Hordes of elite 4

After an hour, Lucas and Ranrem finally came from their trip, the shrink truck has logs with 20 centimeters diameters and two meters long.

Lucas' face has full of bruises and cuts, with a sorrowful mood he equips with his shrink gloves and lifted the logs, the logs were stored in a truck with shrink clothe, shrink items can reduce the size of the item with 80% of its mass. He unloaded the logs which reverted to its original size, he then sat on the ground to take some rest.

"Hey you, sadist, what are you doing? Even though this dome is yours, it doesn't mean you can relax and do nothing, you lazy imp!" Said a girl with a 'Plain' body and black hair.

"Oh, the miss Rita, don't worry I just returned from treetans hunting, look at those logs! I killed a few of them!"

"Treetans my arse! Those are just an overgrown acacia tree! Go and feed the black ant pepper!"

Lucas stood up and approach her, he kneeled on her front and took out his slapper, "He he, little girl daddy will slap you for being a bad girl!"

"Hii!" Rita hide on Ranrem's back with teary eyes "Bleh!"

This girl, Lucas just ignored the both of them and continue his work, cutting the one diameter thick log in a chopping board, the ten-meter long log was divided into 20 portions with the same size, and positioned it at the dome's corner, ten on the right side.

He used his shrink gloves to reduce the size of his ax, he removed the wood barks to make the surface of the wood smoother and cleaner. He removed the core of the wood and made a casserole like a container, the size can be used as their bed for the meantime, but still needs to make a bigger one in the future.

"Now, that it's done, I need to buy a pillow… or soil? Hmm, just a pillowcase and fill it with soil? Err, no I have a better idea!"

He just set aside the wooden container he made and get another log and decided to make a basket, he only made two baskets this time with ten meters in diameter with two feet dip, he positioned it left and right of the entrance.

It's already 5 o'clock in the afternoon when he is done with the basket and decided to water his plants.

"???"

Facing the water tank, which supposed to be 3/4 filled with water, makes him frowned. The tank hose has bite marks, ...Coco!

He looks around the dome find where Coco is, but what he saw is a meter high coconut, but no feet and no cannons, it just leans at the side of the dome unmoving.

"L-lucas! You're finally here! I left for a bit and look for Grandpa Neil!"

"Viola, what happened here!? Is this coco!?"

Neil neared in the gigantic coconut and observe it, "It's husk become harder and smoother, Lucas, it looks like Coco is evolving into its the second pace. This stage takes weeks or months before they emerge."

"S-second pace!?" what the heck, I forgot to read the book of Planteros!

"Yes, looks like you still don't know, our kingdom territory is this island, and the sea around it. The whole island was secluded from the outer world, but we still have some records about second and third pace."

"What, we're on an island!?"

"Huh?"

"N-no, nothing just tell me about this pace."

"Okay, a group of Planteros of the same kind is always united, you know why? Coz each group has their own leader, take the corn puppies of mine as an example, the leader of them is called corn dog, the jack orangutans have the alpha jack orangutans, and the black pepper ant has the soldier black pepper ant.

"The coconut cannons, base in the history has a leader is a commander, and when it turns into the second pace it is going to be the king coconut cannon. Base on my knowledge, no other coconut cannon can grow to a coconut commander as long as the current one is alive, they can only become one if the leader reaches the second pace, the same to the other Planteros."

The conditions of evolving were like a pyramid. If he stays like that for a while, the defense of the dome will be weaker than normal. (Also, I don't know that this place is the middle of an island!)

He continues to water his plants and check their progress, the chili sprouts are already 5 feet high and already had a flower. The flower is a bit bigger than normal the diameter of the bud reach 2 inches.

The black pepper ants who loves to hides under the soil, even though they are still vigilante towards Lucas, they still produced 12 peppercorns. I pick them up and returned the pairs of ants to Neil. He got 25 ppts from his '1hour dungeon diving' and five points from 'drink 8 glass of water', so he bought six pots of music, having harmony is the best behavior for ants who grow a colony. Unlike other pots, he make a mound of soil for the six music pots and poured mana water in it, each mound has 2 peppercorns each.

He went to the nature pot to check it's progress, the peanuts shell finally grew fur, (Wait... The seed I plant has no seeds! When I touched their end the peanuts suddenly moved. What? Wait, the hell, seriously? This is way too lame, peanut butterfly? Then its wings might be made of toasted bread!)

Checking the ocean pot, a five feet chili plant stood straight, it has two inches diameter bud of a white flower, the fast pace of their growth which is caused by the hoe's ability is the best! In another hour or day, the chili dragon will finally spread its wings and say hello to the world!

He checks the lightning pot and smile, a five feet tall plant finally show itself, yeah, from the giant ginger. (Haha, hmm.. Gingers did not have this kind of leaves... this? What's with this, it's a chili plant! I have to transfer this to the ocean pot! I don't want to see a dragon chili shooting chili breaths time to time!)

He calmed himself and transfer the plant to the ocean pot slowly to not irritate its roots. Luckily there's only one flower bud, just hope that it won't grow with energetic behavior!

The blackcurrant and giant ginger finally grew bigger, with an average of six inches above the ground. The giant ginger finally looks like an unmoving kitten full of long orange furs around it, while the blackcurrant is like big black fur balls.

He took several pieces of mana stone and went out of the dome, "Viola,"

"Yes?" Viola asked, "You finally need my help?"

"Haha, well yes." He glanced at Hugo and pointed at Coco. "Guard coco while I'm out, those little cannons can't fight continuously, they need to charge mana from the atmosphere or use their own supply which will cause their death. I presumed you also saw it happened?"

