Summer of the first year, 22nd-28th
The hidden treasures underground are all yours.
—Mysterious Man
...
On the morning of the 22nd, you find this strange letter in your mailbox. It contains only one sentence with no clear meaning and is obviously not part of the original work.
If you don't understand what this means, put down the letter and go back to the chicken coop to pick up rabbit feet.
Today is Rimei's birthday. Normally, it wouldn't be difficult to find a gift you love, but in order to minimize the number of times you have to visit him, you'd prefer to give him a rabbit's foot with a star on it.
Unfortunately, there was only one silver-star rabbit foot in the henhouse today.
But Rimei's forced, unsmiling expression after receiving the birthday gift makes you feel like you're not really disappointed. At worst, you can give Yixing a rabbit's foot next year and let him experience what it means to have your favor increase.
As for now, you still have to honestly grind monsters.
After working hard from Monday to Wednesday, you finally managed to get the Dust Elf kill record to 490+, which means victory is in sight. It was worth it for you to have relied on the Return Wand to accurately time your runs these past few days, and you didn't return to the farm to save until 1:50.
On Thursday, as soon as you entered the 45th floor of the mine and swung your sword, you heard a beautiful sound effect.
Monster kill objective achieved!
Overjoyed, you took advantage of the refreshing and comfortable feeling to move on to the 20th floor.
The easiest monsters to farm in the Monster Killing Heroes list are Cave Insects—they're fragile, swarm, and very proactive, unlike Dust Elves which run away when they see people. The number of targets is a mere 125, less than a quarter of the number of Dust Elves.
As for why it took so long to clean this up... um... giant white maggots, in swarms, plus flies buzzing like bombers and green, hanging bedbugs, it's not a matter of danger, it's disgusting!
But as the saying goes, since we're already here, let's try to finish this quickly.
After you've had your fill of coffee, you take the elevator up and down repeatedly, quickly collecting the required number of cave insects. As soon as the Explorers Guild opens, you go inside to claim your reward.
You initially thought that his cold attitude towards Kokichi during their first meeting was simply because he was bound by the ring and unable to get up, which put him in a bad mood.
Only now, as you stand before him to claim your reward for killing the cave insects, do you realize that this is not the case.
The thin boy opened his mouth, and a hard insect skull was slowly pulled out of his mouth, the serrated mandibles bringing out strands of flesh and blood.
"Thank you." Even with blood trickling from his lips, Yukichi was still earnestly thanking you.
[Sanity depletion warning!]
[The anchor sat up in the middle of the night: I'm so damn stupid!]
[Waaaaah, the tonic is torture for our mechanical pills!]
You promised: "I will achieve the other monster-killing objectives as soon as possible."
Given that the best time to do the skeleton-killing quest is after receiving the special order "Fragments of History," and with autumn very close, you decide to set your next goal as killing 150 Shadow Shamans or Shadow Berserkers.
It's not difficult. You're a level 2 sorcerer now, so you don't feel as much pain when attacked by slimes as before. You also have inexhaustible strength when you swing your sword. Even if you don't encounter any monsters, a week should be enough. It's best to finish it before Autumn 2nd so that you can seamlessly connect with the special order.
Once you've made up your mind, you immediately turn around, leave the Explorers' Guild, and take the mine elevator straight to the 85th floor to continue grinding monsters.
Shadow Shamans are rather annoying monsters. They excel at ranged attacks, are good at applying debuffs to players, and know how to run away when their health is low. The only somewhat likable feature is that their masks are conspicuous enough in the dim mines.
As for the Shadow Berserkers... they are the same kind as Korobos. In your first playthrough, you see them as dark, onion-like people, but after going through the sewers, you'll see—damn, they're all bloated!
Wearing a black straitjacket and with a listless expression, the bloated figure walks towards you, only reluctantly opening its mouth when it gets close, spitting blood onto your face like a porpoise.
How strange, really strange.
Even without pushing the expansion phase, you still feel that swinging your sword to cut down these... uh, void monsters is causing a bit too much mental pollution, and you need to go out and recover your sanity.
So, you pull out your return wand and instantly return to the farm, go inside, and casually turn on the TV—of course, there are no other programs, only fortune telling and weather forecasts, so you watch the weather forecast:
"It looks like a storm is approaching. Thunderstorms are expected."
It's going to thunder again...
You glanced at your skill level interface and saw that you'd unknowingly reached Foraging Level 6. It's quite effective to chop down hardwood trees before hacking at monsters, as this will allow you to make enough lightning rods to prevent your crops from being scorched. Nice.
