Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 699

Black Tower, 99th Floor.

Sunlight streamed into the room, brighter and cleaner than ever before. Sejun blinked, feeling a lightness in the air he hadn’t noticed before. A series of glowing words appeared in front of him, but he was already smiling. It was finally done.

He noticed a small number flicker at the corner of his vision, something about the cost of living here going down. He shrugged. Every little bit helped.

Sejun stretched, his back cracking satisfyingly. “Finally,” he sighed, a real smile spreading across his face. “That took long enough.”

Sejun greeted the morning.

“Meow…”

“Squeak…”

He gently stroked Theo the cat, purring softly in his sleep, and then checked on the Blackie family of rabbits, their noses twitching in their cozy burrow. Pink Fur, a small, fluffy creature, hopped into the room.

Pink Fur, a small creature with fur as bright as cherry blossoms, hopped into the room, eager for breakfast.

Soon, the smell of cooking filled the air. Sejun chuckled as Theo and Kkueng, a small bear, tumbled over each other to get to their food bowls.

“Puhu-hut. Chairman Park, I’m going to make a lot of money today, meow!”

“Koohehehe. Kkueng!”

[Hehehe. Kkueng will be back too!]

Theo and Kkueng went to work.

Sejun grinned at Blackie, a large, black rabbit with surprisingly intelligent eyes. “Ready for work, you lazybones?” Blackie twitched his nose, as if understanding perfectly.

“Let’s go, Blackie,” Sejun said. Blackie thumped his foot on the ground. “Squeak! [Hehe. Butler! The Great Blackie will harvest all the sweet potatoes!]”

Sejun and Blackie headed out to the fields, the morning sun warm on their backs. Rows of tall corn stalks swayed gently in the breeze. Blackie hopped excitedly, eager to start his day.

Sejun carefully pulled the ripe corn from the stalks, placing it in his basket.

Blackie, meanwhile, was already in the sweet potato field, his nose twitching as he sniffed out the best ones.

While Sejun was harvesting corn,

“Hehe. Kids, the Great Blackie will dig you up without getting hurt!”

Blackie began harvesting sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field.

Blackie grinned as he looked at the roasted sweet potato jerky, which was full in his snack pouch in between work.

In his snack pouch, he had eaten 5 out of 100 roasted sweet potato jerky he had received as a birthday present yesterday, leaving 95.

“Park Blackie, stop looking at your pouch and work? If you keep doing that, I’ll confiscate your roasted sweet potato jerky,” Sejun, who had finished harvesting the cornfield, came over and nagged.

“Squeak! Squeak…”

[Tch. Stingy butler…]

Blackie grumbled and bit and pulled the sweet potato vine in front of him with his teeth.

Crack!

“Squeak?”

Among the sweet potatoes dug up like that, one stood out. It was huge, glowing with a faint golden light, and seemed to hum with energy.

A message appeared in front of Sejun.

“Huh?”

Sejun blinked at the message about Blackie’s new title. ‘A noble wolf who hunts roasted sweet potato jerky?’ He burst out laughing. ‘Seriously, Blackie? That’s your grand title now?’

Blackie’s title had become insignificant after being with Sejun.

“Pfft!”

Sejun laughed at Blackie, not thinking it was because he had rubbed off on him.

Subsequently, an achievement message appeared.

“Kkihi-hit. Squeak! Squeak!”

[Hehe. The Great Blackie harvested it! It belongs to the Great Blackie!]

Lick. Lick. Lick.

Blackie was diligently licking the ultra-delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potato.

“Park Blackie, what the heck are you doing?”

Sejun took the ultra-delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potato from Blackie and checked the options.

**[Ultra-Delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potato]** A sweet potato unlike any other. Grown with the purest sunlight and richest soil of the tower, it promises a taste of pure honeyed sweetness and incredible power.

“Oh.”

‘The ultimate taste of a sweet potato, huh?’

‘How delicious is that?’

After reading the description, Sejun felt a tremendous sense of anticipation.

Bounce. Bounce.

“Squeak! Squeak!”

[Butler! That belongs to the Great Blackie! Give it back!]

