Chapter 379 – Aileen Can Do That Too

The 38th floor of the Golden Tower.

Rumble!

Due to lightning striking dozens of times per second, a massive piece of land was floating in the dazzling sky.

Although the surroundings of the floating land were an ominous dark red color, there was a large flower bed in the center of the land.

Inside the flower bed, new varieties created by Se-jun and various other crops were growing. It was Emila’s flower bed.

And a figure enveloped in light was watering those crops. It was Emila Evenus, the Apostle of the Creator God.

Emila had guarded this place for thousands of years as the Apostle of the Creator God, according to the Creator God’s will.

“Guys, you only need to bear it a little longer now.”

Emila said as if coaxing the crops.

The tasks prepared by the Creator God to drive away destruction were finally being resolved one by one.

Of course, they had only just begun to be resolved a little. Completing the tasks was a completely different matter.

A thorny path several times harder than before was waiting for them.

“But… how is Park Se-jun resolving the tasks left by the Creator God?”

Emila said in a voice filled with incomprehension.

Emila had felt pity for Se-jun, who was too weak to shoulder the Creator God’s tasks, so she had cheered him on by giving him shoes, and subsequently saved his life.

Saving his life was purely a coincidence. Because Se-jun was on the floor where Emila was located.

Emila had not expected much from Se-jun. To Emila, Se-jun was a being so weak that it would not be strange at all if he died tomorrow.

Furthermore, his status was… there was no point in even talking about it.

So she had naturally thought that other dragons and tower farmers would complete the Creator God’s arrangements.

However, the results came out much faster and in a completely different way than Emila had thought.

Normalization of the nine towers.

Cooperation of the nine dragons.

Cooperation of tower farmers and dragons.

Restoring the divine power of the gods.

Cooperation and exchange among tower farmers.

Growing towers into great towers.

Breaking through the trials of the 10th tower.

Lifting the curse of oblivion cast on the nine dragons, and so on.

The ten tasks left by the Creator God to build strength to fight destruction. Each and every one of them was an absurdly difficult task.

Of course, the Creator God did not design them for a single person to resolve all these tasks alone.

However, before anyone knew it, Se-jun alone was grabbing the other dragons and tower farmers by the collar and hard-carrying them.

“Anyway, thanks to that, the probability of the Creator God’s tasks being fulfilled before destruction awakens has increased.”

As if reacting to Emila’s joy, the light she emitted grew brighter.

However,

“Oh dear, they’ve tracked me down already.”

soon sensing the Apostle of Destruction that had found her, she hurriedly moved the Creator God’s temple to another location.

***

They were too strong.

While Hokus was flustered by the bravery of the other hatchlings,

“Hokus-oppa, welcome.”

Aileen, who discovered a new customer, welcomed Hokus warmly.

‘Right! I didn’t come to see the other hatchlings. I came to let the rude youngest know how strong a dragon I, Hokus Yul, am.’

Thanks to that, Hokus was able to recall the reason why he had come here.

I was angry.

I was very angry!

“Aileen, you, to me, weak…”

As Hokus recalled his feelings when reading the letter and tried to get angry at Aileen,

“Hokus-oppa, I’m sorry for writing ‘weak’ in the letter. I just wanted to see everyone… here, I’ll give you this as an apology.”

When Aileen handed him an armful of Se-jun’s crops,

“Uh… hmph. Well, that can happen. Still, be careful in the future.”

his feelings of anger disappeared instantly, like thin ice melting.

“Yes. Try eating it quickly. It’s extremely delicious!”

“Kukuku. Really?”

And Hokus, who tasted Se-jun’s sweet crops…

“Mom! Buy all of this for me! If you don’t buy it, I’ll keep crying! Screeech!”

he called his mother, who was greeting other hatchling parents, and pestered her to buy Se-jun’s crops.

It was not that the other hatchlings were brave. The desire to eat more of Se-jun’s crops had made the hatchlings brave.

A moment later,

“Aileen, here is the money. Give me lots of peanuts.”

“For me, 3 watermelons.”

“Give me a sack of potatoes!”

“Unni, oppas, thank you.”

Aileen received the money the hatchlings had bravely secured and sold Se-jun’s crops.

While Aileen, with an excited face, was making the hatchlings customers of Se-jun’s crops,

“Anton, is Aileen okay now?”

“Indeed. Her… heart had been sick.”

The other hatchling parents asked Anton, who was watching Aileen expressionlessly.

“She is all cured now.”

Anton replied in a flat, cold voice, as if speaking about someone else.

“Is… Is that so? What a relief. Congratulations, truly.”

“Congratulations.”

After conveying formal congratulations to Anton, the dragons

“How is the Red Tower?”

“Ever since we planted the thing called Fire Bean, it has gotten much better lately.”

“How about the Blue Tower?”

began to ask after each other to break the awkward atmosphere, and the topic of conversation naturally shifted to their children.

“Our Pobi is already swallowing A-grade poison…”

“Our Perion has been using Hellfire magic lately…”

“Our Hakun has been using water essence…”

“Our Hokus is already using lightning…”

It soon led to boasting about their children.

The parent dragons boasted to each other that their own children were outstanding. Thanks to that, the atmosphere quickly revived. No, the problem was that it was too heated.

Anton only listened to their conversation in silence while watching Aileen.

While the parent dragons were boasting about their children diligently like that,

“Guys, look at this! I can polymorph now!”

Hakun, wanting to show a cool appearance to his younger siblings, used polymorph magic to transform into a blue-haired handsome man.

“Hahaha. How is it?”

Hakun smiled, expecting his younger siblings to look at him with awe, but

“Aileen can do that too. Polymorph!”

as the youngest, Aileen, ended up using the polymorph magic, all eyes of the hatchlings were focused on Aileen.