There were quite a few bat wings in the backpack, but no refined quartz or iron ingots; I'd have to get them from the wooden crates outside. I also need to empty the backpack that was crammed full after mining.
Different items are stored in different wooden crates. This doesn't take too much time because you have clear categorization criteria, and most items have already been collected during previous mining trips. All you need to do now is press the red arrow on the right side of the crate to put the items into the existing pile.
After walking past the three wooden crates in turn, your backpack is more than half empty.
I only have three refined quartz rods, and even fewer iron ingots. I'll refine some metal ingots first, and make the lightning rod tomorrow morning.
Wait, what happened?
I only intended to take out 30 iron ore, but my hand slipped and I saw that the iron ore in the wooden box had turned into two "999"s.
You are stunned. Try repeating the same operation on the bat wings, refined quartz, and iron ingots. As a result, 1998 bat wings, 1998 refined quartz, and 1998 iron ingots appear in the wooden box.
Take one set of each material, pull the quantity bar, and make 999 lightning rods.
No, making one set of lightning rods requires five sets of bat wings, how could this be...?
You tried to make 999 buckets, but failed.
Successfully manufactured 999 oil-producing machines.
You take out the newly made oil-producing machines from your backpack, set them out along the way, put sunflower seeds into them, and the machines immediately start working.
What's going on? Is this the meaning of the letter I received this morning? The mine has become my material warehouse? I can take as much as I want?
You extended your evil hand to the colorful fragments...
【666】
[I'm rich!!!]
[Colorful fragments free! Magic candy popsicles free! Wuhu!]
Desert merchants may become the biggest victims after Sister Mingming.
Beneath the mine, the king's treasure.
Townspeople, are you ready to fall in love with farmers?
You're not the kind of honest, hardworking farmer. When you're rushing to finish a stream, you might dabble in some code or install tractor mods, but this is something I've never done before. Is there any point in diligently mining anymore? Just spray some monster perfume, eat some magic candy popsicles, and wreak havoc!
What to do? I can't wait to find the Five-Colored Jelly to exchange for the perfume formula for the mage!
There are 5 days left until Autumn 2nd, and 7 days until the next chance to redeem Magic Candy Popsicles. May Baba bless us, and the first batch of special orders absolutely must include the Colorful Jelly quest!
You were so excited you almost couldn't sleep, but luckily the beds on the farm had magic powers that made anyone fall asleep the moment their head hit the pillow.
The next morning, as expected, there was a thunderstorm, but the lightning could no longer damage your farm; the lightning rod acted like a fence around the lawn in front of the chicken coop.
You carried 999 colorful fragments, braving wind and rain to deliver warmth to every household.
While I was giving him a ride, I ended up in Shibuya.
A living hell, filled with blood, corpses, and monsters.
You walked faster and faster, until you were almost running with all your might, not knowing where you were going or who you were looking for, but believing that you would meet the protagonist of this destiny at the end of the road.
The blue-haired, stitched-up spirit reached out and gently placed its hand on the human whose life had been consumed.
Oh no, how can we save it now that it's come to this?
Is there enough time to use the life potion? Even if you fill up your health bar, it's useless if you're transformed into a grotesque shape. How are you going to arrive within three seconds and instantly defeat the super-grade cursed spirit?
Your current position is very unfavorable. You are running towards Nanami Kento. If you want to draw the Galaxy Sword and send the real person flying without accidentally injuring him, you must first go around to his back.
But you're not fast enough. Movement speed in Stardew Valley is always slower than that of monsters, unless you eat or drink to speed up your movement.
Now that things have come to this, there's no time to waste. You pull out a triple espresso to freeze time, and after much thought, it seems this is the only solution you can try—
As you run, you throw the Return Wand toward the Seven Seas Builder.
A stream of gas shot out, bang! The person vanished instantly.
Real person: ? ? ?
Knotweed Hisahito:! ! !
"Junpei!" Itadori Yuujin's eyes widened in surprise and delight. He then punched the real man and shouted, "Run!!"
You feel a mysterious force controlling your limbs and bones. The air suddenly becomes as bitter as seawater. A huge, transparent jellyfish envelops your entire body, its venomous tentacles reaching out, ready to attack any enemy.
How sudden, is this the technique?
Although I unknowingly became a level 2 sorcerer, I didn't feel like I had become stronger when I went mining and killing monsters. I still relied on my equipment to deal damage, and at most, I didn't feel as frustrated when I lost health as before.
The real man easily broke through Dian Yue's defense; he was all too familiar with the operation mode and weaknesses of this technique.
