Volume 1 - CH 8

When I got back to my cave, I took the magic iron ore and made a hoe. I tried hitting the ground with the completed hoe. It dug into the ground with a nice crunch without taking much strength. It seems like I can somehow use this.

I tilled the ground such that I would be able to plant the ten seeds I had collected earlier. I’d heard that tilling the ground would be a very taxing job, however thanks to land working technique I basically felt nothing.

Thanks to the cultivation skill I knew how to do it right. This is a skill, huh. It’s quite convenient. After the ground was tilled, I planted the seeds.

I spaced them out at regular intervals so they wouldn’t get in the way of each other’s growth. Then I watered them using water magic. It seems that using water containing magic is indispensable for a momon’s growth time. Conversely, as long as you have magic water it’ll grow well.

That’s why it was perfect that I’d acquired water magic. I planted the ten seeds.  Satisfied with that, I took down a wolf for dinner and ate it.

I washed off in the river and then headed back to the cave.

Using the now leveled up earth magic I moved more dirt over the entrance of the cave. I’d covered the entire entrance, sans a small hole to allow for air flow.

Compared to yesterday I was able to let out a lot more earth magic at once. Even so, it was yet to reach the level where I could use it in battle. Actually, with this earth magic wouldn’t I be able to make a field anywhere?

All of my skills were growing little by little. Thinking about the future like this I was feeling quite excited.

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After that I spent five days looking around the surroundings. However overall, there weren’t really any new results worth mentioning. I’d found a new monster called a slime, but it was a rather annoying thing to kill, so it took some time to hunt.

But thanks to that was able to get myself 5000 points. It was pretty hard to get here. If I had to say what the problem was, it would be the fact that I’d killed 25 of all the monsters in the surroundings.

Unless I find new monsters to fight, I won’t be able to earn any more points. Then I can’t roll the gacha… It would probably be best if I were to get ready for a long-distance relocation.

When I got back to the cave, before giving the gacha a roll I took a look at the momon seeds I’d planted in my garden. The stalks had grown to be quite large, and each plant had about five fruits the size of a person’s head. So, each seed produces four or five momon fruits, huh.

It makes more fruit than I’d expected. Thanks to the cultivation skill, I might be able to go at this pace and live without having to go out and fight.

Of course, I hadn’t confirmed whether it would remain stable at like this or not. It’s spring right now, but later on in the year it might become a lot harder to get by.

Especially in the winter. If I faced winter in this condition, I would probably freeze to death. If I was attacked by monsters, then it would be a big problem. And the general ecosystem of the area might change along with the passing of seasons.

Even stronger monsters might come out. I need to prepare for that by getting stronger little by little. Well for now I guess I’ll have a try of the momon’s I grew.

I took a bite out of one. It’s very tender! And above all else, its taste is spectacular. It might even be better than the momon’s I’d found growing in the wild. It’s like this with cultivation skill of level one… If I were to raise the level of cultivation, then it might taste even better!

As I thought, it’s imperative that I hunt more monsters to get more points. After that I went into the cave so I could roll the gacha.

I confirmed that my points were at 5000 on the gacha screen. It seems that this is how many points I can make at the moment. I can only pray that a good skill will come out.

I prayed to god like usual. My life depends on this. With those feelings, I pressed the button for the eleven-time gacha. Then a gold chest appeared. From that came four bronze, three silver, three gold, and one rainbow.

…Perhaps the eleven-time gacha has a guarantee of at least one rainbow?

Thinking so, I checked the bronze skills.

Well, I don’t really need to think much of this part. The important ones are what’s coming up. Especially with the silver skills that have a lot of skills for supporting my lifestyle.

I checked the silver skills.

All of them were new skills. I gave hand to hand fighting technique a look.

I see. Perhaps I’ll be able to fight without a weapon from now on. Compared to sword technique and dagger technique, this can be used in a lot of different situations so it might be a great skill.

Next, I took a look at my cooking technique skill.

I see-. So basically, with this I can get seasonings like they have in the upper world!

Salt, pepper, and perhaps even that soy sauce that’s been imported from abroad recently. By seasoning, does that mean that I can now make spice like things? I have nothing to enjoy in life besides food after all.

I’ll have to check out what I can make later on. I’ve got to check out what I got from the gacha for now. The next thing I checked was smithing technique.

I see. I took a look at the sword I was carrying and used blacksmithing technique.

It seems that the sword has gotten quite worn out. That’s to be expected of course. I didn’t have a whetstone so there was nothing I could do about that. But now that I have smithing technique, won’t I have no problems regarding that from now on?

For now, if I use magic iron ore on the sword it seems I can raise its durability. I’ll have to look for some iron magic ore first thing tomorrow.

Well then, the things I’ve gotten so far have been pretty good, but it’s time to check out the gold and rainbow skills.

I confirmed the gold ones.

Wind magic is now. I can’t think of anything to use it for at the moment though. Perhaps I can use it to dry out my clothing?

That was about all I could come up with. For now, I can only level up my magic skills so I can make them usable in battle.

Last but not least is rainbow. I prayed inwardly as I looked at it.

H- here it is!