When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 73



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73. We have expanded our workforce.

There were various types of ‘abilities’ that Hunters could use.

From magical abilities based on each element, to supernatural abilities that bend the rules of the world.

Although it was consistent that the Hunters used the magical power they had accumulated, the way they utilized that magical power was truly varied.

In the former case.

If you were born with enough affinity for that attribute and had talent for magical powers, you could develop that ability through practice.

Shooting fireballs or cold air at monsters, etc.

This is also the image that first comes to mind when the public thinks of a general supernatural hunter.

But in the latter case, an innate ‘unique constitution’ was needed from the beginning.

Healing powers, mental powers, detection powers, etc.

Each of them has developed a special ability through their own unique innate constitution, and is treated with great importance in the world of hunters.

Among all hunters, there aren’t many who are born with a special constitution, but as you go up the levels, that percentage increases dramatically.

Even if you are a newbie who has just awakened and has not proven anything, if you are born with a special constitution, you will receive scouting offers from all over the place, regardless of whether it is the private sector, government, or overseas.

Those with rare abilities were in themselves very likely to win the lottery.

Of course, even within that, joy and sorrow are divided.

There were some people with special abilities who were treated differently.

Passssss.

“her.”

Oh Hyeon-seong blankly looked behind him.

The sight of a cliff that has literally disappeared.

“This ability… It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.”

There were many rare special constitutions, but the most highly regarded one was the ability to manipulate the concepts of time or space.

In reality, there were very few hunters who could handle time and space, and even if they did, the scope was so limited that it was embarrassing.

However, Choi Jeong-il was born with a unique constitution that allowed him to deal with the realm of space very directly.

If he had awakened yesterday instead of being a first-generation veteran who had been in this industry since its inception, he would have been treated as a supernova worth hundreds of billions of won.

Of course, now it has been expressed somewhat differently from the way Choi Jeong-il originally used it.

“Ugh…”

Choi Jeong-il hesitated and stepped back.

He held his left eye and barely suppressed his throbbing magical power.

His face was furrowed with a swollen expression, and Oh Hyeon-seong, who had come over before he knew it, handed him the blindfold that had fallen to the ground.

“Go, thank you.”

“Are you feeling okay?”

“… I just lost control for a moment. I didn’t know that my powers would suddenly manifest like this…”

Choi Jeong-il shook his head.

He could manipulate space, but he didn’t use it as a direct means of attack as he does now.

This was because the burden on the body was excessive and difficult to control.

It just happened because I lost control for a moment.

‘People often say that people with spatial abilities are suicidal. There’s a reason they say that.’

Oh Hyun-seong thought as he looked at Choi Jeong-il sweating profusely.

It’s not for nothing that there are virtually no people with the ability to touch on the concepts of time and space.

The load placed on the ability user was so enormous that it was impossible for an average body to withstand it.

As you touch the origin and absolute rules of the world, the backlash from your supernatural powers will be strong.

However, Choi Jeong-il found a way to reduce the backlash from his abilities and properly control his power.

Until a few years ago, when I completely lost my eyesight.

“Suddenly, a supernatural ability appeared… How did this happen all of a sudden?”

“I told you before. The crops grown on our farm have the ability to neutralize toxic air.”

“Of course I know that, but…”

Choi Jeong-il stroked the top of his blindfold in a dazed manner.

He knew firsthand what effects crops touched by the spirits had.

But my eyesight was just beginning to recover, and I had never thought that such a drastic change could occur just from eating an apple.

The range of effects was surprisingly large.

“Well, that apple just now wasn’t an ordinary apple. Even by our garden’s standards.”

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“This… This is all your field?”

Yun Seol-ha looked around blankly.

The sight that unfolded around her as she broke through the barrier and entered.

“How is it, do you think I’m a professional farmer?”

“It’s… not to that extent.”

The fields are spread out on a much larger scale than I had imagined.

Although she had been staying at Oh Hyun-seong’s house for quite some time, she had no idea that there was a space like this hidden there.

“Strawberry farming… I thought that was all there was to the greenhouses in front of the houses, but I didn’t know there was a space this big hidden away… I had no idea even though I was here.”

“It’s thanks to the barrier your senior created.”

Oh Hyun-seong nodded his head.

The figure of Han Soo-yeon standing behind her.

It was a delicate barrier that Han Su-yeon had put special care into, so it was natural that even she didn’t notice.

Because I had asked Han Su-yeon directly to do so.

Choi Jeong-il, who had been staying with her for the past few days, already knew about this field, but he was not the kind of person to bring it up first when there was no owner.

“Ah… If it’s the barrier that Senior Sooyeon set up, then that’s understandable. Somehow, the structure of the magical powers seems unusual.”

Even Yoon Seol-ha simply nodded in agreement.

My worries that my senses from my active days were lost were easily blown away.

Her eyes sparkled with wonder and she began to walk around the field, looking around.

“It’s bigger than when I came last time.”

Han Soo-yeon looked around for a moment, then approached him and spoke.

The types of crops also became much more diverse and appeared to be expanding.

“Since I got the original seeds from North Korea, I had to expand the field to plant various things. Thanks to that, it has grown like this.”

“But how can you manage it when it grows this big? Oh, I know you get help from the spirits, but I don’t think the harvest will be manageable.”

