Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 450

Black Tower Administrator Zone. A fierce voice echoed through the air. ‘How dare you try to come in here!’ It was Aileen, the great Black Dragon, her voice ringing out. ‘You won’t get past me!’

Aileen had just fought off pieces of the Apostle of Destruction who were trying to get into the tower. She walked back, feeling proud.

Just then, messages flashed in front of Aileen’s eyes: **[Defense Successful!]** **[Reward: 300 Billion Experience Points!]** **[Level Up!]** **[Bonus Stats: 500!]** **[All Stats Increased!]** **[Magic Power Boost!]** **[Darkness Power Grows!]**

Along with the message of successful defense, Aileen leveled up.

The level-up effects were so different from Sejun’s.

Sejun’s level-ups were small, just one bonus stat and a little strength. But Aileen’s level-up was huge, like a burst of power.

“Kuing… I got stronger again…”

Aileen, whose gap with Sejun had widened, was simply depressed.

She felt like Sejun was already so far away, like reaching for the stars. And now she was getting even stronger! ‘Kuing…’ she sighed. ‘It feels like I can barely even be near him anymore.’

As Aileen was feeling depressed,

Then, more messages appeared: **[Darkness Power Full!]** **[Stats Over 100,000!]** **[Magic Power Over 300,000!]** **[Awakening Ready!]** **[Awakening Starting!]**

Along with the message, darkness swirled around Aileen.

“Kuaeng?! No!” Aileen cried out. ‘I can’t meet Sejun like this!’ She tried to stop it, but the awakening was going to happen whether she wanted it or not.

Thus, Aileen was enveloped in darkness.

A moment later.

The swirling darkness subsided and seeped into Aileen’s shadow,

**[New Power: Holy Dragon Authority!]** Aileen had awakened! At just 200 years old, she was the youngest dragon in history to ever do it.

However,

“Kuing… Oh no…” Aileen mumbled sadly. ‘Now it’s even harder to see Sejun… And I have to learn to control my fire again, because my magic is too strong!’ She wasn’t excited about her awakening at all. She was just worried.

“Fire,” Aileen whispered. She carefully broke an Egg Fruit into a frying pan and tried to control her fire magic.

But, “Ah!” she gasped. Her magic was too strong now! *Whoosh!* A huge burst of flames shot out, turning the Egg Fruit to ash in seconds.

“Grandpa!” Aileen called out, needing Kaiser to come and clean up the burnt Egg Fruit.

Green Tower, 93rd floor. Sejun frowned. ‘The Seven Seats of the Apostle of Destruction… without souls?’ He looked at the new Apostle, Kuruger, who had just appeared. ‘Why don’t they have souls?’ he wondered.

“Ah, never mind that now.” Sejun said to himself. ‘This is urgent!’ Two Apostles had come through the passage already. More could follow! ‘I have to close it, fast!’

Sejun rushed to the passage and started planting seeds of the Devourer of Destruction all around it. But Kuruger was giving off so much destructive power that the passage stayed open, even though the Devourers were eating up the energy.

“Kkuenga, put this in my storage, please.” Sejun asked. He wanted Kkuenga to put Kuruger into his special storage space.

“Kkueng!” [Understood!] Kkuengeeng! Kuruger was heavy, but Kkuenga, being so huge, lifted him easily into the storage.

“Kkuenga, put Alice in too,” Sejun added. *Wait a minute,* he thought. *If I put all the Apostles in storage, I don’t need to stay in the Green Tower!* “Kkueng!” [Understood!] *Thud.* Kkuenga dropped Alice into the storage space.

*Stamp. Stamp. Stamp.* Hehehe! This is amazing, meow! ‘Meow?!’ Theo suddenly realized. *If they are all in storage, I can stamp them later!* President Park is a genius, just as I thought, meow! Theo, who had been happily stamping Alice, stopped and rushed over to Sejun, rubbing against his legs.

Meanwhile, Sejun kept planting Devourer of Destruction seeds. *Huff. Huff.* The Devourers were working hard, sucking up the destructive energy and making the passage smaller.

*Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey.* ‘Good job,’ Sejun encouraged them. One of them even spat out seeds for him to use.

As Sejun planted more seeds, *Hee hee hee. Squeak!* [Hee hee! Everyone, follow me!] ‘Yes!’ ‘Chirp!’ ‘Kiki! Kiki!’ Kkamangi arrived with Umdol and Alice, bringing all the Devourers of Destruction that had spread out.

