Free Life Fantasy Online

going to sell wine?”

“I wonder? I can’t drink it, but I can use it for cooking.”

“Ahh, I see…”

“Well, regardless of what I do with it, I will need adults to try it for me so…”

“Oh, leave it to me.”

 

Does Dantel-san love wine? Or does he just like drinking?

 

“Oh right, do you know maybe how to make mead?”

“To make mead you only need to dilute honey with water and leave it be.
I think it was diluting honey with two, three times the water.”

“I see, let’s prepare some mead then.”

“How about making, uh, fruit wine? It’s easy… oh, no.
There is no white liquor.”

 

Let’s research some.
Umm, white liquor, meaning… I see now, so alcohol like vodka is required.
Hnn… nnn?

 

“It feels like there should be some out there.”

“You mean white liquor?”

“I purchased brandy from Residents before, so I guess there should be?”

“Hooh…”

“Well, first let’s make wine and mead.
Then soy sauce and miso after that.”

“Sure, do your best!”

 

I leave Dantel-san’s store and jump to the third area’s town, Barberg.
I need to purchase the necessary things.

 

First, research.
…Ah, this should work.
Hmm-mmm… let’s make rosé wine.
The problem is… the grape names I saw yesterday are completely different from ones in real.
Are they game-specific species? The storekeepers do not seem to know too much.

Grapes… grapes… must be that store? …I see, no clue.

 

“I want to make wine, which black grapes should I use for short fermentation?”

“Black for short fermentation… you can use these Farshnelli, Clakshi, Berge.
Farshnelli are good for making light, normal and heavy wine.”

“Which of these is the most sweet one?”

“That would be Farshnelli.
It’s a subspecies created in this town.”

“Then I will have that, the amount… it’s my first time making wine, so I will have about this many.”

“My, what a cute bucket.
Fars are easy to make wine with, so I recommend them.
As for the amount, that would be…”

 

I purchased grapes of Farshnelli-Berg type.
They cost me 5000 in total, but that can’t be helped.
I leave the store and let’s get to work right away.

 

In the shade on the center square I open up the Cooking Kit.
I take out the mini cask… and first add water to make the wood expand… there.
After inserting water, it gradually stopped seeping through and the cask turned into a usable state.
I wash it a few times and put it aside.

Then, I take out a fresh empty bin I haven’t used for making pickles or bread, and after separating grapes from each other, I put them inside.
I crush and squeeze them together.
I squeeze and filter the juices into empty bins, using all the empty bins I had.
From there, I put lids on the bins to let them ferment.

Finally, I use【Clean】on the used bins to make them clean.
…Inside the cleaned bins I put in B-quality water and honey, then mix them together.
I put the filtering cloth over it and leave it be.
Inside a new potion bottle I put B quality water and fairy honey, then shake it and leave it be.

I fast-forward time, and watching the three bins, I note the progress.

 

There are multiple ways to make pink-colored wine called Rosé, I first crush the black grapes and filter the juices.
In other words “Since you use black grapes, red color slightly colors the wine and it eventually turns pink~”.
In order to make it into pretty pink color, it’s necessary to measure time during every step and repeat them multiple times.

First of all, considering that these grapes are a special breed from another world, it’s hard to say whether this method will work.
It is a game, so it might be easier instead, too.

Wine-making, even the short fermentation method can take years to finish it… I wonder how it will work.

 

Watching it bubble and froth, I mixed it when the sediment settled down.

Looks like the bubbliness inside the potion bin’s honey mixture has disappeared.
There isn’t much of it, so it did not take much time.
Let’s move the liquid to another potion bin and leave the yeast sediment inside.
This one is finished for now.

 

Continuously noting down the fast-forwarded time, I stare at the bins.
Notes are important, you know? Even if I remember everything now, I will definitely forget the details so it’s best to note them down while I can.

It’s a good thing that this process can be done at room temperature.
I only sometimes cool it down with【Cool】.

The yeast is still breathing, so it will take plenty more time.

 

As for wine… in order to set a standard, let’s make it dry.
It seems like I can have the yeast eat up all the sugar, so I do complete fermentation.

The bubbling of wine disappeared first, so I noted down the time it took.
I move it to a mini cask to start aging it.