I know the spirits are there to help with the management aspect.

The hundreds of lower-level spirits that Oh Hyeon-seong had contracted with were surprisingly very capable in terms of farming, and even if they farmed dozens of times larger than normal farming, it would require much less work.

Pests, weeds, temperature, and even disasters.

As a farmer, you can avoid most of the problems that you would worry about.

But the harvest was another matter.

“I told you here that I don’t sell my crops outside.”

“That’s right. There was such a fuss over one downgraded strawberry, so it’s obvious what kind of uproar there would be if this were released into the market.”

“Then isn’t that too much oversupply? If it were normal farming, it wouldn’t matter, but thanks to the spirits, the growth rate is much faster. With a site this size, there should be plenty of crops left over.”

Crops that grow quickly in as little as a day or half a day.

It is thanks to the touch of the spirits of life.

Of course, the spirits would eat them together as snacks, but it was obvious that Oh Hyeon-seong could not eat all the crops that came out every day by himself.

If we do a simple calculation, a huge amount of inventory will be accumulated every day.

Originally, in farming, it was important to harvest on time.

If you miss the right time, whether it is too early or too late, both the taste and nutrition will be lost, and the product value will drop significantly.

“You don’t have to worry about that part. Just because they’re fully grown doesn’t mean you have to harvest them.”

“You don’t have to harvest?”

“This is something I just found out about, but…”

Oh Hyun-seong approached the apple trees lined up in a row.

All the crops growing here were like this, but the green trees in particular seemed to be brimming with vitality.

Among them, Oh Hyeon-seong, standing in front of the most fragrant tree, picked an apple.

“Okay, listen to one first.”

“uh?”

Oh Hyun-seong placed an apple on Han Su-yeon’s hand.

She was standing there dumbfounded, but when Hyunseong urged her to eat it, she took a bite of the apple.

Crunchy!

“This… This is…”

The texture of the flesh was firm yet chewy and crunchy, and the harmony of sweetness and sourness exploded in my mouth.

Han Su-yeon said, mumbling over the apple that gave her a refreshing feeling.

“It’s so delicious.”

“right?”

“Is this also an apple grown from an original seed? But it tastes different from the apple you sent me last time. They were both delicious, but this one seems to have a bit more depth, should I say?”

“Oh, I know the difference, but what I just ate is not the original seed.”

Crops grown from original seeds taste much better.

All seeds currently on the market have been bred by giving up a lot of things in order to be resistant to the elements, and as a result, both the taste and the nutrients are bound to be inferior to the original.

Even if both are touched by the spirit, the original seeds are much tastier and have a superior neutralizing effect on the turbidity.

But the apple you just ate was not grown from a new plant from the original seed.

‘Rather than saying it was newly planted, it was quite the opposite.’

Oh Hyeon-seong has tried many things on his own while farming.

I even bought seeds of one variety and compared the flavors of each variety.

At the time, he called in Joo Ji-hye, who was a complete stranger, to find out how crops affected the hunter’s mentality.

As part of that effort, there was one thing that came to light relatively recently.

“The longer you keep it, the tastier it gets?”

“Yes, not only the taste, but also the effects on the Awakened’s body have been enhanced.”

Oh Hyun-seong nodded and said.

“The apples you just picked are from an apple tree that I planted when I first came here and cleared the field. It grew quickly from seedling to fruit, but I never harvested it.”

Of the many apple trees he had planted at the time, several remained untouched until now.

If the period of decline was as fast as the growth rate, the fruit should have rotted and fallen long ago, but that was not the case.

The fruits that had been ripened so far remained fresh and became even tastier and healthier.

They were exposed to the clean and ideal environment created by the spirits for a longer period of time and received more nutrients and other good influences.

Another positive change was that the fruit was given a sufficient growing period, rather than rapid growth, to allow the fruit to grow as it should.

“Ah, so that’s why you grew the field like this.”

“Those apples are just for tasting, and the current scale is insufficient to properly ripen other crops.”

“That may be true. You are self-sufficient, senior.”

“So I’m going to try to expand the field. Since you guys are here too.”

“Huh…? Us…?”

Han Su-yeon stopped eating the apple and hesitated.

There was something fishy about his words.

“Oh, you’re here just in time.”

“Senior, I brought it.”

Thud!

Choi Jeong-il got out of a truck parked on the side of the road.

The back of the truck he was pulling was full of thick bags.

These were original seeds brought from the warehouse.

“I brought everything you asked for, but why do you need so many seeds?”

“Well, there is something like that. Okay, everyone gather around!”

At his call, Yun Seol-ha, who was inspecting the field, came and gathered in one place.

The appearance of three tall men and women standing side by side.

Putting social status aside, the simple ransom as a hunter would be an enormous figure.

But that doesn’t mean anything here.

Thud!

Oh Hyeon-seong handed over farming tools one by one.

The juniors who suddenly received the farm tools stared at him.

“Seo…Senior, no way…”

“If you want to eat, you have to work, right?”

Of course, there will be a lot of work.

Because we were given a useless house and land, the untouched land was more than ten times the size of the fields we had reclaimed so far.

“It’s still a long way to go before we finish. Let’s stop there today.”

Dangle!

The gazes of the juniors turned in the direction he was pointing.

There was a brief silence, followed by the sound of a hammer being dropped.

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