Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 12

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12
“Wow, Floor 98!”
A smile spread across Woojin’s face.
After being trapped on Floor 99 for over ten days, he had resigned himself to the grim certainty that he would spend his entire life confined to that floor.
But then he’d stumbled upon the Administrator Corridor by chance.
And when he spotted a doorway leading to Floor 98 instead of 99, he felt both wonder and delight.
That was when a rather brilliant idea struck him.
“Kkamang!”
“What is it?”
“Could there be Floor 97 below this?”
“That’s right.”
“So if I go down through the corridor, I could reach Floor 1?”
“Exactly.”
Just as I thought.
Woojin’s hunch had been spot on.
The Administrator Corridor that the Tower’s Administrator used to traverse connected from Floor 1 all the way to Floor 100.
“What if the corridor also connects to towers of different difficulties? Like, if I go down past Floor 1, could I reach Floor 100 of the Hell Difficulty tower?”
“That’s not possible. The corridor is sealed off down there.”
“Ah…”
Woojin smacked his lips.
His shoulders sagged slightly.
“What were you thinking?”
“I was considering tunneling down from Floor 99 of the Mythic Tower to Floor 1 of the Normal Difficulty tower, clearing that floor, and returning to Reality.”
Kkamang’s eyes narrowed to disapproving slits.
“I’ve never seen an Adventurer scheme so cunningly before! The Tower is designed with an honest system—climbing upward. You mustn’t defy the natural order of things!”
“Hey! By that logic, me being on Floor 99 in the first place is wrong!”
“That’s… well, I don’t fully understand that either. Besides, even if the Administrator Corridor does connect down to Floor 1 of the Normal tower, you would still need to Clear Floor 99 of the Mythic Tower to return to Reality.”
“What? What do you mean? I can Clear any floor and go back.”
The mission assigned on each floor.
In other words, once you complete the Objective, you receive the reward and return to Reality. An Adventurer who returns to Reality can re-enter the Tower and challenge the next floor they’ve already cleared.
Even if you enter a different floor through the Administrator Corridor, wouldn’t the same system apply? You’d receive an Objective, and upon completing it, you’d receive a reward and return to Reality—or so he’d naturally assumed.
But Woojin’s assumption was entirely wrong.
“Adventurer. Check your Status Window.”
Name: Lee Woojin
Level: 1
Stats
– Strength: 3
– Agility: 3
– Stamina: 3
– Mana: 3.07
– Resistance: 0.022
Skills: Soil Cultivation Lv. 3, Seed Planting Lv. 3, Harvesting Lv. 2, Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Cooking Lv. 2, Stealthy Step Lv. 1, Flame Resistance Lv. 1, Dark Adaptation Lv. 1
Coins: 6,353
Difficulty: Mythic
Floor: 99
“I see it.”
“Look at what your Difficulty and Floor are listed as. Isn’t it Mythic, Floor 99?”
“So what?”
“Your current Difficulty and Floor are your assigned Objective! If you go to a different Difficulty or Floor, you won’t receive any mission, and naturally you can’t Clear it either. And you definitely can’t return to Reality.”
Kkamang had expected Woojin to fall into profound despair.
An Adventurer trapped in the Tower.
The moment hope shattered, the psychological impact would be devastating.
He might never get up again.
He might even beg to be killed.
But Kkamang’s prediction was wrong.
“Well, that’s a shame then.”
“…That’s it?”
“What do you mean?”
“I thought you’d be devastated and fall into despair.”
“Why would I?”
“I thought escape might be possible, but I didn’t realize it was impossible. Of course you’re frustrated.”
Woojin clicked his tongue.
“Then we just eat well and live well here. Sitting around won’t do anything but make us cold and hungry!”
Kkamang was flabbergasted.
What was this? This absurdly positive attitude?
Even Kkamang, an Administrator assigned to the Mythic Tower, had struggled immensely after the assignment—shock, loneliness, despair weighing on him—so seeing a Level 1 Adventurer display such optimism was utterly bewildering.
“But what’s on Floor 98?”
“I can tell you…….”
Kkamang’s mouth snapped shut mid-sentence.
If he said he couldn’t tell, there was a ninety-nine percent chance this Adventurer would say something like “Then I guess you won’t be getting any more treats.”
Besides, there were no other Administrators here.
Only two of them in the corridor.
Pop!
The Administrator Manual materialized before Kkamang.
“Hold on.”
The Administrator Manual contained the objectives for each floor of the tower.
Kkamang wet his paw with saliva and flipped through the pages one by one.
Woojin casually moved to the side to take a look.
[Floor 98 Objective]
– Eliminate the Doppelganger (0/1)
“Doppelganger? You mean that thing that looks exactly like me?”
“Do you know about Doppelgangers?”
“Roughly. A person who looks exactly like me—same face, height, weight. There’s also a joke that says you die if you meet one.”
Kkamang confirmed what he knew about Doppelgangers.
Normally, an Administrator should have committed to memory all the objectives of each floor, the monsters that appeared, the traps—everything memorized and internalized. But he hadn’t.
He’d never expected an Adventurer to show up in a Mythic Difficulty tower.
