TL: Hanguk
Sejun, who had helped Podori with his forced promotion,
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Nom.
put a Tree Killer’s core into his mouth.
And then…
…?!
As the core melted smoothly, his mouth was filled with the scent of grass, as if he had entered a forest.
On top of that, while it tasted like grass, it reminded him of the green juice his mom used to make when he was young.
Since he’d already prepared himself for it to taste bad, it was tolerable enough to eat.
Gulp.
After swallowing the core,
[You have consumed Tree Killer’s core.]
[Magic stat potential increases by 30.]
[Strength stat increases by 5.]
Messages appeared.
Nom.
Sejun swallowed another Tree Killer’s core and thought,
Hehehe. I can’t enjoy this alone.
I should share this healthy flavor with others.
Who should I start with?
Sejun searched for targets to share the healthy taste with.
Lick.Lick.
First, Theo, who was busy grooming himself, was passed over since he wouldn’t touch anything other than grilled fish or churu.
Kuhehehe.
Cuengi, who smiled innocently when his eyes met with Sejun’s…
Was passed over because his sense of smell was too good.
Kihihit.
In the end, only Blackie family remained.
If he gave it to them as is, it would be too obvious…
Sejun took out roasted and dried sweet potato slices, made a gap in the middle, and carefully inserted pieces of the Tree Killer’s core.
Then,
“Blackie, want some roasted sweet potato slices?”
When he asked Blackie,
Kihihit. Kking!
[Hehe. I’ll eat it!]
Blackie took the bait right away.
“Alright. Here, have it.”
Sejun tried his best to hide his expression so his anticipation wouldn’t show on his face as he gave Blackie the dried roasted sweet potatoes with the Tree Killer cores inside.
Then,
Chomp chomp chomp.
Blackie ate the roasted sweet potato slices enthusiastically.
Hehehe.
Sejun watched Blackie, waiting for the reaction he was anticipating, but…
“Huh?!”
Even after Blackie finished eating one slice, the reaction Sejun had been hoping for didn’t come.
What’s going on?
As Sejun looked at Blackie with confusion,
“Huh?”
What’s that?
Sejun noticed pieces of the Tree Killer’s core scattered around Blackie.
For Blackie, who had the title of <Title: Genius of Deboning>, removing the Tree Killer’s core from between the roasted sweet potato and eating only the sweet potato was a piece of cake.
Thus, Sejun’s attempt to spread the healthy taste failed.
He tried again with the Mushroom Ants and the Poisonous Bees, but they all failed too.
At that moment,
Moo.
Black Minotaur 103, passed by in front of Sejun.
However…
……
Determined to spread the healthy taste, Sejun didn’t offer the Tree Killer’s core to Minotaur 103, whose main diet was grass.
It was a moment where his true intentions were revealed.
Oh, well. I’ll just eat it myself.
Giving up on spreading the healthy taste, or rather, the thought of not wanting to eat something unpleasant alone, Sejun resumed eating the Tree Killer’s cores.
By the time he had eaten 95 cores,
[You have consumed Tree Killer’s core.]
[Stamina stat potential increases by 50.]
[Agility stat increases by 7.]
[Talent: Extraction has awakened.]
A new talent awakened.
[Talent: Extraction]
→ A talent that allows you to squeeze out juice well by applying strong pressure.
Extract juice efficiently?
“Cuengi, let’s have a juice-squeezing contest.”
Sejun suggested a juice-squeezing contest with Cuengi to test his talent.
However,
Drip.
Gush.
Cuengi’s overwhelming strength was too much for Sejun to compete with, even with his newfound talent.
“Hmm.”
Sejun quietly ate the remaining Tree Killer’s cores and moved to the golden rice fields, where the rice had ripened well, to start his afternoon farming.
At that moment,
-Sejun!
Ramter called out to him.
“Ramter-nim, hello.”
-Yes, Sejun. Come visit the Red Tower sometime.
As soon as Sejun greeted him, Ramter got straight to the point.
“The Red Tower? That’s…”
-Puhaha. Thanks to your watermelon wine, the temperature in the Red Tower has dropped significantly.
“Really? Then is the lava gone too?”
-Yes, it’s gone. So now you can come visit.
“Alright, I’ll definitely go!”
Sejun’s face lit up at Ramter’s words.
The reason Sejun hadn’t gone to the Red Tower until now was that all the waypoints of the Red Tower, for which he owned the land deeds, were inside lava zones.
Sejun had learned this by chance while talking with Udon, and after that, he completely gave up on visiting the Red Tower.
Of course, he could have gone if he really wanted to, but he didn’t see the point of going through the trouble.
If the 10th Tower didn’t exist, he might have gone with the goal of conquering the last tower and earning the <Title: Who Reached the Summit of Nine Towers>, but that wasn’t the case, so he hadn’t rushed.
“Then I’ll go after harvesting the rice.”
