Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 37

Theo and Zeras arrived at the shop area on the 75th floor of the tower.

“Where are you headed now, Theo?”

“I’m going to apply for a promotion to a mid-tier merchant, nyaa.”

“You’re already becoming a mid-tier wandering merchant? I’m envious.”

Zeras was surprised. To become a mid-tier wandering merchant, you need 1000 Tower Coins in sales. For Theo, reaching this amount so quickly seemed almost impossible without help.

“So… what kind of goods do you sell, Theo?”

Zeras asked carefully. Some wandering merchants kept their goods a secret.

“I sell cherry tomatoes, nyaa.”

“Huh? Cherry tomatoes?”

It didn’t seem like a lie.

“That’s right, nyaa. I’ll show you sometime if I get the chance, nyaa.”

While they were talking, Theo arrived at the Wandering Merchant Association branch and asked to be promoted to a mid-tier wandering merchant.

“Theo, you are now a mid-tier wandering merchant.”

The promotion was processed right away, as there were no special requirements other than the sales amount.

“Here is your mid-tier wandering merchant certificate.”

An employee gave Theo a square certificate made of blue metal. With that, Theo was promoted.

“Puhuhu. Now I am a mid-tier wandering merchant, nyaa!”

Theo’s steps became lighter now that he no longer had to bow down to Sejun because of the cultivator issue.

“Congratulations, Theo.”

“Thank you, nyaa.”

Zeras congratulated Theo as he came out of the Wandering Merchant Association branch.

“What’s your next stop?”

“I need to go to the general store, nyaa.”

Theo bought two cast iron pots, a saw, and thread and needles from the general store.

“Cast iron pots are 1 Tower Coin, the saw is 0.9 Tower Coins, and the thread and needles are 0.5 Tower Coins, for a total of 2.4 Tower Coins.”

Zeras’s eyes gleamed at the price called out by the store owner.

‘If I haggle, I can lower the price to 2 Tower Coins.’

Zeras was thinking of helping Theo and gaining more trust.

Just then,

“Lower the price, nyaa!”

Theo started haggling.

“Hmm… then I’ll give it to you for 2.2 Tower Coins.”

The store owner thought Theo looked like an easy target at first, but at least he wasn’t being completely ripped off.

However,

“Lower it more, nyaa!”

“Sir, we need to make a living too. That’s difficult.”

When Theo used his second haggle,

‘Just saying to lower the price so bluntly won’t get you anywhere…’

Zeras scoffed and shook his head.

Just then,

“Okay, let’s go, Zeras, nyaa.”

Theo replied and started to turn around and leave.

“Oh my! Sir, why are you in such a hurry? I give up. I’ll give it to you for 2 Tower Coins.”

“…?!”

Zeras was greatly surprised by the store owner’s words.

Without any clever arguments, Theo had gotten the price he wanted with just a few words.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

“1.8 Tower Coins. Or I’m just leaving, nyaa.”

When Theo made his final offer,

‘He’s lowering the price even more?!’

Zeras was shocked by Theo’s unbelievable price. That’s impossible!

However,

“Hmph. Fine.”

As if to mock Zeras’s thoughts, the deal was made.

‘How can this be…’

Zeras completely lost confidence in his own haggling skills. He had even been taught by his family! He felt a huge gap between himself and Theo.

Theo just said to lower the price three times, but Zeras felt awe at Theo’s haggling skills.

‘With that level of skill, he could have made a lot of money without doing anything illegal.’

Zeras completely dismissed his suspicions about Theo.

“Theo, I’ll be on my way now. Be careful, as you might run into wolves again.”

“Okay, nyaa! Farewell, nyaa.”

Theo said goodbye to Zeras and went to the blacksmith to get equipment.

However,

“There’s nothing I want to get today, nyaa.”

No equipment caught Theo’s eye.

“I should just go, nyaa.”

Theo moved to the 99th floor.

Zeras parted ways with Theo and returned to the Secret Inspection Bureau.

He wrote a report for the director.

[Reason for the rapid increase in sales of wandering merchant Theo: Wandering merchant Theo is a genius at haggling.]

Zeras had completely misunderstood Theo.

Sejun made sure the Poison Honeybee Queen was asleep in the pit, her belly full of honey, and then went down into the cave to sleep.

The next morning, Sejun woke up early and went to check on the Queen, but she was gone again.

Instead, there was a small beehive on top of the rock where the rope was tied. The Queen was finally settling down and getting ready to lay eggs.

Just then,

Koo-err-oong.

Koo-eng!

The mother Crimson Giant Bear and her cub came together.

Tumble tumble!

The cub rolled down its mother’s furry shoulder like sliding down a slide.

Ha-euljjak. Ha-euljjak.

The mother bear licked her cub a few times as if she was washing it.

Koo-eng! Koo-eng!

It was funny to see the strong cub swaying back and forth on its mother’s tongue.

As Sejun watched them,

Koo-err-oong.

The mother bear, having washed her cub, looked at Sejun and said something before going on patrol. Even without Eileen’s translation, he seemed to understand what she meant.

“I guess I have to catch a lot of crayfish again today.”

It seemed like the mother bear would be back at lunchtime.

“Koo-engie, this is where they make the honey you eat. You can’t eat this.”

Sejun warned the cub not to touch the beehive.

Koo-eng! Koo-eng!

The cub nodded strongly. Okay! I’ll protect it!

