Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 13

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13
The twelfth morning since arriving at the tower.
Woojin woke to warm sunlight on his face.
“Ahhhh.”
He’d slept well.
Turning his head slightly, he caught sight of Kkamangi curled up inside the Yukgaejang Box, fast asleep.
So much for complaining the place was dingy — the cat slept like a stone.
Zip.
He unzipped the Sleeping Bag and climbed out.
After slipping on his Slippers, he stretched lightly.
The Cave was cool, but it didn’t bite as sharply as it had before.
[Cold Resistance Lv. 1]
– Description: Slight adaptation to cold environments reduces the sensation of chill.
That skill was clearly doing most of the work.
And sure, there might be a minuscule edge from eating that Potato and raising his Resistance — or maybe not.
Without waking Kkamangi, Woojin moved between his planted crops to check on them.
He was especially curious about the Sweet Potato Seedlings he’d planted yesterday, so he headed straight toward them.
“Mm-mm. Growing nicely.”
Just yesterday, when he’d first planted them, the stems had been limp and drooping. Now, in a single night, they’d lifted their heads with fresh vigor.
The leaves that had lain helpless on the soil now stood firm and plump with moisture, their color deepening from pale to a richer shade of green.
According to his farming book — *You Can Do It Too! Your First Vegetable Garden* — Sweet Potato Seedlings planted in May would show new shoots roughly two weeks later.
But here in the tower, not only had new shoots appeared in a single day; the leaves were already sprouting with impressive vigor.
‘This is incredibly fast. I like it.’
At this rate, wouldn’t he be able to harvest tomorrow?
The farmer in his book had spent five months to harvest sweet potatoes, yet here in the tower he was already eyeing a harvest in just days.
“Meow.”
A sound came from behind. Turning, Woojin saw Kkamangi had emerged from the box and was stretching, his rear end thrust upward in that classic cat pose.
Their eyes met.
“Sleep well, Kkamangi?”
“Not bad,” the cat replied.
“So, not great either… I think I’ll have to toss that box after all.”
“W-what are you saying?! If you’re going to get rid of it, give it to me!”
Woojin laughed softly.
“Just joking. Anyway, aren’t you hungry?”
Kkamangi’s eyes lit up.
“Starving! I want some Churu!”
“No. Churu is a special treat.”
“You’re being so unfair!”
“But what do you usually eat?”
“Me?”
Kkamangi bolted toward the Manager Passage.
A moment later, the cat returned with something clamped in his jaws: a bag labeled “Large Manager Snack.”
‘No way.’
Woojin’s suspicion proved right.
The bag was full of what looked like cat kibble.
[Large Manager Snack]
– Category: Consumable
– Grade: F
– Description: A large-quantity snack provisioned for tower-assigned Managers. Flavorless, but provides satiation when consumed.
“You’ve been eating kibble this whole time?”
“That’s right.”
Well.
What was the difference between this and regular cat food at home?
Woojin picked up a single piece, brought it to his nose, and gave it a sniff.
He bit down and cracked it in half, then tasted a small piece.
“Absolutely flavorless.”
“It’s just for filling your stomach,” Kkamangi said.
“I see. Do all the other Managers eat nothing but this?”
“No. When your Manager Rank increases, you get better snacks,” Kkamangi said.
“Manager Rank? There’s such a thing? What’s yours?”
“I’m F-rank. The lowest there is.”
Kkamangi’s breath caught in his throat.
Because just yesterday.
– Wow! You must be incredibly capable!
– You were assigned solo to the highest difficulty? That means you’re exceptional, right?”
– Y-yes! I am the most skilled of all the managers!”
– I knew it. A manager of Mythic Difficulty—that’s impressive.
He’d said exactly that.
Kkamangi had forgotten all about lying to impress an unsuspecting adventurer and simply misspoke.
“Wait? But yesterday you said…….”
Watching Woojin’s tilted head, Kkamangi felt utterly pathetic.
“Meow meow.”
“W-why are you suddenly crying?”
“It was all a lie.”
“What was?”
“Sob. I didn’t say I was the most skilled. The truth is I was dead last. That’s why I’m F-rank. I’m sorry for lying.”
Woojin shrugged.
“Well, that can happen. Either way, there’s only one manager here anyway—you. Right?”
“That’s true! I swear it!”
“Then you’re number one among all managers to me.”
Kkamangi blinked.
In all his life, had anyone ever treated him with such kindness?
“Meooooow!”
“Why are you crying again?!”
Woojin patted Kkamangi’s back, and the crying stopped.
A real crybaby, this one.
“Thank you for saying that!”
“Let’s do our best together. Us.”
* * *
This morning’s meal.
He’d decided on some properly boiled potatoes.
It boosted resistance, tasted good, and killed two birds with one stone.
