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I log back in.

Time-wise, its noon inside the game.

Welcome baack~.

Im back. Is Ertz-san on lunch break now?

Yeep.

Then Ill be going to do some shopping. Im thinking of making a soup.

Should I make bowls in that case?

Ah, yes please do.

Leave it to mee~.

After logging in, I asked Primula-chan who was there, to make some bowls for the soup. Now lets go find some store with vegetable ingredients.

A soup with just the onions and cabbage I have on me would feel too lonely.

For a boar stew there is no soy sauce or miso, so this is troubling.

Instead trying the stalls, lets go take a look inside of the stores.

Welcome.

A young woman is attending the store.

Compared to the stalls lining up outside, the store lined up ingredients in a much cleaner manner.

Stands sell ingredients as they were gathered, but the store did process the ingredients a little is how it feels? As a Japanese, Im more familiar with the store style.

Honestly, their price is not very different.

More importantly, there was something that got me interested more than vegetables have.

They dealt in ingredients other than salt and pepper.

Do stores deal with more luxurious goods?

Spices here were far more expensive compared to vegetables, salt and pepper were quite cheap compared to other spices.

Bay leaf and olive oil also virgin oil, hm?

[Material] Bay LeafRarity: NoQuality: C

A seasoning mainly used to remove bad smell from the meat.

10 uses possible.

[Material] Pure OilRarity: NoQuality: C

Commonly used Olive Oil.

50 uses possible

[Material] Virgin OilRarity: RaQuality: C

Top quality Olive Oil.

What Outsiders call Extra-Virgin Olive Oil.

50 uses possible.

A bag of Bay Leaf costs 50...

One Pure Oil bottle costs 250...

One Virgin Oil bottle costs 3000

As expected, the extra one is way too expensive.

If I remember well, bay trees and olive oils production area was nearly the same. Which means, it comes from the same place over here too?

Are you looking for seasonings?

Are those two coming from the same location?

Yes, they are. They are a specialty of the Southern Inbamunt.

Inbamunt the port in the South, wasnt it.

Yes, if you want to buy some, now is the time.

Now is the time are they going to be out of stock?

The Coatl that started living near the road is getting in the way, so...

Ahh, so the distribution is being crushed.

Yes it wont run out completely, but due to escort costs, the price will grow and the stock will definitely decrease...

This is, well, that. Its about the bosses that are in East, West, South and North.

North has the Golem, East has a bear, West has a snake and South - a Coatl.

In other words, it will start affecting the distribution system soon...

In any case.

Do you have any recommendations for seasonings to use with a Boar Meat?

Oh, in that case you should use Bay Leaf. First put in meat and bay leaf, then remove the scum before putting in vegetables. One piece for two peoples portion is the common amount used.

"I see so bay leaf is a must have...

[Material] KuuelRarity: NoQuality: C

Baked El thats often used for sprinkling over cuisine.

10 uses possible.

[Material] ShiielRarity: NoQuality: C

Baked El thats often used for sprinkling over cuisine.

10 uses possible.

[Material] ElruRarity: NoQuality: C

Commonly used oil devoid of smell that is extracted from El.

Called by Outsiders the Salad Oil.

50 uses possible.

[Material] ElntaRarity: NoQuality: C

Commonly used oil extracted from El.

50 uses possible.

These are black sesame and white sesame seeds.

Elnta is the one commonly known Sesame Oil, while Elru is raw Salad oil.

Then Ill take 10 of Bay Leaf and five each of Kuuel and Shiiel, one each of Pure Oil and Elnta, and two of Elru.

Coming right up!

Price-wise Virgin Oil is, well, I cant say that I cant afford it but with my Cooking skill, its still too early. I am currently in the middle of raising it, after all.

Other than that, I also purchased onions and cabbage, carrots and yams, as well as garlic.

Lets take 20 of each vegetable. ...Why only potatoes were renamed to yams? Is this some perversion of the person who set this?

...Players will call them potatoes anyway I bet.

Thank you very much~.

I left the store and returned to where Primula-san and Ertz-san were.

Oo, youre back. I got your bowls.

Ah, Ertz-san. Did Primula-san go for a lunch?

Yeah, and she left me to take care of her stall.

So you can do things like that.

I dont recommend it though. Trust is required for it is all Ill say.

I see.

Speaking of which, do they know about the distribution trouble? Its a fairly important issue.

By the way, I just heard from a store clerk that it looks like the distribution is going to start stagnating, goods will grow scarce and prices will go up, did you know about this?

"...Seriously?

I heard about the goods from the port town in the South, but the reason behind it is was the Coatl that lives on the way there.

Does that mean, no way eh, all four sides towns will?

