Player Farming in the Dragon’s Lair - Chapter 98

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The work to clear the fortieth-floor stage carried on into the next day.
[Prepare yourselves.]
[Enemies will soon flood the arena.]
[The tenth and final round begins now.]
When Lee Woo-jin opened his eyes that morning, a notification was already waiting—the final round had begun.
While he slept, the Dungeon Rat hadn’t remained behind to keep the traps spinning manually. The Dungeon Rat had been Unsummoned, and the monsters were being defeated solely because the traps remained in place.
Trap-triggered cannons and trap-triggered poison arrows and other ranged traps had their trajectories set toward the suspended arena, so they continued firing even with the Dungeon Rat in its Unsummoned state.
True, the efficiency wasn’t nearly as good as when the Dungeon Rat had been manually operating everything, but having monsters hunted while doing nothing at all was more than satisfactory.
– Squeak! (Master, good morning!)
“Dungeon Rat, good morning. Did you sleep well?”
– Squeak. (I rested well.)
– Squeak. (I’m in excellent condition.)
Lee Woo-jin nodded with a smile.
The Dungeon Rat trotted over toward the Teleportation circle, mentioning something about clocking in.
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Boom—!
The muzzle of the trap-triggered cannon mounted on the wall flashed with a deafening roar. A massive arcane projectile struck a colossal steel ogre, slamming it backward off the edge of the arena.
[The Steel Ogre has entered the ‘Fear’ state!]
[The Steel Ogre’s mental fortitude has drastically declined!]
[All the Steel Ogre’s stats are reduced by 30%!]
– Krrghhhhh!
The steel ogres bolted in blind panic.
These were monsters that normally shrugged off ordinary attacks and magic alike, possessing formidable defensive power.
[Steel Ogre][Lv. 340]
A level that reached all the way to 340.
Plain sword strikes or spear thrusts couldn’t even scratch their hard steel armor, and lower-tier magic like Fireball fared no better.
But the ones facing them were cannon projectiles.
In truth, the projectiles alone wouldn’t inflict serious damage on the steel ogres, thanks to their armor and tough hides—the real problem was the cliff’s edge.
– Krrghhhhhhhhh!
Damn that cursed cannon!
They couldn’t close the distance to destroy it even if they wanted to.
The cannon was bolted flush against the wall.
Meanwhile, the steel ogres stood on a rectangular arena suspended in midair.
Had the cannon been within close range, they might have leaped and struck at it to destroy it, or hurled weapons to shatter it.
But the cannon was a full two hundred meters away.
Even with their tremendous strength and muscle mass, the ogres couldn’t leap two hundred meters in a single bound, nor could they reliably strike something at that distance.
Boom!
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[All enemies have been defeated.]
[You have cleared the Infinite Arena.]
[Error!]
[Inappropriate approach.]
[Cannot obtain the Challenger’s Treasure Chest!]
[Achievement – ‘Conqueror of the Infinite Arena’ unlocked.]
[As a reward, you obtain the Title: ‘Conqueror of the Infinite Arena’!]
It was two hours after the Dungeon Rat had clocked in.
– Squeak! (Master, all finished and back!)
Lee Woo-jin tapped the Dungeon Rat’s rump playfully with his finger. As a reward, he took out the injeolmi he’d been saving for later and gave it all to the Dungeon Rat.
“Good work. Eat it all.”
– Squeak? (Really?!)
“Of course.”
Though he’d told it to eat alone, the Dungeon Rat kindly shared the injeolmi with Kkamangi, who’d been sitting beside it licking its chops. The two sat side by side, eating together contentedly.
Watching them, a warm smile bloomed across his face.
He checked the title he’d obtained.
[Conqueror of the Infinite Arena]
– Category: Title
– Effect: Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Mana +50%
– Description: A glorious title bestowed upon those who have cleared every round of the Infinite Arena.
Lee Woo-jin’s eyes went wide.
All stats increased by fifty percent!
‘This is insane.’
Wasn’t this performance well beyond even an S-rank item?
If anything, it was SS-rank, maybe even SSS-rank.
Lee Woo-jin quickly pulled up his status window to check his attributes.
Name: Lee Woo-jin
Titles: Tower Novice Farmer, Conqueror of the Infinite Arena
Level: 22
Stats
– Strength: 6.48 (+3.24)
– Agility: 5.82 (+2.91)
– Stamina: 7.04 (+3.52)
– Mana: 24.66 (+12.33)
– Resistance: 1.14
– Remaining Points: 0
“Hah—”
A laugh escaped him.
Though resistance hadn’t factored into the stat increase, all his other base attributes had risen by fifty percent across the board.
Mana especially had jumped by a full twelve points.
[The God of Authority gazes at your status window with a dubious expression.]
[The God of Fate notes that while you have obtained a title, your fundamental stat values remain far too low to reap its full benefit.]
To Lee Woo-jin’s eyes, the stat boost was enormous; to the gods, it seemed nothing but trivial numbers.
Yet Lee Woo-jin paid them no mind.
One couldn’t evaluate things by a god’s standard.
His original level had been one, and without clearing tower floors, he’d had no way to level up at all. By that measure, this was nothing short of explosive growth.
