Legendary Shelter Survival Guide

Chapter 179 Ridiculous numbers

After they were all done with the counting of the mana stones in the storage room. John finally got the final number.

"... 401 Mana stones."

"Are you kidding me?!" Lucas couldn't help but be baffled after knowing the numbers.

"How do we have so many, Dad?" Even Barney couldn't help but have disbelief toward the number.

"At this stage of our trades, I mostly ask for mana stones and less meat as we already have a lot of it. It seems I have accumulated a lot of the stones inside the storage."

"But why do people give us these stones to begin with, aren't they like super precious or something?" Sean asked making John look at Lucas.

"There are too many questions about the topic so let's have a meeting about it so that we don't have to explain everything again and again. Uncle John. Can you set it up in an hour?"

"No problem"

Just like that, they all got out of the workshop with the cauldron, smoke bomb and the leather arm guard in tow.

It was difficult to take the cauldron up as it was filled to the brim.

When they were done and the cauldron was inside the storage that was now somewhat organized.

Lucas could really see a small hill of glowing stones at the corner of the storage. The mana stones together looked like big, crude diamond hill that didn't need light to shine and had their own.

They were like precious gems on Earth and the way that they were kept truly made Lucas pity their existence in the shelter.

There was a reason that he didn't go there and the problem was still the same.

While the forest looked fresh and green, aside from greenery, there was nothing. No herbs, no special plants, nothing compared to what was there at first.

Lucas knew some herbs were in their growing phase, there were small plants coming out of the soil and only he knew what they were.

To others, their existence could not even be acknowledged as it was hard to observe and detect them if a person didn't have the required skill sets.

He went ahead and ahead until the amount of grown herbs increased than before. Lucas examined many, some with just his eyes, some he touched to see their freshness, and some he even excavated so as to use them in his upcoming potion brewing sessions.

He looked at his skills and smiled, the idea of entering each skill to level 5 was not a threat to him any longer.

Lucas could be considered to have a soft spot when it came to struggles.

As he could not struggle even a tiny bit since he was a kid, he had empathy and envy toward the people who had struggles.

The same happened in the Plains of Amaeron too, Lucas got the skill to generate the shelter from scratch in such a desolate place while the others just stayed awake for days on end and slept under dirty logs or caves that were slimy, cold, and wet. Read exclusive content at My Virtual Library Empire

The positive point for everyone was that there were not any insects in this place, Lucas found it bizarre to not see or hear insects yet it was also a relief.

It was better to have no insects than to have malaria and dengue mosquitoes trying to bite and infect everything in the forest.

If the shelter was still not enough, Lucas got the skill to detect the qualities in plants and trees in a place that had only plants and trees of various kinds. This made things much more manageable.

And then came the group with such expertise and lastly, the meat trade. Lucas had meat for a year if it didn't spoil or if they used it at their discretion.

He had such abundance that giving some free for marketing and loyalty didn't seem wrong to anyone in the shelter for future growth.