Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 20

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20
“Meow meow. So delicious, meow.”
One Churu stick that Anonymous 3861 had given.
Woojin tore off two Churus for Kkamangi.
The cat was eating them with great enthusiasm.
“Good?”
“Heavenly flavor, meow!”
“Hmm.”
Should I just taste one myself…?
Head shake.
What was I thinking?
Woojin left Kkamangi to his meal and headed toward a corner of the cave with the Subspace Backpack strapped on his back.
That isolated spot received no sunlight and was filled with cool air, so he’d been using it as a makeshift refrigerator, having placed the Cherry Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Pumpkin Sweet Potatoes there.
[Subspace Backpack]
[Stored Items]
– Tower Resistance Potato ×100
[Storing Tower Strength Pumpkin Sweet Potato in the Subspace Backpack.]
[Storing Tower Strength Pumpkin Sweet Potato…….]
[Storing Tower Mana Cherry Tomato in the Subspace Backpack.]
[Storing Tower Mana Cherry Tomato…….]
“Heh. Convenient indeed.”
He’d cleared everything out neatly.
By then, Kkamangi had finished his Churus too.
That’s when the Administrator Passage suddenly caught Woojin’s eye.
“…Hmm.”
“What’s wrong, meow?”
“Kkamangi. Is it okay if I bring something from another floor?”
Kkamangi’s expression turned skeptical—as if questioning whether this human had lost his mind.
It was only natural for Kkamangi as the administrator to react that way.
Woojin was Level 6.
The weakest in the Mythic Difficulty Tower.
Getting hit once by even a common mob on Floor 1 meant a one-way trip to the underworld.
Leaving Floor 99, his relatively safe haven, was extremely dangerous.
And bringing back items, no less.
What kind of reasoning was that?
“I’ve got this amazing backpack now—it’d be wasteful to just let it sit unused. I should fill it with whatever I can find. Is it against the rules?”
“…It’s not against the rules, meow. But if items from a floor disappear or get damaged, it’s the administrator’s job to restore them, meow. The original state must be preserved so the next adventurer can challenge it, meow.”
I see.
So the administrator had been handling all that behind-the-scenes maintenance of the Tower.
He hadn’t known that.
“But here’s the thing. Will there even be a ‘next’ adventurer coming?”
“…Meow?”
“Of course, if an extremely long time passes, who knows. But is any adventurer going to reach a Mythic Difficulty Tower in the next few months, or even years?”
“T-there shouldn’t be one, meow.”
The Mythic Difficulty was truly an abandoned Tower.
The administrator’s place of exile.
A space no one visits—or can visit.
Hell Difficulty was already publicly known as impossible to clear; reaching Mythic Difficulty seemed like something that wouldn’t happen even if heaven and earth were remade.
Which meant.
That he could turn the Tower upside down and leave it abandoned without any administrator complaining or any adventurer noticing.
“Then there’s no problem. Let’s go to Floor 97 first.”
“It’s still too dangerous, meow. You can’t, meow.”
“Why not. Boss Kkamangi. I’ve maxed out Stealth.”
“…Meow?”
Whoosh.
Woojin vanished completely from sight.
No scent lingered, and his shadow was gone as well.
Five seconds later, he reappeared.
“See? Safe enough for what I’m doing, right?”
…That probably wasn’t what the skill was designed for.
* * *
Woojin and Kkamangi entered the Administrator Passage.
The passage, developed to fit Kkamangi’s frame, was quite narrow in width and depth, but that posed no problem whatsoever.
“Earth Leveling, Earth Leveling!”
Crackle, crackle!
Since expansion work had already been completed up to Floor 98, he only needed to expand the passage down to Floor 97.
[Earth Leveling Level 4’s Proficiency increases slightly.]
[Earth Leveling Level 4’s Proficiency…….]
Leveling up the skill and accomplishing two things at once.
Thud!
Soon they reached the entrance to Floor 97.
A single wooden door.
The so-called Administrator’s door appeared before them.
“Chief. Open it.”
“But shouldn’t we find out what kind of place this is first?”
“Oh. Smart. Then let’s check it out.”
“…….”
Kkamangi started to pull out a manual, then stopped.
“But Woojin. Why did I become a chief?”
“Huh? Well…….”
No particular reason.
Woojin scratched his cheek.
Then he snapped his fingers with a crisp sound and smiled as he spoke.
“We’re part of the same team, after all.”
“Team……?”
“Looking forward to working with you, Chief Kkamangi.”
At the word “chief,” Kkamangi’s eyes gleamed with light.
His tail swished back and forth too, a clear sign he liked it.
“Are you a chief too, Woojin?”
“No, I’m the chairman. That’s one rank above chief.”
“I see! So Woojin is the chairman!”
Well, this was nice entertainment in its own small way.
Woojin shrugged his shoulders.
“Then I’ll check the information on Floor 97.”
“Okay, sounds good.”
Poof!
The manual appeared before Kkamangi.
“Floor 97, Floor 97… Here it is!”
The Administrator Manual.
A book containing the objectives for each floor of the tower.
Kkamangi licked his paw and turned the pages one by one.
[Floor 97 Objective]
– Defeat the Demon Sword (0/1)
“The Demon Sword?”
[Floor 97 Information]
– The pinnacle of all evil.
– A true demon god that causes even the Demon Kings themselves to tremble in fear.
– Its true form was none other than a single sword.
– (omitted)
– Having overcome countless hardships, you finally arrived at the Graveyard of Swords, where the Demon Sword lay slumbering. You dragged your exhausted body forward.
