Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 58

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58
Thirty-six days since arriving at the Tower.
Gulp.
Gulp.
“Ahhhh.”
[You have consumed Carrot Juice. Stamina permanently increased by 0.02.]
[For the next 30 minutes, stamina recovery speed increases by 20%.]
Lee Woo-jin, who had made Carrot Juice from carrots blessed by the World Tree, drank a glass at once. He found himself thinking it tasted sweeter than before—perhaps thanks to the blessing.
“How does it taste?”
“It’s addictive, meow. And my stamina feels great, meow!”
“Hehehehe. A stamina potion, truly remarkable.”
……. Nod.
The gods each drank a glass of Carrot Juice as well.
It felt like a dessert drink to be enjoyed after a meal.
[The God of Adventure laughs cheerfully and says he enjoyed it very much.]
A large wooden bowl, still resting on the millstone, remained brimming with Carrot Juice. Lee Woo-jin pulled out an armful of empty Potion Bottles and then
splash.
began pouring Carrot Juice into each empty bottle and capping them.
One bottle, two bottles…….
[Subspace Backpack]
– Carrot Juice × 50 bottles
He stored the remaining Carrot Juice in the Subspace Backpack, keeping it safely preserved.
Though the performance wasn’t quite as good as a mid-grade stamina potion, it outperformed low-grade stamina potions—and now Lee Woo-jin had fifty bottles of his signature Carrot Juice.
Of course, considering that it permanently raised stamina by 0.02, one could argue that Lee Woo-jin’s Carrot Juice was the best choice for situations that weren’t life-or-death emergencies.
“Rainfall!”
Lee Woo-jin watered the World Tree with Rainfall.
Drinking in the rainwater, the World Tree seemed to settle into a warm, verdant state.
Its height had grown noticeably again.
About ten centimeters, perhaps?
“It’s growing so fast.”
– T… h… a… n… k… s… t… o… y… o… u…….
– I… w… i… l… l… b… l… e… s… s… y… o… u…….
“Oh, wait a moment!”
– ……?
He didn’t fully understand the World Tree’s power, but yesterday when he cast a blessing on the field, he’d seen the carrot’s effectiveness double. That was likely what it intended to do now.
However, there was no need to cast another blessing on part of the carrot field for a while yet.
Lee Woo-jin walked over to the Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato field.
“World Tree, could you cast a blessing on the Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato field here?”
– Y… e… s…….
[The young World Tree casts a blessing over part of the Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato field.]
Lee Woo-jin, who had been waiting in anticipation, immediately began harvesting the Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomatoes.
[You have harvested a Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato.]
[Harvesting Level 5 proficiency increases.]
[Experience increases from cultivating Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomatoes.]
[Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato]
– Grade: C+
– Effects
– Upon consumption: Mana permanently +0.01 (+0.01)
– Upon consumption: Mana recovery speed +10% for 10 minutes (+10%)
– Description: A Tower cherry tomato cultivated by someone. Eating it will temporarily increase mana recovery speed and raise your mana reserves. Blessed, its taste and effects have doubled.
“Ohhhhh.”
Lee Woo-jin drew in a breath of admiration, and a smile spread across his lips unbidden.
Mana increase of 0.02—this was an absolute jackpot.
Eat just fifty Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomatoes and mana rises by 1.
Adventurers gain a level increase whenever they successfully clear a Tower floor and ascend a level.
And with each level increase, they gain one Stat Point to distribute among strength, agility, stamina, and mana.
In other words, consuming fifty Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomatoes provided the same effect as a single level increase.
Lee Woo-jin desperately needed mana over other ability stats.
His summoned Doppelgänger drew on Lee Woo-jin’s own mana reserves every time it used a skill.
Even though he wanted to continue farming work together, Lee Woo-jin capped the Doppelgänger at only about 10 output whenever he himself used 100, fearing overheating symptoms might occur—but if his mana increased, he could push it not to 10 but 50, or even further to 100 or 200.
‘Besides, I can use Rainfall as much as I want.’
If I ran out of mana while using Rainfall, I wouldn’t have to go through the hassle of filling a watering can with lake water and dousing the field manually.
– M… as… ter…….
– I’m… so… sle… py…….
“Thanks, World Tree. You did great work.”
– *Yawn*…….
– z… Z…….
Lee Woo-jin scattered some Compost Lumps around the World Tree for all its hard labor.
[Using Compost Lump, soil fertility increases by 15 percent.]
I’ll need to spread more compost once the effect wears off.
First, let me try harvesting the cherry tomatoes.
“Harvest, harvest!”
[Harvesting Lv. 5 proficiency is increasing.]
[Harvesting Lv. 5 proficiency is…….]
[You have acquired Harvesting Lv. 6.]
.
.
.
Pop,
snap!
[Consuming Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato increases mana by 0.02 permanently.]
[Consuming Tower Blessed Mana Cherry Tomato increases mana by…….]
I plucked a cherry tomato and removed the stem,
then tossed it straight into my mouth, and when my molars bit down, the juice inside burst out with a sharp, tangy sweetness.
“Finally!”
They were so addictive that I kept popping them in one after another.
