Chapter 324 – Huhut. I Have My Ways

[The Tower Administrator is furious, asking who on earth put such an effect on grapes.]

[Aileen-nim, I was wrong! I will be careful next time!]

While Podori was getting scolded by Aileen,

“Hehehe. It’s delicious.”

Kuhehehe. Kkueng!

[Hehehe. It’s really sweet, da-yo!]

‘Heh! This is really delicious!’

Se-jun, Cuengi, and Ajax were happily eating six golden grapes each, made by Podori, sharing them equally.

If you ask why six was equal?

—Kahahahaha! Podori, you worked hard.

—Eat one of these grapes and try chugging some alcohol. It’s seriously killer!

—Oh! That’s true!

—Wow! If we brew alcohol with this…

It was because they had yielded three golden grapes each to the four dragons who had come to watch Podori.

As they were happily eating the golden grapes like that,

“Tier-nim, would you like to buy this?”

Se-jun took out a Poison-Discharging Sweet Pumpkin and showed it to Tier.

—A Poison-Discharging Sweet Pumpkin?! I’ll buy it!

Without even a second of hesitation just by looking at the name, Tier declared he would buy it. ‘I must buy whatever Se-jun sells!’

“Please decide on the price after you try it first.”

—Understood.

Step.

Tier swallowed the sweet pumpkin Se-jun handed him and sent it to his main body.

***

The Purple Tower Administrator Area.

“Well… since Se-jun gave it, the performance is bound to be certain.”

Munch. Munch.

Tier chewed the sweet pumpkin Se-jun gave him whole.

Because he ate it raw, it didn’t taste very good, but he looked forward to what kind of effect would appear this time.

At that moment,

[You have consumed the Poison-Discharging Sweet Pumpkin.]

[Discharging the Heart Poison.]

“Ugh!”

Along with the message, a sharp pain was felt in his heart,

“Ugh!”

and Tier spat out a red bead.

And,

“Oh! The size of the Heart Poison has shrunk by half!”

Tier rejoiced that the size of the Heart Poison located in his heart had shrunk.

The red bead he had just spat out was part of the dreadful Heart Poison that had been attached to Tier’s heart.

Although it was possible to reduce the Heart Poison to a certain size with the Detoxifying Green Onion, it could not be completely removed.

“If I reduce the size of the Heart Poison with the Detoxifying Green Onion and eat this sweet pumpkin…”

a complete cure for the Heart Poison was possible.

“I should pay more than 1 billion Tower Coins per sweet pumpkin.”

If the Heart Poison could be removed, money was not an issue.

“Then, first I must secure the money.”

Tier hurriedly summoned the purple dragons and ordered them to earn money.

The purple dragons left the tower and earned Tower Coins by destroying the red fog in the distance.

In the past, there was a lot of red fog even just slightly outside the tower, but these days, competition was fierce.

And naturally, the competition was only among the four: the Black Dragons, the White Dragons, the Red Dragons, and the Purple Dragons.

***

[Master said the grapes are delicious! I will give you nutritional supplements, so make more grapes!]

Seeing Se-jun rejoice while eating the golden grapes, Flamie handed a massive amount of nutritional supplements to Podori.

[Huh?! Nutritional supplements?!]

Podori was horrified looking at nearly 100 nutritional supplements.

It had thought that once it became a World Tree, it would no longer have to consume nutritional supplements… but instead, the number had increased significantly.

Even so, Podori was too terrified of Flamie to rebel.

[Yes…]

‘Since I am making them anyway, I should make delicious grapes for Se-jun-nim.’

As Podori composed itself and absorbed the nutritional supplements,

[The Poison-Discharging Sweet Pumpkin has achieved the achievement of removing the Heart Poison.]

[As a reward for achieving the achievement, the growth rate of the Poison-Discharging Sweet Pumpkin increases by 10 times for a week.]

The achievement message appeared in front of Se-jun. The sweet pumpkin had yielded results just as expected.

“But it increases the growth rate by ten times?!”

If the growth rate was ten times faster, it meant that if he planted the seeds now, he could harvest the sweet pumpkins in about seven days.

‘Then this is no time to be sitting around!’

Jump.

Se-jun hurriedly got up and ran to the farm.

And,

Scrape. Scrape.

he quickly cut the top of the sweet pumpkin, scraped out the seeds,

Poke.

“Shifting Earth.”

and planted all the sweet pumpkin seeds at once using Myler’s Hoe,

[You have planted 25,000 Poison-Discharging Sweet Pumpkin Seeds in the soil containing mana.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Mana Sowing Lv. 8 increases slightly.]

