Chapter 354 – I’ll Teach Her a Lesson with Carrots

“Then what shall we duel with?”

[The slave of the Green Tower confidently says she is confident in anything.]

‘What kind of confidence is that?’

Se-jun could not understand Ophelia’s confidence, but

“Then let’s make it so that the tower farmer who harvests the tastier carrots wins.”

Competition was cold. He decided to win right away.

‘I’ll teach her a lesson with carrots.’

He had been terrorized with tasteless carrots, but this was a lesson with delicious carrots. Huhut. At this rate, wasn’t he too generous?

[The slave of the Green Tower says okay.]

Ophelia accepted the match.

“Good. Then I just need to send 1,000 harvested carrots too, right?”

Even sending just one carrot would be his certain victory, but he decided to bestow 1,000 delicious carrots for the slave who would work for 500 more years.

Se-jun entered the giant storage room behind the kitchen, and Cuengi, Ajax, and Blackie followed him closely behind.

The storage room behind the kitchen was a newly constructed building as the amount of harvested crops increased, and it was divided into several compartments inside, with each compartment containing one type of crop.

“So much has piled up?”

Se-jun said as he saw that each warehouse was full of crops harvested by the tenant farmer Mushroom Ants.

Although the other cat interns and employees were diligently selling, there was a limit to their bundle capacity.

Se-jun silently stroked the head of Theo, who was clinging to his lap. It was about time to go down…

Unlike that, since Rhea, the Goddess of Abundance, said one of the door fragments leading to the 10th tower was on the 80th floor of the tower, he also had to obtain the land deed.

“Mew? Chairman Park, why are you looking at me like that all of a sudden, mew?”

“Hmm? It’s nothing.”

“Something is suspicious, mew!”

“Ah. This is not the time!”

At Theo’s suspicious gaze, Se-jun hurriedly headed to the carrot warehouse and began to pack 1,000 Agility Carrots to send to Ophelia.

“Guys, pick the ones with not much expiration date left.”

It was a match where he just had to send delicious carrots anyway. There was no need to send carrots with long expiration dates.

Besides, if it was a dragon, eating 1,000 carrots would take less than three days.

“Puhuhut. I can select them well, mew!”

Cuengi!

[Cuengi is good at it too, cueng!]

“Yes! Hyung! I will try my best!”

Kkihit. King!

‘Heh. Food!’

At Se-jun’s words, the group picked carrots with less than a week of expiration date left and packed them in boxes.

And,

“Blackie, who told you to eat?”

King!

‘I picked this!’

Fenrir was caught red-handed eating carrots by Se-jun and arrested; he was confined to the sling bag, chewed on the carrot pieces Se-jun cut for him, and fell asleep.

A moment later,

“Transport.”

Having packed the carrots to send to Ophelia in boxes, Se-jun used inter-tower transport.

But,

[Transporting 200 Agility Carrots (100 kg) to the Green Tower.]

[Would you like to transport them?]

The amount of carrots Se-jun could transport was only 200.

“Huh?”

Come to think of it, the temporary storage capacity was 100 kg, so how did Ophelia send 1,000 carrots?

Ophelia had simply poured her mana unconsciously to increase the transport capacity.

But Se-jun did not even know such a thing existed, and because his mana was humble, he couldn’t do it anyway.

“Does she have a larger temporary storage than me?”

He thought Ophelia possessed a larger storage than himself. For a slave to have a larger storage than him…

‘…How cheeky.’

His pride was hurt for no reason.

“I should expand it this time too.”

So he began to expand the temporary storage.

[You can expand the temporary storage capacity to 200 kg for 1 billion Tower Coins.]

[Would you like to expand it?]

“Yes.”

[Using 1 billion Tower Coins to expand the temporary storage capacity to 200 kg.]

[You can expand the temporary storage capacity to 300 kg for 1.5 billion Tower Coins.]

[Would you like to expand it?]

“Yes.”

Se-jun continued to expand the temporary storage capacity. Up to 1,100 kg, which was higher than Ophelia’s.

Ophelia’s carrots were large, so each weighed 1 kg.

‘Hehehe. Does this mean I won in both the duel and the capacity?’

