A line of captions popped up on the computer screen.
[The faith of the Stripper has completely disappeared in the neighbourhood, and His followers will start looking for a new god.]
Lu Yao suddenly developed a sense of foreboding.
Deep underground, Isabelle’s group never encountered the [Crazy Molting Monster] again, and at the end was a passageway spiralling upwards.
When Lu Yao took a look, the screen actually moved back to the large map, this location was in a certain hidden area deep in the northern forest. It was just that the environment around here was a bit special, the surrounding trees and grass had been burnt to the ground, and the ground was covered in black ash.
In the centre of this black area, there stood a black stone statue of a skin flayer, the statue was covered with densely packed red eyeballs.
Pieces of firewood were stacked around the base of the skin flayer statue, and a fire was burning on the firewood as if it hadn’t been extinguished for years.
Isabel stood next to the statue, a dialogue box floating above her head.
“My lord, these lit pieces of wood are the remains of the tree people’s bodies.”
“These flames have been burning the dead souls of the Tree People, preventing them from returning to the Sea of Miasma.”
The cave shaman Moromi also said, “Lord Apostle, this is the destination guided by the bark of the tree. There may be relics left behind by the Forest God hidden here.”
Due to years of broken inheritance and the near loss of writing, the Mori clan also had limited knowledge of the bark.
Isabelle looked around for a moment.
“My lord, if we destroy this altar, we will be able to lay the dead souls of the tree people to rest. Perhaps we can get more information from the dead, should we destroy this place?”
Lu Yao agreed.
Isabelle led the order and summoned the Sacred Sword.
She wielded the Holy Sword and flew down in a cloak of cuts, and the surface of the skin flayer statue emitted a faint red light. However, it soon shattered into a field of black rubble.
The flames under the statue seemed to have lost their power, and the flames rapidly shrunk and soon died out.
Isabel stood on her sword. Stars of green light emerged from the ashes of the ground’s debris, and these green lights coalesced to form a tall brown humanoid.
[Tree Man].
Lu Yao double-clicked on the tree man and got a more detailed data panel.
……
[Tree Man LV20] [Created by Isabelle].
Life Value: 990/990
Mana: 222/222
Damage: 20
Defence: 25
Speed: 7
[Thick Skin
Innately possesses a high life value.
[Self-Reproduction]
Can breed new hatchlings.
[Leaf Shot Lv15]
Attacks enemies by firing leaves from a distance.
Recovery LV15
Can continuously recover life value when it rains.
[Forest Elemental LV1]
A forest elemental creature that is beneficial to the rapid growth of the forest and increases all attributes in the forest. Effects depend on ability level and life value.
……
Lu Yao examined the panel description back and forth.
The Tree Man was suitable for positional battles, balanced in attack and defence, thick in blood and resistant to beatings, but it was slow. Therefore, to use a Tree Man, you had to let it stand as a meat shield or fight head on, and the forest was its dominant home ground.
If the Tree Man’s life continued to decrease, he himself could still do a [Rainfall] to give it a blood boost.
The only pity was that this time, the [Sword of the Forest] had only created one Tree Man, and the conversion rate wasn’t particularly ideal. However, due to the existence of the [Self Reproduction] ability, theoretically, as long as it lasted long enough, this Tree Man would be able to act as a mother and continuously spawn new little Tree Men.
After creating the tree man, white light emanated from Isabelle’s body.
The [Mass Prayer] ability was activated.
Wisps of black smoke emerged from the ground, and the black smoke finally slowly twisted this time, turning into writhing black balls of the dead.
Isabelle and the black ball had an encrypted conversation.
During the dialogue, Isabelle also faced Lu Yao for simultaneous translation.
“…… This was originally the altar of the God of the Forest, and the original core of this fragmented world for spreading the faith of the God of the Forest.”
“When the Forest God fell, this place was invaded by two alien gods, the [Whistler] and the [Flayer].”
“The invading legions He sent burned down large swaths of forests and crushed altars, trying to find the main god space at the centre of all the dimensional worlds of the God of Forests [Golden Wilderness].”
