I Became a Mythical-Tier Tamer Due To A System Error Chapter 81

Sea Farm

Let’s build an Animal Farm under the sea!

‘A sea farm, huh…….’

Seeing the phrase reminded me of something I had once seen on TV.

It was about trapping fish in nets to breed and raise them.

‘So am I supposed to set up a fish farm like that too?’

Do I raise a bunch and then eat them?

……That feels a bit unsettling.

It didn’t really match the cute pinkish atmosphere that the system usually gave off.

But when it came to building a farm in the sea, that was the only method that came to mind.

Anyway.

‘The problem is, how do I even get to the sea…….’

I stood up from my seat and gazed at the plains stretching endlessly toward the horizon.

Even in the vast Yggdrasil, there was a sea.

To the east lay sandy beaches and blue waters.

‘……But how do I get there?’

The issue was that reaching that place would take quite a lot of time.

‘Even if I bought a car and drove across, it’d still take a while.’

I looked down at the blue ring on my finger.

‘This thing can only take me within a radius of 10 kilometers at most.’

Not nearly enough.

‘And I’d have to manage the farm too, but going to the sea every single day is just unreasonable.’

It was nothing but complicated problems.

I judged that I’d lose more than I could gain.

‘Either way, it’s impossible right now.’

Just as I decided to postpone building the sea farm for later.

Bbam-bba-bam!

A notification sound rang out.

I looked at the hologram with eyes lacking any real expectation.

Floating in the air was none other than—

‘……A map?’

Although it was crudely drawn like a crayon sketch, with childish pinkish colors splattered all over,

I quickly realized that it resembled the map of Yggdrasil I had seen in games.

You can move to the nearest sea!

What the system pointed out with a red dot was a location painted in refreshing sky-blue.

That was the sea to the east of Yggdrasil.

‘Yeah, I already know where the sea is, but so what?’

Just when I was puzzled, another phrase appeared at the bottom.

Designate a door to travel to the sea!

‘……What is this?’

At first, I couldn’t understand what the phrase meant.

But after reading it a few more times, I figured it out.

‘Wait, could it be talking about a warp system?’

Like that cartoon where a blue robot cat was the protagonist.

A door that let you travel long distances with ease.

‘If I really can use that kind of warp system…….’

Not only would it save me the time spent traveling by car, it’d also reduce my fatigue.

In other words, I could build a farm at sea.

Designate a door to travel to the sea!

“Alright, don’t rush me, I’ll find one…….”

I looked around.

‘……There aren’t any usable doors around here.’

The only door in sight was the one leading into the storage room.

‘I can’t pick that one.’

If I did, I wouldn’t even be able to enter the storage room anymore.

‘Does it absolutely have to be a door?’

In that blue robot cat cartoon, I remembered they even used a desk drawer to travel.

Why can’t I use something like that?

‘There aren’t any drawers here though…… but maybe, something like that.’

My eyes landed on a few barrels set in the corner.

Big enough for a person to fit inside.

In fact, I had even used one of those barrels as a makeshift bath.

‘Would this work?’

I stared at the barrel, intending to designate it.

Before long, a new phrase appeared.

Designated!

‘……It worked?’

So it didn’t actually have to be a door.

When I looked inside the designated barrel, a pure white light was glowing at the bottom.

‘So I just have to go in there.’

Since the system had marked it, I wouldn’t fall into some weird place.

……Probably.

‘Let’s do this.’

I didn’t think for long.

I stepped into the barrel and sank straight inside.

Inside the shining radiance.

I thought the moment I threw myself into it, I’d be instantly engulfed by light……

But I was still inside the dark barrel.

‘Did I move?’

It felt like riding one of those barrel slides I used to play on as a kid.

‘I definitely set the barrel upright and dropped in from the top.’

But now the direction of gravity had changed.

It was as if the barrel had been tipped sideways.

‘……Let’s just crawl out first.’

I moved forward, crawling toward the source of light.

Swaaaah.

The closer I got to the light, the clearer the sound of waves became.

When I reached the end of the light……

“……I’m here.”

Under the blazing sun, a sandy beach.

The wide, refreshing blue sea welcomed me.

I climbed out of the strange barrel and stood up.

First, I checked the passage I had come out from.

‘No wonder it looked bigger and longer than a barrel.’

The exit turned out to be a large pipe.

‘So this pipe is connected to the barrel in the livestock shed.’

The pipe looked old and weathered, as if it had been left unattended for a long time.

It was also huge and heavy, its back end fixed firmly into the sand.

Thanks to that, it didn’t look like the pipe would roll away anywhere.

‘Anyway, with this, I can travel between the livestock shed and the sea easily.’

As I walked across the sand, I looked around.

‘……Not a single person or building in sight.’

Only the sea, the vast beach, and empty plains in the distance.

‘Alright, so how do I actually build the farm?’

Was I supposed to just use my money to set up a fish farm?

As I wondered, a hologram appeared in the air.

If you float buoys on the sea, the area will become a farm!

“Buoys?”

When I went to the beach before, I had seen things floating on the water.

It must mean those.

But without nets, can just floating buoys really make a farm?

What kind of ridiculous principle is that supposed to be?

Hurry up and make it!

“……You want me to make it?”

I thought the system would just provide them automatically.

Well, maybe expecting that much really was too shameless.

‘Still, this is way better than when I built the pond farm.’

Compared to the days of grueling labor I put in to make that pond farm, this was going to be ridiculously easy.

