Ch.149149. Supreme Automatic Sprinkler

Shhhhhhh—!

Rain pours down.

No dark clouds, not even overcast weather.

Despite the blazing sun and dry air, the refreshing rain soaks not just my body but the entire field.

“Wooooow!!”

Kim Sujeong exclaims with joy, arms spread wide to welcome the cool downpour.

“This is insaaaaaane!”

Rain is a blessing.

In reality, few people consider rain a blessing.

Farmers might wish for rain during droughts, but ordinary people dislike it—the gloomy atmosphere all day, makeup ruined by humidity, having to use umbrellas for commuting, wet shoes.

People might enjoy zoning out while watching natural rainfall, but few welcome it in their daily lives.

I’m like that.

So is Kim Sujeong.

But here, rain is a blessing incarnate.

Whenever it rains, Sujeong wakes up in the morning and cheers.

“Yahoo! I get to sleep two more hours!”

Originally, watering the crops didn’t take two hours, so when it rained, she would just relax with a cup of coffee while watching the gentle rainfall. But now that she’s expanded the fields and planted more crops, she spends nearly two hours just watering. For Sujeong, rain means an opportunity to sleep in.

Of course, she’s not just watering—she’s harvesting and doing other work simultaneously.

Installing copper sprinklers throughout might be more efficient, but they don’t perform very well. They lack automatic water-filling capabilities, requiring manual refills every few days. Their coverage area is also limited, meaning a vast field would need an enormous amount of copper. Plus, they don’t look particularly good, so we’ve been doing it manually.

“Can you do this every day?” Sujeong asked me.

I shouted for a different reason.

“Insane!!”

The moment Unir raised her arms to summon rain, my mana tank, which had been enormous, drained as if someone had punched a hole in it. It felt like 300-400 mana disappeared at once.

Checking confirmed exactly 400 mana had vanished.

“You’re really a mana-eating hippo, aren’t you?”

“Yur!”

Unir spins around happily, thinking it’s a compliment.

Looking at the thoroughly moistened field, I had to admit her performance was impressive.

Not for nothing is she a top-tier water elemental.

The ability that suggests a connection to an Elemental King—summoning rain across this vast area with just a gesture.

Creating and spraying water isn’t as simple as it looks.

It’s essentially a spell.

In other words, she cast a spell across the entire field area.

She only sprayed water because that’s what I asked her to do.

What if I had asked her to use it as an area attack?

Would the monsters inside even have had a chance to dodge?

Considering that, losing 400 mana doesn’t seem like such a big cost.

For an area effect of this scale, 400 mana might actually be reasonable?

What’s clear is that I need to develop SS-grade magical power as soon as possible to activate the 50% mana consumption reduction.

Even elemental skills benefit from Light Magic Sword’s effect—another win for Light Magic Sword today.

Though I made a fuss momentarily, the experiment was still a great success since I have enough mana to use it.

“I want you to water the field like this once every morning when you wake up. Can you do that?”

“Yurururu!”

Unir seemed pleased to have a job to do.

“I can’t believe it. My liberation from watering crops has come so quickly. I’m moved to tears.”

Kim Sujeong pretended to kneel and cry on the spot.

“You’re making such a fuss when you’ve only been doing it for a few days.”

“Oppa! Do you know the pain and endurance it takes?”

“Better than you do.”

“Right? You said you did it for 10 years. How did you manage for 10 years?”

“You just empty your mind and do it. It’s manageable as a daily routine.”

Of course, I didn’t water crops for all 10 years, but as someone who’s spent more time watering than Sujeong, I understand her feelings.

Some people dress up watering as “patience training,” but really, it’s just something you do manually when you don’t have enough resources for sprinklers. If you can replace it with sprinklers, not doing so would be foolish.

It would be stupid not to use an SSS+ ability and raise magical power to S-rank, which comes with a top-tier automatic alarm sprinkler system as a bonus.

Night came with Unir.

“The cabin’s getting lively now.”

