Chapter 297 – Something is Wrong Here

“Is this the Black Tower? Amazing.”

Veronica was in awe as she saw the various types of crops and the vast farm as soon as she arrived on the 99th floor of the Black Tower.

At that moment,

[A quest occurs.]

[Quest: Defeat or reach an agreement with the Black Tower Farmer Park Se-jun and his group who are illegally occupying the farm, and reclaim the rights to the land.]

Reward: Recognition as the rightful owner of the Black Tower’s 99th floor farm

the quest message appeared in front of Veronica.

“Park Se-jun and… his group?”

What is this?! Veronica, who was reading the message, panicked and hurriedly looked around.

She planned to quickly find Se-jun and clear up any misunderstanding, as they might mistake her for an enemy who had come to take the farm.

‘Who is Master Se-jun?’

Veronica became anxious.

‘ !’

Veronica bowed flat out toward the being who was emitting a strong energy suitable for a tower farmer in anyone’s eyes.

However,

Step.

Kkueng! Kkueng!

[Dad is over there, da-yo! Cuengi’s dad’s name is Se-jun, da-yo!]

The being she greeted was not Se-jun, but Se-jun’s son.

“Yes?!”

Trying to avoid a misunderstanding, Veronica ended up doing something that insulted the other party.

She hurriedly turned her head toward the direction Cuengi’s front paw was pointing.

Flutter. Flutter.

‘Veronica, it’s this way!’

Only then did she see Se-jun and Flamie, who was diligently waving her leaves on Se-jun’s shoulder.

“Master Se-jun, I am sorry for not recognizing you!”

Veronica hurriedly apologized to Se-jun.

‘Why is the tower farmer so weak?’

Veronica was fascinated by the weak tower farmer. Besides, they did not look alike at all.

As Veronica was wondering at the different appearances of Cuengi and Se-jun,

“It’s okay… that could happen… but what is the tower farmer of the Purple Tower doing here?”

Se-jun said to Veronica in a voice full of wariness. While creeping toward Cuengi.

He planned to hide behind Cuengi in case of emergency.

Come to think of it, the Purple Tower had once infiltrated assassins to kill several people and steal land deeds.

On top of that, the opponent was the tower farmer of the Purple Tower.

He did not know if she might attack suddenly after catching him off guard like this.

“Ah. I…”

Veronica came because she could not stay in the Purple Tower.

While Veronica was contemplating what to say,

Flutter. Flutter.

—Se-jun, are you okay?!

—Step away from Se-jun!

—Se-jun, are you hurt anywhere?!

The dragons, who felt the mana wave of teleportation, hurriedly flew over.

And,

—Isn’t it a Dark Elf?

—If it’s a Dark Elf, they are from the Purple Tower?

—Then let’s kill her.

Rumble.

The dragons, who discovered Veronica, raised their energy.

It was the dragons’ will not to leave anything that could be a danger to Se-jun around.

‘Why are three dragons here? And for the Great White Dragon and the Great Red Dragon to be together?’

Veronica wondered why dragons of other towers were together, but that was not the urgent matter right now.

“Great Dragons! I am Veronica, the tower farmer of the Purple Tower! …I wish to defect!”

When the dragons tried to kill her without asking or arguing, Veronica hurriedly shouted.

—Defection?!

Kaiser was surprised by Veronica’s words.

If the tower farmer of the Purple Tower defected, it was a “thank you” for him.

Tier Peten would protest about it, but what could he do?

—Kukukuk. It’s his own fault for not managing his tower farmer.

—That fellow Tier’s face will be worth seeing…

—Phehehe. I’m looking forward to it.

The dragons enjoyed imagining Tier’s angry figure.

***

“Defection?”

When Se-jun, who was listening by the side, wore a puzzled expression,

Trot. Trot.

Fenril moved diligently and sat in front of Se-jun.

Kking! Kking!

[I sat down! Give me that yellow, chewy thing quickly!]

Fenril, who had performed ‘sit’, proudly demanded the dried roasted sweet potato.

“Kkamang-i, you sat down on your own to get a snack? Our Kkamang-i, so good. Here.”

When Se-jun pulled out the dried roasted sweet potato and gave it,

Munch. Munch. Munch.