*Squeak!* [Everyone, eat up!] Kkamangi told the Devourers. *Squeak!* [Alice, lie down!] How dare you try to hurt Kkamangi’s servant?!’ ‘Chirp…’ He started to bother Alice again.

“Kkamangi, why are you picking on your friend?!” Sejun said sternly. ‘You should be nice to each other.’ He was scolding Kkamangi for being mean to the little spider.

*Squeak! Squeak!* [He’s bad! I’m good!] Kkamangi grumbled, feeling sorry for himself. But then, *Hee hee hee. Squeak!* [Hee hee! Master, name him too!] Kkamangi cheered up, excited about the name Sejun would give Alice.

*Heh heh. Make it a really weird name, even weirder than mine!* *And please, weirder than Umdol’s!* Kkamangi and Umdol, who knew Sejun wasn’t great at names, looked at him, waiting eagerly.

“Hmm… let me think…” Sejun’s brain started working on names again. *Small spider, like a thumb… Ummi? Sounds like ‘chirp’… Chirpie? Black spider… Black-ie? No, wait…* Sejun’s naming ideas were as strange as ever. *Kkeomi… maybe that’s the best?* Just as he was about to decide on Kkeomi for Alice’s new name, he had another idea! *Tiny spider… Kkomi!* “What about Kkomi?” Sejun asked.

Suddenly, Sejun had a great idea for a name and said it out loud.

Sejun smiled. “I’ll call you Kking! K-K-I-N-G, Kking!”

[Alice, the Seducing Spider, thought,] [What?! Kking? Is that name cuter than *my* name?]

Sejun chuckled. “Yes, Kking is much better than calling you ‘me’.”

Blackie and Stonehead looked sad. “Much better than *me*…” they mumbled.

Blackie and Stonehead were, predictably, greatly disappointed.

While Sejun thought about Alice’s new name, the passage was getting smaller. The Devourers of Destruction were eating it away, and now it was only five meters wide.

Just then,

Boom.

The walls of the passage, weakened by the absorption of the power of destruction, began to crumble in a chain reaction.

Ssssh.

Finally, the passage closed quietly.

And then,

[Congratulations!] [You did a great thing! You destroyed the passage made by Alice, the Seducing Spider.] [Alice is one of the Nine Seats of the Apostle of Destruction in the Green Tower.]

[Because you did this in the Green Tower, you will get a reward.] [You will share this reward with Ophelia Iolgue, the Tower Farmer.]

[Ophelia Iolgue is your slave.]

[You also get 50% of Ophelia’s reward.]

[As a reward for achieving the great feat, you have acquired the Talent: A Little Stronger Than You Look.]

He had obtained a Talent as a reward.

“A Little Stronger Than You Look?”

What kind of Talent was it?

Sejun quickly checked the Talent.

[Talent: A Little Stronger Than You Look]

A Talent that allows you to display abilities that are slightly stronger than others perceive.

You can exert your abilities at 110% of your current stats.

“Oh!”

110% of his current stats meant that almost all of his stats would increase by about 300.

“Heh heh heh.”

I’m totally strong.

Just as Sejun was rejoicing over his newly acquired Talent,

[Ophelia’s voice, full of excitement, echoed in Sejun’s mind,] [Sejun! Sejun! I did it! I achieved a great feat, all thanks to you!]

Ophelia, having heard from Brachio that she had exceeded one of the Green Tower’s growth conditions thanks to Sejun, spoke to him.

With the passage gone, the Devourers of Destruction began to absorb the power of destruction that enveloped the 93rd floor of the tower, creating a gap that allowed communication with other floors.

Sejun chuckled. “If you’re so grateful, how about 500 Tower Coins?” he joked.

[Ophelia’s voice turned sharp,] [Are you ignoring me, human?!]

*Thud.* A heavy pouch landed in Sejun’s subspace.

[Open it!] Ophelia commanded.

“Okay.”

Sejun opened the money pouch, and inside were 500 billion Tower Coins.

“Heh heh heh. Made some money.”

Wow, dragons really are generous!

Sejun checked the money in the pouch, praising the dragons.

“Ophelia, clear out a spot for me to go up to the 99th floor of the tower.”

