As the crafting countdown ended, Su You collected 24 stone arrows, which meant that one batch of arrows crafted with Material 2 had yielded 11 arrows in a single go.
This was unexpected, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless.
Having an extra arrow meant she’d have a bit more leeway when fighting the Fire Demon tomorrow.
After finishing the arrows, Su You was left with only seven pieces of stone.
Five of those were reserved for building the City Core Fire, and she didn’t plan to keep the remaining two. Instead, she tossed them onto the workbench along with a few pieces of wood, ready to craft a brand new tool.
【Consume Wood ×3, Stone ×2 to craft Stone Pickaxe ×1?】
【Crafting: Stone Pickaxe. Estimated time: 120 seconds】
【Stone Pickaxe】
Category: Tool
Quality: Common
Attack: +1 (Attack Damage: 5)
Durability: 100/100
Description: An ordinary stone pickaxe, used for mining stone and ores.
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Once the stone pickaxe was done, she moved on to four wooden fences and a fence gate.
Up to this point, Su You had prepared everything needed to take down the Fire Demon—except for the 20 pieces of wood required to build two basic arrow towers. All other necessary items and materials were ready.
She’d have to gather the missing wood by chopping down trees. However, instead of using her spare stone to make an axe for chopping, she chose to craft a pickaxe for mining stone and ores.
Some might think that having a pickaxe means unlimited stone, but it’s important to note that there are actually no resource nodes on the forest surface where you can mine for stone or rubble. Otherwise, stone wouldn’t be considered a scarce resource in the forest—if you could just mine it anywhere, it wouldn’t be rare at all.
Without resource nodes to mine, a pickaxe is useless.
Su You knew that the pickaxe couldn’t be used to mine stone or rubble in the forest, but she still made one because she’d discovered another important resource that required a pickaxe to harvest.
If not for this discovery, she definitely would have used those two pieces of stone to make an axe for chopping wood the next day.
Two axes would be enough for her to gather all the wood she needed, and she could even make extra fences for defense after building the arrow towers.
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As for what that resource was, she’d keep it to herself for now. As dusk fell, Su You quickly made some tinder to light her campfire. Watching the flames flicker, her heart rose and fell with the dancing firelight.
About three seconds later, as the campfire caught fully, Su You let out a sigh of relief.
She’d managed to light the fire on her first try using tinder made from shredded bark. She gathered up some leftover odds and ends to use as fuel, then started cooking.
The batch of red berries she’d collected that evening was turned into 16 roasted berries and 1 serving of berry juice.
She’d originally had four wooden cups, but she’d given one cup of berry juice to that mysterious creature as thanks.
That cup was gone for good, so now she only had two cups of berry juice left in her backpack, plus one empty cup from before.
【Consume Berries ×2, Wooden Cup ×1 to make Berry Juice ×1?】
【Consume Berries ×48, Leaves ×32 to make Roasted Berries ×16?】
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With the food prepared, Su You’s preparations were finally complete.
Staring at the crackling campfire, Su You didn’t feel the slightest bit sleepy—even though she’d spent the whole day working and had used up a lot of stamina.
Normally, after a day like that, anyone would fall asleep as soon as night fell.
But maybe because this was a digitized world, Su You genuinely didn’t feel tired. Her stamina had fully recovered after her recent rest.
Usually, to avoid wasting time and stamina, Su You would go out gathering as soon as her stamina was nearly full. But now that it was night, venturing beyond the fire’s light was far too dangerous.
At night, as long as you stayed within the campfire’s radius, you were almost invincible. Players would gain a basic, common aura—not powerful, but extremely useful.
【Campfire’s Protection】: Even though it’s night, the campfire’s light shields you. As long as you stay near the fire, wild beasts won’t attack you, and the chance of dark creatures spawning within the fire’s range is greatly reduced.
This aura doesn’t have a set duration; it lasts as long as the campfire burns and night continues. If either condition isn’t met, it disappears immediately.
Su You stared at the fire for a while longer, then sat down under a tree to rest.
The old Sunset Continent had been a fully immersive game, but no player actually spent the night in-game—they’d just skip time. Su You had done the same before she obtained items that let her act at night.
But now, skipping time wasn’t an option. All she could do was hope to get through the long night by sleeping…
She watched the fire for a long time, until her eyes began to sting from staring at the flames. Only then did she look away.
Leaning against a tree, with soft earth beneath her, Su You closed her eyes to rest.
She’d worried she might not be able to sleep—after all, this was her first time resting in such a “crude” environment, where even calling it “crude” was a compliment.
Open to the wind on all sides, with no shelter at all—even knowing she was safe, it was hard not to feel uneasy and restless.
But as soon as Su You closed her eyes, a wave of drowsiness she hadn’t felt before slowly enveloped her…
She slept soundly through the night.
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Despite the poor environment, Su You had slept surprisingly well. When she woke up, she felt refreshed, clear-headed, and full of energy—a testament to how good her rest had been.
Fully awake, the first thing she did was replenish her hunger.
Even though she hadn’t done anything overnight, the passage of time meant her hunger had dropped from around eighty before bed to just over ten.
With her hunger bar now red and glaring among the normal black stats, it was a clear warning: eat now, or starve.
She quickly ate two servings of roasted berries and drank a cup of berry juice, restoring her hunger to eighty-five.”
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