Farming in the Tower Alone [EN]: Chapter 97

“Alright. Now go and review.”

“(Yes!)”

Sejun had taught the Golden Bat all the letters. Now, he made breakfast.

“Today, I should cook with the new green onion.”

Sejun took out the detoxifying green onion from the 67th floor, where he had fought many poisonous insects. He also grabbed frozen Purple Locusts and carrots from his subspace warehouse.

He planned to focus on harvesting to finish his job quest today, so he used carrots to boost his agility.

And so, the dish was ready.

[The enhanced Purple Chef’s Carrot Soup is complete.]

[Cooking Lv. 4 proficiency slightly increases.]

The word ‘enhanced’ was added to the dish’s name, probably because he used a high-grade green onion.

“Oh! The duration is now 1 hour!”

The soup’s effect, increasing agility by 10.5, now lasted for 1 hour instead of 30 minutes. And it tasted great too.

“Kids, let’s eat.”

Sejun tasted the soup and then called the animals.

“How am I going to feed them this?”

He wondered how to convince the rabbits that the purple soup was delicious.

Thud thud thud.

The rabbits ran to Sejun when he called them to eat.

Squeak…

Bbaa…

Bbaap…

The rabbits didn’t like the look of the purple soup, just as Sejun expected. Some even looked at him suspiciously, wondering if he was playing a trick.

Byuck!

Ppyu ppyu!

Luckily, the black rabbit and Ppyu Ppyu tasted it first and told the other rabbits it was good. As they ate, the other rabbits got over their dislike and started trying the soup.

Kkueng!

Kkueng helped a lot.

Gulp!

Kkueng!

Kkueng quickly finished the soup in one gulp. The rabbits felt like the food might disappear, so they started eating the soup faster.

The rabbits quickly finished the soup, even though they were unsure at first. Sejun smiled, watching them. “Alright,” he said, feeling energized. “Let’s harvest the cherry tomatoes next!” He turned towards the cherry tomato field, ready for more work.

Squeak!

The father rabbit blocked Sejun’s way and pointed in a different direction.

Bbaa!

Bbaap!

Bbayat!

The white rabbits, who had eaten breakfast, were staring at the sweet potato field where 6,500 sweet potatoes were planted. Originally, 10,000 had been planted, but only about 65% of them had grown well.

“There? The sweet potatoes aren’t ready to harvest yet. There are still about ten days left.”

Sejun thought it was too early to harvest.

But…

Squeak!

The father rabbit shook his head at Sejun.

And then,

Thump.

Squeak. Squeak.

[Ever since Sejun brought that stone, the crops on the farm have been growing faster. After the sweet potatoes, we need to harvest the other crops too.]

The father rabbit touched Sejun’s leg and pointed to the fragment of the sacred stone monument in front of Sejun’s house.

The stone gave off magic power. This power helped the plants grow faster.

“Really? Then we should harvest the sweet potatoes first.”

Sejun went to the sweet potato field. He needed to use the Harvesting skill 100,000 times for his job quest, so he was happy to have a lot to harvest.

“I’ll harvest with Theo, Black Rabbit, and Kkueng. You guys take care of the other farming.”

Squeak?!

Bbaa?!

Bbaap?!

The white rabbits were surprised. There were about 250,000 sweet potatoes to harvest, weighing over 100 tons. No wonder they looked so determined.

And he was saying that the four of them would do it? The white rabbits were confused.

But after watching Sejun, Theo, Kkueng, and the Black Rabbit harvest sweet potatoes,

Squeak.

Bbaa.

Bbaap.

The white rabbits nodded, understood Sejun, and went to do their own work.

Sejun grabbed a sweet potato vine with his right hand and pulled.

Crack.

The sweet potatoes came up with the vine. But even if he harvested thirty or forty sweet potatoes at once, the Harvesting skill only counted it once.

“Here you go.”

Sejun put the sweet potatoes into the subspace warehouse that followed him. Iona had added this feature.

“Is it my turn, nya?”

Flap flap flap.

Theo was waiting inside the warehouse. When Sejun put the sweet potatoes in, Theo cut them from the vine with his claws and put them in wooden boxes.

Byuck!

The Black Rabbit replaced the full boxes with empty ones and stacked the full boxes in the warehouse.

It took a while to explain, but they worked so fast that they filled a box every 30 seconds because of the carrot soup they had eaten.

And Kkueng was…

“Heuup! Kkueng!”

He helped harvest the giant sweet potatoes that appeared sometimes.

Kkueng!

When Sejun called, Kkueng ran over from where he was eating honey and pulled the sweet potato vine with Sejun.

“Pull!”

Kkuenge!

They pulled the sweet potato vine together.

Crack.

The ground split, and a giant sweet potato, 3m in size, came out.

[You have harvested a giant sweet potato.]

[92,967 times left until the job quest is complete.]

[Job experience slightly increases.]

[Harvesting Lv. 4 proficiency slightly increases.]

[You have gained 30 experience.]

“I should give this to Uma King.”

It was the third giant sweet potato. The first one went to Aileen, and the second to Mom Crimson Giant Bear.

Sejun harvested all the sweet potatoes before lunch.

For lunch, they decided to eat roasted sweet potatoes.

Crack. Crack.

Whoosh.

Sejun put 2000 sweet potatoes wrapped in green onion leaves into a huge bonfire in the sweet potato field. He used a lot of sweet potatoes so everyone could enjoy the taste of roasted sweet potatoes.

When the 2000 roasted sweet potatoes were ready,

[The Tower’s administrator shouts, ‘Roasted sweet potatoes! Roasted sweet potatoes!’]

