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Before logging out, Paul wao y out the work for the ining days that he’ll be taking care of Elderbridge’s farms. Roughly eighty pert of these nds, which were once full of farms, had been abandoned after the soil started to lose its nutrients and most water sources dried out.
However, Paul was fident that he could pletely ge everything with the new Skills he had acquired. He would have actually been pleased with just the normal Farmer Css, but the Heavenly Demon ied his own Divine Ki into the Subcss, ging it into something pletely different, yet simir at the same time.
And so, the [Spirit Ki Farmer: ★★] Subcss was created.
A Subcss that, acc to the Heavenly Demon, ecifically designed for him to be able to trol Ki somehow and to produce wondrous herbs, fruits, aables that could be simir in position to Murim’s products.
His aim was that because Vd had beeing nothing but “garbage” from this realm, he would never be able to fully heal his body! One of the most important things is a good and banced, healthy diet full of powerful pnts filled to the brim with Ki, of course.
And now, Paul was going to put this css to the test and see if it could actually help or not.
“{Blessing of the Martial Spirits of Harvest}”
FLAAASH!
The momeivated the Skill, a wave of golden, green, and red light surged from his palms, reag into the soil and expanding everywhere. Paul quickly realized that the more Ara he ied, the faster it would spread.
Ara Manipution was something hard for most Pyers, but to Paul, it was rather easy once he figured out he just o “feel it” and “imagine how it moves.” It also helped that he had a grossly high amount thanks to all his equipment.
Ara was much simpler than people imagined. Most Pyers were always trying to jure plex spells from the beginning, but to Paul, it was simple because he imagi as a gradual i.
First, imagihe power you want to use, the element, then the range, and then imagi moving within the spa front of you.
Very easy!
Or, well, perhaps not too many people. Thankfully, magi csses allowed Pyers to more easily wield Ara through special Skills to trol it.
“Wooaaah!”
Chris gasped in disbelief as everything around them ged within seds.
“This is…?!”
Paul was also incredibly shocked!
The two gnced as hundreds of tiny particles of light spread out everywhere; this essence wasn’t actually Ara, although the Skill required it to fun.
No, this ecial type of energy that roduced and ied into the soil through a blessing.
Paul let the Blessing expand up to a few hundred meters, c a wide area around the duo.
The soil, which was as bck as charcoal, suddenly gained a clear brown color, with sparkles of light ing from it out of the blue.
And above all…
They could feel a presence—or, well, many presences.
Tiny presences everywhere; these spheres of light were all spiritual beings not from this Realm.
Ding!
[You have used the [Blessing of the Martial Spirits of Harvest (A)] Skill on the surrounding area!]
[Over 400 meters around you have been Blessed by Martial Spirits of Harvest!]
[The Soil Riess, Nutrition, Dampness, and Quality has increased by 200% for 7 Days.]
[The Soil is now infused with rich Spiritual Ki, any pnt that grows on it will gain special Traits reted to this energy.]
[The Lesser Martial Spirits of Harvest roam the Blessed Area freely, taking care of pnts for you. The growth speed of Pnts that are within the Blessing Range and the Spirits Range will increase by 200% with an additional 1% per lesser spirit.]
“Wait, really?!”
Paul was shocked when he read everything.
Not only did the buff st as long as 7 days, meaning it was a stant infusion of nutrients and energy into the soil.
But it also made anything that grew within it gain traits reted to Spiritual Ki energies from Murim, quite possibly replig what could be farmed in that Realm.
And stly, as if it weren’t good enough already, tiny spirits will take care of the pnts for him!
[Hahahaha! Amazed?! Surprised?! Do you want to thank me? Praise me! Worship me! I’ve done something great for you; it’ll ge everything! Hahahaha! Now pnt a bunch of vegetables, fruits, and tubers and start eating them!]
The Heavenly Demon seemed joyful about how Vd’s face looked right now, full of disbelief.
“I-I never imagi would have so many effects, though!” he said. “How did you even make such a Skill?”
[Seriously, do you think that Skills blessed by Divinities are weak or something? Hah!]
The Heavenly Demon ughed.
[Hmm! Perhaps they are? And mine is simply superb because I am much strohan those mohat call themselves gods! Bahahahaha!]
And then he ughed even more.
It was a bit annoying, holy. However, Paul couldn’t really pin or tell him something right now, the Skill by itself ure insanity.
Chris quickly learned what it was about as Paul expi to him, and his eyes widened even more.
