15 Nimble Valley
Adding more entries in his botany journal was an exciting way to pass the time, conducting experiments on the sap and pollen of the flowers, plants, trees, and even mushrooms. It gave him more possibilities in cuisine. Spicy foods could now be made and he could even do things nearly impossible to achieve such as making caffeine, something that he could only make using mushrooms from the feral path and flowers from the ancient ruins.
As he was excitedly writing down some new information concerning combinations of various plants, he got a call from someone he hadn't heard from in a while.
"Hey loser, I got a deal for you. I hear a lot of talk about how you are such a 'great' Rancher"-Mochi
"Oh hi, Mochi what do you need?"-Albert
"I need you to come over to the Nimble Valley to collect quicksilver plorts, I have already set up a portal in that terrible ranch expansion of yours"-Mochi
"You mean the grotto? Have you seen what I did with the Fire flowers?"-Albert
"I will be honest with you, I quite liked it. The light is very nice."-Mochi
"Thanks, I am going to be there quickly. I just need to finish writing a few things"-Albert
"What are you writing anyway?"-Mochi
"I made a journal about researching the effects of different plant life on the Far, Far Range. Like how Wildflowers from the Moss Blanket produce a sap that can substitute milk and dairy."-Albert
"That's... Mildly interesting"-Mochi
Albert walked into the Grotto after closing his call and finishing what he was writing, he then passed through the portal and when he looked he could see that he was on the property of Mochi, which was hanging off the side of a Mountain, it overlooked a large valley that had small floating islands with lots of small trees that were pointy at the top like a needle.
"Hello Loser, I suppose you are here to talk about the deal right?"-Mochi
In front of Albert was a short woman, who was of Asian and English descent. Her hair was like a seaside blue and her eyes glared at everything like a hawk.
"You guessed it"-Albert
"Well, the deal is, you get me as many quicksilver plorts as possible. Or you could give me ideas on how to make this more efficient. This is like a game, you shoot at the slimes with sparks and you also use three different 'power-ups' as I like to call them.
The first is the thunderclap, it's an area of effect attack and targets a lot of slimes.
The second is the static clinger, it clings onto other quicksilver slimes and when the slimes enter the other slimes' vicinity, they produce their plorts.
The third is my favorite, it is called the Slooow field and it slows down all quicksilver slimes in its bubble to a near stop.
Pairing some of these together can get you quite a lot of these plorts. Oh and don't worry the plorts get picked up by satellites because picking them up manually is for chumps"-Mochi
He went down the Valley with a portal and turned on the generator, soon enough he saw tons of Quicksilver slimes appear out of the ground and as he started shooting them with his vacuum gun they then turned golden and became covered in electricity while producing plorts.
He had to use a combination of sprinting, flying with a jetpack, and parkour skills to cross the terrain. Soon enough he found his first power-up, this time the power-up was the Slooow Field, it had two charges and he knew just the place for it to go.
On the right corner of one of the checkpoints next to the generator, he placed the Slooow Field as a purple bubble appeared, and then after a few seconds of waiting he saw a crowd of little quicksilver slimes piled up in the bubble, some of them escaping and more of them flying in.
He started to shoot the sparks at the slimes and he started getting loads of plorts after a while until the bubble popped when he simply just sent the second charge and kept shooting. He could see how many plorts he had gotten in his vac-pack and sure enough, it was quite a lot. By the end of the game, he had accumulated too many plorts.
When he came back though...
"Let me check how many plorts you have obtained"-Mochi
As Albert handed her the vac-pack she the number of plorts and her jaw dropped.
"Dear God! You have gotten 138 quicksilver plorts?!"-Mochi
"Is that good?"-Albert
"What do you mean? Of course, this is good! It is so much in fact that with this I can get a week's worth of profits in a day!"-Mochi
"Well anyway, I don't really need a reward so I am just going to go to my house and make some food. Do you want me to make you something?"-Albert
"No-"-Mochi
*Grumble*
"Actually, sure why not?"-Mochi
Albert chuckled as he led the way to his kitchen.
He decided this time to make a nice recipe that he loved to make for simple enjoyment.
He grabbed the meat from a briar Hen that he had marinated for a few hours in yogurt, lemon juice along with oregano and garlic, both from Ogden's garden. He placed the chicken on a large stick and lit a fire on the grill outside, he placed the stick on a machine that kept the chicken over the fire while rotating it to make sure it cooks evenly. Once the outside turned brown he shaved off the outside and waited for the shaved chicken to brown again so he could shave off the surface of the chicken again. He repeated this until there was no chicken left and all the shaving was in a bowl.
He then made a dip out of yogurt, diced cucumber, and a heck of a lot of thyme leaves(Courtesy of Ogden's garden)
He grabbed some Cypriot pita bread that he had in the cabinet and sliced it open. He placed the chicken shaving and a little of the dip with cut tomato, cucumber, and parsley(again, courtesy of Ogdens Garden) and after closing the pita and wrapping it in the paper. Voila! Cypriot chicken Gyros!
He gave the Gyros to Mochi while he started to eat his.
"This is a lot less... proper isn't it?"-Mochi
"Don't worry about it, in this house etiquette is an afterthought"-Albert
"Alright... *Chomp* Oh damn this is good"-Mochi
"Told Ya"-Albert
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To those who voted sky island you are!
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Wrong!
The answer is Hole in the Sea. You could understand that from the chapter where the strawhats fell from the sky with their ship in a 'Bubble'.
Nonetheless, I will go on Hiatus on the 31st and on the 11th i will be back
