Chapter 107: Sugarcane Quest and Sugar Making<hr>


    We took the quest and the result was


    "Uwaah! I lost~!"


    We lost miserably. We couldn''t deal with therge number of boarsing at us from all directions. This is a very impossibly hard game.


    "It''s tough to protect, isn''t it?"


    "It is. I don''t think we were wrong"


    "Well...as long as six people protect, six people should deal with each direction, but there were too many..."


    "Yes...even if we cut and burned them, they kepting and we couldn''t deal with them"


    Now, what should I do? You can''t summon spirits...the trump card is Lily and Ion''s pseudo-dragon. Ion would use it, but I came up with an idea there.


    "Ion. Can Dragon Wave swallow this area?"


    "Eh? It''s possible, but if we do that, Takuto and the others will be swept away, too"


    "Don''t worry about that. I''ll take care of it"


    Setia seems to have grasped my intention by herself.


    "Takuto-sama...no way"


    "Ah...if you can''t deal with it because ites from the whole surface, you can only do it from one side"


    When I said that, two people looked at me with question marks.


    "What do you mean?"


    "I don''t understand..."


    Koihi doesn''t know anything about Dragon Wave. Lily is...well, she''s Lily, so...let me exin.


    Revenge. As long as I use my trump card, I''ll decide here! The key to the operation, Ion, is waiting at the edge of the event field. It''s okay, because the operation instructions are synchronized. Then, let''s do it.


    The boars areing in.


    ""Earth Wall!""


    Setia and I will surround ourselves with an earth wall. We''re ready.


    Ion, now!


    Yes! Pseudo-dragon, activated!


    Ion bes a pseudo-dragon. Unfortunately we can''t see it, as were surrounded by earth walls.


    Dragon Technique! Dragon Wave!


    Ion said and with the sound of waves, the earth walls were shocked. It made me nervous, but it seemed to work.


    Dragon Wave, finished. The earth walls can be released. Please take care of the rest


    Ah. Well done. I''ll take care of the rest


    I released the earth wall. Then I looked at the boars and saw that they were gathered on the right side. It''s because they were swept away by the waveing from the left.


    This is the strategy I had in mind. The boars are now taking damage from the dragon wave and are gathering at the right side of the field. That is, the target of the magic.


    "Thunder Branch!"


    "Ssh!"


    I and Setia''s range magic explode. The remaining ones areing, but Lily, Koihi and Gray take care of them and then the range magic again. That''s the end of the game. There are only a few left and Lily, Koihi and Gray kill them. After defeating it to some extent, Gray has recovered the exhausted Ion.


    "Thank you for your hard work Ion. Thank you for your hard work Gray"


    "Gau"


    "I''m d you were able to make it"


    That''s right. Gray also went to attack the boars. I think we''re on the right track. We got sugar cane!


    "Takuto, it''s over!"


    It looks like Lily killed thest boar. She''s the quintessential boar hunter.


    That''s the image I have of Lily, since she was the first one to kill all the boars. When I was floating on the sugar cane, Gray and Koihis voices echoed.


    "Gaaa!"


    "Not yet! There''s something biging!"


    What!?


    "Buoooo!!"


    Looking at the consciousness of Gray and Koihi, a huge wild boar appeared. Identify.


    <b>Boar Leader ?</b>


    <b>Quest Boss Subjugation Target ?</b>


    Well...I see. You don''t want to give me the sugar cane...fine. I''ll get it no matter what!


    "Lily, you can use pseudo-dragonification. Show him the difference in level"


    "I got it! Takuto! Pseudo-dragon!"


    A pir of light rises, and a pseudo-dragon-like Lily appears from it.


    "Here we go!"


    Lily and Boar Leader collide head-on. No, Lily stopped the movement of the bore leader with one hand. Seriously? She stopped a boar that was much bigger than us with one hand? I mean, Lily knew she could do it, so she did it.


    "When bing a pseudo-dragon, Lily''s strong!"


    Lily threw the Boar Leader into the sky. She then flew through the air and activated her specialbo. I''ll get ready too.


    "Fighting Spirit! Hot~Dragon Technique, Dragon w!"


    A direct hit on the bore leader. The bore leader was mmed into the ground, but half of his HP remained. Lily was about to unravel the pseudo-dragon. However, this skill depends on magical power. Then I can do something like this.


    "Entrust!"


    All my magic power will flow to Lily. Gu...staggering. I feel like I''ve been working too hard and copsed. I can''t do anything because I''ve lost all my magic power. But Lily''s pseudo-dragon transformation is still going on.


    "Eh? Is this Takuto''s magic power?"


    "Lily! Decide it!"


