Solo Farming In The Tower

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?!”

grapes of an unusual color in the cherry tomato field. They were purple grapes, growing on a grapevine grafted

grapes, each as big

“Wow! They look delicious!”

with a pleasant aroma and large

Snap.

Sejun picked the bunch

Large Seedless

job experience has slightly

Harvesting Lv. 7

gained 1050 experience

A harvesting message appeared.

by the

check the

Large Seedless Grapes for

a beginner, grafted onto a cherry

one grape increases

Tower

Date: 150

→ Grade: A

“Hmm… it’s a failure.”

was indeed a failure. Aside from the description of the grapes being enlarged due to the cherry tomato graft, there was no significant

stats, I might as well

he ate all 15 bitter grapes. Had Theo seen him, he would have said his

consumed Seedless

have increased by

…

I will definitely

struggling with the lingering bitter taste, resolved

increased by 15 points was, at least, a

cherry tomatoes, set out to check other crops he had grafted

But,

“There are no fruits.”

of the

the ones in

head to the western forest where the kudzu field was located, riding

***

Sniff sniff.

Kuehehe, Krueng!

[Hehehe, it smells good!]

a break, Cuengi followed a delicious scent and discovered a bunch of grapes

Krueng!

these to

pick the grapes with the intention of sharing them with

You were going to eat them alone again,

grapes. How long has it been since

Krueng! Krueng!

it’s not like

protested in response to Sejun’s

“Really?”

Krueng! Krueng!

was going to bring these

response. After all, Cuengi might eat secretly

I’m sorry for suspecting

Sejun apologized to Cuengi,

Krueng! Krueng!

deceived dad

accepted Sejun’s

understanding. Come

As Sejun called,

Dadada.

Thump.

immediately clung

“Let’s see?”

Cuengi hanging on his left leg, waddled over to the bunch of grapes. Cuengi, having eaten a lot lately,

bunch

Snap

them from the grapevine branch grafted on

22 Grapes

experience has

in Harvesting Lv. 7 has slightly

have gained

“Grapes Overflowing with Vitality?”

name was missing the term ‘seedless’. Sejun, feeling good about

[Grapes Overflowing with Vitality]

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

kudzu infused into the grapes, creating

taste has disappeared,

Cultivator: Tower

Date:

→ Grade: A

“Great!”

of increasing all stats by 1 had disappeared, Sejun was happy that he could finally eat

Swoosh.

this is how you eat

by roughly wiping one with his clothes and detaching

And then,

you gently squeeze it and suck,

Squeeze.

Pop.

Sejun gently squeezed the grape skin and sucked on it, smoothly drawing the grape’s flesh into his

Chew. Chew.

the unique aroma and sweet and sour taste of the

this is the

Sejun relished

“Ptui.”

Gulp.

grape seed

And then,

Swoosh. Swoosh.