“…… [The Skinners] plucked the bark off all the tree people, and part of it was crafted into [Crazy Molting Monsters], and the other part was turned into fuel for this skinning altar.”
“[The Golden Wilderness] is the divine treasury of the Forest God, and the Tree People say they don’t know exactly where it is.”
“It’s a special world that can only be entered by passing a trial.”
“The first trial known to the tree people is to make this ancient land regain the vitality of the forest, turn the desert back into a forest, and make the mountains grow grass and trees again.”
“In addition there is also a requirement that the trialist does not have the Forest God Faith as a hostile faith.”
Lu Yao searched.
In layman’s terms, it meant planting more trees.
You can complete the first trial by engaging in greening?
Lu Yao felt that this condition was a bit unreliable, so he typed to ask Isabelle.
“My lord, what you said is completely correct. This is the trial that needs to be completed in order to become the Forest God Successor.”
She explained, “The God of the Forest was once a Lord God of high status, and the [Golden Wilderness] is a treasure trove of great value to any god.”
“If possible, my lord, please don’t miss this opportunity.”
Lu Yao pondered for a while.
If he planted trees, the big deal was that he would lose some faith to unleash the [Miracle].
Anyway, in the long run, the tree people were the indispensable stalwarts of his men, and planting trees was considered a general direction. Planting trees earlier would be considered an earlier layout investment.
With 10,000+ faith on the books, there’s nowhere to spend it anyway.
Faith has to be spent to create more value, otherwise it’s just numbers.
The Blood Knights were now indistinguishable from the enemy and were having a seizure in the castle, so they couldn’t be taken down at a moment’s notice.
Then plant trees!
……
For Divine players, planting trees wasn’t difficult. All that was needed was to unleash [Miracle]’s [Rainfall] and then a [Blazing Sun], alternating between the two, and the rest of the tree people would be taken care of.
The whole process was like making noodles.
One layer of rain, one layer of sun, more rain on the sun, stronger sun on the rain.
As a god, it was still important for Lu Yao to prepare enough faith to launch the [Miracle] on a wide scale.
And to cover the entire southern desert and western mountains, the cost of faith was higher than he thought.
The situation on the mountains was slightly better.
After 15 times of [Rainfall] and 11 times of [Blazing Sun], coupled with the [Forest Elemental] ability of the Tree People, basically green shoots sprouted from the bald mountains.
The desert, however, was the hardest hit area.
Lu Yao had rained down a whole 40 times [Rainfall] and 35 times [Blazing Sun] before completing the initial coverage of the desert, allowing green seedlings to grow in the desert.
These two rounds alone cost a total of 1700 Faith points.
The Qunshan side was the icing on the cake, there were trees and grass in itself, although less was less, the base was there. So after completing the first round of rainfall and sunlight, the green on that side slowly mushroomed.
The desert situation was much more complicated.
What Lu Yao didn’t expect was that the first ones to come out and wreak havoc were actually sandworms.
Seemingly realising that these saplings were potentially harmful to them, the sandworms began to secretly mash and turn out the saplings, infuriating Lu Yao to send Isabelle directly over to squat.
Whoever dares to destroy the green hills will have to die for me!
After Isabelle slaughtered a dozen or so sandworms, the sandworms finally realised that their lives mattered. Most of them migrated to the sand-covered shores in the south, and a small portion of them burrowed deeper into the ground.
In short, this group of desert natives had gone soft.
Before Lu Yao could breathe a sigh of relief, the desert’s subsequent troubles came again. Many of the saplings did not even make it to adulthood before they withered, and their need for rain and light was great.
He had to try again and again, and after consuming another 1000+ points of faith to unleash [Miracle], he finally managed to stabilise the situation in the desert.
Staying up all night was the epitaph for those who stayed up all night.
Lu Yao was lying in bed at 12 o’clock, sleepy with his eyelids fighting.
But he could not sleep, his mind was always thinking about those pixel saplings, and his eyes could not help but glance at the computer screen on the table ……
Stay up, what else can be done.