“That’s so cool! With this, we could easily farm a lot of food for the city!” said Chris. “If we dedicate some time to this, we could really solve that issue. And with Argentia roaming the city’s surroundings, we don’t have to worry about wild monsters or bandits trying to attack us now.”
“Yeah, you’re right!” nodded Paul. “Though I wao try something, you try toug and making a tract with one or a few of these spirits, Chris? o go look for a Spirit for you ter, but maybe you could get it quickly with these guys.”
“I try…” Chris said as he tried toug them and f a tract by activating his Trait.
FLUOSH!
Sparkles of rainbow-colored light emerged from his hands as he touched the little dots, lesser spirits…
However, the momeouched them, the dots gave a little cry and exploded.
“Gryyeeehh!”
POP!
“They died?!” Chris screamed in disbelief.
“W-What the hell did you do?!” Paul asked in shod fear. “Don’t kill my kids, though!”
He ran towards them and protected them from Chris' hand.
“S-Sorry! I didn’t mean it!” Chris sighed. “But it was hard… I think my power is too high for them; when I try to make a tract, the power overloads, and they explode.”
“Uh…” Paul was left fbbergasted. “Then… I guess it ’t be do. Unless… Wait.”
Paul started trying out his Skill again, and everything was jured. First, there was a wave of this Spiritual Ki, which would bless an area.
Then, from the area, the Martial Spirits of Harvest would emerge one by one, so they'd be born after the activation of the Skill.
“Hmm, are they even Spirits like we know them?” he wondered. “Heavenly Demon?”
[I don’t know much about Spirits; I never hem for anything!]
“I guess he’s not going to help…” Paul sighed.
“Wait, I’ll ask someone muicer,” Chris said.
He quickly asked the Heavenly Emperor, who was someone much more silent than the Heavenly Demon, if not even more ued in Chris too.
When Chris was suddenly attacked by the gods, he didn’t do anything, uhe Heavenly Demon with Paul.
Meaning that he was either very absent-minded or simply very apathetic.
“Hey, you help? Do you know about these Spirits?”
Chris asked hopefully, yet…
[I could help, yes… But how would you learn, then, about my reination? Why won’t you check out the Heavenly Library instead? There might be information there.]
“I’m don't want to read some me bht now!”
“Huh? Chris?”
“Ah, nothing, never mind. I don’t have the time for this… Anyway, this is pretty hough! I’ll be logging out for now.”
“Ah, wait, I haven’t tried o thi!”
“Hm? What?”
Chris raised an eyebroaul quickly activated Geomancy, and by using Ara, he tried to gather as many little Lesser Martial Spirits of Harvest as possible.
“If the little ones are too little for you, the’s make a big one!”
“Huh?!”
“{Geomancy}: {Lesser Spirit bination}!”
By using the power of Geomancy, an advanced method of Alchemy that wielded the elements of nature and could bihem and transform them, Paul saw these spirits as “elementals” and decided to try something.
FLAAASH!
And to the surprise of the two, it seemed to have actually worked—at least thirty little Lesser Martial Spirits of Harvest biogether into a single mass of glowing gold and green light.
The figure kept growing rger until it stopped being the size of a watermelon, while the lesser spirits were smaller than a fingernail.
FLUOSH!
The creature was born, a Fusioween thirty Lesser Martial Spirits of Harvest…
It took the shape of something; it wasn’t humanoid, but more like a rge fruit.
Indeed, it resembled a big bunch of grapes! They were purple, bck, and red; it was as if they had been slightly fused with the natural energies of Obscuritas and also of Vd’s Aura.
[gratutions! You have successfully merged dozens of Lesser Martial Spirits of Harvest into the Unique Spirit [Martial Devil Grape Bunch Harvest Spirit]!]
[You are the first Pyer to ever bine Spirits to create a Unique Spirit! You acquired the [Spirit Mediator (A): Lv1] Magic Skill as a reward!]
“Huh? A new Skill…”
Paul was slightly surprised he had acquired a new Skill out of nowhere, but it seemed rather iing, it was a Skill that could help him unicate with Spirits.
“Ooohhh! Ooowaaah!”
The grapes, unified by their vines, had a melodic voice, floating around freely. Chris eyes turned into sparkles.
“So cuteeee! What the hell is this?! You make them bigger?!”
“It was just an experiment, but I’m gd it worked!”
Paul patted Chris shoulders.
“Now hurry, try it out again!”
