Chapter 268: Host Has Chosen a Snack

While the beasts up high worked on the ridge, rafters, and purlins, Tera had the beasts on the ground work on the roofing.

She had honestly been a bit clueless about what to do here, until consulting the system brought back a little memory.

She had seen this exact method in passing, but hadn’t closely looked at it.

The bamboo poles for the roof were split clean in half down their length. Each half came out as a long curved trough, open along the top, exactly like a gutter.

Then it was laid across the roof frame.

The first row of halves were placed and tied down to the frame. Then the second row of the split bamboo went on top with the curve facing down, each half sitting over the gap between two of the first row.

The two triangles at the short ends above the walls could have been filled in solid, but Tera left them as shutters instead. Unlike the shutters for the optional walls, these ones had wider gaps between the slats.

That gave the shelter makeshift windows whenever the optional walls were closed.

When the scaffolding was taken down, it was then that everyone marvelled at the beauty of the shelter

Tera had been rendered speechless just like the other beasts, and for the first time in months, there was no sound in the clearing as they all stared at the shelter.

Even the cubs’ mouths opened in shock, awareness creeping into the younger ones for the first time in their entire little lives.

Why wouldn’t they?

There was a massive thing standing in front of them in vibrant pink.

The final product of Tera’s projects always stunned her, but this did really surprise her.

It was, without any exaggeration at all, one of the most beautiful things Tera had ever built in either of her lives despite how simple it looked.

The beasts had rushed into it like excited cubs.

They had been climbing all over it since the moment the last scaffold pole came down. Wolves walked the length of the mat floor and back again, feeling it underfoot. Somebody worked the shutter cord up and down, up and down, watching the slats stack and fall, until somebody else told him to stop.

Two females had found the partition doorway and were taking turns going through it for no reason whatsoever.

A group of them had discovered the open space under the floor and crawled into it, and Tera could hear them talking down there through the gaps.

Somebody was standing directly under the gable end watching the light come through the slats and land on the floor.

There were no beds for the wolves to sleep on or anything, but Tera could worry about that later. And from the way the wolves were already shifting into their wolf form to spread across the floor, they still looked pretty comfortable.

[(????)?]

[This is the prettiest thing this system has ever seen Host create!]

{BeastWorldAddict says Tera has worked very hard}

{PervyGoddess is feeling generous and asks what Tera wants}

{BeastWorldAddict is also feeling generous}

Tera went very still.

’Holy shit...’

{BeastWorldAddict says they would both like to gift her something}

Tera stared at the messages hovering in front of her, beyond shocked. She remembered the system had told her sponsors gifted Hosts, but after a while, Tera had decided to put her mind off it and thought the system had been cryptic again in its messages.

She eventually believed the gifts were just the extra currencies and nipples.

Not until now.

’Do the gifts have limits?’

[...]

[What?]

[(⊙□⊙)]

[Host cannot ask the sponsors that!]

{PervyGoddess laughs}

{BeastWorldAddict laughs as well}

{PervyGoddess says there are no limits}

{PervyGoddess says Tera can ask for anything}

[(°ロ°)]

[ANYTHING?]

[Esteemed sponsors, with the greatest respect, this system would like to formally request clarification on the parameters of—]

{PervyGoddess tells the system to be quiet}

[(シ_ _ )シ]

[Yes, Sponsor]

Anything.

They had said anything!

Tera did not hesitate. She did not weigh her options or consider the long-term strategic value of anything at all. The word went into her head, and something very old and very deep answered it before the rest of her could catch up.

’Chocolate!’

[...]

[Host...]

’Chocolate granola bars specifically!’ Tera immediately corrected.

[(?_?)]

[Host has the attention of two higher beings offering her anything within their power]

[ANYTHING]

[And Host has chosen a snack?!]

’Fuck off.’

[(ˊ????? ? ?????ˋ)]

{PervyGoddess says a single bar is not a reward}

{PervyGoddess says Tera has worked far too hard for one bar}

{PervyGoddess will send a box}

Tera’s mouth fell open.

If the system had possessed a mouth, it would have hit the floor and kept going. As it was, the window hanging in her vision simply went very wide, very blank, and very quiet.

’OMFG!’

"Thank you!" Tera said out loud, to the sky, with both hands pressed to her chest. "Thank you so much, that is so generous, you really didn’t have to go that far—"

[DO NOT SAY THAT]

[(╬☉д⊙)]

[Host does NOT tell a sponsor what they did or did not have to do]

[Host does NOT comment on the quantity of a gift]

[Host accepts. Host says thank you. Host says NOTHING ELSE]

{PervyGoddess laughs and says Tera should graciously accept their gifts}

Tera laughed too.

"Thank you. Graciously. Very graciously. Thank you."

{BeastWorldAddict asks what else Tera would want}

That one stopped her.

What did she need that would be crucial for her at the moment? Another selfish wish would be a waste before this turned into a case of her wasting money on shopping and later regretting the things she had bought when the money could have been better spent on something more important.

Tools were in the shop. Materials were in the shop, or in the ground, or on the swamp. Cord they could make. Clay they had. Teaching things she could improvise and had already started improvising. Every single practical object she could name, she could eventually buy, build, dig up or bully out of the system.

What was the system itself limited to?

’Oh!’