Elysion Online ~The Dragonewt and The Summoner~

Chapter 107: Sugarcane Quest and Sugar Making

We took the quest and the result was

"Uwaah! I lost~!"

We lost miserably. We couldn't deal with the large number of boars coming at us from all directions. This is a very impossibly hard game.

"It's tough to protect, isn't it?"

"It is. I don't think we were wrong"

"Well...as long as six people protect, six people should deal with each direction, but there were too many..."

"Yes...even if we cut and burned them, they kept coming and we couldn't deal with them"

Now, what should I do? You can't summon spirits...the trump card is Lily and Ion's pseudo-dragon. Ion would use it, but I came up with an idea there.

"Ion. Can Dragon Wave swallow this area?"

"Eh? It's possible, but if we do that, Takuto and the others will be swept away, too"

"Don't worry about that. I'll take care of it"

Setia seems to have grasped my intention by herself.

"Takuto-sama...no way"

"Ah...if you can't deal with it because it comes from the whole surface, you can only do it from one side"

When I said that, two people looked at me with question marks.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't understand..."

Koihi doesn't know anything about Dragon Wave. Lily is...well, she's Lily, so...let me explain.

Revenge. As long as I use my trump card, I'll decide here! The key to the operation, Ion, is waiting at the edge of the event field. It's okay, because the operation instructions are synchronized. Then, let's do it.

The boars are coming in.

""Earth Wall!""

Setia and I will surround ourselves with an earth wall. We're ready.

Ion, now!

Yes! Pseudo-dragon, activated!

Ion becomes a pseudo-dragon. Unfortunately we can't see it, as were surrounded by earth walls.

Dragon Technique! Dragon Wave!

Ion said and with the sound of waves, the earth walls were shocked. It made me nervous, but it seemed to work.

Dragon Wave, finished. The earth walls can be released. Please take care of the rest

Ah. Well done. I'll take care of the rest

I released the earth wall. Then I looked at the boars and saw that they were gathered on the right side. It's because they were swept away by the wave coming from the left.

This is the strategy I had in mind. The boars are now taking damage from the dragon wave and are gathering at the right side of the field. That is, the target of the magic.

"Thunder Branch!"

"Splash!"

I and Setia's range magic explode. The remaining ones are coming, but Lily, Koihi and Gray take care of them and then the range magic again. That's the end of the game. There are only a few left and Lily, Koihi and Gray kill them. After defeating it to some extent, Gray has recovered the exhausted Ion.

"Thank you for your hard work Ion. Thank you for your hard work Gray"

"Gau"

"I'm glad you were able to make it"

That's right. Gray also went to attack the boars. I think we're on the right track. We got sugar cane!

"Takuto, it's over!"

It looks like Lily killed the last boar. She's the quintessential boar hunter.

That's the image I have of Lily, since she was the first one to kill all the boars. When I was floating on the sugar cane, Gray and Koihis voices echoed.

"Gaaa!"

"Not yet! There's something big coming!"

What!?

"Buoooo!!"

Looking at the consciousness of Gray and Koihi, a huge wild boar appeared. Identify.

Boar Leader ?

Quest Boss Subjugation Target ?

Well...I see. You don't want to give me the sugar cane...fine. I'll get it no matter what!

"Lily, you can use pseudo-dragonification. Show him the difference in level"

"I got it! Takuto! Pseudo-dragon!"

A pillar of light rises, and a pseudo-dragon-like Lily appears from it.

"Here we go!"

Lily and Boar Leader collide head-on. No, Lily stopped the movement of the bore leader with one hand. Seriously? She stopped a boar that was much bigger than us with one hand? I mean, Lily knew she could do it, so she did it.

"When becoming a pseudo-dragon, Lily's strong!"

Lily threw the Boar Leader into the sky. She then flew through the air and activated her special combo. I'll get ready too.

"Fighting Spirit! Hot~Dragon Technique, Dragon Claw!"

A direct hit on the bore leader. The bore leader was slammed into the ground, but half of his HP remained. Lily was about to unravel the pseudo-dragon. However, this skill depends on magical power. Then I can do something like this.

"Entrust!"

All my magic power will flow to Lily. Gu...staggering. I feel like I've been working too hard and collapsed. I can't do anything because I've lost all my magic power. But Lily's pseudo-dragon transformation is still going on.