Se-jun was pleased by himself.

[Transporting 2,200 Agility Carrots (1,100 kg) to the Green Tower.]

[Would you like to transport them?]

“Transport.”

Se-jun packed 1,200 more carrots with short expiration dates and sent 2,200 carrots to Ophelia.

[How would you like to pay the inter-tower transport cost of 8 million Tower Coins?]

[There are prepaid and cash on delivery options.]

“Cash on… prepaid.”

Se-jun was about to send it cash on delivery, but chose prepaid.

He showed the master’s generosity for the commendable slave who self-extended her slave period from 300 years to 800 years.

***

Green Tower’s 99th floor.

“Hmph! How dare he challenge me with carrots?”

Ophelia snorted at Se-jun’s words.

Up to now, the carrots she had harvested exceeded 100,000, and above all, she had never eaten a carrot tastier than the ones she cultivated.

So she thought that was just how carrots tasted originally.

A moment later.

[2,200 Agility Carrots have arrived.]

Along with a bright pillar of light, the carrots appeared in front of Ophelia.

“Pfft. What? They are much smaller than my carrots.”

Ophelia smirked looking at the carrots Se-jun sent. Such small carrots; perhaps because he was a trivial existence, the size was trivial too.

Her victory was assured without even looking.

“Still, I must try eating one.”

Ophelia picked up a carrot and took a bite.

*Crunch.*

“···?!”

*Crunch.*

“···!!!”

‘W-What? A carrot shouldn’t be this delicious…’

While eating Se-jun’s carrot, all the standards Ophelia had known about carrot taste until now were shattered to pieces.

‘Then what were the carrots I’ve harvested until now?!’

While Ophelia fell into thought like that,

*Crunch. Crunch.*

Ophelia’s mouth did not stop, and in an instant, one carrot vanished.

“Carrots were this delicious?!”

She could not understand. What kind of difference lay between the Black Tower Farmer and herself that the taste of carrots was this different.

But she had no choice but to admit it.

“To think my carrots were garbage…”

*Crunch.*

Ophelia muttered as she chewed Se-jun’s carrot nervously.

And,

[You have failed the quest.]

[As a quest failure penalty, the slave period is increased by 500 years.]

Ophelia became Se-jun’s 800-year slave.

***

[You have won the farming duel.]

[You have completed the quest.]

[As a quest completion reward, the Green Tower slave’s slave period is increased by 500 years.]

“Hehehe. Nice.”

Se-jun smiled as he checked the message.

Considering human life expectancy, he would die first before Ophelia could fill the entire 800-year slave period, but having an abundance of anything was good.

“Ah. Right! Slave, plant this.”

Se-jun pulled out a pile of Persistent Mugwort seeds from the subspatial warehouse. They were the ones harvested from the mugwort flowers when picking mugwort on the 62nd floor of the tower.

‘Although it was said that on the 62nd floor of the tower the soil was ordinary and the effect was not outstanding,’

since the Green Tower was a place overflowing with life force, he felt like a special effect would occur if he grew mugwort there.

“Transport.”

So he sent the mugwort seeds to Ophelia. Of course, he sent it cash on delivery this time. Paying prepaid twice in a row would spoil her.

After sending the mugwort seeds to Ophelia like that,

“Guys, let’s sleep.”

Se-jun fell asleep, wrapping up his day.

Next morning.

“Here. Have a safe trip.”

“Mew? Why are you giving this to me, mew?”

Theo, who had diligently packed crops into several leather pouches since morning to help Se-jun.

Theo asked with a voice filled with betrayal at Se-jun, who was handing him those leather pouches.

“Give one-third each to the Cobb Kingdom and the Red Ribbon Kingdom, and sell the rest on the 4th floor of the tower.”

“Mew? Am I going to work, mew?”

“Yeah.”

“I don’t want to go alone, mew! Chairman Park, let’s go together, mew!”

Theo threw a tantrum because he did not want to separate from Se-jun’s lap, but

“No. I have work to do.”

Se-jun refused flatly. He intended to use the land deed of the 73rd floor of the tower, the last remaining among the three tower documents he had received from the Black Rabbit last time.

