Ch.240240. Crystal Hall

Farming Day is essentially an event.

A buff event where you can acquire many rewards.

You can obtain many resources and rare materials through hunting, and grow a lot of crops on the farm.

Since we weren’t prepared, the first 3-4 days were quite hectic, but by the time Farming Day was ending, everyone had adapted and was spending their time more comfortably.

Our daily routines remained busy as usual, but compared to when Farming Day first started when we ran around for two days straight without sleep, things felt much more relaxed.

All that busy work yielded quite satisfying results.

I focused on traveling around the Ore Vein Mountain Range to mine resources I hadn’t collected before, securing many rare ores.

After all, Farming Day is fundamentally an event focused on crop harvesting.

Although ores aren’t directly related to crops, there are definitely resources that absorb iron energy that only grow around mines, so it was good to gather them at times like this.

This wasn’t some special secret of mine.

For Farming World players, when Farming Day starts, they typically focus on farming crops during the first Farming Day.

On the second Farming Day, if they’re short on Farm points, they continue farming, otherwise they concentrate on searching around nearby mines for mining-related crops.

So when Farming Day ended,

I thought I had achieved quite satisfactory results.

There wasn’t anything I absolutely needed at this point, but just being able to fill the warehouse with resources we didn’t have meant that later, whether it was Lee Ji-hyun or anyone else who needed resources, they wouldn’t have to run around desperately trying to gather them at the last minute.

Once resources are collected, Kim Su-jeong can create varieties to plant and cultivate.

“Phew! First outer wall construction complete!”

“Good job.”

“I’m telling you, working under pressure is the most efficient. Now I need to go inspect if there’s anything crooked.”

“…Take some rest while you work.”

“I can sleep when I’m dead.”

Kim Sol-yi had completed a massive wall surrounding the Level 0 biome and the Steam Forest.

It was amazing enough that she built such a large wall, but even more impressive that she placed everything according to her design specifications.

Although she said it was just a temporary structure built hastily, to me it looked like the Great Wall of China in terms of size and width.

While its actual length probably couldn’t compare to the Great Wall, considering the Bratrium used in its construction, its value might be even greater.

“I might need to mine more Bratrium.”

“…Alright.”

The work never seems to end.

This way, all the farm employees achieved their own results during Farming Day.

Among them, the employee with the most impressive results was Kim Su-jeong, who directly benefited from Farming Day.

“Whew!! Harvest complete! I’m not doing anything for the next three days, so don’t bother me!!”

Kim Su-jeong’s farming cycle before Farming Day was usually once a day.

She would check things in the morning and that was it.

Cultivation happened typically once every 2-3 days.

Even then, she mostly just checked if the Black Monkeys or the Naru tribe were doing their jobs properly, but during Farming Day, she personally went around the Steam Forest and World Tree area eight times a day, at 3-hour intervals, managing crops, harvesting, and actively working.

Her showing off like that was understandable given the effort she had put in.

And the results spoke for themselves.

“Oppa. Do you know what I think about most while farming?”

“Random thoughts.”

“…You know well. As expected. I came up with an amazing business idea that’s really promising.”

“What is it?”

I decided to reward her by listening to and sympathizing with Kim Su-jeong’s wild ideas.

Because I understood her pain and effort.

Well, it’s not like you should do work expecting recognition, but as the farm owner, I couldn’t ignore employee morale.

“I’m going to create Sujeong-dang.”

“Are you running for office?”

“No. What election? I barely have time to rest while farming and drinking coffee. Not that kind of party, it’s a bakery name. Sujeong-dang.”

Kim Su-jeong had mentioned wanting to open a restaurant for ordinary people while farming.

“Sujeong-case is a luxury premium restaurant for VVIP members, right?”

Hearing this, it wasn’t just nonsense or a common farming daydream.

It was a plausible business idea.

Or a hobby.

At Kim Su-jeong’s level, she could try any business that came to mind.

She had enough money to afford failure.

The same goes for Sujeong-dang.

Sujeong-case.

Short for “Sujeong’s Omakase,” it’s already been reviewed by both Michelin and Blue Ribbon simultaneously, and its value continues to rise. It’s a place that partly showcases her cooking skills by selling dishes made from monster meat I hunt or cooking ingredients that can’t be eaten on Earth.

