Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 39

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39
Twenty-six days since arriving at the tower.
“Rain Casting!”
Whoosh.
She condensed the rain clouds and let the water fall.
The carrot patch—roughly three hundred square feet—that she’d cleared and prepared two days ago.
Ever since yesterday, the first thing she did upon waking was water the carrot patch.
[Your proficiency with Rain Casting Lv. 2 has increased slightly.]
[Your proficiency with Rain Casting Lv. 2 has….]
[You have acquired Rain Casting Lv. 3.]
Exactly halfway.
After watering five hundred square feet of the carrot patch with Rain Casting,
she filled a watering can with lake water for the rest.
Woo Jin’s Magic Power reserves weren’t generous enough yet.
Still, there was nothing inconvenient about it.
If anything, it had become easier.
Originally she’d carried the watering can back and forth ten times; now she could cut that to once.
“Lulu-lu.”
Humming softly, she finished watering the remaining patch.
This morning,
fresh, cool Cherry Tomatoes.
They tasted good, boosted Magic Power, and were good for the body on an empty stomach.
Someone had called Cherry Tomatoes a superfood, and it seemed they were right.
Pop.
She pinched off the stem and popped the whole thing into her mouth.
The bright juice flooded her senses as she crunched down.
[Consuming Tower Cherry Tomato: Your Magic Power permanently increases by 0.01.]
[Magic Power recovery speed increases by 10% for 10 minutes.]
[Consuming Tower Cherry Tomato: Your Magic Power….]
Woo Jin logged into the community while eating Cherry Tomatoes.
Whenever she was bored, nothing beat this for killing time.
These days, the community’s main topic was the movements of Rankers from various nations.
– Rankers got their A-grade Weapons and all set new floor records in their current levels.
– They were stuck for a while, now they blew right through
– A-grade Weapons really do have good options
Their current records were as follows.
Ethan Coldwell, American Ranker.
Current record: Hard Difficulty Floor 34 → Floor 35
Li Wei, Chinese Ranker.
Current record: Hard Difficulty Floor 25 → Floor 26
Kamiya Ren, Japanese Ranker.
Current record: Hard Difficulty Floor 18 → Floor 19
And Kang Min-woo couldn’t be left out of the conversation.
In just a few days, Kang Min-woo had climbed from Hard Difficulty Floor 1 all the way to Floor 10, and pushed even further to Floor 15.
– Honestly, isn’t Kang Min-woo the hottest thing right now?
– He is, but what’s up with this insane pace
– Hail the great Min-woo!
– Wait, if he was gonna clear it this smoothly, why was he dragging his feet with the strategy all this time?
– Obviously because he got an A-grade Weapon this time.
– Didn’t Kang Min-woo get an A-grade Weapon though?
– The A-grade Weapon at auction went to Tower Three. Kang Min-woo didn’t participate.
– Wait, why didn’t Kang Min-woo participate? Isn’t that something he should’ve done?
– Fr
– Did he not have 100,000 Coins?
– Kang Min-woo doesn’t not have 100,000 Coins. Hard Difficulty just caps your carrying limit at 100,000—if the ceiling wasn’t broken, he’d have way more Coins.
– Such a shame. If he’d bid 100,000 Coins, he could’ve gotten it.
– Was it Anonymous 58,763? Seems like an adventurer from another continent. Would be nice if they opened another auction and let Kang Min-woo bid this time.
– Can Korea get one too ㅠㅠㅠ
Did they know.
That Kang Min-woo had secured an S-grade Weapon, not an A-grade.
He wisely never mentioned—internally or externally—that he’d received an S-grade Weapon from Woo Jin.
He closed the community forum.
Now that his belly was full, he decided to tidy up.
It was a matter of sweeping up the cherry tomato stems scattered on the ground and gathering them in one place.
“Woo Jin, let me do it meow!”
Just as Woo Jin was about to stand, Kkamangi came bounding over, collected all the cherry tomato stems, and tossed them into the pit that had been dug for composting.
“Ha. Thanks.”
“It’s only natural meow! Woo Jin, lie flat meow.”
“Why?”
“I’ll give you a massage meow!”
A soft sound escaped him.
Why was the cat suddenly acting like this?
In any case, since Kkamangi offered to give him a massage, Woo Jin lay down as instructed.
Bounce.
Press, press!
He felt a gentle pressure on his back.
Kkamangi was earnestly kneading him.
“How is it meow? Feeling better meow?”
Honestly, a cat’s massage wasn’t going to do much, but Woo Jin found the cat’s sincerity touching and chuckled softly, nodding his head.
“Looks like you’ve done some massage work before. This actually feels good.”
“Really meow? Hehe. Then I’ll keep going meow!”
“But why the sudden massage?”
“The Guild Master told me to take good care of you meow.”
“Huh?”
Though he didn’t fully understand the details, the Guild Master’s visit seemed to have ended well. The matter of Administrators not being allowed to provide benefits to specific Adventurers, and the consequence of losing Administrator status if caught, had apparently been swept under the rug.
In fact, the Guild Master had even made a point of asking him nicely, which suggested the Constellations—those beings called gods—had likely played a role behind the scenes.
“That’s enough massage for now. Thank you.”
“You don’t want any more meow?”
“No. That was nice.”
Pleased by the praise, Kkamangi opened his mouth in a wide grin and laughed, meowing happily.
