As if rewarding me for a day of a lot of efforts, the System suddenly showed up two new Skills! Farming and… Little Farmer? So that’s a Title, huh. But didn’t I learned it too fast this time around? I am fairly sure that I am not that good at it to learn it so quickly. So why?
[After your last evolution, the Soul Grimoire had also evolved]
[Now it has become easier to acquire Skills that were harder to acquire before. Due to your strong affinity with death and darkness, it was particularly harder to learn things such as Farming-type Skills, which require some affinity with nature]
[After seeing the performance of Emeraldine, you’ve gained a slight amount of the comprehension of nature and life, so you’ve learned the two Skills quickly after]
[As the System’s voice, I didn’t simply granted them to you, this is merely your talents awakening within your Soul Grimoire]
“Oooh! I see…” I said silently. “Welp, let’s check what these new “Talents” are all about…”
A Skill learned after arduous hours of farming and mastering the art of planting and harvesting. While farming, this Skill grants a +30% enhancement in proficiency and mastery over farming tools while also giving a greater insight at looking at plants and detecting soil’s richness. Mana can also be used to enchant Plants and increase their growth speed. However, if overused, it might be detrimental to the plants, or even mutate them into plant-type monsters.
Eh? So this makes me better at farming? Well thanks! With this I can detect the soil’s richness, and even how plants are doing and everything else… Hell, I can even enchant them with my Mana even when my mana is dark and death attribute? Maybe by using this Skill, the mana goes back to being attribute-less?
A Title given to a small-time novice farmer that has worked very hard on their farm. The wielder of this Title acquires an enhancement of +20% more proficiency at farming and using farming tools, while also being able to detect and appraise plants, the higher the level, the better the effects and the more higher ranked plants can be appraised. Additionally, there’s a small chance that plants planted by the user of this title might end up evolving into magical plants.
Oh, this one is similar to the Farming Skill, I guess. However, there’s a few certain things that make it different thought, such as Plant Appraisal. I guess that would be more useful to a real farmer because I got my System Analysis that can pretty much analyze anything around me with ease. But this small chance to turn a plant into a magical plant seems pretty interesting! If I can continue doing this farming work and level these Skills up, there might be some chance that a plant turn magical or something, and it might have special properties.
“Well, this really put a smile on my face.” I sighed with a slight nod, as I moved outside of the greenhouse after we finished watering the plants. There were still several more greenhouses we had to attend, so after a quick lunch where I put my [Cooking] Skill to good use until it leveled up again out of the sudden, we went to attend the other farms.
I felt as if I was slowly accumulating more experience as a farmer, and the Skills really upped my ability to comprehend these techniques I had so little talent over. When they day had ended, both Skills had gained a level, and I couldn’t help but feel happy over my hard work.
With that done, we moved back home to have some dinner. This time I decided to prepare the meat of the giant lizards we fought before, their meat was rather flavorful, but it was very tough, so I had to use a hammer to smash it so it would become softer and loose out into the roughness.
Nonetheless, I also used their bones to make some delicious broth, which I mixed with veggies and small chunks of meat. With the help of Emeraldine and Partner that had become more interested into cooking with me, we made up a delicious dinner.
Now that people had become more independent, we are no longer preparing communal food, and everyone seems capable of preparing their own three meals a day for their families. I owe this to the dwarves as well, as they had crafted a lot of plates and cooking utensils, alongside building furnaces and kitchens inside most houses, they’re amazing architects, forgers, and literally everything else. I am way too lucky to have them with me.
And well, because of this, we got all the good for ourselves, we cooked only for the four of us- no, six of us. The twins are obviously living with us as they’re literally our adopted children, so the two also dine with us, have lunch, and most of the time spend their day with us. However, Laura had become interested in learning about this world some more and also about magic usage, so she and Takeshi had begun to learn how to read with the help of Emeraldine.
“Big sis, can we learn magic tomorrow? We don’t really know much…” Laura said as she drank some soup.
“Yeah! Magic!” Said Takeshi.
“Erm… Well, I am not that good at teaching it… I got a cheat skill that allow me to use it without even learning how to use it.” I said.
“Eh?! Is that your Unique Skill?” Asked Laura.
“One of them… Sorry, I might seem proficient, but I kind of suck at actually teaching it.” I laughed a bit.
“Well, I can teach you the basics, children. I might even teach you as well, Maria. I believe you could learn more magic if you perfect the craft and learn its true principles.” Emeraldine said.
“Oh?! I never thought of you as a magic teacher. Sure, I’ll join the classes and see what’s up.” I said with a nod, enjoying the grilled fillet covered in gravy.