-Puhaha. Alright. When you arrive, call Udon, and he’ll give you the land deed for the 99th floor of the tower.
“Got it!”
With that, Sejun ended the conversation with Ramter.
Shhhk. Shhhk.
[You have harvested 5,619 grains of Golden Rice (+2).]
[Your job experience has increased slightly.]
[Your proficiency in Harvesting Lv. 9 has increased slightly.]
[You have gained 674,280 experience points.]
…
..
.
Sejun diligently harvested the rice.
Kueng!
Kking!
Meanwhile, Cuengi and Blackie transported the harvested rice, and
Kkwek.
Kkwek.
The Mushroom Ants milled the rice with their front teeth, turning it into white rice.
As everyone busily carried out their tasks,
“Meow meow meow.”
Theo, like grasshopper, hung onto Sejun’s knee, humming to himself.
Of course, Theo was also working.
“Meow! Chairman Park, I feel a pull coming from over there, meow!”
Theo was acting as a new variety detector.
“Really?!”
At Theo’s words, Sejun hurried to the spot Theo’s front paw was pointing to.
“Vice Chairman Theo, is it this one?”
Sejun pointed to a rice that didn’t look particularly different from the others.
“Puhuhut. That’s the one, meow!”
“Got it.”
Shhhk.
Hearing Theo’s confirmation, Sejun harvested the rice.
[You have harvested 3,781 grains of Golden Rice (+2).]
[You have harvested 1 grain of Golden Glutinous Rice.]
…
..
.
“Huh?! Glutinous rice…?”
It’s sticky rice!
That means I can make things like glutinous rice cakes and glutinous rice chili paste…
While thinking happily about all the dishes he could make with sticky rice,
[You have achieved the feat of creating a new variety in the tower.]
…
..
.
[Due to your Job Trait, all stats increase by 20.]
Messages appeared notifying him of the new variety’s harvest.
Since the rice didn’t look visually distinct, Sejun carefully inspected each grain of rice to find the glutinous rice grains.
And then,
“Found it.”
He found the glutinous rice grain and checked its options.
[Golden Glutinous Rice]
→ Rice that grew in the Great Tower and underwent a mutation, transforming into glutinous rice with excellent stickiness and easy digestibility.
→ It has been grown by an outstanding farmer, greatly enhancing its effects.
→ Consuming 100,000 grains of glutinous rice triggers the Glutinous-Rice-as-Medicine effect. (When activated, the Glutinous-Rice-as-Medicine effect randomly increases Strength, Stamina, Agility, and Magic stats by a total of 150.)
→ Cultivator: Tower Farmer Park Sejun
→ Shelf Life: 180 days
→ Grade: S
Unfortunately, the +2 effect of Golden Rice was gone, but because it was easier to digest, the medicinal effect was stronger than regular rice.
“Hehehe.”
If I enhance it to +2 here, it’ll be even better than the +2 Golden Rice, right?
Sejun smiled contentedly after checking the options and carefully placed one grain of glutinous rice into the Pouch of Abundance Crafted With Utmost Sincerity.
[1 day until 100 Golden Glutinous Rice seeds are replicated]
The text appeared on the side of the Pouch .
“Great.”
Once I have about 500 grains, I’ll plant them.
After confirming the text, Sejun went back to harvesting rice.
A short while later.
“Everyone, great job!”
When the rice harvest was finished, Sejun shared snacks with his companions and took a break.
When Sejun sat down
“Puhuhut.”
Kkuhehe.
Theo and Cuengi naturally took their places on Sejun’s knee and side.
Kking!
[Butler! Lift me up!]
Blackie, holding a piece of roasted and dried sweet potato in his mouth, barked, asking to be placed in the sling bag.
“Alright.”
When Sejun lifted Blackie and put him into the sling bag,
Kihihit.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
Inside the sling bag, Blackie and his subordinates happily munched on their roasted sweet potato snacks.
While the group rested and enjoyed their snacks,
Where should I go?
Sejun reviewed the Red Tower land deeds he owned and the Experienced Farmer’s Plant Encyclopedia to decide which floor to visit.
The Red Tower land deeds he possessed were for floors 22, 53, 78, and 94.
The plant encyclopedia revealed that Red Tower crops included Fire Beans planted on nearly every floor, the Cold Mangosteen on the 22nd floor, and Aloe on the 57th floor.
“I guess I’ll go to the 22nd floor.”
Since the only overlap between the land deeds and the encyclopedia was the 22nd floor, Sejun decided on that as his destination.
If there had been something like Aloe instead of Mangosteen on the 22nd floor, Sejun might have chosen a different floor just for the adventure.
Conversely, even if he had known what was on floors 53, 78, or 94, his destination still would have been the 22nd floor.
Because Mangosteen is the queen of fruits.
With his destination set, Sejun declared,
“Everyone, get in the void storage.”