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Two hours passed that way.
Woo Jin woke from a nap, rolling around, and ate a simple beef vegetable instant ramen cup (small) for lunch.
Slurp, slurp.
‘I’m used to eating this without kimchi.’
Shin Ramyun and other packaged noodle broths needed kimchi to taste right, but beef vegetable instant ramen cups didn’t really require it. In the first place, this was the kind of thing he often ate outdoors—more like a meal or snack.
He’d naturally eaten it often in environments without kimchi, and grown accustomed to it, so he didn’t really feel the need for kimchi anymore.
Of course, it tasted better eaten together with it.
[The Constellation of Adventure drinks every last drop of broth from the beef vegetable instant ramen cup, then cheerfully remarks that ramen is truly a wonderful thing.]
“Ha. You’re right.”
Besides, instant ramen cups were easy to clean up.
Wash the disposable container in water, stack them in one place, and set them in a corner. Done.
After a modest lunch, free time came again.
When he had nothing to do, an afternoon nap was best, but he’d already taken plenty of sleep that morning, so this time he decided to do something.
Maybe I’ll work on expanding the Manager’s passages.
As Woo Jin pondered for a moment, he descended through the passages toward the level with Floor 90.
He passed Floor 97, and was just about to pass Floor 96 when—
His feet stopped.
“Boss.”
“Meow?”
“What’s on Floor 96?”
“Wait a moment meow.”
Pop!
[Floor 96 Objective]
– Defeat the Death World Tree (0/1)
– This floor cannot yet be opened.
– Time until opening: 3 days remaining
“…What is this meow?”
“Why? What’s wrong?”
Woo Jin moved to the side and checked the manual together with Kkamangi.
There was an objective: defeat the Death World Tree. Beneath it, two lines of text in warning red—something written there.
“A floor that can’t be opened? There’s such a thing?”
“I’m seeing this for the first time too. I’ve never learned about anything like this.”
Rustle!
Kkamangi began flipping through the manual rapidly.
But he didn’t seem to find anything useful.
Normally, the best approach in situations like this was to leave well enough alone.
Woo Jin was about to do the same.
[Floor 96 Information]
– The World Tree, source of all life.
– A divine tree that has been regarded since primordial times as the great axis connecting sky and earth, life and Magic Power.
– Its roots are said to extend deep into the ground, drawing the world’s Magic Power upward, while its branches and leaves reach the ends of the sky, bestowing blessings upon countless lives.
– (omitted)
– The World Tree, attacked by Calamities, weakened beyond measure, yet its source of life did not extinguish, and the spark of hope seemed to remain.
– But in the end, even the World Tree could not escape the fate of death.
– The Calamities planted a Calamity Tree—one that blooms by feeding on death—at the World Tree’s side, and it embraced the World Tree, gnawing at its life, blooming with the power of death, growing ever larger.
– Thus the World Tree gradually withered, and the Calamity Tree was destined to become another World Tree, newly grown with the power of death.
– A Death World Tree, in other words.
“Hmm.”
So, that’s what this amounts to.
In three days, a Death World Tree will be born, by the sound of it.
Still in the process of ripening, apparently.
‘This isn’t good for me, is it?’
From the perspective of a farmer like Woo Jin, death was an ill thing.
Young shoots growing strong and bursting with life—that was good. But withering, decay—that wasn’t.
‘Let me just see what Floor 96 is like first.’
“Kkamangi, could you open the door to Floor 96?”
“But it says here it’s still a floor that can’t be opened.”
“I know, I know. I just want to take a quick look.”
“…Understood! The Guild Master said to take good care of you!”
“That’s the spirit.”
Kkamangi pulled out the Manager’s Key.
As usual, he went to insert it into the door and turn it.
But the doorknob wouldn’t turn.
[The Manager’s Key cannot be used.]
[This is a floor that has not yet been opened.]
“…That’s what it says.”
“Tsk. Nothing to be done then.”
Kkamangi tucked the Manager’s Key away again.
Thinking they’d head back down now, he moved to turn and leave, but when he glanced back at Woo Jin, who seemed to be standing still—
“W-Woo Jin. You’re not thinking—?”
Woo Jin had pulled out his shovel.
“No. There’s just something I want to check. I’ll fill the hole back in afterward.”
For what it’s worth, Woo Jin had never once actually filled in a hole he’d dug.
“Level the soil, level the soil!”
Scrape! Scrape!
The stone and earth beside the Floor 96 manager’s door came away smoothly.
After just a few good shovelfuls, the space beyond the door was exposed with startling ease.
And Woo Jin could see it.
An enormous black tree, brimming with an eerie, desolate aura.
Hummmmm.
The trunk of the black tree.
At a point slightly lower than Woo Jin’s height, he could feel an extremely faint pure white light shining softly.
He could sense that light was gradually diminishing.
“The World Tree must be dying inside that black tree.”
“S-seems like it.”
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“Tree Strike, Tree Strike!”
[Tree Strike Lv. 4 proficiency increases.]
[Tree Strike Lv. 4 proficiency increases…….]
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Inside the black wood, Woo Jin spotted a tiny seedling glowing softly with faint light.
And then.
Whoosh!
[World Tree on Verge of Destruction ×1 is stored in your Pocket Space Backpack.]
A Player Farming in Dragon’s Lair (Serialized)
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