Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 441

Green Tower, 1st Floor.

“Phoo hoo hoo! All gone, nyaa! Sold out!” Theo called out, his voice echoing through the bustling Green Tower shop. He’d come straight after breakfast, eager to sell the last of the auction items. “And guess what? Today, I’ve got something *new* for you all, nyaa!”

“New things?” a gruff voice asked.

“What is it this time, Theo?” another voice chimed in.

Heads turned. Not just the curious Neta tribe members, but even the Undying Brigade members, who worked in the shop, stopped what they were doing. Despite being called ‘slaves,’ they were actually much happier here than they’d ever been in the Brigade. Life was easier, the pay was better, and they always kept an eye out for good deals to resell upstairs. New items from Theo? That definitely caught their attention.

“This is it, nyaa!” Theo said, pulling out a lightning-struck tree and a lightning stone.

Theo, following Sejun’s instructions, decided to release some of the Golden Tower’s items in the Green Tower to prevent the market price from falling. If he only released the Golden Tower’s items in the Black Tower, their rarity would quickly diminish.

“That’s a lightning-struck tree and a lightning stone?!” Egel, the Saintess of Destruction from the 97th floor of the tower, exclaimed, excited to see the 50 lightning-struck trees and 500 lightning stones that Theo had brought.

Lightning magic was very important to Egel. She had been searching for lightning-struck trees and lightning stones to craft equipment that would make her lightning magic stronger. Even with a lot of money, it was hard to find them, and she hadn’t been able to get enough to make her equipment for several years.

“Phoo hoo hoo. I’m not selling these through auction, but at a fixed price, nyaa!” Theo announced.

For Egel, this was exactly what she needed. A large number of lightning-struck trees and lightning stones were available right before her eyes.

“I’ll sell the lightning-struck trees for 15 billion Tower Coins and the lightning stones for 400 million Tower Coins, nyaa!”

“Theo, I’ll buy them all!” Egel said.

It was more than 50% more expensive than the market price in the Black Tower, but Egel bought everything Theo had because she had saved a lot of money. She bought much more than she needed for her own equipment, but she could use the rest to make equipment for her followers.

“Nyaa?” Theo tilted his head.

Thanks to Egel, Theo sold all the lightning-struck trees and lightning stones he brought to the shop.

“Phoo hoo hoo. Going home early today, nyaa! I have to go back and brag to Chairman Park, nyaa!” Theo said happily.

Theo returned to the 99th floor of the Black Tower with over 1 trillion Tower Coins.

“Chairman Park, I’m back, nyaa!” Theo shouted.

Theo quickly jumped out of the sack and threw himself towards Sejun’s face.

“You’re back early?” Sejun asked, catching Theo.

“Phoo hoo hoo. Chairman Park, I, Vice Chairman Theo, sold everything I took today, nyaa! I made a lot of money, nyaa!” Theo bragged.

“You sold them all?” Sejun asked, grabbing Theo by the scruff of his neck and pulling him away from his face.

“That’s right, nyaa!” Theo said proudly.

Theo showed off, holding up the money pouch in his hand.

“Good job,” Sejun said.

“Phoo hoo hoo. Selling things is my talent, nyaa!” Theo exclaimed.

Sejun stroked Theo’s head as he clung to his knee.

“You can praise me more, nyaa!” Theo said, rubbing his head against Sejun’s hand.

Sejun took a short break while stroking Theo’s head.

“Become abundant!”

[The is applied to the magic cherry tomatoes.]

[The amount of the next fruit that the magic cherry tomatoes will bear is doubled.]

He drank the red mugwort potion and used his authority to increase the yield of the cherry tomatoes. This was because the storage was completely empty after sending the cherry tomatoes to the Golden Tower all at once.

After increasing the production of cherry tomatoes, Sejun said, “Blackie, let’s eat lunch.”

Kee hee heet. Kking!

[Hee hee. Give me something delicious!]

Blackie hurried over at Sejun’s call.

Chomp chomp chomp.

Theo ate Churu.

“Blackie, wait a moment,” Sejun said, unwrapping a convenience store triangle kimbap.

Kking!

[Give me more!]

Sejun put the kimbap in Blackie’s mouth and had his meal.

After finishing his meal, Sejun said, “Become abundant!”

Sejun began to increase the land’s fertility with his authority.

Kiki!

Kiki!

The Doom Devourers were calling their leader.

Kking?

[What’s wrong, my subordinates?]

