Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 9

Buying Seeds

The sun rose on the 95th morning in the tower, painting the cave in soft light. Sejun stretched, feeling the familiar ache in his muscles, and knew it was time to start another day.

“Listen up, everyone,” Sejun said.

“Squeak?”

“Pya-pya?”

“Pya?”

“From today, we’re planting sweet potato vines.”

Sejun made this important news to the rabbits as they ate breakfast.

“Pya-ah…”

“Pya…”

The baby rabbits were very disappointed by Sejun’s announcement. Sweet potato vines were one of their favorite snacks these days.

That was also why Sejun needed to plant the sweet potato vines quickly. If left alone, they would all disappear.

Sweet potato vines grew so quickly that there was no need to worry too much, but he decided to plant them today so he could harvest sweet potatoes as soon as possible.

“Instead, we’ll have roasted sweet potatoes for dinner tonight,” Sejun said.

“Squeak!”

“Pya-ah!”

“Pyai!”

All the rabbits got excited at the mention of roasted sweet potatoes.

“Sigh…” Sejun sighed, but he was also looking forward to the sweet potatoes.

He slightly turned over the soil around the planted sweet potatoes and saw that sweet potatoes were growing here and there. Of course, he didn’t harvest them right away.

That was because a looter was closely watching for sweet potatoes.

He found out about it at noon on the fourth Blue Moon. Sejun wanted to eat cherry tomatoes differently than usual.

He remembered seeing people grilling tangerines or pineapples on TV. So, he decided to try grilling cherry tomatoes.

‘Cherry tomatoes will work, right?’ Sejun thought.

Well, even if they didn’t, they wouldn’t taste bad.

Sejun made skewers out of dried green onion leaves and started grilling three cherry tomatoes at a time.

[The Tower’s Administrator is watching with great interest to see what kind of dish you are making today.]

A message suddenly appeared.

“Huh?!” Sejun exclaimed.

[……]

Maybe it was a mistake. But the Administrator didn’t say anything else. Sejun realized the Tower’s Administrator watched him sometimes.

And the grilled cherry tomatoes were incredibly delicious, with the sweetness enhanced by the fire, just like they said on TV.

“Alright! Move! Move!” Sejun said.

Sejun and the rabbits, having finished breakfast, moved busily from morning.

They had to finish cutting green onions, watering crops, pollinating cherry tomato flowers, and harvesting, which they did every morning, before they could plant sweet potato vines in the afternoon.

The rabbits scattered to do their respective jobs.

Splash!

The husband rabbit watered the crops with a watering can that produced an endless supply of water.

Snip. Snip.

The wife rabbit began cutting green onions with scissors.

“Leave one green onion as it is. I’m going to keep growing it,” Sejun said to the wife rabbit. He was planning to let the green onion flower and collect the seeds.

“Squeak!”

The wife rabbit nodded at Sejun’s words.

Until now, the green onions had grown well, so there was no need to collect seeds, but green onions did not become items even when harvested with their roots.

Sejun thought the reason was that he hadn’t planted them from seeds, so he was planning to grow green onions from seeds.

“Pya!”

The baby rabbits hung from the cherry tomato trees, climbing and playing diligently. It seemed like they were playing, but it was actually work.

When the baby rabbits climbed the trees, the cherry tomato flowers swayed, and pollen flew from flower to flower, naturally pollinating them.

While the rabbits were working in their respective positions, Sejun also harvested cherry tomatoes.

Plop. Plop.

[You have harvested a ripe magic cherry tomato.]

[Getting a little better at harvesting.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[You have gained 10 experience.]

..

.

[You have leveled up.]

[You have gained 1 bonus stat.]

He had reached level 8 before he knew it. Just seeing the experience points rise made him feel full, and he even leveled up.

“Hehehe. It’s rewarding,” Sejun said.

Sejun increased his stamina with the bonus stat and focused on harvesting cherry tomatoes again.

Plop.

Plop.

Plop.

At that moment,

[He had learned everything he could at this level of farming.]

[The rank of Tower Farmer (F) increases.]

[You have become Tower Farmer (E).]

[Job rank increases, strengthening job traits.]

“Oh!” Sejun exclaimed.

Farming was indeed rewarding. As much as he worked hard, or even more, something kept coming out.

Sejun’s steps became lighter as he harvested cherry tomatoes.

“Alright! Let’s get started,” Sejun said.

Sejun and the rabbits, having finished their morning work and eaten a simple lunch, began planting sweet potato vines.

“Everyone to your positions!”

