Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 12
Chapter 06: To break. To make.
It seems that Uru’s freeload has been decided, so I decided to give a rough explanation of the base.
If you follow the well-maintained road from the altar (even though it’s just leveling the soil and cutting the weeds), you’ll reach the farm plot.
“Eh, are these all food?”
“That’s right”
Uru was surprised by the fields that spread out before her eyes, but this farm is still small by my standards due to the small variety of crops and management problems. If I leave it alone in a state where it can be harvested at any time, it may rapidly wither.
To properly manage it, I have to bring in residents (NPCs) – then in this case is also need to prepare their housing – or create golems.
Then going further and we will arrive at the ranch plot.
Although the plot itself is large, it currently has only two cows (one of which is a calf) and three chickens. It’s also have management issues… and I can’t breed the cows because I can’t find bulls.
Come to think of it… In the game era, breeding was done just by feeding the male and female while they were nearby.………………Could this part also become real?
“Ooh, It’s meat!”
“Huh!?”
To the me who has stopped of moving, imagining ‘that’ type of things, as if to force me to an restart, Uru asked me.
“What happened?”
Ku! being seen by Uru, who is so pure and innocent, makes me feel like I’ve grown up to be a dirty adult, and it hurts me! Although it is just a delusion born from my paranoia!
Moreover, because Uru is shorter than me she is looking up at me, and that for some reason causes a magnification effect! Wait, am I being a pervert here!?
“Eh, ah, no, those are for getting milk and eggs, so don’t eat them!”
“Muu, is that so…”
Trying to deceitfully change the place, while chanting ‘Calm down’ repeatedly like mantra, I guide Uru.
Going back the way that we came from and going to another path, we get to the warehouse. It’s a place to store farm tools and feed for the animals.
Next to it is a vacant lot. I’m planning to build a full-fledged workshop here, but I haven’t needed it yet, so I’m putting it off.…… Or rather, I am in the stage where there is no material to make it.
Oh, come to think of it, I became able to make glass. I wonder if It’s good idea to stock it even if it’s just a decent quantity.
“Nu? What is this door on the ground?”
“Oh, that’s the entrance to the basement. It’s still a little small.”
When I opened the door and entered the basement, there was a space about eight tatami mats*, and it was packed with storage boxes. The contents may or may not be included.
Ingredients are stored in the kitchen, but most things that don’t rot over time, such as wood, stone, and soil, are stored here.
There are plans to expand this underground warehouse eventually. It won’t collapse in an earthquake, and the word underground sounds kinda cool…
However, that type romance didn’t get through to Uru–no, it can’t be helped since there’s still nothing left but a bunch of storage boxes–so we decided to go up to the surface as soon as possible.
“Also, as a point of caution, there are pitfalls dug outside the fence, so be careful.”
Surrounding the base, beyond the moat where holy water flows at night, beyond the fence, I point to the ground covered with straw
“If it’s only in one place is one thing, but isn’t it obvious that there is something if it’s look like a square? No matter what, I won’t get caught in that!”
“That’s right… Well, it’s hard to see at night, so just in case.”
It’s for goblins and kobolds with low intelligence… Of course, if I want to camouflage it, i can do it, but I don’t feel the need to do so.
“Ah… I also have to expand the house.”
When I saw the plantation in front of my eyes, I suddenly remembered. If I don’t expand the room and install a bed, I’ll be sleeping on the floor again tonight.
That, it’s hurts a little… Well, isn’t like my LP decreased, but still…
It won’t take much time anyway, so let’s finish it quickly. By the way, I keep a large amount of wooden blocks in the warehouse, but if I have the time, I have a tendency to keep hoarding them…
“Well, let’s do it? It’s bit dangerous, so stay back.”
I take out an axe from the QA box. It’s a kobold bone axe, not the god axe. Its durability is low, but its power is a little higher.
Perhaps this kind of work scene was rare, Uru was watching me with a somewhat excited look.
……Wait? Come to think of it, did I mention that I’m a miko? Because I was being recognized as a child of the Creator God, do she understand what will happen?
I swung my axe big while thinking that it was fine too.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Crack. Pop. (The last pop is the sound of the wood turning into blocks)
“Oh, Rion, you’re amazing!”
Uru was excited that the tree had been cut down in an instant and turned into a pieces of wood and blocks, she applauded me.
From the point of view of the residents, aside from just cutting them down, the instant conversion to blocks is like literally the work of God, but from the point of view of a miko, it’s a very easy basic thing to do, so it’s both embarrassing and confusing to be praised.
“Hey, let me do it too!”
“Hm~… be careful”
I know she can’t do something similar, but I feel bad to deny it before she even try do it, so I hand over the axe to Uru. Her tail flaps like a dog and it makes me smile.
Uru stood in front of a single tree, swung her axe in the same pose as I did, and as same…No, at much faster speed than me, she swing down the axe and—
Doooggaaan! !
“……What?”
“……Yes?”
It scattered with a explosion-like sound.
the tree and the axe.
“Eeeeeeeeeee!? It’s true that it’s an axe with low durability, but there’s still a lot of it left!?”
As I was puzzled about what was going on, Uru apologized to me.
“I’m sorry, I ruined both the axe and the tree… I thought I could help Rion for a little bit, but I didn’t mean to…”
“Oh no, it’s okay Axes can be remade in no time, and trees, look…”
I Create a wooden block by collecting pieces of wood that maintained a reasonable size. If I use a skill, I can recycle it like this!
“So don’t worry about it, okay?”
“–”
As if she had been tricked by a fox or a tanuki — in game they try to trick like it’s a normal thing —Uru blinked her eyes many times.
“Besides, it’s much faster than when I can cut down trees! That’s why you’re being helpful!”
Of course, I won’t say the rude things like it’s consuming MP instead. It’s true that it’s faster than when I cut it.
When I stroked her head to comfort her, Uru finally brought back her smile.
“Let’s go hunting a meal next time.”
“Umu!”
I’ll have to make she remember how limit her power when needed, but partly because the axe broke (I can’t lend the God tools series), I was able to complete the necessary amount of felling by myself today.
I thought about what to do for lunch for when the sun was about to reach its highest point, and I suggested a thing that i believed that wouldn’t fail, but… it seems that was a mistake.
“…………I’m sorry.”
“Ahahahaha…it’s okay, we can eat it properly.”
This time the deer that were splendidly scattered. Along with the Goblin Tooth Knife.
If it was time when i just had come to this world, I might have been disgusted by the grossness, but I’m glad I got used to it.
In fact, there’s nothing wrong with it just because it looks bad. After all, just by picking it up, it will be stored in the item box as [deer meat]. It’s convenient because I don’t have to scrape it from the body.
While collecting the minced meat, I started to think, “Maybe I should have a hamburger steak for lunch.” When I came to think that, I also became quite strong mentally.
By the way, Uru, who seemed to be greatly depressed by her two failures, recovered her mood with a hamburger.
Easy girl.
* translator note: about 13 square meters.