Chapter 349 – Huhut. There is Someone Who Will Be Scared of Me

Theo flew in.

‘I can’t avoid this anyway.’

Se-jun knew that he could not avoid Theo with his abilities.

Even if he tried to avoid him, Theo would just mock him once with ‘Puhut’, change direction in mid-air, and end up clinging to his face.

Therefore,

Swish.

Just before Theo clung to his face,

‘Now is the time!’

He quickly turned his head. He decided to present the back of his head instead of his face.

However,

“Puhut…”

Along with an ominous laugh, Se-jun had to feel Theo’s body heat all over his face. It was warm.

“Are you back?”

Se-jun said as he grabbed Theo by the scruff of his neck. Still, thanks to Theo’s Talent: Strong Hair, hair entering his mouth was…

“Spit.”

…happening. It seemed it didn’t mean it never fell out.

“Puhut. That’s right, meow! As Chairman Park ordered, I safely escorted the Farming King to the 4th floor of the tower, meow!”

“Yeah. Good job.”

“I know, meow! I, Vice President Theo, always do well, meow!”

“Right…”

Se-jun felt a slight urge to play a trick due to Theo’s haughty attitude, but

‘Since he worked hard traveling to the 4th floor of the tower.’

He held it back, thinking of Theo’s hard work.

“Vice President Theo, take a little rest.”

“Understood, meow!”

At Se-jun’s words, Theo clung to Se-jun’s lap and rubbed his face diligently. Puhut. Was Chairman Park’s lap doing well, meow?

And,

Pluck.

[You have harvested Blueberry of Mana.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

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

[You have obtained 70 experience.]

Se-jun began harvesting the blueberries.

30 minutes later.

“Finished.”

Se-jun finished harvesting the blueberries. Since there were only 1000 blueberries, it ended quickly.

At that moment,

“Hyung! I’m all done!”

Ajax flew to Se-jun with his arms full of Solar Peppers.

“Ajax, good job.”

Se-jun praised Ajax and patted his head.

“Ehihit. Yes!”

While he was patting Ajax like that,

“Chairman Park, I did well too, meow!”

Theo grabbed Se-jun’s hand, which was stroking Ajax’s head, with his two front paws and put it on top of his own head.

“Ugh! What?!”

“Puhut. I worked harder than Ajax, meow!”

Ajax glared angrily, but Theo spoke confidently.

Hey. Ajax is a dragon.

Pat.

Se-jun hurriedly patted Ajax’s head with his other hand, soothing Ajax.

At that moment,

Kking!

‘Hey! Take that hand away! That hand is mine!’

Fenril barked diligently, displeased that Se-jun was stroking others.

However,

‘Our Blackie, are you hungry? Here.’

Se-jun, who could not understand Fenril’s words.

When Se-jun placed the dried roasted sweet potato in Fenril’s mouth,

Chomp. Chomp. Chomp.

Fenril quickly fell quiet. He decided to let it go this time since he was generous. It was absolutely not because of the dried roasted sweet potatoes.

After a while,

Purr.

Arorong.

Kkirorong.

The three fell asleep on Se-jun’s lap, shoulder, and chest.

When Se-jun’s hands became free,

Crunch.

He picked up a Solar Pepper and took a bite. He was curious about the taste.

“Huha. It’s spicy but delicious.”

It wasn’t a painful spiciness, but a delicious one. An addictive spiciness. It would be really delicious if he made red pepper paste.

Once he swallowed the entire Solar Pepper,

[You have consumed Solar Pepper.]

[If exposed to sufficient light, one of your stats will randomly increase by 5.]

A message indicating that stats would rise only when receiving sufficient light appeared.

“That’s easy. Hum hum hum.”

[You have obtained 201 Solar Pepper seeds.]

[Your job experience increases minutely.]

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

Se-jun hummed as he sat in a place where the warm sun shone and began harvesting Solar Pepper seeds.

The Solar Peppers Ajax harvested were 300. Among them, he set aside 50 to put into cooking and harvested seeds from the remaining 250.

When Se-jun harvested seeds from about 200 Solar Peppers,

[Due to the effect of Seed Harvesting Lv. 8, the number of harvested seeds increases fourfold.]

[You have obtained 800 Solar Pepper seeds.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

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

The effect of the Seed Harvesting skill, which gave 2 to 5 times the seeds with a low probability, activated, increasing the number of seeds obtained.

