Chapter 506: I... I am a Tower Farmer?!
TL: Hanguk
Inside Melpheus' Mental World.
“Hmm. Where is this? This is my mental world.”
Melpheus looked around and spoke.
“Does that mean... I passed out from the attack of a mere bear cub?"
What was that creature?
Melpheus recalled the situation just before he fainted.
At first, it was just enough to slightly interfere with his unsealing process, not such a terrifying attack.
But then…
What was that?
Just before the bear cub's club touched him, the color of the lightning emanating from the club changed from a golden hue to a menacing dark red, and after being hit by it, his memory went blank.
“No more letting my guard down!”
As Melpheus hurriedly tried to leave the mental world and regain control of his body,
Grrr.
Thud. Thud.
A low growling sound and the heavy footsteps of something approaching from the darkness reached him.
“Huh?! This sound... could it be Fenrir... nim?!”
Thud. Thud.
The footsteps grew closer in response to his words. Soon, other footsteps followed as well.
And,
It really is Fenrir-nim!
A wolf with dark blue fur appeared before Melpheus, emanating killing intent.
"I pay my respects to... Fen... Fenrir-nim!"
At the sight of Blackie, Melpheus trembled and hurriedly greeted him.
Following behind Blackie, his subordinates also appeared, but Melpheus' entire focus was on Blackie, who was directing killing intent at him.
A fear imprinted in his very instincts.
This alone showed how high Blackie's status was among the Apostles of Destruction.
Of course, Sejun, who had witnessed Blackie's daily routine of eating roasted and dried sweet potatoes and sleeping soundly like a super sunflish, would find this hard to believe.
“Melpheus. You called me a dog before, didn't you?!"
“Huh?! Me?! That can’t be...”
As Melpheus hastily denied Blackie’s words,
“Great Blackie nim, I also heard Melpheus clearly call you a ‘dog’!”
“That's right! And he even said he would absorb the core of great Blackie nim and become the 3rd Apostle of Destruction!”
Eomdol and Shari, who had been present at the scene of the incident, each testified.
“Fe... Fenrir nim, I was wrong. Please forgive me...”
If I can’t calm Fenrir nim’s anger here, I’ll be obliterated!
Melpheus frantically begged for forgiveness from Blackie to save his life.
"Bow your head."
“Yes!”
At Blackie's command, Melpheus immediately bowed his head.
“Grrr. If you fall, you’re finished.”
Thud.
“Y-Yes!”
Blackie placed his front paw on Melpheus' bowed body and said,
“Listen well. I’ll teach you the rules of the great Blackie family. Rule #1: You must always obey the butler!”
He began to share the life-saving information he had discovered to live peacefully on the 99th floor of the tower.
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10th Tower, 1st Floor.
“Cuengi, well done.”
Kuehehehe.
Sejun patted Cuengi’s head, praising him for knocking Melpheus unconscious.
But how did he do it?
No matter how strong Cuengi was, it wasn’t enough to knock out an Apostle of Destruction.
‘Did he attack while Melpheus was releasing the seal?’
It was true that transformations tend to leave one vulnerable.
Sejun didn’t think much more about it.
Kkirorong.
Eomrorong.
...
..
.
Looks like Blackie’s busy with the exorcism.
Sejun lifted Blackie family, who were peacefully sleeping next to the unconscious Melpheus, and put them into his sling bag.
[Consuming 5000L of the energy of Creation to increase the tower's automatic repair speed by 10%.]
[Consuming 5000L of the energy of Creation to increase the tower's automatic repair speed by 10%.]
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..
.
Sejun started increasing the tower’s repair speed.
Although Patrick and Hamer, the administrator and sub-administrator of the 10th tower, were diligently repairing the tower, it was too slow.
[The tower's automatic repair speed has doubled from the initial speed.]
[The required energy of creation to increase automatic repair speed by 10% has increased to 10,000L.]
The cost of increasing the repair speed went up midway, but thanks to the energy of Destruction Melpheus was emitting, Sejun didn’t have to worry about running out of the energy of Creation.
As Sejun continued to increase the repair speed, the massive hole in the outer wall of the 1st floor of the tower, created by Melpheus, quickly started to close.