Fenril received the dried roasted sweet potato and began to eat it deliciously.

“I want to eat it too.”

Se-jun’s appetite was whetted by the sight of Fenril eating deliciously.

Nom.

he put a piece of dried roasted sweet potato into his own mouth.

Kkueng!

[Dad, Cuengi wants to eat too, da-yo!]

“Okay. Here.”

Pop.

He put a handful of dried roasted sweet potato into Cuengi’s mouth as well.

Kkuhehehe.

While Se-jun, Cuengi, and Fenril shared the dried roasted sweet potato harmoniously like that,

—Are you really going to defect?

Kaiser used the Eye of Truth and asked Veronica again.

The Eye of Truth was a high-level magic that detected lies. If Veronica lied, he could tell.

“Yes. I will defect!”

At Kaiser’s question, Veronica replied in a more firm voice this time.

Veronica said she would defect in a daze.

However, thinking about it, being harassed by Tier Peten, the head of the Purple Dragon Clan, was also hard,

and she did not want to return to the Purple Tower to accumulate poison resistance again.

It was because the process of accumulating poison was extremely painful.

Of course, since it was a path she had traveled once, it would be easier, but pain was still pain.

She decided to just live in the Black Tower through this opportunity.

—Fine. Instead, I will cast a subordinate contract so that you cannot harm our Se-jun. Do you agree?

“Yes…”

Veronica immediately agreed to Kaiser’s question.

Although he had asked, if she refused, it was death anyway. It was a multiple-choice question with no other answer than agreement.

—Then, let us begin the contract of subordination.

Hum.

As Kaiser used magic, a black marble was created in empty air.

—Se-jun, put your mana in here.

“Yes.”

At Kaiser’s instruction, when Se-jun breathed mana into the fist-sized marble,

Party A: Park Se-jun

Se-jun’s name was engraved in golden letters on the surface of the black marble.

—You inject mana too.

“Yes.”

Party B: Veronica

Veronica also injected mana to engrave her name. Unlike Se-jun’s, it was in white letters.

—The contract is complete. This contract is notarized in the name of the Great Black Dragon Kaiser Pritani.

Notary: Kaiser Pritani

Kaiser’s name was engraved along with Kaiser’s words.

As the contract was ending like that,

—Notarized in the name of the Great White Dragon Kellion Mamuve.

—Notarized in the name of the Great Red Dragon Ramter Zahir.

The two dragons injected mana into the marble and engraved their names together.

They showed off in this way that they were also helping Se-jun.

Notary: Kaiser Pritani, Kellion Mamuve, Ramter Zahir

While the contract engraved with the names of the three dragons was being made,

‘They were all clan heads?!’

Veronica was greatly shocked to hear the names of the three dragons.

The fact that the administrator of the Black Tower was Aileen was rumored among the tower farmers of other towers as well.

So she had thought that the other dragon statues were also dragons of that level… but that was not it at all.

At that moment,

“Lord Kaiser, do I have to carry this around like this?”

Toss. Toss.

Se-jun spoke as he tossed and caught the completed contract marble.

Se-jun spoke of what was inconvenient without reading the room in front of the great dragons.

And he did so while playing with the marble on which the names of three great dragon clan heads were written!

‘Shouldn’t I stop him?’

While Veronica was worrying as she watched the dragons’ reactions,

—Why is it inconvenient?

Kaiser listened to Se-jun’s words carefully instead of getting angry.

“Of course it is. It could roll around and get lost.”

When Se-jun spoke, rolling the contract marble on the ground,

Kking!

‘Black fruit!’

Fenril pounced as he saw a black round object in front of his eyes.

Whether he could swallow it or not was not important to Fenril. The fact that it was a black fruit was what was important.

However,

Slip.

the marble slipped as it touched Fenril’s jaw instead of his mouth, and

Swoosh.

Kking?

Fenril rode the marble with his lower belly,

Flip.

did a 1-turn rotation in the air, and

Plop.

fell to the ground with his limbs spread out.

Whimper… Whimper…

‘It hurts. Damn… the dragons are watching too…’

Fenril’s pride as a noble wolf was crushed in many ways.

