Snapping Carmic ties.

The world lurches.

Snapping Karmic ties.

The world lurches.

Snaping quwarmick ties.

The world lurches and I almost vomit.

Applying ambrotine Patch.

A dull line of almost tasty magic washes through my body. Its nothing in comparison to the glorious taste of that jam…but its takes the edge off. My thoughts clear and I begin to feel sedated. A silly grin slides onto my face. I'm happy – are you?

Purchasing and administering anti-vitamins and grade D detoxification powder.

My mouth fills with sugary sweet ash – it tastes awful. It should taste amazing but its nothing in comparison to the fairy jam I just ate. I almost spit it out, but force myself to swallow it.

This sugar is medicine. Eat it. Dummy.

Slowly the cravings fade. My fairy drug patch gets weaker and weaker. My status has flipped from showing all sorts of negative side effects to showing “Exausted|Recovering”.

I feel normal once again – and yet despite how dangerous that got a faint bit of me is like…take another bite. That was worth it for how amazing that jam tasted. Do it!

Brains are dumb. I grab the giant jar of honey and shove it back in my inventory so I’m no longer tempted.

That was dangerous…and my brain is dumb and trying to tell me its not that bad. Take another bite. You can wipe it afterwards.

One of the major functions of the system I’ve just been given has finally appeared. Directly on my status theres that nice little line that says how healthy I am. After clicking it, one of the goddesses cute little wisps comes out – Nurse Godess has a little white outfit and stethoscope. It blends into her ghostly form really well. Man I wish I was as put together as the goddess. I gave up the skill that would let me wardrobe change as often as her…I wonder if I can use the pearl I made from that skill to try and get it back? Try and make an item that will help or something? Someone put that on our todo list, I’ll forget otherwise.

Anyways, Yeah. Nurse goddess…doc goddess? Godoc? DivineDoc? Whatever.

She pulled out a little clipboard and began looking up at me from the status screen nodding with a serious look on her face even as she scribbles some stuff down with her tiny pencil. I felt little pokes and prods and washes of something as she observed me and writes down a treatment plan. Finished her diagnosis she immediately set to work fixing things and here we are now dealing with the after effects.

With how quick the fix was, I’m nearly certain she could fix most medical problems I came to the status with. Broken Bones. Negative results of experiments. Burns.

Most of the steps she took were “free”. Part of my gifted system so to speak. She did need to buy a few supplies – Heck that ashy sugar costed 500 money? What the heck that’s so expensive!

Anyways she auto bought those supplies and comparison to my funds it wasn’t too bad. A few affinity pearls of work to fix something stories have told me is unfixable. If you eat fairy food you’re supposed to be permanently bound to the fairy realm. The authors of those stories don’t seem to have taken into account a goddess cheat.

Okay!

Well that was a bit of excitement. I feel disheveled and tired so I don’t want to do much physical labour right now. Plenty of energy to check out my new store.

The first thing to do with any new store is a simple vibe check.

What’s this store like? Corporate? Mom and pop? Crazy guy in the woods? Lemonade stand with a cute little kid?

All of the above?

From what I can tell, this store is not an interdimensional one. It’s not set up to teleport stuff away. I don’t even know if the owner knows something like that is possible. The goddess must have done some funky stuff to integrate it into my store list let me tell you.

Okay.

First off. There's a catalog.

A vast paper catalog of seed and sprout types. If you want to see the seeds you can book an appointment to walk around the “vast” greenhouses and warehouses…but I have no clue how I would do that in my position. To order seeds you fill out an order form with numbers. Like, blast-corn is #29 in the catalog. Write down #29 quantity 100 along with the rest of your order. It kind of reminds me of some Chinese restaurants?

Anyways. There are bulk deals. Each seed has a price in “crowns” – the goddess has added a method to convert “money” from the interdimensional store into crowns at a 37:1 ratio…so each crown is roughly 4ish dollars? A crown is the price of a cup of coffee?

Regular seeds are pretty expensive but if you buy 10 of a single type you get one for free. If you buy 50 you get 10 for free. 100 is 30 for free. 1000 is 600 for free. Obviously 1000 is the best deal right? 60% off?

But if I start bulk buying like that, I might not be able to get as many different kinds of seeds…

Finally your order will be shipped to the address you indicate by courier. Additional costs are incurred – 500 crowns per caravan to deal with bandits if the shipment heads outside of the kingdom.

The “website” breaks down a bit at this point – I think the goddess is doing some funky magic to get them to ship the stuff to me instead. My orders will count as “in kingdom” and as long as I spend over 100 crowns my shipping is free. Easy enough with the orders I’m planning.

So! Let’s see. What type of plants do we want to buy? Okay…Okay…yeah I agree we should look for stuff like that.

I personally want some fruit and vegetables for my own diet. I want to make jam sometime – a Homemade one that’s not dangerously addictive. Pickles too maybe – I’ve never done that before and it seems easy enough.

I’m so sick of eating nothing but meat, bad bread and energy bars. Bread seems hard but that’s a good eventual goal as well. Make my own bread.

