Solo Farming In The Tower-Chapter 717: Weaker Than Expected!

The Land of Destruction.

Oh.

Not interested.

Sejun wanted to tease, but... He must be curious!

No! He has to be curious!

Corruption’s murderous gaze fixed on Sejun, a silent rejection of his supposed indifference.

However, Sejun could sense the fear hidden within Corruption’s eyes.

It was like a hedgehog raising its quills to avoid being hurt.

So instead of teasing, he decided to play along.

“Oh! Really?! You’re finally going to tell me?! Hurry up and spill it! I’m dying to know!”

Exaggerating his excitement, Sejun matched Corruption’s rhythm.

And it was a perfect move.

If Sejun had chosen to tease instead?

Sejun really doesn’t want to meet me!

Nobody likes me!

Bweep!

Corruption would have slammed the door to his heart shut, wallowing in despair and once again attempting to destroy the world — this time, without holding back.

Just like before.

“Kekeke. I knew it.”

Despite his outward nonchalance, Corruption had secretly been worried that Sejun might say he wasn’t curious.

Whew.

That was a close one.

Internally, Corruption heaved a huge sigh of relief.

And then —

“I’m in the north...”

Corruption revealed his location to Sejun.

That’s going to be rough.

Sejun’s expression darkened slightly upon hearing Corruption’s words.

He’d thought he could meet him soon, but the distance was far greater than expected.

To reach Corruption, he would have to pass through the five walls known as the Walls of Destruction. Each wall was said to be a dense concentration of the Catastrophe’s energy.

And the distance between each wall was approximately 1,000 kilometers.

In other words, Sejun would have to break through five walls and traverse a grueling 5,000 kilometers.

For Sejun, who had just managed to explore the 5-kilometer radius around the waypoint, it was an arduous and seemingly insurmountable path.

If Corruption decided to come to Sejun, it would save him all that trouble. But Corruption was paralyzed by the fear that Sejun might reject ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ him.

If Sejun was an extroverted sunfish, then Corruption was the epitome of an introverted one.

Moreover, Corruption wanted to test Sejun’s resolve — to see if Sejun would endure such a challenge just to meet him.

Thud! Thump! Thud! Thump!

Corruption’s heart pounded anxiously as he watched Sejun’s darkened expression.

What if Sejun says it’s too far?

Should I maybe break a few walls for him?

What if he decides not to come?

“All right. Stay right where you are. But it might take some time.”

Contrary to Corruption’s fears, Sejun declared that he would come to him.

“Kekeke. Come if you can.”

Feigning indifference, Corruption said what he didn’t mean.

At that moment —

“Here, eat this.”

Sejun handed Corruption a basket filled with peanut chocolate balls, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.

And these are different from the last ones!

Corruption took a bite of the peanut chocolate ball that Sejun had given him and let out a gasp of admiration.

“How is it?”

Sejun asked, watching Corruption with a satisfied grin.

“What is this? It’s cold and hard, but so soft inside! And it’s delicious!”

Corruption’s voice quivered with excitement, unable to contain his emotions.

“Hehehe. This is the latest creation of Park Sejun — Peanut Chocolate Ice Cream. It’s made with Frost Peanuts, so it never melts at room temperature. Here’s how I made it — I coated the peanut ice cream with a chocolate shell and then...”

While Sejun excitedly explained the process —

Nom. Nom.

So good!

Corruption eagerly devoured the peanut chocolate ice cream.

Crunch.

The chocolate coating shattered, revealing the cold, creamy peanut ice cream inside.

And —

Crack.

The bits of peanut embedded in the ice cream crunched delightfully, adding texture and nuttiness.

Before he knew it —

“Huh?!”

The basket was empty.

“Hehehe. So, how was it?”

“It was... an amazing taste. So delicious...”

“Fufu. That’s because it was made by none other than me!”

Sejun boasted with a smug expression.

“Nya?! Chairman Park, what are you doing nya?! Your face is melting nya!”

“Kkyut?! Sejun-nim, fix your face right now!”

Squeak?!

[Butler?! Get a grip!]

Sejun’s companions hurriedly rushed to his side, surrounding him.

“You’re... weaker than expected!”

Corruption flinched as he watched Sejun’s body wobble.

Just now, he had seen Sejun’s body nearly collapse, as if his balance was about to completely break down.

That was close.