Fermenting the honey took more time than wine.
Just like the one in the potion bin, I leave the yeast inside the bin and slowly move the rest.

Although mead is complete, let’s let both rest for now.

 

We are in a game, so temperature in general is pretty stable.
It makes the temperature control pretty easy.
The biggest problem is that leaving it inside my inventory makes the item’s time stop, so there is no point in doing that.
With that said, I can’t carry it around in my hands.

Although it’s annoying, it’s best to note down the time I have the cask out of inventory…

 

Soy sauce and miso… what should I do about those? There is a big problem called “malt”.
Soya beans themselves are cheap, so I can only try making some without malt… If it works then I’m lucky, if it goes bad… it will be time to search for malt.

 

I hath pulled out a large pot! Soya beans! Salt! Now, let’s begin.
First goes miso.

Since soya beans are a number of uses-based items, I take plenty and wash them.
Yes, with【Clean】.
Next, I pour a large amount of water and let the beans soak.
Fast-forward time, about one whole day.
They absorbed water and expanded plenty.

Umm, next is… put the beans inside a large pot.
Put just enough water to soak them a little and cook on low flame for about three hours, take out scum during that.
…In order to let the heat go deep inside after it starts seething, I need to add more water.
Let’s prepare.

 

I fast-forward the time while taking out the scum, also noting down the time everything takes.
Naturally, I put the mini cask and the mead bins in the shadow on the opposite side of the heat source.

 

I take out the thoroughly-cooked soya beans and crush them.
It says that crushing them between the thumb and index finger is just enough.
I don’t know whether they took my race into consideration, however.

…#1, we’re crushing beans.
Thankfully burns don’t have much to do with us!

 

Mmh, I don’t have a bin to mix everything with salt.
#1, continue crushing.

Umm… make it about the size of an earlobe or a little finger and harden, mix the malt with salt while kneading it…

I gather the beans that #1 crushes and I make multiple chunks.
I don’t have malt, after all.

 

Next, I take the salted soy bean dumplings and stuff them in the wooden bucket I bought from Primula-san.
…It’s nice and full.
Next is, um… a filtering cloth will work.
I cover it with cloth and put on the inner lid… ah, there is no stone to put weight on.
Will I find a weight stone-like thing in the North? Let’s put away the Cooking Kit for now and move.

Oh? The mini cask and mead, as well as the bucket for making miso were stored together.
It appears there is no problem, very well.

 

 

I jump through the portal to Vershtead and re-summon #1 changing him from a metaskelly into a horse.
After walking out of the town, I have him gallop and we search for two stones of fitting size.

Enemies in the North are all slow, so I can ignore them all as long as I ride on #1.

 

I found about three stones as we ran around.
Let’s use【Clean】and put them in the inventory.

 

 

〈«Spatial Magic» reached level 15.〉

〈«Spatial Magic»’s【Raum Sphere】was acquired.〉

 

 

【Raum Sphere】

Creates an invisible shield in all directions around you, negating ranged attacks.

 

Ahhh… this, it’s an all-directions version of【Raum Escude】which creates a shield in front of the caster.
It must use even more MP than escude, but that aside I think it’s not bad.

The problem is that when I’m using【Inventory Expansion】, I don’t have enough MP to cast it, making it troublesome to use.
There is no difference in the amount of MP used, so… it’s 10% less MP used for every 10 levels.
It uses 70% now, so at level 20 it will be 60%.

There are no direct attack spells at this point, so in order to level spatial magic【Inventory Expansion】is pretty useful.

 

Well, let’s leave «Spatial Magic» and get back to miso.
Back we go.

I get off #1 in the central square and in the corner of it I open the Cooking Kit.
Right away I put the stone on top of the inner lid.
Avoid the direct light, it’s best to avoid the changes in temperature, it says.
With that said, it only says “it’s best to” and ultimately can be put anywhere….
The rest time is one year… no, about ten months should work.

After putting away the Cooking Kit, I check the weather board… Umm, the highest temperature is… in the South.
However, there is salty wind there… In which case, it will be East after all.
It seems that there is plenty of rain in the West.
That would be troublesome.
The coldest is in the North.

East for Miso, North for Wine? …Let’s go back East.