“Four times? Hehehe.”

Se-jun smiled warmly while looking at the messages.

[Your soul is filled.]

[Mental strength increases by 1.]

Thanks to that, his mental strength also increased.

Once the Solar Pepper seed harvesting ended like that,

Plant.

[You have planted Solar Peppers in the mana-infused soil.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

[The Solar Peppers are listening to the farmer’s footsteps, and due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 8, the growth speed of the Solar Peppers doubles for 24 hours.]

[Due to the effect of Mana Sowing Lv. 8, the probability of obtaining a new variety increases fivefold.]

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

Se-jun immediately began planting 50,000 Solar Pepper seeds.

***

The 99th floor of the Red Tower.

“Udon. Plant this Fire Bean in the place where desertification is severe.”

“Yes! Lord Ramta!”

At Ramta’s command, Udon replied in a voice without a shred of doubt.

Planting beans in desertified land? The Udon of the past would have doubted at least a little, no matter how great the Red Dragon’s words were.

However, while drying the bland pears of strength and stamina, Udon had gained a belief that Ramta’s words could not be wrong.

“Go quickly!”

“Yes. Lord Ramta, then I will go to plant the Fire Beans.”

In this way, Udon went down to the 48th floor of the tower, a region with severe desertification, to plant the Fire Beans.

“You guys, hunt the surrounding Cactuses!”

“Yes!”

He had his subordinates hunt the surrounding Cactuses, and

Dig.

Udon dug the sand, placed the Fire Bean, and covered it with sand again.

Then,

[You have planted Bulkong-i’s Fire Bean.]

[You have planted a crop in a region with high fire energy.]

[The compatibility between the surrounding environment and Bulkong-i’s Fire Bean is very good.]

[The growth speed of Bulkong-i’s Fire Bean increases.]

[Your job experience increases greatly.]

[The grade of Tower Farmer (D) rises.]

[You have become Tower Farmer (C).]

[The job grade rises, and job characteristics are strengthened.]

[The proficiency of Sowing Lv. 3 increases greatly.]

[The proficiency of Sowing Lv. 3 is filled, and its level rises.]

The messages appeared.

“Oh!”

Udon was shocked to see the messages.

Meanwhile, because of the high fire energy, only about one out of 1000 crops Udon planted would grow properly.

Thus, Udon had been unable to grow as a tower farmer.

Yet… his stagnant job grade and Sowing skill level rose in an instant.

After a while.

Having planted all 50 Fire Beans, Udon had his Sowing skill level rise two more times.

“Hahaha! The Sowing skill has reached level 5! An effect reducing the probability of suffering pest damage has appeared! You guys! How dare you target Lord Ramta’s Fire Bean field?!”

Udon swung his giant battleaxe, which felt exceptionally light today, toward the Cactuses approaching the Fire Bean field.

To be exact, it was Se-jun’s Fire Bean field, but Udon did not know the details of the contract.

***

“Now it’s almost done.”

Se-jun planted the Solar Peppers again while looking at the few remaining Solar Pepper seeds.

At that moment,

[You have planted Solar Peppers in the mana-infused soil.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

…

..

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

[The proficiency of Mana Sowing Lv. 8 is filled, and its level rises.]

The messages appeared. The Mana Sowing skill reached level 9, the first among Se-jun’s job skills.

Among all skills, it was the second, following the Cooking skill.

“What has changed?”

Se-jun checked the Mana Sowing skill, hoping something had changed.

[Job Skill – Mana Sowing Lv. 9]

-The probability of germinating when a seed is planted increases greatly.

-The probability of suffering pest damage from insects decreases greatly.

-If mana is injected into the soil and seeds are planted, the growth speed of the seeds increases for 24 hours.

-If seeds are planted by hand, the probability of obtaining a new variety increases fivefold. (Does not apply to tenant farmers.)

-The energy of the tower farmer who planted the seeds remains on the crops, scaring monsters and preventing them from approaching.

Scaring monsters?

“Ah. That is somewhat ambiguous.”

It seemed like a decent effect, but it was ambiguous. No, it was ambiguous because it was him. Would a monster even be scared by his energy?

At that moment,

“No. Huhut. There is someone who will be scared of me.”

A single being that popped into Se-jun’s head. There was. The weakest creature on the 99th floor of the tower, who would be scared even by his energy.

Dig.

Se-jun excitedly dug the soil and planted the Solar Peppers,

“Good.”

