Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 35

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35
“Rain Casting!”
Whoosh.
The moment he invoked the skill, real rain fell where he’d cast it.
A small rain cloud materialized in the air, and precipitation poured from it.
The water was remarkably clean.
It seemed pure enough to drink, like water from a mountain lake.
[Rain Casting Lv. 1 proficiency has increased.]
[Rain Casting Lv. 2 acquired.]
I can actually make it rain.
Woo Jin was riding high on the thought that he’d become a genuine mage when his vision suddenly went dark.
“Ugh.”
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.
Thud.
His forehead was ice-cold.
“Woo Jin! Are you okay?!”
As Kkamangi’s voice grew clearer, his vision began returning. He realized his stomach felt heavy because Kkamangi had climbed onto his torso and was performing chest compressions with determined vigor.
“What are you doing?”
“CPR!”
Watching the tiny pink jelly perform chest compressions with its small gel pads was both absurd and hilarious.
A wet, cold cloth lay across his forehead, water dripping down his face—the Doppelganger was tending to him with a compress.
“Hah. Rain Casting must consume enormous amounts of mana.”
He’d been cautious about Overheat earlier, but after acquiring the new skill and drunk on excitement, he’d carelessly exhausted his mana without noticing.
[Accessing Auction House.]
[Current Coins held: 285,033]
[Intermediate Mana Potion purchased for 500 Coins.]
[Intermediate Mana Potion]
– Grade: B
– Effect: Upon consumption, Mana Recovery Speed +50% for 60 minutes
– Description: A magical potion that dramatically increases mana recovery speed.
Blue liquid in a glass bottle reminiscent of a transparent energy drink.
Pop.
He uncorked it and downed it on the spot.
As his throat bobbed with each gulp, a refreshing minty coolness spread through his entire body like an electric surge.
“Wow. That’s incredibly refreshing.”
His mana rose perceptibly faster than normal, flooding back in.
Woo Jin felt his condition recovering rapidly and pushed himself to his feet.
“Thank you, you two.”
After thanking the Doppelganger and Kkamangi for the cool compress and their efforts at revival, he headed back to the Potato Field.
The harvest was still incomplete.
After confirming his mana had fully recovered in short order, he resumed harvesting.
“Harvest, harvest!”
[Tower Resistance Potato harvested.]
[Experience gained from cultivating Tower Resistance Potato.]
[Experience gained from cultivating Tower Resistance Potato…….]
The total count of harvested potatoes came to roughly one thousand.
If he ate them all?
His total Resistance would climb by a full ten points!
Resistance is an enormously important stat in the Tower.
Because it reduces incoming damage.
Adventurers generally value Defense and Resistance more highly than raw Attack power.
What good is high Attack power if you’re dead?
In any case.
One thousand potatoes, Grade D to Grade C.
Plus a new skill: Rain Casting.
Rain Casting in particular seemed versatile for Tower exploration, and the prospect lifted his spirits.
“Heh. If I had enough mana, I could even use this for showering.”
Woo Jin’s current setup mirrored the old-fashioned public bathhouse method.
He was showering by scooping up lake water with a wooden basin and pouring it over himself where he sat.
It was pleasant enough, though sometimes he thought it would be nice to stand and let the water from a showerhead wash over him, the way he used to at home.
“Good. Let’s keep harvesting!”
Next came the sweet potatoes.
[You harvest a Tower Strength Sweet Potato.]
[Your proficiency with Harvest Lv. 5 increases.]
[Your proficiency with Harvest Lv. 5 increases…….]
[You gain experience from cultivating Tower Strength Sweet Potatoes.]
[You gain experience from cultivating Tower Strength Sweet Potatoes…….]
[Your level has risen to 11.]
[You have cultivated a Tower Strength Sweet Potato whose grade has risen through the effects of compost and Harvest.]
[Tower Strength Sweet Potato]
– Grade: C
– Effect
– Upon consumption, permanently increases Strength +0.01
– Description: A Tower sweet potato cultivated by someone. Eating it should make you slightly stronger.
“Hehehehe.”
He couldn’t help but laugh.
A sweet potato that boosted Strength by 0.01 with each one eaten.
And his level had risen to 11 on top of it.
He had 2 Ability Points left to spend.
Woo Jin invested them all into Mana.
This brought his Mana to 7.43.
Adding the 2 Mana from the Leaf Bracelet, his effective Mana became 9.43.
But what about the cherry tomatoes?
Eager to continue, Woo Jin immediately harvested the cherry tomatoes and checked their properties—and his jaw dropped.
“This is unbelievable.”
[Tower Mana Cherry Tomato]
– Grade: C
– Effect
– Upon consumption, permanently increases Mana +0.01
– Upon consumption, increases Mana recovery speed +10% for 10 minutes
– Description: A Tower cherry tomato cultivated by someone. Eating it will temporarily increase your Mana recovery speed and raise your Mana.