It’s a good thing we’re not meeting just yet.

At the same time, he felt a sense of relief that it would take Sejun some time to reach him.

He needed to weaken himself further.

A moment later —

“Take care.”

“Yeah.”

Corruption gave Sejun one last look before disappearing with a flash of light.

And a week passed.

***

Sejun woke up energetically as always.

As usual, he hunted Catastrophe beasts, had breakfast, visited the Tenth Tower and Kkamyeol Grand Star, then headed to the Temple of the Creator God.

Of course, today was no different — Queng was sent to work, and Bat-Bat and Kkamang were still asleep in bed.

Squeak!

[Butler! Today, the Great Kkamang will go with you too!]

Kkamang stubbornly insisted on following Sejun, refusing to sleep.

But after stuffing him full of food and giving his belly a good rub —

“Kihi... Kiroooong...”

He fell into a deep, peaceful sleep.

If Sejun drew the bedroom curtains to block out the sunlight, Kkamang would stay asleep for at least five hours without waking up.

“Hello.”

Upon arriving at the Temple of the Creator God, Sejun greeted Emilla and Amur.

“Oh! Sejun’s here! Give me some snacks!”

Amur jumped up and immediately demanded snacks.

“Here you go.”

Already prepared, Sejun quickly handed over some rice cakes, dried sweet potato slices, and corn.

“Park Sejun, we’ll head over first.”

“Got it.”

Sejun, Theo, and Iona followed Emilla and moved to the waypoint, crossing over to the Land of Destruction.

Meanwhile —

Knock, knock, knock.

Amur, holding the snacks Sejun had given him, lightly knocked on the Creator God’s door.

Since Sejun was present, Emilla had taken Sejun away first, allowing Amur to deliver the snacks in secret.

A moment later —

Creak... Creak...

The door opened slowly and cautiously.

“Snacks?”

The Creator God’s haggard face peeked out, eyes tired and hollow.

“Here they are.”

Amur handed over the snacks quietly, his voice equally subdued.

“Good. You did well.”

The Creator God accepted the snacks and quietly closed the door.

Good.

Nobody woke up.

The Creator God glanced at the peacefully sleeping children and sighed in relief.

But suddenly —

Flash.

Flash.

As if on cue, one child opened his eyes.

Flash.

Flash.

The moment one woke up, the others did too, as if they had made a secret pact.

And then —

“Gimme!”

“Gimme!”

“Gimme!”

Three little hands stretched out, demanding food.

Fortunately, Sejun had just given them more snacks in the Land of Destruction.

“Here.”

The Creator God handed out the snacks one by one to the children, feeling somewhat relieved.

But then —

“Not this!”

The child holding a rice cake suddenly shook his head in displeasure.

“Huh? What do you mean ‘not this’? Oh. The honey...”

It wasn’t there.

Sejun had forgotten to include the honey.

“Dip it in honey!”

“Just eat it today. I’ll give you honey later.”

“No! Dip it in honey! Right now!”

Thus, the Creator God found himself drenched in a cold sweat, desperately trying to soothe the fussy children.

***

“This is the Wall of Destruction?”

Whoa. It’s massive.

Sejun craned his neck, looking up at the towering, colossal, dark crimson wall that seemed to stretch endlessly into the sky.

After a week of relentless effort from the Catastrophe Pioneers, they had finally cleared a path far enough north to reach the first Wall of Destruction.

And now —

Huff. Huff. Huff.

All around, approximately one trillion Catastrophe Pioneers were tirelessly absorbing the Catastrophe’s energy.

And that number was drastically reduced due to the snake attacks. Originally, there had been far more.

In the past, the amount of Catastrophe energy that could be absorbed was limited, making it impossible for the Catastrophe Pioneers to multiply exponentially.

But this was the Land of Destruction — a place overflowing with the energy of Catastrophe.

The Catastrophe Pioneers absorbed the Catastrophe energy and spat out seeds rapidly. Sejun and the Catastrophe Pioneers diligently planted those seeds, and their numbers increased at an astonishing rate.

To be honest, there were more seeds than they had time to plant, resulting in a pile of unplanted seeds.

At that moment —

Squirm. Squirm.

Dark crimson snakes started to slither out from the walls of the Wall of Destruction.

They emerged to eliminate the Catastrophe Pioneers that were attached to the wall, absorbing its energy.

