The next day, Ruri browsed the forum with an astonished expression.

When she logged out of the game yesterday, it was already evening. She just slept as she was, still naked without doing anything.

Her Capsule Pod model was the best of the models with a comfortable massage seat that can also be rotated 180° with simple instructions on the touchscreen. Of course, the chair can be used as a bed for sleeping, and is as comfortable as a bed in a hotel suite.

And only when morning came, she woke up and opened the forum with her T-Bracelet (Terminal Bracelet).

It didn't take much time for her to learn the current situation of the hot topic at the top of the list.

"Arachnia..."

That was the name of the boss Hecate provoked yesterday. It seems that Arachnia really hates Hecate because she slaughtered too many spiders in a short time.

Because Hecate fled too quickly, Arachnia was unable to see her face and marked her as the culprit. But because of that, Arachnia decided to give this dirty water to every human being.

Ruri didn't think the problem could escalate so quickly and impact the entire continent.

"...I'll pretend I don't know anything."

There were no witnesses who saw that Hecate was the real culprit behind all this. The only person who knows the truth of this incident besides him, is probably the GM.

However, the game manual and ToS clearly state that they will not interfere in any decisions made in the game. It was very unlikely that they will reveal her secret to the public. Unless something happened that could break the balance of the game, they would not make a move personally.

As long as no one say anything, the secret would be safe!

With that in mind, Ruri became more relaxed.

She closed the holo screen and went to the dining room to prepare her breakfast. However, she didn't enter the kitchen to prepare his food and just sat on the dining chair.

With a simple wave of her hand, a plate of Spaghetti and a cup of Orange Juice appeared out of nowhere.

"Itadakimasu..."

Ruri sat on the dining chair while quietly eating spaghetti deliciously. Her legs continued to swing back and forth as she enjoyed the feel, making the bell on her left ankle ring every time she moved her feet.

The spaghetti was really delicious, like it was made by a professional chef from a 3 Michelin star restaurant. But unfortunately, that doesn't mean Ruri can make dishes like that with her skills.

Yes, with her ability to bring out the game items into reality, Ruri did not need to personally cook anymore. Many kind of items can be obtained through the game, including food.

In the game, dishes was considered as a delicacy as well as a buff items. And with the system assistance from Chef Sub-class, making them is not that hard. Many in-game restaurants and food-stalls owned by Lifestyle Players sells them with price around  100~10.000 depending on the taste and their buff effects.

Hecate wasn't short on  Gold, especially when she had joined a sizable guild. So she had stored tons of delicious food items in her storage and kept ~30 items of 10 types of food in her inventory.

In Ruri's view, the price of those foods was cheaper than buying instant cup noodles!

But, it has also a downside.

"Thanks for the meal."

After she finished eating the food, what should she do with the plate and bottle?

In Ascension, dishes mostly served with a Ceramic Plate and the drinks uses either Ceramic Cup or simply Empty Bottle as its container. In the game world, both items can be easily mass-produced with magic and sells very cheaply at NPC shop. It also not that difficult for players to create and design their own versions.

When players done eating the dishes, they can chose to washes the plate and reuse it. Or players can just simply toss it away and it will gone automatically after its durability reached zero.

But in reality, each time Ruri bring out those dishes, the plates and bottles will not disappear!

At first, Ruri simply washes the plates and cups. But eventually, her dish rack already full of those things. Even if she break them into pieces, the shards still remains. This is equivalent as increasing trash out of nowhere. It was too troublesome for her since she had to pay garbage processing service to dispose them away.

However, she can't sell them online either, especially when those things mostly have unique design. It will cause very awkward suspicion if the original designer recognizes them.

But, it's not like Ruri did not come with a solution.

"My dish rack was about to full again... Perhaps, is it about the time for another [donation]?"

Every month or so, Ruri carrying out trash dumping in the name of "donation". All of the unused plate and cups was simply gifted to the orphanage. This will create prestige and as well as advertising Rucien's name.

Ruri has already investigated that none of the people and the kids there plays VRMMO, especially Ascension. And it was very unlikely they will sell the donation they received for money. Because if they does and people find out about it, their orphanage will be considered ungrateful and rude.

Even if they does, the suspicion would be placed towards them, not her. She won't have to worry her secrets leaked out.

