Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 60

Enemies were everywhere. There were so many of them.

Luckily, the enemies came from the west. No crops grew there, so it was safe. And these enemies were not too strong. They were just twig monsters.

He just had to last until morning. When the sun rose, the Crimson Giant Bear Mother and the Black Minotaurs would come to help.

‘I must find a way to slow them down.’ Sejun shouted into the cave, “Everyone, get the torches ready!”

*Rabbit sounds.* The rabbits quickly put the torches they had made into baskets and tied ropes to them.

“Black Rabbit, get fire from the kitchen!” Sejun told the Black Rabbit, pulling up the torches. He thought fire would hurt the wooden enemies.

*Rabbit sound.* The Black Rabbit quickly went to get fire from the kitchen in the brick house.

Suddenly, *sound of footsteps on the ground*. A few twig scouts came closer.

*Rabbit sounds.* The Black Rabbit, sitting on Sejun’s shoulder and protecting him while he pulled the rope, fought the enemies.

*Sound of torches being arranged.* Sejun, after pulling up the torches, put them in a circle, with the burning parts pointing to the middle. He lit them. Then, he took a burning torch and threw it as hard as he could at the enemy.

*Sound of torch flying.* *Sound of torch flying.* The torch flew far, 50 meters, and hit the front of the enemy group. *Sound of fire.* The enemy’s body caught fire. It burned brightly, which was good.

*Sound of something falling.* The twig scout, completely on fire, could only walk a few steps before falling down.

A message seemed to appear in Sejun’s mind: “You defeated a small twig scout of the Corrupted Ent.” He felt a little stronger, like he had learned something.

The other twig scouts moved left and right to avoid the fire.

“Everyone, keep making torches!” Sejun told the rabbits inside the cave to keep working. *Sound of torches flying.* *Sound of torches flying.* He threw more torches at the twig scouts.

Sejun threw many torches. More and more twig scouts fell, burning in the fire. Soon, there was a wall of fire.

And, *rabbit sounds.* The Black Rabbit fought the twig scouts that tried to come through the fire.

“Yes, this is working.” Sejun thought. Just a few more hours of throwing torches, and he would survive until morning. He kept throwing torches, attacking the enemies.

*Sound of fire.* *Message in his mind: Enemy defeated. Experience gained.* … Experience points kept coming as the twig scouts burned.

Also, *Message: Crops killed a pest. Experience gained.* … The Red Locusts started attacking again, giving him even more experience points.

Soon after, *Message: Level Up! Bonus point gained.* Sejun felt stronger. He had reached level 22.

“Great. I’ll use the bonus point to make my magic stronger…” He even had time to think about how to use his new point.

‘If things keep going like this, maybe I can beat them all before morning?’ Just as Sejun started to feel sure he would win, *sound of footsteps*. “Huh?” It was like the world was laughing at him. Creatures much bigger than before, over 2 meters tall, came from the back of the enemy group.

*Message: Large Twig Scout of the Corrupted Ent.* These new enemies were called Large Twig Scouts. They had long legs and jumped over the fire wall easily.

“So what? They’re still wood!” Sejun shouted and threw a torch at a large twig scout. *Sound of wood hitting wood.* But the large twig scout just hit the torch away, like it was nothing more than a mosquito. It seemed like fire didn’t hurt them much.

“Oh no…” Sejun became worried when he saw the torches didn’t work.

Suddenly, *rabbit sound!* The Black Rabbit ran fast and attacked the large twig scout’s leg. *Rabbit sound!* The large twig scout wobbled because its leg was broken by the Black Rabbit. *Rabbit sound!* The Black Rabbit jumped high, lifted its hammer over its head, and hit the large twig scout hard in the body.

*Loud rabbit sound!!!* *Sound of something heavy falling.* The large twig scout fell down because of the Black Rabbit’s attack.

But then, *sound of footsteps*. *Sound of footsteps.* While the Black Rabbit fought one large twig scout, thousands more were coming through the fire and getting closer.

Suddenly, a huge shadow started to cover everything around them. “Huh?! You’re here?!” Mother Crimson Giant Bear and the Ox King arrived.

