Within the Black Tower, numerous merchant passages and Lindgens were installed.

“Burp. What’s this? Why does my stomach feel so bloated?”

Amidst all this, a fragment of Jǫrmungandr, hidden in the shadows, spoke. The reason for its discomfort was that Theo and Uren’s caravan had not yet been digested.

“Seems like they’re tough ones. Well, it doesn’t matter; they can’t escape from inside me anyway.”

Squeeze.

Having finished speaking, the fragment of Jǫrmungandr bit its own tail again and hid itself more deeply.

***

“Yes! Of course! I’m overflowing with money!”

Uren naively answered Theo’s question. Theo was certain now. This pink pig was a pushover, meow! Why ask for help if it’s just about following the path? I’ll save him and get a lot of money, meow!

“Puhuhut. Just follow me, meow!”

Thinking he had found an gullible target, Theo happily led the way.

A short while later,

Sssss. Sssss.

The white snakes appeared again.

“Stay back, you guys, meow! Meow-meow Storm Fist!”

Theo stopped the caravan guards from intervening and dealt with the snakes himself. I can’t share these coins, meow! Puhuhut. All these coins are mine, meow!

After defeating all the snakes,

“My slave, Gaeron, come out, meow!”

-Did you call me, Master?!

“Right, meow! Gaeron, just quietly pick up the coins, meow!”

-Yes!

Theo summoned Gaeron to collect the coins.

Several hours later.

“Meow?! Why isn’t the exit of the 70th floor of the Tower appearing, meow?”

After battling snakes and moving for quite some time, Theo finally realized something was amiss. He should have reached the 70th floor of the Tower long ago.

Then,

“Lord Theo, didn’t you know? This path is endless. We’ve been walking in the same place all along.”

Uren, who had been trapped for several days, informed Theo of what he had discovered earlier.

“Meow?! Does that mean we can’t get out of here, meow?!”

“Yes. We had no way out, so we requested your help, Lord Theo.”

“…Meow?!”

Shocked by Uren’s words, Theo panicked. Does that mean I can’t go back to Chairman Park’s lap, meow?! That can’t happen, meow! I must return to Chairman Park’s lap quickly, meow!!!

The idea of being separated from Sejun’s lap was unthinkable for Theo, who was fanatically obsessed with it. Nobody can come between Chairman Park’s lap and me, meow!

“Uren, give me the money, meow!”

Theo extended his front paw confidently, asking for the money he had been promised by Uren.

“What?! Oh. Yes, I can give you as much money as you want, but… why?”

“Just give it, meow!”

“Alright.”

Uren handed over his money pouch to Theo.

And then,

Flash!

Receiving the money pouch, Theo began burning Uren’s money and started shining in a golden light.

***

“Ugh.”

Sejun woke up in bed, got up, and looked at his knee.

“He’s still not back… Theo, what trouble are you causing now?”

Worried that Theo, who usually returned by dawn, had still not come back, Sejun wondered if Theo had gotten into some trouble.

But then,

“No. That doesn’t feel right…”

Sejun’s intuition told him something had happened to Theo.

“Golden Bat, go to Iona and ask her to look for Theo.”

(Yes!)

After sending the Golden Bat to Iona, Sejun got up, marked the date on his bedroom wall, and began his 350th day of being stranded, starting with the morning.

“I’ll make Samyangju and rice noodle dough in the morning, and in the evening, I’ll make rice noodles with Cuengi.”

Checking his plans for the day, Sejun headed to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Then,

“Huh?!”

in the cherry tomato field. They were purple grapes, growing on

bunch of grapes, each

“Wow! They look delicious!”

luscious, with a pleasant

Snap.

picked the bunch

Large Seedless

job experience

Harvesting Lv.

gained 1050 experience

A harvesting message appeared.

like a failure by the name

to check

Large Seedless Grapes

seedless grapevine branch modified to strengthen the body of a beginner, grafted onto a cherry tomato.

increases all stats by

Tower Farmer

Date:

→ Grade: A

“Hmm… it’s a failure.”

indeed a failure. Aside from the description of the grapes being enlarged due to the cherry tomato graft, there

since it increases stats, I might

seen him, he would

consumed Seedless Large Grapes

have increased

definitely make proper

struggling

by 15 points was, at least,

Sejun, having eaten the grapes grafted onto cherry tomatoes, set out to check other crops he had grafted

But,

“There are no fruits.”

of the attempts were

the ones in

to the western forest where the kudzu field was located, riding on Toryong to check his final grafted

***

Sniff sniff.

Kuehehe, Krueng!

[Hehehe, it smells good!]

and taking a break, Cuengi followed a delicious scent and discovered a bunch

Krueng!

these to dad to

the grapes with the

now! You were going to eat them alone again, weren’t

to pick the grapes. How long has it been since you were caught eating alone, and here you are eating alone

Krueng! Krueng!

it’s not

protested in response

“Really?”

Krueng! Krueng!

bring these to dad to eat

Cuengi might

sorry

Sejun apologized to Cuengi,

Krueng! Krueng!

okay! Cuengi have deceived

coolly accepted

for understanding.

As Sejun called,

Dadada.

Thump.

clung to

“Let’s see?”

bunch of grapes. Cuengi, having eaten a lot lately, had become

bunch

Snap

them from the grapevine branch

harvested 22 Grapes Overflowing

job experience has slightly

Lv. 7 has slightly

have gained 1540 experience

“Grapes Overflowing with Vitality?”

the term ‘seedless’. Sejun, feeling good about this, immediately

[Grapes Overflowing with Vitality]

grown by grafting a branch of a seedless grapevine, modified to strengthen

kudzu infused

The bitter taste has disappeared, and its

Cultivator: Tower

Expiration Date: 150

→ Grade: A

“Great!”

increasing all stats by 1 had disappeared, Sejun was happy

Swoosh.

is how you

his clothes and

And then,

suck, the grape

Squeeze.

Pop.

the grape skin and sucked on it, smoothly drawing the

Chew. Chew.

aroma and sweet and sour taste of the grape filled Sejun’s

this is the

relished

“Ptui.”

Gulp.

out the grape seed and swallowed the

And then,

Swoosh. Swoosh.

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