Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 379

They were on the 38th floor of the Golden Tower. The air was thin and cool.

**BOOM!**

A sound like thunder shook the air. Above them, a giant piece of land floated in the bright sky. Lightning flashed around it, again and again, making the air smell sharp and electric.

The land in the sky had a dark red glow around it, which felt scary. But in the middle of it, there was a large flower garden. The sweet smell of flowers drifted on the wind.

Inside the garden, the new plants Sejun had created, with their strange and colorful leaves, and other crops, grew very well. This was Emila’s garden.

And there, watering the plants with gentle care, was a figure shining with light: Emila Ivenus, the Apostle of the Creator God.

Emila had been there for thousands of years. She was the Apostle of the Creator God, and she always did what the Creator God wanted.

“Just a little longer, my dears.”

Emila spoke soothingly to the crops.

The Creator God had given tasks to stop the destruction. Slowly, these tasks were starting to be done.

Of course, they had only just begun to be done. Completing the tasks was an entirely different matter.

A thorny path, several times more difficult than before, awaited.

“But… how is Park Sejun solving the tasks left by the Creator God?”

Emila said with a voice of disbelief.

Emila felt sorry for Sejun, who seemed too weak to bear the Creator God’s tasks, so she gave him shoes and cheered him on, later even saving his life.

Saving his life was purely coincidental. It was because Sejun happened to be on the floor where Emila was.

Emila didn’t have high expectations for Sejun. To Emila, Sejun was too weak, a being who could die tomorrow without it being strange at all.

Moreover, his level… it was pointless to even talk about it.

So, naturally, she thought that the other dragons and Tower Farmers would complete the Creator God’s plan.

However, the result came much faster and in a completely different way than Emila had expected.

Emila thought about all the hard tasks the Creator God had given. These were some of them:

Normalization of the Nine Towers.

Cooperation of the Nine Dragons.

Cooperation between the Tower Farmers and the Dragons.

Restoring the divinity of the Gods.

Cooperation and exchange between the Tower Farmers.

Growing the Tower into a Great Tower.

Breaking through the trials of the 10th Tower.

Lifting the curse of oblivion placed on the Nine Dragons, etc.

The Creator God left ten tasks to increase the power to fight against destruction. Each one was unbelievably difficult.

Of course, the Creator God didn’t create them expecting one person to solve all these tasks alone.

But then, without even realizing it, Emila saw that Sejun was making the dragons and Tower Farmers work together. He was leading them all, even if they didn’t want to be led!

“Anyway, thanks to him, the possibility of the Creator God’s tasks being completed before the destruction awakens has increased.”

The light emanating from Emila, as if responding to her joy, grew brighter.

However,

“Oh, they’ve already come after me.”

Feeling the apostle of destruction who had found her, she hurriedly moved the Creator God’s temple to another location.

They’re too strong.

As Hokus was taken aback by the bravery of the other hatchlings,

“Hokus, welcome!”

Aileen, having discovered a new customer, greeted Hokus happily.

‘That’s right! I didn’t come to see the other hatchlings. I came to show that impudent youngest how strong Hokus Yul is.’

Thanks to that, Hokus was able to remember why he came here.

I was furious.

I was very furious!

“Aileen, you called me weak in the…”

Hokus was about to shout at Aileen because he was still angry about her letter. He remembered how mad he felt when he read it…

“Hokus, I’m sorry for writing that you were weak in the letter. I just wanted to see everyone… I’ll give you this as an apology.”

Aileen handed him an armful of Sejun’s crops.

“Oh… hmm. Well, I suppose that can happen. But be careful in the future.”

The anger went away right away, like snow melting in the sun.

“Yeah. Try it quickly. It’s super delicious!”

“Heh heh heh. Really?”

And Hokus, who tasted Sejun’s sweet crops…

“Mom! Buy me all of this! I’ll keep crying if you don’t! Waaah!”

