Erigald visited Ren with Eldrad the next day, and the businessman was impressed. The sizes of his produce had been spectacular enough, but the taste of them was even mind blowing. He demanded to know how Ren managed to cultivate crops of such rarity and quality, Ren could not give a concrete answer, no answer that he could exploit.
The two struck a deal that would have Ren sell most of his farm produce to the winehouse at a pretty lucrative price. Erigald soon developed a fondness for Ren, Ren was the only one in Tunish that seemed to be of the same class as him, and there was the part where Ren was an otherworlder, and although Erigald was not a believer of the scriptures, he knew that such people were usually favored by the gods, and that it would prove well to be friends with him.
News of Ren's triumph over the famed devil pig spread all across the village, and so did his partnership with the village's richest man. A feast had held some nights ago all because he had killed a beast no one could, and because of all this, people began to think greatly of him.
Although he could still feel the people's eyes on him, it was nothing like how it was previously, they held no malice or envy, and all he could sense was adoration. As he walked through the village, the stalls called out to him when a week ago, they had looked at him with scorn.
"I could get used to this feeling." It was like he had become a celebrity overnight. He approached a stall that sold fruits and vegetables, and Ren purchased as many as he believed he would be able to finish before they could spoil.
The berries tasted different from berries that he had had, they all were different, but his favorite was the blume fruit Erigald had urged him to taste. The blume wine was the winehouse's bestseller for its incredible taste, and Ren could see why. He had had a taste of the blume wine some days back but tasting the fruit itself was a whole new experience. Ren could only describe the taste as a mix of apple, cherry and mango. There was nothing like it.
He planted seeds of it at a section of his field, wondering if the water from the fountain of Elaxis would interact with the plant and have it taste even better if that was possible.
In just a week, Ren had sold all of his farm produce, most of his fruits going to the winehouse, and his vegetables going to the stalls.
[Congratulations, you have achieved the food merchant quest]
[You have been rewarded +5 Dexterity, and +7 coins]
[New items in shop are now available for purchase]
The notifications popped as he sold the last of his crops, and now, his field was mostly bare, and pregnant with seeds.
He was standing in front of his field when a small cloud of magical dust suddenly appeared beside him startling him in the process, and from it came a voice that he had grown familiar with since his appearance in this world.
"Miss me?!" Enoa the angel asked as she drifted in circles about Ren. Ren gave no response.
"Putting up a cold shoulder huh? You must have noticed, but the gods have taken a liking to you." Her second sentence made Ren turn to her, news of the gods were always of interest.
"I have got your attention now." She stated with a smirk. "Getting the god's attention as a class wielder is a great thing, your luck improves, you get more favor points and lucky rolls, but it comes with its own set of responsibilities. You have to retain their attention, you are not the only class wielder, remember? You were brought to stir up the sea of fate, make unseen divergence into a reality, and if all you do is farm and trade all day, the gods are sure to lose interest eventually, and that would be your doom."
"So I have to do a better job at entertaining?"
"Exactly!" Enoa responded, nodding her head.
"And before I leave, there is something that I must take."
"And what's that?" Ren asked, but instead, the angel quickly zoomed into his home, then came out with a goatskin of wine in her arms.
"The blume wine everyone talks about." Enoa said with excitement, bearing a perverted face as she held the goatskin of wine to her face.
"That's m…" Before Ren could utter the words completely, she poofed away.
"Mine."
He let out a sigh, and then willed up his system tab reading the last message.
[New items in shop are now available for purchase]
"Shop," he uttered, and the interface displayed the shop with all of its items.
"Finally. Wind cutting nunchunks, Soul splitting blade, hmmm…" They were very attractive but they cost more than he currently had, with the nunchunks going for fifteen coins, and the soul splitting sword going for twenty-five.
[Wind cutting nunchunks:Each strike compresses the wind into a screaming edge, releasing crescent-shaped pressure waves that slice outward on impact.]
[–Attack speed increases with continuous motion.]
[Soul splitting blade:This targets the very soul, every strike lethal, with the aim of pushing the soul into oblivion.]
[– Added +200% damage to the soul with every strike.]
"I really like the soul splitting blade but I don't think I need it right now. What's this?" He caught sight of a floating icon at the corner of the interface, and it read "recommended."
Ren clicked on it, and it displayed an array of items. An item however particularly caught his eye.
"The Tome of Mahābodhivān: A cultivation manual."
He looked at the price beneath and saw that it was listed at seven coins, exactly what he had at the moment.
He recalled Enoa's words on cultivators, about how much potential they could wield, and immediately, he was hooked. He knew what he had to get.