[You have created a 100,000-pyeong sweet pumpkin field.]

[You have obtained 200,000 experience points.]

[Since you have not completed the job quest, experience points are not accumulated.]

the messages appeared.

“Hehehe. Now, if I just wait a week…”

he could harvest nearly 1 million sweet pumpkins.

As Se-jun wore a satisfied expression looking at the field where the sweet pumpkins were planted,

[The size of the farm you own has exceeded 10 million pyeong.]

[Talent: Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner grows into Great Landowner.]

Before he knew it, the size of the land Se-jun managed exceeded 10 million pyeong, and his talent grew.

“Huh? Great Landowner?”

Se-jun checked his talent in surprise.

[Talent: Great Landowner]

– This is an acquired talent that only a farmer owning 10 million pyeong or more of agricultural land can possess.

– You can designate 100 stewards to manage the farm on behalf of the Great Landowner.

– You can designate up to 1,000 guardians to protect the farm. (You receive 50% of the experience points of enemies defeated by the guardians within a 10km radius of the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner as a reward.)

– You can designate tenant farmers without any limit.

– Tenant farmers can use the farming skills of the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner. (When a tenant farmer uses a skill of the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner, the Ten-Thousand-bag Grain Owner receives a 10% skill proficiency reward.)

– The talent grows as the size of the farm increases.

“Oh!”

As the talent evolved, all the numbers increased.

Among them, the biggest change was the disappearance of the limit on the number of tenant farmers.

Until now, Se-jun’s farm had been unable to expand rapidly due to the limit on tenant farmers.

Although basic tasks like making fields, watering, and pruning could be done by anyone,

things like Seed Harvesting, sowing, and harvesting, which required skills, had to be performed by tenant farmers.

But that limitation had now vanished.

“Everyone, gather around!”

Se-jun summoned the Mushroom Ants and began designating them as his tenant farmers.

Touch.

“Designating tenant farmer.”

When Se-jun placed his hand on the head of a Mushroom Ant and spoke,

[You have designated the Mushroom Ant as the 1,022nd tenant farmer.]

Kke-ek!

The Mushroom Ant that became Se-jun’s tenant farmer was overjoyed.

After a short while, all the Mushroom Ants on the 99th floor of the tower became tenant farmers.

Se-jun, who had completed the tenant farmer designations like that,

“I should harvest the Solar Peppers.”

went to the place where he had planted the Solar Peppers earlier and, after harvesting them,

[You have obtained a Solar Pepper Seed.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[The proficiency of Seed Harvesting Lv. 8 increases slightly.]

[You must use the Seed Harvesting skill 411,567 more times to complete the job quest.]

…

..

.

began harvesting seeds.

[You have created a 10,000-pyeong carrot field.]

[You have obtained 20,000 experience points.]

[Since you have not completed the job quest, experience points are not accumulated.]

In the meantime, the Mushroom Ants, excited to have become Se-jun’s tenant farmers, were expanding the size of the fields like crazy.

At the same time, experience points were flying off into the air.

“I must finish the quest quickly.”

Seeing the message, Se-jun’s motivation burned, and thanks to that, the lunch and dinner menus became meager.

Thus, for lunch and dinner, they only ate boiled Egg Fruits, dried sweet potato slices, and grilled rice cakes.

Kkueng!

[Everything is delicious if you dip it in honey, da-yo!]

“Heh! I can eat 100 grilled rice cakes if they are dipped in honey!”

“I can also eat 100 boiled Egg Fruits as long as I have salt!”

Kking!

‘It’s yellow and chewy!’

Fortunately, Cuengi, Ajax, Veronica, and Fenrir ate it very well without a single complaint.

***

“Puh-hu-huh. We have arrived, meow!”

Theo arrived on the 42nd floor of the tower where the Se-jun Company branch was located.

And,

“Nyan nyang nyang.”

Ppiyot! Ppiyot!

Theo and Ppiyot proudly headed toward the branch.

“Representative Theo, didn’t you say you were going to monitor them?”

Uren asked Theo in wonder, looking at him.

It was because they had to approach secretly for surveillance so that the subordinates couldn’t hide anything.

“Nyan?! Ah! That’s right, meow!”

Theo, who was a natural attention seeker, had unconsciously acted in a way that would draw the most attention.

“Uren, thank you, meow!”

“Uhehe. Oh, it’s nothing. Representative Theo, secrecy is the lifeblood of these things.”

“Is that so, meow?”

“Of course. Representative Theo, please leave this matter to me.”

Uren stepped forward confidently.

