[Real World - Ruri's House]

The day had become afternoon.

After logging out from the game, Ruri took a deep breath in her room.

"Haah, that was really tiring..."

Still lying in the Capsule Pod, she touched her naked body, rubbing her pettan chest while contemplating what had happened in the game. Her left leg swaying lightly, making the bell in her ankle let out a refreshing chiming sound.

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In the end, Hecate spent almost 3 hours, spending the rest of the 8-hours consecutive login limit.

She used the spell Ice Barrage to quickly cool the molten glass, pulling it off the floor and shove it into the furnace to recycle it back into new glass. As for the damaged floor tiles, all of them also pried as well.

Later, she used the skill Mana Stone Creation to recreate the tiles.

She spent nearly 10000 MP to make each of the tile-shaped Mana Stone, replaced the damaged tiles with them, then cemented them using the same skill as well. But of course, the tiles made from the skill were fundamentally different from ceramic tiles, so she decided to replace every tile for uniformity.

The reason why she did the replacement with Mana Stones, naturally because she didn't want to take a loss, as the skill didn't use any materials and just create the stones out of thin air. At most, she only needed to meditate to recover her MP.

'I used 10,000 MP to make each tile, it should last a long time, unless someone uses Mana Drain in the room.'

As for what happened later when the stones sublimated into air, it had nothing to do with her! (Irresponsible)

And then, she also had to repair the table and craft the replacement for the lost and broken tools in the room. The broken table leg was replaced with table-shaped Mana Stones, but the tools were properly crafted using the right materials.

Some of these items are easy to make such as chisels, rulers, anvil, and much more. But there also items that are difficult to craft such as precision scales, and liquid separator.

'Those things should be Alchemy related stuff, right? Why are those items in the Blacksmith's room?'

Unfortunately, no one could answer that question, and Ruri decided not to think too much about it anymore.

Of course the designs of those items were different from those used in the Rosenweil Kingdom. Luckily, the blueprints for those items were in one of the blueprints Hecate had gotten from the library.

And thus, Hecate once again relied on the Auto Production and Mana Clone skills.

But this time, in order to prevent a repeat of the previous disaster, she took some measures. Since the previous problem was due to insufficient MP, she just needed to pour in more MP. If previously she used 1000 MP to create the clone, now she used 10,000 MP.

Not only that, she also unequipped her +7 Earring of Wisdom and used her new self-buff skill called Heart of Mana.

Without the earrings that doubled her MP consumption, the maintenance requirement of 1000 MP per minute become halved. And then, Heart of Mana increased her MaxMP and MP regen by a total of 37% for 65 minutes.

It seems Earring of Wisdom has became a burden and the benefit of +10% spell power wasn't worth it anymore. It should be replaced with other, more meaningful equipment.

'It turns out the solution was just that simple.'

Ruri reflecting on what happened before with a relished expression.

With the problem of MP consumption fixed, that means from now on the clone will be her another reliable asset. It was also thanks to the clone, she was able to complete orders in no time.

And that's not the end. She also discovered that the proficiency of many of Hecate's skills had increased due to what happened today, especially Precision Mana Control which had the biggest increase.

'My Precision Mana Control proficiency has reached 7.9k, still less than 600 to reach 8.5k.'

It wouldn't take long for the skill to reach Lv4, and she was looking forward to what would happen when it did.

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Done with the contemplation, Ruri rose from the pod.

She went into the kitchen and gulped a bottle of cold Elixir from the refrigerator. Instantly, all of her tiredness disappeared without a trace, replaced by a familiar disgusting lingering taste in her mouth. As she savored the disgusting taste, she threw the bottle into the trash bin and headed for the garage.

In there, she took out the items that she, or to be precise her clone, crafted earlier.

An aquarium, 12 fox gas masks, and then some furniture with gimmicks, such as transforming chair or desk.

Except for the aquarium and the masks, the items were taken out in a disassembled state and Ruri skillfully assembled them without much trouble.

As for the aquarium and the masks, Ruri judged that it was too much trouble to disassemble and reassemble them, and the effect that was given by the game wasn't that conspicuous enough for someone to care.

Maybe with the aquarium she made, the client could make a successful fish farm.

As for the fox gas mask, it was originally just a random thing she made but it was unexpectedly popular.

With the Purifier Towers in every city, gas masks should be something most people don't need, unless they live on the slums that was short of those things. But if that's the case, an ordinary cheap gas mask will suffice. And compared to those cheap masks, the price of the masks she made is a bit expensive.

How could someone in the slums afford not to be frugal?

"Oh well, it's not my business anyway... And with this, my job is complete."

Ruri looked at her crafted items once more with a satisfied face.

After calculating the gross profit and expenses, the net profit in this transaction was ¥780,000 after tax and shipping fee reduction. Convert it into gems and it will be 15,600. But this time, she didn't plan to use the money and just kept it for future use.

