Chapter 22: You Must be Kilning Me! (1/2)

The night passed comfortably, with Rino just occupying himself with fabric production. Midnight came, and Rino waited for it. This was the moment he had been waiting for!

Ping!

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Side Quest #6

Objective: Build a Clay Kiln

Tutorial here.

Reward: Bone Crafting Recipe.

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For a while, Rino did not move. Was this a prank? Where was his daily quest? Shouldn't that long-winded chain quest be marked completed? He wanted that Textile Crafting Skill!

As Rino raged, Ark silently apologised. The lich had been working very hard for a noble cause. However, they also needed to push him a little back into the actual direction. The side quests were created to assist Rino in skill acquisitions. They were not the actual purpose for his reincarnation as a lich. The kingdom would not build itself weaving silk and dying underwear.

Phil returned with Stephanie, who still looked as if she wasn't in the wrong. The Goddess glared at Rino and ignored everyone. She was going to wait for Rino to slip up. The moment he failed to deliver results for his daily quest, even by one second, if it wasn't a chain quest, she was going to make him dance in agony with her punishment system.

Rino looked at his new side quest in deep thought. There was a pattern here somewhere. He was already aware that the Gods who sent him to this new world as a work slave could hear his thoughts. In fact, they must be really bored Gods for listening to his every thought without missing a single thing.

The pattern started early on now that he thought back about it. The first sign should have been the divine voices sending him messages directly into his skull. They only stopped doing it frequently after Rino made a comment about their intelligence and wealth. He should have known it was not a coincidence.

The next sign happened when Rino was testing out voice projection using mana through his thoughts. He must have sent those amplified messages to the Gods until they could tolerate no more. There were only two reasons why they would offer him a quest with a reward of thought projection skill. The first was their inability to tolerate his yelling in their connection, and the second was their inability to close the observation channel. They might be in a position to constantly monitor him and had to put up with whatever he did.