Chapter 162 – Work, Slave

‘Where should I use him? If I meet Ajax in person and order him to do this and that, I might go straight to the next world. Well, there is no way to meet him in person anyway.’

‘I suppose I should instruct him through Lord Kellion?’

As Se-jun thought about how to put Ajax to work effectively,

[Would you like to summon Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower?]

Another message appeared.

“What?! No! Absolutely not!”

Se-jun screamed in horror. Summoning a dragon? Did he want to die? He could not summon a dragon when his safety was not yet secured. Especially a dragon that would certainly hold a grudge against him.

“Meow?! Chairman Park, is it absolutely not okay for me to eat two Churus, meow?”

At Se-jun’s words, Theo sat up from where he had been lying on his back and spoke in a dejected voice. He had misunderstood the words spoken to the message as being directed at him.

“Ah… No! I wasn’t talking to Vice Chairman Theo. Go ahead and eat the Churu.”

Se-jun said as he brought the Churu to Theo’s mouth.

Then,

“Puhuhu. I knew it, meow! There is no way Chairman Park would do that to me, meow!”

Theo instantly became triumphant at Se-jun’s attitude and lay back down. He was a truly simple guy.

“Yes. Here, eat up.”

*Stroke, stroke.*

He reassured Theo by stroking his belly as he ate the Churu.

“Puhuhu. It feels good, meow!”

*Chwap, chwap, chwap.*

As Theo began to eat the Churu again, Se-jun checked the newly appeared message.

[You have rejected the summoning of Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower.]

[You can issue simple instructions remotely once a day to Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, who is far away.]

‘I can even issue instructions remotely?!’

[Tasks that can currently be commanded to the Tower Farmer of the White Tower]

– Harvest and offer Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power (0/2,115)

“Huh?! What is this?”

He did not know what was done, but there were over 2,000 harvestable elixir-grade cherry tomatoes. It seemed that planting them in land with strong magic power made the growth rate incredibly fast.

“Hehehe. Work, slave.”

Se-jun laughed like a villain and instructed Ajax to harvest and offer the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes.

However,

[Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, rejects the instruction.]

Ajax rejected the instruction.

[You can punish Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, who rejected the instruction.]

– Water Shower

– Fire Shower

– Stone Shower

– Tickling

“What is this?”

Since the opponent was a dragon, the punishments looked incredibly trivial. It seemed like the water, fire, and stone showers wouldn’t deal even a single bit of damage, and

‘Do dragons feel ticklish?’

The tickling seemed to have the highest probability of showing some effect as a punishment. After pondering a bit more, Se-jun selected tickling as the punishment.

A moment later,

“Oh! So dragons feel ticklish too?”

[Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, has harvested 1 Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power.]

Telling Se-jun that dragons did indeed feel ticklish, Ajax began harvesting.

[1 Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power is offered to Park Se-jun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower.]

[To transfer crops weighing 100kg or less from the White Tower to the Black Tower, an inter-tower shipping cost of 1,000,000 Tower Coins is required.]

“What? 1,000,000?”

[Would you like to ship it right now?]

“Why are you even asking? Of course not.”

1,000,000 Tower Coins for a single elixir-grade cherry tomato was too expensive. Se-jun selected bundled shipping. He intended to ship them after filling the capacity to the brim.

[1 Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power is stored in the temporary storage of the White Tower.]

[Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower, has harvested 1 Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power.]

[2 Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power are stored in the temporary storage of the White Tower.]

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After that, the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes were stored in the temporary storage. Having confirmed that Ajax was working, Se-jun set a new batch of rice cakes to steam once the previous rice cakes were done.

At that moment,

*Kkuro-rong.*

The sound of Cuengi snoring was heard.

“Cuengi, are you sleeping?”

Se-jun quietly called Cuengi and looked around the giant sweet potato where Cuengi was,

“Pfft.”

He giggled softly upon discovering Cuengi. Cuengi, who had hollowed out the inside of the giant sweet potato by eating his way through it, was sleeping inside the sweet potato.

