Chapter 93 – Hearing About Destruction

The 67th floor of the tower.

“Phew.”

“We survived.”

Thud.

As the Purple Locusts suddenly stopped fighting and flew east, the soldiers, exhausted from hours of fierce battle, slumped down and began to rest.

At that moment,

“Malkai!”

Elka, who had come down from the 99th floor of the tower, called Malkai, who had fought the Purple Locusts together with the soldiers on the 67th floor of the tower.

“Chief Elka, it is chaotic here, right? What is going on…”

“Malkai, we must hurry to Nabia Swamp!”

“Huh? What do you mean by that?!”

Malkai, who was about to explain the situation on the 67th floor of the tower, was flustered by Elka’s words.

“Mr. Se-jun is fighting the Purple Locusts at Nabia Swamp.”

Elka had heard about Se-jun’s situation from the Golden Bat, who had gone hunting in the western forest with Se-jun.

“Mr. Se-jun?!”

Awooo!

Elka quickly gathered the Silver Wolf tribe wolves with a howl and went to find Tamuro, the Lizardman Great Warrior, who was the commander of this place.

“What? Going to Nabia Swamp?”

“Yes! We must go there.”

“Hmm…”

Tamuro fell into thought at Elka’s words.

“I will go with you. Indeed, I was wondering why the Purple Locusts went to Nabia Swamp.”

Tamuro thought there was a need to scout Nabia Swamp.

Like that, the Lizardman soldiers led by Tamuro and 120 wolves of the Silver Wolf tribe headed toward Nabia Swamp.

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After Se-jun entered the cave with Theo,

[Your crop has defeated a pest.]

[You have acquired 1 experience point.]

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[Your Sturdy Blade Green Onion has withered due to poison.]

Messages that the Sturdy Blade Green Onion defeated Purple Locusts and acquired experience points began to appear. Fortunately, the experience points for kills by the green onion could be acquired.

Clank.

Se-jun opened the Subspace Warehouse, preparing for the Purple Locusts that would swarm in soon. If the Sturdy Blade Green Onions withered, they would enter the cave in no time.

“Guys! Gather!”

Just in case, he called the animals too.

“Yes!”

Squeak!

Kkueng!

Pyupyu!

The animals hurriedly ran at Se-jun’s call. And about 10 minutes passed.

[Your crop has defeated a pest.]

[You have acquired 1 experience point.]

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The experience point acquisition messages kept appearing. Perhaps because there were still Sturdy Blade Green Onions holding out, no Purple Locusts entered the cave even as time passed.

[You have leveled up.]

[You have acquired 1 bonus stat point.]

When 10 more minutes passed, he even leveled up.

“Something is strange.”

Since no Purple Locusts entered even after waiting, Se-jun decided to go out himself.

Kkueng!

Pound, pound!

Cuengi, who could not just watch his fragile dad, led the way while hitting his two front paws together. He was indeed a filial son, Cuengi.

As Se-jun and the animals came outside following Cuengi like that,

“Huh?!”

The carcasses of the Purple Locusts filling the surroundings came into Se-jun’s eyes.

And around the corpses were a few green onions that were alive and had not died. Their shape was very similar to the Detoxifying Green Onion.

“What is this? I didn’t plant Detoxifying Green Onions.”

Se-jun said as he examined the green onions. The color was different from Se-jun’s Detoxifying Green Onion. While the Detoxifying Green Onion was close to a light tone of yellow-green, the green onion currently in front of Se-jun was a much darker tone of deep green.

“I don’t know.”

Since Se-jun could not find an answer even after examining the green onion, he plucked the green onion to check it himself.

[You have harvested a Detoxifying Green Onion that slaughtered a swarm of poisonous insects.]

[Your class experience points increase slightly.]

[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 4 increases slightly.]

[You have acquired 30 experience points.]

“A Detoxifying Green Onion that slaughtered a swarm of poisonous insects?”

It was indeed the Detoxifying Green Onion.

At that moment,

[You have discovered a cultivation method that increases medicinal efficacy by growing crops in soil with specific conditions.]

[Your class experience points increase greatly.]

“A cultivation method that increases medicinal efficacy? What does that mean?”