The Coatl mob in question is the Southern boss, there is a possibility of that.

Certainly, those bosses are getting in the way, so there is a high possibility of distribution stagnating. Two weeks, huh...

Considering the possibility of being attacked, it requires courage to travel. If escort costs increase, it means that prices will also increase.

But this beats me. Is opening West first the correct choice? Potions are already in a horrible state, so if the distribution with West dies well be done for, you know? And the East was the source of Field Rations, wasnt it?

In any case, the moment distribution stagnates, its already a problem. Residents having problems = us having problems.

With that said, Im a crafter. I cant do anything about a boss. If anything, there is a possibility that this is a type of event...

Ahhh, I see. If we beat them, then thats fine. If we dont, the distribution stagnation event proceeds is it?

This is an online game, after all. It wouldnt be strange if it progressed in real time, would it? Residents are so real here, it would not be strange if Residents acted accordingly in this situation. And that would become an event.

We dont know when will it begin, its possible we might already be in the middle of the event

Agreed.

There is no announcement. Maybe because there is a possibility of the quest not activating.

Or maybe the quest will activate for players, but Residents are already moving before that.

In the latter case it could be interesting. If we continue to interact with Residents we can prepare beforehand. In other words, we can have an early start for the event.

...But there is no precedent so we dont know if that is the case.

Well today Im doing Cooking. ...Huh? Can it be that there is no pot in here?

There is no pot in the Beginners Cooking Kit...

How could this be...

Go buy a non-beginners Cooking Kit. It costs about 7000.

Expensive, isnt it?

The beginners one is ultimately just for trying out, ysee. The normal ones contents increase all at once. In general, crafters buy them right away.

By the way, kits all get upgraded by overwriting with additional contents.

In other words, in the Cooking Kit there is no content of the Beginners Cooking Kit. In other words, there is a need to buy them all and merge them together.

You can use them even without merging them, but they will be treated as different items and take more space in inventory, so there is no reason not to merge them.

Well, its pretty much made so because not to make us pay for the same thing twice. The merging work has to be done only at the start, so its not that troublesome. I guess we can be grateful.

Cooking is one thing, but does smithings furnace not change from the beginners one?

No, you get upgrade parts you put on it and it turns more luxurious.

Ohh, so thats why they get upgraded by overwriting with additional things.

Because they both get overwritten, and get new stuff. I think Cookings frying pan received a lid? I didnt touch on Cooking so I cant say for sure, but I think I saw someone use it.

Well, lets go and buy it right away. I do have money I earned from leather.

Sure.

I walk North, to Grannys general store.

Do you have a Cooking Kit?

Are you going to do it seriously?

Yes. The beginners one is lacking so many things.

Well, its for complete amateurs after all. And Alchemy?

I havent touched on it yet.

That so. Itll be 7000.

[Tool] Cooking KitRarity: NoQuality: C

A portable Cooking Kit for a novice cook.

I pay and receive the kit before leaving Grannys store.

Now, lets go back to where Ertz-san and others are.

When I returned, Primula-san was already back.

The method to merge kits was to drag & drop from either one to another, so lets merge them right away

And place!

Ta-daah, something that looks like a kitchen has appeared.

Isnt it getting way super serious all at once?

You might think so, but to do cooking this much is a must have, isnt it? Also, look well?

What is it?

It's a paper mch...

Yeah! There is no faucet, no cooking stove or induction heating. This is just an evolution of the brazier you were using from the beginners one.

Does this mean I can do charcoal cooking? But isnt lack of water a fatal problem?

You dont have magic, Princess?Wateris the tap water here.

Ahh, I see.

The drainage does work or rather, the water that passes through it disappears. That part received game treatment.

And my new cooking tools are...

A frying pan and a lid. One small pot for a single person. A pot for six people. Lids for both.

Whats left is what is this cylinder?

Oh, this is a cylinder to use with smoking. SoKnowledge of Smokingis confirmed.

Hooh, you mean there will be smoked meat?

Looks like it. There is also a bamboo steamer and a plate for steamed cuisine.

It changed a fair bit, hasnt it?

Yes. The mysterious frying pan I was using also changed. The frying pan is now iron, and pots are made with copper I guess from my perspective this is a great help, but Im not sure about beginners?

Is something off with it?

These cooking tools can be said to be all of top level, but since they are different from ones with coating on the surface, they require different tricks and know-how to be used well. What is important is just how much does this game reproduce...

The time everything takes has been reduced by a lot, but the steps themselves are all reproduced.

Which means it is better to test it? In which case, lets use Elru.

First clean both the pot for six people and the frying pan next, put water in the pot and put it on top of the fire.

