Solo Farming In The Tower
chapter-514

[You have arrived at the 67th floor of the White Tower.]

‘It’s pitch dark.’

It was so dark that not even a step ahead was visible.

Since it wasn’t a place where residents lived, there were no lights like magic or torches.

Sejun snapped his fingers.

Whooosh.

After creating a flame, he looked around the surroundings.

‘Besides the trees, nothing seems out of the ordinary.’

But what’s that fruit?

Just as Sejun was about to inspect the round, purple fruit hanging from a tree,

“Great Hybrid Chairman Park, I missed you, meow!”

Theo, appearing slightly later than usual from the Void Storage, jumped onto Sejun’s face.

“Yeah. I missed you too.”

“Puhuhut. But I missed you more, meow!”

Theo, overjoyed by Sejun’s words, enthusiastically rubbed his face against Sejun’s forehead.

Kuehehehe. Kueng!

[Hehehe. Cuengi missed dad too!]

Meanwhile, Cuengi also clung to Sejun’s side, rubbing his face against Sejun’s body.

“Yeah, dad missed Cuengi too… Achoo! Vice Chairman Theo, get down now.”

“Meow…”

Sejun, who sneezed because of Theo’s fur, grabbed Theo by the scruff of his neck and moved him to his lap.

But where’s Blackie?

Noticing that the next in line hadn’t appeared yet, Sejun looked around.

Kking?! Kking! Kking!

[Butler! Where are you?! I can’t see anything! Butler!]

Blackie, apparently having jumped out in the wrong direction, was whimpering as he searched for Sejun in the completely wrong way.

Mumu!

Mubalchil tried his best to light up the surroundings by creating fire on his horn, but it was too weak to make much of a difference.

As expected from the Super sunfish crew.

“You dummy. It’s this way, not that way.”

Seeing the silly scene, Sejun laughed and hurriedly gathered up the Blackie family, putting them into the sling bag.

Kking?! Kking?!

[Why didn’t you pick me up sooner?! And who are you calling a dummy?! The great Blackie is not a dummy!]

Butler, I missed you!

Blackie, whining while wagging his tail energetically like a propeller, fussed at Sejun.

“Alright, I take back the dummy thing.”

Pat pat.

Sejun soothed Blackie with a few pats.

Kkirorong.

Eomrorong.

Kkirurong.

…

…

.

As Sejun patted him, Blackie and his underlings quickly fell asleep, quieting down.

After putting the Blackie family to sleep, Sejun finally plucked the fruit from the tree.

At that moment,

[You have harvested a fig.]

[Your job experience has slightly increased.]

[Your proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 9 has slightly increased.]

[You have gained 1 experience point.]

Messages appeared.

“Oh, so this was a fig.”

Sejun sliced the fig in half with his dagger.

“Cuengi, try this. Just don’t eat the skin. You only eat the inside like this.”

Demonstrating how to eat a fig, Sejun handed it over to Cuengi.

Wow. It just melts.

The sweet flesh that entered his mouth was so soft it melted instantly.

Pop. Pop.

The seeds burst with a delightful texture every time he chewed.

“Cuengi, it’s delicious, right?”

When Sejun asked, looking at Cuengi,

Kuehehehe. Kueng! Kueng!

[Hehehe. It’s delicious! It’s sweet like honey!]

Cuengi nodded eagerly, replying enthusiastically.

“Good. Then let’s harvest a lot of these. Dad will make plenty of delicious things with figs.”

Kueng!

[So exciting!]

Excited by Sejun’s words, Cuengi began harvesting the figs using telekinesis, and Sejun also continued harvesting the figs.

I’ll start by making dried figs. They’re delicious just as they are, but if I bake them in bread, they’re absolutely heavenly. Hehehe.

While Sejun was happily imagining how to eat the figs

Soft.

“Huh?”

Although he was sure he had harvested a fig, he felt warmth and the softness of fur in his hand.

What is this?

When Sejun lifted the fig to look at it closely

Swish.

It opened its sleepy eyes and opened its mouth- wait…

A bat?!

Ppip! Ppip!

Contrary to its cute cries, the bat had a bad temper.

Crunch!

It suddenly bit Sejun’s hand without warning.

“Ahhh! It’s going to bite my hand off!”

Shocked, Sejun shouted and shook his hand.

Waaaah!

The frightened baby bat bit down harder, refusing to let go.

However,

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Because of Sejun’s overwhelming strength,

Ppip? Ppip-!

The baby bat screamed and eventually let go, flying up into the air, leaving behind two of its teeth in Sejun’s hand.

Pluck. Pluck.

Sejun hurriedly pulled out the baby bat’s teeth embedded in his hand, leaving two small holes about the size of a ballpoint pen tip between his thumb and index finger.

