Chapter 2
I woke up got out of bed and thought what a strange dream I had last night. When I heard grunting coming from the living room and a small black pig came walking in and seeing that I was up seemed to say finally grunted at me and left the room.
So the world really has gone to hell I thought it wasn’t a dream. I walked in to the kitchen planning to fry some bacon and eggs then took a second glance at the pig and decided to make pancakes. Even if it was a little pig now, I didn’t want a 750 lb. pig mad at me when it got bigger cause I ate one of its relatives.
After finishing making a heaping stack of pancakes I took 3 and set the rest down for the pig on the ground. After doing this I got a bottle of maple syrup out of my cupboards and started putting syrup on my pancakes when I heard an expectant grunt.
Don’t tell me the pig wants maple syrup too. The little pig was looking back and forth between the syrup and his heaping stack of pancakes, oh well I guess it is worth a try.
I came over and poured a generous amount of syrup on the pancakes and then went back to the table to eat my pancakes. Meanwhile the pig was gorging itself on the pancakes and rooting the plate around. This was going to be an interesting day I just knew it, bossy pigs, magical plants, monsters, and a completely changed world.
First off I decided to take stock of how much food I had. I had enough pancake mix to last me for a week if I ate it for breakfast every day, I had a dozen of eggs, 2 brownie mixes, 3 packages of bacon, a 24 pack of ramen noodles, a 24 pack of water, and a 12 pack of pepsi.
Not much for a survival kit the water would be the first thing to run out if the tap is shut off but with the magical plants being able to produce food every day in exchange for mana I should be okay for a month or two if I don’t run out of water. Speaking of the plants I should go check on them.
I wonder who I tell what quality they are. Going off of a hunch I looked at a plant and said “analyze” a blue screen popped up in front of me about the plants.
Plants: 2 Supreme, 3 Good, 10 Okay, 5 Poor
Fire Corn- Quality: 1 good, 3 okay, 1 poor
Fire Corn is a corn plant that evolves after living in an intense heat environment or after surviving a fire. The plant is a yellowish orange color with bright red ears of corn. It has a minor fire affinity and tastes like slightly burnt popcorn. By absorbing mana it can produce ears of corn every day.
Poor quality produces 2 ears a day
Okay quality produces 3 ears a day
Good quality produces 4 ears a day
Flaming Sweet Potato: 1 good, 2 okay, 1 poor
Flaming Sweet Potato is a sweet potato that evolves after the top is burnt away and the roots are surrounded by coals. The potato is infused with the power of the fire and evolves. It is a red sweet potato plant that produces sweet potato tubers that all have a glowing red coal inside of them. To eat them you take out the coal and boil or bake like a regular sweet potato. They taste the same as a normal sweet potato they just have a minor fire affinity. By absorbing mana it can produce sweet potatoes every day.
Poor quality produces 2 sweet potatoes a day
Okay quality produces 3 sweet potatoes a day
Good quality produces 4 sweet potatoes a day
Fire Rice: 1 supreme, 1 good, 1 okay, 1 poor
This is a rice plant completely infused with fire. It has resistance to water and a slightly greater fire affinity than other first evolution crops. It is a red looking plant with seeds that glow blue from the heat they produce. Cooking the seeds will take away the intense heat they produce but leaves behind a very spicy flavor. It has slight water resistance and a minor fire affinity. It can produce rice every day if given mana.
Poor quality produces ¼ lb. a day, approx. 0.61 cups
Okay quality produces 3/8 lb. a day, approx. 0.92 cups
Good quality produces ½ lb. a day, approx. 1.23 cups
Supreme quality produces ¾ lb. a day, approx. 1.84 cups
Red Hot Pumpkin: 2 okay, 1 poor
This is a pumpkin plant that evolves from exposure to fire. It evolves in the presence of fire or after being burned and surviving. It looks like a regular pumpkin plant only the pumpkins have glowing red eyes and a mouth like a jack o lantern. They contain a minor fire affinity and tasted like spicy pumpkin with a smoky undertone to it. It can produce pumpkins every day if given mana.
