Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 69

Aileen slowly opened her eyes. Dust motes danced in the faint light of the tower room. She was lying on the cold stone floor. Her head throbbed a little, but otherwise, she felt okay. She wiggled her toes, then stretched her wings. They moved!

“Am I… alive?” she whispered, her voice a little shaky.

She put a hand to her chest, feeling for the Dragonheart. *Thud. Thud.* It was still there. She listened more closely, her heart still nervous after its wild rampage.

*Thud. Thud.* The beat was steady, strong.

“Huh?” Aileen frowned. The Dragonheart sounded… better. It was even stronger than before it had gone crazy. “How is that possible?”

Aileen looked at the messages in her crystal ball. She wanted to know what happened while she was asleep.

Seeing the message [Top Farmer Park Sejun has completed the quest.], Aileen remembered losing consciousness while calling out to Sejun at the end.

“Ahem… a little embarrassing…”

Aileen flapped her wings and arms, though it wasn’t hot, and carefully checked the messages.

“Just like she thought, that kind human saved her.”

Aileen felt happy that Sejun had saved her. She felt sorry for her grandfather, but she was glad that Sejun had saved her.

“Hee hee hee.”

She couldn’t help but giggle.

“But… what’s honey jelly?”

Aileen tried to remember the taste of the honey jelly, but…

“Ugh! I ate it when I was unconscious, so I don’t know what it tastes like.”

Aileen decided to get some honey jelly from Sejun later to check the taste.

“No!”

But she soon realized that she shouldn’t be like this.

“As a great black dragon, to have my life saved and even try to get honey jelly!!”

Not repaying the life debt and trying to get something else was not something a great black dragon should do.

“Hee hee. Then I’ll just repay it!”

Bang! Aileen kicked open the door to the treasure room and went inside. She began to look through the items collected by her family’s ancestors, searching for a gift for Sejun.

However,

The [Demon Sword Apophis], [Gae Bolg], [Holy Sword Excalibur]…

“Hmph… upsetting. There’s nothing Sejun can use…”

Among the items displayed in the treasure room, there were no items that Sejun could equip with his level and stats.

Then,

“Ah!”

An item flashed in Aileen’s mind.

“Hee hee hee. Sejun, wait for me!”

Aileen, leaving the treasure room, ran to the garden in the tower’s administrator area.

When Sejun, who had stopped Aileen’s Dragonheart rampage, finished harvesting cherry tomatoes and was eating dinner,

[The tower’s administrator says thank you for saving her life.]

Aileen had woken up.

“Aileen, are you alright?”

[The tower’s administrator says she’s better thanks to you.]

“That’s good. Eat this. It’ll help Aileen.”

Sejun handed over three honey jellies. Originally, there were five, but he had given one each to Mom Crimson Giant Bear and Kkueng.

[The tower’s administrator says she feels too ashamed to keep receiving.]

“Ashamed? What have you been doing until now?”

[……]

[The tower’s administrator says she will repay the life debt first.]

[A quest has been generated.]

[Quest: Shout ‘Aileen’ loudly to the sky.]

Reward: Something very big and good!

Rejection: Rejection is rejected!

“Something very big and good? What is it?”

As Sejun wondered while reading the reward,

“Heh heh heh. I know what something very big and good is, nya!”

Theo, who was eating Churu on Sejun’s lap, shouted.

“What is it?”

“Heh heh heh. President Park doesn’t know the world of adults yet, nya!”

Theo got off Sejun’s lap.

“Hey!”

Sejun, feeling a sense of crisis that he was about to see something unpleasant, hurriedly stopped Theo, but

“It’s this, nya!”

Theo took it out faster than Sejun.

“…Huh?! Is that the world of adults?”

“That’s right, nya! Only adults can eat such a big fish, nya!”

Theo took out a huge fish from the bundle on the floor, lifted it with both hands, and confidently shouted. It was a yellowtail that had been appearing in the pond a few at a time recently.

“Theo, have you ever been in a relationship?”

“W-Why are you asking that suddenly, nya?!! Woonyang! Oren! That bastard! I’ll definitely get revenge, nya!”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Theo, suddenly reminded of his past when he was tricked by Oren and confessed to Maril, only to be humiliated, pounded the ground and rampaged at Sejun’s question about relationships.

“I shouldn’t have asked. I’m sorry…”

“I’ll punish Oren, nya!”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

While Theo was venting his anger on the ground,

“Aileen!!!”

Sejun shouted Aileen’s name loudly to the sky.

[Quest completed.]

[As a reward for completing the quest, you have acquired the Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain, which is very big and good.]

“Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain?”

Thud!

A huge vibration echoed, and a giant fountain was erected next to Sejun’s brick house.

A circular reservoir with a diameter of 100m, made of luxurious black stone at a glance. And in the center of the reservoir was a black dragon statue decorated with dazzling red jewels for eyes.

The black dragon statue was roaring with its mouth open in a dynamic pose as if it would come to life at any moment.

As Sejun was looking at the statue,

Flash.

The eyes of the black dragon statue shone,

Swoosh.

A stream of water gushed out of the black dragon statue’s mouth in a curve, creating a beautiful rainbow.

And

Click.

The black dragon statue slowly began to rotate 360 degrees.

“Wow.”

Sejun exclaimed and approached the fountain to examine it.

[Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain]

This fountain was commissioned by the great black dragon Kaiser Fritani to the dwarves to commemorate the 100th birthday of Aileen Fritani.

All materials used were high-quality black marble, and the black dragon statue was made by the dwarves based on the appearance of the commissioner, the great black dragon Kaiser Fritani.

