Chapter 12 °•○● The first farm animals in the fantasy world

[Trivial Quest 31 / 9999: Basic Training

Quest Description: A lord must be athletic and strong during all kinds of physical actions (combat and intimate encounters). You need to start somewhere with your basic physical exercises. Take a deep breath and start sweating by praying to the mighty gods of push-ups and sit-ups.

-100 push-ups

-100 sit-ups

-1 kilometer run

-40 punches with both arms (Actions performed using at least half of your physical will are accepted)

-15 low kicks with both legs (Actions performed using at least half of your physical will are accepted)

-15 mid-level kicks with both legs (Actions performed using at least half of your physical will are accepted)]

Eren wasn't a fan of sports. Apart from playing basketball and soccer matches on weekends in his previous life, he had never set foot in a gym. Nevertheless, he had never weighed more than 85 kilograms at any point in his life. Even during his oldest and slowest moments, he could walk for miles on his own. Thanks to his healthy body, he enjoyed a peaceful life even beyond the age of 80.

Now, at the beginning of his new life, starting forced bodybuilding felt a bit strange.

"Anais, Yana. Can you go and fetch Matvey?"

As he watched the two girls running to their elder brother, Eren started forming a small training plan in his mind. He began to smile when the three elves finally joined him.

The two elf girls became excited at his smile, while a sense of fear filled Matvey's being. That smile resembled being told to exercise near a tree.

"Now, we're going to start something very fun. We'll continue doing this every morning after checking our resources. Let me repeat, we'll do this every single day without skipping a beat, understood?"

"Yes, Master!" the two girls shouted cheerfully, their voices filled with excitement, leaving Matvey looking at them strangely.

These fools have no idea what's coming. Surely, another form of torture is about to begin.

Afterward, Eren opened his mouth with joy and said, "100 push-ups," as he looked at Matvey's shocked face.

Matvey seemed like an old man, rubbing his non-existent beard and scratching his thin elf chin. Just to be sure or escape from the reality for a few seconds, he asked with a low voice.

"Master, if I may confirm, did I hear you correctly? My ears haven't been working well lately. Did you say 100 push-ups? Or did you mean we should take 100 push ons- like walking for 100 steps ha?" There was an expression on his face that even he didn't believe his own words. But with a small glimmer of hope, he pleaded with his eyes, like a little puppy.

"I believe what I said was clear. Everyone, assume the position." Eren wasn't particularly skilled at making jokes, so he couldn't come up with a clever line to tease this pitiful elf. He simply lay down on the ground and took a position that the girls could imitate.

While in a perfect position on the ground, Eren's eyes turned to Matvey, who hadn't even flinched. At that moment, the girls imitated Eren with their tattered clothes, but they didn't understand the expression in his eyes. However, their brother sensed a face filled with anger directed at him.

Matvey had never been in a professional army or saw even small bandit groups. He was a complete milk baby who didn't remember his past elven life. The gaze of someone like Eren who had worked in his country's army for years was intimidating.

Without even realizing it, he felt the need to instantly follow the orders.

"Is everyone ready? Let's begin. 1..."

With the start of the push-ups, Matvey felt like he was about to faint. He unexpectedly managed to do 20 push-ups. The situation was even worse with sit-ups, and when they started running, even the girls started collapsing to the ground.

Among the three servant elves, only Anais acted as if she had engaged in more physical activity than the others. She wasn't stronger or more athletic than her siblings. She simply had a higher tolerance for physical pain. No matter what, she didn't resist orders, did her best to imitate Eren, and managed to finish the run.

When Eren came over and ruffled his hair, Yana couldn't help but feel jealous of her sister. Just as she was searching for something she could excel at better than her sister with great enthusiasm, Eren started throwing punches.

Is it easy to throw a punch with only half of your physical strength? It wasn't. Not even for Eren.

But when the entire training was over, Yana was crying, Matvey was asleep, and Anais was pouting because she couldn't succeed.

After resting in the shade by the stone house with the girls, Eren stood up and checked his rewards.

[Ding! Trivial Quest 31 / 9999: "Basic Training" completed. With a success rate of 100%, your reward has been doubled."

*Rewards:

-2 Animal Summoning Claims

-2 Half a Gallon Liquid Summoning Claims

-2 Large Reinforced Paper (Against Liquids)

-4 Two kg (2.2 lbs) Oak Timber Pieces]

-1 Bar of Soap (Half a bar X2)

-60 Exp (30X2) (The reward may vary depending on luck)

Eren raised his hand in the air as if praying to receive his rewards for completing two quests. With a couple of cool hand and arm movements, a bunch of rewards appeared.

