Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 26

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26
After obtaining a new set of farming tools, Woo Jin showed each item to the Doppelgänger one by one, explaining roughly what situations called for their use.
“Do you understand?”
(…….) A nod.
The Doppelgänger was sharp-minded.
It might have been because it already possessed farming-related skills, but having taught it the proper way to use the tools only once, it seemed to have grasped everything and acquired the knowledge completely.
“Well then, shall we get started?”
Potatoes.
Sweet potatoes.
Cherry tomatoes.
Expanding from the existing ten-pyeong plot to thirty pyeong for each crop.
They each took up a spade.
They began with the potato field first.
“Soil Leveling, Soil Leveling!”
Thump-thump!
[Soil Leveling Lv. 5 proficiency rises slightly.]
[Soil Leveling Lv. 5 proficiency…….]
Work that had taken him alone went much faster with two of them.
Moreover, when the Doppelgänger used the Soil Leveling skill, it counted toward his proficiency gains as well, which was excellent.
Woo Jin and the Doppelgänger leveled the soil from opposite directions, meeting in the middle.
Now that the field was prepared, it was time to plant the potatoes.
He needed seed potatoes.
There was no need to ask Kang Min-woo for them separately.
The potatoes he’d harvested before had become seed potatoes with time, so all he had to do was plant them.
Whoosh.
He pulled out the seed potatoes from his Subspace Backpack.
He set the Subspace Backpack on the ground, scooped with both hands, and scattered them across the soil with a soft patter-patter.
Seed potatoes that had sprouted green shoots filled the ground.
According to the book ‘You Can Do This Too! First Steps in Kitchen Gardening’:
The very top of the potato, where the shoots clustered thickly, was called the Eye, and the book instructed to cut downward from this point as the reference.
Snip, snip.
After cutting the seed potatoes with gardening shears, he finished preparing the expanded field’s ridges for planting.
He didn’t plant them immediately.
Before that, he took out a Compost Clump from his Subspace Backpack.
[Compost Clump]
– Grade: F
– Effects
– Soil Fertility +10%
– Crop Grade Elevation Chance +10%
– Description: Compost made from vegetable scraps and soil. Something good might happen when spread on a field.
“Hehehehe.”
Carrot and sweet potato peels.
Cherry tomato skins and stems.
After organizing various vegetables and scraps, he’d been burying the plant waste in a corner of the land.
He’d cover it with soil, mix it in, and repeat the process whenever new waste accumulated, mixing it with soil and covering again.
He’d been handling his waste disposal that way continuously.
[You have created a Compost Clump.]
[You have acquired Compost Making Lv. 1.]
[Compost Making Lv. 1]
– Description: You can create compost from various organic materials. Compost improves soil quality and supplies plants with necessary nutrients.
A skill had suddenly appeared like that.
That’s how the Compost Clump came to be made.
“Let’s spread the compost on the field before planting the seed potatoes.”
(…….) A nod.
Pat-pat-pat!
Done.
Compost spreading finished.
Now to begin planting the seed potatoes.
“Seed Planting, Seed Planting!”
[Seed Planting Lv. 4 proficiency rises slightly.]
[Seed Planting Lv. 4’s proficiency has…….]
After that, he filled the watering can with lake water.
The watering can had a large capacity, so it held about 10 liters.
Splash!
He brought the water over and began pouring it across the potato field.
Whoooosh…….
.
.
.
Thump!
“Phew. All done.”
The task of expanding the potato, sweet potato, and cherry tomato fields from ten pyeong each to thirty pyeong each was completed after three hours.
In reality, if he’d had to do all this alone, days would’ve easily slipped by, but with Doppelgänger working alongside him and both of them activating skills, they’d managed to finish in an impossibly short three hours.
“Good work, Doppelgänger.”
(…….) Nod!
‘Even so, if I take brief rests like this and pace myself, I’m not hitting that Exhaustion state.’
Exhaustion came calling when you burned through mana too suddenly.
Woo Jin, who’d passed out once before, was wearing the Leaf Mana Bracelet that boosted his mana by two, and he’d taken breaks whenever he felt even slightly dizzy.
What’s more, Doppelgänger himself had been monitoring Woo Jin’s condition and hadn’t been careless with skill use.
“You did great, meow!”
“Hungry? Let’s have lunch now.”
After farmwork, you had to eat.
What was lunch today?
Yukgaejang Cup Ramen (Small) — delicious anytime!
“Here we go. One ramen per person.”
He pulled out the box containing the Yukgaejang Cup Ramen (Small).
Inside the transparent plastic wrap were six Yukgaejang Cup Ramen (Small).
Glance.
Woo Jin looked up at the ceiling.
He wasn’t sure exactly where to look, but what Woo Jin was thinking about were the Constellations.
The Dragon Lord and the newly visible God of Adventure.
It was only natural that family should share, even if it was just a single bean.
“Um. Dragon Lord, would you like some Yukgaejang?”
[The Dragon Lord nods in agreement.]
Phew.
What would he have done if he hadn’t asked?
“Yes. But, um, God of Adventure? Are you here too?”
[The God of Adventure says he is here.]
“Would you like some Yukgaejang?”
[The God of Adventure asks what that is.]
Woo Jin casually held up a Yukgaejang Cup Ramen (Small) to show him.
[The God of Adventure says he doesn’t know what it is, but he wants to try it!]
“Sure.”
