Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 668

We’ve lost contact with the ships in the 375th dimensional sea?

“Yes. Contact was lost after reporting that they were going to investigate.”

The first mate spoke quickly, excited. Kamouse, the leader of the Kamo Pirates, was known to be a powerful pirate who was often bored. When he got bored, he would take action himself, and that always meant trouble.

Kamouse smirked. “Finally, something interesting. I was getting tired of doing nothing. Get the ship ready. We leave now.”

The first mate, eager to please, replied, “Yes, Captain! It’s already prepared! We can go right now!”

*A sharp sound cut through the air.* Without warning, Kamouse swung his hand, and the first mate’s head fell to the floor. Kamouse looked down at the body. “Trying to guess what I’ll do? I don’t like that.”

He turned to the others. “Let’s go!”

“Yes!”

The Kamo Pirates’ main base set off towards the 375th dimensional sea where Earth was located.

Kamouse, the leader of the Kamo Pirates, the great pirate. People called him Kamouse the Unpredictable Killer.

*Soft snores filled the quiet morning.* *Deep rumbles and little squeaks mixed together.*

Sejun and his companions were sleeping soundly.

*Tiny paws moved slowly, step by step. Baektangi was being very, very quiet as he crept towards Sejun’s knees… Plop!* “Kyauung!” Without even opening his eyes, Theo’s paw shot out, pushing Baektangi’s paw away. Then, *whack!* Theo gently hit Baektangi’s head.

Clearly asleep, but guarding Sejun’s knees like an iron wall with automatic reflexes, Theo.

“Big brother is scary,” Baektangi thought sadly. “Kyauung… [It hurts…]” Feeling sad, Baektangi gave up on Sejun’s knees, stuck his body as close as possible to Sejun’s feet, and closed his eyes.

“Huh!” Sejun stretched and woke up from a deep sleep, unaware that a knee-claiming battle had even occurred.

“Huh? Baektangi?” He found Baektangi fast asleep, burying his face in his feet.

“I even gave him a room, so why is he sleeping here? And why specifically on my feet?”

Sejun had given Piyott and Yuren the room next door for the Summoned Beasts to use, but he couldn’t understand why Baektangi was sleeping while smelling his feet.

It was Baektangi’s fallback option after failing to claim Sejun’s knees, but Sejun had no way of knowing that.

Of course, even Theo, the opponent in the knee-claiming battle, didn’t know that the battle had taken place. It was a truth only Baektangi knew.

“Nyaang···”

Squeak···

After taking care of Theo’s couple and the Blackie family,

Kyauung···

Sejun moved Baektangi to the bed where the other Summoned Beasts were sleeping soundly and went outside.

Clang.

While entering the subspace warehouse and looking over the Disaster Farm, hunting the White Locusts and other disasters’ final evolved forms,

“I wonder if Sparky made it there okay?” Sejun recalled Sparky, who had gone to the World Tree School yesterday, with a worried voice. Sparky had become a World Tree and was growing stronger. He knew he had to go to the World Tree School. It was something World Trees were expected to do, to learn and grow.

“[I will open the World Tree School starting tomorrow! World Trees, please prepare to join!]” Sparky had even announced the school himself!

Sausage, who also had to go to the school, complained, “[Mr. Podori, what should I do? I don’t want to go to school.]”

Podori replied simply, “[You have to go. It’s better to go than to not go.]”

A little later, Sparky, excited, gathered the World Trees. “[Hello everyone! Let’s start!]” He was very happy to be starting the school.

*Heavy footsteps approached. Thump. Thump. Pink Fur walked up to Sejun, Kkuengyi gently held in his mouth.* “Koo-ooh,” Pink Fur rumbled. “[Good morning, Mr. Sejun.]”

“Yeah. Good morning to you too, Pink Fur.”

Pink Fur greeted him and handed Kkuengyi over to Sejun, and the two naturally turned their steps towards the cafeteria.