*Roar of a bear!* *Heavy footsteps.* *Heavy footsteps.* *Sound of impact!* Mother Crimson Giant Bear ran towards the large twig scouts. Everything around her was destroyed.

The Ox King joined the fight too. *Sound of a cow!* *Sound of wind.* *Sound of impact!* The Ox King swung his weapon, the red bone, once. The large twig scouts in front of him were blown away like they were in a strong storm.

And, *sound of Kkweengi!* *Sound of a cow!* Kkweengi and the Black Minotaurs protected Sejun.

*** Meanwhile, far away… *Sound of water splashing.* “Heh heh heh. Feeling refreshed.” Eileen got out of the lake after her bath.

Aileen crunched happily on the dried sweet potato Sejun had given her. “Mmm, sweet!” she mumbled, her mouth full.

Having satisfied her hunger, Aileen decided to watch what the hardworking human was up to.

She guessed it was late, and Sejun would likely be asleep. But watching him sleep, she thought happily, was the quickest way to make morning come.

“Crystal ball.”

Whoosh.

At Aileen’s call, the crystal ball appeared before her. As Aileen’s dragon magic grew stronger, she found she could now use the crystal ball to see far away.

“Hee hee. If a little more magic grows, I’ll be able to hear the admirable human’s voice, won’t I?”

Aileen, thinking about the crystal ball’s voice support, used it to look at Sejun’s brick house. But Sejun wasn’t in the bedroom.

“Huh? Where did he go?”

Aileen looked outside the brick house. There, she saw Sejun fighting with the Ent’s branches.

“Kraaah! Those Ents! How dare they attack my admirable human!”

A surge of dragon fire wanted to burst from her throat, ready to incinerate the entire forest. But she was still too weak! Frustration gnawed at her. She desperately wished she could protect her admirable human.

Still, it was a relief that the hardworking human was fighting well against the branches.

“Get stronger quickly, human,” she whispered.

As Aileen cheered for Sejun and looked around, she gasped.

“Huh?! Even those guys?!”

Thousands of large branch scouts were rapidly approaching from 5km away from Sejun’s house.

“What should I do?! The human can’t stop those…”

The level difference between the small and large ones was significant. Moreover, there were too many of them.

“Mama Bear! Wake up!”

“King Uma! Wake up!”

Aileen started sending messages to wake up Mama Crimson Giant Bear and King Uma.

“How did you guys know…?” Sejun wondered.

[The Tower’s Administrator says that she woke up Mama Crimson Giant Bear and King Uma.]

[The Tower’s Administrator boasts that he can trust her and sleep soundly from now on.]

“Aileen, thank you. I survived thanks to you.”

[……]

For some reason, Aileen didn’t respond to Sejun’s words. Aileen’s heart was suddenly beating too fast at Sejun’s words.

At that moment, Kooeng called out.

“Kooeng!”

Kooeng called Sejun in front of the large branch scout.

“Why, Kooeng?”

As Sejun approached, he heard a snap.

He could see that the large branch scout, whose arms and legs were all broken, was trying to move even though it wasn’t dead yet.

“Huh?! It’s not dead yet?”

Stab.

[You have defeated the corrupted Ent’s large branch scout.]

[You have gained 500 experience.]

As Sejun killed the large branch scout, he heard a thwack!

“Kooeng!”

Kooeng smashed the last remaining arm of the moving large branch scout and called Sejun.

“Oh! This one doesn’t have arms and legs either.”

Stab!

Sejun took the last hit again.

Meanwhile, Kooeng neutralized the branch scouts again and called Sejun again.

The Black Minotaurs watched, impressed. Kooeng was clearly trying to help his father get stronger.

Crack.

“Moo!”

Following Kooeng, they broke the arms and legs of the surviving branch scouts and called Sejun.

As Sejun monopolized the experience with the help of Kooeng and the Black Minotaurs, his level rose once more, reaching level 23.

Peep… Peep…

From the cave came soft peeping sounds. Theo’s feeling was right – new creatures were arriving, and they seemed to be drawn to Sejun.

In front of the merchant passage connecting the 50th floor to the 40th floor of the tower, Theo looked uneasy.