These days, it rarely opens since she doesn’t go out much, but when Kim Su-jeong procures ingredients and opens reservations for Sujeong-case, they fill up in less than five minutes.

In fact, Sujeong-case now allows VVIP members to make reservations 24 hours in advance, followed by VIP members, and then regular members.

Ordinary people naturally don’t get a chance.

The price increases every time it opens, now exceeding 20 million won per person, yet reservations still fill up, meaning price isn’t an issue for VIP and VVIP members.

“You want the Cooking King title among ordinary people too?”

“After working hard growing eco-friendly crops in the fields with dirt on my hands, don’t I deserve that much reward?”

“Anyone would think you’re actually harvesting them yourself.”

Although we haven’t maxed out farming tech or tool tech for complete automation yet,

Kim Su-jeong is essentially running the farm automatically.

The Black Monkeys plant, water, plow, and cultivate everything.

Since the Naru tribe arrived, their farming abilities have helped with the detailed aspects that the Black Monkeys might miss, so she only comes out for supervision.

“So what are you planning to do?”

I teased the pouting Kim Su-jeong a bit and asked about her plan.

As if she’d never been upset, she proudly recited her already prepared plans.

“I’m going to sell bread. I’ll make bread with Petite Farming Sugar and Farming Wheat, along with fruits, and sell them at Sujeong-dang. At affordable prices.”

Kim Su-jeong’s plan was quite detailed.

“I want to attract people to the Farming Department Store. They hardly come except for cosmetics, but if I make them line up 365 days a year and create crowds, won’t people be more interested when we expand our products later?”

From the beginning, our Farming Company’s main consumers aren’t ordinary people.

No matter how many resources we have from the Rift Dimension, our harvest is insufficient to provide for everyone compared to our current production.

But that doesn’t mean we need to exclude ordinary people entirely.

There’s no need for that.

Right now, our tech level is low, automation isn’t in place, and we haven’t explored all biomes, but in the later stages when automation enables mass production, we’ll have enough products and quantity to make money from ordinary people too.

Slowly generating interest isn’t a bad idea.

In that sense, bread was quite a good product.

“No delivery, no shipping, nothing too cheap—more like cakes priced around 50,000 won. But generous portions for the price. What do you think?”

“Throwing out bait?”

“Consider it a donation.”

“Not bad.”

“Producing for about 3,000 people a day wouldn’t be too burdensome.”

A 50,000 won cake might seem expensive depending on your perspective, but these days, cakes at any decent bakery cost at least that much.

Considering that well-filled cakes in department stores can cost up to 100,000 won, it’s actually quite cheap.

Especially if it contains fruits that can only be obtained from the Rift Dimension rather than ordinary fruits.

Plus, if it includes the hard-to-get Petite Farming Sugar?

“Use Farming Sugar instead of Petite Farming Sugar. So people can eat without worrying about blood sugar.”

“Is that okay?”

“Yeah. And 3,000 is too many. Sell only 1,000 a day. Make people line up and wait. And make sure to prevent reselling.”

“Okay.”

“Get people to line up like that, then add one menu item at a time, and later let’s get a subway or SRT, KTX station built in front of our department store.”

“…I didn’t think of making it such a full-scale business.”

“It was a good idea. Work hard on it.”

“Oh.. uh.. ah. I’ve already made one, try it.”

Kim Su-jeong placed a sample cake she had made on the table.

It was quite large, a four-layer cake with red fruits and white cream filling between the layers.

“Strawberry cream cake?”

“Would you call it Star Shiru instead?”

“…”

“It’s a cake made with Star Berries. The cream is made here directly.”

Star Berries look like strawberries but are clearly different.

I scooped up a spoonful of cake and cream, and as I took a bite, tanginess along with sweetness and the fluffiness of the bread filled my mouth all at once.

“Hmm.”

Slightly sweet.

But with Farming Sugar, it doesn’t feel excessive at all.

At the same time, the tanginess of the Star Berries fills my mouth while the fluffiness of the bread absorbs it.

The cream mixes in, making the already soft bread melt as I swallow.

“This would be perfect with a cup of coffee.”

“Right? People who buy the cake get two free cups of coffee made from Farming coffee beans from the Steam Forest.”

It was a bit funny that the first result after Farming Day was just cake, but it was a business item I was looking forward to.