Terrarium Adventure - Chapter 10

Should I continue drawing as I’m on a roll?

People need to know when they should continue or stop, but somehow I feel I have to continue right now. I do have a high probability and I don’t care about the rank. If I draw more, I can meet more awesome, good looking pretty Driards.

I felt greedy, and I was rolling my head to calculate the quantity; I felt dizzy and my vision lowered all of sudden as if I were having an anemia. As my body was swinging, Mesquite held me.

I felt like a hero and a prince when laying on Mesquite’s arm but I couldn’t enjoy this moment as my head felt dizzy.

“Your soul has a limit.”

“…What’s that?”

Mesquite looked at me with concern. The pumpkin-colored eyes like the sun on a desert looked depressed.

“Jay, my owner is too young. Younger than a child…”

It wasn’t pleasant to be treated like a child but as the wonderful Mesquite worried about me; I felt good. As Elder touched my forehead, a white light was absorbed into my body.

“My technique is specialized for Driards but this will affect humans like you. Do you feel better?”

“Wow…a healer.”

“It costs 100 diamonds.”

“Nuts…”

Your master is dying and you are obsessed with diamonds! I was cursing with my eyes and he made an awkward face while saying that he was joking.

“I have explained to you that druids and Driards are connected by the soul. Druids must become a small tree and dispense the power to them. That’s the soul power. Right now, you do not have sufficient training and there is a limit on the number of Driards you can take at a time. Also, as Driards have higher ranks, you need more soul power. Perhaps, if you obtain more Driards; your body can’t handle it.”

“I can’t do that…”

I hate random drawing games as a default but what I hate more is the ‘COST system’ or the Japanese card game system.

Although you have many available characters, you can do it so based on COST so my maximum COST is 30 and if each character’s costs are 15, 13, 12, then I can only take 2 characters max as it cannot exceed 30.

Ah, I hate this. I need to fill my terrarium artifact with wonderful and pretty Driards. Hey, Mr. Desk Clerk, is there any way…!

“You can stay together with the Driards and increase soul power. The fastest way is to have a battle. If you want to have many Driards in a short period of time, you need to battle many Driards.”

So, in other words, you want me to level up. That’s the pity of a low level… Sad. I have so many diamonds but I’m forced to quit drawing. I want to use my own money!

Well, it’s fine since I have both Special Rank and Unique Rank. Other people are excited about Rare Rank, but I’m happy. Since it’s all over, let me go and see Daisy.

As I felt better, I refused to get Mesquite’s assistance. Although I was happy, more than this would be too much for my heart. I looked at Elder for a bit and imagined staying in his hand for a moment.

I quit thinking about it as he may demand more than 100 diamonds per second. It ruined the mood.

“Ah!”

A sudden thought popped up. I raised the terrarium artifact and showed them.

“I want to see you guys inside here!”

My room! My room! Welcome to my room! If they enter, would it become 2D just like other games?

After my sincere request, Mesquite picked up the lance on the ground.

“My master Jay wants it so I will do so.”

Mesquite’s body turned white all of sudden. Then it vanished into the light and went inside the glass dome.

A tiny Mesquite smaller than an ant was moving inside my small glass dome. The inside of the terrarium artifact is really small. Perhaps, would there be an earthquake if I move my body?

I gently moved my hand and Mesquite seemed peaceful. That’s good. I was worried about holding my arm tightly so that the terrarium artifact won’t shake.

However, unlike Mesquite, Elder never did his request at once. He looked at my terrarium artifact with an unsatisfied face while lowering his waist.

“What? It’s too empty. There is nothing. You have a lot of diamonds but why didn’t you put anything inside?”

“Where can I buy them?”

It’s not because I don’t have money. It hasn’t been an hour since I acquired it. I thought I could furnish it like that so I gave it everything and furnished it.

“You can buy it from a Workshop. I don’t want cheap things. Something sophisticated and fancy!”

“Can’t you go in first? I’m curious to see what happens if Driards go inside.”

I will get the best for my Driards before answering demands. When I look at you right now, I will consider it, but for wonderful Mesquite, I will buy the most expensive and best things there.

“Why do you treat me differently than Mesquite? Please treat me gently.”

