NOVEL NEXT Chapter 4: Farm and Habitat
"Hm? This is really convenient" moving the display of the farm around, the upbeat young man deduced that he could place it anywhere he wants so long as it doesn't overlap with any other object within the floating island, after this deduction making him think about where he can place it.
"Once I place it in a place, can I still move it around?" still wondering where he should place it, the upbeat young man asks towards the Dragon Herding System, prompting another floating gray screen to appear in front of him once again, explaining the mechanics of the layout arrangement feature.
[You can still move it and all the object around once you placed it, and you can also store the objects inside the internal realm space, but you can no longer sell the things already purchased]
After reading the text in the floating gray screen, the young man nods in understanding as he places the Magic Fruit Farm near the True Dragon Nourishing Tree, making it so that he can immediately bring the fruit to his first dragon once it hatches.
After selecting a place for the farm to be constructed, a magical veil of thick fog and mist surrounds the target area, something that the upbeat young man fails to see through, and within just a minute, the fog already starts disappearing, revealing the fully constructed Magic Fruit Farm inside.
Being vines, the fruits cling onto the strong wooden structure of the farm, the vivid, life-filled green vines and leaves of the plant making it appear extremely magical, partnered with the delicious-looking smooth purple fruit hanging on one of its vines, making it look all the more attractive to anyone's eyes.
Despite the fruits still not ready for harvest, it's already a bit more than a fist in terms of size, its shiny coating reflecting some of the sun's rays and making it look mysterious especially with its purple color, making the upbeat young man wonder how this fruit will taste.
[Since this is a magical fruit that can properly nurture even dragons, it is recommended that you also take some of this for yourself, but only one per day as the human body can't properly absorb anything and any more than that and might even cause a problem]
Almost as if being able to read his mind, the Dragon Herding System once again show a floating gray screen in front of him, the answer to the thing he is wondering about being displayed on said screen, the words making him smile as he starts looking forward to the harvest of these fruits even more.
In the meantime, while waiting for it to mature, he starts looking for a place where the wood dragon can settle, clicking on the [Habitats] section of the shop, seeing only one option with the reminder of him acquiring more types of dragons to unlock more habitats.
[Wood Floating Island (5,000 Realm Gold)]
[Description: A floating island brimming with vitality, filled with woods and rivers, providing an extremely comfortable place for Wood Dragons and any other dragon with the wood attribute to live in. Currently able to house five dragons simultaneously, can be upgraded]
Reading the description of the only choice of habitat he can build, the upbeat young man purchases it without a trace of hesitation in his action, thinking for the better of his first dragon as the reminds to himself that if he's going to do something, then he must do it right, hence why he spares no effort and money to make the still incubating wood dragon comfortable once it comes out.
After clicking on the [Wood Floating Island], the upbeat young man hears trembling from the ground, making him quite wary as such trembling already brings him much trauma already, only for this to last only a couple of seconds, ending as a gigantic spatial rift appears from near the floating island, such grand sight causing the young man's body tremble as he watches the movements in the spatial rift, the power of space emanating from it causing some ideas to pop into his mind, something so vague yet seemingly so profound that he needs to enter meditation in order to comprehend.
Being someone with a sharp and extremely good memory though, he opted not to focus on this as he watches the majestic movements of the spatial rift, from it emerging a large plot of vitality filled floating island, waters flowing out and falling down from some areas of it, a river flowing down from the singular lush green mountain peak in the middle of it, the surface of the island covered with waters and woods, rivers flowing through and dividing five areas in the island.
Knowing that he can't miss being there once his first ever dragon comes out, the upbeat young man still refuses to ponder on the enlightenment of space as he watches it disappear while the new floating island settles in, asking the Dragon Herding System whether he can climb at the True Dragon Nourishing Tree to witness the wood dragon's emergence as well.
Agreeing on his request, the system teleports him to the top of the tree, just in the middle of all the large branches crowning it, at the very middle of those branches a green dragon egg pulsates with life, the egg now giving off vibrant green glow as if something magical is happening inside, making the upbeat young man look forward to it even more.
"Come to think of it, how am I supposed to focus on anything else if I have to harvest the Magic Fruits once every four minutes?" thinking about feeding this young one once it breaks out of its shell, the upbeat young man's thoughts are directed to the Magic Fruit Farm, prompting a seemingly serious question to pop into his mind, a question that is easily answered by the Dragon Herding System.
[Any resources coming from farms will be automatically harvested through the help of the arrays installed in them, and then immediately stored in the internal realm space for prolonged storage]
After reading the explanation from the floating gray screen, the upbeat young man nods once again, now just waiting for the little dragon to pop out of its shell, the pain his body is currently experiencing as his organs starts to churn more and more no longer something that he feels in pain for, something in the air around the Draconic Realm making him not only sustain his life for longer time but also making him heal faster, an unexpected boon that he has yet to realize.
Just relaxedly humming a tune as he watches the Wood Dragon Egg continues pulsating the vibrant green light out of it, the upbeat young man ignores the notification of the Magic Fruit already being harvested twice, meaning that any moment now, the young wood dragon is already about to emerge from the egg.
Snapping him out of his daze, the upbeat young man abruptly stood up as he hears cracking sounds from nearby, the shell covering the dragon gradually losing its structural integrity as cracks starts to form all around it, the larger ones converging in a certain point that repeatedly produces even more crack, as if something hard is hitting it from the insides.
After a few more seconds of struggling, a small, cute reptilian head emerges out of the spot, the little innocent eyes of the creature coming out looking single mindedly at the biped standing in front of it, the sight of such large creature making the young dragon all the more curious, forcing itself to break the rest of the shell covering it with its limbs, the already sharp claw tearing through the strong layer of the egg from the insides, completely breaking it out.
Coming out of it, the young dragon already seems so big compared to normal animals, standing on its four limbs with its head reaching in the middle part of the upbeat young man's thighs already, the young dragon only looking at the young man for a while before it turns around and starts eating its own shell.
While the young wood dragon takes its first meal, the upbeat young man just stood there in excitement, observing and appreciating the majestic, albeit modest form of the hatchling, its folded wings seemingly not ready to fly yet, but its already standing strong on its limbs, appearing extremely well built and great, the scales covering its body appearing like a sort of tree bark that serves to make it look all the more regal, the little horns already sprouting on the side of its head like a crown deserving to an apex species, the long tail ending along with the small wooden spikes in its back.
Witnessing the birth of such creature, the upbeat young man couldn't help but feel quite proud, not to mention the fact that this young hatchling is going to be his companion in the future, something that no one will ever believe should he tell them that due to how prideful and mysterious the kingdom he's in, and even the entire continent views the dragons and even just its lower species.