And pulled out Fenril, who was sleeping and wiggling inside the sling bag he wore.

Kkiiiiing.

Kking?

‘Is it time to eat?’

Fenril asked, stretching excitedly without knowing anything.

‘I’m sorry. I’ll check only this and give you food.’

Se-jun apologized to Fenril in advance and placed Fenril down beside the Solar Pepper he had planted.

Then,

Scratch. Scratch.

Fenril dug the ground with his front paws and gulped down the Solar Pepper seed Se-jun had just planted.

“?”

Eating it instead of being scared?! Se-jun was too flustered.

Thus, he couldn’t even think of having a question like ‘Is it okay for a dog to eat peppers?’

Kkihit~

Thump. Thump.

Fenril, who ate the Solar Pepper seed and ran around the field excitedly.

Kkihit~ Kking!

‘Heh~ It’s my core energy!’

As Se-jun’s energy permeated the Solar Pepper seed, a portion of Fenril’s core that was in Se-jun’s body had also permeated together.

That was why he wasn’t scared.

However,

“My energy is only this much…”

Unaware of that, Se-jun was frustrated by his own energy that couldn’t even scare Fenril and planted Solar Peppers again.

And,

Kkihit~

Scratch. Scratch.

Fenril diligently followed behind Se-jun and dug up and ate the Solar Pepper seeds containing Se-jun’s energy.

Kking… Kking…

‘I ate too much… I’m sleepy…’

Of course, the weak Fenril fell asleep and collapsed in the field after eating five Solar Pepper seeds.

“Why is he sleeping here?”

Se-jun, returning after planting all the Solar Pepper seeds, picked up Fenril who was splayed out in the dirt field, brushed the dirt off his fur, and put him in the sling bag.

***

The Red Tower Administrator area.

Ramta, who had instructed Udon to plant the Fire Beans.

Returned to the administrator area again and waited for Kin, who had gone to fetch the Tower Coins.

“Puhuhu. The other guys must be running around other towers diligently to become a Yong-Yong Market VIP right now, right? But why isn’t Kin coming?”

Just as Ramta, who was waiting, began to feel bored,

“Ramta, I brought the Tower Coins!”

Kin appeared.

“Good. First, read this.”

Ramta showed Kin the contract Se-jun wrote.

After a while.

“Ramta? Is there really a watermelon like this?!”

Kin, who was reading the contract, asked with an unbelievable expression.

The options regarding the watermelon that absorbs water and the watermelon that summons a great drought.

Since he could not use deception on the contract…

If it was as written in the contract, removing the water of the Blue Tower was only a matter of time.

“Yes. Here.”

“Oh! It’s real!”

Kin was excited as Ramta showed him the seeds.

“First, read the rest of the contract.”

“Yeah.”

At Ramta’s words, Kin read the remaining contents of the contract.

In exchange for being allowed to plant the watermelons, paying 100,000 Tower Coins per seed for the watermelon that absorbs water, and 10 million Tower Coins per seed for the watermelon that summons a great drought.

And although there was a clause that all harvested watermelons must be returned to the Yong-Yong Market.

As long as the water could be removed, from Kin’s perspective, there wasn’t much loss.

“Fine. I will contract.”

Kin stamped the contract.

“You won’t regret it. Here. 20,000 seeds of the watermelon that absorbs water, and 100 seeds of the watermelon that summons a great drought. It is 3 billion Tower Coins in total.”

“Here it is.”

Kin, who gave Ramta 3 billion Tower Coins and received the watermelon seeds like that.

Hurriedly returned to the Blue Tower to check the effect of the watermelon seeds, and

-Zelga. Plant this seed on the 70th floor of the tower.

Handed the watermelon seeds to Zelga, the Blue Tower Farmer, and had him plant them.

Zelga, who arrived at the 70th floor of the tower under Kin’s instruction.

“Will anything change by planting something like this?”

On the 70th floor of the Blue Tower, he grumbled as he looked at the gloomy sky where rain did not stop and the giant lake that swallowed the land.

“Still, since Lord Kin told me to plant it…”

Since there was no land to plant it, Zelga just put a watermelon seed in the water.

Then,

[You have planted a seed of the watermelon that summons a great drought.]

[The seed of the watermelon that summons a great drought absorbs water without walking on eggshells around others.]

…

..

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The messages appeared.

And in an instant, the surrounding sea disappeared.