Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 722

Stranded Again?

Inside Kkamangi’s mind, everything was soft and dreamlike.

“Oh! When did you grow so much?”

Pat. Pat.

Sejun stroked the head of Mini Chairman Park No. 4, who had grown to Sejun’s knee height.

Hee hee.

Mini Chairman Park No. 4’s mouth twitched and danced.

Meanwhile,

“Guys, I’m sorry. Are you thirsty? I can spray water now.”

“Guys. I’m really sorry.”

Kkamangi and his friends started saying sorry to the spirits. Sejun, Theo, Iona, Mini Chairman Park No. 4, and Gilsoon Nightmare also helped to calm the spirits down.

They apologized for a long time, but why wasn’t Corruption showing up?

He’s sulking because I didn’t visit yesterday, Sejun quickly understood why.

“It’s so boring without Corruption. Ah. Who should I play with?”

He started talking to himself, looking at the air, as if someone were listening.

“Heh heh heh. Chairman Park, let me play with you…”

“Eek! Theo, stay still.”

Theo tried to intervene without noticing, but fortunately, Iona stopped him.

And then,

Rumble. Rumble.

Corruption, hesitating to come out from inside a spirit, revved up and caught Sejun’s eye.

Heh heh heh. He was here?

Sejun stared intently at the spirit where the dark red energy wriggled.

Grumble.

“-Why… why are you looking for me? I was just taking a nap!”

Corruption grumbled loudly and stepped out from the shadows of the spirit, but there was an undeniable joy in his voice.

“Heh heh heh. You didn’t come out because you were sulking, right?” Sejun teased.

“-What?! Me, sulking?! Don’t be ridiculous!” Corruption shouted, flaring up.

But,

“Hey. You seem to be sulking.”

“-No, I’m not!”

“Heh heh heh. It seems like you are.”

“-I’m not!”

Sejun smiled slyly, enjoying teasing Corruption.

Ah. That’s right. He’s the Primordial God. Was it okay for me to keep messing around like this? Suddenly, he felt a little uneasy.

“Ahem. Don’t misunderstand, I wasn’t teasing you just now.”

Sejun quickly tried to fix his mistake, but

“-Don’t lie! You were teasing me!”

Of course, it didn’t work.

“More than that, I have something to tell you.”

Sejun suddenly lowered his voice and said,

“Actually, I know your true identity that you don’t know.”

“-What?! My identity?”

“Yeah. Actually, you’re the Primordial God. The one you thought was the Primordial God is not the real one. You are the true Primordial God.”

He told Corruption’s identity in a serious voice.

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Corruption quietly listened to Sejun’s words, thinking Sejun was playing a prank on him. It was a side effect of playing too many pranks.

However,

“No. I’m serious. You’re the origin. The fake Primordial God was created because you mistook the disappearing light as the origin. If you don’t believe me, just trust me. You are the origin.”

Sejun explained passionately, raising his voice.

“-Really? I’m the origin with great power? This current insignificant form is fake?”

Corruption began to get a little confused.

And then,

“Corruption. No. Primordial, your will is the will of the world. You have the power to control the world as you please.”

Sejun explained, using all the knowledge he knew to persuade Corruption.

“-Heh heh heh. Really? I can control the world as I please?”

Corruption’s desire stirred at Sejun’s words.

I want Sejun to be with me only!

Corruption declared to the world with a twisted wish in his will, and at that moment, Sejun, who was sleeping in his bedroom on the 99th floor of the Black Tower, disappeared.

At the same moment, time stopped everywhere. Theo, who had been sleeping on Sejun’s lap, froze in mid-air. Outside, Batbat, the bat, hung still in the sky above the farm. All across the Black Tower, and even beyond, in every corner of the world, everything froze. Time itself seemed to be holding its breath.

“Huh?”

Sejun woke up with a jolt on the damp ground and looked around. The air was heavy and still, and a strange red light filled the sky. The ground beneath him was cracked and dry, and in the distance, jagged rocks rose like teeth against the crimson sky.

First, he saw a red sky, and he saw the waypoint he had seen when he first came to the Land of Destruction.

“Land of Destruction? Why am I here? Am I sleepwalking?”

Sejun used the waypoint with a puzzled expression.

However,

[······]

The waypoint did not respond.

“System 137, why is it like this?”

So, he called [System 137], but

[······]

“Hey! Are you goofing off?! Answer! System 137!”

[System 137] did not answer.

“What?”

Sejun recalled his recent memories with a puzzled expression. He was definitely telling Corruption his identity in Kkamangi’s mental world…

“I don’t remember anything after that. Why am I here?”

Since he couldn’t find an answer no matter how much he thought about it,

“Seed Creation. Will this work?”

He tried Seed Creation.

[Please select the seed to create.]

[Magic Cherry Tomato Seed]

[Strength Sweet Potato Seed]

The words “Pioneering Extinction Seed” glowed on the screen in front of Sejun. *Finally*, he thought, relief washing over him. The seed creation had worked. A message popped up, just like it always did.

“Why is *this* message again?” Sejun muttered, frowning. “Eoksamchiri, are you there?” *Eoksamchiri* was the name of his system, his helpful guide in this strange world.

He tried to call out to [System Eoksamchiri] again, focusing his mind, but…

…silence.

Nothing happened. No words appeared. No helpful voice spoke in his head. Eoksamchiri was still not responding.

Something seemed wrong. Even the message wasn’t in Eoksamchiri’s usual tone. Eoksamchiri would have used very formal language.

