Chapter 70: Is This Minecraft Now? (1/2)

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After we picked up the mushrooms, we rushed back to the cave…

Well, Benladann did, because I continued to keep digging, wondering what else could I find. My smelling sense detected something else deep below.

Maybe there are ice potatoes deep below?

Though she said they never ate potatoes, but did have bread somehow.

While Benladann cleaned the mushrooms from dirt, cut them down, and added them to the hot pot, I continued digging as if I were a dog.

Until I reached around one meter, and suddenly found some strange thingies.

Can these be called potatoes?

They looked like little balls… but were squishy.

They were all interconnected into roots, and their size was around the fist of Benladann.

I decided to try one and it was… crunchy.

It was also… quite salty?

Uagh, way too salty, in fact!

I checked it with the Analyze System function.

<analyzing…></analyzing…>

<mineral root=”” colony=””></mineral>

Roots that absorb the minerals within the dirt and the Mana around to grow and expand through the underground, absorb large quantities of minerals within their roots, which form large tumors where the refined minerals from salty juices and even salt crystals. Used by most common people as a cheat replacement for salt.

Can be used as Ice Attribute Cultivation Material, used to create special concoctions to enhance one's body.

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Wah…

I guess this is not a replacement for potatoes, but it is for salt! Oh, and the whole cultivation thing, I guess? I don't have any recipes to make concoctions, so there's no use for that.

I quickly call Benladann, as she rushes back at me.

”Y-You dig a lot!” she said, glaring at the hole.

”Come down here, look what I found!” I said, as Benladann slowly walked down, and then I gave her a description that was just reading the system window in front of me, which she was unable to see.

”Ohh… This is really the Root Salt!” said Benladann.

”So you knew?” I asked.

”I did know that the salt we used was named Root Salt, but I never imagined it would grow like potatoes from Earth…” said Benladann.

”Alright, let's extract as many as we can!” I said.

”Sure! Leave it to my hands!” said Benladann, as I used my claws to open the dirt and destroy any rocks around, making the hole where we were bigger.

Benladann used her large hands as a three-meter-tall giant and grabbed a ton of roots with these tubers stuck to them.

After a bit of mining, she quickly walked back to our lair, as she began to cut the roots into tiny pieces, and sparkled a few over the hotpot.

Alongside that, she added dried Snow Heart Herb which I had left inside the cave. After drying up, they became aromatic, similar to oregano, it was an interesting find.

Before I was to walk back to eat, I had continued to dig around, I wanted to see if this was like Minecraft, and I could find some ores around or something.

But as much as I dug, I couldn't find much, but maybe I might come here to dig later.

Maybe I am getting addicted to it…

Ding!

<you learned=”” the=”” [mining:=”” level=”” 1]=”” skill!=””></you>

I even got this after digging for a while.

The Mining skill seems to enhance my ability to dig through any ore or dirt, and the skill description even says that my chance to encounter precious materials is enhanced by 5% with each level…

WHAT?!

Why would you give me something so overpowered, System?!

Is this because I wish this was like Minecraft?

Are you on something, System?

Is this okay?

First of all, how can you manipulate probabilities like this?