Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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Time passed, and with the help of various Farm Spirits, we planted a lot of seeds and spread Mark's Forest further through my Domain, making it at least a tenth of the whole land. It ended up being larger than I imagined! And a lot of fire spirits gathered on it. Now the only thing we had to wait for was for the plants to actually grow and become larger, forming an actual forest or garden.

Meanwhile, Monica carved a totem on her own within that hour, we helped her out with the imperfections, and then placed it on the domain as well, not that far away and not that close to the other totems. And it seemed to be working perfectly too.@@novelbin@@

FLAAASH!

The aura appeared again, connecting the totems and whatever was inside of them when this happened, probably new beast spirits, right? It seemed three more were added to the mix.

Was it enough for…?

[You have planted two more powerful Spirit Totems and connected them to the Ancient Spirit Totems Veil within your Domain.]

[Your Domain has been strengthened by the new Ancient Totem Spirits inhabiting it.]

[A New Domain Ability has begun to develop…]

[More Totems are needed for the Ability to be fully created.]

Ah damn it, that was such a tease!

So I need more, okay I guess.

"For now, however, we're done!" I said. "Let's go cook something to eat, shall we? I was thinking of barbeque…"

"Barbeque?" Mark asked. "Sounds good to celebrate our victory from yesterday I guess."

"Y-Yeah…!" Monica nodded, agreeing completely with him.

"Alright then, how about we use the some of the leftover wood branches here and there…" I said. "Let's make a bonfire and prepare to leave the food roasting or grilling."

I quickly cleared an area of grass and placed some of the red colored soil I created beforehand on top. Then I placed several stones around the soil, and lastly wood before starting a small fire.

The fire spirits helped create a nice and cozy bonfire, and then I placed the upper side of a grill on top of the bonfire, attached to metal-like wood from Mark.

It didn't look as elegant, but it was perfect for this.

"Now…"

I opened my inventory, as I placed several pieces of meat on top of a wooden table to my left side. This was a lot of pre-cut meat from monsters that I've hunted on Arcadia.

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Thanks to Arcadia's System, whatever is hunted can be either received as a whole corpse which then can be butchered individually or through the inventory, or it can be received already as butchered eatable and usable parts.

Yes, when you hunt, for example, a big bear, you'll get everything separated, the bear pelt, organs, meat, bones, eyes, and so on… But there's an option in the game menu to also receive full corpses if you prefer.

Some people practice their butcher techniques in the game after all, and there's even skills related to butchering. Apparently doing it manually creates higher quality meat with special effects.

However, I don't have the time for that! I'm a busy lady, you know?

Therefore, I simply have the option of receiving everything already butchered activated, henceforth all the meat is more than ready.

"What's up?" Wondered Gardenia, the Great Spirit. She was gone for a while, probably napping after all the stuff she ate. "Oh, meat? You're cooking? In a bonfire? But don't you have modern kitchen here?"

"Hey! Yeah I wanted to cook barbeque on my own weird style," I said. "This time we'll eat… Oh there's a lot of leftover dragon meat… Hmm! Okay, we'll do some roasted dragon meat. And… What else? Oh River Fish! I caught a lot of them back then…"

"So you're grilling meat?" she asked. "Sounds nice! Do you have any chicken?"

"Let me see…" I said.

I checked my inventory again, and found there was also a large quantity of butchered Mole Birds. Oh I remember I hunted them a few weeks ago! They're pretty tasty as well.

"I've got some Mole Bird meat I had yet to cook! Ah it's nice the Inventory keeps everything on a time stasis, so it doesn't go bad!"

"Yeah you're lucky the Gods blessed you with such abilities! Without their help you wouldn't had gotten this far."

"Hey, don't say that… I mean I'm grateful, but I like to believe I also am a hard-working person, and that I don't just rely on the powers of others."

After I was ready, I summoned Gordon again, alongside several Gourmet Dragon Spirits using the power of my Specialization.

"Alright guys! Help me out butcher and prepare this meat! If possible, marinating it for a few minutes would be ideal too! Can you hasten the time it takes for meat to be marinated?"

"Yeah we can do it."

"It's not hard!"

"Leave it to us!"

Gordon spoke with all three of his heads nodding in unison, he seemed ready to work again. The other Gourmet Spirits I had summoned started moving, shaped into all kind of dragon forms.

I cut down the large chunks of meat into sizable pieces and ended up making the grilling area much larger as well, covering a few dozen meters so everything could be grilled nicely.

Some started marinating the meat already, others were cutting off grease or nerves that wouldn't be tasty to eat from them.

I seasoned some of the meat too, preparing the marination sauce, and waited a couple of minutes as the grills heated up.

Using Cooking Magic to enhance the flavor of meat and also its absorption of flavors, the marination only took but a couple of minutes.

How convenient!

After that, with the help of my spirits, we began placing the meat over the grill one after another, the smell of grilled and roasted meat filled the environment.

Especially the fish, which was very fragrant, it quickly brought the attention of the Fire Bear Cubs, who came walking slowly while yawning adorably, they were taking a nap.

"Hey! Do you want to eat some meat?"

As I asked them, one of them sneezed, releasing flames on top of the meat.

FLUOSH!

And he… burned it into charcoal.

"Aaah! I-I guess you can eat these…"

For some reason they liked the meat very burned.

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