Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 46

After deciding what to do about the wolves, Sejun and the rabbits went to the cave to make breakfast.

“Follow me, nya!”

Theo led the wolves, showing off Sejun’s farm like it was his own.

“Here is the scallion field, nya! And here…”

But Theo stopped explaining quickly. All the green plants looked the same to him.

Kkueng!

Kkuengi stepped forward to explain. “That’s where we planted peanuts, you know!”

Kkuengi played in the fields every day. He knew exactly which plants were where.

“This is the peanut field, nya!”

So, Theo explained the fields to the wolves with Kkuengi’s help.

“Breakfast is ready.”

Sejun, who had prepared breakfast, called everyone.

Breakfast was planned to be scallions and cherry tomatoes. But yesterday, the black rabbit said there were more dead animals besides the electric eel. So, Sejun decided to give the wolves piranhas and crayfish.

Sejun also really wanted a big breakfast himself. Bringing the eel meat yesterday taught him an easier way to bring up the dead animals.

The black rabbit took several ropes down and tied up the dead piranhas, crayfish, and chunks of eel meat. Sejun only had to pull up the ropes as if he were fishing.

Thanks to the cold water, the carcasses were hardly rotten and could be eaten. Of course, they had to eat detoxifying scallions.

After a hearty meal, Sejun and the rabbits began their morning farming.

“President Theo, put the scallion leaves in a bundle for me.”

He asked Theo to put the scallion leaves in a bundle.

“Understood, nya! Wolf employees, follow me, nya!”

“Yes, President Theo.”

The wolves, who had eaten their fill, moved quickly at Theo’s words. Theo, following Sejun’s instructions, took the wolves and filled the bundle with scallion leaves.

Meanwhile,

Scritch scritch.

Sejun quickly harvested cherry tomatoes.

At that moment,

[You have harvested 9 ripe magic cherry tomatoes simultaneously.]

[Your job experience slightly increases.]

[Your job experience is full.]

[The rank of Top Farmer (D) increases.]

[You have become a Top Farmer (C).]

His job rank had increased.

“Nice.”

Sejun was pleased that he could now harvest even more delicious C-grade crops.

[As your job rank increases, your job trait is enhanced.]

[As a job trait, you become more friendly with nature, and a hidden talent awakens: Friend of Nature.]

“Huh? A talent is awakening?!”

Sejun was very surprised. He thought talents only appeared when someone first became an Awakened person.

Of course, some hunters had new talents appear like Sejun, but they were hiding it. Sejun, as an ordinary person, didn’t know about it.

[Proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 4 slightly increases.]

[Due to the effect of Proficiency Increase Lv. 1, the proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 4 increases by an additional 5%.]

[You have acquired 208 experience.]

Just as Sejun was about to check his new talent,

[Artifact: Saint Patrick’s Straw Hat of the Earth confirms the wearer’s job rank increase.]

[Top Farmer (C) confirmed.]

[The rank of Artifact: Saint Patrick’s Straw Hat of the Earth increases to C.]

[C-grade restriction is lifted.]

[Restriction on Skill – Blessing of the Earth Lv. 4 is lifted.]

[Restriction on Skill – Farmer’s Physique Lv. 3 is lifted.]

[Restriction on Skill – Wish for a Bountiful Harvest Lv. 2 is lifted.]

[Skill – Growth Acceleration Lv. 1 is unlocked.]

Many things changed just by raising his job rank by one.

Sejun checked his new talent again.

[Talent: Friend of Nature]

-A talent with a fairly high affinity for nature.

-Communication becomes smoother when in contact with plants and animals that do not speak the same language.

“Communication becomes smoother when in contact?”

Sejun went up to Kkuengi, who was playing alone.

Kkueng?

Kkuengi tilted his head, wondering what was going on, and looked at Sejun. “What is it?”

Chuck.

Sejun grabbed Kkuengi’s forepaw.

Kkueng?

[Dad, are you going to play with me?]

Kkuengi’s cry began to be translated and heard.

“Oh, amazing!”

Sejun, surprised by the new talent, paused. But Dad? To someone who isn’t even married yet?! No, is that not the problem? You and I are different species!

He decided to explain to Kkuengi later. If Sejun told Kkuengi that he wasn’t his dad and Kkuengi, shocked, said, ‘I hate Dad!’ and hit him, he would die.

People often think of pets like children. Sejun told himself Kkuengi was just a very big pet bear. He wasn’t trying to make excuses to feel better. Not at all.

Having confirmed his new talent, Sejun checked the skills of Saint Patrick’s Straw Hat of the Earth.

Blessing of the Earth increased his intelligence recovery from slightly to a little faster, Farmer’s Physique increased all stats from 3 to 5, and Wish for a Bountiful Harvest increased the area of bountiful harvest from a maximum of 100 pyeong to 300 pyeong.

And the new skill, Growth Acceleration.

[Growth Acceleration Lv. 1]

Active Skill

Accelerates the growth of 10 crops for one week without side effects.

Reuse time: 10 days

He could accelerate the growth of crops for a week! Sejun thought of the potato field, which was not far from harvest. What if he used the skill on the potato field?

“Today’s lunch menu is steamed potatoes!”

Sejun hurried to the potato field.

“Is this how you use it? Growth Acceleration.”

Sejun, using an active skill for the first time, awkwardly reached out and used the skill on the potato field.

[You have used Growth Acceleration Lv. 1.]

[Accelerates the growth of 10 potatoes for one week.]

Light flickered on 10 potato stalks near Sejun.

The outside didn’t change much, but

Crack.

He could hear the sound of potatoes growing from the ground.

Sejun waited for a moment and then pulled the nearest potato stalk to harvest the potatoes.

