Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 52

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52
By afternoon, Lee Woo-jin decided it was time to start harvesting the Welsh onions and vitality onions.
“We’re harvesting now?”
“Yes.”
“But they look so alike!”
“They do. Maybe it’s because they’re both onion-like vegetables?”
Generally speaking, the Welsh onions Lee Woo-jin knew were the long, green stick-like vegetables used when chopping scallions into ramen alongside a cracked egg,
while onions were round, pale, and had a pungent aroma.
They looked different in appearance, certainly, but now that harvest time had come, the onions growing in the field had the same elongated green leaves stretching upward in tangled profusion as the Welsh onions.
In any case, he started with the Welsh onions first.
“Doppelgänger. Let’s go.”
(……) Nod.
Lee Woo-jin took his position at the edge of the Welsh onion patch.
Green leaves stretched upward in long, slender stalks.
He grasped a thick-looking Welsh onion and pulled sharply upward.
Slip.
The earth cracked slightly as the long white stem came free in one piece.
Fine rootlets clustered densely at the base, and a faint, pungent aroma rose from the Welsh onion.
[You have harvested a Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onion.]
[Your Harvesting Level 5 proficiency has increased slightly.]
[Your Experience Points have increased from cultivating Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onions.]
[Your Experience Points have increased from cultivating Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onions…….]
[Your Level has risen to 14.]
[You have cultivated Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onions whose rank has risen due to the effects of Compost Clumps and Harvesting.]
[Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onion]
– Rank: C
– Effect: When combined with other crops to create dishes, multiplies the effects of the existing crops by 1.5x.
– Description: A Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onion cultivated by someone. It seems like it would be nice to have the Cooking skill.
“Wow, this is great.”
And he meant it—genuinely great.
Honestly, Welsh onions went into so many dishes that he would have used them without hesitation regardless of their effects.
But a 1.5x multiplier on existing crop effects?
For example, if he stir-fried a Vitality Carrot that raised stamina by 0.01 together with it, that stir-fried dish would become a dish that raised stamina by 0.015.
“Harvest, harvest!”
[You have harvested Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onions…….]
Energized, he harvested Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onions enthusiastically.
Of course, the patch was only about ten pyeong in size, but the quantity was more than enough for his small household (if you could call it that) to live off comfortably.
“I feel secure now.”
Looking at the Tower’s Strengthened Welsh Onions stacked densely in his Dimensional Storage Backpack, his heart felt full.
Welsh onions were especially one of the ingredients Kim Mi-sook used frequently—she could use them almost every single day—so he wondered how delighted she would be when he brought her a whole bunch.
– What a filial son our boy is! Hehe!
At the imagined sight of Kim Mi-sook laughing, Lee Woo-jin’s shoulders lifted involuntarily.
“Ahem!”
“Woo-jin, did something good happen?”
“Ahem. It’s nothing. Let’s harvest the onions now!”
Doppelgänger was already waiting in front of the onion patch.
Grip.
Lee Woo-jin grasped what looked like a sturdy onion leaf and pulled upward with force.
Crack.
The earth shifted as a round onion bulb came free entirely.
The top looked like the Welsh onion, but the bottom was the onion he knew.
The skin was a pale brown, and fine rootlets clustered densely at the base.
[You have harvested a Tower’s Vitality Onion.]
[Your Harvesting Level 5 proficiency has increased slightly.]
[Your Experience Points have increased from cultivating Tower’s Vitality Onions.]
[Your Experience Points have increased from cultivating Tower’s Vitality Onions…….]
[You have cultivated Tower’s Vitality Onions whose rank has risen due to the effects of Compost Clumps and Harvesting.]
[Tower’s Vitality Onion]
– Rank: C
– Effect: Upon consumption, Strength and Stamina +10% for 60 minutes.
– Description: A Tower onion cultivated by someone. Eating it improves vitality.
“Seriously? Strength and stamina go up by ten percent?”
Of course, it wasn’t a permanent increase—the effect only lasted sixty minutes—but even so, this was more than decent.
And there was more.
If I listed these in the Auction House, they’d likely be quite popular.
True, eating raw onions wouldn’t be pleasant, and yes, I’d have to tolerate the smell lingering in my mouth, but receiving a buff that raised strength and stamina by ten percent for sixty minutes would be worth the sacrifice.
‘I should harvest these in bulk later and put them up for sale.’
But first.
– Me: Guild Master.
– Me: Are you busy?
– Kang Min-woo: Not at all! I’m quite free, actually. Is there something you’d like me to do?
– Me: No, nothing like that. Do you happen to like onions?
– Kang Min-woo: Onions?
– Kang Min-woo: I’m quite fond of them, yes!
Lee Woo-jin decided to give the onion to Kang Min-woo.
But that wasn’t all—he listed some other items that looked promising in terms of efficiency in the Trading Window.
[Registering Carrot Juice ×1.]
[Registering Tower’s Magic Drop Tomato ×1.]
[Registering Tower’s Vitality Onion ×1.]
