Troubles of the Ranch

Good morning to you

That is what the whole world would say to our hero, Albert. But a good morning wasn't what he needed but rather a good night. He hadn't slept in days, defending the honey plorts he collected from stray slimes. Honestly, the Slimepedia gave a fair warning, they were hard to keep away from slimes and largos alike. But he Also observed something strange, the slimes that would usually ignore him to look for a few carrots or hens were now abnormally obsessed with him. It was to the point where he had to buy the pulse wave upgrade from the upgrade terminal with a hard-earned 350 newbucks, just to keep away a few slimes? Well no, the reason for this was due to the fact he was nearly knocked out after a few boom slimes jumped on him before going boom, which definitely gave him a few injuries. Life on the ranch isn't all sunshine and rainbows you know?

But there was an incredible increase in cash flow after the honey slimes entered his ranch. He was almost certainly getting at least 48 honey plorts every day due to another discovery he had found. When slimes eat their favorite foods, they produce double the plorts, to which the same went for his Rock phosphor Largos, they ate the cuberries which were that phosphor slimes favorite food and produced twice the amount of both phosphor plorts and rock plorts.

Well forgetting that for a second, he obtained nearly 100 honey plorts every two days. Man being smart was good. This gave him upwards of 1440 plorts every few days if sold them all, the minimum price for honey plorts was 15 newbucks each but the average amount, he would find out as being 32 which was doubled and had a little more to compensate.

Since he got the Honey slimes it had been four days which if he calculated right, meant that if sold all of the honey plorts he was hoarding in his pantry he would gain 6144 newbucks. But what if he waited for a little more? That would mean he would gain more. He knew that the more he sold, the cheaper the plort market would set his plorts to be automatically, the way of countering this was to hoard the plorts for days until there is a good price on the market, but that was increasingly difficult at the moment because of how many slimes randomly entered his ranch on accident after smelling the plorts and tried to eat one of his hens, which nugget, would guard safely( He is doing his best can't you see?).

Hopping onto his feet he grabbed the incredibly large pile of 192 Honey plorts and went to the plort market, the price of honey plorts was 35 at the moment, and by putting all the plorts inside the device in front of him. On his wrist, there was a display that showed him how much energy or health or newbucks he had, and by putting the plorts in he saw his newbucks rise to an astounding 6980 which was the honey plorts combined with his previous amount of 260 newbucks which, compared to the amount of money the honey plorts gave him, it was measly.

When he finally managed to stop himself from looking at the number of newbucks. He could achieve one of his first tasks, max out a corral. Walking down the steps and towards the corrals, he was thinking of which plort to give to his honey slimes, though this was for profits and living comfortably rather than culinary.

He had lately tried different types of plorts in his cooking, rock was simply too hard to chew but when grounded and mixed with grounded boom plorts, it reminded him heavily of the pop rocks he would eat as a child. By the way, boom plorts on their own were very spicy but that spiciness was lost when it was ground up, rather now giving it a type of crunch that would satisfy anyone.

Tabby plorts were a doozy, they couldn't be melted, grounded, or even smashed with a hammer, though he experimented on that last one a little. These plorts however when he tried to cut it with a knife, it went through very easily and he decided to squeeze and juice it like an orange, to his surprise however it worked and it left him with a bitter drink that seemed like an energy drink.

He managed to get his hands on 4 hunter plorts, to be expected they were exactly like the tabby plorts however he could bite into them, which turned his entire body invisible for half a day. The rest were unfortunately lost however when a random feral pink phosphor largo attacked his ranch, scaring his largos enough as they were and when I tried to throw it off the cliff behind the ranch, it may have accidentally eaten one of the hunter plorts and knocked the rest into the ocean after turning into a tarr, a slime which has eaten two kinds of plorts which were different from the ones it produces, creating an amorphous black slime the size of a largo with a big dangerous grin on its face, its food? Other slimes and its favorite? Ranchers!

But now that he reached the corrals he first went to the phosphor rock Largos and upgraded their corral to have both a plort collector and an automatic feeder, both were self-explanatory, one collected plorts in the corral for you, and the other fed the slimes in the corral for you.

For the honey slimes though he gave them every upgrade the other corral had other than the solar shield which overall cost him 3125 newbucks, a deadly blow to his money indeed. But he still had some money to spend so why not make some more food for our residents here?

So for this reason he went up to where the gardens were and maxed them out as well, this not only doubled the speed at which the crops would grow but would also give the maximum yield of this particular product, and one other thing, the final upgrade was the scareslime which was the most useful for him out of all of these upgrades as it kept the other slimes away from not only his crops but his ranch as well. Overall this also cost him 2550 newbucks which with all the other things he bought cost him 5675 newbucks, this, unfortunately, turned his 6980 newbucks into 1305 newbucks.

This all cost him a lot but judging by his toothy grin you would understand that he knew he could simply just earn it back because with all this food and all these plorts he knew that the only thing hard enough to challenge him would be to actively search for a rare slime like the hunter slimes.

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Sorry for not making a chapter yesterday, Since it is May all the tests and exams of the semester are located in this month alone so if you would, don't mind it if I don't post a chapter for one day. Thank you all