Plop.

Following the potato stalk, fist-sized potatoes came out in bunches.

[You have harvested 20 ripe Power Potatoes simultaneously.]

[Your job experience slightly increases.]

[Proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 4 slightly increases.]

[Due to the effect of Proficiency Increase Lv. 1, the proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 4 increases by an additional 5%.]

[You have acquired 600 experience.]

Fortunately, the potatoes had grown well.

“Power Potato?”

Sejun checked the options for the potatoes he harvested.

[Power Potato]

It is a potato grown inside the tower and has enough nutrition to be delicious.

It is cultivated by a farmer familiar with farming, making the taste and efficiency better.

When consumed, it breaks down 30g of fat in the body and increases strength by 0.5 for 10 minutes.

The effect can be stacked up to 10 times within an hour.

When consumed by a non-awakened person, it breaks down 30g of fat and the above functions become more active.

Cultivator: Top Farmer Park Sejun

Expiration date: 90 days

Grade: C

Thanks to Sejun’s job rank rising to C-grade, a line was added to the options: ‘Cultivated by a farmer familiar with farming, making the taste and efficiency better.’

As the efficiency improved, the stat gained from breaking down 30g of fat increased from 0.3 to 0.5.

“At this rate, even low-level hunters might be interested?”

Even with D-grade crops, eating 10 only increased stats by 2, but now it increases by a whopping 5. With that much, you could create stats that allow you to equip a level 5 item at level 1. But that wasn’t important now.

“We don’t even have anything to eat.”

Sejun thought that he should sell the potatoes to the hunters later when the potato harvest increased, and hurriedly harvested the remaining potatoes.

The option to activate the above functions was not of great interest to Sejun, who digested well, so it was quickly forgotten.

The total number of potatoes harvested was 197.

“Hum hum hum.”

Sejun hummed as he washed the potatoes. Then, he lined the bottom of three pots with scallion leaves, filled them with potatoes, and began to steam them. The remaining potatoes were wrapped in scallion leaves and made into baked potatoes to eat quickly.

While the potatoes were cooking, Sejun untied one of the ropes tied to the tree branch in front of the pond and pulled it.

It was to make grilled eel for Mother Crimson Giant Bear to eat.

After a while, chunks of eel meat came up along the rope. They were pre-cut and tied by the black rabbit.

Ppyak!

As Sejun pulled the rope, the black rabbit, who was patrolling outside the pond with the giant electric eel’s core, came out of the pond. He knew Sejun was preparing lunch and came out to help.

Sejun grilled the eel with the black rabbit.

At that moment,

Clatter clatter.

Steam began to push the pot lid and leak out.

“Is it cooked well?”

Sejun opened the pot lid and poked a potato with a chopstick made by carving a tree branch.

Plunge. Slide.

The chopstick went into the potato easily. The steamed potato was done.

Kroooooh.

Just in time, Mother Crimson Giant Bear, who had finished her patrol, returned.

“Let’s eat lunch!”

At Sejun’s shout, the animals gathered around the cave.

Sejun first lifted the grilled eel and gave it to Mother Crimson Giant Bear.

Then, Sejun put the steamed and baked potatoes in scallion leaves and took them up to the ground, spreading them in the middle of the animals sitting in a circle.

“Eat carefully, it’s hot.”

Ppoooo.

The rabbits started to grab the potatoes one by one and cool them down.

However, the Crimson Giant Bear mother and child and the two Black Minotaurs grabbed several hot potatoes at once and put them in their mouths.

Crunch crunch.

Steam was coming out of their mouths, but they swallowed the potatoes without a care and picked up the potatoes again to put them in their mouths. Scary guys…

Looking at these moments, monsters were monsters. While Sejun was watching the hot potato eating show of the gluttonous monsters, the potatoes were disappearing quickly.

“Huh?!”

Sejun, quickly coming to his senses, grabbed two steamed potatoes and two baked potatoes for himself and placed them in front of him.

“Hoo hoo.”

He carefully peeled the steamed potato while blowing on it. After peeling about half of the potato skin,

Gobble.

Sejun took a bite of the potato.

“Hoo. It’s hot.”

It was hot, but he didn’t spit it out. Instead, he cooled the potato in his mouth and chewed it.

“Ugh. It’s so delicious!”

Sejun was moved by the fluffy texture of the potato. Having finished one steamed potato quickly, Sejun peeled another steamed potato and dipped it in salt this time.

Sejun originally liked to eat steamed potatoes with sugar, so he was sad that there was no sugar, but

“Mmm. It’s good.”

Eating it with salt wasn’t bad either.

And so, their warm and filling potato lunch ended.

“President Theo, the scallion leaves?”

“I filled it up, nya!”

At Sejun’s question, Theo saluted, having learned it from somewhere, and answered.

“Then, shall we go a little further to digest? Woo Cheonsam, guide us to King Uma.”

Sejun decided to go further away from the cave for the first time to receive the price of the hit-and-run from King Uma.

When Theo told Woo Cheonsam Sejun’s words,

Moo?!

At the word King Uma, Woo Cheonsam remembered King Uma’s instructions and was flustered.

“I’m just going to give him some scallion leaves and have a conversation.”

For now, he didn’t tell Woo Cheonsam about King Uma’s hit-and-run. He could use this to gain an advantage in the negotiation, so there was no reason to give it up.

Moo!

Woo Cheonsam was very pleased at Sejun’s words. Taking Sejun would mean carrying out King Uma’s orders.

Moo!

Woo Cheonsam happily decided to guide Sejun to King Uma.

Day 208 of being stranded. Sejun finally left the cave to attack the boss of the 99th floor of the tower.