Ch.114114. Achievement Shop

– Current Level of Purification Energy: 8 [1%]

– Purification Energy Effects

1. Effects created by Chaos Energy increase by 30% and transform into purified energy.

2. 40% chance for items containing Chaos Energy to be purified and increase by 1 grade.

3. 5% chance for one random option on a purified item to increase by 1 grade.

4. When Chaos Energy is purified, there is a 1% chance to produce additional purified energy.

I’ve been farming for several days straight and put all the corrupted resources from the level 0 biome into the cauldron. I decided to leave any concerns about needing corrupted resources to the level 1 biome and focused solely on leveling up the Chaos Stone Purification Cauldron.

I even threw in corrupted healing herbs and purified all the corrupted resources that came from them.

“Should I start using level 1 biome resources now?”

From level 5 onward, the corrupted resources from the level 0 biome started giving significantly less experience. By level 8, even throwing in the remaining few stacks of 300 only increased it by 1%.

Well, this kind of ceiling can be seen anywhere. It’s not that it doesn’t increase at all, but they limit the ceiling with extreme inefficiency. In other games, they might block it completely, but in Farming World, it’s a permitted play style that says “go ahead and try if you can.”

If I could, I would have thrown in all the corrupted resources from level 0. But there’s no need to waste time like that. I farmed the Corrupted Forest to gather resources while also thinking there was no point in having a Corrupted Forest without corrupted trees. I have no intention of grinding away at something that just wastes time. Haven’t I already invested several days in this? The return on my time investment was sufficient.

“The option grade increase is really good.”

Option grades refer to things like “heroic” grade options attached to normal items. Usually, it’s a level 1 increase in stat-related attributes. If there are restrictions, it’s called a heroic grade option; without restrictions, level 1 is legendary, and level 2 or higher is mythical. Other options are also commonly called heroic grade if they seem better than the item’s grade based on their performance.

Simply put, the options get better. Along with the first effect, I might be able to aim for a significant boost all at once.

“Lulu.”

“Yes, master!”

I decided to stop growing the cauldron for now and called for Lulu. The small boxes in the warehouse have long been filled with purified resources. If any more resources accumulated, I would have to replace them all with medium-sized boxes, so I left them alone for now. This is just a temporary storage area.

Since the land has expanded by 20P, I should build a separate warehouse and move everything there.

“There’s a swamp area to the south. Do you remember anything about it?”

“Hmm. The previous master didn’t like swamps, so I never went in. He said the mud was good for alchemy materials, so he occasionally went alone to dig up some mud…”

“Why would mud be used in alchemy?”

“The swamp mud contains a lot of mana. He said it was necessary for making potions.”

“…What kind of potions was he making?”

I know a bit about alchemy myself. When I played Suhyeon’s Farming World 1, I collected all the combat support elements one by one, so I have some memory of potion crafting as one of the top-tier auxiliary combat abilities. But most of the potions in my memory are healing potions or buff potions. Mud wasn’t used in making those potions.

If it had been necessary, Jihyun would have already mentioned it.

Out of curiosity, I asked Jihyun.

“Swamp mud? Hmm… there is something it’s used for.”

“…What?”

“I have a recipe bookmarked for a skin beauty potion… The mana-rich mud, or what you’d call ‘mud pack’? You mix it with various ingredients to complete it. You can think of it as cosmetics. In a way, cosmetics are also alchemy created through combinations of chemical reactions.”

“…”

“Hehe… the previous master was very interested in skincare.”

“I really want to meet him someday.”

Why didn’t I realize it? Even in reality, people apply mud packs for skin beauty. Making a potion for skin beauty through alchemy is quite reasonable.

“Does it actually work?”

“The effect varies depending on how much mana is concentrated in the mud. The skin whitening effect has been sufficiently verified and is already being sold. Research shows that using good quality mud can even reduce skin age.”

“Wait a minute.”

This effect sounds familiar…

“Isn’t that the healing herb ointment?”

“That’s right. But the healing herb ointment is more premium, while this is more like an expensive line of cosmetics.”

Jihyun explained enthusiastically, her eyes shining. She seemed more passionate about this than when making healing potions, suggesting she had more interest in this area.

“But why mud? Are you going to get some mud this time, boss?”

“Well… there is a swamp to the south…”

“Boss.”

“Yes?”

“Selling cosmetics makes hundreds of times more money than healing potions.”

“…”

“I’ll tell you the ingredients, so could you gather some materials if you see them while you’re out?”

“Uh… sure…”

I should appreciate having such a passionate employee.

“Hehehe. No time to waste. No time. I need to finish the elixir… make the hair loss remedy… prepare for the mud potion…”

She was already like a shut-in, making potions all day in her room before coming here, and now it’s like her limits have been removed. She only comes out of her room when she’s hungry or to prepare meals for me if I’m around. Otherwise, she just heats up convenience food and takes it back upstairs.

I gave her some words of encouragement, worried she might burn out, even though I hadn’t asked her to work overtime.

“Make sure you get some sleep. You’ll be less efficient if you get penalties.”

“Yes! I heard from Sujeong. It’s fine if you stay up for 3 nights and then sleep 6 hours for 3 days.”

“…”

“You’ve been staying up late recently too, boss.”

“…”

Jihyun definitely has a talent for Farming World. As she said, I also stayed up for 2-3 nights when farming the Corrupted Forest, so I couldn’t really say anything. The sleep debuff isn’t too bad up to stages 3-4 if you’re not in combat—just a bit uncomfortable for daily activities, but not unbearable. It’s from stage 5 that it becomes a problem, like “You’re not sleeping? I’ll kill you,” draining all my strength.

So when you need to grind safely, there’s a method of staying up late while keeping the debuff below stage 5 by managing your time efficiently.

“Have you played Farming World before?”

“No?”

“You’re a natural. A real talent.”

She’s using advanced techniques that only veteran players or those in completely safe situations would use, and she’s only been here for a few days.

She was a rookie with promising potential.

I should gather materials diligently for her.

Come to think of it, I’m repeatedly reminded that alchemy is profitable.

Starting with healing potions, then elixirs, hair loss remedies, and now mud potions—though not yet made—if they’re cosmetics good for the skin, products from the Rift Dimension would be the best, so the revenue model for alchemy is unbeatable right now. I might earn more money through hunting items and leather at the auction, but still.

“I’ll support alchemy with farming for now and see how it goes after unlocking breed improvement.”

Farming is the most basic and foundational content. The crops themselves can be sold for money, but they’re designed to be much more efficient when processed and crafted into various products.

And what makes farming better is the farming ability grade, land, and fertilizer.

There’s no need to question the land. I’ve already confirmed that all crops on this land with its SSS+ resource deposits and rarity grow well, abundantly, and with high quality thanks to the blessing of the land. Adding fertilizer will make the crops even better, more abundant, and faster to grow, and the most basic ingredient for making fertilizer is mud.

So having a swamp area, whether to the south or east, was a somewhat inevitable arrangement.

I could have been unlucky and had to cross an entire biome to find one.

“I should invest some achievement points too.”

I still had 7 achievement points left from completing main quests and hidden quests. Achievement points, which initially seemed to be used for upgrading map effects. When I opened the achievement shop, there were two things I could do with achievement points.

One was to level up the map effects I had seen before.

The other, linked to the first, was to add new effects to the map.

So basically, they’re used to add “mods” to this map and level up those mods.

“Mods, huh…”

I looked at the current map effects and browsed through the mods I could purchase.