121 Chapter 121

“System, be honest with me, are there other functions that you are not telling me?” Rezen asks, his heart filled with doubt

If he knew that his farm could absorb spirit plants he would have done so already. That’s safer than regularly hunting for magic beasts. The time and energy spent on hunting could have been poured into the cultivation of Rezen and his people

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“System…”

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“Be honest with me”

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“Come on, tell me”

[The Host should continue to strengthen himself]

Rezen can only purse his lips while giving up. Seems like he has to explore the system’s hidden functions on his own

He shook his head and he was about to continue planting the other seeds he received from Kacy when he received a call

Rezen took out his phone and saw that the caller was actually his mother

His parents are in their ‘retirement traveling phase’. Rezen’s family although not rich is still at least average

No, in fact, they might be a bit above average considering that his parents even gave him a farmhouse (that is now destroyed) and a small farm with 2 acres for his hobby

Rezen rarely received calls or messages from his parents as those two seems to have been in another honeymoon phase, unwilling to be disturb

“When they return, I’ll make sure to give them a nice surprise!” Rezen thought with a smile

His parents were pretty good and kind. They loved him wholeheartedly unlike other parents that are either emotionally distant or emotionally unavailable

Rezen loves his parents and when they return, he’ll use his resources to give them a better life

After all, although his parents can travel to some tourist destinations, that cannot be a regular thing since they are not rich

Both of his parents have their pensions despite not being senior citizens yet and also own some company stocks. Although they wouldn’t be rich if it’s just their basic needs, they don’t even need to work

But now, Rezen is a bit well-off not in the standard of ‘normal people’ but of the mages. He could let his parents travel as much as they want

“Mom!” Rezen greeted happily

“Hello baby, how are you?”

“I’m doing good!”

“That’s good to hear. Well, I just called you to let you know that I and your dad will be returning soon! We have a lot of souvenirs for you, share some with Neil!”

“I also have a surprise! Come back soon, okay?”

“Alright, alright, we would look forward to that. I’ll go now, your dad still wants to swim on the beach!”

When the call ended, Rezen started his work again

There are still seeds that he hadn’t planted before and he also planned on planting normal seeds and letting them mutate

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The next day

“Master, we are back!”

Zero’s words were accompanied by a loud oinking noise and Rezen went out of his Mushroom Home

“Hello, what did you capture today?” Rezen asks

Originally, Zero and the others already captured a few magic beasts. Rezen placed them far from the mini-forest but nevertheless, all the magic beasts still died

When the black snakes attacked, the captured magic beasts that were bound and made sure they cannot escape or move were also attacked

The defenseless magic beasts were thus killed and Rezen ordered Zero and the others to capture more

“Master, in this trip, we captured two Crystal Antler Pigs and one Scorpion-tailed Bull. After settling the magic beasts, we planned on going on another trip” Zero answered respectfully

Capturing magic beasts is harder than killing them. Furthermore, they have to drag the magic beasts back to the farm while fending off the attack from other magic beasts

As such, capturing three magic beasts in one trip is already a result that is more than satisfactory

“Good job!” Rezen praised as they walked to the area where the magic beasts were held

Rezen allocated another acre of his ten acres of land for the magic beasts. He doesn’t have much manpower but since all of them are Tattoo Warriors, the Artificial Humans managed to completely surround the 1 acre of land with a fence

The fence was created from a mutated wood that Rezen planted. The seed is originally a seed of a tree with a hard wood but it mutated into a gray ironwood

Even Rezen’s punch can barely make a dent in that wood

“Master!”

The other artificial humans stopped what they were doing and greeted Rezen that waved his hand at them

“Continue!” He ordered

The three magic beasts are all injured, the bones from their limbs were all broken and their figure was also drenched with blood

Even then, they are still struggling while the artificial humans were trying to bind their bodies with an elastic vine that has similar characteristics to rubber

“I wouldn’t be thrown to jail for animal cruelty, right?” Rezen mused

These magic beasts are captured so that their blood would be continuously extracted

Their blood is needed to boil the Blood Evolution Ginseng. After the spirit plants absorbed the boiled blood with ginseng, they would have the ability to continuously evolve by consuming more blood

Rezen intended to use these magic beasts as a blood bank. He can draw out their blood until they were on the brink of death then feed them recovery pills and repeat

It’s a bit cruel but Rezen has to continue increasing his personal power along with the power of his forces

Just the black snakes alone already caused him to suffer severe casualties

If his defensive units evolved when they fought the black snakes, a lesser number of them would die

Soon, the magic beasts were finally bound with the elastic vine. No matter how much they resist, they couldn’t break the vines on their bodies

“Good work! I’ll take it from here!” Rezen said and his subordinates nodded their heads before they went out again to capture more magic beasts

Rezen jogged on another part of his farm as he dug the soil to pull out the Blood Evolution Ginseng

Of the thousand ginseng seeds that he planted, only around 500 of them mutated into Blood Evolution Ginseng. This was a mutation rate that was way higher before his farm was upgraded

The remaining 500 ginseng although didn’t mutate is still better than other ginseng. They are still not at the level of spirit plants but they already contain traces of mana

To normal people, the ginseng would be a great tonic

Rezen separated the mutated ginseng from the normal ginseng and stored them

After that, he went to grab several large water storage before returning to the area where the magic beasts are held captive

Rezen fed them with recovery pills first to help them recover. Even if these magic beasts recovered, their whole body are already covered with vines, they couldn’t escape

“We all have our circumstances, sorry for this” Rezen said as he used magic to leave a wound on one of the Crystal Antler Pig

“Oink!!! Oink!!”

The pig issued a pained and angered sound but Rezen ignore it. He placed the large water storage near the pig’s wound to catch the blood

This pig was very large, it should be at least 2.5 meters long and more than 1 meter tall

Such a large body naturally stored a lot of blood

“This method is too crude. It seems like I have to search for a method that would make the drawing of blood more convenient” Rezen thought and after the large water storage was filled with blood, he took out the Blood Evolution Ginseng

He doesn’t know the blood to ginseng ratio since the system description doesn’t have it but in his mind, the more the better!

As such, Rezen decided to use 100 ginseng each for the large water storage

He placed the ginseng inside the water storage before activating his Mystic Tattoo

The circular tattoo on his stomach releases intertwining tattoo lines that covered his body

Soon, the power of the sun covered his body and Rezen gathered them in his hand

His hand became warmer to the point that if he touch someone, no doubt that the unlucky person would receive severe burn wounds

Rezen controlled the power of the sun as he dipped his hand into one of the water storages to boil the blood

Only when the Blood Evolution Ginseng was boiled in blood would they be of use to spirit plants

Rezen controlled the output of his power so as to not burn the ginseng or cause all the blood to evaporate

It didn’t take that long before the large water storage filled with blood boiled and bubbled

The fishy nasty scent of blood was originally already not pleasant to the nose but even more so after the blood and ginseng were boiled

The scent became more intense and even Rezen was filled with disgust

“I just hope that my spirit plants wouldn’t retain this scent. If not, even a hundred showers might not be enough to wash the scent”