Ch.177177. The Connection Between You and Me

First, the convenience of the base teleportation portal is important, but we should also consider the ability to set up a temporary base.

While it’s fine to just use 1P to install a teleportation portal, it would be nice to provide some amenities for the important tribal NPCs.

Above all, the fact that the village isn’t yet filled with NPCs played a role in my decision.

There aren’t many reasons to go to the village right now.

Even if something comes up, I won’t need to visit daily, and the distance isn’t really that far.

So it seemed better to use the teleportation portal for the Naru tribe.

Of course, it was impossible to cover all the spaces where about 30 Naru tribe members live with a base.

It would be possible if I used all 50P I just acquired, but considering my hut base already uses 50P, giving the Naru tribe the same amount would be excessive.

Besides, while I treat them as equal humans, the NPCs on the farm still have their position as NPCs.

“Now, watch carefully. Step on this and shout ‘Move!'”

Pop!

I installed an F-grade base teleportation portal in the center of the Naru tribe village and demonstrated how to use it.

Moving isn’t difficult.

You can create a command or directly activate it using mana, but people typically use the command input method.

Using mana is for when you’re too lazy to speak.

Veteran players like me just use it that way, but most NPCs and slaves often can’t use mana.

“Wow!”

The Naru tribe members curiously peeked around the magic circle.

“From now on, use this to commute to and from work.”

“Thank you!”

“Thank you!”

“Master is the best!”

The Naru tribe were half-beasts who knew how to be grateful for small things.

They did ask what was good about wearing clothes in such hot weather, but when told that clothes could protect against small injuries and external stimuli, they reluctantly wore them. When given meat occasionally, they would grill it and express their gratitude.

They also always greet me with thanks for saving the Forest of Purification, even though I abandoned it to them when it was completely empty.

You just don’t find half-beasts like these nowadays.

Of course, I wasn’t particularly moved by their gratitude since I had personally witnessed and rescued these endangered half-beasts.

Not only did I save them when they and their families—their entire tribe—were waiting for death with nowhere else to retreat, but I also moved them to a safe place and helped establish their settlement. If they couldn’t feel grateful for all that, they wouldn’t be human but beasts, pure beasts.

Anyway, I’m also receiving their labor in return for my help.

I allocated 10P to the Naru tribe as a temporary base and created a large shelter centered around the teleportation portal.

The first floor had a spacious, open living room with three air conditioners on the ceiling, and I added various amenities on the second floor.

Well, this is about all I can do for them.

Cost-effective welfare that’s both cheap and impressive.

“This is called a TV. You can turn it on and watch. These are videos from my dimension, so enjoy them during your breaks.”

I set up several rooms for resting and placed TVs so they could watch the dramas and movies I brought.

It might seem excessive, but these were the first humans I rescued from the Rift Dimension, and my farming world instinct told me that taking good care of these half-beasts would eventually lead to another major quest.

They didn’t mention the Elf village to me for nothing.

I even managed to solve the favor quest with Lier, who was the Elf Queen, thanks to them.

They’ll be useful for the farm in the future.

“Ugh… Boss. This isn’t right.”

As expected, when I roughly built a rectangular wooden shelter for the temporary base, Kim Sol-i, who had rushed over after hearing the news, smacked her forehead and grabbed my collar.

“What is this, a slum?”

“It’s temporary. Temporary. I just set up the frame, you’re supposed to decorate it.”

“Can I really do it my way? This doesn’t reflect your taste, right?”

“That’s what I said.”

“Then I’ll start working on this first. Honestly, I don’t think we need high-level resources here. The Naru tribe concept seems to fit well with nature. I think purified resources would match nicely with the purified forest.”

Looking at the Naru tribe village and the cleared corrupted forest, where the Naru tribe had begun planting and the Forest of Purification was slowly growing, Kim Sol-i seemed inspired and started sketching something on her tablet.

Then she gathered the Naru tribe members and began asking them various questions.

Since she had completely lost interest in me, I left her there and returned home.

So the temporary base for the Naru tribe was finished.

I still had 40P of base points left, so I considered where to use them, but the hut didn’t seem to need expansion right now, so I decided to leave it as is.

At most, expanding the warehouse might be useful, but I had already invested 20P to enlarge it, and it would take a while to fill it with boxes.

“Hmm. Then…”

I had time left to be rewarded for 2-3 days of grinding.

I took out all the corrupted mud and resources from the warehouse, stuffed them into my belt, and stood in front of the Chaos Stone Purification Cauldron after a long time.

– Current Purification Energy Level: 9 [2%]

The purification energy had risen quite a bit from level 8 11% after purifying unidentified items last time.

Well, it was only about 20-30%, but after purifying the Ice Spirit Liquor, the experience jumped at once and upgraded to level 9.

It seemed that items from S-grade dungeons were treated as higher-level biomes.

Then I poured in a large quantity, and the experience rose steadily.

“Mmm. This is the taste.”

As I expected, the level cap for biomes seemed to be set like a glass ceiling.

The resources from level 1 biomes were steadily converted to experience, and although they didn’t rise as rapidly as at level 0, after turning all the materials into purified resources, the purification energy level had reached 13.

“Phew. Let’s finish level 1 here.”

This time, I had cleaned up the Black Swamp almost as thoroughly as the Purified Forest.

I could have dug deeper to find more, but having confirmed that resource efficiency decreases with each biome, I didn’t try too hard to raise the purification energy level.

I’m someone who needs to consider time versus efficiency.

Of course, I’ll gradually work my way up step by step, but it’s also necessary to boldly skip content that isn’t efficient enough.

– Current Purified Energy Level: 13 [0%]

– Purification Energy Effects:

1. Effects created by chaos energy increase by 35% and change to purified energy.

2. 45% chance that items containing chaos energy will be purified and rise by 1 grade.

3. 7% chance that 1 random option of a purified item will rise by 1 grade.

4. When chaos energy is purified, there is a 2% chance of producing additional purified energy.

5. Can dismantle purified resources. When dismantling, there is a 1% chance of obtaining a ‘Purification Stone.’ ‘Purification Stone’ can be used to ‘Purification Enhance’ items.

As the level increased and the number of options grew, the values didn’t increase as dramatically as at first.

Instead, the new 5th option that appeared at level 10 was quite surprising.

“Purification Stone?”

This is also a concept I’ve never heard of before, as chaos energy didn’t exist in the farming world, but it immediately feels like something extremely important.

It wouldn’t be right to ignore a new content feature that’s just appeared.

“Purified mud is probably…”

There are quite a lot of purified resources piled up in the warehouse.

Almost all the items brought from the Purified Forest are still there, and most of the purified mud from the Black Swamp is in my belt now.

But I was reluctant to use the purified mud from my belt since Lee Ji-hyun was working hard on developing mud potions, and that would be dismantling her main ingredient. Instead, I decided to try using some of the easily obtainable purified forest resources.

At a 1% chance, I’d need about 100 to get one stone, so I didn’t need to use too many at once.

“Oh.”

Woong-

When I put in the purified resource, white smoke flowed out, opposite to the chaos energy, and then disappeared into the cauldron.

Looking inside the cauldron, nothing remained.

I wondered if failures just vanished, but when I put in a batch of 100, the purification energy increased by about 7%.

These were resources from a level 0 biome, so they shouldn’t increase a level 13, but it seemed the value of purified resources was calculated separately.

“This seems pretty good.”

It’s not just gambling where you lose everything; there’s a reward in raising the purification energy, so it doesn’t seem bad.

After putting in 200, a shining white stone appeared inside the cauldron.