Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 19

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19
Meanwhile, while Kkamangi went to submit his report.
Woo Jin was showing the Doppelgänger around the field.
Currently, Woo Jin had planted five different crops in total.
Potato.
Sweet Potato.
Cherry Tomato.
These three crops had already been harvested and were being eaten well, while the Lettuce and Perilla Leaf were growing robustly.
The Lettuce and Perilla Leaf beds were each five pyeong in size.
The Lettuce had just grown past the tender-leaf stage, its pale-green leaves layered thickly, clinging close to the ground.
Each individual plant was beginning to take on a proper form.
Though the hearts weren’t yet tightly packed, palm-sized leaves were spreading in a rounded shape, already taking on a distinctly lettuce-like appearance.
The Perilla Leaf was much the same.
The stems were still thin but stood straight, and the opposing leaves had already acquired the characteristic broad shape of Perilla Leaf.
The size was just slightly smaller than an adult’s palm.
The leaf veins were crisp, and the green hue was deeper than that of the Lettuce.
It seemed as though the distinctive peppery aroma of Perilla Leaf was already subtly beginning to emerge.
It was the sort of sight you’d expect to see in a real vegetable garden about two weeks after planting—by tomorrow, it seemed, he’d be able to harvest the Lettuce and Perilla Leaf.
“Seeing that Lettuce and Perilla Leaf makes me want some grilled pork belly.”
A piece of perfectly cooked pork belly wrapped in Lettuce and Perilla Leaf, eaten with aged kimchi—it would be absolutely perfect. Woo Jin’s mouth began to water at the thought.
‘I wonder how Mother’s doing.’
He found himself missing Kim Mi Sook’s kimchi.
Ever since he’d started living alone while working as a civil servant, he visited the Family Home only once every few months, and each time he’d bring back a box of kimchi.
Each visit, he’d eat steamed pork with freshly made kimchi at the Family Home.
And then back in his Rental Room, he’d have spicy ramen with aged kimchi.
And as time passed and the kimchi ripened, he’d boil kimchi stew, or grill pork belly with aged kimchi…
He let out a small sigh.
He wiped away the drool that had begun to gather at the corner of his mouth.
“……?” Tilt.
“Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about something else.”
Woo Jin had brought a book with him.
It was a single volume written by a farmer—a lifeline of knowledge for Woo Jin, who didn’t know the first thing about farming.
【You Can Do It Too! Your First Steps in Vegetable Gardening】
“It’s good to read through this. I haven’t finished it myself yet, but at least I’ve skimmed the sections about the crops I planted.”
“…….” Nod.
“Good. Read it when you have time, and in the meantime, let’s dig up some Potatoes.”
The Potato field from which he’d harvested several days before.
The sprouting Potatoes left over from that harvest had been cut up and replanted as seed Potatoes.
Since then, the Potato field had changed noticeably once again.
The stems that had emerged above the ridges had now grown to just below knee height, their leaves broad and a deep verdant green, spreading densely across the ground.
The Potato’s characteristic round, thick leaves overlapped with one another, nearly concealing the soil beneath.
New leaves continued to push up in places, and the soil beneath the now-thickened stems had begun to swell slightly.
Deep in that soil below, well-formed Potatoes would surely be layered one upon another.
“First, watch what I do, all right?”
“…….” Nod.
Woo Jin picked up the Hoe that had been propped against one side of the field and crouched down in front of what looked like the most promising stem.
He lightly jabbed the tip of the Hoe into the soil beside the ridge and applied pressure through his wrist to lift the earth slightly.
Soft.
The sensation of gentle, easy digging.
“Harvest!”
Crack!
As the skill activated, the soil that should have been hard crumbled apart as smoothly as well-tilled earth. Centered around where the Hoe’s tip had entered, the clumped soil broke apart evenly, and obstacles like pebbles or stubborn roots naturally shifted out of the way.
Woo Jin set down the Hoe and gripped the lower part of the stem with his hand. Then he pulled upward, carefully and not too forcefully.
Crack-crunch.
With the sound of soil splitting, the entire stem came up in one piece. Beneath it hung clusters of light-brown Potatoes, each the size of a fist, covered thickly with soil.
[The Proficiency of Harvest Lv. 3 increases.]
[The Proficiency of Harvest Lv. 3 incre…….]
[You have obtained a Tower-Resistant Potato.]
[You have obtained a Tower-Resistant Potato…….]
“You saw that, right?”
Woo Jin lifted the stem laden with potatoes and held it up for inspection. The Doppelgänger approached silently, tilting his head slightly as he gazed down at the tubers.
When Woo Jin handed over the hoe, the Doppelgänger began harvesting the potatoes in earnest, moving just as Woo Jin had done.
Crunch!
Snap!
[Harvest Lv. 3 proficiency has increased.]
[Harvest Lv. 4 acquired.]
Woo Jin blinked.
The Doppelgänger had unearthed the potatoes cleanly, just as Woo Jin had.
But that wasn’t what had surprised him.
The Harvest skill’s proficiency had risen and the skill level had advanced!
“Good heavens.”
He was helping with farm work and the Doppelgänger was raising his skill proficiency at the same time?
Had he ever seen such a wonderfully insane companion?!
“Doppelgänger, you’re absolutely the best.”
(…….) Embarrassed.
At Woo Jin’s praise, the Doppelgänger scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

Delighted, Woo Jin threw himself into harvesting potatoes alongside the Doppelgänger, and the moment he pulled up the last one—
‘Huh?’