They divided the work again.

“Pya!”

“Pya-ah!”

The baby rabbits lined up next to the wife rabbit.

Snip. Snip.

When the wife rabbit cut the sweet potato vines, the baby rabbits carried them to the newly made field.

And Sejun planted the sweet potato vines one by one in the narrow, long holes he had made at regular intervals.

Thump! Thump!

After putting the sweet potato vines in the holes, he stepped on the surrounding soil to plant them, and that was it.

And then,

Splash!

The husband rabbit finished by watering them.

Despite having a lot of helpers, it took a long time because there were more sweet potato vines to plant than expected. They had planted 300, but there were still a third of the sweet potato vines left.

“Short break!” Sejun announced.

At Sejun’s words, the rabbits began to suck on the chilled cherry tomatoes from the small pond, drinking the juice.

“I’m jealous,” Sejun said.

Crunch. Crunch.

Sejun chewed on a cold cherry tomato, envying the rabbits who could drink cherry tomatoes like juice.

“Ugh,” Sejun said.

Sejun, who had been resting while envying the rabbits, got up and approached the sweet potato field, which looked bare after the sweet potato vines had been cut off.

And then,

Thump. Thump.

He began to dig up sweet potatoes, clearing the soil with his hands.

“I wish I had a hoe…” Sejun said.

He regretted not having any farming tools.

[You have harvested a Power Sweet Potato.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Getting a little better at harvesting.]

[You have gained 10 experience.]

..

.

“Wow. That’s a lot,” Sejun said.

Sejun looked at the sweet potatoes he had harvested with satisfaction. He had harvested a total of 15 sweet potatoes. He harvested about 5 sweet potatoes for every one he planted. The number was small, but the sweet potatoes were big and round.

Sejun picked up one sweet potato and examined it.

[Power Sweet Potato]

[A delicious sweet potato grown inside the tower with sufficient nutrition.]

[Consuming it will break down 10g of fat in the body and increase strength by 0.1 for 10 minutes.]

[The effect can be stacked up to 10 times within an hour.]

[When consumed by someone who doesn’t have magic powers, it breaks down 10g of fat and helps with stomach problems.]

[Grower: Tower Farmer Park Sejun]

[Expiration date: 30 days]

[Grade: E]

“If I take this outside, Mom would like it…” Sejun said.

He had often seen his mom struggling to go to the bathroom because of stomach problems. Sejun briefly thought of home and moved the sweet potatoes.

He had to hide them before the looter saw them. He laid green onion leaves on the floor in a cool corner of the cave, placed 8 sweet potatoes side by side, and covered them again with green onion leaves.

‘They won’t see them like this,’ Sejun thought.

He moved the remaining 7 sweet potatoes to the fireplace, wrapped them in green onion leaves, and put them in the fire. By the time the work was finished, the roasted sweet potatoes would be ready.

At that moment,

Plop.

Something that had been attached to Sejun’s clothes fell off.

“It’s a sweet potato vine,” Sejun said.

It seemed to have come along while he was moving the sweet potatoes. Sejun picked up the sweet potato vine, made a hole in the field, and carefully planted it. This one sweet potato vine might produce dozens of sweet potatoes.

“Grow well,” Sejun said.

As he planted it with care and watered it,

[You have planted a sweet potato vine.]

[Due to the effect of Seed Sowing Lv. 1, the probability of the sweet potato vine taking root increases.]

[Seed Sowing Lv. 1 proficiency slightly increases.]

“…It recognizes this as Seed Sowing too?” Sejun wondered.

Sejun paused for a moment. To raise the level of Seed Sowing, he had to plant them himself.

“Haa… then… I have to do it all…” Sejun said.

After the break, Sejun did the entire process of planting sweet potato vines alone, making the work very easy for the baby rabbits, who only had to bring the sweet potato vines to the holes Sejun had made.

Sniff. Sniff.

Instead, the baby rabbits were given the task of monitoring the roasted sweet potatoes in the fireplace to make sure they didn’t burn.

When Sejun had finished planting all the remaining sweet potato vines alone,

“Pya!”

“Pya-ah!”

The baby rabbits began to cry out, saying they smelled something burning.

The massive black dragon squatted in front of the fireplace, tilting its head as it looked at the 30 blackened cherry tomatoes strung on a rapier that looked almost like a toothpick. The color was too different from what humans made.

‘Let’s try eating it first. It won’t kill me, will it?’ the dragon thought.

No poison could kill the almighty him. The dragon hooked the rapier on its teeth and pulled it straight.

