Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 612

Sejun and his companions had been searching the sea for hours since morning, but they couldn’t find the Creation God’s monument.

It was almost time for lunch.

“Hey guys, let’s have a competition to see who catches the best stuff!”

As lunchtime approached, Sejun suggested a hunting competition to his companions.

After the mutant seaweed disappeared, the creatures that had been hiding in the sand or under rocks began to move again, providing plenty to catch.

“Puhuhu. Vice Chairman Theo will take first place, nya!”

Kkueng!

[Kkuengi catches the most!]

Kkihihit. Kking!

[Hehe. Great Kamang will win!]

At Sejun’s suggestion of a competition, the group scattered, burning with enthusiasm, and Sejun moved to collect what he had spotted in advance.

‘Hehehe. I saw something earlier.’

With that, first place is mine!

In fact, Sejun had suggested the competition with the intention of taking first place himself.

A little later.

Thud.

“Puhuhu. Chairman Park, look at this, nya! I caught something amazing, nya!”

Theo, who had been chatting with Fire and resting, placed a giant clam with iridescent shells in front of Sejun.

I lost…

[Jewel Scallop]

Just selling the jewels attached to the shell would probably fetch tens of billions of Tower Coins, the money used in the Tower.

Hehehe. Plus, I can make scallop butter skewers.

“Oh! As expected of Vice Chairman Theo! Well done!”

Sejun praised Theo, thinking about the menu he could make with the scallops.

“Puhuhu. I know, nya! I, Vice Chairman Theo, am always good, nya!”

Theo rubbed his head enthusiastically against Sejun’s hand with a smug expression.

At that moment,

Kkueng!

[Dad, Kkuengi caught a lot of good stuff!]

Thud!

Kkuengi appeared, carrying a huge clump of shellfish gathered with telekinesis. It was easily over 10 tons of clams, cockles, mussels, and more.

Mussel soup, grilled shellfish, and other dishes danced excitedly in Sejun’s mind.

“Oh! That’s my boy!”

Sejun enthusiastically stroked Kkuengi’s head with both hands, praising him as much as he was excited.

Kkuhehehe.

Kkuengi, praised by Sejun, grinned.

“But why isn’t Kamang coming out?”

As Sejun, who was slowly getting worried about the Kamang family, looked towards the sea,

Kking! Kking!

[Butler! Help me! Help!]

Kamang called out to Sejun, whimpering.

“Kamang!”

Sejun hurriedly ran towards the sound.

Kking! Kking!

[Let go of this! You’re in big trouble when the butler comes!]

The Kamang family was seen struggling, caught by an octopus as big as a forearm.

The Kamang family, who had used their youngest, Kkabul, as bait to catch the octopus, were instead being hunted by it.

“Puhup!”

Sejun suppressed his laughter at the Kamang family’s silly mistake, like sunfish who are easily surprised, and rescued them.

When everyone gathered with their catches,

“Hehe. This is what they call the ginseng of the sea, sea cucumber.”

Sejun proudly took out the sea cucumber he had obtained from the sea and showed it off with a smug expression.

It was long and bumpy on the outside, and wriggling around, making it look disgusting no matter how you looked at it.

“Nya?! What is that, nya?!”

Kkueng?!

Theo and Kkuengi frowned at the strange appearance of the sea cucumber.

Kking!

[I win this!]

Kamang, trying to make up for his earlier defeat, rushed at the sea cucumber and bit it.

“Hey! That’s poisonous!”

Kking…

Sejun quickly pulled Kamang away, whose tongue was paralyzed by the sea cucumber’s poison, and began cooking with the ingredients the group had brought.

Before they knew it, they had forgotten they were having a competition.

“Puhuhu. It smells like delicious grilled fish, nya!”

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. There are many dishes today!]

Kkihihit. Kking!

[Hehe. Great Kamang won against the sea cucumber!]

The group watched Sejun cooking, waiting for the meal to be completed.

Sejun prepared a hearty lunch with the ingredients the group had brought.

“Alright, let’s eat!”

He had a meal with his companions.

“Oh! This is delicious.”

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It is!]