“Park Sejun, thanks to you, the repairs were completed quickly.”
“Park Sejun, thank you.”
The two gods, who had finished repairing the tower, expressed their gratitude to Sejun.
At that moment,
“Puhuhut. You can’t just thank him with words, meow! Give us a reward, meow!”
Theo, who was clinging to Sejun’s knee, demanded a reward on his behalf.
"Hmm. I'd like to create a divine relic for you, but there's already one made... Instead, I'll tell you the location of my divine relic."
"I'll tell you the location of my divine relic too."
Thanks to this, Sejun learned that Patrick’s divine relic, Earth Armor, was on the 90th floor of the Golden Tower, and Hamer’s divine relic, Farming Bible, was on the 77th floor of the Brown Tower.
"Don't you have any Enhancing Elixirs?"
“No, it takes a lot of time to make that. I can only make one drop per month.”
“So, I can get one in a month?”
When Sejun asked with an expectant voice,
"No. That's only if I keep making Enhancing Elixirs..."
Hamer was about to say it was too difficult.
However,
"It's possible."
“Huh?!”
“Hamer, from now on, you will make only Enhancing Elixir.”
“But I also need some rest...”
“Then, during your rest, you can complete the remaining punishment with Soul Pressing Stones.”
“No, no! I'll work hard to make Enhancing Elixirs from now on! Five drops are enough, right?"
"Ten drops."
"Yes..."
Thanks to Patrick stepping in, Sejun was promised one drop of Enhancing Elixir per month for the next 10 months.
After finishing his conversation with the gods,
[Consuming 10,000L of the energy of Creation to increase the tower's durability by 100 million.]
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..
.
Sejun increased the tower's durability and waited for Blackie to wake up.
One hour later,
Kiing...
Blackie and his subordinates woke up, yawning and stretching simultaneously.
Then,
Kking!
[Newbie!]
Blackie called out.
Mumu!
(Yes! Newbie reporting!)
From the massive body of Melpheus, who had a pair of black horns and red wings, a tiny ladybug with small horns the size of a pinky nail flew up.
Plop.
It softly landed on Blackie’s nose.
Kkhechoo! Kking! Kking!
[Achoo! You idiot! Don’t sit on my nose, it tickles!]
Mumu…
(Sorry…)
Naturally, Blackie scolded it.
After giving Melpheus a good scolding,
Kkihihit. Kking!
[Heheh. Butler! I exorcised this guy!]
Blackie proudly introduced Melpheus to Sejun.
Mumu! Mumu!
(Hello, Sejun-nim! I’m the new recruit of the great Blackie family!)
Having been thoroughly disciplined in the mental world, Melpheus greeted Sejun politely.
“Yeah, hello.”
As Sejun was exchanging greetings with Melpheus,
[You have defeated the Sixth Calamity, Ogre.]
[You have gained 500 billion experience points.]
[The tower's administrator takes 50% of the gained experience, which is 250 billion.]
[The tower's sub-administrator takes 40% of the gained experience, which is 200 billion.]
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..
.
[You have leveled up.]
[You have received 1 bonus stat.]
[Your Strength increases by 30.]
[Your Strength Potential increases by 1%.]
...
..
.
Messages began appearing before Sejun’s eyes.
Due to the powerful suction force of the 10th tower, the Ogres, who couldn’t even move and had their energy of Destruction drained, disappeared, leaving behind their experience points.
Thanks to this, Sejun easily leveled up twice, but his expression wasn’t exactly happy.
“What is this?”
Why do both of you get the experience points when I defeated the monster?
Sejun glared at Patrick and Hamer as if they were thieves.
“Ahem. This is something decided by the system... it’s not because of any personal greed on our part.”
“Yeah, the system decided it...”
The two gods averted Sejun’s gaze as they answered.
You damn system!
System bad, meow!
Thus, once again, Sejun and Theo were angry at the system today.
The system keeps taking Dad’s stuff away!
No, now even Cuengi was angry at the system.
At that moment,
[The energy of Creation created in the 10th Tower has reached 4 million liters.]
[The 3rd floor of the 10th Tower is now open.]
[The refining system's processing capacity for refining the energy of Destruction increases by 100%.]