Kang Min-woo, examining the effects of the items through the Trading Window, let out a genuine exclamation of admiration.
Take the Carrot Juice, for instance.
A permanent increase of 0.01 to stamina wasn’t much from Kang Min-woo’s perspective. Neither was a ten percent boost to stamina recovery speed for thirty minutes.
But to gain both effects from drinking a single bottle of Carrot Juice was an entirely different matter.
And then there was the Tower’s Magic Drop Tomato.
Previously, eating one tomato at a time would raise Magic Power by 0.001.
Considering that you’d need to eat a thousand of them just to raise Magic Power by 1, the efficiency was abysmal.
The only advantage was that they tasted good.
But if eating one tomato now raised Magic Power by 0.01 instead?
That was an entirely different story.
Eating fifty a day would raise Magic Power by 0.5.
After two days, Magic Power would increase by 1.
What if he ate the tomatoes consistently for two hundred days?
By simple calculation, Magic Power would rise by 100.
Finally, the Tower’s Vitality Onion.
The other vegetables had their merits too, but the Vitality Onion was particularly exceptional.
A ten percent increase to strength and stamina for sixty minutes.
Kang Min-woo’s current strength was slightly over 100 when accounting for all bonuses from equipment and other effects.
Of course, he’d need to verify whether the ten percent boost applied to the total strength—including bonuses from items—but if it did, eating a single onion would increase his strength stat by more than 10.
A difference of 10 in strength at the Tower was enormous.
The formula for physical damage against monsters might vary by floor, but for ordinary monsters, the calculation was nearly universal.
Strength + Attack Power – Defense = Physical Damage
Suppose an ordinary monster’s defense was 100.
And suppose my strength was 50 and my attack power was 50.
Then the physical damage dealt to that ordinary monster would be 0.
No matter how many times I attacked, the blows wouldn’t connect.
But what if strength increased by 10?
Then the physical damage would become 10.
Of course, if I landed a hit on a Critical Point, or if a Critical Hit triggered due to Critical Hit Rate effects, a different formula would apply—but in ordinary circumstances, the calculation remained as stated.
– Me: Would you like to have these?
– Kang Min-woo: Really? Truly?
– Me: Of course. You’re protecting the country, after all—this much is the least I can do.
[Registering Carrot Juice ×10.]
[Registering Tower’s Magic Drop Tomato ×1,000.]
[Registering Tower’s Vitality Onion ×100.]
[Transaction completed.]
Kang Min-woo possessed an Inventory Limit befitting a Hard Difficulty Adventurer.
That is, he had 100,000 Coins, and he deposited all of them and pressed the exchange button.
[95,000 Coins have been settled.]
– Me: Oh, you didn’t have to do that.
– Kang Min-woo: Not at all! If anything, I’m sorry I couldn’t offer more. If you don’t mind, I’d like to visit your home and offer my gratitude to your parents in person.
– Me: A reward? What kind?
– Kang Min-woo: Within reason, I can help with anything. Real estate, vehicles—anything you’d want money to buy in South Korea.
A nice house.
A nice car.
I’ve heard apartments are outrageously expensive these days.
Or maybe a penthouse? Ah, that might be pushing it.
‘I’ll be heading home in a couple of days anyway. I can always ask him about it then.’
– Me: Hmm, that sounds good. But let me think about it and get back to you on what I’d like.
– Kang Min-woo: Of course! I’ll be waiting.
Wait.
Do I really need to ask separately like that?
Why not just figure it out together?
– Me: How about you join us for dinner at my place instead? We can talk then.
– Kang Min-woo: What?
What do you mean by that?
Kang Min-woo looked confused.
It should have been obvious.
Lee Woo-jin was currently trapped inside the Tower.
On the 99th Floor, in the Dragon Lord’s lair, he couldn’t leave.
After all his struggles, he’d been farming to survive, and unlike other Adventurers who could exit whenever they cleared a floor, he couldn’t go outside—which was precisely why Kang Min-woo had been bringing him Sleeping Bags, Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, and other necessities.
So when Lee Woo-jin suddenly suggested having dinner together at his place, it was bewildering.
– Me: Right, I never told you about this.
– Me: Well, I found a way to get outside now. I can’t explain the details, but it worked out.
– Kang Min-woo: You don’t mean to say you’ve defeated the Dragon Lord……?
– Me: No, absolutely not!
How could I ever dare to do that to my landlord?
In these times of inflation, where else would you find someone letting out a room free of charge, without even taking rent?
– Me: Oh, and please keep it secret from my parents that I’m on the 99th Floor. They know I entered the Tower, but they think I’m farming on the 1st Floor of the Normal Tower.
– Kang Min-woo: Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.
Lee Woo-jin smiled, satisfied.
– Me: Then I’ll see you in two days.
– Kang Min-woo: Yes! Understood.
Kang Min-woo handed over his personal smartphone contact to Lee Woo-jin, and Lee Woo-jin gave his in return.
A Player Farming in the Dragon Lair (Serialization)
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