"You're currently at around… 700 MP! Not bad at all! Let's do our best to get to 800 tonight." The Great Spirit analyzed my Mana Capacity while we drove into the town's plaza.
Today we decided to spend the day in the plaza, as there are a lot of festivities, there's an event in here that the people of this small town created named "Harvest Festival" where we celebrate the good harvest of the farmers around here.
To relax and have a good time with my family, and to find good veggies and fruits for my special project, we decided to visit the Harvest Festival, which was now already open in the plaza.
…The people we found in the plaza last night might had gone there to begin preparations for today's activities, thankfully they didn't see our faces.
"We're here everyone, let's have fun. You're free to wander, buy, or whatever. We can catch up at the other side of the plaza where the food stalls are located." Said my father, as everyone seemed excited to explore the place, especially the kids.
"Mom, we'll be going with Anna and Elisa to go see the rabbits." Elena said, as she and her friends immediately disappeared from my sight…
"The rabbits?" Mark wondered.
"Well there are animal exhibitions as well, mostly a lot of farm animals. They're selling them as pets too. There's an area filled with rabbits, chickens, guinea pigs, and so on." I said. "The kids love that place and they're allowed to pet and play with the animals."
"Oooh, I see." Rita nodded. "Hey what if we go there to find some familiars?"
"I guess we could get ourselves some familiars that way, although I can help but find it weird." I sighed.
"Yeah it still a bit weird to just buy a little animal to make it into our familiars…" Mark sighed.
"Well while you two question if its right or wrong, I'm gonna get myself a rabbit or something." Rita said, quickly rushing to see the animals as well.
"She should be able to be alright on her own, I believe." I said. "How about we go check some ingredients for my project?"
"Project?" Wondered Mark.
"Yep, with the Great Spirit we are beginning to plan out an "army" and we need a lot of ingredients. Of course, we'll use those from Arcadia too but if we use the ones from this world as well, it will surely be better as well." I said with a smile.
"An army… Wait, I see…" Mark began rubbing his chin. Whenever he got into his "deep thinking" process he would always make this pose, he was so cute. "Then it would complement well with what I am preparing."
"What you're preparing?" I wondered.
"I barely slept because I spent the rest of the night building totems using my Nature Magic. It was a bit hard but it is possible to shape the living trees around the town as totems, and I've been doing that while also making some personal totems for me. Can you save them inside your inventory once we get back?" Wondered Mark. "So we can use them whenever we need to."
"I see… Your powers are really useful. Totem Carving and Beast Spirit Magic, right?" I wondered.
"Yeah, I've managed to get myself those spells in specific, they go the best with my current abilities." Mark analyzed. "If we can manage in time, we could probably build a barricade of totems in the living trees."
"Interesting, but won't we need insane Mana to activate it completely?" I wondered.
"Yeah… It won't be perfect, but we just recently bought a few hundred more HP and MP Potions from the in-game Market, right? I think that should do." Mark said.
"Though pulling them out exhausts my Mana, I can still recover it by drinking an MP Potion, I guess we've discovered a rather broken loop! Although it only works until my belly can resist…" I sighed.
"Yeah, but even then, we can transfer you our own Mana, no?" Mark said.
"R-Right! I didn't thought about that." I said, thinking some more. "I should get done a staff that can harbor Mana as well to expand my Mana Capacity, and probably enchant some rings and accessories we can wear by a ton."
"Yeah, items made by you using both materials from Arcadia and Earth are the best at that." Mark said. "D Rank Potential Cubes are also not that expensive in the market either, so we could get more easily."
"Yep! There's a lot to do once we get back home, but for now let's concentrate on what we came for." I said. "Oh, also, you should check the woods they sell here, some are from special trees that might channel your totem powers better."
"Right, thanks for reminding me." Mark smiled. "Hah, though it is getting pretty hot in here, how about an ice cream to enjoy the trip?"
"If you invite!" I giggled.
Like that, we enjoyed ice cream while we bought tons of stuff through the entire market. I utilized the help of the Great Spirit that flew around looking at the veggies and fruits with interest, checking which ones could harbor a lot of Mana and which ones were the best out there.
We also bought tons of compost, which was the most needed ingredient for my plan. It seems Mark plans will easily converge with my own which might expand the whole scale of our operation.
While we were doing everything to maintain efficiency, I constantly created special "Spirit Seeds" by fusing both the Seeds from Arcadia with the ones we bought from this world and imbuing them with Spirits through Spirit Infusion and combining everything with {Pathway} and Spirit Fusion.
These seeds were super special, and weren't as powerful as the Spiritual Buds of my Avatar in Arcadia, but they'll surely work similarly, and I've made over a hundred already, hehehe.
We'll do everything we can to protect our town. Phantasmos, don't ever think you'll be the only one with an army.