Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 616

“Kkueng! That’s yucky!”

Purple Tower, 66th floor.

Squeak…

[Tastes awful…]

Blackie chewed on a green onion, his face twisted in disgust, having barely survived.

Is it really that bad?

Sejun watched Blackie, feeling sorry for him. But he knew Blackie had to eat to stay alive.

“Blackie, do you want to go back?” Sejun asked.

If Blackie stayed, he would have to keep eating green onions, which seemed to be torturing him.

But Sejun was wrong to ask.

Squeak! Squeak!

[I’m not going back! The great Blackie can eat lots of green onions!]

Sejun’s words had hurt Blackie’s pride and reminded him of bad memories.

Crunch. Crunch.

To prove he could eat them, Blackie stuffed several green onions into his mouth at once.

Sniffle.

Tears and snot ran down his face because of the spicy taste.

Crunch. Crunch.

Still, Blackie kept chewing.

Sejun felt a mix of sadness and fondness watching him.

“Alright, alright. Just eat them one at a time,” Sejun said.

Sejun took the green onion Blackie was chewing.

Snap.

Whoosh.

He flicked his fingers to make a flame and started grilling the green onion.

Kkueng?

[Papa, are you making grilled green onions?]

“Yes. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

Kkueng!

As Sejun grilled the green onions, Kkueng remembered eating them with Sejun. He tried to copy Papa, flicking his own fingers to make a flame.

Whooosh.

But Kkueng’s flame was much bigger and stronger than Sejun’s.

“Oh. I should grill over here.”

Seeing Kkueng’s flame, Sejun put out his own and started grilling the green onion over Kkueng’s flame.

Sejun was a little surprised Kkueng could make fire, but he had seen so many amazing things in the tower, he quickly accepted it.

Once the grilled green onion was ready,

“Blackie, it’s a little better grilled, right?”

Sejun peeled off the burnt outside layer and put it in Blackie’s mouth.

But grilling didn’t change the fact that it was still a green onion.

Squeak! Squeak!

[Hey, Sejun! It’s a little better than before, but green onions still taste awful! Give me some dried sweet potato too!]

Blackie whined and asked for dried sweet potato.

“Alright.”

Sejun thought Blackie was cute and funny.

Sejun gave Blackie the dried sweet potato.

Hee hee hee.

Blackie smiled again after he tasted the dried sweet potato.

And then,

“Here you go, Vice Chairman Theo.”

Sejun gave Theo the Churu mixed with green onion that he had prepared.

Chomp chomp chomp.

“Puhuhu. Chairman Park’s Churu is delicious, nya!”

Theo happily ate the Churu with green onion because Sejun took good care of him.

“It tastes good after not having it for a while.”

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[That’s right! It’s delicious!]

Sejun also enjoyed the grilled green onion with Kkueng, looking around at where they were.

The 66th floor was a flat, black plain. It was empty and the ground felt wet and soft. There was a strange, fishy smell of poison in the air. Mixed with it was the bad smell of things rotting. Every breath felt like an attack of poison.

[Absorbed fatal S-grade poison.]

[Not poisoned due to the S-grade detoxification green onion effect.]

Of course, the poison didn’t affect Sejun and his friends.

The group each ate five S-grade detoxification green onions, which gave them the ability to fight poisons below S-grade for five hours.

Plop.

Sejun took an S-grade detoxification green onion from his subspace warehouse and planted it in the ground.

[Transplanted detoxification green onion into land filled with intense poison.]

[Roots of the detoxification green onion are severely damaged.]

[Transplanting Skill Level 5 went up a little.]

I can plant it, at least.

Veronica had said that even S-grade green onions would die right away if planted. But Sejun’s farming skill was better, so the green onion didn’t die right away.

But it wasn’t a complete success. The green onion’s leaves turned yellow and dried up within ten minutes of being planted.

It seemed the poison in the ground was too strong for one S-grade green onion to stop.

“Then how about this one?”

Plop.

This time, Sejun planted an SS-grade detoxification green onion. He usually saved these and only used them when eating something really delicious.

As soon as he planted it, the SS-grade green onion sucked up the poison around it. The land within 10 meters looked cleaner.

As expected of an SS-grade green onion.

Sejun planted one SS-grade green onion in the center.

“Guys, help me plant some green onions.”

“Puhuhu. Alright, nya!”

Kkueng!

Squeak!

He and his friends planted several S-grade green onions around it to make the area bigger.

It would be best to plant only SS-grade green onions, but he only had about 1,000 of them.

The crops were the same grade as the Tower Farmer, so even if he planted SS-grade green onions, only S-grade ones would grow.

Sometimes, he could get an SS-grade one because of the effect that made crops one grade higher, but that only happened about once every ten days.

Most of the time, he was making more SS-grade green onions with the Inexhaustible Pouch of Abundance, a gift from Leia.

Plop.

[Pulled out detoxification green onion by the roots.]

[Transplanting Skill Level 5 went up a little.]

[Roots not damaged due to Transplanting Lv. 5 effect.]

[Detoxification green onion maintains its condition for 5 hours due to Transplanting Lv. 5 effect.]

Once the area was safe, Sejun moved the SS-grade green onion from the center to another place.

They kept making the area bigger and cleaned about 10% of the 66th floor. Then, the poison started to fight back.

Black water started to pour out from the edge of the area. The S-grade green onions that touched the black water quickly dried up.

I won’t lose!

“Guys! Plant more!”

Sejun had his friends plant S-grade green onions close together to fight back with a lot of them.

At the same time, he used 100 of the 500 SS-grade green onions he had saved for emergencies. The situation quickly got better.