The two eyes of the black dragon statue use magic stones personally engraved with magic by the great black dragon Anton Fritani.

The fountain can create water on its own or draw water from water sources within a 10km radius.

You can freely adjust the strength, direction, and distance of the water being sprayed.

Commissioner: Great Black Dragon Kaiser Fritani

Maker: Dwarf King and his cronies

Grade: S

Skills: [Water Production Lv. 50], [?????], [?????]

“There’s no usage limit?”

[The tower’s administrator says there is no usage limit because it is an installable item.]

“Wow! An installable item?”

Sejun had only heard of such items.

[The tower’s administrator says you can now reduce the time spent watering.]

“Aileen, why are the other skills question marks?”

[The tower’s administrator says she doesn’t know because her grandfather didn’t tell her.]

“Then how do you control the water?”

[The tower’s administrator says that if you put your hand anywhere on the fountain, a control screen will appear to adjust the water.]

“Like this?”

When Sejun touched the reservoir wall of the fountain, a control screen appeared.

“Ahem… I don’t like it.”

The more Kaiser thought about Sejun, the more uncomfortable he felt. The opportunity to see his granddaughter once every 10 years had disappeared because of that Park Sejun.

“Father, calm down. Aileen’s condition has improved thanks to that human, Park Sejun, hasn’t it?”

Aileen’s father, Anton Fritani, said to Kaiser with a smile. Anton was quite encouraged as he looked at the activity log of the emergency system.

This was the first time Aileen’s Dragonheart had improved rather than worsened after its rampage.

However,

“That’s also infuriating! Very infuriating!”

Kaiser also didn’t like that Aileen’s Dragonheart, which hadn’t improved even with his efforts, had improved with Sejun’s help.

His feelings went back and forth. One minute he was angry, the next he was thankful.

But he didn’t like that either.

“Still, I have to reward him…”

As Kaiser was thinking about what to give Sejun as a reward for saving Aileen,

[The location of Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain has been changed.]

[Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain will be installed on the 99th floor of the tower.]

“What?! The 99th floor of the tower?”

Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain was created by Kaiser with great care for his granddaughter, who was alone in the tower. But to install it on the 99th floor of the tower…

“Activate video transmission system.”

[Activating the video transmission system of Aileen’s 100th Birthday Memorial Fountain.]

Kaiser used the video transmission skill he had secretly hidden without Aileen’s knowledge to find out what was going on, and the black dragon statue rotated 360 degrees, filming and transmitting the surrounding video.

In the video, there were many monsters such as cats, rabbits, Crimson Giant Bears, and Black Minotaurs. And among them was a human. Kaiser seemed to know who that human was as soon as he saw him.

“Kraaah! That scoundrel! Park! Se! Jun!”

Kaiser’s feelings swung towards resentment at Sejun, who had taken all of his granddaughter’s attention, and Kaiser was once again enraged.

Aileen, that girl!

Does she like that guy that much?! Enough to give him the gift I gave her?!

“Black dragon statue! Show that guy what you’re made of!”

With Kaiser’s cry, the black dragon statue’s gaze turned towards Sejun.

“Oh. So this is how you do it.”

While Sejun was learning how to control the water in the fountain and watering the field,

Click. Bang!

The black dragon statue suddenly changed direction and began to shoot water cannons at Sejun.

“Ugh! Why is it suddenly doing this?!”

Sejun, suddenly hit by a barrage of water, was flustered. It didn’t hurt, but he couldn’t understand why it was happening.

“I don’t like water, nya! President Park, please dodge quickly, nya!”

Theo, who was clinging to Sejun’s lap and got hit by the water barrage together, shouted to Sejun. He didn’t seem to have any intention of falling off Sejun’s lap even while getting hit by the water. I’ll be with Park Sejun’s lap until the end of the world, nya!

Bang! Bang!

Sejun ran away to avoid the water cannons. Fortunately, the water cannons were fired about 20 times and then stopped.

“Whew. What was that?”

Sejun used the fountain again to water the field and went to bed.

And at dawn.

Snap. Snap.

The twig scouts invaded again. Perhaps because Sejun had set fire to the western forest, some of the twig scouts’ bodies were charred black.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t receive Fire’s flame buff.

Fire’s leaves, which had used the Flame of Purification and the Flame of Affinity, had turned white and yellow, and he said that the flame buff could only be used again when those leaves turned green again.

“Let’s go, everyone!”

“I’ll slaughter them, nya!”

Bbyak!

Kkueng!

Sejun and the animals ran out to defeat the twig scouts.

However,

Kroooooh!!!

The battle ended as soon as Mom Crimson Giant Bear roared at the enemies. The twig scouts turned to dust with just one roar from Mom Crimson Giant Bear.

Mom Crimson Giant Bear, who had eaten one honey jelly and had her talent enhanced. It was thanks to the fact that her talent mana roar, which had almost reached the end of its growth, had grown into a powerful mana roar.

“Uh… let’s go back to sleep.”

“Let’s do that, nya…”

Bbyak…

Kkueng…

The quartet who couldn’t play an active role trudged back home.

And

Kroong?

Mom Crimson Giant Bear scratched her head, wondering if she had discouraged the kids too much? and then lay down again.

And Sejun, who didn’t fight at dawn, woke up early in the morning for the first time in a while.

“Alright! Aileen, tonight is okay, right?”

[The tower’s administrator says to trust her.]

Day 241 of being stranded. Sejun’s 9th Blue Moon was approaching.