Sejun went into the cafeteria. “Time to make breakfast,” he said to himself. He used his cooking skill to make Choco Pies… “Here’s your snack,” he said, handing it to Pink Fur.

“Koo-uhng. [Thank you.]”

Pink Fur happily put the snack pouch over his shoulder and went off to train. Sejun kept making seaweed soup and Choco Pies to send to Aileen.

“Ooooh… Mr. Sejun, I’m hungry…” Theo whined sleepily.

“I’m grilling fish right now, just wait,” Sejun replied.

“Kkuhehehehe… Kkueng! [Hehehe… Daddy, I’m hungry!]”

“Yes, yes, food is coming soon,” Sejun chuckled.

“Kkihihit! Squeak! Food! Food!” cried the little Black Rabbits.

“It’s done. Kkuengyi, go and bring the kids.”

“Kkueng! [Okay!]”

At Sejun’s command, Kkuengyi quickly flew away and brought the Summoned Beasts who were playing on the bed.

“Alright. Let’s eat,” Sejun said, a smile on his face.

Sejun had breakfast with his companions.

“You all eat plenty too,” Sejun told the Hunters.

“Kyaung!” barked Baektangyi.

“Nyong nyong!” squeaked another Hunter.

“Bbok bbok!”

“Jjaek jjaek!”

The Hunters decided to stay in the tower for now, needing a safe place to live.

Sejun first thought of finding them a place in Erial, but his companions, Iona, Pink Fur, and others, thought the Hunters were too weak to live there safely. Krishnak, another friend, had also warned Sejun about this.

As breakfast ended,

Sejun happily drank the coffee Kkuengyi had made.

“Ah. That’s good.”

“Puhuhut,” Theo purred loudly.

“Kkuhehehe,” Kkuengyi chuckled, wagging his tail.

“Kkihihit,” Kkamang giggled, doing a little dance.

The Hunters huddled together to rest, but Baektangyi stared intently at Sejun’s lap, his eyes full of longing.

“I want to take it!” he seemed to think.

“Haaack!” Theo hissed softly, just as a warning.

“Kyaung…” Baektangyi whimpered, immediately looking away. He usually looked very happy, but Theo became very serious when anyone tried to take his spot on Sejun’s lap.

A little while later,

“Okay, everyone, time for me to get back to work. You Hunters just relax here,” Sejun said.

Sejun left the Hunters in the tower and went to the 10th Tower to plant crop seeds.

“Done! Let’s eat!”

After lunch,

“Shall we go back to work then?” Sejun asked.

He went to Kkamyeol Great Castle and planted the seeds of the Extinction Pioneers and Extinction Devourers.

At that moment,

[You have completed the quest.]

[As a reward for completing the quest, you have acquired 1 million drops of the Elixir of Great Growth.]

A message appeared before Sejun, and rows of sparkling glass bottles appeared, each filled with a glowing red liquid that looked like melted rubies. Emila had finished her task.

“I should put these in the subspace warehouse first,” Sejun said.

After Sejun put the glass bottles in the subspace warehouse,

“Wow. How many bottles is this?” He proudly gazed at the 20,000 glass bottles, each holding 200 drops of the Elixir of Great Growth, lined up on the shelves.

“Ah. I have to drink them, but…”

Furthermore, he felt guilty for not drinking the total of 4 million drops of the Elixir of Great Growth he already had.

Honestly, even if he was tired of the strawberry medicine flavor, he could just close his eyes and drink it. Or he could mix it with strawberries to make strawberry juice.

However, something held him back.

“I need to go home once…”

Sejun hesitated to drink the Elixir. He worried that if his powers grew stronger, the cost to stay in the tower might increase. He knew the cost was small compared to what his friends paid, but Sejun still worried too much.

After finishing his work at Kkamyeol Great Castle and returning home,

“We greet the Boss and Mr. Sejun!”

The Kkuengyi faction black bears rushed out and bowed deeply to Sejun and Kkuengyi.

“Kkueng?” Kkuengyi tilted his head, confused.