*Crunch…*

Cuengi was eating the sweet potato even while sleeping. As expected, his appetite was enormous.

“I’ll have to give him a bath later.”

Se-jun spoke as he looked at Cuengi, whose fur was clumped and matted due to the sticky juice from the sweet potato. It looked like he had eaten the sweet potato with his entire body.

“Chairman Park, I am not taking a bath, meow! I am clean, meow!”

At the mention of a bath, Theo hurriedly began to lick his body.

“Alright.”

Se-jun headed back to the kitchen area with Theo clinging to his leg. He had to keep steaming rice cakes until tomorrow morning to finish the large rice cake cake at night and present it grandly to everyone on the day of the birthday party.

After steaming the rice cakes a few times like that, Se-jun, who was waiting in front of the pot where the rice cakes were steaming, gradually grew drowsy from the warmth.

*Nod, nod.*

His head lowered further and further, and Se-jun began to doze off.

And,

“Puhuhu…”

*Gororong.*

Theo did not miss the opportunity, hugging Se-jun’s lap and falling asleep.

***

[Park Se-jun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, has instructed you to harvest and offer Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power.]

“What?! You are telling me to pluck all of that and offer it myself?!”

Ajax, who found moving around bothersome, was being told to take orders from someone else? Moreover, how dare they issue instructions to him, a great White Dragon?!

“I refuse!”

His pride wounded, Ajax naturally refused.

[Park Se-jun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower, inflicts the punishment of tickling upon you for rejecting the instruction.]

“What?! Puhyahyaha!”

Along with the message, Ajax suddenly began to feel itchiness all over his body. Even among dragons, Ajax was a dragon particularly vulnerable to tickling.

“Puhyahyaha! A-Alright! I’ll do it! I’ll do it!”

In order to avoid the punishment of tickling, Ajax decided to follow the instruction for now.

“Park Se-jun! *Grind.* I’m going to kill you! Hey! You guys, hurry up and pluck those!”

Grinding his teeth in anger, Ajax ordered the monsters to work. He had no intention of meekly following the instructions.

However,

[The instruction has not been carried out for 5 seconds.]

[If the instruction is not carried out for 10 seconds or more, the punishment of tickling will resume.]

The tower’s system was surprisingly meticulous.

“Ah! So annoying!”

Ultimately, Ajax decided to move himself and harvest the cherry tomatoes.

“Hmph! I’ll harvest them and eat them all myself!”

Looking at the situation earlier, planting them was what caused a problem, while eating them was not an issue.

*Pluck.*

In that way, Ajax harvested one elixir-grade cherry tomato.

[You have harvested Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power.]

[Your job experience increases significantly.]

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In an instant, his grade rose to E-grade, and the level of his harvesting skill increased, reaching level 2.

“Puhuhu. Good. Since things have turned out like this, I will take advantage of this situation.”

He could eat the cherry tomatoes while raising his job grade and skill level, killing two birds with one stone.

At that moment,

[1 Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power is offered to Park Se-jun, the Tower Farmer of the Black Tower.]

“Huh?”

The cherry tomato in Ajax’s hand vanished as it was offered to Se-jun.

“Grrr!!!”

Although he was furious, he could not disobey the instruction, so he continued to harvest the cherry tomatoes for now.

Meanwhile,

“I found it.”

Ajax found a way to not work while still not disobeying the instruction. It was to just place his hand over a cherry tomato without actually plucking it.

“Hey! Pluck them quickly and bring them here!”

“Yes!”

In that way, Ajax placed a bed in front of the cherry tomatoes, lay down, put a single finger on one, and had the monsters pluck the cherry tomatoes and bring them to him.

And,

“Ah! Delicious.”

He spent a pleasant time eating the cherry tomatoes that the monsters brought.

***

“Sluuurp. Did I doze off?”

Waking up from his doze, Se-jun hurriedly wiped the drool around his mouth and the drool that had fallen on Theo’s back.

At that moment,

“Huh?!”