'I am not short of gems now, there are still more than 60 thousand gems in my account.'

She used the T-Bracelet to send a message to Mercury Courier Service, notifying them that the ordered item was ready to ship. Then, she gave a set of commands to the house AI to carry out the rest of the procedures when the courier arrived. 

Done with everything, Ruri left the garage and headed to the living room.

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As soon as Ruri arrived in the living room, she sat down on the sofa.

'Now let's check about Aura breathing method that I got earlier.'

With a fluid gesture command, she established a wireless connection to the Holo projectors in the room, then materializing a holographic book in front of her. She picked up the floating book and started to read the content.

Although the book was touchable and the pages flippable, it had neither the weight nor the feeling of touch as if touching empty air. That was understandable, since the book was meant to be read in a VR-space, not in the real world. In the end it was just a hologram and not a real book.

But that doesn't matter.

What matters was not about the form of the book, but the information in it. This holographic book was of course the VR-Book about "Basic Aura Breathing" method that Hecate recorded from the library of the Solstreus Magic Academy just a few hours ago.

As for the books on "Muscle Strengthening Motion" and "Body Defense Reinforcement", Ruri decided to ignore them. The reason was of course, because she still values her loli appearance.

She didn't want to see a naked muscular loli in the mirror later!

"...As expected, I can't read it."

The book was naturally unreadable because it was written in Neberl language, and since Hecate was not qualified to learn the methods, the game system didn't bother to provide a summary of the content.

But of course, it wasn't without a solution.

Ruri manipulated her T-Bracelet and browsed the Mercury site. She clicked on the search function and typed in a specific word. Then a few moments later, what she was looking for appeared in the search results.

Yes, Ruri planned to just buy and install a translation software.

There are three versions of the software, but Ruri unhesitatingly chooses the Pro version which was priced ¥50000.

From the introduction of the software, the lite version was free, but there are so many limitations that it was unbearable to use. Meanwhile, the Enterprise version was just too bulky with a lot of unnecessary functions.

With the power of Prioritized SSL Quantum Connection, the download and installation process was almost instantaneous. Of course, the translation module must be installed separately and there are hundreds of languages on Earth available on the list, though for some reason, Neberl language was not included.

"Hmph, look at the so called universal. You didn't even include your game's language into the list!"

Ruri couldn't help but snort in displeasure.

But she was not done yet!

She browsed the Ascension forum, clicked a certain topics, and quickly found Neberl language translation module that was still work in progress. Thanks to the wisdom of Players, there had been countless attempts to crack the language, and this was just one of them.

Maybe it was intentional from the company management not to include the Neberl language into the software to make Players explore the language on their own.

'Now the translator is ready! Let's see what the book says.'

With machine translation software ready, Ruri quickly activated the software's OCR scan to translate the entire book. The translation module was still WIP and there are still many shortcomings, but it was sufficient for her to understand the overall contents of the book.

And so, from the translated text, Ruri could summarize the detailed instruction of the method.

By performing these movements and maintaining the prescribed breathing posture, she can inject the nature's Life Aura into her body and activate her Life Seed. And the best time to do this practice is at sunrise and sunset, in a natural environment such as forests or mountains.

Ruri couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Nature, what's that? Is it delicious?

In the era of over urbanization, things called nature seem to only be seen in images or holographic decorations. And if you want to see plants and trees, more than likely you can see those in the systematic soilless plantation.

Where could she find a forest to exercise?

But still, Ruri didn't give up that easily. She immediately used a voice command to the house AI to simulate the so-called forest into the room.

"System Command: Set the room background to Brazilian Forest 1990."

[Affirmative! Set the room background to Brazilian Forest 1990.]

In that instant, the room suddenly became an open air with countless trees appeared in the wall, the floor turned into a ground full of grass, and the furniture seems to have been transformed into wood and overgrown by vines.

Sounds of birds, insects, and flowing river water can be heard. Even the AC start spraying the artificial wood perfume, emulating the fragrance of a "forest".

A naked long haired loli sitting on a wooden sofa(?) in the middle of the forest...

"Okay, let's do this!"

Ruri put away the VR book and let it along with the translated text window float in the air.

She did the exercises like the picture in the book described.

However, after an hour had passed, nothing seemed to have happened. She didn't feel any changes in her body, unlike what happened when Hecate exercised the Basic Mana Training method in the library.

'Is my posture wrong, or is it really impossible to get Aura in real life?'

Ruri pondered with a serious expression.

The first one seemed impossible, she was sure that she was doing the exercises correctly. As for the latter, it is very possible but rather difficult to accept.

"Maybe, it won't work with a fake forest?"

There was still something she hadn't tried.

If there is no forest, why not make one yourself. The in-game seeds have been confirmed to be able to be brought to real life. And coincidentally, this season's cash shop seems to include a fertilizer.

'Yeah, for starters, let's try planting some potted plants.'

Thinking of this, Ruri immediately went to her room to login once again.