Solo Farming In The Tower

“Just trust me, Lord Theo!”

For Lord Theo! Kona, with a determined look, jumped onto the back of the lake turtle.

Splash.

Splash.

With short limbs flailing in the air, Kona glided as much as possible, and dived into the water. Kona swam hard and climbed onto the back of the lake turtle.

“Is this the shell of the lake turtle?”

Kona spoke, looking at the red back of the lake turtle. The shell was densely packed with holes that looked like volcanic craters, varying in size from small to massive.

It looked sturdy, and Kona thought it seemed like a good material for making equipment, though they would have to refine it first to be sure.

Just then,

Scrape.

Krueng?

[Did Kona come to take this too?]

Cuengi, who had already settled on the back of the lake turtle, spoke up. Cuengi had been busy prying off pieces of the turtle’s shell and stuffing them into its snack pouch.

“Yes!”

Kona, thinking Cuengi also came to mine the shell, responded and began to dig into the turtle’s shell with a pickaxe.

Clang! Clang!

After about 10 minutes of pickaxing by Kona, a piece of the lake turtle’s shell came off.

“Peng?”

Beneath it, the real shiny shell appeared.

“Then what’s this?”

Kona was confused, looking at the stone she had mined when,

Puaang!

[My back feels cool!]

The lake turtle let out a pleased cry.

“Back? Huh?! What are you guys doing there?”

Sejun, who had been creating ice for the lake turtle, asked Cuengi and Kona, who were on the turtle’s back.

Krueng!

[Daddy, Cuengi dug up oysters!]

Cuengi proudly showed Sejun what he had dug up from the turtle’s back, waving them in its hands in response to Sejun’s question.

“Oysters?!”

At a glance, it was obviously wasn’t oysters, but to Cuengi, the closest thing in his knowledge was oysters.

“Wait a minute. Ice cube.”

Sejun made an ice bridge to move over to the turtle’s back to properly examine and explain what was attached to the shell.

“These are Balanidae. So, this is why you felt hot.”

Sejun touched the red Balanidae and spoke. They were slightly hot to the touch, and the parts touching the turtle’s back would be even hotter.

At that moment,

[You have discovered the reason why the lake turtle cannot sleep.]

[The quest has been updated.]

[Quest: Remove all the Balanidae parasitizing the body of the lake turtle!]

Reward: 130,000 experience points, 13,000 Tower coins, flourishing of the lake turtle, an endangered species, in 100 years.

With the quest update, the rewards increased slightly.

“Good.”

The quest, motivating Sejun, who was already eagerly picking off Balanidae and thinking about the tastiest way to eat them.

“Cuengi, these are called Balanidae.”

Sejun told Cuengi the name of the creatures attached to the turtle’s back.

Krueng?! Krueng?

[They’re not oysters?! Then we can’t eat them?]

Cuengi was shocked at Sejun’s words, becoming gloomy at the thought of not being able to eat something tasty.

“No, you can eat these too. And they’re very delicious.”

Krueng?!

[Really?!]

work hard

Krueng! Krueng!

it! Cuengi will

Theo with

did not stop them since there was no reason to intervene as they weren’t causing

call the other penguins

“Yes!”

involved the penguins, making them collect Balanidae

***

“Just you wait!”

with the crystal orb for the Three

aura of destruction has infiltrated the

“Huh? Aura of destruction?”

receiving the alert, Aileen immediately checked the location where the alarm had sounded and was able to locate Mister One,

one who messed with my Sejun’s family. Iona, go to the foggy area on the 59th

One had passed. True to her title of the Great

a cave on the 47th floor of the tower and stopped

I’ve marked it, so

hideout of the Three Head Society, they

“Kuhhh, it’s over!”

from looking at the crystal orb for

Just then,

“Huh?! What’s that?”

asked her to appraise. She had been so focused on

appraise this quickly

appraisal magic on the

***

Two hours later.

“It’s much cleaner now.”

island, commented upon seeing that about a quarter of the balanidae that had filled the lake turtle’s back were

“Time to make lunch.”

moved to the lakeside, gathered some branches from around, and piled them up on the ground. The lunch menu was grilled balanidae. He took out some balanidae he had stored

Snap.

Fwooosh.

of his fingers and began grilling the balanidae whole on the branches. Since balanidae naturally possess a high tolerance to heat due to their inherent high

Krueng!

[It smells delicious!]

to a certain degree, Cuengi, drawn by the aroma, began to waddle around, and other penguins also subtly

is

stayed on the lake turtle’s back, diligently removing more

well.

trying one of the grilled

Krueng!

you for

you for the

penguins began to

However,

“Peng!”

was enjoying his meal, the penguins who had grabbed the balanidae hurriedly dropped them and rushed into the lake to cool

could easily ignore most things with his tough skin, the penguins were quite

them down here before

sympathetic towards the penguins in the same plight, Sejun made ice cubes and placed the balanidae on

everyone was

Thump.

the giant

“What’s this?”

clearly a inner core from the

another

about to pick up the bead with

Krueng!

[That’s definitely for Dad!]

It

picked up the bead and checked

[Fiery Balanidae’s Inner Core]

has parasitized on the lake turtle and grown

increases strength by 20 or increases potential strength by

It enhances flame-related talents slightly upon

a

Usage restriction: Lv. 30 and above, Strength 20

→ Grade: B

Munch.

core into his mouth. It was easier to eat it quickly than to waste energy pondering whether to

is temporary,

his teeth, he endured the rising bitterness and consoled

Gulp.

bearing with the bitterness, Sejun swallowed the

have consumed the Fiery Balanidae’s

strength increases

existing flame-related talents have

“Good.”

was bitter, but

Just then,

Click.

“Huh?”

Dadadada.

and ran away. It had given