Since he was a pushover, Uren had been scammed a lot by his employees in the past.

In the process of uncovering those scams, he had accumulated plenty of employee-monitoring know-how.

“Puh-hu-huh. Good, meow!”

“For now, let’s wear this together.”

When Uren took out a large cloak and wrapped it around himself,

Slide.

Uren’s body vanished.

“Nyan?! Is that an invisibility cloak, meow?!”

Theo was surprised to see the invisibility cloak.

“Uhehe. I obtained this with great difficulty!”

Uren replied smugly.

“Puh-hu-huh. Nice, meow! Give that to me later, meow!”

“Yes? This was obtained with great diffi…”

Uren expressed his intention to refuse, but

“Puh-hu-huh. I should use it when surprising Chairman Park, meow!”

In Theo’s head, he was already thinking about how to use the invisibility cloak after receiving it.

Thus, the invisibility cloak became Theo’s.

“Then, let’s go, meow!”

said Theo, standing on Uren’s shoulder.

“Yes!”

Uren moved.

“Puh-hu-huh. This is fascinating, meow!”

Ppiyot! Ppiyot!

[Ppu-hu-hut! Representative Theo, this is fun!]

Theo and Ppiyot marvelled at the fact that outsiders couldn’t see them from inside the invisibility cloak.

“Uren, what should we do now, meow?”

“We just need to wait.”

“Nyan?!”

“We must lie in ambush and raid the scene once decisive evidence appears!”

Perhaps remembering past incidents, Uren’s voice grew louder.

“So, did you raid the scene, meow?”

“No. There was another passage.”

Ultimately, Uren had only diligently accumulated know-how but had never caught any evidence.

“Puh-hu-huh. That’s not how you monitor, meow!”

Hop.

Theo hopped down from Uren’s shoulder and

“Bill, I have arrived, meow!”

shouted loudly in front of the building.

Then, Bill and the other cats poured out from inside the building,

“Vice Chairman Theo, welcome!”

and bowed politely toward Theo. The other cats were newly hired interns.

“Puh-hu-huh. Bill, are you doing well, meow?!”

“Yes! It’s all thanks to Chairman Park and Vice Chairman Theo!”

Bill answered Theo’s question with sincere gratitude. The eyes of the intern cats were no different.

They knew they had overcome the food shortage thanks to Se-jun and Theo.

Furthermore, as the number of cats working for Se-jun Company increased and the village became wealthy, the village naturally grew.

Recently, Granier Village was promoted to a city.

For those cats, working at Se-jun Company was an honor, and they naturally worked hard.

‘Puh-hu-huh. Their loyalty to Chairman Park is high, meow!’

Theo confirmed the cats’ gazes.

“Puh-hu-huh. Bill, today is a company dinner, meow!”

He decided to treat the employees to a company dinner.

“Yes! Then, I will look for a place for the dinner!”

As Bill hurriedly went to find a venue for the dinner,

“Representative Theo, aren’t you going to monitor them?”

Uren asked in wonder.

“Puh-hu-huh. I, Vice Chairman Theo, can tell just by looking at their eyes, meow!”

“Yes?!”

“Uren, hurry up and hand over the dinner expenses, meow!”

“Yes? Yes!”

At Theo’s words, Uren hurriedly pulled out money.

A few hours later.

“Puh-hu-huh. I will return now, meow!”

“Vice Chairman Theo, have a safe trip!”

“We enjoyed the meal! Goodbye!”

Having finished the dinner, Theo returned to the 99th floor of the tower, escorted by the send-offs of Bill and the cat interns.

And,

‘Puh-hu-huh.’

‘Ppu-hu-hut.’

Theo and Ppiyot, wearing the invisibility cloak,

stealthily

approached Se-jun from behind as he was harvesting cherry tomato seeds.

However,

“Boo!”

“Nyaaaak!”

Ppiyot!

Se-jun startled them a beat faster.

“Nyan! I was so startled, meow! Chairman Park, how did you know, meow?!”

Slap.

Theo hurriedly clung to Se-jun’s leg and asked.

“Huhut. I have my ways.”

Se-jun replied with a meaningful smile.

Just as Theo had a Se-jun knee detector, Se-jun had a Theo detector.

“Chairman Park, tell me, meow!”

“Just go to sleep.”

Because Theo would surely become arrogant if he told him, Se-jun didn’t tell him,

Stroke. Stroke.

and put him to sleep by stroking his belly.

“Tell me…”

Purr.

Theo quickly fell asleep.

The 371st day of tower life also ended peacefully without any accidents.