Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 606

Black Tower Administrator Zone.

Dalkomi, the Demigod Poison Honeybee Queen, sounded grumpy. She told Eileen that some gods who don’t fight had made a mistake. They thought she was Sejun’s partner.

After Dalkomi, who had been visiting the Seed Shop headquarters, told Eileen about the non-combat gods’ error,

“What?! About Dalkomi?!” Eileen exclaimed.

Those non-combat gods dare to pair Dalkomi with our Sejun?!

Eileen got very angry, and her power grew around her.

Ace, who had been playing happily near Eileen, turned pale with fear.

Dalkomi explained that she had told them Eileen is Sejun-nim’s girlfriend, so the non-combat gods understood the truth.

“Okay, I understand. Thank you for letting me know,” Eileen said.

Just as Eileen was calming down, several dragons entered the administrator zone, each holding a baby dragon.

“Eileen, we’re here!”

“Hello!”

“Long time no see!”

The baby dragons, as soon as they were set down, rushed to greet Eileen.

“Welcome, everyone!” Eileen said, greeting the baby dragons.

“Welcome. Thank you for coming all this way.”

She made sure to greet the adult dragons respectfully.

Baby dragons are usually spoiled. They don’t need to be polite to adults.

But Eileen was very polite to the adult dragons. ‘This will make me look good and help Sejun later,’ she thought with a giggle. She treated them with respect, just like Sejun taught her.

“Hardship? Don’t be silly! Eileen works harder than any of us,”

“Exactly! I heard the Dragon Dragon Market is absolutely packed these days!”

“It’s okay because you all come and help me sometimes,”

“Ho ho ho. Does that mean you want us to come more often?”

“Hee hee. Did you catch on?”

“Ho ho ho. Alright. We’ll come often.”

“Then we’ll go talk to Elizabeth, so call us if anything happens.”

“Yes.”

The adult dragons had a nice chat with Eileen and left to find Elizabeth.

As she watched the adult dragons leave,

“Huh?! Ace, what’s wrong?”

Garlic noticed that Ace was starting to cry loudly.

“Waaah! I was scared!” Ace cried.

“Ace, don’t cry! We’ll play with you!”

“Yeah! Stop crying and play with Sylvia!”

“What are you talking about?! Ace should play with Poby!”

The baby dragons tried to comfort Ace.

“Hehe. What are we going to play?” Ace asked shyly, smiling a little.

“Super Hero Landing?”

“Hide-and-seek?”

As the baby dragons suggested games Eileen had taught them,

“Hehe. Let’s play something even more fun than that!”

“More fun?”

“Hehe. Yes! Let’s play farming!”

“Huh?!”

“Eh?!”

Ace smiled brightly and grabbed a shovel.

“I tried it with my brother-in-law, and it’s fun!”

“Really?”

“Is this the game that Top Farmer Park Sejun plays?”

The baby dragons became very interested when they heard it was a game played by Sejun, the popular dragon.

Black Tower, 99th Floor.

“That’s strange. I definitely got stronger…”

Sejun looked gloomy as he watched the poison honeybees and mushroom ants walk by.

His stats had increased a lot, but the poison honeybees were still faster, and the mushroom ants were still stronger.

“Why?”

I got stronger!

Sejun started to doubt his own progress.

I should go to the Ox King and get tested.

He stood up to go see the Ox King.

“Nya? President Park, where are you going, nya?!”

Theo, Kkuengi, and Kamangi also stood up and asked.

“I’m going to the Ox King.”

“Hehe. Let’s go, nya!”

So, Sejun and his friends went to find the Ox King.

The Ox King measured Sejun’s strength.

“Huh? 2 minutes and 50 seconds?” Sejun was shocked.

The time had actually decreased by 10 seconds!

He couldn’t withstand the Ox King’s fingers for as long as before.

The people on the 99th floor had not been lazy while Sejun was improving.

And the reason why everyone on the 99th floor was getting stronger was,

“Hehet. Sejun-nim, cheer up! If you eat a lot of the nutrients I gave you, you’ll be able to last 5 minutes next time.”

“Okay. Thank you,” Sejun said.

It was Fire, who comforted Sejun and offered him nutrients.

