Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 602

Black Tower, 99th floor.

Pochy had been sitting sadly on the floor for hours. He slowly stood up, wiping dust from his pants.

“Kkyuk,” he mumbled quietly.

“Sejun,” Pochy said, trying to sound cheerful, “Momori wasn’t really right for me anyway.” He was trying to pretend he didn’t care. But it had been three hours since Momori left, and he still felt a little empty inside.

“Pochy, you’re too late.”

Sejun picked up Pochy, who looked like he was about to cry, and held him in his palm, gently stroking his head to comfort him.

Pochy felt a little better.

Kkyuk! Kkyuk!

“[I need to train! Sejun No. 3! Let’s train together!]”

He started training with Sejun No. 3, who had been practicing his swordsmanship without stopping.

A little while later.

Kkyuk!

“[Sejun, I suddenly understand! I’ve learned something new!]”

Pochy moved the sword without even touching it. It was the Sword Energy Control Technique.

[>Hero of Hamk>, Pochy, the wielder of a single sword]

He had reached a new level.

“Congratulations, Pochy!”

Swordsmanship made him forget his sadness.

‘Does he get stronger every time he gets dumped?’

Sejun realized that Pochy was able to reach his current level because of his heartbreak.

Just then,

[Dragon Fruit, using Beginner Mana Swordsmanship, has gained great understanding from Park Sejun’s special energy.]

[Dragon Fruit’s understanding, influenced by Park Sejun’s special energy, is transferred to Park Sejun in the Black Tower.]

[The level of the Beginner Mana Swordsmanship skill has increased by 5.]

[Beginner Mana Swordsmanship is now Lv. 9.]

Messages appeared before Sejun.

Sejun No. 3, who was next to him, also seemed to be influenced by Pochy, as his Beginner Mana Swordsmanship skill level increased by 5 as well.

Hehehe. How many times does Pochy need to be dumped for my swordsmanship skills to level up quickly?

Sejun smiled in a sneaky way, planning to make Pochy get dumped again.

“Nyang?!”

Chairman Park’s face, which cost a lot of money, was quickly rotting away, nyang!

Theo was gently massaging Chairman Park.

“Let’s have dinner now.”

“Puhuhoot. Good, nyang!”

“Kkueng!”

“Kking!”

The group cheered at the mention of having a meal.

Sejun went to the cafeteria with his friends to prepare dinner.

“Pochy, what would you like to eat?”

Sejun asked Pochy what he wanted to eat to celebrate his improvement, and

Kkyuk! Kkyuk!

“[Roasted peanuts! And add about two roasted walnuts too.]”

“Okay.”

Sejun added pine nuts to the peanuts and walnuts that Pochy requested. He also prepared strawberries and green grapes as fruit and placed them in front of Pochy.

And

“Kkuenga, is it delicious?”

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

“[Hehehe. It’s delicious!]”

Sejun made honey rice cakes with Kkuenga for the first time in a while.

Theo and the Blackie family always ate grilled fish and dried sweet potato, so Kkuenga was the only one who ate the same thing as Sejun.

After everyone enjoyed a delicious dinner,

“Ugh. I’m full. I ate too much.”

Sejun patted his full stomach and lay down on the porch.

“Puhuhoot.”

Kkuhehehe.

Kkihihit.

Theo, Kkuenga, and Blackie each climbed onto Sejun’s body and took their usual spots.

Kkyuk!

“[I’m going back to training!]”

Pochy said he needed to practice his new understanding and started training with Sejun No. 3 again.

“Wow. The sky is beautiful.”

Sejun admired the sky as it turned dark.

It was the same sky he saw every day, but it always looked different and sometimes created scenes that were amazing to see.

As the night got darker and the sky was completely dark,

“One, two…”

Sejun counted the number of stars he had floated in the sky.

“Nineteen.”

Including the 12 Zodiac stars and the 7 stars Sejun floated later, a total of 19 stars were shining in the sky.

[Ice Cube], [Piercing], [Blind], [Darkness], and other stars with unique powers.

“Can I use Starlink now?”

Sejun looked at the stars and suddenly thought of his power, Starlink.

He used to faint because he wasn’t strong enough mentally, but Sejun’s mental strength had grown a lot since then.

Well, if I fail, I’ll just faint.

It wasn’t like he was going to die, so there was nothing to be afraid of this time.

Having decided to use his power,

“Starlink.”

