I Grow Crops with a System

”Scythe of Gaia!”

Ethan had been worrying about whether to make a stone sickle to harvest the wheat, he hadn’t expected the Goddess Gaia to bestow such a grand gift upon him.

He picked up the Scythe of Gaia and examined it closely.

The blade emitted a soft, gentle glow.

Ethan bowed deep to the statue of the Goddess Gaia, then turned and left.

”Why did you bring the offerings back?”

”Someone worked hard to make this stuff — I gotta taste it, right?” Zharok spotted the new tool and tilted his head. ”What’s that scythe in your hand?”

He had just walked out holding a plate, how did it turn into a scythe when he came back?

Furthermore, this scythe looked far from ordinary.

Ethan didn’t plan to hide anything, so he recounted what had just happened, Zharok listened, pondered for a moment, then smiled.

”There are no longer any followers of the Goddess Gaia in the Great Forest, that’s probably why she sees you in a different light.” He paused.

”Leaving that aside, Ethan, have you ever thought about selling the Candied Sweet Potatoes?”

”Hm?”

Zharok didn’t seem very interested in the scythe, instead, he pointed at the remaining Candied Sweet Potatoes.

Ethan looked at him in confusion as Zharok opened the wooden crate he had brought along.

”I told you about this before, right? I have a very special box, and this is it. It’s called an Exchange Box — as long as you put valuable items inside, you can exchange them with special boxes in other locations and receive rewards.”

”Oh... Are my Candied Sweet Potatoes valuable?”

”Of course! After eating this, attribute values increase like crazy! It’s practically no different from food bestowed by the gods!”

Ethan was speechless.

’He’s exaggerating a bit.’

”So, if you put the Candied Sweet Potatoes in, you can definitely exchange them for a lot of good stuff, how about it — want to try?”

”What do you mean by exchanging with special boxes in other locations?”

”I mean it literally, treasure chests in dungeons, for example, they can be swapped out with whatever you put inside the Exchange Box.”

Ethan didn’t quite understand the point of this, but Zharok seemed to care a lot about it, since he could make Candied Sweet Potatoes anytime as long as he had Honey Sweet Potatoes and Sweet Beets, there wasn’t much reason to hesitate.

He placed the Candied Sweet Potatoes on a plate and set them into the Exchange Box.

After a while, the box began to shake violently, and a puff of white smoke rose from inside.

”Is this really okay?”

”Of course it’s fine, alright, it’s done — let’s see, the reward this time is...” Zharok opened the lid and peered inside.

”What is this?”

A delicate little case sat inside the box, Zharok picked it up and handed it to Ethan, but Ethan didn’t know what it was either.

”Open it and take a look, meow!”

Ethan inspected the case and noticed it could be rotated, he twisted the lid open, revealing a crystal-clear bead inside.

”It’s a Sun Stone, meow~”

”A Sun Stone? What is that?”

”Just as the name suggests, it’s a stone containing solar energy, meow, as long as you inject magic power into it, it releases heat and warms up the surrounding area, meow~”

’Does that mean, as long as I have Sun Stones, I can grow crops from the south? I might even be able to get two harvests a year.’

If he could simulate a southern environment, he could grow southern crops.

”Hmm... It’s not impossible.” Zharok pointed at the Sun Stone in Ethan’s hand and thought it over.

”But you’d need at least a few hundred of them to make an area as warm as the south.”

”In other words, I’d have to make Candied Sweet Potatoes hundreds of times?”

Making them a few hundred times wasn’t actually that hard — it was just physical labor, but Ethan didn’t plan on growing southern crops right now, he just wanted to focus on planting wheat.

”I heard humans are always bustling about, seems you’re no exception.”

”Best to get more work done while you can, so things will be easier later, right?”

”True enough... Then take your time, what was it you needed again?”

”Spices, seasonings, things like that, and clothes.”

’Humans outside the Great Forest probably used those things.’ Ethan wanted to use them to improve his living conditions.

Zharok smiled. ”The elves are coming here in a few days, how about I introduce you to them then?”

”Aren’t there a lot of wind blades outside the Great Forest? How do they get here?”

”As long as Elven Silk is treated with a special process, it can resist wind-attribute attacks, meow~” Pearl answered.

”That sounds pretty impressive.”

”It’s no big deal, we just pushed through by enduring it,” Zharok said.

”When will they be arriving roughly?”

”Tomorrow, shall we go together?”

”Sure.”

”I’ll leave my things here for now, see you tomorrow.”

Zharok waved his hand, turned, and left.

Ethan watched him go, then looked at the mountainous piles of Sweet Potatoes and Sweet Beets and stood up.

”What’s wrong, meow?”

”There’s so much stuff, carrying it all is too much of a hassle, how about I make a handcart?”

”Meow? You can make a handcart, meow?”

”I’ll give it a try, might as well make the most of my Crafting skill.”

Under normal circumstances, building a handcart would take a long time, but by utilizing the special effects of his Crafting skill, perhaps he only needed to prepare the materials.

Ethan set off for the forest, he chopped down a large tree, cut and polished the trunk, and then returned to his dwelling to begin assembly, while visualizing the shape of the handcart, he laid out the materials and tools, and activated his Crafting skill.

[Lightweight Wooden Handcart]

[A handcart made of wood, it has two wheels and can easily transport goods.]

[Effect of Gaia’s Hammer: Weight Reduction.]

[Crafting Difficulty: ★★]

The nails and wooden planks vanished, replaced by a wooden handcart.

No Well-Crafted bonus this time, however, because he had used Gaia’s Hammer, it gained the Lightweight effect.

”Let me test it out...”

He had expected a cart made from an entire large tree to be heavy, but thanks to the Lightweight effect, it wasn’t heavy at all.

”If only I had a horse, then I could pull this cart all over the place.”

”Meow-meow, you could try taming a wild beast, meow.”

”Taming a beast takes way too long!”

Besides, he didn’t have time to get into animal husbandry right now, just as Ethan was feeling a bit of regret, Pearl jumped onto the handcart and grinned.

”If you can make a cart just by prepping the materials, does that mean you can make a house just by prepping wood, meow?”

”I tried that, doesn’t work.”

He wasn’t in a rush for a new house right now anyway, so that could wait, Ethan began loading the Sweet Potatoes and Sweet Beets onto the handcart.

’The elves... I wonder what kind of people they are.’