He was thinking of using the small wooden shack below side of the hill to accommodate the animals. So he left all the rewards except for the animals in front of the stone house,

"I want a chicken, a rooster, and two rabbits."

Among all the animals that came to his mind, a chicken was the one that required the least feeding and could survive on grass-only diet. He could have asked for a cow or a sheep, but he wasn't sure about the needs of such large animals. Besides, he knew that non-pregnant cows and sheep didn't produce milk, so he didn't make a childish mistake.

But he smiled mischievously in a way he had never felt in his previous life. Then he called Anais and Yana to his side. When he showed the exhausted girls the rabbits, they were struggling not to cry in contrast to their sexy elf princess looks.

"Just imitate what I did yesterday." Just as Eren was about to move away from there, he suddenly remembered that the knife he used yesterday wasn't sharp. He raised his right hand and used an unseen screen in the air for shopping. In fact, he could have done the same thing using the options in his retina, but using his hands to navigate the system felt cooler.

"It's like using magic or advanced technology from thousands of years later like..."

He opened the Market and bought two kitchen knives at a price of 3 Exp each. With a strange mist and a momentary vibration, the knives appeared in the air and fell to the ground.

After instructing the girls to clean the knives after using them, he walked towards the shade where Matvey was sleeping.

"Can the system give me a new quest?"

[Trivial Quest 15 / 9999: Breakfast Time!

Quest Description: A lord and those under him must always start the day with a good meal. Have a hearty breakfast that will keep the lord energized until dinner time!

*Quest Hint: Lords should eat like kings. A good meal has a great effect both in times of war and during work. And most importantly, a lord should always be ready to produce heirs, so they must keep their bodies healthy and energetic.

You shouldn't consume meat in every meal; pay attention to including vegetables and fruits to your meals. You can find additional information about the vitamins and additional nutrients required by elf biology in the "Library" section]

When the system recently told Eren that he needed to start engaging in nighttime activities with the slaves, he didn't take it too seriously. After all, the system was an artificial intelligence, and it would be absurd to look for perfect logic in everything it said.

But when he heard the term "child-producing activities" for the second time in the same day, he began to suspect.

"Is having s*x with your slaves that important for survival or becoming strong?"

He waited for the rabbit cooking activities, which he predicted the girls would mostly burn it after hours of trying.

Meanwhile, he built a small coop. Well, "built" would sound cool. All he did was gather stones and planks from around and put them side by side, covering the top with a wooden plank. It was enough to provide temporary protection from the cold for the chicken and rooster for a few days.

When the girls saw him grabbing the chicken and rooster from their backs and taking them away, they screamed. But Eren was familiar with chickens from his previous life. They were harmless creatures that could never harm a person larger than themselves. As he placed the two animals inside the small coop, he remembered the gardens he used to go to with his mother and father at the very beginning of his old life.

He was still young, and under the scorching sun, he would water the garden with a hose while his mother worked the soil with a hoe. His father would constantly try to demolish and rebuild a part of the chicken coop.

At that time, life was calm, beautiful, and innocent for him. A childhood without worries, stress, or fears.

Now, on a different planet, thinking about those times felt a bit suffocating and strange. It didn't sentimentalize as much as he expected, and he focused on the present, leaving his old life behind.

After taking a deep breath, he examined the small shack and its surroundings. However, his face wrinkled with a displeased expression when he noticed that the sides of the shack were a bit sloping and the size of the stones around. The idea of using the wide and clean area behind the stone house seemed the most logical.

He immediately started working and tried to figure out how to properly dismantle the shack. He could use the boards from the quests to combine them with the existing ones and build a spacious and sturdy structure, like a new animal shelter.

"If we combine the boards from the quests with the ones here, we can build something quite wide and durable. But we need good planning; otherwise, this project will take too long."

Just as he was about to leave the small shack, he noticed Yana in front of the door. The little girl had appeared there at an unknown time and was watching Eren.

"Hello. Have you finished cooking?"

The girl nodded her head, hesitating as if gathering the courage to say something. Then, she took a shy step forward and used those words again that stressed Eren earlier.

"Hey, Master. I saw you yesterday... with my big sister!"

Eren felt like making a new phrase for this situation and he was as proud as much he felt panicked.

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