Mana recovery speed—it had that option.
* * *
For adventurers climbing the Tower, Mana Management was an exceptionally critical concern.
Each time an adventurer cleared a floor, they had only a 10 percent chance of obtaining a Skill Book.
Using a Skill Book granted you a skill.
Of course, using a skill required Mana.
Passive skills existed that consumed no Mana, but if an adventurer obtained an attack skill that did consume Mana, how they distributed their resources became absolutely vital.
– In a situation where Mana is depleted, you must treat it as though you have no skills at all.
This was a piece of advice openly shared among adventurers.
More than mere advice—it was an essential survival rule.
Adventurers who had undergone Awakening and could climb the Tower often failed to obtain skills in the early, lower floors, and while the fortunate might acquire one below the tenth floor, on average they acquired their first skill around the tenth floor or so.
An excited adventurer who carelessly spammed skills against monsters would rapidly drain their Mana, and once depleted, a severe sense of exhaustion would wash over them—in extreme cases, they would even lose consciousness.
The Tower Management Bureau called this condition Overheat.
If an adventurer entered an Overheat state while fighting a monster, they faced a very real risk of finding themselves in grave danger, so adventurers had to avoid Overheat at all costs.
In recent years, strategy guides and precautions had become far more readily available than in the past, and when newly Awakened individuals registered with the Tower Management Bureau as adventurers, the Bureau would educate them on essential matters, so instances of Overheat had become quite rare.
But as one climbed the Tower, moments came when one had to spam skills out of necessity. To prepare for such a possibility, adventurers made sure to carry at least one Mana potion.
Drinking a Mana potion would allow you to use a skill twelve or thirteen times in the same duration where you could normally use it ten times.
But there was a problem: Mana potions, like health potions, were extremely expensive.
A potion that increased Mana recovery speed by 10 percent for sixty minutes cost only 100 Coin.
For inexperienced adventurers in particular, that was definitely a steep price.
Yet to survive, they gritted their teeth and scraped together enough Coin to buy and carry at least one Mana potion.
“Increased Mana recovery speed” was an option so rare and precious that it commanded such a price.
“This is incredible.”
[You harvest a Tower Mana Cherry Tomato.]
[Your proficiency with Harvest Lv. 5 increases.]
[Your proficiency with Harvest Lv. 5 increases…….]
[You gain experience from cultivating Tower Mana Cherry Tomatoes.]
[By cultivating Tower Mana Cherry Tomatoes, experience gained…….]
[Level has risen to 12.]
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Pop!
Pop!
[By consuming Tower Mana Cherry Tomatoes, Mana permanently increases by 0.01.]
[For 10 minutes, Mana recovery speed increases by 10%.]
To the hardworking go the spoils.
Woo Jin sat with his companions, munching cherry tomatoes as a snack to quench his thirst and quiet his hunger.
Tart and refreshing, the cherry tomato’s flesh burst clean on the tongue.
With the grade improved, the flavor seemed cleaner and sharper than before.
“Mmm.”
Woo Jin downed twenty cherry tomatoes in one sitting.
His Mana shot up by 0.2 in an instant.
“At this rate, I’m going to become ridiculously strong, aren’t I?”
“Heh.”
“What, you laughing at me?”
“It was so funny I couldn’t hold it back, meow. In technical terms, that’s force majeure, meow.”
“No treats for three days.”
“No, wait, I’m joking, meow! Woo Jin will definitely become incredibly strong, meow! I, Kkamangi, guarantee it, meow!”
Woo Jin took a sip of water and rinsed his mouth.
Suddenly he thought of Kang Min Woo.
Wonder what he’s up to.
He opened a chat window.
– Me: Guild Master.
– Me: What are you doing?
– Kang Min Woo: Hello! Woo Jin! I’m just about to attempt Hard Floor 12!
– Me: I see.
– Me: Do you need any Intermediate Mana Potions?
– Kang Min Woo: Mana potions? I have plenty of those!
Right.
The top-ranked player in South Korea would naturally carry Mana Potions in abundance.
– Kang Min Woo: But, if I may ask… why do you ask?
– Me: Oh, nothing much. I just harvested some cherry tomatoes, and they have an option that increases Mana recovery speed, so I thought I’d share some with you.
– Kang Min Woo: …Really?
– Me: Would you like them?
– Kang Min Woo: Would it… be all right if I took a look…?
[Tower Mana Cherry Tomato ×1 has been registered.]
A brief silence fell.
– Kang Min Woo: These are really amazing?!
– Me: They taste good too.
[Tower Mana Cherry Tomato ×100 has been registered.]
[The trade has been completed.]
– Me: Good luck on Floor 12!
– Kang Min Woo: Thank you so much!
Woo Jin broke into a pleased smile.
Twenty-three days since arriving at the Tower.
Farming was becoming more and more enjoyable.
A Farmer on Dragon Rare (Serialized)
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