“I feel uneasy, meow,” Theo said, looking at his whiskers, which were trembling. He felt like he had to return to the 99th floor of the tower quickly.

“I can’t do this, meow! Elka, let’s go at top speed, meow!”

“Yes! Representative Theo! I will serve you quickly and safely!”

At Theo’s words, Elka put Theo on his back and started running.

“Humans, I have arrived, meow!” Theo announced his arrival while riding on Elka’s back as he arrived at the 38th floor camp in 12 hours.

“Theo, wait a moment. I’ll call the people soon,” a hunter said.

The hunters who were resting at the camp hurriedly contacted their colleagues.

“Okay, meow! The generous me will wait, meow!” Theo said, putting his hand on his waist while on Elka’s back. They weren’t greatly surprised even after seeing the Silver Wolf tribe. It was because they had seen wandering merchants sometimes accompanied by mercenaries.

After a while, the hunters began to gather.

‘Puhu. There are more humans, meow!’ Theo was pleased to see nearly 500 hunters gathered. The reason for the increase in the number of hunters was the rumor about the new crop, Detox Green Onion.

The Royal Knight obtained 30 Detox Green Onions. With the guild’s permission, one of the guild members fed one to his father, who had terminal liver cancer.

And Sejun’s crop surprised the world once again. After eating the Detox Green Onion, cancer cells began to disappear from the liver of the terminal liver cancer patient within 24 hours.

As a result, wealthy people suffering from liver cancer asked hunters for Detox Green Onions, and the number of hunters increased once again.

“Today, I will first sell a total of 6,000 C-grade Magic Cherry Tomatoes in auctions of 500 each, and then sell a total of 3,000 D-grade Detox Green Onions in sets of 100, meow!” Theo announced.

Theo invested all the incentives he received from Sejun in his luggage, and as the luggage capacity increased, he packed Detox Green Onions, which were popular among humans.

And he deliberately put the order behind the cherry tomatoes. That way, the humans who wanted to buy green onions would stay.

‘Puhu. Now I’m a mid-level wandering merchant who knows business tactics, meow!’ Theo thought proudly.

“650 Tower Coins for 500!” A hunter shouted.

The hunters began to call out prices to buy Magic Cherry Tomatoes.

As the number of Magic Cherry Tomatoes released increased, the price gradually stabilized, and on average, it was settled at approximately 1.45 Tower Coins per tomato.

“The Magic Cherry Tomatoes are sold out, meow!” Theo announced.

In that way, he sold 6,000 Magic Cherry Tomatoes and earned an income of 8,700 Tower Coins.

“Now, I will sell Detox Green Onions, meow!” Theo said, and a fierce competition among the hunters began.

“2,500 Tower Coins for 100!”

“3,000 Tower Coins for 100!”

“3,500 Tower Coins for 100!”

The guild members of the Phoenix Guild, Royal Knight Guild, and Wizard Guild, who participated in the auction, gave up bidding at the rapidly rising prices. Today was not their day.

“7,200 Tower Coins for 100!”

“Sold, meow!”

“7,600 Tower Coins for 100!”

“Sold, meow!”

The hunters who came with requests from wealthy people who could pay tens of billions for their lives swept away the Detox Green Onions.

It was really whatever price they called. If they couldn’t eat the Magic Cherry Tomatoes, their vitality would decrease, but if they couldn’t eat the Detox Green Onions, they would die.

For the wealthy, this was not a matter of being able to assess the value.

In that way, Theo sold 3,000 Detox Green Onions and earned 215,200 Tower Coins.

‘Puhu. Now, the dream of becoming an excellent wandering merchant is not far away, meow!’ Theo thought.

Before he knew it, Theo’s sales amount was approaching 1 million Tower Coins, which was the condition for promotion to an excellent wandering merchant. Of course, other conditions were also required.

“Humans who want to take a picture with me, line up, meow!” Theo took pictures with the hunters and received Churu, seasoning, and coffee as rewards.

“Then, see you next time, meow!” Theo hurriedly left the camp to go to the 99th floor of the tower.

At that moment, five hunters who had tried to kidnap Theo but instead had their lives mortgaged approached hesitantly.

“Um… Mr. Theo.”