Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 100

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100
On the fifty-fourth day since arriving at the Tower.
Lee Woo-jin stood before the chili field at dawn.
The peppers he had left behind after harvesting only half as green chilies days ago.
The green peppers had ripened into red chilies now.
He plucked one Tower’s Immunity Red Chili cleanly away by hand.
[You have harvested a Tower’s Immunity Red Chili.]
[Harvesting Lv. 8 proficiency has risen marginally.]
[Tower’s Immunity Red Chili]
– Grade: C
– Effect
– Upon consumption, permanently grants +0.01% immunity to all status ailments
– Description: A Tower red chili cultivated by someone. Eating it should raise your immunity to status ailments ever so slightly.
There was no difference from the green peppers.
Of course, that held only for the effect.
What Lee Woo-jin was after was not the effect, but the pungent aroma and color of the red chilies that would become red chili powder and chili paste.
About to harvest right away—
“Wait.”
Lee Woo-jin pulled a glass jar of Sweet Red Bean Paste from his Subspace Backpack.
“Heh. Eating Sweet Red Bean Paste boosts skill proficiency growth rate.”
He spooned a small dollop of the sweet paste into his mouth and sealed the lid shut.
[You have consumed Sweet Red Bean Paste. For the next 30 minutes, skill proficiency growth rate increases by 20%.]
[When a skill levels up, there is a low chance the skill level will rise an additional time.]
With luck, one extra level-up!
Though he hadn’t expected much.
“Harvest, harvest!”
[You have harvested a Tower’s Immunity Red Chili.]
[You have harvested a Tower’s Immunity Red Chili……]
[Harvesting Lv. 8 proficiency has risen marginally……]
He picked only the ripest red chilies one by one.
He left those that still had a tinge of green untouched, harvesting only the brilliant red ones.
The Tower’s Immunity Red Chilies piled in the wooden basket gleamed under the sunlight.
It was then, as he was in the thick of harvesting the red chilies.
[You have acquired Harvesting Lv. 9.]
[Due to the Sweet Red Bean Paste effect, skill level has risen an additional time!]
[You have acquired Harvesting Lv. 10.]
Gasp!
Lee Woo-jin was startled.
It was supposed to be a low chance—how did it actually happen?
It felt like a small lottery had come in.
A broad grin spread across his face of its own accord.
But fortune did not stop there.
His skill level did not rise an additional time again.
Yet something even better happened.
[Conditions met.]
[Achievement – ‘Tower’s Intermediate Farmer’ has been accomplished.]
[As reward, you gain a large amount of Experience Points during farming activities.]
[You have acquired Sunlight Lv. 1.]
“What is this?”
Sunlight, of all things.
Lee Woo-jin blinked.
First, let me check the Intermediate Farmer title.
[Tower’s Intermediate Farmer]
– Category: Title
– Effect: Gain a large amount of Experience Points during farming activities
“This is good.”
For an Awakener in the Tower, the only means to raise one’s Level was by clearing the Tower.
Clearing the floor displayed in the current status window would raise Level by 1.
But because he could not clear the Tower’s Mythological Difficulty 99th Floor, he was a body unable to raise his Level through official means.
Thanks to the Intermediate Farmer title, he had gained Experience Points during farming activities, and through accumulating Experience Points bit by bit, he had reached Level 22.
As he leveled up, he noticed the Experience Points required were growing steeper, and his rate of advancement was slowing. He thought the Intermediate Farmer title might help bridge that gap.
Next came the Sunlight skill.
[Sunlight Lv. 1]
– Effect: Summons sunlight. Crops beneath the sunlight experience a 10 percent increase in growth speed.
He tried the skill at once.
“Sunlight!”
Pop.
A small sphere materialized in the air.
The sphere radiated brilliantly luminous light, yet gazing at it didn’t strain his eyes.
Hover.
Even when he pulled his hand away, it remained suspended. By channeling his will and Mana, he could shift its position, enlarge the sphere, or shrink it as he wished.
He wasn’t sure of the principle, but it felt as though he’d trapped sunlight inside the sphere.
The sphere’s membrane was transparent and could be reshaped and expanded to any size or form he desired.
When he stretched the membrane, the light dispersed proportionally but grew softer in intensity; conversely, when he compressed it, the illuminated area shrank but the light’s output became more intense.
[Sunlight Lv. 1 proficiency has increased.]
[Sunlight Lv. 2 has been acquired.]
If he placed this properly where the fields were located.
[Due to the Sunlight effect, crop growth speed increases.]
“Wow, this is excellent.”
The growth speed of crops he’d planted inside the Dragon Lair was already incomparable to reality, but now he could use the Sunlight skill to accelerate them even further if he wished.
There was another remarkable discovery.
If he compressed the sphere to a size smaller than a pinky nail.
Whoosh.
The condensed light released thermal energy, allowing him to use it like a portable lighter.
“This is seriously amazing.”
Until now, to start a fire with firewood, he’d had to take out the Gas Burner, use it to ignite straw as kindling, and then transfer the flame to the logs—but he no longer needed such elaborate steps.
Crackle.
Simply placing the Sunlight against dry wood allowed it to catch heat and ignite instantly. Of course, using straw alongside it would catch fire faster, but when he couldn’t be bothered, Sunlight alone would suffice.
[You gain Experience Points from harvesting.]
[You gain Experience Points from harv——.]
[Level has increased.]