    "Y, Yeah! Leave it to me!"


    Lily swung upwards at the bore leader from the sky and shed at it.


    "Dragon w!"


    A direct hit to the bore leader. But it doesn''t die. There''s a little left. The damage from the fall was not enough. But Lily''s pseudo-dragonization has yet to be removed.


    "This is the end! Dragon w!"


    Lily turned to the side of the boar leader and shook the boar leader. The boar leader''s HP waspletely wiped out and it never got up.


    A level up info has arrived to inform me of the quest clear.


    The level of Intermediate Summoner has increased. The number of summoned beasts that can bepanions has increased by one


    The level of Intermediate Summoner has increased. You gained skill point 1pt


    My remaining skill points are 20pt. There are 10 summoned beasts that can bepanions. We were delighted, but thebo I did on Lily made Ion and Setia unhappy. I promised them that I would do it if I had the chance and they were in a better mood.


    Afterpleting the quest, we recovered enough to be able to move and reported back to the grandma.


    "Thank you. Here''s your reward"


    "Thank you very much"


    The quest was nowplete. We got sugarcane seedlings.


    <b>Sugarcane: Rarity 4 Ingredient Item Quality D</b>


    <b>It is a graminous nt that eats the pith of the stem and squeezes the juice to drink. There are other uses besides eating.</b>


    Let''s go and nt them in the field.


    Our field was located at the edge of the vige, near the vige church. We were neers to the vige, so we had no choice.


    The size of the field was about 6.6 square meters. That''s about four tatami mats. Well, it''s just a field at first. This is the size of the field.


    I plowed the field with Yuuna-san''s help and was about to nt sugarcane seedlings when I forgot an important thing...I''ve never nted sugarcane before. I''m not even sure if I''m plowing the right way.


    I asked Yuuna-san, but of course she wouldn''t know. On the contrary...


    "Eh? Aren''t you just going to nt it in the ground?"


    Don''t you think it is? Because the cooking is quite borate. I don''t think I''ll cut corners in farming.


    ...I''m stuck! What the hell! What an idiot! I can''t believe I made such a rudimentary mistake!


    Just as I was getting depressed, I heard the voice of my savior.


    "Umm...I can pretty much figure out nts, can''t I?"


    That''s what Setia said. Seriously? Savior!


    So, under Setia''s guidance, we nted the sugarcane seedlings. After watering the nts, we were done.


    "Please do the same here"


    Yuuna-san asks Setia. Two useless people being taught about vegetables by a little girl. What a shameful situation.


    "Working in the field is hard work"


    "It''s true that taking care of nts is hard work. But there are secret skills, you know?"


    "Secret Skills?"


    "Yes. I mean, you can use it too, Takuto-sama"


    What? Is there anything like that? I thought for a moment and then remembered. I had only used it the first time, so I had forgotten.


    It''s Wood Magics Grow. It''s a magic that makes nts grow. That is, vegetables. Or rather, it was a magic for vegetables, I suppose. Setia and I immediately tried to use Grow.


    Green light pours down on our field. It''s quite a mystical sight.


    The green light is sucked into the ground. And the sugar cane grew all at once. It grew to about three meters and then stopped.


    Magic, wow. And my wood magic skill leveled up. I have a feeling that my wood magic will grow rapidly as I work in the fields.


    Quickly, Setia collected and got the sugar cane I''d been longing for. We did it! Now we can make sugar!


    I was about to leave, but I knew I couldn''t leave Ruin-san and the others behind, but apparently Ruin-san had learned space-time magic, so it wouldn''t be a problem.


    So I went back to the store to make sugar. However, this is where the hard part begins.


    First, we had to peel the sugar cane, which was as hard as bamboo. Once the peeling was done, the next step was to grind the cane into powder. By hand, of course...


    I wrapped the chopped cane in a dish towel from the store and squeezed it.


    I asked Lily to do this. She has the most Strength.


    "Gyu~~...Gyu~~...Nn~~!"


    Oh! It''s squeezing. It''s squeezing.


    Thanks to Lily''s hard work, we were able to safely obtain the raw liquid that would be the source of the sugar. I patted Lilys head and praised her for her hard work.


    Now, I use the filtration equipment used for fish sauce to remove impurities from the raw liquid.


    Finally, I boil the water to remove the water. Direct heating is quicker but carries a higher risk of burning, so I chose to boil the water, even though it takes longer.


    Then, the undiluted solution crystallizes. Let''s take a look at the results.