Slide.

The cherry tomatoes, whose skins had turned almost to charcoal, rolled into the dragon’s mouth.

Munch munch.

“…Ugh!”

Contrary to expectations, an incredibly bitter taste rose up.

“Ptooey!”

The dragon hurriedly spat out what it was chewing. It couldn’t ruin its taste with such tasteless things.

“Ugh… bitter! What went wrong? The human ate it deliciously…” the dragon wondered.

As the dragon was thinking about what was different from the human it had watched,

“Huh?!”

As the bitterness faded, a rich flavor, different from the original cherry tomatoes, was felt in the mouth. A new taste appeared when heated with fire.

“Oh! This is the taste. You have to peel the skin to eat it!” the dragon exclaimed.

The dragon, having gained a great realization, blackened the cherry tomatoes again and struggled to peel the skin using its claws. No, it would be more accurate to say that it just crushed the cherry tomatoes and ate the juice.

“Slurp. Mmm. Delicious. Delicious,” the dragon said.

The dragon licked the cherry tomato juice on its claws and was greatly impressed.

The dragon, proud of having mastered a new dish, sat in front of the giant crystal ball and began its favorite thing to do.

“What is this human doing?” the dragon wondered.

Originally, it was a tool for the Tower’s Administrator to check if the Tower was running smoothly, but now it was being used for a favorite thing to do.

And the cave began to appear in the crystal ball. In it, Sejun and the rabbits were eating dinner.

“Huh?! These guys!!! Eating roasted sweet potatoes without the great black dragon, me, Eileen Fritani!”

The black dragon, Eileen Fritani, was furious.

Whoo.

Phoo.

The rabbits blew hard to cool the roasted sweet potatoes and ate them deliciously.

Chomp.

Sejun also took a big bite of the cooled roasted sweet potato.

‘It tastes even better after working,’ Sejun thought.

Sejun ate the sweet potato, feeling the sweetness filling his mouth.

At that moment,

[An additional quest has been generated.]

“I knew it… I wondered why it was so quiet,” Sejun said.

[Quest: Offer 1 Power Roasted Sweet Potato to the Tower’s Administrator!]

[Reward: None]

[Rejection: Death!]

It seemed the Tower’s Administrator was indeed watching.

‘There’s only one roasted sweet potato left in front of me right now,’ Sejun thought.

There was no reward this time either.

‘I’m not giving it to you!’ Sejun thought.

Sejun decided to postpone the quest.

And when he reached out to eat the roasted sweet potato,

[The Tower’s Administrator urges you to offer the roasted sweet potato quickly.]

[The Tower’s Administrator says they will not allow it if you don’t give them the roasted sweet potato today.]

He could feel the Tower’s Administrator’s strong desire.

‘It’ll be hard to escape it this time,’ Sejun thought.

Sejun decided to give the roasted sweet potato.

“Don’t you have anything to give as a reward?” Sejun asked.

Instead, he changed his approach and demanded a fair reward if he had to give it anyway.

[The Tower’s Administrator is surprised.]

“Surprised?” Sejun asked.

What was it? Was asking for a reward something to be surprised about?

At that moment,

[The Tower’s Administrator corrects the quest.]

[Quest: Offer 1 Power Roasted Sweet Potato to the Tower’s Administrator!]

[Reward: 1 Job Skill]

[Rejection: Death!!!!!!!]

Another job skill?

He wasn’t satisfied, but he decided to be content with having received a reward this time.

“I’ll offer the roasted sweet potato,” Sejun said.

He didn’t expect anything from the reward.

‘Weed Cutting, Watering, something like that, I guess…’ Sejun thought.

[You have completed the quest.]

[As a quest completion reward, you have acquired the job skill – Seed Shop Lv. 1.]

Farming in The Tower Alone [EN]

Farming in The Tower Alone [EN]

Solo Farming In The Tower, 나혼자 탑에서 농사
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[English Translation] In a world where mysterious towers, known as dungeons, have emerged, offering both peril and the promise of untold riches, Sejun, an ordinary young man, seizes the chance to change his fate. However, a twist of fate leaves him stranded in a hidden realm within the tower, armed with nothing but a handful of seeds and his determination. As he cultivates crops in this enigmatic environment, Sejun discovers that the tower's secrets run deep, and survival demands more than just farming skills. Embark on a journey where agriculture meets adventure, and where the line between harvester and hero blurs. Dive into "Solo Farming in the Tower" and uncover the mysteries that await within.

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