Before long, my mana had climbed from 12 to 13.
– Mana: 13
“Mmm.”
An Adventurer with 13 mana—
that’s hardly a stat to be dismissed anywhere.
Level 40, at least.
In other words, the kind of stat an Awakened One who’s reached Floor 40 of the Normal Difficulty Tower would normally have?
Lee Woo-jin, who had Awakened and originally planned to park himself at Floor 20.
This was a stat he never could have reached under his original plan.
13 mana was.
“Phew. I’m stuffed.”
I checked the time on my Smartphone—10 a.m.
The sun was just rising, and sunlight was filtering in softly.
If I closed my eyes like this, I could probably fall asleep.
But Lee Woo-jin got up.
There was work to be done.
Planting Rice Seeds I’d brought directly from Korea.
“Let’s see.”
I pulled out an envelope of Rice Seeds from my Subspace Backpack.
A seed packet containing 100 grams of rice seeds.
It was labeled “For Educational Use, Learning Purpose, Hobby Use.”
On the back of the packet was a simple illustrated guide explaining how to germinate and plant the seeds.
Since the gardening textbook I relied on—”Your First Steps to a Home Garden”—didn’t cover rice cultivation, I decided to reference the packet’s contents and materials I’d scraped together from the internet.
Crackle.
I tore open the seed packet and poured a few rice grains into my palm.
Tiny seeds encased in long, hard husks.
They were light brown in color, with a rough, textured husk at the tip.
‘Okay. Let me organize the information once more.’
The contents written on the seed packet.
Combining what was printed there with what I’d looked up myself about rice seed planting, I could summarize it as follows.
【Rice seeds are typically soaked in water to germinate before being planted directly. Once the seeds absorb moisture, germination is much more stable.】
【Once soaked rice seeds are left undisturbed, they will germinate on their own. Plant them when white sprouts just begin to show.】
【Afterward, spread the rice seeds over a seedbed with evenly leveled soil or shallow paddy soil, and cover them with a thin layer of soil. In the early germination phase, it’s important to keep the soil moist so it doesn’t dry out.】
【Once the young seedlings grow to a certain size, you can transplant them to a wider area, or if you’re doing small-scale cultivation from the start, you can simply keep them where they are as long as you maintain proper spacing.】
First, I cleared and prepared a plot of land, about one hundred square feet in size.
After spreading Compost Lump to enrich the soil, I had prime farmland ready.
I scattered the Rice Seeds gently across it.
“Seed Planting!”
[Seed Planting Lv. 6 effect applied.]
[Seed Planting Lv. 6 proficiency increases slightly.]
Next, I watered everything using Rainfall.
“Rainfall!”
Whoosh……
The Rice Seeds grew damp and saturated.
The soil in the field mixed thoroughly with the seeds.
Left like this, the seeds would germinate—sprout and take root.
After germination, if I kept watering, seedlings would grow, and this one-hundred-square-foot plot would become my Seedbed.
In real-world rice farming, farmers usually bought seedbeds and performed Rice Transplanting to plant the young shoots in paddies.
“The Rice Seeds are set. Now the important part—I need to build the actual paddy.”
Unlike a field, a paddy required standing water deep enough to reach the ankles.
For that, I had to pack down the bottom so water wouldn’t seep through, and build embankments on all sides to keep the water from draining away.
‘Where should the paddy go……’
I looked around, turning this way and that.
I spent a long time studying the area near the Lake.
The spot had to be convenient for drawing water, and easy to dig irrigation channels from.
“This place looks good.”
Close to the Lake.
And far enough from the fields that overflow wouldn’t damage other crops.
I picked up a spade.
“Soil Leveling!”
Crunch!
Thunk!
First, I outlined the paddy area in a neat rectangle.
I dug out the inside bottom slightly lower than the surrounding ground, then gathered the displaced earth into low embankments along all four sides.
[Soil Leveling Lv. 7 proficiency increases.]
[Soil Leveling Lv. 7 proficiency incr—.]
This work differed from field preparation.
Instead of softening the soil to make it ideal for planting, I was flattening the bottom to hold standing water and raising embankments—a different technique altogether.
“Doppelgänger. Could you build up the embankment here? Like this picture.”
I showed Doppelgänger a photograph on my Smartphone.
(……) Nod!
Doppelgänger gathered the surrounding earth with a Hoe and spade.
I smoothed the inside bottom while Doppelgänger reinforced the outer perimeter embankment.
Scrape, scrape……
Thump-thump!
Once the basic shape took form, I switched Amwol into spade mode and began tamping down the bottom repeatedly to compress it.
[Dark Mana purified; soil fertility increases.]
[Purification Lv. 3 proficiency increases slightly.]
“Amwol, you know that building this paddy is more important than gathering Dark Mana, right?”
– Heheh. I know without being told.
I pressed down hard with my feet as I spoke.
This step was necessary to keep water from seeping away easily.
Once the paddy floor became sufficiently firm, I turned back toward the Lake.
Now I needed to dig a shallow channel connecting the Lake to the paddy.
A Player Farming in the Dragon Lair (Serialized)
By Gaebyeok S
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