Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest-Novel

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[Potential Cube (D Rank)] has been utilized on [Expert Hunting Knife (No Rank)]!]

[The [Expert Hunting Knife (No Rank)] has evolved into a D Rank Magic Weapon!]

[It has gained the Potential Abilities [AGI +12% (D)] and [Aura Slash (D)]!]

[Potential Cube (D Rank)] has been utilized on [Smith & Wesson 442 Handgun (No Rank)]!]

[The [Smith & Wesson 442 Handgun (No Rank)] has evolved into a D Rank Magic Weapon!]

[It has gained the Potential Abilities [DEX +15% (D)] and [Mana Bullet (D)]!]

FLASH!

Both weapons began shining brightly with powerful magical auras! Sadly I couldn't really read what they were those abilities about, but they were surely strong. The voice immediately disappeared the moment I heard the announcements. I do remember my own shovel got STR +15% and Explosive Blow or something.

"Oh, the knife became red in the handle?" Mark was surprised, grabbing the newly enhanced weapon.

"Sheesh! Look at this gun, it has a whole evil aura around it now…" Rita was surprised her handgun now had a malicious dark aura.

"The knife gained +12 AGI boost and Aura Slash. And the handgun got DEX +15% and Mana Bullet! Try them out to see how they work." I said.

"Alright!" Said Rita, pointing her gun to a tree.

"W-Wait! Don't shoot!"

BAAAM!

Suddenly, the bullet came out, but it didn't emitted any sound at all, reaching the nearby tree. The only sound we heard was that of the tree being left with a rather large hole, its destructive power was way more than a normal little handgun now, another shoot and the tree would fall down for sure. It probably had the destructive power of a rifle now… If not more.

"I felt like a tiny bit of my energy got sucked, but damn that's a good shoot! And it didn't made any sound either!" Rita said.

"Mana Bullets don't make sound duh." The Great Spirit said. "They're made of mana, not explosives that react and send something flying off at super speeds, so it is like a stealth attack. I think you only have around 70 MP with the lemon pie though, and each bullet is around 50 MP, you can't shoot another one or you'll fall unconscious due to mana fatigue."

"Eeep! Noted." Rita nodded.

"Let's see this one then…!" Mark said, slashing the empty air as he imbued mana into his knife.

SLAAASH!

​ A massive slash made of magic aura emerged, flying into the tree Rita shot and then slicing it in half!

BAAAM!

The whole tree fell!

"W-Woah… Ugh, now I feel a bit sickly…" Mark ended spending most of his MP for that though.

"I see. That one probably costs way more than 50 MP to use, its destructive power's really something else." Said the Great Spirit.

"Like that, I guess we're covered up with weapons…" I said. "Now we need armor!"

"Armor? Are we really going to craft armor?" Wondered Rita.

"Maybe we could get some of that armor that rugby players have, and motorcycle helmets?" Wondered Mark.

"I suppose that would be good enough, Hollows hit really hard." I sighed. "Though if they're too many pieces, its going to be hard to get everything strong enough, I have a limited amount of D Rank Cubes right now. To get more I would need to either buy them or go on a boss rush."

"How many do you have right now?" Wondered Rita. "I've got around twenty I think?"

"I also have roughly twenty, that should be enough, no?" Mark wondered.

"I do have… seventeen, I also had twenty." I nodded. "You're willing to give them to me?"

"Sure, here."

"Yeah!"

It is also possible to use the game app to transfer, sell, or buy items between players offline, so Rita and Mark quickly sent me those items, and a bunch of many other materials around D Rank and below, including MP Potions from the beginner's gift, which they had not used.

"With these MP Potions we can refill our Mana so I can keep getting more stuff out easily and also use magic, nice!" I said happily. "I think I could drag some beginner armor I have laying inside of my inventory… Here."

I took out some F Rank Armor so everyone could ty them out. It was just shoulder, chest, and leg armor. My class didn't even used armor at all, so it was all a new experience to me. The armor was just "Steel Warrior Armor" and it could be gotten for cheap in any shop.

Though, any equipment above F Rank costed more MP than I had at maximum, so I couldn't drag it out. Nonetheless, we could also make our own stuff eventually. For now, this sufficed.

"We should get more weapons and maybe shields later too." Mark said. "You're never sure when we'll need them."

"Yeah, yeah, but that's for later! Now we need to get our magic!" Rita said.

"Yep! I've got enough materials from Arcadia, but we need materials from this world as well, so we'll go out to find them!" I said with a smile.

"Wait, what?!" Rita asked in surprise. "Y-You plan for us to go out in the night to the forest?!"

"You've eaten magic food and also we got a lot of mana potions now, so what's there to fear?" I sighed. "Don't worry, if a Hollow shows up, I'll defeat it with my shovel and Blackie here."

"Meow!" Blackie emerged at my side.

"Well, let's go then." Mark seemed willing, walking at my side as we made our way into the forest near to my house's territory.

"W-Wait! Don't leave me behind!" Rita complained, rushing behind us.

This forest was quite large, surrounding the entire mountain in the background. There are wild boars but that's about it, and they're way easier to deal with than Hollows, for sure.

We spent the next two hours picking up herbs, flowers, branches, leaves, and mushrooms. The Great Spirit helped me find anything with some accumulated Mana. It resulted in that this whole forest was undergoing "Awakening" into a Magic Forest, and many plants had already evolved into magic ones! Although of very low quality.

"Good! We've got Materials with Mana of Earth and Materials with Mana of Arcadia." Said the Great Spirit. "We should try to go back now-"

"GRUOOOHHHH!"

However, things weren't going to be as smooth sailing.

Suddenly, an enormous wild boar emerged from the nearby bushes, roaring angrily at us.

"A wild boar!" Mark said. "It's bigger than I imagined wild boars to be…"

"Wait, that's a wild boar?!" Rita panicked.

"I think?" I wondered.

That thing… it was way bigger than any wild boar I have seen before. It was as big as a bear, and it was covered on red markings! Its tusks were extremely long and pointy, and it had furious red eyes.

"That's not a normal animal!" The Great Spirit said. "That's a Monster! To think the animals already began mutating…! I think it is similar to the Great Tusks you usually find in the Forest of Beginnings, though a super-buffed up version!"

"GRRRRHHHHH…"

The Great Tusk began emanating a powerful red aura, it was filled with powerful and dreadful amounts of mana.

And then…!

"GRUOOOHHH!"

It started charging directly towards us!

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