He tried to connect with a star that he liked.

[>Authority: Starlink> is used to connect to [Delicious].]

And

-Hello, Sejun!

Along with [Delicious]’s voice, a lot of information started to fill Sejun’s mind.

······.

Sejun quietly thought about the information he received.

And

Tap.

He lightly touched the end of the dried sweet potato that Blackie had left uneaten. He had a feeling that touching it there would make it even more delicious.

As Sejun touched the dried sweet potato,

Kking! Kking!

[Butler! That’s the great Blackie’s! I left it there to eat later!]

Blackie, who had been lying on his back on Sejun’s chest, jumped up and bit the dried sweet potato that Sejun had touched.

And

Kking?!

Why is it so delicious?!

Blackie was surprised. The dried sweet potato was already delicious, but now it was even more delicious.

Kking?!

[Butler! What did you do?!]

Blackie barked at Sejun, excited.

Kuh-ooh-uh.

Sejun had fainted. Connecting with a star and using its power were two different things.

“Nyang?! Chairman Park, when did you fall asleep, nyang? Kkuenga, let’s move him together, nyang!”

“Kkueng!”

Theo lifted Sejun’s back and Kkuenga lifted Sejun’s legs over their heads to move him.

And

Kkihihit.

Slurp. Slurp. Slurp.

Blackie deliciously ate the dried sweet potato that Sejun had made delicious, on top of Sejun’s chest as he was being moved.

A little while later.

Kuh-ooh-uh.

Guh-ro-rong.

Kki-ro-rong.

···

..

.

The quiet bedroom was filled only with the sound of Sejun, Theo, and the Blackie family snoring.

Kkyuk! Kkyuk!

“[No! Sejun No. 3, you need to twist it a bit more here!]”

Pochy and Sejun No. 3 trained hard all night with swordsmanship.

***

Blackie’s mental world.

“I’m sorry.”

“”We’re sorry.””

The Blackie family apologized to the souls again today.

The Blackie Family had apologized so much that I felt like I’d forgiven about a million of them. Okay, maybe not a million, but it felt like a lot.

Blackie grumbled, a low sound like tiny stones rolling around. He was still annoyed about something, even after all those apologies.

The red energy, which had been leaking from the upset souls in Blackie’s mind, swirled together again. Slowly, like smoke taking shape, the shadowy figure of Corruption began to reappear. It felt cold and wrong, like a bad smell you couldn’t get rid of.

But Blackie, despite the grumbling, had a glint in his tiny eyes. He’d been waiting for this. The Blackie Family had a plan.

Blackie puffed himself up, pointing a tiny paw. “Ink Tentacle! Now!”

Ink Tentacle, always eager to please Blackie, replied quickly, “Right away, Captain Blackie!”

Blackie commanded, “Ink Tentacle, make copies of yourself! Quickly!”

With a rush of inky smoke and a soft *pop-pop-pop* sound, eight Ink Tentacles appeared around Sejun’s sleeping body.

With a gentle *whoosh* of air, Ink Tentacle’s copies carefully lifted Sejun’s head and softly opened his eyelids. They needed Sejun to look at Blackie.

Suddenly, a beam of golden light, like sunshine breaking through clouds, streamed down into Blackie’s mental world.

That’s right. Only Sejun’s gaze could stop Corruption. His title, ‘One Who Has Long Peered into the Beginning,’ held a special power. It was the power of creation, of pure beginnings, and it burned away the twisted, dark thoughts that made up Corruption. As Sejun’s golden gaze touched it, Corruption hissed and shrank back, like shadows fleeing from the dawn.

Once Corruption was gone, Ink Tentacle gently lowered Sejun’s head back onto his pillow and the copies vanished in puffs of ink. Ink Tentacle himself returned to Blackie’s mental world, mission accomplished.

With Corruption gone for now, Blackie felt a little calmer. Sejun, undisturbed, slept soundly until morning.

The next day…

“You guys wait here for a bit.”

Sejun, having stopped by the 10th floor to collect the seeds of the Devouring Predator, stood before the dimensional gate and spoke. If another Devouring Theo was born like last time, the workers would decrease.

The Devouring Predators nodded their Sejun-like heads. ‘Affirmative! We will join you in ten cycles!’ one of them said in a slightly gurgling voice.

“Alright.”

As Sejun entered the >Earthworm> first,

Squelch. Squelch.

