TL: Hanguk
66th Floor of the Purple Tower.
Kking…
[It tastes bad…]
Having barely survived, Blackie grimaced deeply as he chewed on the green onion.
Is it really that bad?
Watching Blackie struggle made Sejun uneasy. But there was no choice. If they wanted to survive, they had to eat it.
“Blackie, do you want to go back first?”
Sejun asked Blackie. Staying here meant having to keep eating green onions, and Blackie looked like he was having a really hard time.
Kking! Kking!
[Not going back! The great Blackie can eat lots of green onions!]
Sejun’s words had hurt both Blackie’s pride and triggered his trauma.
Crunch. Crunch.
To prove that he could eat green onions just fine, Blackie chomped down on several at once.
Sniff.
The pungent spiciness of the green onion made his eyes and nose run simultaneously.
Crunch. Crunch.
Even so, Blackie kept chewing on the green onion.
Sejun found the sight both pitiful and endearing.
“Alright, alright. Just eat one at a time.”
After taking the green onions from Blackie’s mouth,
Snap.
Whoosh.
Sejun snapped his fingers, creating fire, and began roasting the green onion over the flame.
Kueng?
[Dad, are you making roasted green onions?]
“Yeah. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
Kueng!
When Sejun made grilled green onions, Cuengi, remembering memories of eating grilled green onions with Sejun, also clumsily snapped his fingers to create fire. ℝÁℕỖᛒĚⱾ
Whoosh!
Of course, despite the clumsy snap, the power of his fire was far stronger than Sejun’s.
“Oh. I should use this side instead.”
Seeing that Cuengi’s fire was bigger and stronger, Sejun immediately extinguished his own flame and started roasting the green onion over Cuengi’s fire.
He briefly wondered, ‘Since when could Cuengi create fire?’
But isn’t this something everyone can do?
Having lived as the weakest among his party, Sejun had seen many of his companions’ incredible abilities, so he simply accepted it.
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Once the roasted green onion was ready,
“Blackie, it’s better when it’s roasted, right?”
Sejun peeled off the charred outer layer of the roasted green onion and put it into Blackie’s mouth.
However, just because it was roasted didn’t mean it stopped being a green onion.
Kking! Kking!
[Butler! It’s better than before, but green onions still taste bad! Give me some roasted and dried sweet potato too!]
Blackie whined, demanding roasted and dried sweet potato as well.
“Alright.”
Such a cute little thing.
Sejun gave Blackie the roasted and dried sweet potato.
Kihihit.
Only after stuffing the sweet potato into his mouth did Blackie finally regain his smile.
And then,
“Here, Vice Chairman Theo.”
Sejun fed Theo a churu mixed with green onion that he had prepared for a moment like this.
Chomp chomp chomp.
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, your churu is delicious, meow!”
Fortunately, thanks to Sejun’s effort, Theo found the churu with green onion delicious.
“It tastes good since I haven’t had it in a while.”
Kueng! Kueng!
[That’s right! It’s tasty!]
Sejun also ate the roasted green onion with Cuengi, enjoying the meal while looking around.
The 66th floor of the Tower was nothing more than a black plain, completely barren, with an unsettlingly mushy ground beneath them.
Additionally, the distinctively fishy stench of poison, mixed with a putrid rot, constantly assailed them with an almost hostile presence, threatening to invade with every breath.
[Due to the effects of the S-rank Detoxifying Green Onion, you are not poisoned.]
Of course, it had no effect on Sejun and his companions.
After everyone had eaten five S-rank Detoxifying Green Onions and gained resistance to poisons below S-rank for five hours,
Plop.
Sejun stepped out of the void storage and planted an S-rank Detoxifying Green Onion in the ground.
[The roots of the Detoxifying Green Onion suffer severe damage.]
[Your proficiency of Transplanting Lv. 5 has slightly increased.]
At least it can be planted.
According to Veronica, S-rank green onions would die immediately when planted here. But thanks to Sejun’s superior farming skills, the Detoxifying Green Onion didn’t perish right away.
That didn’t mean it was a complete success, though.
