Chapter 49: Chapter 48: How Long Was I Out?! Part I (1/2)
Chapter 49: Chapter 48: How Long Was I Out?! Part I
Translator: HunterW
Editor: RED
”Oh, come on! Give me something other than grapes!” I yelled at the tree in frustration. I wanted to eat something else, but I could only get at its grapes.
I had no idea where I was. The only things in front of me were a shack that could fit around twenty people, and a tree as tall as a high-rise apartment.
Every time I tried to leave, I always ended up in front of the shack and tree. No matter which direction I ran to, sooner or later, I was back at the shack. The tree was so damn big, it never left my sight. If I ran with the tree to my back, I would see the tree in front of me again in an instant.
This repeated time and time again until I finally gave up. I adapted, soon, to this never-changing place.
”You've got other stuff growing on you, so let me have them. Why do you always keep giving me grapes?” I kicked the tree's massive trunk, but there wasn't as much as a vibration. The tree stood still.
”Bah!”
The giant tree bore four kinds of fruit: the plump, juicy and sweet grapes that I had been eating, bright red apples, oranges that looked very sweet and refreshing, and white radishes. There really were small radish-looking fruits growing on the tree!
”I know radishes aren't fruit, but if they're growing like apples and oranges…I guess they're fruits now.”
It was obviously a weird tree; as a weird tree, it wouldn't be weird for it to bear cabbages or potatoes.
”Anyway, give me something else to eat. It's always grapes. Besides, there are only a few more grapes left.” There were different amount of the tree's fruits (I'm calling them fruits because they're growing from this tree). Oranges were the most abundant, than the radishes, than the apples, and finally the grapes.
At first, I thought that this was some legendary tree that grew Rank 10 grapes, Rank 8-9 apples, Rank 7 oranges, and common Rank 1-3 radishes. It looked like that when grapes were the fewest and oranges and radishes were the most abundant.
”Yeah, right! I must be going crazy. What fruits can be items?”
I bent over to pick up a grape that fell from the tree and shoved it into my mouth.
”Still, they taste amazing.” I've been eating these grapes for so long, but they still tasted delectable.
Every time I ate one, the pulp's texture almost reminded me of beef and a single drop of the juice permeated sweetness and a refreshing feeling throughout my body.
”Tsk. It's good and all, but I'm eating like one a day.” In the beginning, I wanted to eat more of them and tried to climb the tree, but the bark was so slippery I only managed a few feet off the ground.
I had to climb at least two kilometers to get to the lowest fruits, but the more I tried to go up, the more it felt like gravity pulled at me. It was like some invisible hand had me by the leg and every time I took a step up, the harder it pulled. I couldn't make it more than 100 meters before having to give up.
”Eating one of these a day fills me up and quenches my thirst for the whole day, though,” I sighed to myself.
I sat on the tree's smallest outcropping root. It was the smallest visible root, but it was still taller than me.
”How many days has it been?” I had counted my days since I got here, but I lost count after five hundred days. Every day was the same, with nothing else to do. I thought that I might as well train if I was stuck here and made a whole commotion by myself. I took out my greatsword and swung it around me, I did push-ups and sprinted here and there and all sorts of work-outs. I didn't want my body to become all rusty.
”But all I can do is sleep.” There was no point to do anything. Nothing in this place changed.
Nothing changed and nothing regressed. If I swung my sword a million times to get better at it, the next day it was the same. If I slept for a hundred days in a row, my body was still the same.
”Am I dead or alive? Someone tell me what's going on!” I didn't need to go to the bathroom, either. The first week I was alarmed when I didn't feel the need to, but after a month and a year, I just accepted it. I thought that if I was already stuck in this weird place in the first place, going to the bathroom was least of my worries.
”I sure can sleep well, though,” I yawned. My eyelids grew heavy and let myself drift off to sleep.
At first, I did everything I could to fight off the sleep, but it was impossible. I couldn't resist for more than a second. I fell asleep at around the same time every day, and slept for at least twenty hours a day.
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I woke up the next day and ate a grape that dropped from the tree.
”I wonder if time is still flowing in the real world, too,” I asked myself. I assumed about a thousand days had passed.
”Open inventory!”
[-3505 golden rings
-High grade health potions x5
-Shining high grade potions x2
-Bread x5
-Beverage x5
-Orb of Vitality
-Orc Champion's Unexpectedly Durable Greatsword
-Money case, ring case, notebook, pen
-Luggage carrier
-Danhari's Locked Treasure Chest
-Remaining slots x0]
”I'm positive the culprit is Danhari's Treasure Chest…” It was the only thing out of place.
”Danhari's insomnia has to have something to do with me sleeping all the time.”
I reached into my inventory to take out the treasure chest.
[Danhari's Locked Treasure Chest cannot be taken out at this time.]
”Damn it!” It was the same situation as before. Ever since I ended up here, I had not been able to take out the treasure chest.
This wasn't the only problem. I reached in again and took out the Orb of Vitality.
After the five hundredth day, I didn't take it out without purpose. I could use the accumulated VIT points on the orb to calculate how many days had passed!
”Item check!”
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[Orb of Vitality (Rank 8)
The Orb of Vitality is one of the 5 Orbs in existence. Once this item comes into your possession, the Orb is bound to you. The Orb collects 1 VIT point a day, starting on the day you obtain the Orb.