Se-jun hurriedly checked the options of the green onion.

[Detoxifying Green Onion that Slaughtered a Swarm of Poisonous Insects]

This is a Detoxifying Green Onion that detoxified the poison of the poisonous insects in their attack and slaughtered the poisonous insects instead.

The medicinal efficacy of the Detoxifying Green Onion has been strengthened, and its grade has risen by one level.

Upon consumption, detoxifies poison of C+-grade or below for 1 hour.

Upon consumption by a non-awakened person, the liver’s function to detoxify becomes more active for 24 hours.

Cultivator: Tower Farmer Park Se-jun

Expiration Date: 90 days

Grade: C

The medicinal efficacy of the Detoxifying Green Onion that slaughtered the Purple Locusts improved, and its grade rose to C-grade. Moreover, the detoxification ability was C+-grade.

“Oh!”

Se-jun marveled. It was the first time that the grade of a crop rose in this manner.

‘Is it you?’

Se-jun looked at Theo, wondering why the Detoxifying Green Onion was planted here. In any case, the culprit who planted the Detoxifying Green Onion was either himself or Theo. Since it was not himself, only one suspect remained.

“Meow, meow, meow.”

Knead, knead.

Theo, who was diligently kneading while humming a song to restore Se-jun’s rotten face, completely unconcerned about the surroundings.

“Am I doing well, meow?!”

When their eyes met, Theo grinned and asked. Thanks to his efforts, Chairman Park’s rotten face was returning to its original state.

“Yes. Our President Theo is doing well.”

“Puhahat. I knew it, meow! Then give me Churu quickly, meow!”

“No.”

“Meow?! Why not, meow?!”

Theo was shocked by Se-jun’s refusal. When I kneaded so diligently like this?!

“We have to plant green onions.”

“I understand, meow! Then, good me will yield, meow! Give me Churu after planting the green onions, meow!”

“Sure.”

Se-jun replied to Theo’s words and looked at the experience point acquisition messages appearing sporadically.

“The Detoxifying Green Onion is here, so where are they dying?”

No moving Purple Locusts were visible in the surroundings.

“Theo, don’t you hear anything?”

“Do you mean sound, meow? I hear the sound of purple bugs over there, meow!”

Theo pointed to one side with his front paw.

“Over there?”

Se-jun began to walk in the direction Theo pointed. All along the way, it was filled with carcasses of Purple Locusts.

“What is it?”

No matter how he looked at it, they were marks of them biting each other. And the further he walked, the more heavily damaged carcasses appeared.

When they walked about 500 meters like that,

[You cannot stray more than 100m from Nabia Swamp.]

He arrived at a point 100 meters away from Nabia Swamp.

And,

Munch, munch.

Thump.

In the distance, he saw several of the Purple Locusts that were approaching while eating the carcasses of their dead species trembling and collapsing.

[Your crop has defeated a pest.]

[You have acquired 1 experience point.]

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Simultaneously, the message appeared in front of Se-jun.

“Ah.”

Se-jun could properly understand how the situation was going.

‘The Detoxifying Green Onion acts like poison to these guys!’

And the reason why the damage to the carcasses was more severe as the distance increased was that the remaining detoxification components in the carcasses were gradually being diluted.

“I can plant them here.”

Stab. Stab.

Se-jun dug the ground with a dagger and planted about 5,000 Detoxifying Green Onions at intervals of 10 meters. As he planted, he got greedy and ended up planting most of the Detoxifying Green Onions he had.

“This should be enough, right?”

Se-jun looked proudly at the Detoxifying Green Onion defensive line he had planted. Before he knew it, the thought of accumulating experience points flew far away from Se-jun’s head.

Se-jun’s current interest was focused only on raising the grade of the crop by one level. Indeed, he was not a farmer by class for nothing.

A moment later,

Flutter. Flutter.

The Purple Locusts, which were approaching while eating the carcasses of their companions, approached the Detoxifying Green Onion.

The Purple Locusts collapsed while eating the Detoxifying Green Onion, and other Purple Locusts died while eating the carcasses of their own species. Like that, death began to spread like a wave centered around the Detoxifying Green Onion.

