Chapter 39: Penalty Introduction (1/2)
Ping!
It was midnight, and Rino's daily quest was updated. The lich checked it lazily now that there was nothing much to do apart from wait for the cement to dry.
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Daily Quest #6
Objective: Create the following Farming Tools
1. Rake
2. Hoe
3. Shovel
Time Limit: 24 Hours
Tutorial here.
Reward: Potato Seeds.
Claim your reward here.
Penalty: Deduct 2 hours of sleep per 24 hours delay.
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When he saw the reward, Rino paused. Were the Gods actually giving him an item? At the same time, he was speechless when he saw that they finally became serious about the penalty section. For some reason, Rino wanted to see what they would do to him if he had zero sleep hours accumulated but still refused to turn the quest in.
First, they wanted him to be a builder. Now, they wanted him to be a farmer. Was this really building a kingdom? The ex court magician felt insulted that they thought he would do this back-breaking work of farming by himself. He was a magician, and physical labour was his nemesis!
Seeing that it was still dark, Rino sighed. He really did not want to start on this tedious quest after he knew what the Gods wanted him to do. Agriculture wasn't his area of expertise without magic, and there were very few things magic could do when it came to ploughing the fields and growing plants. Unlike building a house, Rino could not hasten the growth process of plants. This was a routine thing that only happened with consistency.
Rino was the least consistent existence in any universe. He and agriculture would be a terrible match. All the plants would never make it past a seedling if Rino was their caretaker unless they were grown using nature magic. In that case, those plants would not be fit for consumption.
”What if I left the actual farming to my minions?” Rino wondered.
Among the forty-something goblins he enslaved with his shadow, there should at least be one or two useful people. Goblins might not be the best farmers or hunters, but anyone would do a better job than Rino.
This time, he wasn't going to make that same mistake of summoning every single slave he had. Mutt wasn't going to be much use now, so Rino looked at his shadows. He might need more than one set of farming tools if he were hiring free labour to tend to the fields. He only hoped that he could receive more than just one miserable packet of seeds for each farming tool set he made.
Ark nodded in agreement and updated the daily quest system. For the first time since Rino's arrival into the new world, he received a repeatable quest.
Ping!
Rino checked his tab once more and was pleasantly surprised to see a new tab and system message.