Aileen had been waiting for the roasted sweet potatoes.

“Here you go.”

Sejun filled Aileen’s soup bowl, a large pot, with 500 roasted sweet potatoes and gave it to her.

[······]

Aileen was silent, peeling the roasted sweet potatoes with soot on her face.

‘But she’s a black dragon, would soot even show?’

Sejun was thinking about useless things when…

Whoosh.

Mom Crimson Giant Bear dumped her large pot of roasted sweet potatoes into her mouth.

Crunch.

Gulp.

Mom Crimson Giant Bear swallowed them whole because they were too soft.

Kuoong!

She lifted the second large pot, not wanting to make a mistake this time.

Squeak!

Bbaa!

Byuck!

Ppyu ppyu!

The rabbits also ate roasted sweet potatoes with soot on their faces.

Kkueng!

Kkueng roughly peeled the roasted sweet potatoes and ate 10 at a time. The roasted sweet potatoes disappeared quickly because of him.

“Ah!”

Sejun realized the roasted sweet potatoes were disappearing and started blowing on them to cool them down.

“Huh?”

He felt someone watching him.

“It’s not the Golden Bat.”

He wondered if someone was hiding and watching again, but…

Byuck!

(Oh! I see! Brother!)

The Golden Bat was learning how to eat roasted sweet potatoes from the Black Rabbit.

“Then who is it?”

Sejun looked around and stared at the black dragon statue that was spouting water.

‘Is it not?’

Sejun looked back at the roasted sweet potatoes,

Whoosh.

He quickly looked at the black dragon statue. And they looked at each other.

-Wh…what?! What are you looking at!!!

Kaiser got angry for no reason, as if he felt guilty.

‘He can’t be honest.’

Sejun put roasted sweet potatoes in a basket and went to the fountain.

“Kaiser, please have some of this.”

-Ahem. I will eat it, especially since you brought it all the way here!

Kaiser said he would eat it because of Sejun’s effort, even though he didn’t want to. Then, the black dragon statue poured all the roasted sweet potatoes in the basket into its mouth.

Sejun took care of Kaiser and returned to his seat.

“Huh?!”

There were no roasted sweet potatoes left. They ate them all!

Sejun was about to gather the animals when…

“President Park! Look! I saved the best sweet potato for you! It’s still warm, nya!”

Theo showed the yellow roasted sweet potato he had been holding. He looked proud, like he had done a good job.

But Theo had peeled the roasted sweet potato, so his fur was stuck all over it.

Sejun wondered whether to eat it or not.

“President Park, your face looks tired again, nya! Eat this and stay still, nya. I’ll massage your face a bit, nya!”

Theo started kneading Sejun’s face while handing him the sweet potato covered in fur.

Press. Press.

Sejun had to let Theo massage him, remove the fur from the roasted sweet potato, and eat it.

But…

“Ptoo! Ptoo!”

Even after removing the fur, he still ended up chewing on roasted sweet potato and fur together because Theo was next to him, constantly shedding fur.

After the hard lunch, Sejun moved the sweet potatoes from the subspace warehouse to the storage next to his house without resting. He needed to store other crops there.

The storage was large, so even after carrying sweet potatoes several times, it was still less than 1/10 full.

“Alright. Next, the potato field!”

Sejun hurried to the potato field where about 3000 potatoes were planted. He had a busy schedule. After the potatoes, he had to harvest 15,000 carrots.

If he could finish harvesting today, he thought he could complete 30% of the job quest.

Sejun and the animals quickly finished harvesting the potatoes and moved to the carrot field.

And…

Pluck. Pluck.

While harvesting carrots,

“Ugh! Kkueng!”

There was a carrot that Sejun couldn’t pull out. It was a giant carrot.

Kkueng!

Kkueng ran over when Sejun called.

Kkueng and Sejun pulled the carrot’s stem together.

Crack.

The ground split, and a giant carrot, 3m in size, appeared.

But this giant crop was different.

The giant carrot was floating in the air. It had a red ribbon pattern in the center.

[You have harvested the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar.]

[87,818 times left until the job quest is complete.]

[Job experience greatly increases.]

[Harvesting Lv. 4 proficiency greatly increases.]

[Harvesting Lv. 4 proficiency is full, and the level increases.]

[You have gained 10,000 experience.]

“Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar?”

The crop had a strange name.

Byuck?!

The Black Rabbit was surprised to see the giant golden carrot. That is?!

It was the legendary carrot that he had only heard about from his father.

At that moment,

[A quest has been generated.]

[Quest: Offer 100 of 10 or more types of crops to the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar within 24 hours and open the Harvest Festival of Abundance!]

[Reward: Holding the Harvest Festival of Abundance, Job Skill – Crop Giantification Lv. 1]

A quest appeared in front of Sejun.

“Harvest Festival of Abundance? Crop Giantification?”

Sejun read the quest.

Byuck! Byuck!

The Black Rabbit got excited and called his father rabbit.

And…

Squeak!!!

The father rabbit ran over with the Black Rabbit and was moved to see the golden carrot. He never thought he would see it again since the Red Ribbon Kingdom had fallen.

Now, he might be able to revive the Red Ribbon Kingdom.

The father rabbit was moved by the golden carrot.

“More than 10 types of crops?”

Sejun counted his crops.

“Sweet potato, Sun sweet potato, potato, carrot, cherry tomato, detoxifying green onion, sturdy blade green onion, peanut. Uh?! That’s 8?”

He needed two more crops to complete the quest.