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“Phew… I can’t believe it took this long to slay those mobs…” Rita sighed.
“We need to quickly refill our Satiation and then move onwards; we can’t stay here for too long.” Titan added.
“I know, we’ll follow the path I’ve created using my Terrain!” I said.
“It was very intense… I think I spent most of my Stink Bombs and Fire Bombs, dang it. Who would had thought we would be forced to fight those giant snakes again?” Acorn complained.
The transformation that Titan and Nieve were going through was quickly and automatically dispelled the moment the battle was over. Although everything was slightly insane and out of the ordinary, everyone was too tired to talk about this in detail, and we just wanted to eat.
“Alright, let’s make something up really quick!”
“I am interested in your cooking as well, Planta.”
Suddenly, the Spiritual Projection of the Fairy Queen appeared behind me.
“Uwah! Y-You’re here, Titania?”
“Yes, Nieve summoned me some minutes go again. The power you’ve given to her is amazing. Just what did you exactly do? Also Titan as well received something like that!”
“I… honestly have no idea, it just happened… Really!”
I quickly opened my Inventory and took a lot of pre-made food. There was no way I am cooking something here, it takes a bit too long to cook food and we were in a hurry, the food saved inside the Inventory is always warm and delicious just as prepared anyways so it was everything alright. .𝘤𝑜𝑚
I quickly took out several sandwiches and even some stew made out of snake meat, grilled fish, tea, apple juice, and salad of various veggies. Oh right, and baked potatoes, which are delish with butter made out of Belle’s milk!
“Wow, such a big feast!” Titan was shocked.
“Thanks for the meal~!” Rita immediately began to dig in.
“This looks mighty good!” Acorn started eating a fruit salad with cream on top.
“So you don’t know how it happened?” The Fairy Queen wondered again.
“Not really, it must be some reaction of the System and the Spells. Since I began playing that Spells sometimes come together. I guess it is the nature of the System’s powers. Like one day I merged Earth and Sunlight Spirits to create a Lava Golem Spirit.” I said. “Merging the effects of Skills and Spells seems like a right way to play this game and make even generally weak classes shine. I guess the people in charge of the creation of these powers really didn’t wanted to make any class weak and wanted to leave it to our imagination as well. The classes that are perceived as the strongest are most likely the ones where you need the least imagination to become stronger. Therefore, less effort.” I said, as I bite into a fried pork cutlet sandwich.
“I-I see…” Titania seemed slightly confused, as she quickly took a bowl of salad and began eating it. Apparently she was able to eat salad just like that even in her Spiritual Projection form. I wonder if her real body eats it too? “This System existence is truly an enigma to me… I don’t know if the Gods made it or something else… Ah, this salad is exquisite!”
She continued eating everything until the very last cherry tomato, and then drank some tea.
“Wow… Planta, did you grew those vegetables yourself?! I’ve never eaten something so delicious before!” She said happily.
“Y-Yeah, I am a farmer, after we are done with this, I’ll expand my farm some more. I am still not producing enough to feed an entire population though, so I don’t think I can sell my vegetables in masse…” I said.
“O-Oh, I see… But would you be interested in opening a restaurant, perhaps?” She wondered. Titania didn’t seemed to want to let me go now that she knew my food was tasty.
“Ahahah… M-Maybe?” I wondered. “I wonder how fun it might be to do that inside a game.”
“Think about it!” Titania said, quickly taking another bowl of salad.
“Anyways now that we are a bit more calm after we ate… Planta, how exactly did you do that?” Titan asked the same question as Titania…
“Y-Yeah! I felt so strong back then, I had no idea Lady Planta could transform me and even temporarily lend me her magical abilities.” Said Nieve.
“I really have no idea how that happened… But it might be an effect of the Spiritual Spells I used. The Flower Garden Terrain must have special effects, and it said you were compatible with them, most likely due to your Race, Titan, as you’re an Ent!” I said.
“Oh… so such compatibilities exist. I guess it is just as you said previously, this game has a lot of hidden effects and things we can produce by combining certain skills and magic together, Terrains and all of that wasn’t even within my knowledge. I doubt many Rankers even use such methods for fighting, but it seems that Terrains and their Effects are a special power in this game’s world…” Titan said while rubbing his woody chin.
“Huh… Well, I guess I’ll leave it to that.” Said Nieve.
“Well, the magic that Planta employed was something that she developed after receiving my Blessing. Her Spirit Magic affinity is amazing already. She’s able to summon my Spiritual Projection and that of many of my citizens to help her. What happened to Nieve might be because her Spiritual Projection was summoned while she was still fighting here.” Said Titania.
“R-Right! That was it! I think you ended merging with your Spiritual Projection, Nieve. It ended giving you some sort of “idealized form” that you see yourself in the future as!” I said happy to finally figure out what had happened.
“W-Wha…?! My ideal form… is a princess?!” She asked while blushing until she got as red as a tomato.
“Hahah, that’s certainly a cute dream you have, Nieve.” Sighed Titania. “I’ve already been thinking about having a new Queen, perhaps you might be the ideal. You’re strong, diligent, and intelligent.”
“E-Eeeh?!” Nieve was shocked.
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