“Huh?!”

“Aileen is younger than us…”

“My mom said one has to be 700 years old to use it…”

Thanks to that, the young hatchlings who could not yet use polymorph magic were deeply shocked.

“Dad—!

“Mom is a liar!”

“Polymorph for me too!!!”

Hokus, Pobi, Garlic, and Sylvia went to their parents and screamed again to let them use polymorph magic too.

However, the ones who were more shocked than the hatchlings were the parent dragons.

Normally, the age at which hatchlings could learn polymorph was around 700 to 900 years old.

This was because they needed to be at least 700 years old to accumulate enough magic power to stably use polymorph magic.

Hakun, who used polymorph magic at 600 years old, belonged to the class of outstanding geniuses.

Yet, polymorph at 200 years old?!

Furthermore, Aileen was a dragon who had almost no magic power until recently because of her heart.

“What?! Anton, speak honestly. What did you feed Aileen?! No, tell me quietly!”

“Anton, tell us your parenting secrets!”

“Anton, don’t keep it to yourself, let us know too!”

The parent dragons surrounded Anton and asked in excited voices.

“I did nothing. Our Aileen grew up on her own.”

Anton spoke with the same cold expression and voice as before, shrugging his shoulders.

Having finished answering, the ends of Anton’s firmly closed lips rose slightly, almost invisibly.

No matter how cool he tried to act, Anton was also a father after all.

At that moment,

“Aunties and uncles! If they eat a lot of this, unni and oppas can polymorph like Aileen too! It is 1 million Tower Coins each!”

Aileen did not miss the opportunity and promoted the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes to the parent dragons.

“Mom! Buy that for me! Hokus wants to polymorph too—!!!”

“Dad, if you don’t buy that, don’t think about playing with Sylvia in the future.”

At the brave roars of the hatchlings, the parent dragons bought 10 billion Tower Coins worth of elixir-grade cherry tomatoes each.

And since then, the elixir-grade cherry tomatoes became an essential magic supplement for raising hatchlings.

‘Kehehehe. I should tell Se-jun when he wakes up later.’

Aileen, who now had something to brag about to Se-jun, smiled brightly.

***

The 99th floor of the Black Tower.

The morning of the 387th day of entering the tower.

“Heave-ho.”

When Se-jun opened his eyes,

[The tower administrator is glad, asking if you have just woken up.]

Aileen, who had been waiting only for Se-jun to wake up, spoke to him in a rush.

[The tower administrator says that an amazing thing happened while you were asleep.]

[The tower administrator boasts that she made all the unni and oppas of the other dragon clans your customers.]

[The tower administrator says in an excited voice to listen carefully since she will tell the story of the process from the beginning.]

Aileen began to tell a long story about how she had made the hatchlings come and buy Se-jun’s crops, and

“Wow! That’s really amazing!”

“Oh! How did you think of that? It’s really amazing?!”

“Wow! Really?! Aileen is definitely a genius dragon!”

Se-jun put his soul into his reactions in between, helping Aileen talk excitedly until the end.

After listening to Aileen’s story and going outside like that,

[Master!]

Flamie, who was resting under the warm sun, called Se-jun and jumped onto his shoulder.

“Flamie! Have you been well?!”

[Yes!]

Although he had been worried because she wasn’t visible lately, seeing her leaves looking even more full of life than before, she seemed to have been well.

Se-jun walked around the farm while chatting with Flamie.

“But… grapes aren’t growing well lately. Is it because Podori is busy being a World Tree?”

Passing by Podori, Se-jun casually asked Flamie what he had been curious about.

[Hehet. No way. The grapes will probably grow by tomorrow.]

“That quickly?”

[Of course.]

Because I will definitely make it happen.

At Flamie’s reply, Podori’s branches trembled.

Failing to see that, Se-jun returned home while chatting with Flamie.

And after eating breakfast, he moved to the paddy field dyed in golden light that he had spotted in the morning. This paddy field was the place where Se-jun had planted the rice seed he first obtained from the seed shop.

“Good. Shall we harvest?”

Se-jun picked up his sickle and began to cut the well-ripened rice.

Slash.

[You have harvested 5,619 grains of Golden Rice.]

[Your job experience increases slightly.]

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

[Due to the cold effect embedded in the Sickle of Freshness, the expiration date of the harvested crop increases by 5 days.]

[You have obtained 393,330 experience points.]

Thanks to using , the harvest yield was massive, and

[You have leveled up.]

[You have obtained 1 bonus stat.]

[Strength increases by 10.]

Se-jun reached level 80.

And,

[A job quest is generated.]

[Job Quest: Gather 10,000 companions to help with farming.]

Reward: Level 81 unlocked, 1 billion Tower Coins, all stats +100

As expected, a job quest to block Se-jun’s level-up appeared this time too.

“Ah. All my experience points will go to waste.”

Se-jun lamented, looking at the golden rice that still remained in large amounts.

However,

[Currently, there are 131,921 companions helping with farming.]

[You have achieved the job quest with overwhelming results.]

[The rewards increase by 100%.]

[As a reward for completing the job quest, level 81 is unlocked.]

[As a reward for completing the job quest, you have obtained 2 billion Tower Coins.]

[As a reward for completing the job quest, all stats increase by 200.]

This time, thanks to Se-jun’s tenant farmers, he was able to complete the job quest easily.

“Oh! Today is a day of explosive leveling!”

Se-jun began to cut the rice with storm-like sickle strokes, and as he harvested the rice, he leveled up four more times to reach level 84.

“Hehehe.”

Se-jun smiled warmly at the thought of eating white rice as he looked at the harvested rice.