“What are you doing here?” he asked Sejun in his mind.

“Oh, Kyung-chul, a friend of Mr. Sejun, asked us to deliver this to Mr. Sejun,” Black Bear No. 1 explained.

“Kyung-chul did?” Sejun asked, surprised.

“Yes.”

Black Bear No. 1 handed Sejun an envelope made of thick, cream-colored paper, sealed with a gold stamp. It looked very formal and important.

“What is this? Something feels very ominous?”

Sejun felt uneasy looking at the fancy envelope. The Kyung-chul he knew wasn’t the type to send such fancy envelopes. No. He wasn’t the type to use envelopes at all.

He opened the envelope, took out the paper inside, and read it:

-Two people who were walking different paths are now trying to walk the same path together. Please come and bless the path that Oh Kyung-chul and Choi Mina are embarking on.

Date: 2024…

Location: Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul…

Sejun knew why he had felt ominous. Kyung-chul had succeeded in getting married thanks to Santa Sejun’s Christmas present.

“…Kyung-chul is getting married?”

Kyung-chul, who is uglier than me?!

Sooner than me?!

Jealousy filled Sejun’s face.

“Nyang?! Chairman Park’s face is turning green!” Theo cried out.

Pat. Pat.

Theo hurriedly climbed onto Sejun’s face and stepped on it with his front paws. It seemed like he was burning money as he faintly glowed.

“Kkuhehehe,” Kkuengyi chuckled.

“Kkihihit,” Kkamang giggled.

Following Theo, Kkuengyi and Kkamang also started stepping on Sejun’s face. Sejun found peace of mind as he was stepped on by the three of them.

“I was going to go to Earth anyway,” Sejun mumbled.

So, when is the date?

He checked the wedding date.

“Huh?! It’s tomorrow evening?! No! What are they going to do if they give me the wedding invitation so late?!” He was angry again.

However, it wasn’t Kyung-chul’s fault. Kyung-chul had given the wedding invitation to the black bears three months ago, but the black bears had taken many detours on the way up, so it had only arrived now.

First, pay the congratulatory money with Tower Coins…

Give the Elixir of Great Growth as a wedding gift…

“Ah. I don’t have any clothes to wear to the wedding,” Sejun realized.

He had the suit he wore to the Black Rabbit’s wedding, but it was a different style from Earth’s suits.

“Then I have to buy clothes on Earth, so… I should leave at dawn tomorrow.”

“Hehehe. Kkuengyi, let’s go to Earth tomorrow morning and eat Grandma’s kimchi stew,” Sejun said.

“Kkuhehehe. Kkueng!” Kkuengyi cheered.

“Hehehe. Sounds good!”

“Puhuhut. Is it time to conquer Chairman Park’s lap again?!” Theo was excited at the thought of going to Earth and showing off on Sejun’s father, Park Chun-ho’s, lap.

“Kkihihit. Kking!” Kkamang squealed.

“Hehe. Tomorrow, I will charm Sejun’s mother, Kim Mi-ran!” Kkamang burned with determination.

When Sejun and his companions’ trip to Earth was suddenly decided due to Kyung-chul’s wedding,

“Bbyot?” Bbyot asked.

“How much longer until we reach Earth?”

“If we continue to move smoothly at the current speed, we should arrive within 10 hours,” someone answered.

“Uhehe. I want to go quickly and eat the food that Mr. Sejun makes,” Yuren said happily.

“Mohehe. I want to eat Mr. Sejun’s misfortune after a long time too!” Poyo added.

The pirate ship with Bbyot, Yuren, and Poyo aboard was also moving towards Earth. At this rate, the pirate ship would arrive on Earth before Sejun.

But that was only when things were going smoothly,

“Ten enemy ships have appeared behind us! Huh?! Twenty ships! Thirty ships! The number keeps increasing!” a panicked voice shouted.

With the Unlucky King Yuren around, a smooth voyage was naturally impossible. It was a great relief for Earth that Theo was coming before Yuren.