So he’d need to prepare five servings.
He poured water generously into the aluminum pot.
Fortunately, it held just enough water to heat five servings.
Click.
He set the aluminum pot on the gas burner and lit the flame.
While waiting for the water to boil, he peeled back the lids of the Yukgaejang Cup Ramen (Small) slightly and sprinkled the seasoning powder in with a shake.
A bright red powder giving off a spicy, salty aroma.
The pungent smell of MSG.
Absolutely perfect.
“Hum-hum-hum.”
“Woo Jin. You look very excited, meow.”
“Hehe. Of course. Today this isn’t just ordinary Yukgaejang.”
“Meow?”
Clink.
He pulled out a kimchi container — Kim Mi-suk’s own special brand — from his Subspace Backpack.
A beautiful head of kimchi.
He arranged it appetizingly on a hastily made wooden plate.
Yukgaejang Cup Ramen with kimchi.
To indulge in such luxury and extravagance……!
Bubble-bubble!
Once the water had come to a rolling boil, I quickly switched off the burner.
I carefully poured the hot water up to the marked line on the small Yukgaejang Cup Ramen package, then replaced the lid.
Sealing the opening with a wooden chopstick was essential.
Three minutes passed.
Woo Jin distributed the two completed cups of ramen first to the Constellations, along with the kimchi.
“Just peel back the lid and enjoy it with the kimchi.”
[The Dragon Lord nods and says he’s ready to eat.]
“Let’s eat! But what are you doing, Woo Jin?”
“This? Making a plate.”
I folded the lid in half.
Then folded it in half again.
Unfolding it revealed a completed plate.
“This way you can use it just like a regular plate.”
“That’s ingenious! Make one for me too!”
I placed a chopstick’s worth of noodles on the lid and ate.
The noodles slurped up smoothly.
A shallow pool of broth settled in the lid.
I naturally drank it down.
“Ahhh.”
“It tastes even better this way!”
[The God of Adventure takes a single chopstick’s bite, then opens his eyes wide and bursts out with an exclamation of wonder.]
This new Constellation seemed to like it.
Good.
Woo Jin now picked up the star of the show — the kimchi.
I wrapped a generous piece of kimchi around the ramen noodles and put it in my mouth in one go.
The salty tang of the ramen paired perfectly with the spicy crunch of the homemade kimchi. A taste any Korean would adore.
“Ahhh. This is it.”
I lifted the bowl and drank down the broth in one gulp.
The stamina I’d spent expanding the field recovered in an instant.
The warmth spreading through my stomach felt wonderful.
[The God of Adventure tries the ramen with the kimchi and opens his eyes wide, shouting that it’s genuinely insane.]
[The God of Adventure tells the Dragon Lord that he’s been eating something this delicious alone all this time — that’s betrayal!]
[The Dragon Lord sighs and mutters that of all the troublesome characters to get tangled up with, it had to be this one.]
Shortly after.
The pleasant lunch hour had ended.
“That was delicious.”
“That was delicious!”
(……) Thumbs up!
Everyone left not a single noodle, not a drop of broth.
We’d made a satisfying meal of it.
“…Well, shall we have some dessert?”
“Sounds good!”
Truth be told, I was still hungry.
What grown man gets full off one small cup of Yukgaejang Cup Ramen?
Maybe some do, but I certainly wasn’t one of them.
“But what are we eating?”
“Roasted sweet potatoes.”
Because the homemade kimchi had been so delicious I wanted more.
Kimchi and roasted sweet potato together were a match made in heaven.
Let’s just have one large one each.
I rummaged through the Subspace Backpack for the sweet potatoes I’d harvested beforehand, searching out the larger ones.
After brushing off the dirt clinging to them.
I lit the dry kindling ablaze and tossed the sweet potatoes directly into the burning embers.
Crackle!
Pop!
The sound of the sweet potatoes roasting.
At the same time, the sweet, fragrant aroma of roasted sweet potato began to drift throughout the Dragon Lair.
That smell—the one you’d catch drifting from street-corner roasted sweet potato stands whenever you passed one.
[You have made Roasted Sweet Potatoes through Cooking.]
[Your proficiency with Cooking Lv. 2 has increased.]
[You have acquired Cooking Lv. 3.]
[Roasted Sweet Potato]
– Grade: D
– Effects
– Taste Bonus +10%
– Upon consumption: Permanently increases Strength +0.002
– Description: A roasted sweet potato baked with the Tower’s power. Still warm to the touch.
I pulled out the kimchi I’d made once more.
I tore it into strips with my hands and laid them out on a plate.
“Here. Be careful—it’s hot.”
“Looks delicious, meow!”
White, honey-like liquid clung to the roasted sweet potato’s skin.
It had seeped out from inside the potato itself.
Once I peeled away the skin, bright golden flesh emerged.
Steam rising in lazy wisps.
“Here’s dessert. Please, have some.”
[The God of Adventure comes running over, takes the roasted sweet potato and kimchi, and says he’ll enjoy the meal.]
I placed a long strip of kimchi I’d torn on top of the roasted sweet potato and took a big bite.
The sweet, hot potato paired remarkably well with the cold homemade kimchi.
[The God of Adventure follows suit, eating the roasted sweet potato and kimchi together, then laughs with delight, saying this really is delicious.]
Day twenty inside the Tower.
A peaceful lunch hour.
A Player Farming in the Dragon Lair (Serialized)
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