– These must be the swords of all the challengers who had attempted to face the Demon Sword until now.
– You could not rid yourself of the thought that this place might become your final grave, just as it had for the challengers before you.
– Yet despite this, you chose to proceed with the challenge.
– (Drawing the Demon Sword will begin combat.)
“Yowwwl! That sounds incredibly dangerous!”
“Yeah.”
Well, if this is Floor 97 of Mythic Difficulty, it’s practically the final boss.
The enemy seems worthy of that title.
To be honest, I can’t even gauge how strong it might be.
“Then we skip Floor 97 and head to Floor 96 instead… No, wait.”
Woojin fixed his attention on the final paragraph of the Floor 97 information.
Specifically, the phrase: “Combat begins when the Demon Sword is drawn.”
“So… I just have to avoid touching the Demon Sword?”
This might be safer than he’d thought.
Woojin stroked his chin, his calculations running to completion.
“All right. Kkamangi, boss. Open the door.”
“The Demon Sword must absolutely not be touched, meow! That’s the promise, meow!”
“Of course.”
[Using Administrator Key to open the Administrator Passage to Floor 97 of the Tower.]
Creak.
The door swung wide.
The landscape that unfolded before him brought to mind a cemetery at first glance.
The name “Graveyard of Swords” was no exaggeration.
Blades of every size were planted in the earth as if they marked graves instead of the bodies beneath them.
Above them hung a dark night sky, and a pale blue moon shed its spectral glow across the entire graveyard in ghostly half-light.
In the stillness of airless silence.
It was as if time had stopped here alone.
And in the highest position.
A single black blade standing upright, planted firm in the earthen ground.
Woojin could sense at once that this was the Demon Sword.
“W-Woojin! I think it’s better if we turn back, meow! It’s scary, meow!”
“All I have to do is not touch the Demon Sword, right?”
“W-well, that’s true, meow…….”
“The Tower wouldn’t give false information.”
The information provided upon reaching each floor always spoke only truth. Looking back on his experience working as a Tower administrator, he’d never once heard of a floor’s information being false.
He asked Kkamangi once more, just to be certain.
It was exactly as he’d understood.
Kkamangi nodded in confirmation.
“Then we’re fine.”
Woojin activated Stealth right away, just in case.
His body faded from view.
Even with Stealth active, the caster could still see his own body, so his sense of direction and balance remained unaffected.
It was truly a broken skill.
‘This is a gold mine.’
At a glance, there appeared to be over ten blades.
Woojin drew one of the nearest swords with a sharp metallic ring.
[Knight’s Longsword]
– Rank: C
– Effects
– Attack Power +15
– Strength +2
– Description: Standard longsword used by regular knights. While it possesses no special abilities, its superior balance and resistance to breakage make it a reliable weapon in actual combat.
“Hmm.”
C-Rank equipment.
This was quite good.
In Korea, C-Rank weapons were classified at the highest tier.
But wasn’t it a bit underwhelming for Mythic Difficulty?
He’d expected A-Rank weapons at least.
Either way, he’d keep it.
[Knight’s Longsword has been stored in the Subspace Backpack.]
.
.
.
Woojin farmed for approximately thirty minutes.
In total, he was able to acquire thirteen swords.
Their ranks were as follows:
– S-Rank: 1
– A-Rank: 4
– B-Rank: 6
– C-Rank: 2
“Hehe. This is absolutely incredible, isn’t it?”
Especially this S-Rank sword.
The options and performance are absolutely insane.
[Paladin Commander’s Sword]
– Rank: S
– Effects
– Attack Power +110
– Strength +30
– Health +50
– Attack Power +50% against targets using “Dark Magic”
– Description: A sword wielded by the Paladin Commander. It displays even greater power against demons and grants its owner unshakeable vitality.
Beyond that, there were also A-Rank swords like the Frost Wolf Sword and the Imperial Knight’s Sword. Being A-Rank, they had excellent options as well.
After gathering his haul, Woojin immediately stepped through the door and into the Administrator Passage.
Kkamangi, who had been pacing nervously back and forth, let out a long breath of relief.
“I thought my heart was going to jump out! But just how much did you gather anyway?”
“Got everything. Except the Demon Sword.”
“…Meow?”
“Look.”
When Woojin showed him the swords stored in the Subspace Backpack, Kkamangi’s eyes widened as if to say, “How do all these even exist?”
“I’ve farmed enough. Should we head back?”
* * *
Back on Floor 99, Woojin picked up the finest weapon—the Paladin Commander’s Sword—and swung it through the air experimentally.
[You have acquired Swordsmanship Level 1.]
“Ooh.”
“Surely you’re not planning to fight monsters with that?”
“Are you kidding? Have I lost my mind?”
That would be suicide.
Woojin had no intention of using these swords directly.
They would essentially become decorative items…….
“Or I could sell them and trade them for Coins.”
If S-Rank or A-Rank items were to appear in the Auction House?
Adventurers would surely come running with hunger in their eyes.
That’s when Woojin remembered Anonymous 3861.
The kindhearted adventurer who had endlessly showered him with Coins and items.
“…Hmm.”
Woojin picked up one of the A-Rank swords.
It was the Frost Wolf Sword, which had an option to freeze enemies by consuming Mana upon attack.
[You are requesting a chat with Anonymous 3861.]
[Anonymous 3861 has accepted your chat request.]
– Me: Sir
– Me: Would you like to use this?
Woojin opened a direct trade window and listed the Frost Wolf Sword.
Farming on a Dragon Rare (Serialized)
Author | Gaebeouk S
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