Infinite Farmer: A Plants vs Dungeon

Chapter 35: Farmer’s Intuition

Tulland’s leg slipped forward as silently as he could, landing just inside the queen’s throne room with no more noise than a mouse. It might have mattered had the queen really been unaware of his presence. She was not. She knew he was there, something that became incredibly apparent as she turned her massive body on a dime towards him and started moving forward, mandibles clacking.Both of Tulland’s hands flashed as he threw flowers out at the queen. His agility stat might not have been linked up to any combat skills, but it also wasn’t anything to scoff at anymore. He had just spent an entire week practicing throwing things too, something that really helped as he now chucked two mud-weighted flowers at the queen’s antennae stalks. They both pounded their targets with precision, putting a cloud of yellow dust directly into the tools the queen needed to see him.

That may have blinded her, but it definitely did not disable the tough old girl. She was a fast and angry animal, one with massive grasping jaws moving through the room methodically trying to get their target by either luck or brute force

This skill analyzes the interactions between plants, the soil in which they grow, moisture conditions, and fertilizers to inform you of probable outcomes relating to the combination of some or all of those factors. In addition, this new skill now interacts with your existing Farmer skills, introducing the chance of predicting a particularly good outcome from a use of Enhance Plant, Enrich Seed, or interacting with Botanical Engineer.

Tulland leaned back and shut his eyes. This seemed weak at first glance. But he knew more than anyone else how much he had been stumbling in the dark with his farms, praying that he wouldn’t find himself on unfamiliar ground where he’d be unable to grow anything at all.

This skill not only promised to fix that, but it also seemed to have the chance of guiding him towards more and better plant species, to the extent he could create them. Those were great sources of experience, if nothing else, and none had so far proved to be outright useless to him.

For someone who had come into the dungeon not knowing the first thing about farming beyond half-remembered information anyone would know, this skill wasn’t just a crutch. It was like getting the chance to grow an entirely new, healthy leg to replace his own disability. Put short, it was the best news he had since he came to this place.

Tulland put his head back on the boring, nondescript brick wall and took a deep breath. And once he had that breath safely in his lungs, The Infinite’s Dungeon System seemed to decide for him that his time in that room was done. The gray faded away to nothing as the new world of the third floor was suddenly visible to him in all its terrible, thundering glory.