    <b>Brown Sugar: Rarity 5 Cooking Quality D</b>


    <b>Effect: None</b>


    <b>Brown sugar created from sugar cane. Contains a lot of minerals.</b>


    Yay! Finally, sugar is born! But the name is going to be brown sugar...it''s not cane sugar because it''s made from sugar cane. Some of the white sugar we have at home is also made from sugar cane.


    Perhaps there are impurities and minerals left in the sugar that make it brown sugar, but...it''s a mystery.


    If they have to make top white sugar, they would need a special facility or something. I don''t know much about it, but I wonder if it''s possible to build such a facility. As expected, I won''t do that much, so I''ll throw it all at Yuna-san.


    The sugar cane making process would have been much more difficult in real life, but it looks like they''ve made it a little kinder. Even so, it took a hell of a lot of time. But when I thought it was too little in terms of quantity, I got the info. What?


    You''ve seeded in powdering the ingredients. Powdering has been added to your cooking skill


    Wh, What...is it powdering?


    I used the powdering skill on the sugar cane and itpleted the brown sugar in one shot.


    The skill is amazing! It''s producing a lot of brown sugar! And there are so many possibilities with this powdering. The first thing that came to mind was curry powder and dashi stock. I have to try this a lot!


    But the time was getting close to dinner time, so I decided to log out. Next time I have to nt potatoes and lettuce.<hr>


    <b><i>Name Takuto Intermediate Summoner Lv4Lv5</i></b>


    Vitality 3839


    Magic Power 7678


    Strength 2829


    Defense 1819


    Agility 2425


    Dexterity 55


    <b><i>Skills</i></b>


    Fighting Lv3


    Kicking Lv12


    Staff Lv15Lv16


    One-handed Sword Lv8


    Throwing Lv1


    Summoning Magic Lv19


    Alchemy Lv9


    Mining Lv14


    Logging Lv10


    Dismantling Lv19


    Appraisal Lv9


    Identification Lv15


    Wind magic Lv19


    Fire Magic Lv19


    Earth Magic Lv18Lv19


    Water Magic Lv19


    Dark Magic Lv18


    Light Magic Lv22


    Lightning Magic Lv15Lv16


    Explosion Magic Lv15


    Wood Magic Lv15Lv16


    Ice Magic Lv15


    Space-Time Magic Lv14


    Reading Lv5


    Cooking Lv20


    Feeding Lv6


    Fishing Lv5


    Synchronization Lv2Lv3<hr>


    <b><i>Name Lily Dragonewt Lv22Lv23</i></b>


    Vitality 3738


    Magic Power 27


    Strength 6971


    Defense 26


    Agility 2021


    Dexterity 17


    <b><i>Skills</i></b>


    Bare-handed Lv6


    One-handed Sword Lv17


    Large Sword Lv4Lv6


    Fighting Spirit Lv6Lv7


    Pseudo-dragonification Lv1Lv3<hr>


    <b><i>Name Ion Dragonewt Lv22Lv23</i></b>


    Vitality 3738


    Magic Power 4950


    Strength 30


    Defense 20


    Agility 6870


    Dexterity 5860


    <b><i>Skills</i></b>


    Dual Wield Lv17


    Throwing Lv1


    Underwater Action Lv5


    Water de Lv9


    Pseudo-dragonification Lv2Lv3<hr>


    <b><i>Name Setia Elf Lv20Lv21</i></b>


    Vitality 30


    Magic Power 7072


    Strength 20


    Defense 1516


    Agility 20


    Dexterity 7072


    <b><i>Skills</i></b>


    Staff Lv9


    Bow Lv1


    Woodworking Lv5


    Collecting Lv8


    Dose Lv5


    Wind Magic Lv1


    Fire Magic Lv1


    Water Magic Lv11Lv12


    Earth Magic Lv11Lv12


    Wood Magic Lv11Lv12


    Tree Magic Lv4


    Elven Knowledge Lv5


    Spirit Summoning Lv2 <hr>


    <b><i>Name Koihi Cerian Beast Lv14Lv16</i></b>


    Vitality 3436


    Magic Power 2930


    Strength 2933


    Defense 1620


    Agility 3234


    Dexterity 2425


    <b><i>Skills</i></b>


    Katana Lv5Lv6


    me Magic Lv3


    Fox Fire Lv2


    Sign Detection Lv5Lv6


    Sorcery Lv1<hr>


    <b><i>Name Gray Gray Wolf Lv11Lv13</i></b>


    Vitality 3637


    Magic Power 1213


    Strength 4547


    Defense 2223


    Agility 4547


    Dexterity 2526


    <b><i>Skills</i></b>


    Bite Lv15


    Sign Detection Lv12


    Night Vision Lv9Lv10


    Danger Detection Lv8Lv9


    Hardened Fangs Lv10Lv11