‘Well… if I can get away with just making a buoy and reap the benefits, I’m fine with that.’

Kindly enough, the system told me how to make a buoy.

After returning to the livestock shed, I went to the shop and got the necessary materials.

Thanks to that, I quickly made a buoy in no time.

‘This should do it, right?’

Carrying the white buoy with a cylindrical design, I returned to the beach.

Please write the owner’s name on the buoy!

A hologram appeared.

It seemed that I even had to give it a name.

‘A name, huh….’

Without much thought, I wrote the words as they were.

「Made by V」

Just like when I had opened a booth at the Victory Festival, I didn’t bother to write my real name.

You never know.

Right now the beach was completely deserted with not a single person around.

But someday, people might come to the sea to play.

If someone discovered my real name written on the buoy, it could cause some trouble.

Buoy designation is complete!

The buoy is imbued with the Goddess’s Blessing!

As soon as I wrote the name, the white buoy was dyed a pinkish hue.

✿Animal✿Farm✿

…was what appeared on it.

‘On the outside, it just looks like an ordinary buoy.’

Anyway, let’s try floating it as the system said.

I drew out Shurk’s card and used its power.

After my entire body was cloaked in darkness, I looked around for a good spot to place the buoy.

‘Rather than setting it near the sandy shore, I should put it a bit farther out.’

Finding a suitable place, I carried it on my back and sprinted toward the sea.

As I neared the water, I leapt high into the air.

With considerable propulsion, I flew across a long distance as if soaring before plunging into the sea.

Splash!

I turned my gaze toward the sandy beach.

I was now in the middle of the sea, quite a distance away.

‘This should be fine.’

I unstrapped the buoy from my back, and a hologram appeared.

The buoy releases good energy to the sea friends!

I looked at the message and stroked my chin.

‘To put it simply….’

If I placed the buoy in the sea, fish would gather around it.

Because of that, it seemed there was no need for nets or fish-farming equipment.

Ta-da! Tada-tada!

Congratulations! You’ve completed farm registration!

With that, the farm designation was done.

But because it was so simple, I couldn’t help but have doubts.

‘…Will fish really gather?’

I took a deep breath and dove into the sea.

Splash—the sound was refreshing.

While swimming freely in the blue sea, I looked around.

‘…The fish are starting to gather already.’

Small creatures caught my eyes.

Mostly colorful ornamental fish.

Not only that, but crustaceans like crabs and shrimp also appeared.

‘…They’re not afraid at all.’

As if welcoming me, the fish circled around me.

When I stretched out my hand, they rubbed against it as if asking to be petted like dogs.

‘Cute.’

Seeing that they recognized me as their master, it seemed nets wouldn’t be necessary.

‘…But is it really right to call this a farm?’

All I was doing was releasing them and letting them grow.

‘What benefit does this give me?’

Of course, it wasn’t that I only cared about rewards…

‘The livestock shed gives byproducts like eggs or milk, or boosts my stats. The sea otter raised in the pond farm can be taken along and grants a passive skill.’

But what about the sea farm?

As if answering my question, the system appeared.

Sea friends sometimes bring treasures from the sea.

‘Treasures? Like pearls?’

That was an unexpected reward.

And at the same time, I felt relieved.

‘…So it’s not about farming fish to eat them.’

Not that I had planned to do that in the first place.

Since I could communicate with them and they followed me, I had no desire to eat them.

And very, very, very!

Sometimes I even found animal friends’ eggs!

‘……Eggs?’

Seeing that, the incident from before came to mind.

‘Come to think of it, I have an incubator.’

It was an incubator I had obtained by chance as an achievement reward while preparing for the Victory Festival.

But since I never had any important eggs, it had been left unused all this time.

If I could obtain an egg, I would be able to activate the incubator.

‘This place might be worth tending after all.’

I surfaced and looked toward the beach.

‘It’s bothering me.’

Trash was scattered all over the beach.

Since it was still part of my farm, I couldn’t just leave it be.

‘……First, let’s clear away the trash that’s been dumped.’

I transformed using Shurk’s power and quickly picked up the garbage into subspace.

After collecting all of it, I burned everything away with Hwayo’s power.

Thanks to the divine beast’s ability, disposing of trash didn’t take long.

Just as I finished everything and was about to dive back into the sea—

A new holographic message appeared before my eyes.

First-time reward for sea cleaning

Cost +1

‘……Cost?’

I had managed to obtain quite a considerable reward.

‘Now that I think about it, every time I built a farm, I gained one cost point.’

Judging by the words “first-time reward,” this must be the same type of reward.

‘Even if it’s a bit troublesome, expanding the number of farms is definitely the right choice.’

Besides the cost itself, there were also additional rewards given.

I was diving into the sea and looking around when—

‘……What’s that?’

I discovered it by chance.

A crab with enormous pincers was swimming.

But its size was estimated to be around 50 cm, far larger than an ordinary crab.

I felt my body tense up, nerves on edge.

Bubble, bubble……

Like Nemo hiding in an anemone.

Fish, shrimp, and even small crabs of the same kind swam behind my back in fear.

“Why are you all acting like this?”

Their frantic movements felt as if they sensed a life-threatening danger.

Just as I was puzzled by their sudden reaction, an alarm rang.

A monster has invaded the Animal Farm!

Please rescue the animal friends quickly!

The monster the system referred to was undoubtedly that crab.