Chapter 42

After harvesting and checking all the normal crops, Rezen harvested his usual spirit plants of vismian grass, soul-tearing peas, and rainbow clementines

This time, there were 6,000 pieces of the vismian grass and soul-tearing peas, with the majority of them at quality 1

As for rainbow clementines, there were only a few hundred of them. Fierce Fire doesn’t know the existence of that spirit plant mainly because he is still not as strong as Florine and also because that spirit plant is extremely rare

There were also other varieties of spirit plants that Rezen planted. There is the Yellow Tomato that improves muscles, Underground Aloe Vera that heals physical wounds, Sweet Jasmine that helps heal the soul, Marble Grapes that temporarily increase a person’s soul strength, and others

There were so many of them that Rezen cannot store all of them in the boxes of seeds they came from

“Hahahaha! I’m rich! I’m rich! Just this batch alone is already more than a hundred thousand mana stones!” Rezen laughed happily as he piled the spirit plants in the living room first before sending a message to Florine that they should bring storages boxes for the spirit plants when they picked them up tomorrow

Rezen can already imagine himself earning tons of mana stones in the future and this was made possible thanks to Zero

If not for Zero, Rezen wouldn’t have the strength to dig holes in his whole farm! His back would break before he can even fill the farm with holes!

“Hahahaha Zero, come, come, we will have a feast tonight! We will order whatever food we fancy!” Rezen said happily as the two entered their humble home

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A day later, 3 days after the operation in the Ratois Mountain

“Captain Claude, it’s been 3 days now. I don’t think there is still a problem in the Mountain. The magic beasts’ unrest has completely stopped” Ellery said to the frowning Claude

It has been three days since they stole the quality 5 claw mushroom from the grey wolf and since then, the abnormalities in the Mountain have been completely stopped

Logically speaking, the problem should be solved then but Claude still feels like there was something wrong

The process was too smooth-sailing and there was also the matter of the crazed grey wolves that suddenly disappeared the moment that the sensory mage arrives

However, no matter how suspicious Claude felt, he can only give up

The Headquarters in the Capital is calling for him and since there is no more danger in the Ratois Mountain, he has no reason to stay anymore

“I understand, we will report back to the Military Department now” Claude replied and his subordinates cheered

With no peculiarities in the Mountain, these soldiers are already bored. They would rather fight magic beasts or cultivate to boost their power

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“Wow… I can certainly feel my body is much better than before” Rezen muttered before munching on sunflower seeds again

Right now, he had already eaten enough quality 1 sunflower to bear Mystic Tattoo at the 1st grade

He has been eating the sunflower seeds since yesterday and since he decided not to use more recovery pills as he felt like he was using too many of them and they are diminishing at a fast rate. And that slowed down his progress

Fortunately, although he has to eat many sunflower seeds to boost his physique, they were really small. He can eat more than a hundred in one sitting!

“Master, do you want me to engrave the Mystic Tattoos on your body now?” The ever so loyal and thoughtful Zero suggested but Rezen shook his head

“No, let’s wait until I can handle tattoo at the 3rd level” he replied

Right now, Zero can engrave Mystic Tattoos on Rezen’s body with the strength of the 1st rank

If his physique was further improved, the tattoo can be ‘updated’ by the same engraver

However, as everyone knows, the process of engraving the tattoo requires a person to be completely naked

Zero may be genderless but Rezen’s face was also not thick enough to not be shy to be seen by his subordinate in his birthday suit

As such, he would rather wait for a few days to become a Tattoo Warrior to have a 3rd-grade Mystic Tattoo engraved on his body than go through the hassle and embarrassment of upgrading his tattoo twice after the first engraving

Knock knock

Rezen heard the knocking sounds on his door and he knew that his customer has finally arrived and he went to open his door for them

“Hiiii!!” Rain greeted with a bright smile

Since she herself was a beauty, her smile tickled Rezen’s heart but thinking about how this woman is a bit… you know… not so bright when it comes to negotiations… the unnecessary thoughts instantly vanish from Rezen’s mind

“Hello, come inside” Rezen greeted back as he guided Rain inside his humble house

The moment that Rain entered, she immediately saw the piles and piles of spirit plants on the floor and her jaw almost dropped on the floor

What the fuck? Who in their right mind would mistreat spirit plants to this extent?

In the public market, these spirit plants would reach around a million mana stones at the price

Quality 1 sells for 1 to a few mana stones. Quality 2 sells for at least a hundred mana stones. And Quality 3 would sell for a thousand to thousands of mana stones

Since there was a variety along with the rarer spirit plants, these piles would definitely be around a million mana stones despite most of them only quality 1 spirit plants

The costs of these spirit plants that are either consumed directly or turned into pills are one of the reasons why only mages with at least Superior Talent were trained and nourished

The top institutions would even only choose people with at least Heroic talent

If every group were to just mass-produced mages including the ones with no talent, just how much would they cost?

“R-Rezen… these…” Rain was tongue-tied as her heart broke on behalf of these spirit plants

“My house is small and I don’t have enough storage” Rezen justified himself

With the variety of these spirit plants, he couldn’t even store them in his storage that can infinitely stack the same things!

“Y-you… wait for me here!” Rain said hurriedly before she run away

Around half an hour passed before she returned and when she did, she bought two void storage rings with her

“Rezen, here, I will give you two. Whenever we have an order, use one of the rings to store the spirit plants and give it to us. As for the other ring, use that too to store spirit plants”

If Rain will take the ring with her after every transaction then she might see the miserable state of the spirit plants again and her heart couldn’t take it

As such, she decided to give two rings to Rezen to avoid the same thing from happening

“Sweet, thanks!” Rezen accepted the rings happily, not even bothering to refuse first and only accepting them when Rain insisted. He feared that Rain would take the ring back

Void storage rings after all costs tens of thousands of mana stones for the cheapest one!

These rings are almost equivalent to a hundred thousand mana stones!

After sending Rain off, Rezen jumped in happiness

In that transaction, he earned around 300,000 mana stones!

This was the biggest amount of money that he had obtained! That’s hundreds of millions in credits!

“Hahahahaha! Earning money feels good!” Rezen muttered with a giggle and he thought of ‘recharging’ for blessing points and lottery tickets but he felt that it was wasteful

He would rather use magic beasts’ corpses to recharge as that would be more economical

The problem was that he can’t rely on Claude again to harvest thousands of magic beasts’ corpses but…

Rezen turned to Zero that smiled at him without knowing whatever is in his mind

‘This is for us and also for Zero to have brothers and sisters’ Rezen hypnotized himself

He already ‘abused’ Zero by making him do most of the farmwork and adding one more ‘abused’ shouldn’t be that bad… right?

“Hey, Zero…” Rezen called out

“Yes, Master?”

“Do you want to go to a mountain?”

“A mountain?”

“Yes, not far from here is the Ratois Mountain and there are many grey wolves in there”

“But wouldn’t it be dangerous for the master to be in a place full of magic beasts?”

“A bit, yeah, but you would be with me. Your strength is in the middle of 3rd and 4th rank. The danger we would face wouldn’t be that much”

Rezen’s plan this time is to turn the Farmer Zero into the Hunter Zero!

He is also not that afraid since he remembered the blessing he had redeemed before which was the Stigma of the Fire

Rezen doesn’t know how strong that thing is but considering that the system’s description is always right, it should be able to kill magic beasts that Zero can’t!