Blackie went to where his subordinates were calling him.

Kiki!

The Doom Devourers pointed to a core fragment that had been completely purified while absorbing the power of doom.

Kee hee heet. Kking! Kking!

[Hee hee. Good job, everyone! Let’s go over there now! I have to feed this to the butler later!]

Blackie, who had taken the core fragment, took the Doom Devourers to a field with a strong aura of doom.

West area of the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

Kkueng!

[Medicinal herb!]

Crack.

Kkueng was picking medicinal herbs to give to Sejun.

Kkueng spends his time taking care of or picking medicinal herbs all morning.

Kkueng!

[It’s time to eat lunch!]

He took out a small, black, three-tiered lunch box that Sejun had packed from his snack pouch. The lunch box was made of black dragon scales by Eileen at Sejun’s request, and it was enchanted with preservation magic and space expansion magic.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. I’m looking forward to what Dad packed today!]

Click.

Kkueng opened the lunch box with a happy face.

Kkueng!

[Soy sauce butter bibimbap!]

The top tier was filled with soy sauce butter bibimbap covered with dozens of soft-boiled eggs. The second tier was full of fried pork cutlets (돈가스), and the third tier was full of sausages.

Kkuhehehe.

Kkueng took a spoonful of soy sauce butter bibimbap with yolk on it with his right hand and put it in his mouth.

Crunch.

He picked up a fried pork cutlet that was not cut with his left hand, dipped it in sauce, and put it in his mouth whole.

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It’s delicious!]

Kkueng shook his butt and ate the food while dancing.

A moment later,

Kkueng!

[Now I’m going to eat dessert!]

Kkueng put the cleanly emptied lunch box in his snack pouch and started eating a 10L large-capacity chocolate ice cream.

Kkueng!

[Now I have to go train!]

Kkueng, who had finished eating the ice cream, went to find the Bull Demon King to train.

Kkueng!

[Bull Demon King Master, Kkueng is here!]

Moo!

[Okay!]

The Bull Demon King, who had been waiting, greeted Kkueng.

Moo. Moo.

[Let’s start right away. Gather your energy.]

Kkueng!

At the Bull Demon King’s words, Kkueng shouted and clenched his fists, gathering his energy.

Moo!

[Gather more!]

Kkueng!!

Moo!

The Bull Demon King watched Koo-ehng closely. “Again!” he boomed, his voice echoing across the dusty training ground.

Koo-ehng, his small body tense, nodded and took a deep breath. He focused, trying to channel his energy, just as his teacher had shown him. A faint blue light flickered around his small horns. He pushed harder, imagining a powerful wave of energy flowing from him.

But as the energy grew stronger, a knot of worry tightened in his chest. Images flashed in his mind: Sejun, pale and still, collapsing to the ground. His resolve faltered. Before he even realized it, Koo-ehng let the energy dissipate. The blue light vanished, leaving only a puff of dust in the air.

“Moo!” the Bull Demon King sighed, a sound of gentle frustration. “Again, Koo-ehng!”

Koo-ehng hung his head, his ears drooping. He felt ashamed that he was disappointing his teacher again. He knew he needed to get stronger, but the fear for his dad was like a heavy weight, holding him back.

The Bull Demon King, watching his disciple Koo-ehng release his power before giving it his all, fell into deep thought. He had noticed a pattern in Koo-ehng’s training over the past few days. Each time Koo-ehng tried to unleash his full power, he would stop short, as if something was holding him back.

He was teaching him how to subdue enemies with energy when…

“Koo-ehng!”

Koo-ehng would gather his energy, but strangely, once it reached a certain level, he would release it.

“Moo? My disciple, why do you release your power?” The Bull Demon King, sensing something was amiss, had an in-depth conversation with Koo-ehng.

“Koo-ehng… I’m scared that Dad will get hurt if I gather my strength…” he confessed.

He learned the reason: Sejun had fainted several times because of him, which had traumatized Koo-ehng. So, Koo-ehng developed a habit of releasing his power whenever he felt that his energy might harm Sejun.

The fear that he might hurt his dad was etched into Koo-ehng’s subconscious, and whenever Koo-ehng raised his power beyond a certain point, the subconscious fear would cause him to release the power in his body, preventing him from using his strength.

“Moo! Again!”

“Koo-ehng!”

Today, Koo-ehng was diligently undergoing special training to break through his limits.