He called his mother, who was greeting the other hatchlings’ parents, and begged her to buy Sejun’s crops.

It wasn’t that the other hatchlings were brave. The desire to eat more of Sejun’s crops made the hatchlings brave.

A little later,

“Aileen, here’s the money. Give me lots of peanuts.”

“I’ll take three watermelons.”

“Give me a sack of potatoes!”

“Thank you, everyone.”

Aileen received the money that the hatchlings bravely won and sold Sejun’s crops.

While Aileen was making the hatchlings customers for Sejun’s crops with a delighted face,

“Anton, is Aileen okay now?”

“I guess so. She… had a heart problem, didn’t she?”

The other hatchlings’ parents asked Anton, who was watching Aileen with a blank expression.

“She’s all better now.”

Anton answered in a voice that was cold and flat, like he was talking about a stranger.

“Oh… really? That’s good. Congratulations.”

“Congratulations.”

The dragons gave Anton formal congratulations and then,

“How’s the Red Tower?”

“It’s been much better lately since we planted something called Flame Beans.”

“What about the Blue Tower?”

To ease the awkward atmosphere, they began to ask about each other’s well-being, and the topic of conversation naturally turned to their children.

“Our Poby already swallowed an A-grade poison…”

“Our Perion is using Hellfire magic these days…”

“Our Hakun is using the essence of water…”

“Our Hokus is already using lightning…”

Soon, it turned into bragging about their children.

Parents dragons boasting about how great their children were. Thanks to that, the atmosphere quickly livened up. No, it got too loud and competitive, which was a problem.

Anton watched Aileen and silently listened to their conversation.

While the parent dragons were busy bragging about their children,

“Hey, everyone, look at this! I can polymorph now!”

Hakun, wanting to show his younger siblings a cool appearance, used polymorph magic and transformed into a handsome man with light blue hair.

“Haha. How is it?”

Hakun smiled, expecting his younger siblings to look at him in awe, but

“Even Aileen can do that. Polymorph!”

Aileen, the youngest, used polymorph magic, and all the attention of the younger siblings was focused on Aileen.

“Huh?!”

“Aileen is younger than us…”

“Mom said you have to be 700 years old to use it…”

Thanks to that, the young hatchlings who couldn’t use polymorph magic yet were greatly shocked.

“Dad!”

“Mom is a liar!”

“I want to polymorph too!!!”

Hokus, Poby, Garlic, and Sylvia went to their parents and demanded that they be allowed to use polymorph magic as well.

However, the parent dragons were even more shocked than the hatchlings.

Usually, hatchlings can learn polymorph around the age of 700 to 900 years old.

It’s because enough magic power to use polymorph magic stably gathers around the age of 700.

Hakun, who used polymorph magic at the age of 600, was considered a great genius.

But polymorph at 200 years old?!

Moreover, Aileen was a dragon who had almost no magic power until recently because of her heart.

“What?! Anton, tell me honestly. What did you feed Aileen?! No. Tell me quietly!”

“Anton, tell us your parenting secrets!”

“Anton, don’t keep it to yourself, tell us too!”

The parent dragons surrounded Anton and asked in excited voices.

“I didn’t do anything. Our Aileen grew up on her own.”

Anton shrugged his shoulders, speaking in the same cold expression and voice as before.

After finishing his answer, the corners of Anton’s lips, which had been firmly closed in a straight line, slightly lifted to the point where they were barely visible.

No matter how cold he pretended to be, Anton was an unavoidable dad.

At that moment,

“Hey everyone! Dragon parents! Listen up! Want your hatchlings to be amazing like me? Then you NEED these cherry tomatoes! They’re magic! Only 1 million Tower Coins!”

Aileen was quick to see her chance. She held up the special cherry tomatoes and told the dragon parents, “If you buy these, your kids can polymorph like me!”

“Mom! Buy that for me! Hokus wants to polymorph too-!!!”

“Dad, if you don’t buy that for me, don’t even think about playing with Sylvia in the future.”