[Parasitic Snake of Corrupted Catastrophe]

Only the word “small” was removed from the descriptor, but the smallest of these snakes were over 10 meters long.

They were also 1.5 times thicker than before, and the largest of them stretched up to 30 meters.

“Nyan-nyan-nyan! Nyan-nyan-nyan!”

“Kkyut-kkyut-kkyut! Power of the meteor, fall upon my enemies! Meteor!”

But in the end, they were still just parasitic snakes. Theo and Iona easily dealt with them.

And then —

[The Luck Beneficiary of the Black Tower, Park Theo, has defeated a Parasitic Snake of Corrupted Catastrophe.]

[You have received 50% of the experience points that Park Theo gained — 50 million EXP.]

[The Guardian Iona has defeated a Parasitic Snake of Corrupted Catastrophe.]

···

..

.

[Congratulations.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have gained 10 bonus stats.]

···

..

.

Hehehe.

Sejun watched the battle from behind with a contented smile as he leveled up.

His level had now reached 233.

It was thanks to his consistent hunting at the Catastrophe Farm and the Land of Destruction every day.

While Sejun was celebrating his level-up —

Kyaa-kyaa!

[Sejun-nim, there’s no time to rest!]

The Catastrophe Pioneers urged him to keep planting seeds.

Even if they planted the seeds as quickly as they could, the seeds from the Catastrophe Pioneers were being produced at an even faster rate.

“Heh. Don’t worry.”

That’s why I brought this.

Sejun took out a single drop of the Elixir of Enhancement he had received from Hamer, the God of Agriculture, that morning and —

Drip.

He dropped it onto one of the Catastrophe Pioneer seeds.

[Catastrophe Pioneer Seed (+2)]

The Drop Tomato infused with Park Sejun’s magical power had mutated into a Mutant Drop Tomato due to the effects of the elixir. Then, after being corrupted by the Catastrophe’s power, it further evolved into the Flesh-Eating Pioneer Seed.

Now, purified by the Elixir of Enhancement, it had evolved into a new form.

It harbored an intense hatred for Catastrophe energy — even more than the Catastrophe Pioneers.

Though it could not directly absorb Catastrophe energy, it could plant the seeds of Catastrophe Pioneers to colonize the land instead.

It was also capable of combat.

However, it could not plant its own seeds.

For every one million Catastrophe Pioneer seeds it planted, it would produce two new seeds.

It had been enhanced twice using the Elixir of Enhancement.

Grade: SS

The options for the Catastrophe Pioneer Seed had changed.

However —

“Sigh.”

Sejun let out a deep sigh as he read the description.

The enhancement didn’t increase the planting speed or the number of seeds produced, as he had hoped.

Instead, it had increased its combat abilities.

Why did it have to be the combat option?!

And even then, it had only increased from “slight combat ability” to just “combat ability.”

It seemed practically useless.

The combat ability of the Catastrophe Pioneers was only strong enough to handle one or two Red Locusts at best.

The removal of “slight” didn’t seem to make much of a difference.

Plop.

Disappointed, Sejun planted the +2 Catastrophe Pioneer Seed.

Rustle.

The +2 Catastrophe Pioneer sprouted quickly.

Since the Creation energy produced by the Catastrophe Pioneers was being neutralized by the overwhelming Catastrophe energy, there was no gathered Creation energy to further enhance other Catastrophe Pioneer Seeds.

Thus, the +2 Catastrophe Pioneer stood alone as the first of its kind.

Swish!

Before Sejun could fully process it, the +2 Catastrophe Pioneer moved its roots with blinding speed, charging toward the Parasitic Snakes.

Slash. Slash.

It began slicing through the snakes with its sharp leaves.

This... is what the removal of “slight” did?!

Sejun stared in shock.

Meanwhile, ten thousand Catastrophe Pioneers surrounded the lone +2 Pioneer and —

Hork.

Hork.

They spat streams of Creation energy directly into it.

And then —

Kiii-kiii!

The Catastrophe Pioneers that absorbed the Creation energy began to evolve into +2 versions one by one.

As the +2 Catastrophe Pioneers joined the battle, Sejun’s expression darkened.

Even they...

Watching the Catastrophe Pioneers fight more effectively than himself, Sejun felt betrayed once again.

Three days later —

Rumble.

The first Wall of Destruction crumbled.