Its a pot for six people, so I put in three Bay Leaves just as I was told to. With this I have 9 uses remaining.

After confirming the water temperature I put in Bay Leaves, then and when it started boiling I put in sliced meat, before finally taking out scum together with Bay Leaves. Then I put in vegetables and lastly, check the taste there.

I retained the unused, remaining chips of vegetables and started frying them on the frying pan. I finished them in between preparing the soup, and left them be.

I only have salt to season it, which makes me a little sad, but it cant be helped.

Adjusting the taste I gradually stewed it until it completed

Cooking reached level 15.

CookingsKnowledge of Steamingwas acquired.

It displayed x6, so I poured the soup into bowls, emptying the pot.

When I scooped it with a ladle, a single persons portion was used up, and when I poured, a single persons portion was added to the bowl.

And then, I start making soup once again.

In general, its a repetition of the same work. Lets do my best mass-producing it.

[Cuisine] Full of Ingredients Brown Boar Soup Rarity: NoQuality: C+

A simple salted soup.

Boar Meat has been properly processed, so it has no smell and is easy to eat.

Satiety +25

Contents: Bowl, Spoon

Cook: Anastasia

Tableware: Primula

After eating and taking a bath, I prepared myself to sleep before logging in again for the evening.

As usual, Ertz-san and Primula-san were crafting while selling things on their stalls.

Isnt crafting going up kind of fast?

Thats just early on.

Yup yup, only at the start.

Same as other skills?

Its a bit easier to level than other skills.

Yeah. I mean, otherwise there would be too few things we could do, right? At first the skill quickly goes up and the number things we can do increase. From a crafters perspective, that is where the real thing starts, and we stand on the starting line.

Yup, yup. The first stage is to learn this game, and its Skills. Then the second stage starts to be the real thing where you work through trial and error, doing everything you can to get some originality~.

I see...

If you know the way to do things and all the tricks, then its possible to reach the secondary skill within two, three days. Oh and, you need people who will deliver you materials, too.

My Cooking has already passed 15, that is certainly possible.

Ohh, thats fast! Once you get the secondary tier Skill, it stops going up fast and is the same as in other online games!

If anything, there is the feeling of getting to the real thing when you max out the first crafting Skill...

Certainly, crafting in online games is often hard to level.

The numbers required for leveling up range from thousands of crafts to tens of thousands.

Well, from Managements perspective, it would be troubling for them if it was cleared too fast.

While we were talking about this, Honehone-san a.k.a. Ske-san had come over.

Well, he is a Skeleton.

A PT invite came from Ske-san, so I accept.

Princess! I safely found it!

Eh, there was something?

There was! ...A disturbing one.

Mine was also that disturbing, but what was it?

Necronomicon...

"...How many SAN points did you lose?

Oh, Princess, you in the know?

I lightly read a rule book that Rina bought before.

Ah, Akirina-chan. Right.

Mine was Royal Flesh well, it was a heart.

So, Skeleton gets a Necronomicon.

It looks like since he learned of it yesterday, he was skimping on sleep as he searched, to finally find it.

But yeahh, there were way too few hints And that trial? A work of the devil...

My own was hintless and I had to learn by constantly dying.

In my place it was a bullshit hard puzzle But Im expecting a lot now. Speaking of bones and intelligence test, it must be a Lich, right?

You need to raise your level then.

I feel like it will still take some time. Well, lets go with my build as is. I feel like I could not go there until I evolved until this point.

So your current race is a requirement? Its not impossible I guess?

Yup, it is plenty possible that Mage was a requirement. What is left is the type of magic that needs to be acquired, and the possibility of Skill build also influencing it.

Sounds plausible it does feel like there would be special evolutions that do not require a key item, which are based on builds.

Thinking of unique monsters, it is possible. And not just builds, there could also be playstyle-based emergence?

Yeah, that sounds interesting.

Without surprises like this, it would be hard for Inhuman population to increase, I guess?

Well it IS full of dreams, isnt it?

Yeah, true Did Alf find something?

I havent heard anything from Aflreet-san yet.

I see well, this should do for today, so Ill be going off.

Since he safely found it and has work tomorrow, he will go to eat and go to sleep right away, said Honehone-san and logged out.

...He must have been lacking sleep.

I see Honehone-san off and return to diligent cooking.

First, lets raise Cooking to the second tier. I can do trial and error after that.

I can do Alchemy after Cooking.

When the time to sleep came, I put away the kit, receive proceeds from Primula-san. And surprise, I earned 45k. I am very pleased.

After that, I take a room in an inn, do stretches and log out.

In real, I do stretches and Im off to sleep.

Good night.