With the help of the Goddess of Taming explaining for a bit, Elaina soon gained an idea of how to access the pages of the Almanac that seemed to be sealed. There are plenty of pages she can access, Cooking, Entertainment, Fishing, Invention, Smithing, and even some stuff that are unrelated to farming. However, seeing that they are all here, it must mean that there are some uses that she can take advantage of. More knowledge means more power. After all, the more things she knows, the more things she can even do.
"So to unlock any of these pages, I just needed to finish the missions that are associated with them?" Elaina asked.
"[Yes. It might sound simple, but it is not. Most of the missions attached to the pages are meant to be hard. They are something that you will have to achieve slowly and surely. Of course, there are easier parts but not all of them are. It is designed for the sake of your progression.]"
"Is that right? So the information will help me but if I want them unlocked, I have to do a mission associated with them?"
"[Yes. How about checking them out? Perhaps you already achieved a few of them and you are already progressing. You can also check out what those pages will be if you unlocked them so that you can look forward to it while you progress to the quest.]"
With the help of the Goddess of Taming, Elaina followed her instructions and she finally got an idea on the pages. All of them are indeed useful. Cooking pages give some secret recipes if unlocked some tips to increase the quality of the dish, and many other secrets that enhance the result of cooking. Same with the others as well and all of them are very easy to do, it’s just that most of their missions are something she cannot do immediately as they need to be an accumulated attempt like the cooking pages and the fishing pages.
Unlock conditions: Cook 100 different dishes of a complex variety. (Complex Variety means cooking food with 5 or more ingredients in their cooking procedure. A variety of the same dish is not counted as an individual dish.
Unlock Conditions: Fish up an accumulated 5000 fish. Repeated fishes are fine and any creatures that can be fished up like crabs, shrimp, and others are also counted. Hand Fishing, Spearfishing, or any type of fishing counts as long as a fish is caught.
Those are the most notable quests she needed to do and what she felt as something that could be done easily. But Elaina’s eyes landed on another page that she had been curious about and the very first pages that she could not access.
Unlock Conditions: Relieve your stress and boredom using any type of Entertainment 100 times. Done alone or by group counts. Any type of entertainment also counts, whether it is singing, dancing, watching a play, playing a game or just doing a hobby.
Entertainment Pages. It is kind of vague for Elaina what this is and what kind of usefulness she can get from this. Not only that. Based on the topic and the quest, it seems the Entertainment being mentioned here is something about things like music, dance, operas, games, and plays.
But why is it part of the almanac though? She never felt the need to sing a song, dance around, or watch operas and plays. She does that in courtesy back when she was an empress but she is naturally not that interested in those things. Perhaps playing an instrument is different and playing games does something, but what is the main purpose of this and how does this help her in her farming?
She doesn’t know. After all, she will only know its purpose once she unlocks it. Out of all the easy missions, this mission is the very first mission that is very easy to complete.
"Can you at least give me a clue on this one?" ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ NoveI(F)ire.net
"[Unfortunately, that is beyond my jurisdiction. Before the associated god will speak to you, you will have to unlock their pages first before being able to know what their deal with this matter.]"
Elaina can only shake her head. "Looks like I am alone in this matter. Well, I will just passively do it and hope that it reaches that number by the time I get to do so."
Elaina’s targets to choose from are the Cooking Pages and the Fishing pages. Elaina somehow has some ideas on what will happen if she unlocks the pages and she is looking forward to it. It might take some time, but she is confident she will unlock them slowly.
"Well, that is enough break time. We should continue to work. It’s almost summertime. I should begin to clear the remaining areas to begin growing crops," Elaina stood up and put back her gloves on her hands as she picked up her sickle.
Once the strawberries are in full bloom, she will start the final harvest for them before she starts clearing them. It is a waste indeed but Elaina knew that these plants would no longer be able to give any worth until spring came back. If she got a greenhouse though, that would be a different idea as she can just plant an out-of-season crop and keep it all year round.
As for the cucumbers, they are still possible to grow during summer and they still work well during that time so she will not clear them out. Summer will be the best time for all crops to properly grow as well as some of the best-selling crops she knew in the market are primarily summer crops.
While she is thinking about the plans she will be making in the future, her mind can’t help but wander through the pages of the Almanac. Especially the entertainment pages. She might not be that artistic in regards to doing entertainment but this is the fastest thing she can do even during her work time or spare time.
"Perhaps...I can take advantage of its description. After all, it also added, "hobbies that remove stress and boredom..." Elaina glances at her sword.
It seems she finally got some idea of what she will do next.