“If you talk gently, I will consider it.”

He was upset. Although the face might make other people look immature, Elder looked pretty. The face said all. It was certain that Elder had God’s mouth and face.

As I shook the phone to take out diamonds, he went inside the glass dome happily. Why is he so obsessed with diamonds and what is he going to use them for?

I touched the terrarium artifact. As I focused, I thought of the enlarged glass dome inside my head.

Mesquite and Elder were looking at an empty view. Then, they walked the opposite direction after determining something.

After reaching some point, Mesquite hit the ground with a lance while Elder used the staff. I thought about what they were doing and all of sudden, Mesquite looked at me.

“My master, Jay. I’m furnishing my place to stay. Kid Elder and I have different habitat environments so we can be only apart.”

“Don’t call me a kid. Is it good to be old?”

“I remember when you were a little tree. At that time, I gave you water and soil.”

It sounded as if Mesquite was saying, ‘When you were young, I used to change diapers and fed milk to you.’ I was laughing hard while imagining Mesquite giving a bottle of milk to baby Elder.

“Don’t imagine weird things! Driards grow differently than humans!”

What, how did he know I was imagining it?

“Thoughts my master Jay makes while looking inside this terrarium are flowing to us. You really have a cute imagination. Of course, I did raise Elder in a similar way.”

“I don’t have such a memory!”

“That time you were a kid Elder before blooming into a flower.”

Mesquite spoke while laughing. The light coming from the end of the lance and staff went inside the ground.

At that moment, the floor Mesquite was standing on began to turn into sand shining like a treasure.

The sand floor which spread endlessly stopped after a certain point. It looked like a small desert.

Anyway, Mesquite’s habitat was a desert field. Small leaves began to bloom from the land Mesquite’s lance touched.

The small leaves grew rapidly thick and tall: 4 times bigger than Mesquite’s height. Sharp and thin leaves grew and small yellow flowers appeared.

I know what those are. It’s a ‘Velvet Mesquite Tree,’ or the mother plant of Mesquites.

Perhaps, if I collect Driards inside the terrarium artifact, is it possible to decorate the inside with mother plants?

“Yes, Master Jay. That’s correct. Isn’t my tree pretty and strong? I’m a strong plant that can spread its roots 9m below the ground. In the desert, there is underground water where I’m located. That’s why I’m the guardian of the desert.”

That was really awesome. Just like the Mesquite Driard’s strong appearance, the mother plant looked very cool.

“Look here! My flower is also beautiful!”

There was a beautiful tree growing where Elder was, and he was standing on grassland which seemed to have white snowballs.

That was the ‘Elder Flower’, the origin of Elder. It was really pretty and lovely. Somehow, it seemed to have a good fragrance.

As I gave all kinds of compliments based on my impression, Elder’s face seemed cocky. As he was opening his ears to hear some more, I gave more praises. Easy to control.

Afterward, two seemed busy with furnishing their place to stay.

I wanted to show off my pretty and awesome Driards to everyone in the world, but it would be difficult across many market streets as both were bigger than me.

Elder also had draggy clothes. Mesquite’s lance was a life-threatening weapon just by holding it.

I thought I needed to look for Daisy while leaving them inside the terrarium artifact for a bit.

As I went outside, the number of people decreased significantly.

I must have spent quite a lot of time inside the botanic.

There were many people who possessed born Driards as if there were other botanics.

Other Driards had quite fancy appearances. However, my Driards looked cooler. Even if you collect all the Driards in here, I believed Elder could defeat them with his visuals.

As I came out of the botanic, a few people looked at me. They must be curious about which Driards I picked.

However, no one was around me so they whispered with their own interpretations. Of course, I had 4 failures, but I have a special and unique rank! Whatever anyone says, I’m fine with myself being happy. Our Driards were busy decorating so I should respect them.

The desk clerk who was following me just now escorted me to the exit. I felt like a department store’s VIP customer who just spent tons of diamonds.

Before leaving, he thanked me as I helped him to make 10 times more sales than other people. He also lowered his back.

In the real world, I was just a VIP in the street store, but here I’m better than a celebrity who makes payments with black cards.

Exciting!