Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 74

“BANG!” Bill kicked open the door to his house.

“Mom! I’m home!”

Bill’s mother sat on the sofa. Her voice sounded weak when she greeted him.

“Bill… you’re just getting here?”

Bill was shocked. His mother looked very thin, like the hungry people he saw outside.

“Mom! Why are you so thin?”

“Please, eat this first.”

Bill took out the grilled fish that Theo had given him and handed it to his mother.

“Bill, where did you get this? You didn’t steal it from somewhere, did you?”

Bill’s mother couldn’t take her eyes off the grilled fish, but she first asked if her son had stolen it from somewhere.

“No! Mom, I got a job. Representative Theo gave me the grilled fish. You can eat it.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Bill’s mother was touched. She knew Bill used to follow Oren and cause trouble. Now, he had a job!

“Mom, I just stopped by for a bit, so I’ll go back now.”

Seeing his mother happy, Bill felt a sense of pride and returned to Theo with light steps.

And then,

“Oh my. Dagon’s mom, our Bill got a job this time, so he brought grilled fish…”

Bill’s mother, who had regained her strength after eating the grilled fish, began to brag about Bill’s employment to the other mother cats.

And as a result, rumors spread that if you worked under Representative Theo, you could get grilled fish, and cats began to want to work under Theo.

Hegel, the leader of the Black Wolf tribe, was here…’

Seeing the 5m tall black wolf with three long claw marks on his left face coming out with Oren, Elka realized that she had been too careless.

‘If it weren’t for Iona, I would have been in big trouble.’

But just as she had failed to predict the opponent’s strength, the opponent had also failed to properly assess their strength. Hegel’s face became still. It looked like he knew Iona.

At that moment,

“Representative Theo…”

Oren pretended to approach Theo and tried to snatch Iona from Elka’s head. Elka tried to subdue Oren in a hurry as the situation she had been waiting for occurred, but

‘Don’t stop him.’

She heard Iona’s angry instructions.

‘So, the rumors are true.’

Iona had heard that she hated being ignored because she was small. She felt that Oren was targeting her because she was the smallest of the group.

Oren was foolish and brave. He grabbed the most dangerous creature he could have. Iona was the worst hostage to take.

As Oren put his claws on Iona’s neck and threatened her,

“Oren, what are you doing?! Put Iona down quickly!”

“Representative Theo, it’s okay.”

“Nyang?”

“Let’s just watch from here.”

Elka quickly put Theo on his back and stepped back, away from Oren.

And then,

“Kyuu—Hegel, what is this? Is the free mercenary trying to kill the client?”

Iona asked, looking calmly at Hegel, not even caring about Oren’s claws. She made a very cute sound, Kyuu—, but Hegel turned pale when he heard it.

‘I’m doomed! Iona has done the Kyuu of anger!’

“I… Iona, it’s a misunderstanding! How could I… You! Put Iona down quickly!”

Hegel, who quickly came to his senses at Iona’s words, answered and scolded Oren. Currently, Iona was in the first stage of the Kyuu of anger, and he had to somehow calm Iona’s anger.

Hegel knew the signs of Iona’s anger. One ‘Kyuu-‘ meant at least a building would be destroyed. Two ‘Kyuu-Kyuu-‘ meant a small village. Three ‘Kyuu-Kyuu-Kyuu-‘ meant a city!

And there is said to be a final stage of the Kyuu of anger, but no one who heard it survived, so no one knows what it sounds like.

……”

Oren did not move despite Hegel’s scolding. No, he couldn’t move. He was already under Iona’s paralysis magic.

“Hegel, before we argue about right and wrong, should we first hear the results of the request?”

“That, well… Iona, I’m sorry. I failed.”

The reason Hegel came here was to subjugate the eggs of the Frog Queen, which spawned every year. It was an annual subjugation because if the frogs started to hatch, the surrounding aquatic life would suffer damage close to extinction.

The Frog Queen sleeps after spawning, so it was a relatively easy mission to enter the underwater cave at the bottom of Lake Zenka and deal with the eggs.

But when Hegel and the wolves opened the huge rock that blocked the entrance to the cave,

Ribbit. Ribbit.

5,000 hungry frogs that had been in the cave jumped out. For some reason, the frogs hatched from their eggs earlier than expected.

Fortunately, about half of them could be killed on the spot, but the remaining 2,500 frogs escaped into Lake Zenka, avoiding the wolves.

Since then, the frogs have been growing by eating the fish in Lake Zenka indiscriminately, and the Black Wolf tribe has been hunting the frogs while interfering with their hunting.

However, the wolves, who were not familiar with the water, could not keep up with the speed of the frogs moving in the water with their swimming skills, so there was almost no result.

In a situation where the request was not going well, Hegel was really embarrassed when he sided with the side that was aiming for Iona’s life, whether he intended to or not.

Even if Iona killed the entire Black Wolf tribe as an excuse, he could not be upset.

“No way… a client?”

Israel was embarrassed to hear that the hamster Oren had caught was Hegel’s client.

Hegel said that he came here at the request of the chairman of the Wizard’s Association.

‘So, that little hamster is the chairman of the Wizard’s Association?!’

Come to think of it, I had heard rumors that the chairman of the Wizard’s Association was a hamster.

‘Oren! You bastard!’

Thud!