As he finished harvesting the remaining red chili peppers, Experience Points surged so rapidly that he leveled up.
At this rate of growth, he figured he could reach Level 30 before long.
Together with Kkamangi and the Doppelganger, he spread the harvested red chili peppers in a spot where sunlight streamed down brightly and began drying them.
.
.
.
“Let’s see how they’re doing.”
After some time had passed, he inspected the state of the red chili peppers.
The once-glossy and firm peppers had dried well under the sunlight.
Surface moisture had evaporated, and the skin had wrinkled.
Now he needed to remove the stems and separate the seeds from the dried peppers.
He could simply grind them as he’d done before, but this time he wanted to make proper Tower’s Red Chili Powder.
Lee Woo-jin called over the Doppelganger, Kkamangi, and the Dungeon Mouse.
He could have done it alone, but there was something pleasant about working together like this.
Lee Woo-jin picked up one red chili pepper and pulled the stem.
Pop.
The withered stem came away easily.
The Doppelganger sat beside him and methodically removed stems from one pepper after another.
(……) Pluck.
(……) Pluck.
“The spicy smell is getting to me, friend.”
Kkamangi held a red chili in his front paws, sniffed it noisily, and continued the work with considerable fanfare.
The Dungeon Mouse grasped the dried pepper in his small front paws and carefully removed the stem.
– Crackle. (Getting all dried up.)
The destemmed dried red chili peppers accumulated in a wooden bowl.
“You’re all doing great.”
“Say, are we making spicy soup again today, friend?”
“Huh?”
“Last time, after we made the Red Chili Powder, you made and ate spicy soup, friend.”
Lee Woo-jin recalled the first time he’d discovered the Tower’s Immunity Red Chili and made red chili powder from it. Just as Kkamangi had said, he’d made spicy fish stew and eaten it then.
He’d caught rockfish from the Tower Sea, pulled them up, and eaten rockfish stew.
“That was pretty good too.”
“Spicy fish stew! That’s the best, meow!”
[The God of Adventure listened to their conversation, then broke into a wide grin and thrust both arms up in celebration.]
Removing the stems and separating the seeds from the dried red peppers took about thirty minutes.
Now it was time to grind them into powder.
He retrieved the Millstone and began feeding the dried peppers bit by bit through the top hole.
After breaking the dried red peppers into manageable pieces by hand and dropping them into the Millstone’s opening,
he grasped the handle and began turning it slowly.
Crunch, crunch…
The heavy stone rotated, crushing and grinding the dried peppers into powder.
At first, coarse fragments tumbled out. He gathered them up and fed them back into the Millstone, grinding again.
By repeating the process,
[Tower’s Red Chili Powder has been completed.]
[Your Craftsmanship Lv. 5 proficiency has increased slightly.]
[Tower’s Red Chili Powder]
– Grade: C
– Effect: Upon consumption, permanently grants +0.01% immunity to all status ailments
– Description: Red chili powder made by finely grinding the Tower’s Immunity Red Chili. It should add a savory and fiery kick to dishes.
“Red chili powder, complete!”
The red chili powder he’d made before now seemed unnecessary. It had no effects whatsoever, after all. This batch looked far superior in quality.
He poured the red chili powder into Lock and Lock Containers.
Was today’s lunch going to be rockfish stew?
Lee Woo-jin reflexively started toward the Fish Farm, then stopped short.
‘Right. I need to make chili paste.’
He’d forgotten something important.
The whole reason he’d harvested the red peppers in the first place was to make red chili powder, and even more so, chili paste.
‘With chili paste, I can make all kinds of different dishes.’
Like spicy rice cakes, for instance.
“…Oh!”
“What, what is it, meow?”
Kkamangi, who’d been following Lee Woo-jin, flinched and drew back in alarm.
“Spicy rice cakes! I could make and eat them, right?!”
– Squeak? (What is that thing, meow?)
“It’s a spicy, sweet rice cake. If injeolmi is a nutty-flavored rice cake, then spicy rice cakes have that fiery kick to them.”
Besides, spicy rice cakes suited lunch better.
Spicy fish stew was better saved for dinner.
“Spicy rice cakes for lunch, fish stew for dinner. Let’s do it that way.”
“Sounds good, meow!”
First, he needed to make chili paste.
Making it properly would’ve required many different ingredients, but Lee Woo-jin decided to just use whatever materials he had in the Tower.
‘For now, anyway.’
He gathered together ingredients that seemed adequate.
“I think this will do.”
Meju.
Red chili powder.
Honey.
Salt.
He vaguely remembered watching a video on YouTube once where someone added soda to it.
“Wait, was that ssamjang instead?”
Regardless.
Lee Woo-jin grabbed a few of the Meju that were drying nearby. Then he pulled out the honey.
“Oh, it’s all gone.”
He’d used up all the honey making Sweet Red Bean Paste and dipping it with the injeolmi.
Lee Woo-jin spoke to a Honeybee passing by.
“Honeybee, could you spare some honey for me?”
Bzzzzzz.
– Of course, Master!
– I’ve been saving up plenty for you!
Whirrrr.
The Honeybee flew toward the hive.
– The master needs honey!
– Everyone stop what you’re doing and prepare the honey!
– Heave-ho, heave-ho!
Lee Woo-jin received Honey from the Honeybees.
He had gathered all the ingredients he’d planned for. Now it was time to make the chili paste.
A Player Farming in the Dragon Lair (Serialized)
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