Chapter 65: Wife Talk (1/2)

As it turned out, Rino had to admit he was a huge culinary failure. Noir coughed up the first mouthful of mashed potatoes he ate. It was difficult to stomach the taste of bland and earthy potatoes.

”We're never doing this again,” Noir swore with his tail raised high and bristled.

Rino could only hang his head low and admit defeat. With nobody willing to eat this failed attempt of cooking mashed potatoes, Rino could only bury the evidence of his failure in the soil in his backyard. Nobody would find out he tried to cook today.

Putting that horrible creation behind them, Rino decided to check on the two new quests he received.

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Daily Quest #9

Objective: Harvest Potatoes

0/500 Potatoes

Time Limit: 2 Days.

Tutorial here.

Reward: Offering Reward Shop.

Penalty: Deduct 24 hours of sleep upon failure and [Curse of Overtime] until quest is forcefully completed.

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After looking at the requirements and rejoicing that this was finally not a chain quest, Rino decided that there was no need to start harvesting immediately. He had enough hands to help with that, and Rino had a feeling they could fully dig up all the potatoes, clear the land and recondition the soil for a new batch of potatoes within a night.

This much, he already expected. Fronzo explained that they would have close to ten thousand potatoes in this one acre of field, so five hundred wasn't much. If there was an immediate problem, Rino needed to think of a place to store these potatoes. The current potato hut by his bathhouse was too small for ten thousand potatoes. The gnomes were also too busy with the sprinkler project to build his granary.

With drooping shoulders, Rino checked his side quest out. He had no idea if the side quest would allow him to use the Offering Reward Shop, but Rino hoped it was somewhat related. He did not want to start a new building project when his current agricultural infrastructure was still incomplete.

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Side Quest #12

Objective: Make an offering to the Offering Reward Shop

Reward: 8 hours of sleep.

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Seeing that the side quest was linked to the completion of his main quest, Rino relaxed. The Gods were still reasonable bosses, so he decided to put up with them for a little while.

The Curse of Overtime sounded terrible. Rino did not have a good reason to want to boycott either. Harvesting potatoes in two days was easy, and he did not have to do anything himself. Everything could be left in the hands of his slave army.

”Wipe that look off your face,” Noir snapped. ”You look positively evil.”

Rino clapped his skull with his hands and apologised. He was just enjoying the moment a little too much, knowing that the next quest was simple.

Without the shadow summons or faes around, Rino had nothing much to do. He did not want to spend his rewards sleeping now that Noir was here, but the black cat did not look like he was interested in anything else apart from snoozing comfortably by the fire.