Also,

[Detoxification Green Onion that Suppressed Poison]

The SS-grade green onions that had cleaned a lot of poison leveled up, making them even better at fighting poison.

After that, the [Detoxification Green Onion that Suppressed Poison] made the poison disappear faster. By evening, they had cleaned half of the 66th floor.

“I’ll have to do the rest tomorrow.”

Sejun moved the SS-grade green onions from the back to the front and got ready to eat dinner.

A little later.

“Today’s locust stew!”

Sejun had fed Theo and Blackie. He put the red stew on the table.

Kkueng!

[Looks delicious!]

Kkueng cheered and raised his hands.

Hehe. I cook just to see our Kkueng’s reactions.

Sejun watched Kkueng eat his cooking, feeling happy. Then he put the stew in his own bowl.

Everyone was enjoying their meal.

“Puhuhu. Chairman Park’s grilled fish is delicious, nya…”

Theo was happily eating grilled fish. Suddenly, he jumped up and hit something flying towards Sejun’s head with his paw.

“Huh? Why is there a green onion here?”

Sejun was slow to react. He looked at what Theo had hit away, then back at where the green onions were planted.

And then,

Plop. Plop.

He saw black hands made of poison pulling out the green onions and throwing them away.

Sssssss.

The poison that touched the green onions was quickly cleaned, but the black hands stayed in shape with even more poison.

The area where the green onions were pulled out quickly became poisoned again.

I worked so hard to purify it…

Sejun was angry.

At the same time, Sejun knew that the poison he was fighting was not normal.

Normal poison couldn’t make hands and pull out green onions.

Just then,

[>Title: One Who Has Long Peered into the Beginning> identifies the essence of the opponent.]

A light flashed in Sejun’s eyes. He could see what he was facing.

[A hand containing the will of Nekma, the Poison of Carnage, an evil being formed from countless poisons]

“Nekma, the Poison of Carnage?”

So it has a will?

“Nekma, you bastard!”

Even dogs aren’t bothered during mealtime!

Sejun realized that Nekma was trying to ruin their meal. He became truly angry.

“Haa! You shouldn’t bother the great Hybrid Chairman Park when he’s eating, nya!”

Kkueng!

[Kkueng is angry because his meal was interrupted!]

Squeak?!

[You disturbed the great Blackie’s mealtime?!]

Theo, Kkueng, and the Blackie family were also angry. Sejun’s family took their meals seriously.

“Guys, let’s show them our rage!”

“Nya!”

Kkueng!

Squeak!

Sejun and his friends were very hungry. They grabbed the SS-grade green onions that were being pulled out and planted them again to push back the poison.

Sejun also used all 400 of the SS-grade green onions he had left, starting to fight with everything he had.

Because of this, all 1,000 of Sejun’s SS-grade green onions became [Detoxification Green Onions that Suppressed Poison], and they tasted even better.

After three hours,

“Found it.”

[Nekma, the Poison of Carnage, an evil being formed from countless poisons]

Sejun found Nekma. Nekma looked like a giant demon made of poison.

-How dare you interfere with me! Die!

Nekma ran at Sejun as soon as he saw him.

Oh, really! Do I look like the easiest target?!

Sejun felt annoyed for no clear reason.

Crunch. Crunch.

[Consumed Detoxification Green Onion that Suppressed Poison.]

[Not poisoned by poisons below SSS-grade for 1 hour.]

He ate a green onion and got ready to fight Nekma.

Delicious.

The green onion was better at fighting poison, and it tasted better too.

Slurp.

Sejun licked the green onion juice from his lips to enjoy the taste.

Inhale!

Kkueng took a deep breath towards Nekma.

-No!

Nekma tried to fight back, but Kkueng sucked him into his mouth. Very cleanly.

“Kkueng! That’s yucky! Spit it out!”

Sejun shook Kkueng and shouted, but

Gulp.

Kkueng swallowed it to show off.

And then,

Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. Kkueng protected Papa!]

He put his paws on his waist, stuck out his belly, and walked around with a happy look.

“Kkueng, are you really okay?”

Kkueng!

Kkueng nodded to Sejun.

Come to think of it, our Kkueng has never gotten sick from eating anything…

Sejun was sure he would be fine.

“Still, just in case, let’s eat a few of these.”

Sejun fed Kkueng some Detoxification Green Onions that Suppressed Poison, just in case.

A little later.

Burp.

Kkueng burped while eating the warmed locust stew.

[Superior Herbalist Park Kkueng has defeated Nekma, the Poison of Carnage, an evil being formed from countless poisons.]

[Superior Herbalist Park Kkueng has acquired 100 billion experience points, 50% of the experience acquired.]

Nekma was completely defeated.

***

Purple Tower Management Area.

[Exceeded one of the Purple Great Tower’s growth conditions: Detoxify more than 50% of the Purple Tower’s poison.]

[All 8 Purple Great Tower growth conditions have been met.]

[The Purple Tower begins its growth into the Purple Great Tower.]

The Purple Tower started to grow into the Purple Great Tower.

And then,

“Dahaha. As expected of our Sejun! You’re really fast.”

Tier was impressed by how quickly Sejun handled things.

But Tier was wrong.

It wasn’t time for the Purple Great Tower to grow yet.

Only 6 of the 8 conditions had been met.

But Sejun was cleaning Nekma’s poison on the 66th floor of the tower.

[Hehet. Please eat this nutritional supplement and grow into a World Tree!]

Flame, the World Tree Maker who supports Sejun, had grown three World Trees in the Purple Tower. This was more than the condition needed to grow World Trees.

“Puhuhu. Chova has to get the stamp, nya!”

“Yes…”

Because of this, Theo stamped the system impeachment vote for Chova, the target of the Purple Great Tower, again today.