Chapter 1. Where I am I ?

"Haa…tired…tired."

A monthly salary of less than 2 million won. There, he saved up 12 million won by putting 1 million won a month into an installment savings account by paying rent and student loans and saving living expenses. It was a large amount, but it fell far short of Sejun's goal.

"Phew. So, when do you buy tickets? Will I be able to live?"

Sejun sighed at the vague goal.

A 99-story black tower suddenly appeared in the middle of Gangnam, Seoul 10 years ago. The tower had geometric patterns and a structure that defied the laws of physics.

100 such towers were created simultaneously in various cities around the world. Each country investigated the towers that appeared in its territory, but did not get much income.

The information they found is that the tower is 990m high, made of a material so strong that even a nuclear bomb cannot pierce it, and there is no door to the inside anywhere in the tower.

In that situation, people suddenly started coming out of the tower one by one. They came out naturally through the walls of the tower.

Investigators quickly identified them and found that the people who had emerged from the tower had recently disappeared suddenly.

"How did you get into the tower?"

In response to the investigators' question, they said that they did not go in, but were sucked into a black hole, and when they came to their senses, it was the first floor of the tower.

Information about the tower began to be released by the people who came out of the tower.

-100 towers are connected as one.

-When you enter the tower, you will awaken and have a job between a wizard and a warrior.

-There are monsters from the 2nd floor of the tower, and as the floor goes up, the monsters get stronger.

– You can get a reward every time you clear a floor, and the higher the floor, the better the reward. However, there is no reward for clearing a cleared floor again.

No one knew the purpose of the tower. But one thing is for sure, climbing the tower is money. Items obtained in the tower were sold on Earth for a high price.

Among those items was a ticket. Tickets are one of the main sources of money for Awakeners, and when you clear a floor, there is a high probability that one or more tickets will come out.

Those who have already awakened do not need a ticket to enter and leave the tower. However, ordinary people can enter the tower if they have a ticket.

And when you enter the tower, you awaken and become qualified to climb the tower. Therefore, the ticket price was not cheap and it was not easy to obtain.

In the case of Korea, the Korean Awakened Association purchased and sold tickets for hunters in bulk.

The price is 150 million won per sheet. There are many people looking for it, and news is coming out that it will rise to 200 million won after a week. There are hundreds of people waiting to pay in advance to buy tickets.

'I can't give up!'

And when the news of Geumpa Patek began to appear uncommon these days, Sejun made a big decision.

Let's grow crops at home!

How to tighten your belt even more. Well, I didn't mean to grow great things, but to save living expenses, I was thinking of buying and growing some things that grow well on their own as long as they are watered.

'I have to do it right away from today.'

On the way home after buying green onions and a few other things at the mart.

"Hee hee hee…"

Sejun hummed.

It was because of the expectation that if I grow fruits and vegetables at home in the future, I will be able to save a lot of food expenses and eat vegetables and fruits to my heart's content.

'I'm saving money like this to buy a ticket and enter the tower. And by earning a lot of money at the tower, with our Sera…'

"Hehehe…"

Sera is a member of Korea's top girl group Moonlight Fairy. In a word, it was Sejun's own delusion.

As Sejun was delusional and laughing, a black hole appeared in the air in front of him with its mouth open.

And

whoops.

started sucking in the surroundings.

"uh?! This…!"

Sejun was very surprised to find a black hole that he could not see from the other side.

'It's vanishing!'

Vanishing is a phenomenon of being invited to the top, and all the first Awakeners are through vanishing…

Anyway, this is a luck that is harder than winning the lottery!

come and go

Sejun hurriedly sent a message to his family. It was because of the worry that if he disappeared without a word, his family would find him.

When I finished sending the message like that,

'why am I still here?'

Even if he had been sucked into the hole, he should have been sucked in a long time ago…

Sejun kept staring at the black hole while waiting for him to be taken away. However, the suction power of the hole showed no sign of getting stronger.

"Come on, take me. uh! what? Why are you getting smaller?!"

Even the hole was closing.

'no! my future! Sarah!!!'

Sejun made up his mind. Pioneering the future.

"okay! I'm coming!"

Sejun ran into the hole. Sejun disappeared into the black darkness.

***

"Where are we?"

As soon as Sejun came out of the hole, he realized something was wrong. It was very different from the information on the first floor of the tower he had heard.

I heard that on the first floor of the tower, colorful chandelier lights illuminate the surroundings, the floor is covered with white marble, and there are shops selling equipment and potions in the large square, as well as a training center where you can learn the skills of warriors and wizards.

However, this place was a cave made of rocks, let alone a shop or a training center.

If there is anything similar to the first floor of the tower, it is wide.

Fortunately, there is no fancy chandelier lighting, but there is a ray of sunlight coming through a hole in the ceiling of the cave.

'Let's find an exit for now.'

Sejun looked around and started looking for a place to go.

The first place to go is the hole in the ceiling of the cave. However, going up the wall to the ceiling hole in the arched cave seemed impossible unless it was Spider-Man.

'Let's find another place.'

Sejun set the bag down on the rock and explored the cave.

After a while.

"What's so wide…"

The cave was vastly wider than expected. The sun did not reach the end of the cave, so it was almost impossible to see.

"I have to save it…"

Sejun had no choice but to turn on the flash on his smartphone and continued exploring the cave.

3 hours later.