[Floor 98 Information]
– You have transcended countless trials and tribulations to reach superhuman heights.
– It seems there is no one left who can stand in your way.
– You have grown stronger through victories against all the monsters and powerful foes that once blocked your path, becoming a truly unique existence.
– What if a dragon appeared? A dragon “Lord,” even?
– Just kidding! A dragon Lord will not appear on this floor!
– However, depending on circumstances, an opponent far more difficult than a dragon Lord may have materialized.
– The “Doppelganger,” known as the Shadow King, can copy and use all the Stats and Skills you have accumulated so far.
– I wish you luck.
“Monsters like that exist? Interesting.”
“It’s terrifying! Didn’t you read the information?”
“I did. But I don’t think it’ll be that scary. Can I just go in and take a look?”
Kkamang shook his head vigorously.
“Something’s wrong with your head. If you go in, Adventurer, you’ll die instantly! Once the Doppelganger copies your abilities and Skills…….”
He trailed off.
Come to think of it, this Adventurer hadn’t climbed up through Normal, Hard, Hell, and Mythic difficulties in sequence—he’d arrived directly on Floor 99 of the Mythic Tower.
Kkamang didn’t have the scanning item to check the Adventurer’s status—he’d left it in the storage—but if he had to guess roughly.
Obviously, the level was 1.
The average of his Strength, Agility, Vitality, and Mana Stats was 3.
Obviously he had no Skills.
“Pffft! You’re pathetic.”
“What did you say? Pathetic? Even so, isn’t that pretty harsh?”
“It’s not wrong though, is it?”
“Well. You’re not wrong.”
A typical Adventurer who had climbed to Floor 98 on Mythic Difficulty would have.
A level of 398—a monster of a person.
Paired with incredibly high Stats and numerous combat Skills, covered entirely in S-rank equipment.
If that kind of Adventurer’s Stats and Skills were copied outright, for the Adventurer challenging Floor 98 it would be pure “catastrophe”—but if Woojin’s current state were copied?
There was nothing dangerous about it at all.
Kkamang pulled out the Administrator Key.
[Using the Administrator Key to open the Floor 98 Administrator door of the tower.]
Screeeeak.
The door opened.
What came into view was a plaza.
A plaza neither particularly wide nor narrow.
To put it in perspective, about the size of a school athletics field.
There stood a single rippling shadow of black.
Kkamang entered first. The Doppelganger acknowledged Kkamang’s presence but showed no hostility.
Step.
Woojin planted a foot forward and crossed into the plaza.
At once, the Doppelganger’s gaze turned toward Woojin.
[The Doppelganger recognizes you.]
[The Doppelganger scans your Status Window.]
[The Doppelganger copies your abilities.]
Height and build began to shift.
Looking at nothing but the shadow-like silhouette, it was Woojin’s spitting image.
And then.
[Doppelganger][Lv. 1]
At the sight of the completed Doppelganger’s level and stats, Kkamang burst into laughter—*pffft! puh-huh-huh!*
The Doppelganger dropped into a fighting stance and began rushing toward Woojin. Just an ordinary adult man’s running speed.
Thud-thud-thud!
Woojin didn’t fight back.
“Kkamang, let’s go!”
“You’re not going to fight?”
“We could get hurt.”
Woojin was already outside the open Administrator door.
Kkamang followed and stepped into the corridor.
Woojin tried to shut the Administrator door immediately.
[You cannot move the Administrator door.]
“Oh no! Kkamang, close this!”
“It’s fine.”
The Doppelganger made no further advance.
The door hung open.
As though an invisible transparent barrier existed there, the Doppelganger simply could not enter the Administrator Corridor.
“Oh. So it can’t come through here?”
“Only Administrators can use the Administrator Corridor.”
“Then what am I?”
…….
That’s what I’d like to know too.
* * *
They returned to Floor 99 of the tower.
This time, not alone, but two of them.
Or more precisely, Floor 99 currently held ‘three’ beings in existence.
Kkamang blinked at the sight of Floor 99’s environment.
A field where vegetables were growing.
A Sleeping Bag lying on the floor.
Miscellaneous items piled in one corner.
It was obvious at a glance that Woojin had made this place his ‘home.’
“I’ve never seen an Adventurer like you!”
“I’ve never even seen another Adventurer besides myself.”
Woojin brought out the small Box where he kept the Yuk Gae Jang Cup Ramen (Small).
“Here.”
“What’s this?”
“There’s nowhere to sit on the floor. You can rest in here when you need to.”
“Eek! Me, go into such a shabby place?!”
“You don’t like it, fine.”
Woojin crawled into the Sleeping Bag to rest.
Kkamang considered heading back to the Administrator Corridor, but instead tried the Box.
“……!”
Kkamang’s eyes went wide—(O_O).
A Box just snug enough to press gently against the body.
And that reassuring feeling of being enclosed on all sides.
Body heat warming inside the Box.
Though it had the appearance of burlap,
The Box was more comfortable than any high-end cushion could ever be!
Crackle-crackle-crack.
Crackle-crackle…
Kkamang, tasting comfort and ease for the first time in his life, naturally closed his eyes.
A Player Farming in the Dragon Rare (Serialized)
Author | Gaebyeok S
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