Besides, whenever he consumed stat-boosting crops in the future, he’d gain one and a half times the effect—nothing could be better than that.
Time passed, and the next day arrived.
“Harvesting, harvesting!”
[You have harvested a Tower Proficiency Red Bean.]
[Harvesting Lv. 8’s proficiency rises slightly.]
Lee Woo-jin had been harvesting beans since morning.
The bean field, which had been lush and verdant just days before, had now lost much of its green.
The leaves had begun to yellow in patches, taking on a pale brown hue.
Hanging between them were slender pods, clustered thick.
What had once been green pods had now dried to a pale yellow.
Some pods had already split open, revealing the red beans nestled within.
Small, hard, crimson kernels.
The beans, catching the sunlight, gleamed between the dry pods with a lustrous sheen.
[Tower Proficiency Red Bean]
– Grade: C
– Effect: Upon consumption, Skill Proficiency gain rate increases by 10% for 10 minutes
– Description: A tower bean cultivated by someone.
A bean that increases Skill Proficiency when eaten.
While harvesting beans alongside the Doppelgänger, Lee Woo-jin popped one into his mouth and crunched down.
The raw bean had a subtle, nutty flavor characteristic of legumes and a hard texture.
[You consume a Tower Proficiency Red Bean. Skill Proficiency gain rate increases by 10% for 10 minutes.]
“Harvesting!”
[Harvesting Lv. 8’s proficiency rises slightly.]
[Harvesting Lv. 8’s proficiency rises…….]
Kkamangi poked at a few beans scattered across the ground with her paw, then popped them into her mouth and crunched away contentedly.
Stepping aside so as not to interfere, she settled into a bread-loaf position and watched as Lee Woo-jin and the Doppelgänger worked through the harvest.
Swish.
Lee Woo-jin and the Doppelgänger.
Thanks to the Harvesting and Craftsmanship skills, the field was being cleared rapidly.
Pinching off a pod and holding it between both hands, they’d press gently—
and the dry shell would crack open, revealing the beans inside.
Patter.
The red beans tumbled into a wooden basket.
After about thirty minutes had passed, all the red beans in the ten-pyeong field had been harvested.
“This is beans too, right?”
“Well, you could say that.”
“So this also makes soy paste and soy sauce, and tofu?”
“No. I’m going to make red bean paste and then have shaved ice with it.”
It was a food name I’d never heard before.
Whoosh.
I dumped the red beans into the Black Mithril Cauldron I’d pulled from my Subspace Backpack.
“Rainfall!”
[Rainfall Lv. 4’s Skill Proficiency has risen slightly.]
[You have acquired Rainfall Lv. 5.]
Splash.
Water filled the cauldron.
For now, I was planning to let the red beans soak a bit.
Once I made red bean paste and piled it on top of crunchy ice, wouldn’t that be something?
“Mmm.”
I checked my Subspace Backpack for ice.
[Subspace Backpack]
– Ice × 2
“Huh.”
I could’ve sworn I’d brought plenty of ice last time, but apparently I’d been using it steadily—there was hardly any left.
Never mind.
If I’m out, I’ll just get more.
Since I had to wait while the red beans soaked anyway, I decided to head to Floor 15 of the Hard Difficulty Tower during that time to gather some ice.
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I arrived at the Snowy Mountain.
[Floor 15 Objective]
– Defeat Ice Golems. (0/15)
[Error!]
[Inappropriate approach!]
[Unable to proceed with this stage!]
[Unable to obtain rewards!]
[Forced Return will occur in 0 hours, 59 minutes, 50 seconds.]
Whiiiiing!
A mad gust of wind howled across the landscape.
Moreover.
“Why is it so dark here?”
[Cold Resistance Lv. 5’s Skill Proficiency has risen.]
[Dark Adaptation Lv. 2’s Skill Proficiency has risen.]
[You have acquired Dark Adaptation Lv. 3.]
I couldn’t see any Ice Golems or monsters nearby.
Still, just to be safe, I activated Perfect Concealment, thinking I’d spend the fifty-nine minutes frantically mining ice.
On the snow-covered peak of the Snowy Mountain.
As the blizzard continued to blow and snow accumulated higher and higher, I walked through the drifts when my foot suddenly caught on something with a soft snag.
“What’s this?”
At first, I thought it might be a rock and tried to step over it.
But I felt it twitch slightly, so I dug away the snow and looked inside—and a person appeared.
A pale-skinned Nobleman with lips gone blue from cold.
“Hey! Hey there!”
Slap, slap!
When I struck his cheek with my palm, the man opened his eyes with difficulty into narrow slits.
He stared at me wordlessly for less than two seconds before closing his eyes again.
One look told me he was on the brink of death from frostbite.
‘What do I do?’
I would be forcibly returned in fifty-nine minutes.
I couldn’t see any city or village nearby, so I had no way to take him anywhere.
‘First, I need to get away from this blizzard!’
I pulled out my Dark Moon Shovel.
“Soil Leveling, Soil Leveling!”
Thump!
Crack!
Whoosh!
He carved out a makeshift cave large enough for two people, shoved the man inside, and sealed the entrance with stone and snow.
A Farmer in the Dragon Lair (Serialized)
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