Within ten minutes of being planted, the Detoxifying Green Onion’s leaves turned yellow and withered away.
It seemed that a single S-rank Detoxifying Green Onion was not enough to purify the overwhelming amount of poison in the ground.
“Then, how about this one?”
Plop.
This time, Sejun planted an SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onion, something he usually saved and only used when eating delicious food.
As soon as it was planted, the SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onion began absorbing the surrounding toxic energy, and within moments, the poison in a 10-meter radius visibly disappeared.
As expected of an SS-rank green onion.
Sejun planted one SS-rank green onion at the center And then,
“Guys, help me plant more green onions.”
“Puhuhut. Got it meow!”
Kueng!
Kking!
Along with his companions, he expanded their purified area by planting multiple S-rank green onions around the SS-rank one.
It would have been ideal to plant only SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions, but Sejun only had about 1,000 of them.
The crops he harvested followed the rank of his Tower Farmer status, meaning that even if he planted SS-rank green onion seeds, they would only yield S-rank green onions, not SS-rank.
Occasionally, the Harvesting skill produced crops of a rank higher than usual, allowing him to obtain SS-rank green onions, but that only happened about once every ten days.
The rest were increased using the Pouch of Abundance Crafted With Utmost Sincerity, a divine relic given to him by Leah.
Plop.
[Your proficiency of Transplanting Lv. 5 has slightly increased.]
[Due to the effect of Transplanting Lv. 5, the roots have not been damaged.]
[Due to the effect of Transplanting Lv. 5, the Detoxifying Green Onion will maintain its condition for 5 hours.]
Once the area was stabilized, Sejun relocated the SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onion from the center to another spot.
As they steadily expanded their territory and managed to purify about 10% of the 66th floor of the Tower, the poison began resisting.
From the outermost edges of their purified zone, black liquid started gushing out, rapidly withering the S-rank Detoxifying Green Onions upon contact.
I won’t lose!
“Guys! Plant even more!”
Sejun ordered his companions to counter the poison’s assault by densely planting S-rank Detoxifying Green Onions in a sheer numbers strategy.
At the same time, he deployed 100 of the 500 SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions he had kept in reserve, quickly stabilizing the situation.
On top of that,
The SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions that had absorbed a massive amount of poison evolved, increasing their detoxification capabilities.
Thanks to these [Detoxifying Green Onions That Suppressed Deadly Poison], the purification process accelerated, and by evening, they had managed to cleanse half of the 66th floor.
“I’ll take care of the rest tomorrow.”
Sejun moved the SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions planted in the rear to the front lines and then leisurely prepared dinner.
A little while later,
“Tonight’s dish is stir-fried locust stew!”
After preparing food for Theo and Blackie, Sejun placed the bright red, seasoned stew on the table.
Kueng!
[It looks delicious!]
Cuengi cheered, throwing his paws up in excitement.
Hehehe. The joy of watching Cuengi’s reactions is what makes cooking fun.
Sejun, smiling contentedly as he watched Cuengi eagerly enjoy his cooking, scooped some stew onto his own plate.
As everyone enjoyed their meal,
“Puhuhut. As expected, Chairman Park’s grilled fish is delicio….meow!”
Theo, who had been savoring a piece of grilled fish, suddenly jumped and swatted an object flying toward Sejun’s head with his front paw.
“Huh? Why is a green onion here?”
Sejun, reacting a beat too late, glanced at the object Theo had deflected and then turned to look at the area where the green onions were planted.
And then,
Plop. Plop.
He saw black, poison-formed hands yanking out green onions and tossing them away.
Tssssk.
The poison quickly dissipated upon contact with the green onions, but the black hands, maintaining their form with an even greater concentration of poison, continued their actions.
The areas where the green onions had been uprooted were rapidly reclaimed by the poison.
I worked so hard to purify this place…
Watching the scene filled Sejun with rage.
At the same time, he realized that the poison he was detoxifying was not just ordinary poison.
No normal poison could form hands and pull out green onions.
At that moment,
A faint golden hue flickered in Sejun’s eyes, allowing him to grasp the exact nature of his enemy.
“Necma, the Poison of Slaughter?”