“…Ahem!”

Embarrassed by his overreaction to wounds that weren’t even bleeding, Sejun cleared his throat.

Swish.

Moreover, the wound was healing rapidly.

At that moment,

Ppip! Ppip!

Hearing the baby bat’s cry, the other bats opened their eyes in the darkness, letting out eerie cries.

Thousands of pairs of red eyes glared at Sejun and his party.

The bats had been disguising their bodies to look like fig fruits with their wings.

[A quest has been triggered.]

[Quest: Eliminate or negotiate with the Fig Bats that have illegally occupied the Fig Farm and reclaim the land rights.]

Reward: Recognition as the rightful owner of the Fig Farm on the 67th floor of the White Tower.

A land deed quest appeared at the same time.

Should I fight them?

“Puhuhut. The employees to get stamped have arrived, meow!”

Kueng!

[Cuengi’s going to harvest figs! If anyone interferes, they’ll be punished!]

While Sejun and his party were facing off with the Fig Bats,

Ppip! Ppip!

The baby bat, flapping its wings hard, returned and perched on Sejun’s shoulder, rubbing its face affectionately against him.

This was because, thanks to Sejun, its baby teeth had been pulled out without pain.

As a result, the tense atmosphere between Sejun and the bats lightened a bit.

(Pip-pip? Is it time to wake up?)

Mistaking the darkness for wake-up time, the golden bat Paespaes woke up and the situation was easily resolved.

Ppip! Ppip!

The king has appeared!

The Fig Bats immediately began bowing to Paespaes.

In the world of bats, the golden color signified royalty – those with royal blood, meaning Paespaes was considered a king.

(Pip-pip? I’m royalty?)

Paespaes tilted his head, puzzled by what the Fig Bats were saying.

“Oh. So our Paespaes was a bat of noble blood. Should I start calling you Paespaes Rumatia III?”

Sejun teased Paespaes.

In response,

(Pip-pip! No! My name is Paespaes Park!)

Sejun~nim, are you disowning me?!

Paespaes shouted with a tearful expression.

“Sorry, it was just a joke.”

Sejun quickly apologized, holding Paespaes in his hand and stroking his head.

Baheheh.

Finally in a better mood, Paespaes smiled.

[The Fig Bats that illegally occupied the Fig Farm have agreed to follow your subordinate, Paespaes Park.]

[You have completed the quest.]

In the meantime, the land deed quest was completed.

“Puhuhut. Come over here to get your stamp, meow! Once you get your stamp, you’ll have a job and food, meow!”

Ppip! Ppip!

Theo stamped the wings of the Fig Bats, officially hiring them as employees of Sejun Company.

[You have gained 30 slaves.]

[Due to the effect of the title <Slave King>, all your stats increase by 0.3.]

But this title isn’t changing.

Sejun wasn’t sure if it hadn’t been fully reflected yet or if it just wasn’t being updated.

Reading the message, Sejun stood up.

Then,

Ppip! Ppip!

He grabbed the baby bat still playing on his shoulder.

“Now that you’ve lost your baby teeth, it’s hard to eat, so try this.”

Placing the baby bat on the ground, Sejun offered it some honey water.

Ppip?

The baby bat took a sip of the honey water Sejun had given it.

Ppip! Ppip!

So sweet!

Excited, the baby bat jumped into the honey water bowl, completely merging with the honey.

“Paespaes, ask the bats if they’ve seen anything suspicious around here.”

(Pip-pip! Understood!)

Sejun had Paespaes translate, as he couldn’t directly communicate with the bats.

However,

(Pip-pip?)

Ppip! Ppip!

The Fig Bats shook their heads.

Since they rarely left the farm, they didn’t know much about what was around the area.

Just then,

Ppip! Ppip!

“Paespaes-nim! I know a suspicious place! If you go there, the lights go out!”

A baby bat, who had occasionally sneaked out to explore without the adults knowing, shouted out.

Of course, the parents of the baby bat shot it a fierce glare.

Through Paespaes, Sejun told the parents not to scold the baby bat and handed over plenty of honey water for the little bat to enjoy.

“Let’s go.”

Holding a torch, Sejun began moving toward the suspicious place the baby bat had mentioned.

Ppip! Ppip!

Ppip…

They’re scolding it after all.

The sound of the baby bat being scolded could be heard from afar.

Well, it deserves a scolding.

If not, it might really get into danger later.

‘I wonder how Father Rabbit and Mother Rabbit are doing?’

Thinking of the bat couple scolding their baby reminded Sejun naturally of the rabbit couple.

***

55th floor of the Black Tower.

[Farming School Entrance Ceremony]

Ppiit!