Of course, Kkuengi was the only one who ate all the dishes Sejun prepared with gusto.

Theo and the Kamang family only ate grilled fish and dried sweet potatoes.

After lunch,

Slurp.

Sejun lay down on the sunbed, enjoying a break while drinking the coffee Kkuengi had made.

At that moment,

[Sejun, I think I need to go back.]

Fire spoke in a gloomy voice.

There was a limit to how much Podori could endure the dimensional evolution, or growing stronger.

Frankly, it was close to a miracle that he had endured this far, so Sejun couldn’t ask Podori to endure any longer.

“Really? Then let’s go back quickly.”

At Fire’s words, Sejun hurriedly returned to the Black Tower, so that Fire could rest in the underground of the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

He left the luggage as it was, intending to return to find the monument.

“Return.”

Thinking it was urgent, Sejun activated the Wyvern’s Return Bracelet.

Whoosh.

The golden letters engraved on the bracelet began to glow.

[The return magic engraved on the Wyvern’s Return Bracelet is activated.]

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

[Returning to the designated location.]

Sejun disappeared from the 77th floor of the Blue Tower, high above the sea.

[Arrived at the 99th floor of the Black Tower.]

As soon as he returned home,

[Sejun, I’ll see you next time.]

Fire, who was on Sejun’s shoulder, spread his leaves as wide as possible and hugged Sejun.

“Yeah. See you next time. I’ll make sure to bring a lot of elixirs next time.”

[Hehe. You don’t have to…]

Sejun stroked Fire’s forehead, soothing the sadness of parting.

[Then I’ll go! Goodbye, Sejun!]

Fire, who didn’t know when he would see Sejun again if he left this time, hid his sadness and shouted in a bright voice before disappearing into the ground.

[That’s it! I don’t have to hold back anymore!]

At the same time, Podori, who had been desperately holding back until now, began his evolution into a dimensional tree.

Rumble!

Podori’s seven roots, which had been holding back for 10 days, vigorously burst out and quickly spread to other worlds.

Usually, when a tree becomes a dimensional tree, it initially roots in 5 worlds, but thanks to enduring so much, Podori rooted in 7 worlds at once.

Considering that it takes roughly 1000 years each time a root is added to a world, it was an incredible compressed growth.

It was like discovering a new growth method.

Tremble tremble.

Sausage trembled its branches as it watched Podori. For some reason, it felt like it would be the target of testing the new growth method.

At that moment,

[A new network is being established in Sejun Company.]

[The World Tree communication network has been established in Sejun Company.]

[From now on, communication between World Trees belonging to Sejun Company is possible.]

A message appeared in front of the World Trees that Fire had raised.

Whether it was fortunate or not, Sausage wasn’t the only tree to be tested.

That’s a relief.

Sausage was relieved at the thought of meeting comrades.

However,

[Black Tower 79th floor World Tree Seedling In-ssak, incubating a bird: Hello! I’m In-ssak, a dimensional tree seedling!]

[Silver Tower 82nd floor Grape World Tree Pose: Hello! I’m Pose, a tree dreaming of becoming a dimensional tree too!]

[>Earthworm> Devouring Predator World Tree Eosepo: I’m Eosepo! Let’s work hard together with the goal of becoming dimensional trees!]

[>Omid> Generous Green Onion World Tree Omipase: I’m Omipase! By the way, Sejun named me! Let’s do our best!]

The World Trees in the World Tree communication network were not normal.

As the World Trees introduced themselves and burned with enthusiasm towards the common goal of becoming dimensional trees,

[Dimensional Tree Podori, belonging to Sejun Company, roots in 7 worlds.]

[A new sub-channel of the official employee communication network in 7 worlds is now open.]

A message appeared stating that a sub-channel of the Sejun Company’s official employee communication network had opened.

And

[>Leader> Battle Store Headquarters God of Axe Buko: Huh?! We had a dimensional tree in our company?! What?! Our company is really amazing!]

[>Leader> Seed Store Headquarters God of Peanut Pipi: A dimensional tree! As expected, Mutddabak! Everyone, let’s shout Mutddabak!]

[>Leader> Seed Store Headquarters God of Walnut Wol: Mutppabak!]