With these messages, the 3rd floor of the 10th Tower opened.
"Stella, go up to the 3rd floor."
Thanks to this, Sejun had a chance to explore the 2nd floor.
The method of ascending the tower was the same as other towers.
The only difference was...
"Activate."
The waypoint would only appear if it was activated by the Administrator or Sub-administrator.
Tap.
Sejun placed his hand on the white crystal, different from those in the other nine towers.
[You have cleared the 1st floor of the 10th Tower.]
[As a reward for clearing the 1st floor, you have received 100 million Tower Coins and 100 billion experience points.]
[As a reward for clearing the 1st floor, all your stats increase by 50.]
[The waypoint of the 1st floor has been saved.]
[Moving to the 2nd floor.]
Along with the 1st floor clear rewards, Sejun was transported to the 2nd floor of the tower.
[You have arrived on the 2nd floor of the 10th Tower.]
"Oh! Rewards!"
It’s the first reward I’ve received floor clear rewards!
Upon arriving on the 2nd floor, Sejun cheered. It was the first time he had ever received a floor clear reward since entering the tower.
"Hehehe. This place gives rewards."
From now on, I'll place the bodies of the Apostles of Destruction here and plant Destruction Devourers here and generate lots of energy of Creation to open up all the floors to collect rewards!
Sejun decided to collect all the rewards of the 10th Tower.
“Other than being bigger than the 1st floor, there’s nothing different, huh?”
Only then did he look around the 2nd floor. The 2nd floor was four times larger than the 1st floor.
This was because more crops needed to be planted to purify more energy of Destruction.
It will probably take a few days to plant everything...
As Sejun calculated the manpower needed for the large plot of land,
"Puhuhut. Hamer nim, I heard you like popcorn, meow! If you plant these, you’ll have plenty of popcorn to eat, meow!"
Theo handed Hamer a handful of Exploding Stamina Corn seeds.
‘Hmph! So that's your plan to make me plant these. But it's useless because I'm not a Tower Farmer.'
I'll just take these and make some popcorn.
Hamer smirked, seeing through Theo's obvious ploy, and accepted the seeds.
However,
"Puhuhut. Oops, my hand slipped, meow!"
Plop.
With a mischievous smile, Theo deliberately dropped the seeds the moment they touched Hamer’s hand, and
Rattle.
As some seeds that touched Hamer's hand fell to the ground,
Kueng!
Cuengi, as if waiting for this moment, used telekinesis to move the soil and cover the seeds.
And then,
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. Guys, spit it out!]
Ptoo.
As expected, Blackie family, who had been holding water in their mouths, spat it out, watering the seeds.
They didn’t even wait for Hamer to plant them, they planted them directly themselves.
Wha... what?!
Hamer was momentarily bewildered by how quickly everything had happened.
"It doesn’t matter. I’m not a Tower Farmer, so this won’t work..."
As Hamer looked at Theo with eyes that said, ‘What an amusing fellow’, a message appeared.
[It has been confirmed that Hamer, the God of Farming and Tower Farmer of the 10th Tower, planted Exploding Stamina Corn without permission.]
[According to the laws of the Tower, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, Park Sejun, will now command Hamer, the God of Farming, the Tower Farmer of the 10th Tower, for 100 years.]
"What?!"
A message popped up in Sejun’s vision, indicating that he would command Hamer for 100 years.
Hamer, besides being the Sub-administrator of the 10th Tower, was also its Tower Farmer.
“I... I am a Tower Farmer?!”
Though it seemed like Hamer himself hadn’t known this.
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. As expected of big brother!]
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. You should at least be able to do this much to become the great Blackie’s older brother!]
Cuengi and Blackie looked at Theo with admiration for coming up with the plan.
"Puhuhut. I knew everything would work out, meow. I, Hybrid Vice Chairman Theo, the right hand of the great Hybrid Chairman Park, knew it all, meow!"
Theo, laughing like a villain, basked in the admiration his younger siblings were showing him.
On the 462nd day after entering the tower, in the late afternoon, thanks to the efforts of Theo, Cuengi, and Blackie family, Sejun came to command all the Tower Farmers.
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