Sejun waited for about five minutes without a response, then said, “Create 100 Pioneering Extinction Seeds.”

He created Pioneering Extinction Seeds.

The aura of extinction in this area had been greatly reduced thanks to the Devouring Extinction creatures.

The remaining aura of extinction was weak enough to withstand. “Luckily, Sejun had a special power that helped him resist the extinction aura a little,” he thought, planning to plant the combat-capable Pioneering Extinction creatures as bodyguards, in case there were still snakes around.

“Good thinking, Sejun,” he said with a smile and planted the Pioneering Extinction Seeds.

Plop.

Planting the seeds made Sejun feel a tiny bit better. His worry was still there, like a knot in his stomach, but it loosened just a little.

A short while later, he gathered the creatures.

“Alright, let’s go, everyone!”

Cackle!

Sejun moved north with 100 Pioneering Extinction creatures. He planned to use another waypoint to leave this place.

Kiki!

Cackle!

Sejun reached the first Wall of Extinction. He gathered the Devouring Extinction creatures and Pioneering Extinction creatures that had fallen behind on the way.

Thud.

The waypoint didn’t respond. It stayed still and silent.

He immediately moved to the waypoint at the second Wall of Extinction, but it was the same.

“What? Am I stranded again?” Sejun felt a wave of frustration. He was so tired of being stuck.

Grumble.

“The subspace warehouse won’t open here either….”

Sejun’s stomach growled, reminding him of his survival instincts.

“How did this happen?” Corruption wondered, feeling very embarrassed.

He had clearly asked for only Sejun and himself to be together, but… “I’ve become too weak,” he thought.

Somehow, his power had greatly weakened, about 10 times weaker than Sejun.

“Heh heh.”

“Kyaa!”

Thud. Thud.

He had to hide in a corner to avoid the mental entities that had absorbed his power. The situation between Corruption and the mental entities had reversed.

“Sejun, I’m scared,” he thought. “Please come and save me.”

Corruption held his breath, closed his eyes tightly, and hoped that time would pass quickly and Sejun would come to find him.

“Seed Creation.”

[Please select the seed you wish to create.]

[Magic Cherry Tomato Seed]

[Strength Sweet Potato Seed]

…

..

.

[Devouring Extinction Seed]

[Pioneering Extinction Seed]

[Fire Peanut]

[Longevity Melon]

[Extreme Agility Carrot]

[Extreme Magic Cherry Tomato]

…

..

.

“Hmm. What should I plant today?” Sejun pondered, looking at the seed list.

“Let’s go with cherry tomatoes.”

He created an Extreme Magic Cherry Tomato Seed.

In the meantime, he had harvested various new varieties. After harvesting those new varieties more than 100 million times, the types of seeds he could create had greatly increased.

Sejun created the seed like that.

Swish.

He drew a line on the wall, completing one character of the ‘正’. Each line was a day. He used this to keep track of time.

“Oh dear. This is full too. So how many years have passed?” Sejun said in a lonely voice, looking at the completed 73rd ‘正’ character.

Above the line where Sejun had completed the 73rd ‘正’, there were 9 more lines filled with 73 ‘正’ characters each.

“One line per year, so it’s already been 10 years? Wow. 10 years…” It had been 10 years since Sejun was stranded on the Land of Extinction.

He had completely conquered the Land of Extinction a few days ago, breaking down the fifth Wall of Extinction.

“Theo, why aren’t you coming to find me, you rascal?” he thought. “I miss them… Aileen, Kkueng, Batbat, and Blackie too…” As Sejun longed for his companions…

Thud. Thud.

“Stop, everyone!” Sejun shouted at the three children who were waddling towards him from a distance, making heavy sounds.

They were the Children of Creation, tainted by extinction, having received Corruption’s power. The children’s power was so strong that Sejun’s life would be in danger if they came too close, so he hurriedly stopped them.

“Yes~!”

“Uh-huh!”

“Okay!”

Fortunately, the children listened to Sejun well.

Whoosh. Whoosh.

“Did you come because you’re hungry?” Sejun asked, throwing snacks at the children.

Nod. Nod. Nod.

The children, who didn’t have time to answer because they were busy eating snacks, nodded their heads diligently instead.

After eating their fill of snacks…

“Teacher! Dongdong saw a strange kid over there!” Dongdong, the eldest, said to Sejun.

For reference, the names of the three children are Dongdong, Nangnang, and Mangmang. Their names were made gentle with the hope that they wouldn’t cause trouble.

When Sejun first met Dongdong…

“Time Stop!” He activated the Authority of the Primordial God (Replica): Time Stop to avoid Dongdong’s aura, but…

[The Authority of the Primordial God (Replica): Time Stop is currently in effect.] He fainted while looking at the incomprehensible message that he was using the authority.

“But Dongdong, Nangnang, and Mangmang are scared of him, so they didn’t go near him!”

“Really? Dongdong did well. Teacher will go take a look.”

“Hee hee.”

Dongdong smiled brightly at Sejun’s praise and took his siblings back to where they lived. It was because they needed to move out of the way so that Sejun could move freely.

Thud. Thud.

As the children disappeared…

“Alright, let’s go.”

Cackle!

Sejun moved in the direction Dongdong had pointed, protected by the Pioneering Extinction creatures.

“Sejun, why did you only come now?!” He could see a small, ugly black snake hugging him.

It was Corruption, who had been waiting for Sejun for 10 years.

99th floor of the Black Tower.

“Nya?! Where did the great Hybrid Chairman Park go, nya?!” In a world where time had stopped, Theo realized Sejun’s absence.