So, it has a will of its own?
“Necma, you bastard!”
Not even a dog disrupts someone while they’re eating!
Realizing that Necma had deliberately interrupted their meal, Sejun began to seethe with genuine fury.
“Haaak! Great hybrid Chairman Park said that you must never disturb someone while they’re eating, meow!”
Kueng!
[Cuengi is angry because his meal was interrupted!]
Kking?!
[Did you dare to interrupt the great Blackie’s mealtime?!]
Following Sejun’s lead, Theo, Cuengi, and the Blackie Family all erupted in rage. Sejun’s entire family was filled with those who took their meals seriously.
“Guys, let’s show them our wrath!”
“Meow!”
Kueng!
Kking!
Fueled by their anger, Sejun and his companions suppressed their hunger and started catching the uprooted SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions mid-air, replanting them to push back the toxic energy.
Sejun also deployed the remaining 400 of his reserved SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions, going all in.
Thanks to this, all 1,000 SS-rank Detoxifying Green Onions he had grew into [Detoxifying Green Onions that Suppressed Deadly Poison], further enhancing their detoxification power and making them taste even better.
Three hours later,
“Found you.”
Sejun finally came face-to-face with Necma, a colossal demonic figure born from poisonous energy.
-How dare you interfere with me?! Die!
The moment Necma saw Sejun, it charged at him without hesitation.
Hey? Do I look like the easiest target here?!
Sejun was instantly irritated.
Crunch. Crunch.
[For one hour, you are immune to all poisons below SSS-rank.]
After eating the green onion, Sejun prepared to fight Necma.
Tastes good.
With its enhanced detoxification power, the green onion had also become even more flavorful.
Lick.
As Sejun licked the remaining green onion juice off his lips,
Huuup!
Cuengi took a deep breath and inhaled sharply toward Necma.
-No!
Necma fiercely resisted, but in the end, it was sucked straight into Cuengi’s mouth, completely and effortlessly.
“Cuengi! That’s dirty! Spit it out right now!”
Panicked, Sejun shook Cuengi and shouted.
Gulp.
Cuengi deliberately swallowed it.
And then,
Kuehehehe. Kueng!
[Hehehe. Cuengi protected Dad!]
Cuengi proudly placed his front paws on his waist, puffed out his belly slightly, and beamed with a bright, triumphant smile.
“Cuengi, are you really okay?”
Kueng!
Cuengi nodded energetically in response to Sejun’s question.
Now that I think about it, Cuengi has never had any problems no matter what he eats…
Sejun suddenly felt confident that Cuengi would be fine.
“Just in case, let’s eat a few of these.”
Sejun fed Cuengi some Detoxifying Green Onions that Suppressed Deadly Poison, just to be safe.
A short while later,
Burp.
As Cuengi was eating his warmed-up locust stir-fry stew, he let out a small burp.
[You have gained 100 billion experience points, 50% of the experience points Advanced Herbalist Park Cuengi acquired.]
Necma was completely eradicated.
***
Purple Tower Administrator’s Area.
[All eight conditions for the Great Purple Tower’s growth have been met.]
[The Purple Tower has begun its transformation into the Great Purple Tower.]
The Purple Tower had started evolving into the Great Purple Tower.
And,
“Hahaha. As expected of our Sejun! Really fast.”
Tier was amazed at Sejun’s speed in accomplishing tasks.
However, this was a misunderstanding on Tier’s part.
Originally, it wasn’t yet time for the Purple Tower to evolve into the Great Purple Tower.
Out of the eight required conditions, only six had been fulfilled.
However, while Sejun was purifying Necma’s poison on the 66th floor of the Tower,
[Hehe! Take this nutritional supplement and grow into a World Tree quickly!]
Flamie, the World Tree Maker, who always supported Sejun, had secretly grown three World Trees inside the Purple Tower, fulfilling the condition for raising World Trees beyond the required amount.
“Puhuhut. Choba, you need to receive the seal, meow!”
“Yes…”
Thus, thanks to this, Theo stamped the Great Purple Tower’s legendary merchant, Choba, and once again increased the number of impeachment votes against the system.
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