“O-Okay!”
Chris quickly touched the grapes, who g him with curiosity. His gentle hands and small fingers seemed to not bother the grape spirit, as it moved towards her.
The tiny faces in each grape, looking very cute, smiled adorably, some closed their eyes, as if rexed while being close to the incubus.
“I think they like you!” Paul said with excitement. “e on, Chris, do it! Do a tract with it!”
“S-Shit! Okay, okay!” Chris muttered. “Please don’t die, please don’t die, please don’t die…!”
FLUOSH!
The same process happened: Chris innate Spiritual Abilities, ied from his father, the King of Fairies, activated as threads of spiritual light ed around the grape, infusing it with his Ara.
“Oohhh? Oooohhh!”
The grapes seemed to like Chris as they approached him closer, and thewo felt a strong e between souls.
FLAAASH!
The bond was formed faster thawo imagined, and Chris quickly felt something beginning to form within his chest, although it wasn’t instantaneous.
Ding!
[gratutions! You have successfully created a Spirit tract with the Unique Spirit: [Martial Devil Grape Bunch Harvest Spirit (Tier 1)]!]
[Because you’ve fulfilled the ditions, you will now begin to slowly form a {Crystallized Spiritual Heart}, absorb Spirit Energy from your Spirit and, over time, fully form it.]
[Ohe {Spiritual Heart} is fully crystalized, it will bee a new way to grow stronger, and you will gain special Spiritual Abilities, alongside unlog the Spirit Power Stat.]
“Ooh!” Chris seemed pleased. “It looks like it worked! But I won’t be able to form that Heart until I absorb more Spirit Energy from the Spirit…”
“So that’s how it works…” Paul nodded, rubbing his . "Okay, then, will you give it a name?”
“Well, it’s just a bunch of grapes; what name could I give it?” wondered Chris. “Hmm, I’ll choose it ter. I really have to go now. Bye!”
“Ah, well, take care. See you tomorrow, then,” Paul said.
“Sure!” Chris was about to leave, but theowards Paul and kissed him. "Ok, now bye!”
And then he finally logged out.
“Well, at least he didn’t dismiss me like I was nothing to him,” thought Paul. “For now, I should be logging out soon... Not before I pe seeds here and there to see if something pops up tomorrow, though.”
Like that, the Vampire Priarted pnting the seeds he had secured from a few merts already. These didn’t include just the usual vegetables, roots, or seeds that most people ate, but more exotic things.
He wasn’t the best at doing this, but with the [Spiritual Ki Farmer Agricultural Arts (A)] Skill, he was able to use special Farming Teiques, helping him sow the soil, pnt the seeds, then use magic to water them.
Slowly, he worked for the hirty minutes solely on this. Argentia, who had just hunted some sort of elephant and hog-hybrid monster and was eating it, noticed the small vampire moving around.
“Hmm? Oh, that annoying man…” he thought. “Is my priestess not with him? Hah! Why is he pnting weird pnts everywhere? Is he stupid or something?”
“Phew! Finally done…”
Paul sighed in relief, notig his Skills leveled up after stant usage.
Ding!
[The Skills: [Spiritual Ki Farmer Agricultural Arts (A): Lv1] [Blessing of the Martial Spirits of Harvest (A): Lv1] have Leveled Up!]
“This should be it for now…” he nodded.
And then he disappeared as well.
Argentia stayed there, enjoying his meal in silence.
Until…
RUMBLE!
“Hm?!”
He almost choked on his own food as a tremor suddenly scared the giant dragon.
His rge eyes gnced down, notig enormous silhouettes emerge from where Vd had been wandering, tinuing to grow across the nd.
“W-What in the world did this bastard do?!”
.
.
.
For eons, he has beeing, his soul and body too weak to move anymore.
Now, bones, he only sought to restore his Are Magic over thousands of years.
The terrible defeat he took at the hands of the Vampire Emperor was still within his pale, dried heart.
The frustration, the humiliation, and the death of his people...
His empty eyes slowly began to glow as will-o-wisps surged from within them.
RUMBLE!
A tremor.
An enormous amount of rich Ara and other energies suddenly started flowing everywhere.
The once dried-out Ley Lihat covered his tomb were beginning to reawaken.
And as he woke up, so did his army.
“So much riergy... It has to be mine!”
His dried-out, bony hands rose as his body stood up from his old throne.
Rising an old bck wooden staff, an A King decided to visit the surface after thousands of years since his defeat.
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