes

[10 plump Watermelons Calling for Great Drought are stored in the Blue Tower’s temporary storage.]

[The Blue Tower’s temporary storage is full.]

A message appeared. It seemed that Zelka had harvested the Watermelons Calling for Great Drought.

Each watermelon weighed a considerable amount, so 10 watermelons filled the storage capacity.

Watermelon, huh…

“Transport.”

Sejun was quite curious about the taste, so he immediately transported them. The Blue Tower was as far as the Green Tower, so it cost 8 million tower coins for transportation.

A moment later

A bright pillar of light fell in front of Sejun, and 10 giant watermelons appeared.

“Wow. They’re really big.”

Sejun was taken aback by the 3m-sized watermelons.

But only for a moment.

Sejun brought out the Greatsword of Amplification and cut one watermelon in half with a single stroke.

The length of the greatsword was 2m, but the 2m sword wind replaced the insufficient length of the sword and cut the watermelon. It was the effect of Intermediate Swordsmanship Lv. 5.

He then cut the watermelon halves into bite-sized pieces. The size of the watermelon was so large that he had to cut it into hundreds of pieces.

The option said that all stats would increase by 20 upon consumption, but it was not an amount he could eat alone.

He decided to make watermelon punch later and use the cooking skill that receives effects as much as he eats, and today he enjoyed the original taste of watermelon.

“Kkuenge, let’s eat this.”

Sejun gave Kkuenge, who can eat a lot, half a watermelon that was not trimmed.

[Hehehe. Good!]

Kkuenge was excited by Sejun’s words and burrowed into the watermelon, eating it.

“Let’s eat too.”

Sejun ate the watermelon cut into bite-sized pieces with Black Rabbit and Fenrir.

[Uncle, it’s so sweet and cool!]

“Eileen, try it too! She should try this.”

Sejun sent a whole watermelon to Eileen and ate the watermelon deliciously with his party.

After filling his stomach with watermelon like that

“Please try this.”

He gifted Kaiser, Lamter, and Tia one Watermelon Calling for Great Drought each. It was meant to ask them to use it in the future.

-Oh! Is it only given to VIPs?

-VIP is good after all.

-Dehahaha. Poor Kellion.

He couldn’t find where Kellion was hiding, so he only gave it to the three of them, but he didn’t bother to say it.

‘I should send it through Ajax later.’

After giving the watermelons to the dragons like that

“Come on. Let’s take a bath!”

Sejun took his party to the bathhouse.

Black Rabbit, Kkuenge, and even Fenrir all had watermelon juice on their fur from eating watermelon, and their sticky fur was clumped together in places, making them look like beggars.

Thanks to that, he was able to see Fenrir’s dog paddle, which splashed water everywhere.

Tower 35th floor.

“Theo-nim, it’s here.”

Yuren brought Theo to a tree growing on a sharp cliff.

“Yuren, where is the scammer, meow?” Theo looked around and asked.

“Ah… I don’t know where the scammer is, so I came here. This tree is the tree I was scammed with,” Yuren pointed to the tree and said.

“But the fruit tastes pretty good. Woohehe.”

Yuren, who was scammed out of 300 billion tower coins because of the tree, was still praising the tree’s fruit while laughing.

Perhaps one of the essential conditions for becoming a pushover was an ultra-positive mindset.

Theo remembered what Sejun had said about detectives…

“Puhuhut. Just like Sherlock Sejun said, the culprit came to the scene, meow! So search the surroundings, meow!” Theo shouted.

Theo made round glasses with his front paws and searched the tree.

Bbyot and Yuren also followed Theo, who was taking the initiative, and made glasses with their wings and front paws to search the tree.

But there was something Yuren didn’t say. It had been about 10 years since Yuren was scammed.

Even if the culprit came, he would have already come and gone a long time ago.

So there was nothing to come out of searching the tree.

“Puhuhut. Found it, meow! Chairman Park will like this, meow!” Theo said, diligently packing the jujubes that grew on the jujube tree into a bundle.

When Theo picked the jujubes, Bbyot and Yuren also stopped searching and followed Theo to pick jujubes.

When everyone was buried in the tree together and excitedly picking jujubes

“Here! This is the tree that bears gold!” A cunning voice was heard from under the tree.

‘A tree that bears gold, this is a jujube tree, meow!’

When Theo looked down in the direction of the sound, he saw a gray skunk.

‘Theo-nim, that’s the guy who sold me this tree!’ Yuren signaled to Theo with his feet when he saw the skunk.

10 years. It was an appropriate time for the scammer who scammed Yuren and disappeared to show up.

‘Puhuhut. Just like Sherlock Sejun said, the culprit came to the scene, meow!’ Theo once again confirmed that Sejun’s words were the truth.

At that moment

“But where is the gold?” A familiar voice was also heard. It was the master merchant, Golden Sheep Mimir.

“That’s because it’s not time for the gold to bear yet. You have to wait a year.”

“Is that so? Then let’s talk again when the gold bears.”

“Wait a minute…” The scammer called out, but Mimir went down the cliff without regret with her tiptoeing footsteps.

“I guess she’s not easily fooled. That pig back then gave me money right away…” It seemed that the scammer also knew that pushovers who are easily fooled like Yuren are rare.

When the scammer was acknowledging Yuren’s value

Yuren, who was hiding in the jujube tree, jumped to the ground.

“I found you! Siron! You scammer!” He shouted at the gray skunk Siron.

“Oh?! Yuren-nim, nice to meet you!” Siron, as a skilled scammer, was briefly flustered, but soon hugged Yuren as if he was really happy to see him.

“What?! Happy?! How can you say you’re happy after scamming me like that?!” Yuren pushed Siron away and shouted

“Ah… I’m sorry. I was looking for Yuren-nim because I accidentally sold the wrong tree back then,” Siron said in a apologetic tone.

“Really?”

“Yes. Instead, I’ll give you this tree that bears gold. As you heard a little while ago, gold will bear in just one year.”

It was already a tree that Yuren had paid for, but Siron was talking as if he was giving it to him.

“But… I didn’t tell Mimir-nim earlier, but there’s a way to make gold bear right away tomorrow.”

“Oh. Really? What is it?!”

“It’s to bury 1 ton of gold in the ground.”

He started a new scam.

‘Puhuhut. Well done, meow!’ Theo cheered for Siron, who was raising the commission, from above the jujube tree.

Next to him, Bbyot also took out a slave contract.