Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 95

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95
Day fifty-two in the Tower.
Cats were remarkable creatures, Lee Woo-jin thought.
Most of the time they sat perfectly still, models of composure, but then suddenly they’d convulse into frenzied activity all on their own.
Like now.
“Meow Meow Punch!”
He couldn’t quite tell what the cat was doing, but Kkamangi was tearing around the space, batting at the air with his front paws in rapid bursts.
Whiiiiing~
‘What’s that sound?’
A soft noise like the buzzing of wings drifted past his ears.
Lee Woo-jin tilted his head slightly toward Kkamangi and spotted a tiny bee zipping through the empty air—and there was the cat, launching Meow Meow Punches in pursuit.
“I’ve got you there!”
Whiiiiing~
“That’s a bee?”
Impossibly small—just a single bee.
Even from over twenty meters away, it appeared crystal-clear to his eyes.
Back when Lee Woo-jin had lived a normal life in society, both his eyes had measured around 0.5 in vision—nothing to boast about—but now he could see as though wearing corrective lenses, the world rendered in far sharper detail than before. A creature as tiny as this bee was no trouble to spot.
Probably thanks to the Vision Enhancement Perilla Leaf.
But what mattered now was where this bee had come from.
Whiiiing~
– Save me!
As Lee Woo-jin approached, the tiny bee panicked, its movements becoming more frantic.
“I’ll take the left, you cover the right! I’m going to—”
Swish.
The weak point of a cat: the scruff of the neck.
He grabbed and lifted.
Kkamangi went limp like a kitten held in its mother’s jaws, his body curling submissively into a docile ball.
“You’re a bee, then?”
Whiiiiing.
– Yeah, that’s right. I’m a bee. You know me?
The bee stopped fleeing and began circling around Lee Woo-jin instead.
He set Kkamangi on the ground and pulled a Churu Stick from his Dimensional Storage Backpack, offering it.
“Churu!”
The cat had already forgotten the bee existed.
When Lee Woo-jin extended one index finger, the bee descended and landed on it, folding its wings closed.
[Tower Honeybee][Lv. 20]
The bee’s level was twenty.
It wasn’t a level you’d typically expect to see on Mythic Difficulty.
Monsters at Mythic Difficulty all seemed to breach the 300-level threshold without breaking a sweat.
And the bee looked terribly worn down.
He wasn’t an expert on bees, but its body was grimy and its wings had that brittle, parched texture.
“You alright?”
– Honestly… I’m about at the end of my rope.
Oh no.
Lee Woo-jin decided to give the bee something to eat right away.
What did bees eat, anyway?
A vague memory surfaced—he thought they liked sugar water.
He mixed up some sugar water in a shallow dish and offered it.
Whiiiiing!
– So sweet and delicious!
– It’s like honey!
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After the bee drank the sugar water, its entire body became fluffy and refreshed, as though it had never been exhausted in the first place. It had regained its vitality.
Lee Woo-jin asked the question that had been nagging at him.
“But where did you come from?”
The bee explained how it had ended up here.
It turned out the creature was Lee Woo-jin’s doing, in a manner of speaking.
A few days ago, he had gone to Hard Tower Floor 16.
The Tower Honeybee made her home on Hard Tower Floor 16.
– I was foraging through the forest to find honey for the Queen, you see.
– Long ago, there used to be plenty of flowers and honey, but then monsters started appearing everywhere, and all the flowers withered away.
– Even so, I’ve been doing my best to survive, wandering through the forest. I was just resting on a red pepper flower when you showed up and took both the flower and me with you.
– And when I came to, I was here.
– I was too scared someone would find me, so I hid for a while, but then I got so hungry I had to come out to eat the nectar from the flowers—and that cat found me!
It was Lee Woo-jin himself who had brought the bee.
While eagerly harvesting the red peppers from Hard Tower Floor 16, the honeybee had simply tagged along.
– I need to get back to where the Queen is, but I don’t know how.
“Let’s go together. I’ll help you find her.”
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Flash!
The moment Lee Woo-jin used the Transfer Scroll, light blazed across his vision.
The landscape shifted dramatically, and the Dark Forest materialized before them.
A place thick with sinister presence and roiling Dark Magic Force.
– We’re back!
“Do you know where your friends are?”
Whirrr.
The Tower Honeybee flew forward in a flight pattern that traced infinity itself, weaving through the air.
– This way!
Following the bee, Lee Woo-jin spotted a beehive hanging from the gnarled branches of a skeletal tree. Several honeybees could be seen circling it in scouting patterns.
Whirrr!
– Thank you so much!
– I’d like to repay you, but I don’t have anything right now.
– When I come back later, I’ll collect some honey to give to you.
Lee Woo-jin scratched his cheek.
‘This is what I get for helping?’
After all, it was Lee Woo-jin who had kidnapped the bee in the first place.