 

I return to Barberg and praying that it does not rot, I fast-forward with【Reaction Acceleration】.
There is no need to mix anything, it’s pretty easy.
I wait for my MP to recover and push it forward.
In about three months it started to look somewhat like the finished product, I check it every thirty days.

Feels like it did… not rot? Seems like it might work – and so, do your best for another sixty days.

 

Although my level, skill level and max MP increased,【Reaction Acceleration】still consumes a lot of MP.
It recovers too fast for me to do other things while waiting, but just waiting for recovery and fast-forwarding is really boring.

In the safety zone HP and MP recovers 30% every 5 seconds, so recovery is very fast in the safety zone.
It’s this way in towns and safety zones outside.

 

When I use it again while the clock above the bucket is still visible, I can extend the time without using it again.
One use is one day, so it’s easy to count the number of uses.
Sixty uses.

After using it time after time, I wait for the fast-forward to end.
When the clock disappears I remove the stone, inner lid and the cloth.
Ohhh… it’s gotten brownish.
It’s 90 days fermented miso.
I clean the cloth and cover it again.
Put on the inner lid and stone again, there is seven months remaining, so I multiply 7 times 3 for 210 uses.

 

Although I say months, it is a mystery how things work in game so I do not think of calendar days.
One day in real life is four days in-game.
I don’t think they would change the setting from reality too much, so a 1 week is 4 days, and 1 month is either 7 weeks for 28 days a month, or 8 weeks for 32 days a month.
Should I ask Megan-san about it the next time I meet her?

 

Between wine and miso, I take miso~.
I want to make miso soup, but… ahh, there is no tofu.
What’s necessary is… nigari… nigari, hm? Let’s investigate while fast-forwarding.

Put soya beans in the mixer… I have no mixer.
Nigari is the remaining water after extracting salt from the seawater? Seems like nigari is an «Alchemycraft» case.
The problem is getting a mixer.
We once again face a problem with tools rather than ingredients… There is a need to search for a higher version of a Cooking Kit.

Rather, I was so focused on ingredients that I did not look for the crucial kit.
It wasn’t in the second area, so it feels like it should be here in the third area.
Let’s look for it once miso is done.

 

While watching the clock finish 210 days worth of fast-forwarding, I start to fast-forward wine.
I confirm the clock on top of the wooden bucket disappears and remove the three items covering it.

 

[Ingredient] Mature Miso　Rarity: Ep　Quality: Ｂ
An ingredient made with soya beans using a recipe brought by Outsiders.
Used for many things.
Matured for 300 days.

 

 

Ohhh… it succeeded!

An ingredient made with soya beans using a recipe brought by Outsiders.
I see, so the rarity is Epic.
So until it’s mass-produced the rarity will be high… is what it means?

For now I put it away, let’s search for a kit.
I guess the aim is the store that had the storage items?

 

“Welcome.”

“Do you have a higher version of a Cooking Kit?”

“We still do~.”

 

What does she mean by “still do”…? No, items can get out of stock, so it isn’t that strange.

 

“But, do you have enough money~?”

 

[Tool] Mid-Tier Cooking Kit　Rarity: Ra　Quality: Ｂ　Price: 500k

 

A portable cooking set with tools for a cook.

 

Oh, a Mid-Tier Cooking Ki… EXPENSSSSIIIIVE?!

 

“Your face… you turned straight-faced~.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.
It was more expensive than I expected, so I will go withdraw money.”

“Then I will keep it here~.”

“Please do.”

 

It’s a painful expense, but there is no choice but to buy it.
It’s closer to the Adventurers’ Union from there.
I withdraw money at the reception and return to the store.
I have 3.6m remaining.
It is about time I will need to put food on consignment to sell…

 

“Sorry for the wait.”

“Thanks again~.”

“Is there a reason the price suddenly went up so much?”

“It’s because there are multiple magic tools, and the overall quality has increased~.”

“I see, magic tools, is it.”

“They are useful, but expensive in exchange~.”

“I will take my leave then.”

“Come again~.”

 

I leave the store and combine the kits right away.
Before confirming, I go South to Inbamunt to collect seawater.
From there, I extract salt with alchemy.
Like this, I acquire high quality salt and nigari.

Speaking of which, should I change to using this salt from now on? I started to extract salt diligently to acquire a fair amount and secured a large bin of nigari.

 

Now… it is already late, let’s have dinner.