To celebrate her cooking ability, Sujeong prepared various dishes that filled the table.

“Are your points okay?”

“Oppa, I saved up a lot of points from farming. And only these two dishes used recipes. The rest are YouTube-style. With cooking ability, everything just comes together well even without recipes.”

The quality of the food on the table had definitely improved.

As Sujeong said, two dishes were made with recipes, so they tasted good and provided small buff effects that were immediately noticeable.

Though not particularly necessary at night, I was already looking forward to the collaboration between cooking and farming.

Jee Hyun. Kim Sujeong. Me. Lulu. Unir.

Our cabin family had grown to five people. We’d been using a six-person table that was quite spacious, but now it was almost full.

I wondered if we could finish all the food, but as we talked and ate, we nearly cleared everything.

Lulu and Unir, despite their small frames, ate more than the rest of us combined, competing with each other.

“Urp… It’s so delicious, Miss Sujeong!”

“Lulu, thank you for always eating well.”

“Yuuuu!”

“Aww, Unir. Thank you for eating well too. Let’s get along well from now on, okay?”

“Yu…!”

Unir’s initial wariness toward Sujeong had diminished considerably.

Perhaps because she provides delicious food.

But that didn’t mean she allowed the excited Sujeong to rub her cheeks.

She startled and hid behind me.

It really feels like having a cat.

“I’ve completed a prototype of the mud potion, boss.”

Jee Hyun reported her progress.

While I was working on the main quest, she had been quietly developing in her room and had invented a potion to take out this time.

“The Naru tribe already proved its effectiveness, but since they’re elves with naturally good skin, I tested it myself. After using it for a few days, the results were visibly noticeable. This could really be sold as a cosmetic product.”

“…You just wanted to use it yourself, didn’t you?”

“That’s right, unni. If you had something like that, you should have given it to me first as your superior!”

“Ha…hahaha… I wasn’t sure if there might be side effects.”

“Please give me some too. As an employee benefit, I should try it. My skin’s been suffering from working in the sun all day farming.”

“Sure, I’ll give you some after dinner.”

Mealtime was the only time everyone gathered in the cabin to talk, so various work topics came up.

The mud potion could be mass-produced in one go, and the rare resources needed could be gathered from swamps or grown from the species recipe Sujeong received from the Naru tribe. I was seriously considering launching a cosmetics company.

A massive resource corporation.

A unique multi-resource processing company not found anywhere in the world?

My goal is to create a Farming Company that sells all resources from the Rift Dimension.

I don’t have any grand reason or dream.

Earth is where I live, and selling what I get from the Rift Dimension this way gives me motivation to farm diligently.

I can’t sell exclusively through Gwangjin Distribution forever.

I’ll create a brand called Farming Company and incorporate Dad’s Gwangjin Distribution into it.

That makes both selling and buying easier.

I realized the importance of infrastructure when I met Kelin.

No matter how much money you have, relying on others is troublesome.

That’s why I’m planning a multi-faceted Farming Company.

“This next trip will be so fun. I’m so nervous. Me, a chef! I wasn’t planning to go this time, but… hehehe.”

This trip might bring a significant Farming Company wind to the world.

“But oppa, isn’t the auction a bit underwhelming this time? Do you have anything prepared?”

Every time, we’ve attracted attention with rare resources and item auctions, but this time I’ve prepared something different.

The mud potion will likely go out as a prototype, and Gwangjin Distribution VIP members will have the opportunity to taste blood eel omakase.

Jee Hyun is also making a blood eel stamina supplement, but it’s not ready for this trip, so as Sujeong said, the impact might be a bit lacking.

It’s actually unusual to sell items worth billions or trillions every time, so it wouldn’t matter if things were a bit bland this time, but I’m not one to be satisfied with that.

“I still have some unscratched lottery tickets left.”

I don’t know if any jackpot tickets will be revealed here, but I’ve moved the unidentified items outside to open them tomorrow.