The world began to spin.
[Insufficient Mana. Doppelgänger Summoning has been deactivated.]
* * *
Tap, tap.
Something was striking his cheek.
Woo Jin’s eyes fluttered open.
“Woo Jin! Wake up! Get it together, meow!”
Kkamangi was launching a barrage of kitty punches.
Pink jellied paw pads flashed across his vision, disappearing and reappearing.
Woo Jin caught one of the flying paws.
“You’re awake, meow?!”
“Yeah. I blacked out for a moment.”
“What happened, meow?”
“I think I collapsed from running out of Mana.”
So he was actually experiencing this firsthand.
Woo Jin rubbed his cheek.
‘They said Awakers suffer severe exhaustion if they burn through their Mana too quickly, and in extreme cases, they lose consciousness.’
The technical term was Overheat.
It usually referred to an engine overheating, but among Awakers it had become widely used to describe the state of depletion and exhaustion that came from draining one’s Mana completely.
In any case.
‘The Doppelgänger was dismissed.’
With the Doppelgänger Summoning skill.
The summoning itself didn’t consume any Mana, but when the summoned Doppelgänger used skills or took action, it seemed to draw from Woo Jin’s Mana as his original body.
“Hup.”
He pushed himself upright.
“How’d things go at the Association?”
At the question, Kkamangi’s tail shot up and began to sway, as if he’d been waiting for it. His eyes were sparkling so brightly that it was clear something good had happened.
“Wait—did they say they’d let me out?”
“No, meow. I mentioned it to the Association Chief, but he said it’s impossible, meow.”
“Tch. What a bummer.”
There was nothing for it.
He hadn’t really expected it anyway.
“But you look like you’re in a good mood?”
“Hehe. It shows, meow? Then I have no choice but to tell you! This humble self has received one Association Point from the Chief, meow!”
Association Point?
Was it something like a gold star sticker for good behavior?
“What’s so good about getting that?”
“With this, you can buy items at the Administrator Shop, meow. Hehe. I haven’t actually used it yet myself, so this is touching, meow.”
The Administrator Shop was apparently something like a general store where items used by Managers were sold.
[Administrator Shop]
– Weapons
– Armor
– Consumables
– Miscellaneous
– Skills
Beyond weapons and armor, there were all manner of items available.
Skills were being sold here too—that was something new.
Kkamangi began browsing alongside him.
“Wow.”
Weapons and armor were at minimum Grade B.
And even Grade S existed!
So this was a real rank that actually existed.
In the Auction House where Awakers bought and sold items among themselves, most goods were Grade E level, with the occasional Grade C or B item appearing for sale.
By contrast, everything registered in the Administrator Shop was Grade B at minimum.
What was rare—only accessible to Awakers climbing Hard Difficulty or the wealthy elite—became mundane inventory in the Administrator Shop.
That was when it happened.
Woo Jin’s eye caught on something exceptional.
[Administrator’s Dimensional Backpack]
– Grade: B
– Description: A backpack with a dimensional space inside allows storage of items. Items kept in the dimensional space do not decay and are preserved indefinitely.
– Price: 1p
“Wow! This is amazing!”
“Meow?”
“You can put unlimited items in the backpack! And it has preservation built in!”
This was only Grade B?
In Woo Jin’s assessment, this item deserved to be rated Grade S.
“Meow… well, it’s not a bad item, meow. It performed well when I was working as an Administrator, and most managers have one, meow.”
“Do you have one?”
“I don’t, meow. I just earned this 1p from the shop, meow.”
“I see.”
Kkamangi let out an amused chuckle.
“It’s not something I need anyway, meow. I don’t carry heavy loads, and there’s only one Adventurer in this tower—you, meow. There’s no need for a backpack, meow.”
“Is there any way I could use this?”
“Well… there are no equip restrictions, so you could use it, meow.”
“Then buy it for me, and I’ll give you Churu in return.”
Kkamangi’s expression turned incredulous.
An Administrator’s backpack being used by an Adventurer?
He’d never heard of such a thing.
Moreover, an Adventurer using Administrator equipment was cheating.
If an Administrator provided benefits to a specific Adventurer, it meant losing Administrator status.
But there was no point in worrying about that now.
There was no one watching.
And certainly no Administrator would enter Mythic Difficulty.
Besides, this 1p was something Woo Jin had earned himself upon entering the tower.
So he had a stake in it too.
“…Fine, meow! But you absolutely have to give me Churu, meow!”
“I promise.”
“Good, meow!”
[You spend 1p to purchase the Administrator’s Dimensional Backpack.]
Poof.
A travel-style backpack fell from thin air.
Woo Jin unzipped the backpack.
When he reached his hand inside, he felt it sink down endlessly.
“Amazing!”
As a test, he put in one hundred Potatoes.
All one hundred Potatoes fit inside without issue!
“Incredible!”
He zipped it closed and fastened the dimensional backpack onto his back.
The backpack shrank to fit Woo Jin’s frame perfectly.
Even more surprising was how feather-light it felt.
“Hehe. This is perfect.”
* * *
At that moment.
Kang Min Woo received a chat message from Woo Jin.
– Woo Jin: Hey
– Woo Jin: Could I get one Churu, please?
“…Why does he keep asking for Churu?”
Farming in a Dragon Rare Dungeon (Serialized)
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