Chapter 12: Silk Heist (1/2)

As the saying goes, when one problem is resolved, another would surface.

Rino should have known that the uphill battle was only starting when he built that storage solution. Gathering five hundred hemp plants might be tedious, but it was manageable and somewhat mind-numbing once the initial difficulty was overcome. The lich lost count of how many times he had to jump through the teleportation pads and kick hemp plants into neat stacks in his newly built storage pit but eventually, this was how much he collected.

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Side Quest #2

Objective: Gather the materials.

Cotton - 20/20 pods

Flax - 300/100 stalks

Hemp - 601/500 stems

Silk - 0/5 meters

Tutorial here.

Reward: Unlock location for an undiscovered mine.

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Happy with his surplus and three more hours left until midnight, he only had to collect five meters of silk from the monster silkworms.

That in itself became a problem.

”Does he know that side quests do not have a time limit?” Ace asked after noticing how stressed the lich looked.

Ever since he arrived in the small world, Rino had always done things his way without a care for consequences. He even delayed finding this new location for building the kingdom until the very last moment while exploring his new dark magic abilities. While Stephanie and Ark might find him annoying, Rino was starting to grow on Ace. Seeing the lich gnaw on his fingers made the God in charge of prayers feel uncomfortable.

”He will figure it out in due time,” Ark replied, and Ace remained silent.