I Couldn't Think Of a Chapter Name So This Is All You Get

Roland watched Ethan run around in circles, contemplating something.

'What do chickens even eat?' He had never needed to know this in his previous life, so he was confused as to what he should feed Ethan.

[I do have something you could use]

'Why do you keep reading my mind?! Don't you have anything better to do?!?'

[No. I don't.]

'...Whatever.'

Roland went into the system's shop, which he hadn't visited in a while, and asked the system what it had.

[Just keep looking until you find something labeled "Super Growth Feed"]

Roland scrolled further down the list, looking for what the system told him to find.

'Aha!'

[Super Growth Feed] [50 SP]

Roland didn't think it was too pricey, but just how good was this Super Growth Feed to need 50 SP? Every other food cost way less than this.

Roland shrugged and bought three of them. He left one out and placed the other two in the storage space.

Roland looked at the one he had taken out. Then Super Growth Feed was a little yellow bag, with large words on it that said, "Super Growth Feed!" and some small text at the bottom that said, "Warning, do not feed this to a person. You don't want to know why."

Roland shrugged and bought a bowl from the store to put it in. He was puzzled for a while as to how he would open the bag, and eventually settled on one method.

Roland placed the bag a distance away and used [Hurricane Slash]. He used the hurricane and created some blades of wind using it. He let the hurricane and all but one of the blades dissipate into the air and used the remaining one to cut open one corner of the bag.

He picked up the bag with [Basic Mind Magic] and poured some of the stuff into the bowl.

The stuff inside the bag kind of looked like little grains of rice, except they were green and a bit smaller.

Roland watched Edward as he awkwardly made his way towards the bowl and took a peek inside. After Edward saw what was inside, he leaped into the bowl as if he had been starved for five years and started to ravenously eat everything he could get his beak on.

'Oh yeah!'

Roland went back into the store and bought a bottle of water and a little bowl to put the water in.

He poured the water from the bottle into the bowl and set it in front of Ethan.

Ethan drank almost all of the water before finally stopping. Roland put the leftovers into the storage and thought about what he should do next.

He was now done with everything the system told him to do. At this point, he could only increase his strength or take care of Ethan.

[There is something you forgot about.]

'What is it?' Roland was genuinely curious. Anything sounded better than doing nothing. While he wasn't the most active person, if he didn't do anything, he would be bored out of his mind. And just what had he forgotten?

[One second.]

Roland waited impatiently for the system. Suddenly, a blue screen flickered into existence in front of him.

[Repeatable Achievements]

[Level Up a Skill] [3/3] [Collect]

[Find a New Area On The Map] [2/2] [Collect]

[Defeat Something At Least 10 levels Higher than You] [1/1]

Roland hit his forehead in frustration. He had indeed forgotten about this. He looked at the achievements this time and scratched his head.

'It shouldn't take long to level up a skill if it doesn't have a high level, but finding a new area on the map will need me to head back to the surface. Defeating something higher leveled than me might be possible, but I should level up my skills first.'

After finding a goal to work towards, Roland immediately got to work.

'What skill should I level up?' He looked at his status to look for any low-level skills.

[Form: Mana Conducting Rock] [Lv. 20]

[Classes: Chef (Lv. 1)]

[EXP: 583/3000]

[System Points] [138]

[Stat Points] [18]

[HP: 20/20]

[MP: 200/200]

[Def] [11] +

[Mana] [30] +

[Active Skills:]

[(II)Hurricane Slash Lv. 1] [Appraisal Lv.8] [Thunder Beam Lv.8] [Raincloud Lv.7] [Water Orb Lv.6] [Mana Barrier Lv. 1] [Telepathy Lv. 1]

[Passive Skills:]

[(II)Pure Mana Lv.12] [Basic Language Understanding Lv.N/A] [Pet Status Lv. N/A]

[Passive & Active Skills:]

[(II)Spirit Sense Lv.12] [(II)Basic Mind Magic Lv.10]

[Self-Created skills:]

[Ice Blade Lv. 1]

Roland chose [Hurricane Slash] as the skill he would level up. It was still at level one, so it shouldn't take long to get it up to level four.

He left Ethan under a tree nearby and started to level up the skill.

...

[Hurricane Slash Leveled Up]

[Hurricane Slash Leveled Up]

[Hurricane Slash Leveled Up]

[Spirit Sense Leveled Up]

Since he had [Spirit Sense] on all the time, it had gained a level as well while he was leveling up [Hurricane Slash].

Anyway, Roland headed back onto the page for the repeatable achievements and claimed the rewards.

[30 System Points obtained]

After he was done, Roland looked at his status again. The skill he made, [Ice Blade], was still level one. Not only that, so was [Mana Barrier]. He was planning to level up [Mana Barrier], but he never got the opportunity earlier and it wasn't like he could attack himself, so he was never able to level up the skill.

[Ice Blade] was easy to level up as well, since it was still level one. He decided that if there was ever another thing that needed him to level up a skill, he would use that.

He decided to first go to the surface and complete one of the other repeatable achievements. He didn't have the confidence to defeat something ten levels above him, and he wasn't going to go seek death either, so he left the other achievement unfinished.

He looked at the map to find the way he came in and started heading back to the surface.

...

A few hours later...

Roland looked at the map again.

'At this rate, we might not make it even if we had another week to travel.' Roland muttered under his breath.

While he was very fast, since he had to bring Ethan along, he had to wait for him to catch up. He looked to the side, where Ethan was running. At this point, Ethan was clearly tired.

Roland sighed and stopped.

Ethan was surprised by the sudden halt and fell as he was trying to stop. Roland held back a laugh and helped him up.

Ethan gave him a look that said he could have done it himself and sat down.

Roland rolled his eyes and brought out the bag of Super Growth Feed and a bowl.

From the second he saw the bright yellow bag, Ethan's eyes were fixated on the Super Growth Feed.

Roland poured more of the Super Growth Feed into the bowl and set it down in front of Ethan.

As Ethan ravenously gobbled up the Super Growth Feed, Roland got another bottle of water and poured it into a separate bowl.

Roland went deep into thought as he watched Ethan eat. He couldn't let Ethan keep running next to him. It would be far too slow.

'Maybe if I...'

Testing his theory, Roland used telekinesis to move Ethan around a bit.

"Peep! Peep! Peep!" As he was lifted in the air, Ethan let out a series of distressed peeps.

Roland set him back and the ground, done with his testing. Now that he thought about it, he had only ever used [Basic Mind Magic] on himself before, and he didn't use the other two functions often.

'Wait... if skills level up the more I use them, if I use [Basic Mind Magic] on more than one object, will it level up faster?

After he posed the question to the system, he only got one answer.

[Why are you asking me? I'm not omnipotent]

Roland had nothing to say and just ended the conversation there.

'C'mon, Ethan. Time to hit the road'