Blackie clung to Sejun’s leg, barking diligently and claiming ownership of the ultra-delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potato.

“Hehehe. Blackie, good job. Here. Eat this.”

“Kkihi-hit.”

“The Great Blackie now has 100 roasted sweet potato jerky!”

Blackie quickly felt better and went back to digging sweet potatoes.

As soon as Blackie left, Sejun put the ultra-delicious Royal Honey Sweet Potato into the Pouch of Abundance, meticulously crafted with the divine power of Rhea, the Goddess of Abundance, to secure the seeds.

A message arrived.

This time, Zhelga harvested a new variety.

“Again?”

‘What’s with today? Why am I so lucky?’

Sejun shouted with joy.

“Zhelga, good job. Eat some potatoes.”

He praised Zhelga and sent him a lot of steamed potatoes, and received the new variety of watermelon via inter-tower transport.

**[Seedless Watermelon that Summons Torrential Rain]** A deep blue watermelon, pulsing with cool energy. Grown in the water-rich Blue Tower, it’s strangely seedless, and seems to hum with the power of rain itself.

Sejun empathized with the watermelon and checked its options.

If you hit this watermelon hard, it will burst open and make it rain.

Eating it will keep your skin moisturized for a month. It will also increase all your stats by 50 and might unlock water-related talents.

Grown by: Top Farmer Park Sejun

Expires in: 180 days

Grade: S – the highest grade possible!

Sejun looked at the details of the watermelon. It was special! He put it in the special pouch he had carefully made. He hoped it would make more watermelons.

He couldn’t get seeds from it. So, the only way to get more was to use the pouch, like he did with the Black Transcendence Beans and Mugwort.

“Heh heh heh.”

Is today my lucky day?

Sejun chuckled happily and kept farming.

One late afternoon, the sun was blazing hot, like a giant fire in the sky. It was a lucky day.

The Land of Destruction is a dark, empty, and broken place.

“…To not be frightened even after seeing me…”

Corruption frowned, looking like he couldn’t believe it.

For billions of years, since he was born, no one had ever been not scared of him. No one had ever welcomed him when they saw him.

Being frightened was good. Most people hated him even more.

Corruption had never been welcomed. Genesis, who was born at the same time as Corruption, was welcomed by everyone.

The more this happened, the more Corruption hated Genesis. Genesis moved away from Corruption and cut him off.

Then, Genesis vanished without saying anything, leaving Corruption alone.

So, Corruption was left completely alone. He looked around, but there was no one. Just empty space. He felt a heavy feeling in his chest.

He traveled to many places after that, but Corruption was never welcomed.

Each time, the wounds in Corruption’s heart built up and became hard.

He had made such strong armor. But just the fact that Sejun wasn’t scared of him might make a small crack of hope in that armor.

“Heh heh heh. Not bad. I wonder if you’ll still be not scared even if I make a scary face?”

So, Corruption practiced making even more frightening expressions. His eyes glowed, and shadows appeared around him. He hoped Sejun would fear him. He wanted to be feared because it was the only thing he knew. He didn’t want the armor to break. He didn’t want to be hurt anymore.

The young, spirit-like beings who were meant to become powerful gods were hiding and trembled in fear as they watched Corruption.

Theo came from the busy markets of the Green Tower, through the Nine Towers, and finally arrived at the Black Tower.

“Puhuhu. Now, let the auction begin, meow! The first item for sale, from the great hybrid President Park, is the Gold Kiwi of Thunder, meow! I’ll be selling 10,000 in total, 100 at a time, meow!”

“100,000 Tower Coins!”

“100,100 Tower Coins!”

“100,200 Tower Coins!”

The merchants rushed to bid when Theo shouted. He had returned to the Green Tower after almost eight months. The auction hall was loud with shouting and the banging of hammers. The air smelled of old coins and excitement. Merchants in colorful clothes pushed and shoved to get a better view.

“300,000 Tower Coins!”

“310,000 Tower Coins!”

The bidding price quickly rose to three times the starting price.

“Puhuhu. Sold, meow!”

Theo earned 5 billion Tower Coins by selling 10,000 Gold Kiwis of Thunder.