Not only the poison honeybees and mushroom ants, but all the creatures in the tower were absorbing Fire’s power and helping Fire stay in the tower.

The Ox King and Pink Fur, who had more potential than the others, had grown the most by eating Fire’s nutrients.

However, the blessing of the sacred fire in the Immortal Apple that Sejun had eaten was not in the other nutrients.

Fire had to be very careful when making that, so he only gave it to Sejun.

Even though he had grown a lot,

“Am I the weakest again…” Sejun felt down and went home, feeling like he was at the bottom again because everyone else had grown too.

“Ah, I feel gloomy. I should eat something spicy.”

He made tteokbokki, the spicy rice cakes, with a generous spoonful of sun-dried chili paste and fiery Cheongyang peppers. The red sauce bubbled and steamed, smelling intensely hot. He ate it, sweating a lot.

“Hoo. That’s refreshing,” Sejun’s mood quickly improved.

Moreover, Kkuengi thoughtfully made him cool chocolate milk instead of coffee.

“Hehehe. Thank you.”

Thanks to that, Sejun felt great, as if he had never been down at all.

Sejun, resting with his friends and drinking chocolate milk, spoke to Eileen.

“Eileen, did you enjoy the tteokbokki?”

The Tower Manager sighed, shaking her head. “It’s just Sylvia and me who like the spicy rice cakes. Ace and the others only eat the soy sauce ones.” She sounded a little sad that her spicy cooking wasn’t loved by everyone.

Aileen’s voice came through Sejun’s mind, clear as a bell.

Hearing that other baby dragons from the tower had come to visit Aileen, Sejun made more rice cakes and sent them to her, two flavors: spicy and soy sauce.

“Well, it could happen.”

“The tower manager says that rice cakes would sell well if they were sold at Dragon Dragon Market.”

“Should I do that? It’s not hard to make them anyway. I can just make them easily with my cooking skill.”

While Sejun was talking with Aileen, he heard a small, sad sound.

Whimper… Whimper…

Whether it was because he was apologizing to the spirits again, Kkamangi began to whimper upon encountering the corruption.

Kkamangi is working too hard, Sejun thought, watching the little black dragon.

Sejun stroked Kkamangi’s belly as he watched him apologizing so diligently these days.

A little later, Kkamangi cried out.

“Butler! Give me some dried sweet potato!”

Kkamangi, having regained his senses, urgently demanded dried sweet potato.

“Alright.”

Normally, he would have grumbled about Kkamangi acting like he had a standing order for dried sweet potato, but not today, because Kkamangi seemed very anxious. But it didn’t seem like he had caused any trouble.

Smack. Smack. Smack.

Kkamangi didn’t laugh as usual, but hurriedly ate the dried sweet potato, then, Kkirorong, he fell asleep again, taking in the energy of the world. He went to apologize to the spirits again.

Why is he like that?

Sejun looked at Kkamangi worriedly. Sejun’s heart ached as he looked at Kkamangi. Something was really wrong. He felt a pang of worry for his little friend.

No matter how he looked at it, this wasn’t the usual Kkamangi. He was in a great hurry, as if he was being chased by something.

“I don’t think I can leave him like this… Vice Chairman Theo, help me out.”

“Puhuhoot. The great Hybrid Chairman Park, what do you need help with, nyaang?! I, Vice Chairman Theo, will help you with everything, nyaang!” Theo asked in an excited voice at Sejun’s request for help.

“Let me enter Kkamangi’s mental world.”

“Puhuhoot. I understand, nyaang! Help me, a giant version of Sejun in Theo’s mind, nyaang!”

Theo placed his front paws on Sejun’s forehead and Kkamangi’s head, and asked the giant version of Sejun in Theo’s mind for help.

The super-ultra-giant Chairman Park became Sejun dressed as Santa Claus in Theo’s mind, emptying Theo’s mental world. But when the great black dragons visited during Christmas, a huge amount of energy overflowed around them.

“Puhuhoot. I can quickly grow Chairman Park number 2, nyaang!”

Theo used his talent: Energy Inhaler to absorb the overflowing energy of the great dragon. Thanks to that, Chairman Park number 2 grew into an ultra-giant Chairman Park number 2 as soon as he was born.