Due to the hatchlings’ brave roars, the parent dragons bought 10 billion Tower Coins worth of elixir-grade cherry tomatoes each.

And after that, the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes became an essential magic supplement for raising hatchlings.

‘Heh heh heh. I have to tell Sejun when he wakes up.’

Aileen smiled brightly, having something to brag about to Sejun.

99th floor of the Black Tower.

Morning of the 387th day since entering the tower.

“Ugh.”

As Sejun opened his eyes,

[The Tower Administrator is happy that you have finally woken up.]

Aileen, who had been waiting for Sejun to wake up, hurriedly spoke.

[The Tower Administrator says that something amazing happened while you were sleeping.]

[The Tower Administrator boasts that she has made all the other dragon siblings your customers.]

[The Tower Administrator says in an excited voice that she will now tell you the whole story from the beginning, so listen carefully.]

Aileen began to tell the story of how she brought the hatchlings and made them buy Sejun’s crops.

“Wow! That’s really amazing!”

“Oh! How did you think of that there? That’s really amazing?!”

“Wow! Really?! Aileen is definitely a genius dragon!”

Sejun listened to Aileen tell her story, and he reacted with lots of energy and enthusiasm, making her feel even more excited.

After listening to Aileen’s story and coming outside,

[Master!]

Flame, who was resting while basking in the warm sun, called Sejun and jumped onto Sejun’s shoulder.

“Flame! How have you been?!”

[Yes!]

I was worried because I hadn’t seen him lately, but he seemed to be doing well, seeing his leaves more vibrant than before.

Sejun talked with Flame and strolled through the farm.

“But… grapes aren’t growing well these days. Is it because Podori is busy as the World Tree?”

Sejun, passing by Podori, casually asked Flame what he had been wondering about.

[Hehe. That’s not true. Grapes will probably grow by tomorrow.]

“That fast?”

[Of course.]

Flame: “[Because *I’m going to make sure they do*!]”

Podori’s branches trembled at Flame’s answer.

Sejun, who didn’t see that, talked with Flame and returned home.

And after eating breakfast, he moved to the golden rice paddy he had seen in the morning. This paddy was where Sejun had planted the first rice seeds he obtained from the seed shop.

“Okay. Shall we harvest?”

Sejun picked up a sickle and began to cut the well-ripened rice.

Scritch.

[You have harvested 5619 grains of golden rice.]

[Job experience has slightly increased.]

[Harvesting Lv. 8 proficiency has slightly increased.]

[The expiration date of the harvested crops is increased by 5 days due to the cold effect imbued in the Scythe of Freshness.]

[You have gained 393,330 experience.]

Because Sejun used his special power, ‘Become Abundant!’, he harvested a huge amount of rice.

[You have leveled up.]

[You have gained 1 bonus stat.]

[Strength increases by 10.]

Sejun reached level 80.

And

[A job quest has occurred.]

[Job Quest: Gather 10,000 companions to help with farming.]

Reward: Level 81 unlocked, 1 billion Tower Coins, all stats +100

Just like before, a new challenge appeared to stop Sejun from leveling up again.

“Ah. All the experience will be wasted.”

Sejun lamented, looking at the still remaining golden rice.

However,

[You currently have 131,921 companions to help with farming.]

[You have achieved the job quest with overwhelming results.]

[The reward is increased by 100%.]

[Level 81 is unlocked as a reward for completing the job quest.]

[You have acquired 2 billion Tower Coins as a reward for completing the job quest.]

[All stats increase by 200 as a reward for completing the job quest.]

This time, thanks to Sejun’s tenant farmers, he was able to complete the job quest easily.

“Oh! Today is a day of explosive leveling!”

Sejun started cutting the rice very quickly with his sickle. He leveled up 4 more times while harvesting, reaching level 84!

“Heh heh heh.”

Sejun looked at the harvested rice and smiled contentedly at the thought of eating rice.