Chapter 6

Chapter 6

I desperately wanted to see the cherry tomato harvest, but time was gold.

I packed Mark Two’s bodily fluids, Dokdok’s poison, and just in case all 10 carrots and came out of the dungeon.

“Even staying up all night I’m full of energy.”

I was simply grateful for the excellent stamina of an awakener.

Thanks to that I returned to Yongsan again.

“Hyung Yeongseong!”

“What? Coming two days in a row is unusual?”

I put the prepared Mark Two’s bodily fluids, Dokdok’s poison, and one of the carrots harvested this time on the counter.

“Can you analyze these a bit?”

“Analyze? Of course. But what’s this all of a sudden? Didn’t you say you were going into a dungeon?”

“Because of the quest, well. I went into the dungeon and came back.”

“Umm, it’s really nothing, right? Doing actions you didn’t do suddenly makes me worried.”

“Of course. Thank you for worrying.”

Hyung Yeongseong looked at me with suspicious eyes for a moment then soon examined the items placed on the counter.

“So what are all these?”

“This is slime bodily fluid and this is poison. This is a carrot I found in the dungeon this time.”

“Slime bodily fluid or poison aside, carrot? There are carrots in dungeons?”

“Look. At a glance it’s not Earth’s carrot, right.”

“The color is mysterious. You want these thoroughly analyzed, right? It might take a few days.”

“Yes. Ah, and is there anyone who knows a lot about slimes? Or even information.”

“Seems you got caught in a nasty quest. Hyung will contact around once.”

“Thank you, hyung.”

Whether he saw my expression was bright, hyung Yeongseong smirked and took the items inside.

And to the hyung who came out again I made one more request.

“Hyung, by any chance can you get some seeds or seedlings?”

“You mean ones that grow in dungeons, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Our shop has a few... Wait a moment.”

He said a moment but hyung Yeongseong rummaged inside the shop for a long time.

It was certain they were there but since there was no particular selling or buying, it seemed he forgot where he put them.

“Haa. Gyuseong, sorry. I can only find this one. I’ll look more later so take that when you come next time.”

“Oh, even this is thankful. But what seed is it?”

“That, what was it? That, that...”

They were seeds wrapped in a transparent envelope, and the amount wasn’t that much.

Checking by eye it seemed about 200 or so.

“Ah! Ambergrill!”

“What’s Ambergrill?”

“I know it as the first herb discovered in a dungeon? The guy I’m commissioning the analysis of what you brought today gave it to me. As you can see it didn’t sell.”

“It’s a herb.”

Herb is unexpected.

Should I classify it as spice? Or medicine?

“Wasn’t it what you wanted?”

“No. This seems fine too. I know there are almost no seeds or seedlings brought out from dungeons. Even this alone is something to be grateful for.”

“Next time I’ll get others too. It’s not that hard.”

“Thank you, hyung.”

While hyung Yeongseong was contacting an acquaintance regarding slimes I immediately searched information on Ambergrill.

“A herb that can be used as medicinal material and has good scent...”

This might be a jackpot.

According to what I looked up, this guy wasn’t one where you pick leaves to use but one you pull whole like lettuce or cabbage, a plant you can plant once and harvest once.

“This is a bit regrettable.”

If it was a type where you could pick only leaves and use it I could keep using it, but that was impossible.

Thinking about it, the Leila I was growing in the dungeon now was also a root plant so once harvested it was over.

“I have to separate the seeds and utilize them.”

And when buying seeds I was thinking of taking types of plants that could be harvested multiple times.

Since I learned the slimes eat a lot, ones that end after one harvest were a bit burdensome.

“Strawberries, eggplants, cucumbers? About this?”

While searching alone through the smartphone like that, hyung Yeongseong finished the call and approached.

“For now the commission is done and the results will come next week or the week after. About the slime I’ll send you the materials by phone.”

“How much money will it be about?”

“Forget it, what money. Since it’s an acquaintance that side is also doing it for free.”

“Eh, where is there such a thing. Last time too and this time if you do this I feel burdened so no.”

“No, I said it’s real? If you don’t believe me want to call yourself?”

Hyung Yeongseong held out the phone then soon sent me the information regarding slimes.

“Anyway. When it goes well later treat me.”

“Okay. Thank you, hyung.”

“Ugh. It’s gross so if you’re done with your business go quickly.”