He’d simply returned her to where she belonged.
‘Hmm. But something feels off about these bees. They don’t look healthy at all.’
The beehive itself was in poor condition, not just the bees.
Roughly half of it had deteriorated and fallen away.
It wasn’t damage from animals or people—the structure had decayed from nutritional deficiency, rotting away naturally.
This whole area was dominated by Dark Magic Force, preventing trees and flowers from growing properly. It was a terrible environment for bees to survive in.
Lee Woo-jin filled a small dish with sugar water and set it down for them.
“Here, eat this.”
Whirrr!
– It smells sweet!
– Could this be honey?
– Let’s eat!
– The Queen should have some too!
A bee that appeared to be the Queen Bee emerged from the hive.
The other bees brought her to the dish and helped her settle in to drink the sugar water.
Slurp, slurp!
The sugar water disappeared rapidly.
The bees’ condition was visibly improving.
The effect was immediate.
The Queen Bee flew toward Lee Woo-jin.
– Thank you, Adventurer.
– Thanks to you, I was able to recover my strength.
– I don’t know how to repay such kindness…….
Lee Woo-jin stared intently at the bees.
‘Wait—there’s no reason they have to stay here, is there?’
Just as the bees had ended up at the Dragon Lair.
A thought formed: what if he simply brought these bees back and raised them there?
With all the flowers blooming from his crops, the bees could gather nectar and survive, and if there was any surplus honey(?), he could have some too.
“Ahem! You want to repay the kindness?”
– Yes, because you helped us.
– You gave us something sweet and delicious, so we gained strength. We must repay you.
– Right. We must repay the Adventurer!
“All right. Then I’ll help you repay that debt.”
– ……?
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– Wheeeee!
– So many fresh flowers here!
– Is this paradise?
Lee Woo-jin brought the bees to the Dragon Lair.
They fluttered between the crops he’d planted, weaving through the vegetation with obvious delight.
Especially drawn to the flowering plants.
They seemed particularly fond of the blossoms sprouting in the perilla leaf field.
– Wow! So much honey here!
– This is amazing!
“You can collect the honey yourselves. And for your home…….”
He looked around for a suitable spot when the World Tree caught his eye.
“World Tree, would it be all right if the bees built their hive on you?”
– That’s… fine… with me…….
“Thank you. Listen, you see that tree over there? Build your hive there. Sound good?”
– Yes!
– What a perfect tree!
– Eeeek!
The bees buzzed with joy, their wings thrumming energetically as they darted through the air.
Then the Queen Bee approached Lee Woo-jin cautiously.
– Is it really all right for us to live in such a wonderful place?
“Of course. Just share some honey with me later if you have extra.”
– Yes, sir! Understood!
– The master has permitted us! We must now dedicate ourselves to making fine honey for him!
– Understood!
– By the Queen’s command! Bring honey to our master!
– Let’s build a beautiful home!
The Queen Bee bowed and immediately coordinated with her swarm in perfect synchronization.
Bzzzzzz!
Hundreds of bees rotated in unison through the air, forming their structure.
A spiral flight pattern emerged around one of the tree’s branches, and the wax-bearing bees approached in precise intervals.
He wasn’t sure exactly how long it would take,
but it would probably be several months before there’d be honey to taste.
Before entering the Tower, Lee Woo-jin had often spent his evenings at home watching YouTube videos. He’d seen a rural beekeeper channel once.
They harvested honey at most twice a year, he remembered.
But that was his mistake.
Bzzzz!
Bzzzzzz~!
The bees moved with perfect coordination, like a well-drilled military unit, their rows and columns aligned flawlessly.
One bee would attach a small bit of wax to the base of the World Tree’s trunk, then step back as another locked into place above it, building the next layer.
As countless bees repeated this work, a geometric honeycomb expanded like a precise blueprint.
[Beehive created.]
[Beekeeping Lv. 1 acquired.]
[Beekeeping Lv. 1]
– Description: Raise bees to produce honey and other products. Bees pollinate crops.
The bees had built the hive in no time.
They immediately flew toward the crop fields, alighting on blossoms and burying themselves in the flowers’ centers.
They gathered nectar on their bodies and pollen on their abdomens, then repeatedly returned to the hive in the tree.
Honey began filling the hexagonal combs.
– This is incredible!
– The flowers are in such excellent condition!
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About an hour had passed.
The Queen Bee approached.
– Master, we’ve collected honey. Please try some!
“Already?”
Tower’s Sweet Honey
– Grade: B
– Effect: Experience Points gained increased by +20%
– Description: Honey harvested from the flowers of crops cultivated by someone. It seems it would be incredibly sweet.
Lee Woo-jin dipped his finger into it and tasted a small amount.
“Wow, it’s sweet.”
It was the finest honey he’d ever tasted.
A Farmer in the Dragon Lair (Serialized)
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