The cave exploration is over. The cave was a cavity completely closed on all sides. I checked each and every one of the rocks to see if there were gaps or weak points to escape from, but there was no place to escape.

"There's no exit…Am I in distress?"

Sejun trudged back to the place where the sun was shining under the hole in the ceiling of the cave, muttering

as

if he had lost

his mind. !!!"

Sejun shouted at the hole in the ceiling of the cave with his last breath,

but

"Hey~ there's someone!"

Sejun's desperate cry couldn't get out of the hole and only lingered inside the cave

.

Sejun shouted at his throat, but nothing, let alone a person, passed near the hole.

"Damn it. There are people here!!!"

Puck!

Sejun couldn't hold back his anger and kicked the ground for no reason. A day passed like that. The

second day of distress.

[May 11th, 6:00 am]

Beep Beep Beep Beep.

The alarm I had set for work went off

. .."

After

waking up from an uncomfortable bed

, Sejun struggled to open his eyes and turned off the alarm on his smartphone. "There

are

people here!"

Only Sejun's cry was reflected on the damp rocks and returned as a gloomy echo.

Rumbling.

Sejun's stomach rumbled. Although he was very worried, he had to eat right now and live.

"Ugh… I'm really hungry."

Come to think of it, I haven't eaten anything since I got off work.

'Shall we eat something?'

Sejun found a flat rock and sat down.

and

rustle.

I took out an apple from the bag I put down. It was a washing apology given by the motive of the office.

'thanks. Min Jun.'

Sejun decided to repay his classmate Minjun with sweet and sour pork if he left this place. It's not that Min-junie likes sweet and sour pork, but she wanted to eat sweet and sour pork with jajangmyeon.

So, Sejun decided to serve sweet and sour pork to Minjun, tore off the apple's plastic wrap and took a big bite of the apple.

crunchy

The sweet and sour juice of the apple occupied my mouth.

'It's so delicious!'

Hunger arose uncontrollably as my appetite turned.

Crunchy. Crunchy.

Sejun ate the apple like crazy.

"ah."

I looked at the remaining apple stems and seeds with a blank face. The quantity was too short.

puck puck.

Sejun roughly dug the ground with his feet and buried the apple seed and stem together.

Then he started to take out things from the bag.

500ml bottled water that I brought with me after eating on my laptop and in the office.

Green onions, cherry tomatoes, and pumpkin sweet potatoes I bought to grow at home.

"One, two, three…"

Sejun started counting the cherry tomatoes in the plastic containers. It was to accurately grasp the food they had.

27 cherry tomatoes, 10 green onions, 7 pumpkin sweet potatoes.

I planted all the green onions, planted 3 cherry tomatoes and 2 pumpkin sweet potatoes, and left the rest for food.

Cherry tomatoes have a lot of seeds inside, so you can plant a lot even if you only have three. And sweet potatoes… I couldn't plant many of them because I could take care of carbohydrates among the food I had.

'First, fill your stomach more.'

Podeudeuk. Podeudeuk.

Sejun washed one sweet potato and five cherry tomatoes in the pond.

Fortunately, there was a small pond in one corner of the cave. Because drinking water can solve it.

'It would have been nice if there were even fish…'

There were no creatures the size of a small killifish in the pond. Come to think of it, there were no small animals like bugs or mice in the cave at all.

Sejun would be terrified if he saw insects or mice, so he should have liked things that weren't there, but it was a pity that there weren't any. In movies, I have seen many scenes where people eat bugs or mice when they have nothing to eat.

'If I really run out of food, I have to eat at least that.'

Of course, it's best to get out of here before the food runs out.

Agjak.

As I chewed the sweet potato, all my thoughts disappeared with a cheerful sound. Now was the time to focus on sweet potatoes.

munching.

it's good! The more you chew, the more the sweetness comes out, and it was much more delicious than I thought. I always eat it steamed or grilled, but sometimes I think it's okay to eat it raw.

"Now let's go to work."

After eating one sweet potato and five cherry tomatoes, Sejun picked the green onion first.

and

pududeuk.

I broke the green onion at about a third of the way from the root, tore off the green leaves, and set them aside on the ground.

'I'll have to eat later.'

It wouldn't taste good, but you might have to eat it to live.

Sejun buried the white part with the root of the green onion in the ground where the sun came in and the soil was soft.

Then, two pumpkin sweet potatoes were planted on the left side of the green onion and cherry tomatoes were planted on the right side.

Pumpkin sweet potatoes were just buried in the ground one by one, and cherry tomatoes were planted with seeds that flowed out of the crusher.

kap kap.

Sejun approached the pond, sucking the tomato juice from his hand. Then, he poured pond water into a 500mL bottled water bottle and sufficiently moistened the land where the crops were planted.

When the work was finished, Sejun lay down on a rock and looked up at the ceiling, waiting for someone to pass by. There was no food, so I reduced energy consumption as much as possible and sometimes shouted, 'There are people here!'

But no one passed.

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep

[6:00 am on May 12th]

It was the 3rd day of the disaster.

One day, a mysterious tower suddenly appeared in the city. The people decided to call it a dungeon, and while it was full of rugged terrain and dangerous monsters, it was also a land of opportunity, where countless treasures awaited. When Sejun, a young man living an ordinary life, is invited to the dungeon by chance, he is thrilled at the prospect of becoming rich, but he is stranded in a hidden area of the mysterious tower. All he has is a few seeds and his body. Now Sejun must farm, collect resources, and figure out his own survival strategy!

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