Sejun went down to the cave, had breakfast with the rabbits, and started his daily work.

His agility had increased, and he was very good at farming. With the other crops harvested, all that was left were the cherry tomatoes.

Sejun easily finished everything in two hours and went to the pond.

“Black Rabbit, are you ready?”

Ppyak!

Splash!

At Sejun’s question, the Black Rabbit answered and dived into the pond, first dealing with the piranhas.

Ppok! Ppok! Ppok!

Every time the Black Rabbit’s hammer swung, piranhas flew out of the pond.

Sejun quickly skewered the piranhas with a rope, making two strings to give to the cub.

When the Black Rabbit came out of the pond, Sejun began hunting crayfish.

There were about 40 crayfish in the pond. For some reason, once they entered, they didn’t try to leave.

Sejun went into the water and caught the crayfish one by one with his hands. Yesterday, he had stabbed them all to death, but catching them this way didn’t attract other piranhas or crayfish.

“I can’t let the pond water get polluted.”

The pond water had been polluted by the crayfish massacring the piranhas yesterday, and Sejun hadn’t been able to drink or wash his face until this morning. He needed a way to purify the water.

As Sejun was thinking about how to purify the water, he picked up crayfish from the pond.

While Sejun was picking up crayfish,

Ppyak!

The Black Rabbit cut open the crayfish’s belly with Sejun’s dagger and drained the blood.

Just then,

Thwack.

Black light came from the Black Rabbit’s body and hammer as he stabbed the crayfish’s belly. Usually, when leveling up, there was just a bright light, but this time it was a little different.

There was no change in the Black Rabbit’s body, but the hammer became a little bigger, and the end of the handle became pointed like an awl.

It looked different from a normal level up.

Ppyak!

The Black Rabbit proudly held up his hammer and entered the pond.

“Why all of a sudden?”

Ppyak!

The Black Rabbit looked at Sejun and raised his thumb. I’ll take care of it now!

Ppok!

The Black Rabbit strongly hit the crayfish’s head, and the crayfish stopped moving. The crayfish had fainted from the Black Rabbit’s hammering, which had become stronger with the level up.

Ppok! Ppok!

The Black Rabbit dragged the fainted crayfish out of the pond.

And

Thwack.

He stabbed the crayfish’s chest with the pointed end of the hammer handle.

Ppyak?

The Black Rabbit drained the crayfish’s blood and then looked at Sejun arrogantly. Did you see?

“Okay. I’ll leave the crayfish to you now.”

Sejun, whose work had been reduced, focused on grilling the crayfish.

And

Koo-err-oong.

As lunchtime approached, the mother Crimson Giant Bear returned to Sejun’s cave as expected.

Crunch crunch.

As usual, the mother bear put 20 grilled crayfish into her mouth in one bite.

This time, the food for the family had been set aside, so there was no need to go back down to the cave.

After enjoying lunch,

“Ask her if she can dig up some land for me.”

Sejun asked Eileen to translate his request.

He had a good reason to ask for a favor since he had treated her to lunch, so Sejun didn’t hesitate.

He had planned to ask when he treated her to the steamed corn last time, but Eileen was asleep then.

“She says the tower administrator wants to know where you want her to dig,” Eileen translated.

Great!

“Here.”

Sejun pointed to a spot about 500 meters away from the cave. He chose a distant location in case the cave might be damaged.

Thud. Thud.

The mother bear walked quickly to the spot Sejun had pointed to.

And

Koo-oong! Koo-oong!

With just a few swipes of her front paws, the land was overturned, and the black soil came to the surface. It was a task that would have taken an excavator several hours, but she finished it in an instant.

Thanks to the mother bear, Sejun overturned about 1000 square meters of land in an instant.

Koo-err-oong.

The mother bear went back on patrol, and Sejun spent the afternoon planting 3000 corns and 1000 cherry tomatoes with the rabbits on the 1000 square meters of land.

And

Swoooosh.

When the Watering Can Rabbits had watered almost all the seeds,

Drip.

The water stopped coming out of the watering can.

“Huh? What’s wrong? Why isn’t any water coming out?”

Sejun asked, thinking that water came out of the watering can forever.

Ppiik.

Nyamyeon Rabbit shook his head. We used all the water today.

He hadn’t known until now because he had never used it all, but the White Rabbit’s watering can had a limited amount of water that could be used per day. He would have to save water from now on.

Sejun covered the watered field with the remaining green onion leaves as much as possible and went to sleep.

But that night, the grass thief came again.

“Nyaa nyaa nyaa.”

As he got closer to Sejun’s cave, Theo hummed a tune and walked quickly.

Just then,

Crunch crunch.

He heard the sound of something being chewed.

“What’s that, nyaa?”

Looking towards the sound, he saw a Minotaur eating grass.

“Huh? Isn’t that the green onion leaves that Park Sejun grows, nyaa?”

Theo knew the leaves right away. He knew them well because he had cut them himself.

“Where did you get that, nyaa?”

Theo approached the Minotaur and asked.

Moo?

The Minotaur, seeing that the other person was a wandering merchant, replied. I picked it up from the ground.

“That can’t be, nyaa! That’s Park Sejun’s precious grass, nyaa! Park Sejun uses that grass as a dish, makes ropes with it, and even wipes his butt with it, nyaa! You stole Park Sejun’s grass, nyaa!”

Theo caught the grass thief, Woo Cheonsam.