Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 422

Texas, USA.

Kee-ack!

Currently, more than half of Texas was occupied by flesh-eaters.

The movement of the flesh-eaters changed strangely two days ago.

Flesh-eaters, which had been moving towards the Mexican border, suddenly turned back and started attacking cities in Texas once more.

Around the same time, giant leeches scattered around the world flocked to Texas.

This change was caused by Michael, a figure who now controlled the disaster, having taken over from someone called Halphas.

Michael moved the giant leeches to attack the feed factory that had placed an order for growth accelerator production, sending half of it to Texas.

And the flesh-eaters who absorbed the growth accelerator transported by the giant leeches were explosively increasing in number.

Washington D.C., The White House, Oval Office.

The President leaned forward, his eyes fixed on the large screen. The Chief of Staff of the Army stood beside him, pointing to the grainy satellite footage. “Mr. President,” the Chief of Staff began, his voice grave, “as you can see, the flesh-eaters are evolving at an alarming rate. Their growth is accelerating rapidly, and their numbers are exploding.”

The video showed a horrifying scene: Texas, once vibrant, now looked like a writhing brown carpet. Flesh-eaters, countless and relentless, swarmed across the land.

“How much faster?” the President asked, his voice tight with concern.

“Sir, originally, it took fifteen days for a flesh-eater to reach adulthood. Experts now predict they will mature in just three days.”

The President’s eyebrows shot up. “Three days? Almost five times faster?”

“Yes, sir. And there’s more bad news. We’ve also received reports about… mutated entities.”

“Mutated entities?” The President looked puzzled.

“Yes. It’s the entity we reported during the Houston evacuation operation.”

The Secretary of Defense hurriedly showed a monster with a cherry tomato head and human-like limbs on a tablet.

“Ah… I remember now. Continue with the explanation.”

“Yes. We have found out where this mutated entity is being bred.”

“Produced? Not growing?” Until now, flesh-eaters were like growing seeds. The word ‘breeding’ didn’t fit.

“Yes. Take a look at this.”

The Chief of Staff of the Army showed another video. The video was fast-forwarded 20 times.

In the video, there was one flesh-eater that was much larger than the other entities, almost 30 meters in size.

As time passed, the cherry tomato head split open and bloomed into a giant flower.

And something was seen crawling out of the mouth in the center of the flower.

The Chief of Staff explained, “These are mutated entity groups…”

“Those mutated entities are hunting and supplying nutrients to the mother.”

“Are there many of those?”

“Current analysis indicates that one such mother appears for every million flesh-eaters.”

“This is already a nightmare with the flesh-eaters… and now these things as well?” The President’s face darkened even more after receiving the report.

“So, what’s the plan? How are we going to deal with those things?”

“Mr. President, I request permission to use nuclear missiles.”

The Secretary of Defense spoke in response to the President’s question.

Since they are vulnerable to high heat, nuclear missiles could eliminate a large number of them.

“Nuclear missiles?! Even so…” The President hesitated at the word ‘nuclear.’ It was natural. It was right to hesitate.

To fire a nuclear weapon, especially on American soil…

It was an issue that needed careful consideration, even with a clear reason and justification.

“If we try to stop the flesh-eaters with hunters and the military, the damage will be too great. Moreover, looking at their location, they are gradually moving eastward.”

Texas has already been mostly devastated by the flesh-eaters, so using nuclear missiles would not cause significant damage.

As time passes, the number of flesh-eaters increases, and the damage grows.

The Secretary of Defense worked hard to persuade the President, explaining the reasons and justifications for using nuclear missiles.

“Alright. I authorize it. But the evacuation of the people living in Texas must be completed,” the President said after thinking for a long time.

“Yes, sir. We will complete the evacuation of all citizens in Texas within 100 hours!”

As soon as the President’s permission was granted, the U.S. military immediately began the evacuation operation for the people of Texas.

100 hours remaining until the nuclear missile launch.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world…

Michael had arrived at Gimpo Airport on his private jet to destroy the safe zone in Korea.

The cargo hold was filled with flesh-eater seeds.

The only place on Earth with a safe zone. To completely conquer the Earth, destroying the safe zone was the priority.

“Chairman, we will move the cargo to the designated location.”

“Alright.”

For this task, he had summoned half of the giant leeches on Earth to the East Sea.

The moment the safe zone disappears, the giant leeches will enter Korea and supply growth accelerator to the flesh-eater seeds.

“Heh heh heh. Then this small country will soon collapse.”

And then he will immediately enter the continent and bring down China.

If the United States and China, the two most powerful forces on Earth, were to fall, the aftermath would inevitably be very easy.

A little later, Michael arrived at the black tower on the outermost edge of Seoul’s safe zone.

“This is the place.”

Michael placed his hand on the tower.

“Disappear.”

As he injected the power of destruction into the tower, the black tower began to disappear.

Black Tower, 75th floor.

“Great. Then I’ll manage the Faceless Great Thief Rune from now on!” Iona said.

“Yes. I understand that the Mage Association will be paying for the damages that the Faceless Great Thief Rune has to pay,” Mason, the president of the Wandering Merchant Association, said.

“Yes!” Hannibal, the president of the Free Mercenary Association, agreed.

With Rune handling reports, I’ll have so much less paperwork!

Imagining Rune diligently writing reports in her place, Iona headed to the 99th floor of the tower with energetic steps.

Iona arrived at the 99th floor of the tower. The members of the 99th floor were still the same.

Theo was sitting on Sejun’s lap, dozing off. Kkueng and Kkamang were sleeping with their bottoms stuck to Sejun’s butt. And…

“Squeak?! A hamster?”