[The slave of the Green Tower says she has been keeping it empty, so go up whenever you need to.]

“Alright. Everyone, gather around!”

Sejun gathered his companions and had them enter the subspace warehouse.

Kiki!

Kiki!

Half of the Devourers of Destruction were left on the 93rd floor of the tower.

This was because he needed to remove all the energy of destruction spread throughout this place to complete the land document quest and obtain the mangosteen.

“Return.”

Sejun activated the Dragon Scale Return Bracelet.

Whoosh.

The golden letters engraved on the bracelet began to shine.

And then,

[The return magic engraved on the Dragon Scale Return Bracelet is activated.]

[Calculating the distance between the current coordinates and the return target coordinates.]

[Returning to the designated location.]

Sejun disappeared from the 93rd floor of the Green Tower.

A moment later.

[You have arrived at the 99th floor of the Green Tower.]

“So, this is the 99th floor of the Green Tower.”

She planted a lot of mugwort.

Sejun stepped onto the 99th floor and blinked. Everywhere he looked, there were fields of mugwort. Some were a deep blue, glowing softly, and others were a bright, fiery red. The air smelled sweet and earthy.

Ophelia usually planted and picked her crops right away. But today, because she knew Sejun was coming, she had left the mugwort unpicked.

Kooeng!

[The waypoint is over there!]

Kooeng, who had gone up into the sky and found the waypoint, told Sejun the direction of the waypoint, and

“Okay. Thank you.”

Sejun moved to the location of the waypoint on the 99th floor of the tower.

Thus, he arrived at the waypoint on the 99th floor of the Green Tower.

Agni, the boss of the 99th floor who guarded the waypoint, was not there.

Chuck.

[The waypoint on the 99th floor of the Green Tower has been saved.]

Sejun placed his hand on the red crystal and registered the waypoint.

Then,

[Congratulations!]

[You have achieved the feat of clearing the Green Tower following the Black Tower and the White Tower.]

[As a reward for the achievement, you have acquired the >Title: One Who Reached the Top of Three Towers>.]

[Because of your new title, ‘One Who Reached the Top of Three Towers’, the waypoints on the 99th floors of the three towers are connected.]

[Because of your new title, ‘One Who Reached the Top of Three Towers’, the ‘Retrogressor’ title also works in the Green Tower now.]

Messages appeared.

“Heh heh heh. Good.”

Sejun smiled contentedly as he obtained the >Title: One Who Reached the Top of Three Towers>, allowing him to go to the Black Tower, White Tower, and Green Tower at will, when

[>Title: Retrogressor> is enhanced by clearing the three towers.]

[All stats increased each time you descend a floor are increased to 2.]

A message popped up saying the ‘Retrogressor’ title was stronger now. But it didn’t increase his stats much anymore because Sejun was already so strong.

“I should go home. Ophelia, I’m leaving.”

Sejun said goodbye to Ophelia and brought up the waypoint list of the Black Tower, pressing the 99th floor.

And then,

[Moving to the 99th floor of the Black Tower.]

Sejun disappeared from the 99th floor of the Green Tower and appeared on the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

Thus, he arrived at the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

The farm was dyed blue with the blue moonlight.

“Blue Moon.”

The 15th Blue Moon Sejun had seen since entering the tower.

Just then,

[The Moon Goddess Luna shows favor to you.]

[The Moon Goddess Luna bestows upon you the Blessing of the Blue Moon with the moonlight of the Blue Moon.]

Messages appeared.

“Huh? Blessing of the Blue Moon?”

Sejun looked at his status window and saw the words ‘Blessing of the Blue Moon’ written next to his name.

And then,

Click.

[Blessing of the Blue Moon]

The moonlight of the Blue Moon protects you.

A single line was written.

“It protects me?”

Then…

“Ajax, summon.”

Sejun, with great determination, summoned Ajax.

A moment later,

“Sejun hyung! I missed you!”

Tap tap tap.

The summoned Ajax ran into Sejun’s arms.

Oh! He’s okay!

He felt no pain at all from the touch of the awakened Ajax.

Thank you, Moon Goddess Luna! I’ll build you a monument later!

Sejun decided to build a monument for Luna.

Today is the day!

“Ahem. Aileen, would you like to see my face for a moment?”

Sejun, filled with courage, called for Aileen.