When Tom finally woke up, he instantly sat back. His face was still numb from his sleeping position. As a result, he didn't notice that a slice of ham managed to stick to his face, though in a somewhat disfigured way. It only fell off once he shook his head.
"What the hell just happened? Did I fall asleep again?"
He muttered as he finally noticed the still visible two panels. His eyes instantly widened; in his disbelief, he even tried switching away the panels, but his hand just passed right through them as if they weren't even there.
"What the hell is going on? So what I saw previously was also real?"
Soon, the panel detailing the quest vanished, leaving only his stats open. He slowly and carefully read it multiple times, then leaned back in his chair. As if fixated on his head, the panel moved along with his head.
As he thought about the system panel before him, at first, he felt anger, but it was soon replaced with excitement. If he had a system, that meant that he would be able to finally break his mundane life.
With a swift motion, he jumped up and rushed over to his front door, which he opened. What had previously been a tiny grassy land, beyond which was the road, had been completely altered.
It seemed that his whole plot of land had been taken to a completely different world. Through his opened door, he could see a large grassy land enclosed by some sort of visible grey barrier through which he could not see anything.
With a few slow, uncertain steps, he stepped outside to look around. It seemed that his plot had been inside a spherical barrier, but within said border was a grassy land. His house was the centre point of the barrier, and it had a diameter of at least a hundred meters. He was completely isolated from everything.
"This is insane! What the hell am I supposed to do? In fiction, when the male character is granted a system, they are not locked up like this! I really hope that I am just overreacting and that barrier, or whatever that is, is only just a joke!"
His excitement hit rock bottom; he walked all the way to the edge of his territory and extended his arm. He touched the barrier, although its texture slightly shifted, almost as if it was made of some sort of liquid and wave formed all across its surface, but it was solid.
Tom even tried pushing the strange wall with all his might, but to no avail; it didn't budge at all. Defeated, he walked back to his house.
Since he had not eaten at all and had just run out after sleeping, he decided to go back and finish eating. While doing so, he was constantly thinking about the system and what he had learned so far.
He remembered that he had received a quest that wanted him to plant seeds. As he thought about all this, it occurred to him that maybe he needed to gain strength through quests, and then he would be able to break that barrier to free himself, as that would be the only reasonable solution.
Tom knew that he had a small trowel, which he had previously bought because he wanted to plant a few bushes around his house, but then he completely gave up on the idea.
With the help of the tool, he removed a small patch of grass and made a small hole in the ground. Now, he only needed to plant the seeds, which he had yet to figure out how to access.
Suddenly, as he started thinking about inventory, another panel popped up before his eyes. It was a large grid, and in its first slot, he could see a small pouch.
"Do I just tap it?"
He wondered as he touched the tiny icon. Unlike what he had expected, another panel appeared on top of his inventory.
"First grade seeds9Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtX2hVR0aD9
Name: unknown9Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhq9VXoUrC
Quantity: 3"
"But how the hell do I take them OUT?!"
Tom shouted in anger and frustration, seeing how touching the item was not working. In his anger, he swung his arms to the side and slightly shrugged his shoulders, and then he felt something in his palm.
The panel blocking his inventory vanished, along with the icon of the pouch, and instead, it was in his right hand.
"Wow... This is quite different from what I had expected..."
His anger once again faded, and he brought the fist-sized pouch closer to him to inspect it. As he opened it, he strangely couldn't see what was inside, even though it was bright, so he decided to try and put his hand in. Despite its tiny size, his wrist easily vanished in it, and at its bottom, he could feel three tiny things.
Without hesitation, he quickly grabbed them and pulled them out. At that moment, the push completely vanished. He held three small pea-sized black seeds in his hand.
"Great, so I have three seeds, so if I am capable of surviving without food for weeks, I might be able to witness them bearing fruit... cool!"
Tom dropped one of the seeds into the freshly dug hole, and then, almost instantly, a new panel popped up.
"Notice! Due to the low density and quality qi present in the Host's land, growth speed had been decreased in order to maintain the quality of the final product!"
After reading the new message, Tom decided to drop the rest of the seeds into the hole and cover them with dirt.
"Congratulations; the quest has been completed!"
"Notice! The Host's rewards have been placed in the inventory!"
"Notice! A new quest has been issued! Wait for the plants to mature!"
"Notice! A new quest has been issued! Make your very first pill using alchemy!"
"Notice! A new quest has been issued! Begin your cultivation journey!"
The volume of overlapping panels shocked Tom. He even shook his head in disbelief. The fact that after completing a single quest, three more were already given, meant that his hands were at least properly being held.
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