Iona saw a brown hamster holding a twig in one hand and diligently receiving peanuts from Sejun.

“Squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak-”

How dare you… my Theo Park nim!!!!

Iona raised her magic power and approached Blackster.

My name is Blackster…

Blackster, who received a new name from Sejun, fell into self-disgust.

Crunch crunch. Crunch crunch.

“Delicious.”

Still, eating this thing called a peanut made him feel a little better.

At that moment…

“Huh?”

Blackster suddenly felt a fierce murderous aura covering him, making his body tremble.

“What is it?”

Scary!

Blackster hurriedly put the peanut in his mouth, dug into the ground under Sejun’s legs, and hid his body. Swift movement worthy of a great thief.

Who is it?

Blackster peeked his head out from under Sejun’s legs and looked for the being who had sent the murderous aura towards him.

Then…

“Squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak-”

He saw a pure white hamster emitting a fierce aura and approaching him.

The Great Destruction Magician Iona?! But there was also a Stage 5 Angry Squeak?!

Why is she doing this to me?

When Blackster, who recognized Iona, trembled with fear…

“Puhuhoot. Iona came, meow?!” Theo, who had been dozing off, woke up and greeted Iona.

“Squeak-squeak-squeak-Yes! But Theo nim, who is that hamster?!” Iona asked in an angry voice.

“Ah. He’s Blackster. He’s a male, by the way,” Sejun said, clearing up the misunderstanding.

“Squeak squeak squeak. I see. He’s a male.”

Iona smiled brightly at Sejun’s words and burrowed into Theo’s tail.

“Sejun nim, here’s the bounty for the Faceless Great Thief Rune,” Iona said, handing the bounty she had received to Sejun.

“Hehehe. Thank you. But how much is the bounty?” Sejun asked, receiving the bag of bounty with a bright face.

“750 billion Tower Coins.”

“That’s a lot.”

“Yes. Because he stole a lot. Sejun nim, I want to hire Rune. I don’t know if you know, but the Faceless Great Thief Rune is…”

Originally, Rune had to pay for the damages and rot in prison for 100 years.

But if she hired Rune, he would work to pay off the damages, and the other associations had agreed to let him go, she explained diligently.

“Alright. Do that. I was thinking of sending him to Iona to learn magic anyway.”

“Really?! I’ll teach him well!” Iona’s expression brightened at Sejun’s answer, as she had been planning to educate Rune herself for several months to improve his magical skills.

“Blackster, follow Iona and learn a lot. Got it?”

“Yes! I will work hard!” Blackster answered in a very nervous voice, perhaps because he was in front of Iona.

“Yes?! Blackster?” She wanted to hire Rune, but suddenly Blackster?

Iona was flustered.

“Rune is Blackster, meow! It’s Rune’s new name given by Chairman Park, meow!” Theo explained Rune’s situation to Iona.

“Squeak squeak squeak. I see! What a wonderful name!” Iona praised Sejun’s naming skills.

She looked at Blackster with a sympathetic expression.

“Then please leave Blackster to me! I’ll teach him well!”

“I’ll be back!” Blackster, holding the World Tree branch tightly, said goodbye to Sejun and left with Iona.

“Now, I have to work.”

Sejun approached the sausage tree.

He had harvested the sausages two days ago, but sausages were already hanging in abundance.

Sejun stroked the sausage branches, praised them, and began harvesting the sausages.

[You have harvested sausages.]

While he was diligently harvesting sausages…

“Huh?!”

Sejun’s eyes caught sight of a long, thick, giant sausage emitting a subtle light, instead of the usual abundant sausages.

A giant sausage!

Sejun hurriedly harvested the sausage. He naturally thought it was a new variety.

[You have harvested the Divine Giant Sausage Rod.]

[Your job experience slightly increases.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 8 slightly increases.]

[You have gained 100,000 experience points.]

“Huh? Divine? This is a rod? Sniff sniff. It smells like sausage though?”

While Sejun was smelling the sausage in his hand…

[You have achieved the feat of harvesting a Divine object.]

[As a reward for the achievement, the expiration date of Divine objects is doubled.]

“Huh? Expiration date? Divine objects can expire?”

Sejun looked at the options for the Giant Sausage Rod.

[Giant Sausage Rod]

A Divine object sent by Vienna, the Sausage God who governs all sausages.

It is made of sausage and smells strongly of sausage, but it is hard and flexible.

Vienna used to tear off and eat the Giant Sausage Rod little by little to fill her stomach during battles.

Consuming it increases all stats by 20.

Expiration date: 60 days

Usage restriction: Strength 1000 or higher, Agility 1000 or higher

Creator: Vienna, the Sausage God

Grade: S

“Sent by Vienna, the Sausage God? Is there even a god like that?”

Although he was a little doubtful…

“Thank you, Vienna nim.”

Sejun thanked Vienna for sending him the Divine object and created a 1-pyeong Vienna Rod.

While Sejun was making the Vienna Rod…

Wooong.

“Huh?!”

Meanwhile, Eileen checked the vibrating crystal ball.

[A Divine object has been additionally acquired.]

[It is a disposable Divine object.]

[It shortens the time required for the Black Tower’s growth conditions by 200 days.]

“As expected of our Sejun! He did something again!”

While Eileen was happy…

[The Black Tower’s growth has been completed.]

[The Black Tower’s functions are activated.]

[It will take 3 days to include Earth, the dimension currently managed by the Black Tower, into the management area.]

[In 3 days, Earth will be temporarily incorporated into the 0th floor of the Black Tower.]

A black membrane began to cover the Earth.