Kuh-uh-uh.

Grolong.

Kkirorong.

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As Sejun, Theo, and the Kkamangi family fell asleep, Kkueng? Kkuengi also imitated Theo, placing his two front paws on the heads of a passing poisonous bee and mushroom ant.

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Kkamangi’s mental world.

“I’m sorry. This is a gift of apology.”

“I’m sorry.”

Kkamangi and his subordinates gave dried sweet potatoes to the spirits, apologizing and receiving forgiveness. But…

“I even apologized like this. Can’t you forgive me now?”

Why aren’t you forgiving me quickly?!

Kkamangi became impatient and increasingly angry at the spirits who were not forgiving him quickly. Of course, Kkamangi’s dissatisfied attitude was outwardly apparent, and…

“I… can’t… forgive…”

The more Kkamangi acted like that, the redder the spirits’ eyes became, and they did not forgive Kkamangi. And…

“Grrrr.”

Kkamangi became anxious and angrier, and was increasingly trapped in a vicious cycle. The more the vicious cycle continued, the more Kkamangi’s anxiety grew.

If I become a burden like this, I’ll be abandoned again! I’ll be betrayed by my butler!

No, no, I can’t let that happen again. I have to be good. I have to be forgiven.

It was because he was afraid of being betrayed by Sejun, whom he trusted. Before he knew it, the seeds of distrust sown by the corruption were taking root in Kkamangi’s trauma. At that moment…

Thud!

“Kkamangi, is that how you apologize?!”

“That’s right, nyaang! Apologize properly, nyaang!”

Sejun and Theo, who were watching from the shoulder of the ultra-giant Chairman Park number 2, shouted.

“Huh?! Butler! That’s…”

When Kkamangi was flustered by Sejun’s sudden appearance and tried to explain to Sejun…

“I knew this would happen!”

“That’s right, nyaang! I knew this would happen too, nyaang!”

“Vice Chairman Theo, slice this up.”

“Puhuhoot. I understand, nyaang!”

Sejun and Theo, who came down from the ultra-giant Chairman Park number 2, quickly made dried sweet potatoes.

“Our Kkamangi did something wrong, but he’s still not good at apologizing. Eat this and let go of your anger. Okay?”

They handed out dried sweet potatoes to the spirits. Because it was the mental world, he could take out sweet potatoes as he pleased, and dried sweet potatoes were made in an instant.

“Puhuhoot. Forgive our Kkamangi, nyaang! Or I’ll stamp you with my seal…”

“Hey!”

Theo tried to stamp the spirit with his seal, but was caught by Sejun and quietly clung to Sejun’s knee.

“Nyaang nyaang nyaang.”

Of course, this was a better thing for Theo. As Sejun diligently handed out dried sweet potatoes to the spirits…

“Forgiveness is something you do… I shouldn’t force you… I’m really sorry.”

“I’m sorry…”

The Kkamangi family also followed Sejun and began to apologize to the spirits with all their heart again. Fortunately, the eyes of the spirits, which had been dyed red, gradually turned clear one by one, and…

“I… forgive you.”

Spirits appeared who forgave the Kkamangi family. It was a terribly slow pace compared to before, but with Sejun there, Kkamangi’s impatience disappeared, and he was able to apologize sincerely without being hasty.

Considering the Kkamangi family’s attitude a little while ago, it was something to be very grateful for just that there were spirits who forgave them.

Whoosh.

This time, the red energies that came out of the spirits touched Sejun’s gaze and immediately disappeared. Thanks to this, there was no chance of encountering corruption, and Sejun and his party peacefully apologized to the spirits, and…

…Yo!

“Huh?”

Kkueng!

“[Dad, wake up!]”

Sejun woke up to the sound of Kkuengi waking him up.

“…? Why is it so bright around here? It was dark when he closed his eyes, but now it was bright.”

Kkueng!

“[Dad, it’s morning!]”

“It’s already morning?”

Kkueng!

“[That’s right!]”

Sejun had been handing out dried sweet potatoes in Kkamangi’s mental world all night.

Then I have to work again?!

Sejun’s new day began.