As Se-jun turned his body at the warmth felt on his right buttock,

*Kkuro-rong.*

Cuengi was sleeping with his rump pressed against Se-jun’s butt.

“When did you get here?”

“Nyaang…….”

Se-jun carefully lifted Theo, placed him on his lap, walked over to the pot, and opened the lid,

*Whoosh.*

The smell of the properly cooked rice cakes tickled Se-jun’s nose along with the steam.

“It’s well cooked.”

Se-jun set the completed rice cakes aside, set a new pot of rice cakes to steam, and sat back down next to Cuengi.

Then,

Cueng…

Cuengi shifted his body bit by bit and pressed his rump tightly against Se-jun’s butt again.

“Cute.”

*Stroke, stroke.*

Stroking the backs of Cuengi and Theo, Se-jun checked his status window for the first time in a while.

[Park Se-jun Lv. 57]

Talents: Average Talent, Friend of Nature, Rich Farmer, Enhanced Magic Circuit, Skilled in Fire Handling

Stats: Strength (30) Stamina (78) Agility (45) Magic Power (109)

Job: Tower Farmer (B) [Subordinate Tower Farmer: Tower Farmer of the White Tower (F) Ajax Mamuve (Executing Instruction)]

Skills: Mana Sowing Lv. 6, Harvesting Lv. 7, Seed Shop Lv. 3, Seed Harvesting Lv. 6, Farmer’s Warm Touch Lv. 4, Crop Giantization Lv. 2, Beekeeping Lv. 8, Rain Thunder Lv. 3, Cooking Lv. 5

Se-jun’s status window had grown a lot while he was pushed here and there.

And recently, he had eaten mushroom elixirs and learned how to hide his scent by eating honey, steadily consuming elixirs behind Cuengi’s back to increase his stats.

At that moment,

“He is still executing the instruction?”

Se-jun wondered as he looked at Ajax’s status.

He could understand him being F-grade since he heard Ajax couldn’t farm until now, but he couldn’t understand why he hadn’t harvested around 2,000 cherry tomatoes by now. It should have been finished a long time ago.

As Se-jun found it strange and clicked Ajax’s name in the status window,

[Task currently commanded to Ajax Mamuve, the Tower Farmer of the White Tower]

– Harvest Elixir: Cherry Tomatoes Containing Powerful Magic Power (200/115)

The progress status of the task Se-jun had commanded to Ajax appeared.

“Huh?! 200?”

The number of elixir-grade cherry tomatoes to be harvested had decreased by 2,000, but the harvested cherry tomatoes were only 200. Even after waiting for a long time, the number on the left did not change.

The harvesting had stopped. Ajax had figured out the trick to avoid working without receiving punishment.

However,

(200/110)

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(200/57)

On the contrary, the number on the right continued to decrease. Se-jun, who hated workers slacking off the most even when playing games, found that this guy was stealing resources altogether.

“This slacker!”

Furious, Se-jun went to complain to Kellion. In the meantime, the cherry tomatoes became 0.

***

“The harvesting is finished.”

Once the cherry tomato harvesting was over, Ajax got up from the bed.

“Keep harvesting the cherry tomatoes until I return!”

“Yes!”

After issuing instructions to the monsters, Ajax stepped outside the tower through the tower’s administrator area.

And,

“How dare he command and instruct me?!”

*Fwooooosh!*

Transforming into his true form, Ajax began to fly toward the Black Tower. Ajax knew the location of the secret passage Kellion had used to enter the Black Tower.

“Park Se-jun, just you wait. I will make you pay the price for insulting me!”

Ajax, who was about to enter the entrance of the Black Tower’s secret passage while burning with rage toward Se-jun like that,

At that moment,

*Bam!*

“Keoh!”

A black dragon with a beautiful body flew in swiftly and drove a fist into Ajax’s stomach.

“Who gave you permission to touch our Se-jun?!”

*Bam, bam, bam!*

Aileen began to beat Ajax up in a rage.