After lying down, Dara began to collect the gifts that were lying at the bottom of the gorge. Various energy stones, bones, collected, long and hard. It was as if a spirit of greed had taken over him.
"Wealth will never be superfluous"!
"Take it while they give it!" So he encouraged himself. There was no one in the gorge. It's light all the time. Heat. He got water from the cores. Enhanced his power by transforming the energy of crystals. Energy crystals, monster cores, and spiritual stones were scattered in the gorge.
His Chinese watch of an unknown brand for him was unique due to an accidentally absorbed energy crystal of unprecedented power. Unbeknownst to him, this used to be the heart of a legendary disaster-class black dragon.
But who would Dara tell about it?
Dara did not know about such a classification yet. He was in no hurry to carry out the task of the system, and she did not get in touch with him. His storage grew larger.
There were various bones, stones, crystals in disorder.
All sorts of valuable things from the gorge, whole mountains. Dar's second hobby, in addition to accumulating wealth, was their systematization.
Compilation of unified catalogs for magic stones, he has not yet started crafting. Dara's way of working was unusual. He once shared it with a young employee, a subordinate, during the deadline. The work was burning, the deadlines were approaching, there were two days left. "First, collect all the materials you find. Throw them on a conventional potter's wheel, and then sculpt what you need, cutting off the excess. It will come in handy later, for some other project. Ours is all a compilation of different data "!
Dara, for him the very process of work, was more important than the result. He dug like a miner in the mine. I got crystals. Then he sorted them into small, medium, large. Received a large crystal, polished it, like a carver, created facets. It turned out to be a real gem that would be the envy of traders and jewelers.
And then ... he was no longer interested. This time Dara did not change his old habit. For an unknown number of days that he spent in the gorge, according to his feelings, a lot of wealth accumulated. But he also had a watch, and everything was recorded there, he spent 34 days in the gorge.
Several million crystals, bones, stones, rare items, cores were collected. During a break in collecting treasures, Dara, using the crystals of the Earth, created a small but well-fortified house for himself. With the help of other crystals, he conducted a source of water, light, heat, using white crystals, created a semblance of an internal network, an ethernet with an exit to the reference space obaki center. If there is money or a substitute for white crystals, then everything can be bought.
Obaki is such cute mountain spirits that live in the bamboo forests of Japan in hard-to-reach places. More precisely, they lived in the era of Edo, Taisho ... And then most of them went into hibernation, and the other moved to another universe. But to maintain their existence, they needed heavenly energy, which they absorbed best from white crystals.
Dara could just supply them with them, so that part of the secrets of this world, where he was now, they could easily share. This did not conflict with the system. Since they were completely different essences of the worlds.
A young farmer, he did not particularly bother himself with all sorts of nonsense. He simply rested with his soul, sorting through the sparkling stones, this warmed his greed, brought aesthetic pleasure. Such a few can afford in this world of things and consumption. Think about your soul and relax to the fullest, in comfort and safety.
Dara, however, remembered the proverb that Fang often repeated - "if you follow the path of others, then you will never be able to follow your path."
Shir-Ali, his cousin, often repeated the Persian proverb "You drink water yourself, do not forget to let someone else drink too!"
But for this nasty system from this new world, this did not apply.
"Why should I trust an unknown system? Trust but verify! Better to double-check everything than not to check! Why should I follow her plan, so that later I will be a simple puppet in the hands of others "?
"Not"!
"I will do as I see fit!"
Life in the gorge was monotonous, but not boring. Messages sometimes appeared on the clock when the number of stones, crystals, cores, bones reached a certain specified value.
"Download 50,000 White Crystals from the folder to organize your collected materials."
"Download 5000 white crystals from the folder to classify the collected materials."
"Load 10,000 bones and 20,000 red crystals from the folder to upgrade the crafting transformation function." Dara, sometimes he was updating, and sometimes he was not. Since sometimes delusional offers from the obaki center were displayed: "download 1,000,000 white stones for renewal".
"I don't need such a wasteful, renewal"! He immediately refused.
"Well, then, come on 60,000 white crystals, we need them!"
Obaki Space Center did not stop.
"What for"?
"Trade secret"!
"And what do I get in return"?
"And what you want"? They were bargaining. There was a dialogue. I never got bored.
"I want more information about the gorge, eat deliciously, sleep softly, do nothing"! Dara, shared his dream.
"Oh, honey, who doesn't want that?" parried Obaki's center.
"So it won't work"? Dara said, scratching his cheek and yawning.
"No, but why won't it work right away" ?!
"It will work out!"
"But more crystals are needed!"
"Aaa" held out Dara.
"Can you bring me back to my world?" he wanted to clarify.
"ICan"!
"How many"?
"You see, friend, no brother, not even a benefactor, only you can collect these white crystals ...".
Hinted Obaki center.
"So what follows from this?" continued Dar's thought.
"You understand ...".
"How many"?
"Don't pull the cat by the tail!" That is, do not waste time, speak as it is, meant Dara.
"1,000,000,000 crystals, white, we don't need others," the center admitted to its purity.
"Oh"! Only Dara could say.
"It's not real!"
"Why not really? If you buy a cheat from us, then for every item you create, you will immediately receive 1000 white crystals in your storage base, which will be immediately absorbed in your watch! " noticed Obaki condescendingly.
"Then why don't you immediately absorb all these white stones into yourself?" Dara asked.
"You are needed as a transmitter of energy!"
"These are the stupid rules of this world," Obaki remarked wearily.
"Oh ok"!