I also want some plants or produce that sell well. The peas I planted are already nearly ready to harvest a second time, and considering my world doesn’t really have seasons right now It feels like the peas will keep producing for ages.

They sell for more than peas at the supermarket and…well picking them all and selling them is a tinnyyyy bit better than making mana crystals but not by much. Beyond liking plants I like farming that turns into passive income. Bunch of initial effort and then start raking in the money.

I wonder if theres a way to pick them all in a faster way? If I don’t have to pick them by hand that would be amazing.

The final plant I want to buy is a super long term one. I want to buy some trees. Fruit trees probably – even if they take years to start producing if I think long term they will be nice. I want a little orchard of different fruits.

With that list of goals in mind, I start flipping through the catalogue. All entries have a number and a name in the language of this store’s kingdom – gibberish as far as I’m concerned but they are translated phonetically into English characters. Most entires have a very rough English translation – names that include plants I know and can help me picture what the plants are. Most entries or group of entires also has a short description although the description usually includes information that assumes I know what the plant is.

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#400. Plane Ghalemin buds. (HeartySourEggplants). 🌱

Ghalemin plants usually require extremely acidic soil to grow properly but this strain has been bred to grow nearly anywhere. Great for preserving! Acquired Taste!

Three Crowns per 10 seeds. Not sold in bags less than 10.

The goddesses plant analysis helped fill in the rest of the information. Where the stores descriptions had a hand written feel. The system’s readout focused on stats.

Plant Type: Edible, Vegetable, Low-mana.

Growing requirements: Soil with pH of 7 or lower. Ideal conditions pH between 3-5.5. Can be grown in a swamp – high moisture content preferred – or a field.

Growing Time: 23 days.

Chance of failure: 50% chance each seed won’t germinate properly unless initially planted in incredibly acidic soil. Will fail to sprout if planted in basic soil or near any purification magic.

Ease of growth and care: High. Once germinated this specific plant can go days without being watered.

Harvest Period: 23-80 days. Can be extended indefinitely with frequent acidic fertilizer. In the swamps this hearty vegetable first appeared, in the locals are known to toss all the stomach and acid glands of their hunts into the crop pens.

Has a flavor profile similar to ripened Kimchi and a texture similar to a mushy raddish.

Mana affinity: Low low acidic profile. Can be nurtured into an inedible but more acidic version to limited success by placing in an environment with high degrees of mana bent towards acidicy. Variant species can grow into true acid mana for alchemy or warfare – Ghaleman (distant cousin to Ghalemin, ID #401 on this site) pods are essentially sacks of acid strong enough to strip unarmored flesh from bone in seconds.

Marketability: Estimate price per pod on the default exchange: 80 money ±10 money and an initial novelty factor rising anywhere from 100-200 monies.

All incredibly useful right? I’m not sure if I want these specific seeds – I’ve never had kimchi before so I don’t know if I’d like this…but I do like sour candies and pickles so maybe?

Anyways. I keep searching. I love the way the system is translating an English-ish translation with earth fruits and vegetables…but I’m also beginning to realize most – if not all – of them are only similar if you squint and ignore most of the traits. Like…blast corn? I’m imagining corn that turns into popcorn automatically exploding randomly when it gets mature right? That’s surprisingly close, but the vegetable is also completely sphere instead of shaped like a corn cob and it grows on these straight red stalks that look something like bamboo.

Not really what you picture when thinking of corn right?

Brains really like linking things and really want to imagine all these plants are just earth plants with a little magic flavour added on top. Pinch of some generic affinity and boom they are done.

Some are like that – snow peas are nearly 100% earth peas for example…but yeah. Most are completely different.

I think I’ve found the most expensive plant I can actually make. I’m going to call them Popular plants. Good at fitting in. Real popular with the magic people.

Each seed is 140 crowns. That’s…roughly… 140 times 37 divide by 10…just a bit over 500 dollars for a single seed!

The big thing this plant does is take in and change itself based on the mana its surrounded by when you plant it and grow it initially. Plant it in a Firey area and a month or two later when it's mature you get a bush on fire producing flame berries. Plant it in a misty area and you get a mist bush with mist leaves and mist roots.

Heres the fun part. Most of those bushes are worth much less than a 500 dollar seed should get you. As far as magical plants go you could buy a flame bush or mist fern or whatever and you wouldn’t need to shill out for this bush. You can definitely have it pay itself off with what it produces and you can definitely make some good money if you manage to get it to copy something useful…but no. The reason this is such a money maker is that base copying ability.

Instead of trying to grow this plant into something cool, if you really want to make money you need to keep it from altering itself.

You see all sorts of people want custom plants. People with unique mana flavours that need specific rare affinities want to be able to grow their own plant. People who need rare affinities or effects for alchemy or other crafting professions.

Wizards attempting rituals with very specific requirements. Creatures that need meals using very specific affinities.

The plant dies without mana – it can only grow in an area that’s just a bit over a “Tier 1 mana environment” as my system calls it…but if there’s literally any imbalance in the mana, it taints and pushes the magic into being that type.

If you manage to keep its environment perfectly balanced all throughout its initial growth period… you’ll end up with a bush that makes those initial popular seeds.

