I cast [Nature Manipulation] to construct houses made out of wood, dirt, grass, and stones.
I made the houses simple like a hut or something and after that, I constructed a bed so that we can take a rest and sleep.
You must be thinking why I didn't use [Gate] to teleport to Sweet Pork Inn and spend our night there?
The reason is that I can't!
[5 Minutes Before...]
"It's getting late so we should camp here and continue our journey when it is daytime."
"I think we should just spend our night at Sweet Pork Inn. It's much cheaper and has good food than hunting here and eating wild berries!", Zale exclaims.
"I agree. It is okay for a royalty like myself to spend the night here but I prefer to spend my time in luxury so I agree with Zale.", Aerin agrees with Zale.
"Why didn't I think of that!", I exclaim.
I cast [Gate] and a white door made out of bright white light appeared.
We opened the door and entered it.
Instead of being teleported to Sweet Pork Inn, we were teleported into the same place.
We were back in this freaking gigantic forest!
"Looks like this place restricts space magic.", Zale says.
'You don't have to say that to us. We already have understood the situation!', I think to myself while crying deep inside.
'The situation is becoming a pain in the ass! Good thing that I brought Zale and Aerin or I would have felt lonely being trapped in this forest.'
After several minutes of casting [Gate] and other space-related spells, we gave up and submitted to our fate of being trapped in here.
[Back to the present time...]
I hate this! I was planning on spending the night at Sweet Pork Inn so that I can cook some dragon meat cuisines but I don't have any cooking tools and not to mention some seasonings.
'How can someone live without salt and soy sauce!'
Looks like we are back to eating wild berries...
What if the system has a forging skill in the system shop?
'System, are there any forging skill available in the system shop?'
*There are and the common rank forge skill cost a hundred system coins.*
My system coins are enough to pay for the common rank forge skill.
'I will buy it! Do I get any discount?'
*No.*
'The system is stingy as always.'
*A hundred system coins have been deducted by the system from the host's inventory. The common rank forge skill is being delivered into the host's inventory...*
*Ding!*
*The host has learned a new skill! Forge skill has been acquired!*
I used the sub-skill of [Earth Manipulation] which is [Ore Detection] to detect nearby ores and to my surprise, the ground below us has a lot of ores such as gold, iron, copper, tin, etc.
I used the sub-skill of [Nature Manipulation] which is [Wood Manipulation] to turn a piece of wood into a wooden pickaxe.
I held the wooden pickaxe on both of my hands and struck the ground with all my might.
The ground shook that it disturbed the insects in the forest.
Thanks to my attack stat being around 60 million, a huge hole appeared with a crater around it.
*The host has destroyed the ores. The system has activated the ignore damage feature on the ores so the ores are not affected by any kind of attack that causes damage. The forest that the host has excavated are now being stored in the system inventory.*
'That is relieving to hear! I cannot control my strength to the point where I evaluate the destruction I had caused as SSS.'
*The host is wrong. The host had caused a D rank destruction. The host is overestimating himself.*
'The f*ck! If that was a D rank destruction then what is SSS rank? End of the world?'
*The host is right.*
So there are gods in this world since no mortals can cause a SSS rank destruction.
I used [Levitation] to levitate the ores that are not stored in the system.
Ores of different kinds are floating in the air.
I collected the ores and used the iron ores to make a cooking tool such as an iron pan, iron utensils, and some other things.
I used [Fireball] to melt the iron ores and I used [Forge] to form the ores into different cooking tools and utensils.
I also forged an iron sword so that I can use it as a temporary weapon.
I took out some dragon meat from my system inventory.
I gathered some firewood and I placed the frying pan on top of the firewood.
I lit up the firewood by casting [Fireball] and the firewood is burning which heated the frying pan.
I sliced the dragon meat by tossing the dragon meat into the air.
I held the iron sword in my hand, used [Mid Tier Swordsmanship] to cleanly cut the dragon meat, and placed the sliced dragon meat into the frying pan.
I fried the dragon meat for at least five minutes and served it on some leaves that I found on the tree.
I cast [Wood Manipulation] to form the logs into chairs and tables and we sat on the chairs.
We ate up our fill and after finishing our food, we headed to our hut and lied on our bed to take a rest and sleep.
We slept peacefully and comfortably.
[6 in the morning...]
I woke up and used the sub-skill of [Water Manipulation] which is [Refresh].
I removed my clothes so that I can take a bath.
I cast [Refresh] and a stream of water poured on me while it started to spin on my body which removed some of the dirt on my body.
After taking a bath, I wear my clothes and headed outside.
*Ding!*
*The host had obtained a title yesterday. The title 'Rookie Survivalist' has been obtained. Any skills related to survival will be increased by 10 percent efficiency.*
*Ding!*
*The host has obtained a title. The title 'The Lazy One' has been obtained. Being lazy will increase the stamina recovery rate.*
'I don't know if I should beat up the system for giving me The Lazy One title. It seems pretty useful if I'm tired so I guess I should thank the system instead.'
Since Zale and Aerin are still sleeping, I took out the iron sword that I had forged and held it in my hands.
I slashed the iron sword and perform some sword skills and sword stances.
I am currently practicing my swordsmanship so that it will reach the high tier.
I did a consecutive slash on the boulder and after several slashes, the boulder turned into dust.
I have now achieved [High Tier Swordsmanship] and I can now execute ten slashes in one second.
I can also execute precise cutting when I use my sword.
After 30 minutes of practicing my swordsmanship, I can now execute twelve slashes in one second but my swordsmanship is still at the high tier.
I waited for an hour and finally, Zale and Aerin are awake.
I prepared our table and I took out the dragon meat from the system inventory and fried it.
We ate fried dragon meat for our breakfast.
After eating our fill, I told Zale and Aerin to continue our journey and they agreed.
I cast [Nature Manipulation] to deform the houses that I had made so that we won't leave any trail that shows that there is a settlement.
It will cause trouble so I tried my best to remove our tracks.
After I did all of that, I cast [Wind Navigation] to locate the places that we will encounter, and then we walked to who knows where.
We continued walking in a straight direction. We encountered many plants that are much bigger than us.
After an hour of traveling, we still didn't find any human or monster settlements.
It was getting frustrating.
We kept on walking and we came to a halt after we heard a huge stomping noise.
It sounds like a huge monster ran amok and is destroying anything in its path.
We kept on hearing loud stomping noises and after a minute, the forest became silent.
Another minute passed but we still didn't hear anything.
We waited for an hour while staying vigilant and I cast [Mana Barrier] around us to protect us from any danger.
Another hour has passed and the stomping noises can be heard.
The loud noise generated by the stomping sound rings in my ear and my ears hurt after hearing the loud noises to the point where I covered my ears and cast [Soundproof].
The loud noise has ceased and so I observed what had happened since we were hiding near a plant.
I saw a huge human walking and some of them are running while some are resting.
Unlike the humans from the kingdoms, they wear tribal outfits and they looked like cavemen.
After examining the huge cavemen, I can only say three words.
"They are giants!"