Ppiyap!

Ppiyat!

Baby rabbits passed in groups under the huge banner installed at the entrance of the farm for the farming school entrance ceremony.

And among the new students,

Ppyak! Ppyak!

was Black Torch.

Black Torch, who was born with three dots on his back, was receiving training to become the strongest Black Rabbit, so he technically didn’t need to attend farming classes.

However, since the foundation of the Red Ribbon Kingdom was farming, even royalty had to learn about it.

“Hi, Black Torch!”

“Yeah. Hi, hyung.”

“Nice to see you all.”

Most of them were family, so it was practically a family gathering.

As the baby rabbits passed under the banner and walked along the path,

“Look! It’s Grandpa!”

“Grandma’s here too! What are they doing over there?”

The rabbit couple, who had been appointed as the principal and vice principal of the farming school to nurture future generations, stood at the far end of the field, waiting for the baby rabbits.

“Now, now. Here I’m not Grandpa. Students, please follow my instructions as your principal.”

“And I’m not your grandma here either. I’m the vice principal.”

Father Rabbit and Mother Rabbit spoke in strict tones to the 100 baby rabbits gathered before them.

But,

“Grandpa, what are you doing up there?”

“Grandpa, come play with us!”

“Grandma, I’m hungry!”

The baby rabbits weren’t paying much attention.

However, for the rabbit couple, who had mastered parenting a hundred times over, dealing with baby rabbits was too easy.

“Ahem. If you keep talking, I’ll call Uncle Theo.”

Eeek!

At the mention of Uncle Theo, the startled baby rabbits quickly covered their mouths with one paw and their foreheads with the other, as if trying to block any potential stamping from Theo.

Theo’s fearsome reputation had spread even among the baby rabbits.

…

Thanks to that, the field quickly quieted down.

“Ahem. I’d like to welcome you all to farming school. As for me, your principal, I am the one who taught farming to the greatest farmer of the Black Tower, Tower Farmer Park Sejun…”

And thus began the never-ending ‘back in my day’ lecture from the principal.

***

Sizzle.

…?!

About 30 minutes after Sejun headed in the direction the baby bat had pointed out, the torch suddenly went out.

Snap.

Sejun snapped his fingers and reignited the torch.

Sizzle.

But just like someone had poured water on it, the torch immediately extinguished again.

“This must be the place, right?”

No matter how he looked at it, this place seemed suspicious.

But what should he do?

He wanted to look around, but without the light, it was impossible to see anything.

At that moment,

Kueng!

[Dad, Cuengi will light everything up for you!]

Cuengi pulled out his Thunderbolt Staff and flew up into the sky.

Then,

Crackle.

Boom!

As Cuengi continuously struck the surroundings with lightning,

What… what is that?!

[Darkness Bug]

Sejun saw a swarm of black bugs drawn to the flickering light.

These monsters had sleek, slimy bodies and black wings on their streamlined forms.

And,

[Darkness Bug Queen, Devourer of the Sun]

One giant creature, dying as smoke rose from it. By sheer bad luck, it had been struck by Cuengi’s lightning.

Well, It’s over.

“Cuengi, great job.”

As Sejun gave Cuengi a thumbs-up,

Thud.

The Darkness Bug Queen collapsed.

[Herbalist Cuengi has defeated the Darkness Bug Queen, Devourer of the Sun.]

[You have gained 10 million experience points, 50% of what Herbalist Cuengi earned.]

…

..

.

Fwoosh.

Along with the message, the body of the Darkness Bug Queen burned away, revealing the sun it had swallowed, now radiating a blinding light.

As the sun emerged, countless Darkness Bugs swarmed around it, trying to consume it, plunging the surroundings into darkness again.

Whooosh.

But the Darkness Bugs couldn’t withstand the light of the sun, and as their bodies burned up, the sun grew even brighter, using the bugs’ corpses as fuel to soar into the sky.

Then,

[You have achieved the great feat of restoring daylight to the White Tower.]

[As a reward for your great feat, you have earned the title <Title: One Who Restored the Day>.]

[As a reward for your great feat, all your stats have increased by 50.]

Sejun, having done almost nothing, gained experience and a new title.

[The potential of all your stats has reached its limit.]

[You can no longer absorb additional stats.]

[The stats you earned will return to nature.]

Because of his maxed potential, the stat points were lost.

[You have completed the quest.]

[As a reward for completing the quest, you have obtained 10 drops of the Harvest Elixir.]

Ah, another 10 drops of Harvest Elixir.

“Let’s head back.”

Sejun registered the waypoint and returned.

“Ehehe, I hope Sejun-hyung comes back soon.”

Slurp.

To Ajax, who was drooling while waiting for the meat party.

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