"Eh? Is this Takuto's magic power?"

"Lily! Decide it!"

"Y, Yeah! Leave it to me!"

Lily swung upwards at the bore leader from the sky and slashed at it.

"Dragon Claw!"

A direct hit to the bore leader. But it doesn't die. There's a little left. The damage from the fall was not enough. But Lily's pseudo-dragonization has yet to be removed.

"This is the end! Dragon Claw!"

Lily turned to the side of the boar leader and shook the boar leader. The boar leader's HP was completely wiped out and it never got up.

A level up info has arrived to inform me of the quest clear.

The level of Intermediate Summoner has increased. The number of summoned beasts that can become companions has increased by one

The level of Intermediate Summoner has increased. You gained skill point 1pt

My remaining skill points are 20pt. There are 10 summoned beasts that can become companions. We were delighted, but the combo I did on Lily made Ion and Setia unhappy. I promised them that I would do it if I had the chance and they were in a better mood.

After completing the quest, we recovered enough to be able to move and reported back to the grandma.

"Thank you. Here's your reward"

"Thank you very much"

The quest was now complete. We got sugarcane seedlings.

Sugarcane: Rarity 4 Ingredient Item Quality D

It is a graminous plant that eats the pith of the stem and squeezes the juice to drink. There are other uses besides eating.

Let's go and plant them in the field.

Our field was located at the edge of the village, near the village church. We were newcomers to the village, so we had no choice.

The size of the field was about 6.6 square meters. That's about four tatami mats. Well, it's just a field at first. This is the size of the field.

I plowed the field with Yuuna-san's help and was about to plant sugarcane seedlings when I forgot an important thing...I've never planted sugarcane before. I'm not even sure if I'm plowing the right way.

I asked Yuuna-san, but of course she wouldn't know. On the contrary...

"Eh? Aren't you just going to plant it in the ground?"

Don't you think it is? Because the cooking is quite elaborate. I don't think I'll cut corners in farming.

...I'm stuck! What the hell! What an idiot! I can't believe I made such a rudimentary mistake!

Just as I was getting depressed, I heard the voice of my savior.

"Umm...I can pretty much figure out plants, can't I?"

That's what Setia said. Seriously? Savior!

So, under Setia's guidance, we planted the sugarcane seedlings. After watering the plants, we were done.

"Please do the same here"

Yuuna-san asks Setia. Two useless people being taught about vegetables by a little girl. What a shameful situation.

"Working in the field is hard work"

"It's true that taking care of plants is hard work. But there are secret skills, you know?"

"Secret Skills?"

"Yes. I mean, you can use it too, Takuto-sama"

What? Is there anything like that? I thought for a moment and then remembered. I had only used it the first time, so I had forgotten.

It's Wood Magics Grow. It's a magic that makes plants grow. That is, vegetables. Or rather, it was a magic for vegetables, I suppose. Setia and I immediately tried to use Grow.

Green light pours down on our field. It's quite a mystical sight.

The green light is sucked into the ground. And the sugar cane grew all at once. It grew to about three meters and then stopped.

Magic, wow. And my wood magic skill leveled up. I have a feeling that my wood magic will grow rapidly as I work in the fields.

Quickly, Setia collected and got the sugar cane I'd been longing for. We did it! Now we can make sugar!

I was about to leave, but I knew I couldn't leave Ruin-san and the others behind, but apparently Ruin-san had learned space-time magic, so it wouldn't be a problem.

So I went back to the store to make sugar. However, this is where the hard part begins.

First, we had to peel the sugar cane, which was as hard as bamboo. Once the peeling was done, the next step was to grind the cane into powder. By hand, of course...

I wrapped the chopped cane in a dish towel from the store and squeezed it.

I asked Lily to do this. She has the most Strength.

"Gyu~~...Gyu~~...Nn~~!"

Oh! It's squeezing. It's squeezing.

Thanks to Lily's hard work, we were able to safely obtain the raw liquid that would become the source of the sugar. I patted Lilys head and praised her for her hard work.

Now, I use the filtration equipment used for fish sauce to remove impurities from the raw liquid.