Sejun sent his companions into the Void Storage and,
Swoosh.
unfolded the land deed for the Red Tower’s 22nd floor, disappearing in an instant.
***
[You have arrived at the 22nd floor of the Red Tower.]
Sejun arrived at the Red Tower.
As hot air rushed into his nose like he had stepped into a dry sauna,
“Huup!”
He felt his nose and throat burn slightly, along with a searing sensation.
And then,
Sizzle.
The heat from the scorching sand beneath his feet radiated up to the soles of his feet.
This is way too hot!
Sejun quickly became drenched in sweat.
He had endured the cold with sheer stamina before, but this heat was unbearable.
At that moment,
Clink.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, I missed you, meow!”
Theo jumped onto Sejun’s face.
“Hey! It’s hot, wait, huh?!”
Sejun, who was about to complain at Theo clinging to his face,
was startled by an unexpected coolness.
“Puhuhut. Great Hybrid Chairman Park, can’t control body temperature with magic power, meow?!”
“Huh?! You can do that?”
“Yes, meow!”
“How do you do it?”
“Meow? You just do it, meow!”
“Just do it?”
While Sejun was dumbfounded by Theo’s vague explanation,
Kueng!
Kking!
Cuengi and Blackie family also rushed out from the Void Storage.
However,
Kking…
[Great Blackie is going to burn to death…]
Blackie, carried by his subordinates, quickly went back into the Void Storage,
Clink.
and closed the door in a hurry.
Although Blackie had the ability to regulate his body temperature, he lacked magic power to do it.
Cuengi, on the other hand, instinctively knew how to regulate his body temperature but
Kueng.
[Cuengi can just do it.]
Couldn’t explain it to Sejun.
Thanks to Theo and Cuengi, who had naturally cooled him down, Sejun felt a bit more comfortable and began looking around.
“Oh. Mangosteens.”
He spotted deep purple mangosteens hanging from trees nearly 10 meters tall.
Grab.
When Sejun grabbed the closest Mangosteen to harvest it
Shhhk.
An ant the size of two finger joints that had been hiding behind the Mangosteen fruit revealed itself.
The ant opened its sharp front teeth, aiming to bite Sejun, but…
“Hehehe. Looks like it’s ripe?”
Excited by the thought of eating the mangosteen, Sejun didn’t notice the ant at all.
At that moment,
“Meow!”
Theo, Sejun’s bodyguard, swiftly swung his front paw and took out the ant.
And then,
[Guard Theo Park has eliminated a Bullet Ant.]
[You have gained 50 experience points, which is 50% of the experience gained by Guard Theo.]
A message appeared.
“Bullet Ant?”
I heard getting bitten by a Bullet Ant hurts terribly?
“Phew. That was close. Vice Chairman Theo, you did great. Thank you.”
Sejun let out a sigh of relief as he checked the message and patted Theo’s head in praise.
“Puhuhut. I, Vice Chairman Theo, always do great, meow! So Chairman Park should always be grateful to me, meow!”
While Theo puffed up with pride at Sejun’s compliment,
Sssssk.
With an ominous sound, tens of thousands of Bullet Ants that had been hiding in the mangosteen tree started crawling toward Sejun.
And then,
[A quest has been generated.]
[Quest: Eliminate the Bullet Ant colony occupying the mangosteen farm.]
Bullet Ants (1/50,000)
Soldier Bullet Ants (0/5,000)
Queen Bullet Ant (0/1)
Reward: Recognition as the rightful owner of the mangosteen farm on the 22nd floor of the Red Tower.
A land deed quest message appeared in front of Sejun.
“Cuengi, lightly roast them without hurting the tree.”
Kueng!
[Got it!]
Crackle, crackle.
Following Sejun’s instructions, Cuengi grabbed the thunderbolt staff and released a small burst of electrical energy.
[You have eliminated the Bullet Ant colony.]
[You have completed the quest.]
With just one strike of Cuengi’s lightning, the quest was completed.
“Alright, now let’s harvest the mangosteens.”
“Puhuhut. Understood, meow!”
Kueng!
While Sejun, Theo, and Cuengi busily harvested mangosteens in the Red Tower,
[Flamie~nim, I can’t do this anymore…]
[Open your mouth! You’re far from becoming a Dimensional Tree!]
On the 99th floor of the Black Tower, Flamie, taking advantage of Sejun’s absence, was busy force-feeding Podori special nutritional supplements for becoming a Dimensional Tree.
I don’t want to become a Dimensional Tree…
Podori wanted to scream those words, but they stayed stuck in his throat.
Gulp.
He swallowed the supplement, holding back his complaints. He didn’t want to be burned to death by Flamie’s fire.
Getting promoted isn’t good after all.
Watching Podori endure, the Sausage Tree decided to stay as quiet and unnoticed as possible for the foreseeable future.
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