[You have prepared Boiled Potatoes using Cooking.]
[Cooking Level 2 proficiency has increased.]
He boiled three potatoes.
Two for me. One for Kkamangi.
Of course, if he said he wanted more, Woojin was ready to boil some.
Woojin peeled the skin and set the potato in front of Kkamangi.
The cat was no longer whining for Churu. He’d accepted that Churu was a special treat.
“What is this?”
“Boiled Potato. Try it. It’s delicious. Cats don’t eat potatoes?”
“…That’s not it—how does a potato give a resistance bonus?!”
[Boiled Potato]
– Rank: D
– Effects
– Taste Bonus +10%
– Upon consumption: Permanently increase all Resistance +0.002
– Description: A Tower potato boiled for maximum resistance. Warm and steaming.
Resistance held tremendous value in the Tower.
Here, resistance was survival itself.
Nearly all monsters possessed Attribute Damage, and high resistance reduced that damage.
That was why adventurers prioritized equipment items with high resistance stats when buying gear.
Beyond that, obtaining Resistance Skills like Fire Resistance or Cold Resistance would be a top priority—but pulling a Resistance skill book from the flood of skill books earned at a ten-percent rate per floor clear felt like winning the lottery.
And yet resistance.
Could be gained just by eating a potato?
The numbers were minuscule, certainly, but accumulated over time they became formidable.
That was why Kkamangi was so startled.
He’d never seen anything like it.
“I don’t know either. I planted potatoes and harvested them, and that’s what came out. I think it’s because I have the farming skills.”
“F-farming skills?”
The tower contained countless skills.
There were some non-combat skills among them, but farming skills too?
Thump!
He checked the Manager Manual.
There was a skill registry in there.
‘There are!’
Soil Leveling.
Seed Planting.
Harvesting.
These were skills that both adventurers and most managers ignored. When studying the manual, most people simply glossed over them as “such things exist” and moved on.
‘If you farm with farming skills, you can get things like that! But wait, how did this adventurer even obtain these skills?’
It made no sense.
To obtain a skill, you had to clear a floor.
From there, you gained a skill at a ten percent probability.
Woojin, who had been summoned to the tower and arrived at the Mythic Difficulty 99th Floor, naturally had never cleared a single floor, and it was normal for him to have no skills at all.
“Just wait a moment!”
Dash!
Kkamangi bolted toward the Manager Passage again.
This time, he brought back a small magnifying glass.
[Adventurer Status Window Magnifier]
– Classification: Manager Equipment
– Grade: S
– Effect: Allows you to peer at the status window of a designated adventurer.
– Description: One of the basic tools issued to managers stationed in the tower. Allows you to check an adventurer’s status window.
[Scanning the status window of Adventurer ‘Woojin’.]
There it is!
Your status window!
Name: Woojin
Level: 1
Attributes
– Strength: 3
– Agility: 3
– Stamina: 3
– Mana: 3.07
– Resistance: 0.022
Skills: Soil Leveling Lv. 3, Seed Planting Lv. 3, Harvesting Lv. 2, Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Cooking Lv. 2, Silent Footsteps Lv. 1, Fire Resistance Lv. 1, Dark Adaptation Lv. 1
Coins: 6,353
Difficulty: Mythic
Floor: 99
“What the—?!”
What is this?
“Eight skills? One, two… eight skills?!”
“Yeah.”
“How do you even have skills? And how did you raise the skill levels?!”
Woojin blinked.
“They just came naturally? I was surprised too. The skill levels went up pretty fast once I used them.”
Raising skill levels was incredibly difficult.
The levels barely rose. Most adventurers on Normal Difficulty had skill levels of 1, maybe 2 at most.
“Is it because you’re on Mythic Difficulty?”
Even Kkamangi couldn’t explain it any other way.
But he had never heard of the skill acquisition difficulty or proficiency differing based on tower difficulty.
“And why do you have so many Coins?”
“I sold crops to some anonymous adventurer.”
The more you looked at him, the more astounding and bewildering this adventurer seemed.
Then Kkamangi’s eyes caught a hole punched through the wall.
Not toward the Manager Passage—the opposite side.
He went to look.
“Oh my—!”
There was a Dragon Lord!
Kkamangi scrambled away in panic and plastered himself against Woojin’s back, trembling.
“Why?”
“The D-Dragon Lord is here, meow. Now that I think about it, Adventurer—how are you even alive, meow……?”
“Oh. We had a conversation a few days ago. He said he’d let me live as long as I don’t bother him. And he told me not to expect any help from him.”
Kkamangi blinked, as if he couldn’t believe it.
Whether it was incredible luck or extraordinary ability.
Either way, this Adventurer was remarkable.
A Player Farming on Dragon Rare (Serialized)
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