If it were the real Yoshino Junpei... and he enrolled in the Jujutsu High School, would he have reacted differently to this situation?
Just when you were about to be transformed into a strange shape, Yuuji Itadori finally broke through the interference and rushed over to deliver a black flash to the real person's face, saving you.
“Warrior-kun,” you realize you can’t take anything out of your backpack to give him, but the Return Wand you threw has returned to your backpack, so you say decisively, “I’ll leave the rest to you.”
withdraw!
Wait a minute... isn't it a bit irresponsible to just leave like this?
Just before you're about to return to Stardew Valley, you suddenly realize that you've killed Nanami Taketo, the one who drove Itadori Yuujin mad. Now, can he still defeat Makoto?
A moment's hesitation, and suddenly something unexpected happened.
You feel a cold sensation in your calf, followed by pain a hundred times more intense than a leg cramp.
A scream was stuck in his throat and he couldn't let it out. Everything happened too fast. His consciousness was scattered due to the immense pain. When he regained his senses, he was already lying in a hospital bed in Pelican Town.
Dog-Roll Thorn looked at you with a solemn expression, and after a long while said, "...Prince Ming."
You struggled to your feet and replied, "Yeah, I almost became a cyborg, didn't I? I'll be more careful next time."
Dog-Turtle Thorn said, "Bonito flakes. Tuna mayonnaise. Wasabi?"
This time you seem to understand what he means—not just almost, but you've already been transformed into a monster by Wuwei.
Fortunately, they were rescued in time and brought back to Stardew Valley. The only doctor in Stardew Valley is the Concept God, who can cure anyone, whether they are suffering from heatstroke and unconsciousness or being crushed by a train, and only costs 1,000 for a consultation.
But this time the situation was extremely dangerous. The real person was also a strange creature with a mechanism. His transformation of inaction could change the shape of the soul and thus affect the body. Even the reversal spell could not do anything to the cyborg.
The following morning, you learned from the geisha who visited the farm that the key to this cross-border rescue was possible.
“I brought you a gift. This is a statue I made especially for you.” Angeji said solemnly, “It’s called ‘Deformed Iridium Rabbit Foot.’ I will only give it to you once. Please take good care of yourself.”
You have obtained the statue made by the Songstress An!
[What the heck, is it deformed?]
【Oh, this... a crocodile-man statue, how weird】
【Her skill is truly admirable, Ange-hime?!】
[Seriously? Nobody recognized him? This is a cyborg! It's Yoshino Junpei's cyborg form from the Curse Return!]
[This mod has such a hellish setting, it's toxic!]
So that's how it is. The statue, which was originally supposed to be called "My Feelings About the Iridium Rabbit's Foot," served as a wooden substitute, bearing the curse of a twisted soul in its place.
Fortunately, it seems we must be extremely cautious when entering storylines with real people next time. By the way, why is Nanami still in the Jujutsu World after being teleported away? Is it because she interrupted an important plot point?
Or perhaps it involves the main character and they can't just disappear?
It can't be that the newbie protection period has ended, and from now on you have to find a way to defeat your opponents or die and come back, right?
The evidence is insufficient at present, so you cannot make a judgment. You can only study the technique for accidental awakening first.
Summoning the jellyfish Moonlit Serpent, its tentacles inflict a poison debuff on monsters within a certain range (Speed -3, Attack -3, Defense -2), and increase your defense or attack by 5 points. You can switch attribute points at any time. The mechanics are unique, and its overall effect isn't as good as the Magic Candy Popsicle; it's only better than the attack-enhancing accessories in version 1.6, so you're fairly satisfied.
The viewers in the live stream expressed their envy, and another round of searching for the source of the mod went unsuccessfully.
After you finished testing the spell and came out of the mine, you went to Robin to book the construction of the stable, and then it was time to fill in any gaps and deliver gifts everywhere.
As summer draws to a close, you take the opportunity to relax in a spacious and deserted hot spring, then head to the beach under the cover of night to witness the annual Moonlight Jellyfish Dance.
The candlelight of the boat flickered in the sea breeze, and gradually, countless round jellyfish appeared on the surface of the sea, dancing as they approached the dock.
Lost in the dreamlike wonder, you unknowingly released the moon jellyfish. It looked different from the jellyfish in the swarm; its bell wasn't very round, but it had a pair of blank, round eyes, and its tentacles were longer and denser. Fortunately, there was another green jellyfish in the sea that was just as special as it.
The communication between jellyfish is amazing.
When you retrieve Yodotsuki, you feel that this shikigami seems to be different from before.
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