“Iona! I’m sorry! I’ll do anything, so please spare my life and my son’s life!”

Israel knelt down and prostrated himself, banging his forehead on the floor. His instincts were telling him. It was a perfect situation to die if he stood up here.

“Kyuu-! It’s already too late!”

Whoooo.

Iona took out the Staff of Disaster and tried to blow away Israel and Oren along with this house.

At that moment,

“Iona, wait a minute!”

Theo stopped Iona.

“Kyuu-Kyuu- What is it?!”

Iona’s anger level rose due to Theo stopping her.

But

“You can’t destroy this place! Chairman Park said something!”

Whether Iona was angry or not, Theo had to carry out Sejun’s instructions to bring three items from Oren’s house.

“Sejun?! Okay. What should I do?”

Iona quickly canceled the magic at the mention of Sejun’s instructions and began to help Theo.

‘What are you doing!’

Hegel was horrified to see the cat stopping Iona. It was just provoking Iona’s anger.

And

‘Oh my god, it’s the second stage of the Kyuu of anger!’

As Hegel feared, Iona’s anger gauge rose. Hegel despaired when Iona made a Kyuu-Kyuu- sound. Now, at least a small village would disappear.

And that would include our Black Wolf tribe…

When Hegel was thinking that he was almost dead,

“Huh?!”

Iona easily let go of her anger at the words of a cat named Representative Theo.

‘What is that cat?’

To easily release the anger of the Great Destruction Magician Iona like that?

Slinking. Slinking.

“Who is that cat named Representative Theo?”

Hegel approached Elka and asked.

“Representative Theo is a direct subordinate of the Great Black Dragon.”

“What?! A direct subordinate of the Great Black Dragon?!”

Thud!

“Representative Theo! I am Hegel of the Black Wolf tribe! Please accept me as your subordinate!”

As soon as he heard Elka’s words, Hegel went to Theo and prostrated himself. The Black Wolf tribe is a race that has worshiped the Great Black Dragon, who has the same color as themselves, since ancient times.

If they could become a subordinate of a direct subordinate of such a Great Black Dragon, it would be the greatest honor for the Black Wolf tribe.

“Good! Then put your stamp here!”

Theo, who does not stop subordinates who come and thoroughly holds on to subordinates who leave, handed out a contract.

“Yes!”

Stamp.

Hegel put his paw print on the contract.

Thanks to Oren’s scheme, Theo was able to accept Hegel, the leader of the Black Wolf tribe, and the entire Black Wolf tribe as his subordinates.

-Tell him to be sure to tell me because the green alarm is really important.

“Yes. Aileen, Anton says the green alarm is important, so be sure to tell him. Got it?”

[The manager of the tower says he understands.]

[The manager of the tower asks what the green alarm is.]

“Aileen is asking what the green alarm is.”

-Tell him that the green alarm is an alarm that appears when a monster at risk of dying out appears in the tower.

“Yes. Aileen…”

Sejun was learning how to be a manager for the tower. He was talking between Anton and Aileen, passing messages back and forth.

After receiving about an hour of manager training, Sejun came down to the cave to harvest cherry tomatoes.

[Master! I can use the flame again now!]

Seeing Sejun coming down to the cave, Flame moved his green leaves and shouted vigorously.

“Really? Then use the flame of purification here.”

Sejun took out a blue bead from his pocket. It was a strengthened seed of a corrupted Ent.

[Yes! Iyaaah!]

With Flame’s shout, one of Flame’s leaves turned white, and a white flame permeated the strengthened seed of the corrupted Ent.

“Oh!”

Fortunately, it worked as Sejun expected. The name of the seed changed.

[Strengthened Seed of Corrupted Ent (Purification Rate 1%)]

“Flame, you did a good job.”

[Hehehet!]

At Sejun’s praise, Flame took a pose of stroking his head with his leaves and was embarrassed.

Swish.

Sejun put the strengthened seed of the corrupted Ent back into his pocket.

And when he approached the cherry tomato field,

[The manager of the tower says the green alarm has appeared.]

Aileen sent Sejun a message that the green alarm had appeared.

And

[The tower manager makes you an Intermediate Manager! Your job is to save the blue carp in Lake Zenka on floor 75. They are in danger of dying out.]

Aileen began to handle the green alarm as she had learned from her father.

[You have acquired the mark of the intermediate manager of the tower.]

A black dragon tattoo appeared on the back of Sejun’s hand.

[You will be moved to Lake Zenka on the 75th floor of the tower in 30 seconds.]

[You can take your subordinates with you.]

[Please specify the subordinates to go with you.]

Sejun designated his mother, Crimson Giant Bear, Kkueng, the Black Rabbit, and all the other Black Minotaurs. He was planning to take as many as possible for safety, as he did not know where he was going.

But

[The manager of the tower does not have enough magic power.]

[Subordinates will be automatically designated within the magic power limit of the manager of the tower.]

Squawk!

Kkueng!

The numbers 1 and 2 were drawn on the left shoulders of the Black Rabbit and Kkueng. It was a relief that there were at least two of them.

After a while,

[Moving to Lake Zenka on the 75th floor of the tower.]

[The radius of activity cannot deviate from Lake Zenka.]

Sejun, the Black Rabbit, and Kkueng disappeared.

Day 246 of the Castaway. Sejun left the 99th floor of the tower for the first time since he was stranded.