[>Leader> Seed Store Headquarters God of Stone Toga: Mutddabak!]

The slogans praising Sejun from the non-combat gods echoed silently within the official employee communication network.

Today, Sejun Company was prospering day by day.

“Fire, rest comfortably.”

Sejun said, stroking the spot where Fire had disappeared.

And

“Since I’m back, I should take care of some work.”

Sejun, who had stayed on the 77th floor of the Blue Tower for a long time, wanting to make memories with Fire and the sea, stopped by the 10th Tower and >Earthworm> to handle the piled-up work.

There was nothing special at the 10th Tower, so he only planted the collected seeds.

At >Earthworm>, which he arrived at through the dimensional gate, 10 new Tears of Destruction were waiting for Sejun.

Wiggle. Wiggle.

The Tears of Destruction transformed into Sejun’s appearance.

Thanks to this, 10 Destruction Sejuns diligently planted Devouring Predator seeds in place of Sejun.

Spit spit.

Now, even the Devouring Predators, who were familiar with Destruction Sejun, naturally spat out seeds to Destruction Sejun, so the work didn’t stop even when Sejun wasn’t there.

And the seven Destruction Sejuns who had been there before were completely purified and transformed into seven immature Tears of the Creation God.

“Here you go.”

Sejun immediately sent the obtained tears to Emilia and received 35 bottles of the Great Growth Elixir.

Gulp.

He drank them all at once, and the skill levels of Farming Tool Mastery, Slash-and-burn, and Crop Miniaturization increased by 1 each.

After finishing work, Sejun returned to the Black Tower.

-Brother-in-law!

Ace greeted Sejun.

-Brother-in-law! I harvested these yesterday at dawn!

He was holding blue crops.

“Ah. Yesterday was the Blue Moon.”

They were harvested during the Blue Moon.

-Puhihit. Brother-in-law, please cook with these!

Ace looked at Sejun with expectant eyes. The taste of crops harvested during the Blue Moon was even more upgraded.

“Alright.”

Shall I show off my skills a bit?!

To meet Ace’s expectant eyes, Sejun took the crops and went to the kitchen to start cooking.

A little later.

-Oh! Sejun, when did you come?!

-Sejun, you’ve been too busy lately. Take a break from work.

The Four Dragon Society dragons, old friends of Sejun, subtly sat at the kitchen table to eat Sejun’s cooking.

And

-Hoh ho ho. Hello, Sejun.

-Sejun, how have you been?

The Five Dragon Society dragons, who usually didn’t even greet the Four Dragon Society dragons, greeted Sejun and sat opposite the Four Dragon Society.

Glare.

Dragon statues glaring at each other while sitting at the table.

At that moment,

-Sejun, you’re doing well in our Blue Tower these days, right? If there’s anything uncomfortable, tell me right away.

The great Blue Dragon Kin spoke to Sejun, showing off his friendship with Sejun.

“Yes. I think I’ll have to go again tomorrow morning. The Creation God told me where the monument is, so I have to find it.”

-Oh! Our Sejun is even talking with the Creation God? You’re really amazing!

-Wait! It’s true that our Sejun is amazing, but our Sejun?! Kin, Sejun is my granddaughter’s husband!

-That’s right! And he’s our Ajax’s sworn brother!

-That’s right! Only we can use the words ‘our Sejun’!

-That’s right!

The Four Dragon Society dragons claimed to the Five Dragon Society dragons that only they could use the title ‘our Sejun’.

-What?! He’s not even married yet, so what husband are you talking about! Sejun, how about meeting our Ophelia?!

-We have Sylvia too!

The Five Dragon Society dragons also began to make suggestions to strengthen their friendship with Sejun.

However,

“No. I am only devoted to Aileen.”

Unlike his usual indecisive attitude, Sejun flatly rejected such proposals.

There was no hint of hesitation or awkwardness in considering the dragons’ feelings.

Kehehe. As expected of our Sejun. I believed in you!

It was really fortunate. If Sejun had even pretended to hesitate…

Thank you, kids.

Sejun raised his glass high towards the stars that were twinkling more than usual today, expressing his gratitude.