Anyway a hyung who isn’t honest.

I came out of the shop as is, bought more of the seeds I had thought of, and purchased a simple ladder.

“Hoo.”

I didn’t buy Polygonum multiflorum seedlings.

Instead I purchased them directly.

‘Polygonum multiflorum takes too long to grow. No matter how much Mark Two makes it grow fast, Polygonum multiflorum whose base is in years can’t be waited for.’

I poured all the money from selling the potions last time plus the additional tiny amount of money I had saved. Thanks to that I became broke but my heart was full.

“Kids, I’m back. Oh!”

Whether they had finished harvesting and organizing before I knew it, neatly stacked cherry tomatoes were visible. Like the carrots the color was shining opaquely and sparkling prettily.

“The size is ordinary?”

If there was one different point, unlike the dungeon carrots that were much larger than ordinary carrots, the tomatoes were similar in size to ordinary cherry tomatoes.

“Let’s see. I can’t count the number separately.”

Looking now the size was the same but the amount looked much more. Thinking I should bring in a machine that could measure weight later, I roughly calculated by estimation.

“Umm... too many? About 100kg?”

About 100kg of cherry tomatoes came out in one harvest. Since there were a total of 100 plants it meant 1kg of cherry tomatoes per plant.

[Cherry tomato imbued with mana LV.1]

Faint mana is contained.

Upon intake, poison resistance is obtained for 3 minutes according to the amount of mana possessed. Thereafter permanent minute poison resistance rise.

“It’s an item.”

This time a poison resistance ability came out.

Thinking about it, if I knew it would be like this I should have waited a bit more and taken the tomatoes together to commission.

“Well, since I have to go again anyway.”

The important thing wasn’t that.

Now that carrots and tomatoes had appeared, I could make fruit and vegetable juice, that was important.

Since Polygonum multiflorum was something I could obtain anytime originally I didn’t pay much attention, so I ground and mixed the tomatoes and carrots.

“Probably this won’t work?”

What the quest wanted was probably fruit and vegetable juice made utilizing liquid synthesis. Just mixing like this wouldn’t be the answer.

[Awakening Quest: Offer a Tribute]

Collect and submit the presented items.

Polygonum multiflorum imbued with mana: 1/1

Self-made fruit and vegetable juice imbued with mana: 0/5

As expected it wasn’t counting.

I one-shotted the tomato carrot juice that became a failure as is.

“Keu!”

[Vision for 3 minutes...]

[Poison resistance for 3 minutes...]

Even though I just mixed the two the effect remained as is. This was another first-time discovery.

“Potions don’t work if just mixed but this does?”

Unlike potions where efficacy was preserved only through liquid synthesis, this fruit and vegetable juice was fine even if mixed anyhow.

While thinking if I thought well about this it could become a decent business item, I naturally picked one cherry tomato and ate it.

Tok!

“Hup!”

As I felt in the juice too, a refreshing sweet gorgeous taste dominated the inside of my mouth. A taste that reminded of jewels just like its appearance.

“Wow, this... I can’t stop?”

My hand kept going toward the tomatoes.

Carrots were tasty too but this had a strange addictiveness.

Wriggle-

Undulate!

The watching slimes wriggled as if protesting why only you eat. But my mouth was full of tomatoes so there was no time to speak.

Gulp.

“Crazy. This one has to be sold no matter what, absolutely no matter what just take and sell!”

Too excited the words came out wrong but the reason for excitement wasn’t money.

It was a taste that drove me crazy to the extent that even a sense of mission arose that many people must feel this taste.

“I have to set some aside for the family too. But don’t I have to store these separately or something?”

Then the new recruit slime approached me and started wriggling.

“What, what is it?”

Undulate- Undulate!

“You’re saying you can take charge?”

Wriggle!

I didn’t know by what means it would store the cultivated crops but since there was some method it was doing this, right?

“Yeah. You manage it.”

Wriggle!

Dokdok who was watching that appearance also approached and started helping the new recruit. I watched what they were doing. They were wrapping the tomatoes and carrots with their own bodily fluids.

“Umm, the feeling is strange but since that’s the answer they’re doing that, right?”

Well...

Anyway I’ll wash with water and eat so that much doesn’t matter, right? It’s much better than rotting.

“Cooldown, come around quickly!”