The first light of dawn crept into the room. Blackie stirred in his sleep, his nose twitching. He stretched, then quietly hopped off the bed. Sejun was still deeply asleep, his breathing slow and steady.

“Sleepy…” Blackie, awakened from his sleep, came outside with sleepy eyes.

Diligently, he dug into the ground, retrieving the purified core fragment he had hidden during the day. He carried the core fragment in his mouth and climbed onto the bed.

“Hee hee hee,” Blackie placed the core fragment in Sejun’s mouth.

And forcefully pushed the core fragment in with his two front paws.

Then, the core fragment smoothly passed down Sejun’s throat.

“Ugh!” Sejun felt a brief moment of pain, but since it was only 0.01%, the pain didn’t last long.

“Hee hee hee. Squeak! Hehe. Done!” Blackie, satisfied, climbed onto Sejun’s chest.

Listening to Sejun’s heartbeat, he fell asleep again.

A few hours later.

“Blackie, the rain… Ack!” Sejun woke up from a nightmare of being crushed by a giant Blackie.

He checked the messages.

[You have forcibly consumed a purified Fenrir’s core fragment.] [You have absorbed a core fragment containing 0.01% of Fenrir’s power.] [The power of the existing Fenrir’s core fragment is combined.] [0.0129% of Fenrir’s power accumulates in your body.]

“Is this Blackie’s doing again?” Sejun asked, looking at Blackie, who was sleeping on his chest.

Sejun had asked Batbat to find out who was feeding him the purified Fenrir’s core fragments. (Sejun, it was Blackie!) He found out that Blackie was the culprit.

“Why is he feeding this to me?” Sejun wondered. He didn’t know how Blackie did it, but the Fenrir’s core fragment, which Sejun couldn’t eat alone due to usage restrictions, wasn’t bad since it strengthened his authority and helped him in other ways.

“I should just get up.” It wasn’t even sunrise yet, but it was an awkward time to go back to sleep.

Suddenly seized by a playful impulse, Sejun got up, released Theo’s front paws that were holding his knees, and pulled his knees away.

And put Blackie there instead.

“Hehehe. I wonder what kind of reaction they’ll show later,” Sejun said, watching the two sleeping peacefully together.

Sejun went outside and was strolling around the farm when he heard Pink Fur and Koo-ehng’s shouts from afar.

“Kroooooh! Koo-ehng!”

Normally, it would be their sleeping time. “What’s going on at this hour?” Sejun wondered, feeling strange, and went to the place where the sound was coming from.

As the distance got closer, he heard them again.

“Kroooooh! Koo-ehng! Gooooooo.”

He saw Pink Fur and Koo-ehng shouting and spreading their energy around. At that moment…

“Achoo!” Sejun, whose nose was ticklish because of the cold air, sneezed.

Koo-ehng, who had gotten up early and was doing extra practice with Pink Fur because there had been almost no progress in yesterday’s training, was flustered when he saw Sejun, who had come quite close without him noticing.

Oh no! Mom’s power! Dad’s too close! He’s going to faint again!

Koo-ehng panicked.

“Ah. Sorry. I suddenly sneezed… But what are you two doing?” Sejun asked them in a perfectly fine voice.

Dad didn’t faint?! He withstood Mom’s energy without Big Bro around?!

Koo-ehng was surprised to see that Sejun was no longer the weakling Sejun that Koo-ehng was worried about. Especially after obtaining >Authority: Strong Young Dragon’s Strong Bones>, his resistance to external energy greatly increased.

Of course, he was still the weakest on the 99th floor of the tower and as fragile as a sunfish, but he was no longer at the point where he would faint from exposure to strong energy.

That’s right! Dad isn’t weak forever! Dad is also growing!

Thanks to that, Koo-ehng gained a great realization.

“Koo-ehng! Gooooooo.”

Koo-ehng, having gained the confidence that Sejun would not be harmed even if he raised his power, began to use 100% of his energy.

The power that had been suppressed all this time burst out at once, and an even more powerful energy than what Koo-ehng originally possessed was unleashed.

“Ugh…” I feel like I’m going to faint!

Sejun hurriedly retreated to avoid Koo-ehng’s energy. He didn’t faint, but he felt pain. Koo-ehng had overcome his trauma so wonderfully.

[The novice herbalist Koo-ehng Bak, who has gained enlightenment, has acquired >Authority: The Eve of the Storm>.] [The storm god Thunder is watching Koo-ehng Bak.]

He gained a powerful authority and received the attention of the storm god Thunder.