And,

Growl.

Kkueng!

Cuengi called Se-jun while touching his belly.

“All right. Let’s eat.”

Although it had only been a few hours since they ate, Cuengi was at the age of growing. Se-jun hurriedly returned to the cave with the animals. Se-jun was also hungry since he had moved his body.

He packed a few more Purple Locusts while returning to the cave. Having entered the cave like that, Se-jun cooked quickly.

“Here, eat a lot!”

Kkuueeng.

Cuengi cheered and hummed at the hearty meal placed in front of him. And he eagerly waited for his older brothers and sisters to eat quickly.

For the sake of Cuengi, who was anxiously waiting for his older brothers and sisters to eat, the animals quickly sat next to him and ate the food.

And,

“Give me Churu now, meow!”

Theo demanded Churu again.

“All right.”

Rip.

Se-jun gave Theo the Churu.

Smack, smack, smack.

While Theo was diligently licking the Churu like that,

-Excuse me… Master Theo, I would also like to try the food.

Gaeron will talk to Theo. (Wait! Raw is ` .` -> Gaeron spoke to Theo. My translation was “Gaeron will talk to Theo” which is present tense. Let’s fix that. “Gaeron spoke to Theo.” Yes, that is past tense.)

“You can’t, meow! You are too big, meow!”

-Master Theo! I can shrink my body to a small size!

“I understand, meow. Then come out, meow.”

-Yes! Thank you.

A black swamp the size of a tennis ball was created beneath Theo’s feet, and a small rainbow-colored frog emerged.

And,

Bow.

-Great Master, I also want to eat food. Please permit me!

Gaeron asked Se-jun while bowing his head.

“All right.”

When Se-jun scooped the soup into a bowl and gave it to him,

Hop.

Gaeron entered the hot soup.

And,

-Great Master! It’s really delicious! Ah. So refreshing!

Gaeron was bathing and eating inside the hot soup at the same time.

While they were eating like that,

“By the way, Gaeron, why did you secretly enter the tower?”

Se-jun asked, suddenly curious.

-That is… because I didn’t want to die.

“Because you didn’t want to die? What does that mean?”

-Since you are the Great Black Dragon, Great Master, you know it. That if one cannot enter the tower, everyone dies on the final day…

“The final day?”

The final day? Everyone dies if they cannot enter the tower? This was all content he was hearing for the first time.

-Yes. The day the world where the tower appeared is destroyed.

“The world where the tower appeared is destroyed?!”

-Huh? You don’t know that? No! Just where on earth were you educated to…

The Tower Administrator did not know what even he, a tribal god, knew? While Gaeron was wondering,

“Hiss! Hiss! Gaeron, how dare you! Are you ignoring our Chairman Park, meow?!”

Theo, who was eating Churu, stood his fur on end, hissed in anger, and badgered Gaeron.

-N-No! Absolutely not!

“Hiss! Just answer what Chairman Park asks, meow!”

-Yes! The tower appears in a world destined for destruction. Exactly, a world where the existences of disaster will appear.

“Existences of disaster?”

-Yes. Things like the Locusts we fought a little while ago.

“Locusts appear?”

Se-jun imagined the Locusts appearing on Earth. Within a few months, the Locusts would evolve rapidly, and the world would be destroyed.

-Yes. The tower appears first before the world is destroyed, selects the survivors of the world, and lets them enter the tower.

“To carry only the selected existences before destruction comes…”

Se-jun’s head became complicated. If this fact were known outside, the world would fall into great confusion. Above all, his plan to supply Earth products using the Golden Bat in the future would collapse.

“What about blocking the Locusts before they destroy the world?”

-Well. Although many worlds have tried desperately to block them until now… they were all destroyed. My world was too. Ah! Still, if it is the Great Master’s green onion, it seems it could be a variable!

Gaeron had also never seen before the Purple Locusts being killed by having their poison detoxified. Usually, the true start of destruction is from the moment they evolve into Purple Locusts. This is because all the land in the world becomes contaminated with poison.

At that moment,

“Mr. Se-jun! We have arrived!”

Elka, leading the Silver Wolves, entered the cave following Se-jun’s scent.