Now what remained was only the cooldown of liquid synthesis.

* * *

A building located in Guro-gu, Seoul.

This building where people busily came and went was owned by the Ara Hongryeon Guild.

The Ara Hongryeon Guild, counted among the top 5 guilds of the Republic of Korea, had awakener departments divided according to each field and responsibility, and among them Kim Seunghyeon belonging to the research department was grumbling due to a sudden request received.

“I have time but it’s annoying.”

In the hand of him muttering to himself were the slime’s bodily fluids, an unknown poison, and a somewhat uniquely shaped carrot.

The counterpart Choi Yeongseong commissioned analysis to was none other than Kim Seunghyeon, a research awakener standing out in the Ara Hongryeon Guild.

“Manager, no if it weren’t for hyung Yeongseong’s request, tsk.”

He said that but his eyes hadn’t left the carrot from a little while ago.

Kim Seunghyeon who was a researcher by nature was feeling his research desire rising upon seeing the carrot said to have come from a dungeon.

“For now tasting a bit should be fine, right?”

There might be poison and an unknown infection might occur.

However at the fragrant carrot smell that kept coming Seunghyeon was making his mouth water.

“For now let’s put it in the machine first.”

Having barely endured the temptation, Seunghyeon started analyzing each item separately.

And about 30 minutes later...

“...What is this.”

Seunghyeon’s voice trembled finely.

Whether it was trembling from excitement, or trembling from fear, it was unknown.

“Something like this exists? Does this make sense?”

What Seunghyeon confirmed was all three of the requested ones.

And he was unable to hide his surprise at the results of all three.

“This is the slime’s bodily fluid? It doesn’t make sense. This needs more precise analysis. And this poison... it takes a bit long but it definitively creates paralysis, is this a possible result? This is also on hold.”

While unbelievable results kept coming out, he saw the result of the last remaining carrot.

“Vision rise effect according to the intaker’s mana amount, does this make sense? Not even a potion but a mere carrot?”

Moreover although precise analysis was needed, Kim Seunghyeon had vaguely confirmed there was also a permanent vision rise effect.

As it was, the entire research department was in chaos recently to develop buff potions, so having discovered such an item it was natural for Kim Seunghyeon’s eyes to roll.

“Ha! Where on earth did that hyung get items like these?”

Then someone called Kim Seunghyeon who was out of it researching.

“Hey, Seunghyeon.”

“Oh? Team leader Hanul?”

“This is quite out of it. What were you looking at so much?”

“Ah, isn’t hyung Yeongseong in Yongsan? That person asked to analyze these items a bit so I was looking.”

“No the guild work is so busy I’m dying and you were doing such a pastime?”

“I was doing it to cool my head a bit. But...”

Looking at Kim Seunghyeon who was hesitating, the 2nd team leader of the Ara Hongryeon Guild Kang Hanul noticed there was something.

“What is it?”

“This is a personal request so it’s a bit hard to say.”

“You know Choi Yeongseong is my friend! It’s fine, it’s fine. You can say it.”

“Then please take a look at this.”

“Hm?”

Kang Hanul who confirmed the data table shrugged his shoulders.

“I can’t read things like this.”

“This is poison. But it just takes a bit long until it activates, almost 100% effective poison.”

“What? This seems pretty usable? Recently the research department head asked to capture a few trolls and if I use this it’ll be easy.”

“And this carrot...”

“Yeah, this looked strangely shaped. It’s not a model, right?”

“Yes, it came from a dungeon...”

Crunch!

Before Kim Seunghyeon could finish explaining, Kang Hanul bit and ate one mouthful.

Kim Seunghyeon knew there was no problem since he had already confirmed the carrot was harmless to the human body, but he was surprised at the fearless Kang Hanul’s action of chewing and eating without even hearing the explanation.

“Uum? Uuuuum!?”

Crunch crunch!

Kang Hanul who was chewing the carrot making strange sounds bit a larger mouthful. In his field of vision the status window saying vision had risen was displayed.

“Team leader how is it? Did the vision rise effect appear?”

“Delicious! This is extremely delicious! Where did this come from? Choi Yeongseong commissioned it?”

“Th, that...”

“Seunghyeon, I’m leaving work first! Uahaha!”

“T, team leader? No...”

The moment the connection was made and the first customer of the slime farmer was born.