Ethan rode his bone horse several kilometers away and finally found the scarecrow that had been swatted flying by the giant sword, fallen to the ground, and shattered into several piecesm
Ethan bent down and picked up the pieces one by one.
The scarecrow struggled to roll its eyeballs and looked at Ethan as it said, ["Lord, do you think I can still be saved?"]
"Don't worry. You're only broken into eighteen pieces at most. Logistics has good craftsmanship. Sewing you back together shouldn't be a problem."
Ethan smiled as he silently stuffed the scarecrow's parts that couldn't be pieced back together into his backpack.
Luckily, aside from its head, which counted as a sentient being and couldn't be put into the backpack.
All the other parts were basically straw stuffing and could be stuffed straight into the backpack.
That made things much easier.
Otherwise, if he forgot some part later on…
'Hahaha!'
———
Before Ethan even reached the villa, the sky had already gone completely dark.
But thankfully, the villa was already right in front of him. Plus, Ethan had a kerosene lamp in his hand, so he wasn't too panicked.
From far away… while riding the horse, Ethan saw countless dim yellow lights glowing at the entrance of his villa, waiting for his return.
Immediately… He felt a bit touched inside.
That feeling of being waited for, of being needed, was actually quite blissful.
At the very least, it was better than coming home to an empty house, or worse, a place where no one was expecting you at all.
"Lord!"
"The lord is back!"
Seeing Ethan ride back on horseback, everyone ignored the darkness and thick fog and poured out of the villa to welcome his return.
And Daji had already finished evolving. The petrified hard shell covering its entire body had completely shed.
What remained was a full coat of fluffy golden cat fur.
"Meow!", Daji jumped straight onto the bone horse and burrowed into Ethan's arms.
Ethan picked it up and gave it a good rub.
"Huh, Daji, your wounds are all healed already?", Ethan was shocked.
The effect of this intermediate evolution pill was actually this good, directly repairing all the wounds Daji originally had.
He quickly checked the prompt above Daji's head.
[Intermediate Spirit Pet – Daji: Cat-type pet, focuses on agility, attacks mainly with sharp claws.]
[Status: Loyalty 100%, Petrified State, Special Ability — Summon Stone Servants]
'It really has advanced into an intermediate spirit pet.'
'But what exactly does this "summon stone servants" mean?'
"Daji, summon a stone servant for me to take a look, okay?"
Ethan asked.
Daji let out a proud "meow," as if agreeing.
Then…
"Meow!"
Daji suddenly lifted its head and cried out.
As Daji's meow rang out, Ethan suddenly heard the sound of stones rolling from the garden.
He immediately looked toward where the sound was coming from, only to discover that stones of all sizes on the ground were gathering toward a blue magic circle, and even assembling themselves.
Two fist-sized stones rolled together to form the body of a small stone man.
Then countless pebble-sized stones rapidly formed its arms and legs. In the end, they assembled into a mini stone man only twenty to thirty centimeters tall?
'What the hell is this?'
"Daji, this is your… stone servant?"
Ethan was completely speechless. The stone men summoned by the many-eyed monster were at least ten meters tall, even the smallest ones. And the stone man guarding the treasure land was even more absurdly huge.
But this little stone man summoned by Daji, forget comparing it to those. At least make it about the size of a normal adult.
"Meow!"
（=ˇωˇ=）
Daji nodded proudly.
It had a look on its face that said, 'See how awesome I am?'
'I can summon servants now. This cat is going to be a queen from now on.'
"This isn't a stone servant. This is clearly a stone servant figurine, okay."
Ethan sighed helplessly, 'I knew it. Summoning stuff…'
'Totally unreliable.'
"Meow?"
<(｀^′)>
Daji looked furious.
Then it meowed several more times.
"Ka-la~ Ka-la~"
The sound of countless stones rolling rang out.
Very quickly, Ethan saw several stone men not even as tall as a calf stand up from the garden.
He suddenly had this…
"sisters standing up" kind of deja vu.
"Hmph!"
After summoning more than ten stone-man figurines, Daji let out a proud snort.
Ethan found it more and more amusing and teased Daji, "That's it?"
"Meow?"
"So basically, this is just a whole set of stone-man figurines," Ethan laughed, "Sure, there are a lot of them, but their power is still pretty weak, right!"
"Meow!"
At Daji's command, one stone man's leg turned into a sharp stone drill. Then the arms of two stone men spread out and quickly drilled down into the ground.
In the blink of an eye.
Ethan saw that the stone men had drilled a hole into the earth.
"Oh, this little figurine set actually has special functions," Ethan's eyes lit up, "Not bad, not bad. But it's just a burrowing skill. Isn't that a bit too monotonous?"
"Meow!"
Daji let out another disdainful meow.
Then it gave another stone man a command. That stone man actually transformed into a little servant, carrying a tomato that had just grown and was already starting to turn red, walking toward Ethan.
[Fruit Tomato: A fast-growing, nutrient-rich fruit, packed with vitamins ABCDEFG. Production time: 10 fruits every 12 hours]
[PS: If fertilizer is added daily, production can be doubled.]
'Huh?'
Only then did Ethan realize that the fruit tomatoes he'd planted in the garden were growing this fast.
But unfortunately, there were too many people in the household. Even producing 20 a day over 24 hours wasn't enough for everyone to eat. It looked like it was time to expand the farm area.
[Mist Farm: Currently has 2 plots of farmland. Each plot can grow one type of crop. Crops grow faster within this farm. Currently can plant up to 2 different crops. Upgrade to Level 2 requirements: Advanced Mud 0/200 (Mud 1 + Plant Ash/Manure 1% = Advanced Mud 1), Earth-type Beast Core 8/10]
He had just been thinking about upgrading the Mist Farm and having logistics plant more tomatoes.
But when Ethan looked at the material quantities in his backpack, his whole mood instantly went bad.
The quantities of these various materials were way too unbalanced. Some were in the hundreds of thousands, while others didn't even reach two digits?
'What is going on?'
"Oh, right!"
Ethan suddenly remembered that when he did the lord lending earlier that morning, he had loaned out all 160 earth-type beast cores.
As for why he had so much mud, it was because earlier, when dealing with those stone men, he had used the Soft and Squishy spell, turning a bunch of stone men into mud. That was why he ended up with over 21,000 mud.
But at the same time, he also remembered the matter of sending Hunter Five and the others to the snow mountain to hunt snow monsters during the day.
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