“Kkamang-i, are you okay?!”

……

Se-jun hurriedly called Fenril, but

‘Just leave me alone.’

Fenril endured the pain and did not reply. He wanted to be alone.

However,

“Lord Kaiser, Kkamang-i seems to have fainted! Please heal him!”

—Understood. Be healed.

Se-jun woke him up anyway, unaware of Fenril’s feelings.

Whimper…

‘I’m depressed…’

Thanks to that, Fenril, who could not even pretend to faint, buried his face in Se-jun’s foot and lay face down.

“Anyway, since we might step on it and slip like this, please change its shape.”

—Then, what shape shall I make it?

—Kaiser, then change it to a ring.

—Why bother… just transform it into a paper form.

“That would be good.”

The contract marble transformed into a scroll-like contract.

And,

‘Something is wrong here.’

Veronica looked at Se-jun, who was being coddled by the dragons, as if she couldn’t believe it.

Though he had only granted a few requests, from Veronica’s perspective, it was perfect coddling.

The tower farmer she knew was a job where one received commands from dragons and got cursed at for doing poorly.

While Veronica was failing to adapt to the atmosphere of the Black Tower, which she could not understand like that,

[The Black Tower Farmer Park Se-jun leads the Purple Tower Farmer Veronica.]

[You have achieved the achievement of leading two tower farmers.]

[As a reward for the Great Farmer achievement, one job characteristic is added.]

[Borrowing 0.2% of the stats of the led tower farmers as a job characteristic.]

the achievement message appeared in front of Se-jun, and

[Borrowing 0.2% of the stats of White Tower Farmer Ajax Mamuve according to the job characteristic.]

[Strength increases by 70, Stamina by 40, Agility by 38, and Mana by 100.]

[Borrowing 0.2% of the stats of Purple Tower Farmer Veronica according to the job characteristic.]

[Strength increases by 5, Stamina by 8, Agility by 18, and Mana by 14.]

The job characteristic was activated, borrowing 0.2% of the stats of the led tower farmers.

“If it’s 0.2%… multiplying this by 500 would give the original stats?”

Se-jun, who became curious about Ajax’s and Veronica’s stats, calculated the stats of the two.

He had always been curious. Just how strong they were that he would faint and face a crisis of death daily with a simple touch.

“First, starting with Ajax, 70 times 500 is… Uh?! Strength is 35,000?!”

Already in Strength, it was nearly 9 times his total stats.

[Ajax]

Strength 35,000, Stamina 20,000, Agility 19,000, Mana 50,000

[Veronica]

Strength 2,500, Stamina 4,000, Agility 9,000, Mana 7,000

He learned the stats of the two in that way.

“Ah.”

Se-jun was convinced.

It was too natural that he fainted and almost died.

Rather, it was to the extent that he wondered how he had survived until now.

‘It is thanks to everyone.’

When Se-jun remembered and thanked the existences who had protected him,

“Master Se-jun, please accept this.”

Veronica handed over the land deed of the Black Tower’s 99th floor and five land deeds of the Purple Tower requested by Flamie.

They were the land deeds for the 11th, 23rd, 53rd, 72nd, and 89th floors of the Purple Tower.

“Thank you. But why are you giving me the Purple Tower land deeds?”

“Ah. That is… to convey my sincerity.”

Veronica, who could not say it was because Flamie ordered her, made up an excuse.

And,

[You have become the rightful owner of the 99th floor of the Black Tower.]

Se-jun, who obtained the land deed of the Black Tower’s 99th floor, finally became the real owner of the farm.

***

The Purple Tower administrator area.

“That fellow Becca… she looked sick earlier, should I have used a healing magic?”

While Tier was lost in thought, recalling the face of Veronica whose complexion had not been good earlier,

Ding.

a red alarm appeared on the crystal ball.

“What is it?”

If it was red, it was a very important alarm. Tier checked the alarm hurriedly.

[Purple Tower Farmer Veronica has gone under Black Tower Farmer Park Se-jun as a subordinate.]

“What?! Kaiser, this bastard! How dare he take my tower farmer?!”

Furious after reading the alarm, Tier hurriedly flew toward the Black Tower.