Six bubbles of Devouring began to transform into Sejun’s appearance.

“Welcome, everyone.”

While Sejun was distributing the seeds of the Devouring Predator to the workers,

“Puhu-hut. Chairman Park, I missed you, meow!”

Squawk!

Squeak!

Theo, Squawk, and the Blackie Family came out of the dimensional gate and ran towards Sejun.

Sejun blinked, counting the Devouring Predators. “Wait a minute,” he said, frowning. “There are only ten of you. Where are number two and number four?”

The Devouring Predators explained to Sejun the reason why two were missing.

“Suddenly, Sejun No. 2 and No. 4 turned into blue water droplets?”

What is this?

The Devouring Predator showed two drops of transparent liquid, presenting a leaf.

[Tears of an Immature Creation God]

“?!!”

Why is something like this coming out when I purified the Tears of Devouring?

“Blackie, what is the relationship between Devouring and the Creation God?”

Sejun, feeling curious, asked Blackie, who was pushing away the Devouring Predators asking to play.

Blackie answered as if it were obvious. “Of course! Devouring is originally the next Creation God!”

Hey! How am I supposed to know that?! Even the Dragon Gods don’t know that!

Sejun, feeling unfairly ignored, immediately began to punish Blackie.

“Boobooboob.”

Of course, it was a situation where the punishment wasn’t really a punishment, but—Sejun’s anger had been resolved, so it was indeed a punishment.

“Puhu-hut.”

Following that, he gave belly rubs to Theo and Blackie, who were waiting with their bellies exposed.

When the Devouring Sejuns offered their bellies, Sejun shuddered. “Absolutely not! Some things are just… wrong.” He quickly turned away, trying to shake off the disturbing image of himself giving belly rubs to copies of himself.

Having chased away the Devouring Sejuns,

“So, the next Creation God is Devouring?”

Sejun asked Blackie about Devouring again.

Blackie explained, “I don’t really know! From some day, his personality gradually became eccentric, so we didn’t play together, and suddenly he became corrupted and turned into Devouring!”

Gabulto, the youngest of the Blackie Family, cautiously offered his opinion. “Captain Blackie… but… wasn’t the ‘Corruption’ we saw… the thing that *corrupted* Devouring?”

Blackie glared at Gabulto. “Gabulto! Don’t interrupt when the Captain is speaking! I was getting to that!” He then continued to Sejun, but with a slightly less confident tone.

“Corruption?”

Blackie explained to Sejun about the Corruption he had seen. “Yes! We apologized to the souls, and…”

“Hmm. So, I need to keep an eye on it? My title has such an effect too.”

“Alright. Then, I’ll watch over you when Blackie apologizes.”

Gabulto, who had interrupted Blackie’s words, was scolded by Blackie. “Hey! The great Captain Blackie was going to tell the butler about ‘Corruption,’ but why did you say it first?! I told you not to be cheeky!”

While Blackie was scolding Gabulto, Sejun examined the Tears of an Immature Creation God.

[Tears of an Immature Creation God]
A drop of tears shed by an immature Creation God in sorrow. Contains a powerful creation energy. Upon consumption, grants 20 million experience points and increases all stats by 50.

“Oh.”

Not bad? Tears of Devouring, you really give generously! I thought it was a win-win-win, but it’s a win-win-win-win.

“Good things should be eaten right away.”

At that moment,

[The >One Who Has Long Peered into the Beginning> slightly grasps the essence of the Tears of an Immature Creation God.]

A faint golden light emanated from Sejun’s eyes, and a line of explanation was added to the Tears of an Immature Creation God.

-The amount is sufficient to create 5 drops of the Great Growth Elixir.

Ah. The Tears of the Creation God are a material for the Great Growth Elixir. Sejun learned one more piece of information. He decided to keep it for when he met Emila, the first apostle of the Creation God who could create the Great Growth Elixir.

After taking the tears and working again, the five Devouring Sejuns who had shown their bellies to Sejun earlier also turned into water droplets.

Should I have done it for them?

He felt a slight sense of pity, but when he imagined himself giving belly rubs to himself,

“This is not it! Snap out of it, Park Sejun!”

Sejun shook his head violently in horror.

As evening approached,

Pochy hopped excitedly towards Sejun, brandishing two small swords. “Sejun! Look! I can use two swords now!” Pochy’s dedication to becoming stronger was clear to see. He trained tirelessly, driven by his own mysterious motivations.