[Overlord Game System: Penguin Farm V0.1 Beta]
[Farm: 0/1]
[Seeds: None]
[Livestock: Unreleased (Requires Stables)]
[Game Coins: 0]
[Tip: Welcome to Penguin Farm. The newbie gift pack has been delivered to your warehouse. Please proceed to the main page to claim it.]
While he did not quite understand what penguin meant, Angora could more or less understand the basic functions of the sub-page called Penguin Farm after last night's trial and error.
Generally speaking, it was the part of the Overlord System that was in charge of farming.
In addition to these, there was a shop option at the bottom of the page. There were many kinds of seeds displayed in it, but only a few of them had pictures. The rest were just black shadows. It seemed that they could only be slowly unlocked in the future.
There was also a sales window, but Angora did not seem to be able to sell anything else after testing it out (he could even sell the walls of Vela's house). Considering that the sales window was located on the farm page, it should only be able to sell crops and livestock by-products.
[Please select a plot of 1 unit of farmland as the starting field for Penguin Farm.]
Everything else aside, the first thing Angora had to do was choose a field.
When he tried to use this function in his room yesterday, the System notified him that the ground in the building could not be used as farmland. That was why Angora was strolling around the town today, looking for a suitable place to start his farm.
However, after meeting Vela, he thought that instead of starting a new field in some weird place, he might as well borrow Vela's family's farmland. After all, if he wanted to establish himself in this town, he would definitely have to rope in Vela's grandfather, the village chief.
Following the System's instructions, Angora tried to use his consciousness to lock his starting field on the wasteland of Vela's family's farmland.
As the words' Lock complete 'appeared, Angora noticed that there was only one square plot of land in the not-so-large farmland that was glowing, indicating that 1 unit (actually, 1 square meter) was only that big.
It was a pity that only Angora could see it, just like the System page.
Then, Angora took out the so-called gift pack from the System's storage. There were only two items inside, namely the 'Spirit Wheat Seed x1' and the 'Kettle of Devotion'.
Spirit Wheat was a very common seed, and it was the Watering Pot that surprised him.
The kettle's workmanship was excellent. The silver metal body and the spout made him wonder if this thing would rust, but he could feel a special sense of luxury. The body of the kettle was decorated with exquisite but not complicated engravings. It was beautiful and elegant, and he could not bear to put it down. The handle of the kettle was also made of metal, but it was closer to brass. Although it was carved in the shape of some unknown plant or vine, it did not hurt his hand at all. Instead, it was very comfortable.
After all, the children of the other world didn't know what ergonomics was.
"Hey, where did you get this kettle from?" Vela could not help but feel a little surprised when she saw Angora's hand reaching behind his back a little and taking out an exquisite water bottle.
"We nobles will learn magic from a few mages before we inherit our land … But that's not the main point."
Angora also felt that he had made a mistake by taking out a kettle out of thin air. It was fortunate that Vela was the only witness, and a country girl like her was easy to fool.
As expected, Vela was fooled. The girl's face showed a look of longing that said 'Do all the nobles in the city know magic?!'
Let's hope that her dream of the city would not be seen through so quickly …
Then, as the girl watched, Angora buried the seed into the ground.
"Are you going to start planting it now? No, it's too late now. The winter season will be here in half a month. In such a short period of time, the things you plant will freeze to death at most by the time it sprouts! " Furrowing her brows, Vera tried to persuade him, "Also, the winter here is especially cold. Animals will hibernate, and the leaves on the trees will fall off. The forest will be bare, and you won't even have the black bread that you don't want to eat. It's better for you to leave as soon as possible."
"I might really leave if this thing doesn't work."
Angora shrugged. "But now's not the time to despair."
After burying the seeds in the ground, a countdown timer of 3: 59: 59 appeared in his eyes on the field that he had locked onto.
Four hours to plant it, huh …
Angora relaxed a little. The only problem now was the yield of the crops.
"Come to think of it, if you know how troublesome winter is here, why don't you move away from here?"
Angora asked Vela curiously as he picked up the water bottle. "It's quite far from here, but we wouldn't have to worry about something like this if we moved to the city, right?"
"Grandpa said that he's the mayor. If even he got scared and ran away from here, then this town that was passed down from our ancestors would really be done for." Vela smiled bitterly and answered softly. "Even if he doesn't have long to live, he would at least want to live to the end as the mayor of this town …"
"Aren't the churches nearby doing anything?" Angora asked matter-of-factly since the various churches were in charge of alms and relief in the city.
"There's not a single church within dozens of miles." The girl's expression became even more bitter. "If I have to put it in words, it's probably that even the gods have abandoned us living in this bitter and cold land."
Angora quietly filled the canteen with water.
He knew very well that if he did nothing, this place that was no different from a village despite being a small town in name would not survive the winter. The remaining residents were suffering from hunger and cold. Even if they didn't freeze to death, they would starve to death.
For some reason, he felt that the bottle in his hand was heavy. Apart from water, there was something else inside.
[Bottle of Piety (Legendary): Offer your sincere prayers to the God of Games when you use this bottle. Reduce the time needed for the crops to ripen based on the intensity of your faith. This effect does not reduce the time needed for the crops to ripen by more than 50%.]
"No, there's no such thing. Even if the other gods no longer care about this place, there's still one god watching over this place! "
Angora, who had been nonchalant as a noble finally became serious.
"It's too fake even if it's a consolation …" The girl forced a smile.
"I'm not good with words, and I understand that simple words won't work on you. So watch!"
Angora held the bottle and slowly watered the seed he had just planted with a heart of piety he had never felt in his life. "This is what I want to show you, a miracle that belongs to our Lord!"
In the next split second, a green sprout poked out of the soil that was covered in black ash.