"Alright! But why? Are you planning something?"

"Well, brother you see, I need to buy a lot of materials and I will be back tomorrow morning, I will take Sister Ranrem and Viola with me.

"Della and Rita, make sure Violet will be safe from Hugo okay?"

"Hah!?" Hugo exclaimed, "Why the heck they need to protect her?"

Rita cross her hands and raised her brows, "So you mean you really planned to the something against her?"

"Him!" Violet face suddenly turned red and run behind Rita and Della and said with a low voice, "Please, stay away from me."

Looking at her teary eyes Hugo pull his hair and screamed, "Aaaahhh! You! Lucas, it's all your fault!"

Lucas waves his hand and frowned, "Hell no! It was Rita's fault!"

He gives Lucas a middle finger and replied, "No! It's yours! will I get you back after this!"

"Look, Violet, Hugo's mad because Lucas knows his plan and stop him!" Della said.

"arrgg! Okay! I'll just guard that giant ball of husks!"

(So, he really does have a plan?) Lucas sighed and left together with Viola and Ranrem.

The group decided to wear a cloak and mask to hide their identity, the group bought a lot of pineapple turkey and Rambutan lobster. He also decided to buy a kilo of quail onions and raven garlic.

They went to the adventurers guild and look after Redford. Lucas asks to look after Viola for the night and make sure she's safe. "Okay, Viola! If anyone tried to take advantage of you, use this slapper as self-defense, it can hurt anyone even if they wear a metal armor!"

"Yes, good luck Lucas!" She looks at the slapper and stares at Lucas's back. (So cool!)

Ranrem and Lucas went to the difficult dungeon together, on the way, Lucas ask questions and Ranrem's answer always shut him up. The dungeon they will enter is the 'Orc Grin'. The dungeon only has 50 layers, but even though there's still no one able to clear the whole dungeon, and only stop at 20th layer.

"This is Orc Grin?" He asked. The entrance has a medium size emergency center, its walls have handprints of blood everywhere, Creepy. There's also a little store in front who sell a torch before entering.

"Yes."

"Have you enter this dungeon?"

"Yes."

"How far have you reach?"

"Twelve."

"Age?"

"19"

"Size?"

"..."

"Your shoes what size? Haist nevermind!" He bought two torches and hand one to Ranrem, he bent a little and pull out his hoe.

He saw Ranrem staring at his hoe with confused eyes, she tilted her head to ask him.

"It's my hoe." He said slowly.

"Why hoe?"

"Coz, I love my hoe!"

"You love a hoe?"

"Ye..s, what's up with you? Let's go!"

The reason Lucas decided to dive at higher difficulty dungeon is not that of conscience, but because the harvest is higher. The amount of mana grains form depends on how many mana does a beast have, orcs were 20 times larger and stronger than slime and spore which is easier for him.

Ranrem equipped her bow and stealthily followed him.

At the time they reach the layer, smell of rotting meat enter their nose. "ha! This smell is good, right Ranrem? Ranrem?"

He looks behind him and found her ten meters behind him she's on her knees and puking at the ground.

"Well? Here!" He approached her and give her his mask, "It will lessen the scent of the rotten flesh, I guess this is only at the first layer because of reckless adventurers, let's go!"

After a while, they finally met an Orc, "Hell! This pig smells rotten!"

He activated his ax's battle mode and decided to confront it in one on one battle.

Chunk!

The hoe hit the orc's limbs which made it lost its balance, It swings his arm to smash him. Lucas steps back and cut the orc's head and killed it immediately. Its body evaporated together with its odor, a small mountain of mana grains form at the ground which makes h smile.

He glanced at Ranrem who has her mouth open and smirked, "Want to pick them up?"

She covers her mouth and shook her head, her face shows disgust and fear as if she was facing a molester.

"Haha! That's how you should respond!" He chuckled and pick up the stones and continues the exploration.

When there's a group of orcs, Ranrem help with her bow, she shoots headshots accurately and saves him a lot of trouble. Lucas become a slave picking up the mana grains, at first it's fun but after hundreds of orcs? It's not!

The time they reach the second layer, he already filled two of his small bags with mana grains, which is much faster.

The second layer smell was different, no rotten smell but the smell of pigs, the orcs in the layer also different, they wield a giant stone club as its weapon. The slaying continues but much faster than the first layer. Ranrem shoot her arrows more precise, which makes their hunt easy.

The dungeon doesn't really have anything special except it produce mana grains and every level, the creatures are much stronger.

Ranrem filled her three shrink bags and Lucas has his Shrink Backpack half full. They are currently at the 5th layer of the dome and there are still no casualties.

Ranrem also is energetic, she reveals a smile from time to time without Lucas noticing and her eyes sparkled in the darkness.

Lucas looked at his watch and smirked, "Ranrem, it's already 4 am! Let's go fetch Viola!"

"Owe!" She showed a shock expression and felt so sleepy, (I did not know how long we are here, his hunting speed sure is interesting, it distracted me!)

The two went out of the dungeon together, and fetch Viola. Lucas looks at his status on how much stamina does he consumed.

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[Lucas Rankin] 'Gods' Gardener'

Beginner

Weapon:

-Hoe of Gods

*effect: No plants can defend against it. Low damage to humans.

>Make the land fertile

>Accelerate the plants' growth (500x)

>Portal to Earth/Hearth

(Unlocked)

Battle mode: Penetrates anything, weightless, 50% more stamina consumption.

*Ax of Gods

Stamina: 97.6552/100(%)

[2242/2300 hrs]

Fatigue: 0.0%

[0/200 hrs]

Gods Mail: 0

Plant points: 25

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