The Spire Farm Fiasco
By @john1208
When I tripped over my own boots and fell face-first into the S-Rank Malagro Catacombs during my very public, very embarrassing Vetrano Hunters' Academy expulsion ceremony, everyone assumed I was dead. Instead, I found out the subterranean soil down in the abyss is absolutely sublime. So, I did what any reasonable guy with the 'Telluric Breath' soil-aeration skill would do: I started a vegetable garden. Now, my giant bloodthirsty Sanguine Dread-Lupine, Brambol, fetches the bones of fallen monsters like sticks, and the terrifying undead dungeon boss, Morzanto the Ashen, pays me rent in legendary artifacts just so I'll keep feeding him my magical cabbages. But my peaceful agricultural life is under threat. My hyper-healing lettuce has accidentally crashed the outside world's potion economy, sparking massive underground black markets. Worse, the Guildmaster keeps sending elite hit-squads to trample my crops for a surprisingly heartbreaking reason! Will I be able to harvest my impenetrable shield-pumpkins before the overzealous hunters ruin my farm, or will I have to unleash my golden-retriever-brained hellhound to defend my plot?
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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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