“Puhuhu. Next is…”

Theo sold Sejun’s crops like that.

“Puhuhu. The last crop is this, meow!”

When Theo took out a carrot,

“A carrot?”

“The shape is weird, isn’t it?”

“Is it a defective product?”

“Hey! What are you saying?! Would Vice President Theo sell defective products?!”

“That’s right! If you’re going to say such things, just leave!”

The merchants buzzed.

“Puhuhu. This is the Carrot of Confession, meow! If you share this carrot, the confession will come true, meow! Starting at 10 billion Tower Coins per carrot, meow!”

Theo said with a wicked smile.

What?! If you confess, it will come true?!

This is guaranteed to make money!

How many lonely singles with money are there in the Green Tower!

The merchants who heard Theo’s words stared at the Carrot of Confession with greedy eyes.

“11 billion Tower Coins!”

“15 billion Tower Coins!”

“20 billion Tower Coins!”

The merchants’ bids rose rapidly.

“Puhuhu. Sold out for 50 billion Tower Coins, meow!”

Theo earned more money by selling five Carrots of Confession than he did from the crops he auctioned off earlier.

There were 5,000 more Carrots of Confession in his pack, but Theo didn’t get greedy.

Puhuhu. I can get a higher price if I sell them like this, meow!

He had slowly learned the law of scarcity through experience.

“Puhuhu. As expected, this body is an amazing merchant, meow!”

I need to go to President Park quickly and brag about how great this body is, meow!

Theo, who had only now realized something that most merchants already knew, headed home to the Black Tower with a proud expression. He was surprised and proud.

If you were to ask what Theo’s achievements had been so far?

Theo didn’t know anything and just sold diligently. He was just very lucky.

Theo arrived at the Black Tower.

“Puhuhu. President Park, I’m back, meow!”

He used his special cat move, ‘Nyan Nyan Bo,’ jumping onto Sejun’s face and rubbing his cheek.

“You’re back?”

“That’s right, meow… Nyan…”

Sejun, without being flustered at all, grabbed Theo by the back of his neck and pulled him away from his face.

He was too used to it now.

Kueng!

[Hehehe. Daddy, Kueng is here!]

Kueng ran towards Sejun from afar, calling out to him, and reached Sejun in an instant.

As everyone gathered,

Kking!

[Hehe. Brother! Today, the Great Blackie-nim… ]

Blackie was about to brag to Theo and Kueng about harvesting a new variety of sweet potato today.

“Puhuhu. President Park, listen, meow! This body has finally realized…”

Theo started to brag to Sejun.

Kueng!

[Hehehe. Daddy, Kueng worked hard in the herb field today and expanded the herb field by 100,000 pyeong!]

Kueng interrupted him and bragged.

“Haa! Kueng, why are you interrupting me when I’m talking to President Park?!”

Theo got angry because of that.

Kueng!

[Kueng was going to talk first!]

Kueng also raised his voice.

Kking?!

[Why aren’t you listening to the Great Blackie-nim?! Listen quickly!]

Blackie also barked to make Theo and Kueng listen to him. Blackie was more bossy, Kueng was more childish, and Theo was more dramatic.

When the three of them were noisily chattering,

“Stop it and let’s eat.”

“Puhuhu. Good, meow!”

Kueng!

[Hehehe. Good!]

Kking!

[Hehe. Butler! Give me roasted sweet potato jerky!]

At Sejun’s words, the group quickly quieted down and headed to the warm cafeteria with Sejun. The sounds of chewing and happy chatter filled the room. Outside, the sky was turning dark blue. They had a pleasant dinner of roasted vegetables and juicy meat.

“Okay. Theo, tell me first.”

Of course, while eating, he let Theo, Kueng, and Blackie talk as much as they wanted in order. Sejun found Theo annoying sometimes, but he was also secretly amused by everyone’s bragging.

“Puhuhu. President Park, listen carefully, meow! This body has finally realized…”

Theo began to chatter excitedly.

Listening to the group’s stories, a peaceful day was coming to an end. Far away, in a dark and lonely place, someone else was also thinking about Sejun…