With that said, Ruri cleaned the dishes with automatic dishwasher and walked into the bathroom for a quick bath. She then took out another item from her inventory.

That was the Mana Stone created by her yesterday before she logged out.

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In the game, Mana Stone was mainly used as a power source to use artifacts. Artifact that can warm the water bath, floating ship that flying in the sky, even Hecate's blacksmith furnace used this stone.

However, although this stone was not that rare, it's also not easily obtained. This is because, only Spellcaster 3rd classes like Archwizard, Archwitch, and Scholar, who have learned the skill Mana Stone Creation that can make it.

Many aspect of life in Ascension uses artifacts, so there is no shortage of demand for Mana Stone.

But, it's not like Mana Stone was required to activate an artifact. Players can chose to pour their own MP and that basically same as using Mana Stone to use the artifact.

For the people with high INT and Max MP like Hecate, using their own MP surely not a problem for them. Nevertheless, it will become different story for people with non-caster classes that have low INT, like Thief or Swordsman classes.

And there also problem of power consumption. It was no problem with using own MP to activate small artifact. But it will be impossible task to use own MP to empower large scale formation, or maintain Flying Ship in the air.

If it's already that scale, it's better to just dump bunch of Mana Stone and be done with it.

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When Ruri take out an artifact from the game, of course she was unable to activate it. She had no mana in her body, no matter how much she gununu-ed, nothing happened.

But, what if Mana Stone was used instead?

The answer was... Yes, she can.

Ruri's bathtub was modified into bigger size and include water heater artifact. It shapes like a dragon head fountain made of gold. When the tap opened, the water in the bathtub will be siphoned and it will came out again from the tap as a warm water.

Although the house was also equipped with its own water heater, the application of tools related to magic also had its own charm.

Ruri opened the lid of a glass tube next to the dragon head faucet. Inside this tube was a Mana Stone like the one she was holding, only smaller in size. Originally it was a fist-sized Mana Stone worth ~10k MP that he made a few months ago before she reset her build. But now, the Mana Stone has shrunk significantly to the size of a peanut.

Even without looking at description window, it was clear that it has no much mana left.

Without further ado, Ruri replaced the Mana Stone in the glass tube with the one in her hand.

Done with that, she closed the lid, then she opened the dragon head faucet.

Not long after, hot water poured from the dragon head.

"Yup, with this it should last longer."

Sure enough, with Mana Stone in hand, even muggles can use artifacts!

Satisfied with the result, Ruri smiled softly. She quickly rinsed her body and entered the bathtub. The water temperature was just right, around 36-38° C.

"Puha~ This is heavenly...!!"

Ruri carefully ran her fingers through her wet hair. The sensation of touching her own smooth hair was very pleasant.

Unlike Hecate, whose hair was shoulder-length, Ruri herself continued to grow her hair down to her waist. She never bothered to go to the salon for a haircut.

Many people feel that maintaining such long hair will be difficult, but she does not think so.

In order to maintain her long hair, she just needed to make sure it was clean and tidy. All she needs to do is stick to the anti-dandruff shampoo and keep her hair from getting tangled by brushing it consistently. Other aspects like moisturizing, hair vitamins, and many more can be simply ignored.

Even if she roughly treated her hair, hair damage can be eliminated after drinking Elixir!

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*PIPIPIPI* *PIPIPIPI* *PIPIPIPI*

Ruri did not spend too much time in the bath. Fifteen minutes later, her bracelet sounded the alarm that has been set before. The time was already 07:45, just about 15 minutes before school starts.

"Oh, it's the time to go to school, huh..."

She immediately get up from the bath and walked back to her room without even drying her body.

Droplets of water splashed around as she stepped in the changing room, but it quickly dried as the automatic blower activated. Ruri ignored the wind that dried out her body and keep walking towards her room.

The school concept was already changed after VR technology introduced.

After people reach 16 years of age and qualified to use Capsule Pod, they can apply to their school to attend their class via Virtual Network than physically walked to the school.

Of course there are condition and restriction that must be fulfilled before the application is approved, and Ruri already got the approval when she was charged out from the hospital with the help of the doctor.

She no longer need to walk out from her house to go to school.

Sitting once again in her Capsule Pod, Ruri's consciousness drifted to the network.