“Instead, let’s go together up to the 73rd floor of the tower.”

“Puhuhut. Understood, mew!”

Delighted that he could separate from Se-jun later, Theo replied with a smile.

Having persuaded the simple Theo like that, Se-jun ate breakfast and

“Go inside.”

placed the group in the subspatial warehouse and unfolded the land deed.

And,

[The summoning function for engraving the initial owner of the Black Tower’s 73rd-floor farm land deed is activated.]

Se-jun and his group disappeared from the Black Tower.

***

*Crunch.*

“Ehehe. Why is it so delicious even though it’s just a carrot?”

*Pitter-patter.*

Ophelia laughed foolishly after eating Se-jun’s carrot, and scattered the mugwort seeds Se-jun sent on the ground.

She was burning with anger after losing the farming match and having her slave period increased by 500 years, but because the carrot was delicious, she kept laughing.

At that moment,

-Ophelia, come up for a moment.

Brachio called Ophelia.

“Yes. I will go right now!”

Ophelia hurriedly moved to the Green Tower’s administrator’s area.

The Green Tower’s 99th floor where Ophelia had disappeared.

*Wiggle. Wiggle.*

The mugwort seeds that were simply scattered wiggled and began to take root in the ground.

“Grandma, did you call?”

Ophelia asked, looking at Brachio who had called her.

“Yes. Come and try eating this.”

Brachio pulled out the crops like cherry tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that she had bought 10 of each from the Black Tower.

“Huh?”

Among them, an orange crop caught Ophelia’s eye. It was similar in size to the one she had seen just now.

*Crunch.*

When she picked it up and ate it, the taste was the same.

“Grandma, is this by any chance a crop grown by the Black Tower Farmer?”

“Hmm? How do you know that?”

“Augh… You should have called me a bit sooner!”

If she had only eaten this sooner, she wouldn’t have done something like a farming duel with Se-jun, and then she could have avoided extending it by 500 years…

The corners of Ophelia’s eyes, who exploded with unfairness, became moist.

*Crunch. Crunch.*

Meanwhile, Ophelia did not stop eating the carrot.

‘It’s unfair, but it’s delicious…’

Thanks to that, the corners of her mouth rose while her eyes cried, making Ophelia’s expression strange.

“Ophelia, are… are you okay?”

Brachio looked at Ophelia seriously. Could it be that our granddaughter went crazy from the shock of becoming a slave and became a mad dragon…?

“Yes. Grandma, I am okay.”

Fortunately, Ophelia soon returned to a normal expression, reassuring Brachio.

***

[You have arrived at the 73rd floor of the Black Tower.]

[You have moved from the 99th floor of the tower, which is the highest floor, to the 73rd floor.]

[You descended 26 floors.]

[Due to the effect of , all stats increase by 26.]

Se-jun arrived at the 73rd floor of the tower. Like a sunfish, he quickly checked if there were any dangerous factors around.

However,

*Thud!*

Before he could even look all around, something struck Se-jun’s back hard, and Se-jun flew rolling on the floor.

[ is activated.]

[Consuming mana to protect the body from breaking.]

[Mana is severely lacking.]

[Dragon Skill – Dragon Scales is activated.]

[The scale of the Great Black Dragon Kaiser is destroyed.]

[Consumed 1 Bead of Life.]

At the same time, the authority, magic, and the authority again activated to protect Se-jun.

‘What is that?’

As Se-jun flew, he identified the form of the existence that had attacked him. It was a gray monster whose entire body was made of rock.

It was a fragment of the Mountain-Breaking Rock Kuruger, the 7th Seat of the Apostles of Destruction.

At that moment,

*Clank.*

King!

‘How dare you attack my butler?! I protect the butler!’

Fenrir came out from the subspatial warehouse above Kuruger’s head and threw himself toward Kuruger.

And,

“How dare you touch Chairman Park, mew! I will punish you, mew!”

Cuengi!

[You hit Cuengi’s dad, cueng! Cuengi is angry, cueng!]

“How dare you hit Hyung Se-jun?! I’m going to smash you!”

Overtaking Fenrir, Theo, Cuengi, and Ajax attacked Kuruger.