Poor quality plants yield 2 small pumpkins a day
Okay quality plants yield 3 small pumpkins
Burnt Mushroom: 2 okay, 1 poor
A fungus that evolved after consuming fire mana or the bodies of fire affinity plants or animals. It gains immunity to fire and turns black with red gills. It tastes just like a cooked mushroom and can be eaten raw. Since it has fire immunity cooking does not affect it. Has fire immunity. It can produce new mushrooms every day if given mana.
Poor quality yields 3 small mushrooms
Okay quality yields 5 small mushrooms
Perceptive Maple: Supreme
A sugar maple plant that has evolved to gain a small measure of intelligence. It can manipulate the shape and size of its leaves and branches to get the most sunlight and energy. As a supreme quality semi-sentient plant it has gained a blessing.
Fairies Blessing:
This plant was blessed by a fairy allowing it to become a nature sprite, the second evolution in the fairy path, in half the time of a usual Supreme. After meeting a fairy this plant will not evolve into a treant but only along the fairy path first as a nature sprite and then onto a fairy. This only affects time until 2nd Evolution and not subsequent evolutions. The plant gains a permanent boost of 5 nature affinity.
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Poor Quality time to 2nd Evolution: 1 year
Okay Quality time to 2nd Evolution: 6 months
Good Quality time to 2nd Evolution: 3 months
Supreme Quality time to 2nd Evolution: 1 month
Supreme Quality with Dryads Blessing time till 2nd Evolution: 15 days
So I had 20 plants 2 of which were supreme quality, 3 good qualities, 10 okay qualities, and 5 poor qualities just like what I was supposed to get.
I am really glad that the perceptive maple is one of the supremes. Quality affects how fast something evolves and with plants it has the extra ability of affecting how much fruits, flowers, and other things they produce. However, this does not mean a supreme quality monster is better than a poor quality monster.
If two monsters of the same level and species fight they will be equal regardless of quality. Quality affects how fast something gains experience and levels not how strong it is. Plants have the extra feature that higher qualities are able to more efficiently convert sunlight and mana into fruits and other things. So quality is basically how good a something is at learning new things and bettering what they currently have.
Humans are unique in that we don’t have a specific quality. We all level at the same rate. We can all become something more; however there is no real guideline for when like there is with animals and plants.
By growing an affinity, like monsters we may have two different affinities, leveling up and getting stronger we can transcend our humanity and become giants, dryads, fire elementals, elves, and beastmen. These Ancestries can be purchased from the store.
Status
Name: Will
Race: Human
Level: 1
Mana : 50
Strength: 10 Agility: 10
Dexterity: 10 Intelligence: 10
Vitality: 10
Affinity:
· None
Skills
· Analyze: Novice level 1
· Gardening: Novice level 1
· Cooking: Novice level 1
Skill: Analyze
Novice level 1
You are able to see the race and level of monsters. Items, animals, and monsters you own are not affected by analyze level. You will always see the full description of items you own. Analyze can be leveled up by using it on different monsters.
Skill: Gardening
Novice level 1
You know the very basics of how to take care of a plant. Higher levels of this skill can increase plant yields and decrease plant evolution times. You’re a novice though level this up if you want benefits. Gardening can be increased by taking care of lots of plants, taking care of rare plants, and evolving your plants.
Skill: Cooking
Novice level 1
You can cook one of the simplest things there is pancakes. Embark on a journey to become a master chef if you can figure out how to make anything else. Raise this skill by cooking lots of dishes, cooking exotic dishes, and cooking complex dishes.
Every level a person gets 5 skill points. They can distribute the attribute points into whatever stat they want.
Strength raises your physical prowess and gives you bigger muscles. Agility influences how fast you can move and your reaction times; people with high agility tend to have long lean muscle, they are slim runners.
Dexterity affects how good you are at crafting and your accuracy with ranged weapons. Intelligence affects how fast you can learn new things and how good you are at leading others.
Vitality is how much your body can withstand. It affects how fast your wounds heal, how good you are at warding off illness, and how many hits you can take in a battle.
He learned all of this after reading the first blue screen it was like all of this was becoming normal, the new world’s laws were instinctively known. It has been less than 24 hours since this all started and everything has completely changed. Enough time had been used just learning sitting around and learning about the changes in the world it was time to go out and experience them for himself.