Finally, I boil the water to remove the water. Direct heating is quicker but carries a higher risk of burning, so I chose to boil the water, even though it takes longer.

Then, the undiluted solution crystallizes. Let's take a look at the results.

Brown Sugar: Rarity 5 Cooking Quality D

Effect: None

Brown sugar created from sugar cane. Contains a lot of minerals.

Yay! Finally, sugar is born! But the name is going to be brown sugar...it's not cane sugar because it's made from sugar cane. Some of the white sugar we have at home is also made from sugar cane.

Perhaps there are impurities and minerals left in the sugar that make it brown sugar, but...it's a mystery.

If they have to make top white sugar, they would need a special facility or something. I don't know much about it, but I wonder if it's possible to build such a facility. As expected, I won't do that much, so I'll throw it all at Yuna-san.

The sugar cane making process would have been much more difficult in real life, but it looks like they've made it a little kinder. Even so, it took a hell of a lot of time. But when I thought it was too little in terms of quantity, I got the info. What?

You've succeeded in powdering the ingredients. Powdering has been added to your cooking skill

Wh, What...is it powdering?

I used the powdering skill on the sugar cane and it completed the brown sugar in one shot.

The skill is amazing! It's producing a lot of brown sugar! And there are so many possibilities with this powdering. The first thing that came to mind was curry powder and dashi stock. I have to try this a lot!

But the time was getting close to dinner time, so I decided to log out. Next time I have to plant potatoes and lettuce.

Name Takuto Intermediate Summoner Lv4Lv5

Vitality 3839

Magic Power 7678

Strength 2829

Defense 1819

Agility 2425

Dexterity 55

Skills

Fighting Lv3

Kicking Lv12

Staff Lv15Lv16

One-handed Sword Lv8

Throwing Lv1

Summoning Magic Lv19

Alchemy Lv9

Mining Lv14

Logging Lv10

Dismantling Lv19

Appraisal Lv9

Identification Lv15

Wind magic Lv19

Fire Magic Lv19

Earth Magic Lv18Lv19

Water Magic Lv19

Dark Magic Lv18

Light Magic Lv22

Lightning Magic Lv15Lv16

Explosion Magic Lv15

Wood Magic Lv15Lv16

Ice Magic Lv15

Space-Time Magic Lv14

Reading Lv5

Cooking Lv20

Feeding Lv6

Fishing Lv5

Synchronization Lv2Lv3

Name Lily Dragonewt Lv22Lv23

Vitality 3738

Magic Power 27

Strength 6971

Defense 26

Agility 2021

Dexterity 17

Skills

Bare-handed Lv6

One-handed Sword Lv17

Large Sword Lv4Lv6

Fighting Spirit Lv6Lv7

Pseudo-dragonification Lv1Lv3

Name Ion Dragonewt Lv22Lv23

Vitality 3738

Magic Power 4950

Strength 30

Defense 20

Agility 6870

Dexterity 5860

Skills

Dual Wield Lv17

Throwing Lv1

Underwater Action Lv5

Water Blade Lv9

Pseudo-dragonification Lv2Lv3

Name Setia Elf Lv20Lv21

Vitality 30

Magic Power 7072

Strength 20

Defense 1516

Agility 20

Dexterity 7072

Skills

Staff Lv9

Bow Lv1

Woodworking Lv5

Collecting Lv8

Dose Lv5

Wind Magic Lv1

Fire Magic Lv1

Water Magic Lv11Lv12

Earth Magic Lv11Lv12

Wood Magic Lv11Lv12

Tree Magic Lv4

Elven Knowledge Lv5

Spirit Summoning Lv2

Name Koihi Cerian Beast Lv14Lv16

Vitality 3436

Magic Power 2930

Strength 2933

Defense 1620

Agility 3234

Dexterity 2425

Skills

Katana Lv5Lv6

Flame Magic Lv3

Fox Fire Lv2

Sign Detection Lv5Lv6

Sorcery Lv1

Name Gray Gray Wolf Lv11Lv13

Vitality 3637

Magic Power 1213

Strength 4547

Defense 2223

Agility 4547

Dexterity 2526

Skills

Bite Lv15

Sign Detection Lv12

Night Vision Lv9Lv10

Danger Detection Lv8Lv9

Hardened Fangs Lv10Lv11