Sprouts of the Calamity Spire
By @john1208
Tenam’s ordinary morning of brewing butter-tea and tending his terraced garden was violently interrupted when the Galdan Spire plummeted from the sky, swallowing his village and trapping his farm on the ninety-ninth floor. Worse, the disaster separated him from his fiancée, Zempa. Fiercely loyal and dangerously hot-tempered, Tenam refuses to die in a dungeon. He beats back nightmare beasts with a hoe, forces a legendary griffin into becoming his produce courier, and intimidates the terrifying floor boss into paying rent in legendary artifacts just to keep the peace. As he cultivates glowing crops to fund his descent into the Spire's depths, he inadvertently crashes the apocalyptic economy; outside the tower, frantic hunters form massive black markets just to trade for his magical lettuce. But Tenam doesn’t care about wealth or saving the wasteland. Armed with cherry tomatoes that explode like grenades, he descends to the Spire's core to rescue the woman he loves. However, as the hunters he accidentally empowered launch an assault on the dungeon's architect, Tenam realizes the truth. Will his harvest be enough to save Zempa when he discovers she is the very Dungeon Heart everyone is trying to destroy?
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