If you were paying attention, those seeds sell for 500 bucks each at least from this store. That’s some nice money! A single popular/dupe berry bush can make hundreds of seeds. 500 times hundreds is lots!

Growing this plant to any random magical affinity is pretty easy. Growing it to be balanced is incredibly hard – I’m beginning to think its possible for me however for a few reasons. One. From what I can tell most areas with a higher ambient mana affinity are bent heavily towards a few affinities…and my world seems relatively balanced right now? I’m leaning towards fae affinities the longer I stay in this “fae plane” but I still mostly feel like I’m a clean slate.

For a second the plant requires frequent maintenance in this initial unstable balanced state…if it seems like its starting to grow in any direction other than balanced you need to either remove the offending affinity or add in a perfectly counted mix of opposing affinities to keep it growing towards that balanced state.

I have MCC. I can pick and chose and filter mana affinities much better than regular gardeners.

Yes. If this bush works I’ll be making thousands upon thousands of dollars! That’s the kind of money I want! The kind of money we can use to furnish our eventual castle!

Besides this plan for a money maker – I bought 2 seeds hoping at least one of them will give me a jackpot – I find 25 different trees. Four “almost apples” with different interesting sounding flavours. Three vegetable trees. A tree that supposedly makes peaches that can protect you from death – a single peach will give you a bunch of random effects each designed to help prevent you from dying a single time…and while the peaches slowly lose effect – the more you eat the more you have to eat to get that same life saving effect…Yeah. It's still a solid magical fruit. Supposedly I can sell those individual peaches for hundreds of dollars basically anywhere although it will take years for the tree to grow.

There's a tree that makes giant nutty cubes that supposedly stay good forever…A tree that makes long straight green banana looking fruit. A few more that look like oranges and giant different coloured berries.

For vegetables I found these massive massive squash things – think yellow-white pumpkin but that can grow to the size of a car. Besides being able to make a boat out of them they apparently make tons of different products from a fleshy block that tastes like potato to a stringy seed filled inside that can make incredibly strong rope and netting.

I found a fast growing cannibalistic grass that can be milled into a flour for bread…it’s a white grass that eats other grass – spreading slowly but surely across fields of its green chlorophyll filled brethren. Our system informed me its approximately 99% of the flavour profile of wheat.

I found a floating plant. Its vaguely useful for incredibly niche sets of crafting…you have to tie it down like balloons otherwise it floats away. Only real reason I bought it was because I was curious…you’re also interested in balloon plants right?

Finally I have some spicy leafy greens that are basically a cross between hot peppers and cabbage.

Trees were one transplantable sapling each. Popular berries are 2 for now considering how expensive they are.

Most if not all of these vegetables I buy in packs of 100.

My shopping cart has long since surpassed my savings and I know I’m going 'need to spend hours if not days making pearls before I can finalize this.

The final group of plants I mark down is what I would consider a “random assortment”. They are all herbs of various affinities flavors and potential abilities. GhostBlooms and ForgottenForgetmenots. Some of them are for cooking flavour – one is supposedly peppery when dried and ground and another is supposedly like mint…but these are also for experimentation. One supposedly makes metal more conductive to mana channeling and another is noted to make a rainbow pigment you can dye stuff with.

I don’t fully know how useful they will be, I’ve kind of just gotten them because I want a variety.

Some were on sale as well – a clearance isle of magic plants I’m willing to try. “I’d buy that for a dollar!”

Some I bought specifically because the system didn’t have an analysis for it. If the goddess given system says “unfound abilities” you know I have to buy it and see what I can make it do! Sure that probably means no one else has figured out what it does but that just means I can be the first!

I spend some time working to save up enough for this purchase. Pearl after pearl – I use my myriad pearl making technique to make them all pure affinities and sell all the duplicates.

I think I might just be a collector. The entire wall of my house is starting to get covered with unique pearls…I actually buy paper and start writing down what the system claimed each pearl was gluing the tiny little cards above each pearl on the shelf. They are sorted by similar sounding mana types and make me smile every time I look at them. I’m sure it will come in handy when I suddenly need some rare type later.

As days of pearl grind pass I add more to my shopping list – heading back and adding some of those kimchi squash to try and finding some gorgeous lilypads I can decorate my “lake” with.

Finally after three days I have enough to make the purchase. I hit send and watch as the system translates my filled out form into a slip of paper in a different language and submits it to the store.

I’m half expecting the seeds to arrive right away but it takes an entire day to process my order. I could probably have spent the time being productive but I’m impatient so I timeskip the passage checking my order every few minutes until its done.

Boom!

It's here!

The system transfers my order into my inventory – an inventory that’s starting to get full and notes I need to ask the goddess to expand it if I want to keep holding all this stuff – and then transfers it all to the ground beside us.

Boxes upon boxes suddenly appear. Each is wrapped in a rough green paper with a smiling old man on it and some looping symbols I’m pretty sure are text for thank you or something.

More and more boxes keep appearing – soon the trees appear in a line of clay pots.

This…is a bit more than I was expecting.

Let's open all this together shall we?