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The giant apple Nyx had bitten turned out to be a person. Despite the bite, he still helped the weary travelers.
"So are you lost? I can guide you to Crop City. Come!"
He led Maria and her family to a large city filled with Vegetable and Fruit people.
They were all really cute and funny-looking. They sold other fruits and vegetables they farmed or hunted themselves.
Players of all shapes and sizes came here to buy their produce at very reasonable prices. These were perhaps the highest-quality goods available, so Maria made her purchases as well.
She ended up spending over a million system points on hundreds of kilograms of vegetables and fruits of every kind, sending them into her Soul Realm both to eat and to plant.
The best part was that these crops brimmed with spiritual energy and mana. Eating them helped restore those energies or even increase them over time.
