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Without a doubt, the moment he saw that, Vd immediately knew what these pnts were. Despite how shog it was, something within him immediately clicked—an innate e to all these pnts, overflowing with Ki and Demoniergy at the same time.
Yes, these were the pnts he had pnted on the farm just yesterday; it only took a night for them to grow to this enormous size, and above all, they didn’t even look fitting for ption, instead being things simir to monsters.
“Those pnts…!” Vd muttered. “Heavenly Demon, are they the ohat I pnted?”
[“Hmmm?”]
The Heavenly Demon shared Vd’s senses as he g the farm itself; he quickly ughed.
[“Hahaha! Yes! It seems you’ve raised quite the bizarre farm, my foolish reination! Murim Pnts grow to bee something simir to that, but usually that’s for the Late Stage ones, Low Stage Martial Pnts, Herbs, Fruits, Roots, and so on shouldn’t really be this… bizarrely enormous!”]
“Could it be that the natural dark energies of Obscuritas corrupted them? Something simir happeo the Spirit I created by fusing several lesser Martial Spirits, it has the shape of a grape, but it clearly had demonic traits,” said Vd.
[“Indeed! It appears that there’s an iing, very iing effect. Perhaps something to do with this world; maybe your own Ara is innately corrupted by these dark energies uo this Realm. But whatever the case, the pnts and seeds you pnted before that should have grown into Martial Pnts or Spiritual Pnts through your Skills ended up being corrupted. I’ll call them Demonic Martial Pnts!”]
“I guess that’s the only name someone like you could ever e out with.”
[“You dare say my naming sense is bad or outdated, you sdrel?! …Though, fear not! They perhaps are still fitting for ption! As long as they aren’t poisonous, right? Even more now, they now have the spectacur added effect of being able to protect your farm on their own! Isn’t that incredible, you idiot? Be grateful!”]
“Yeah, I’m in fact amazed. Is there a way to boost the growth of pnts so they grow very quickly using my Skill?”
[“It works using Ara, no? So as long as you have a lot of that, it should work. However, forcefully making pnts grow this way might end up making them poisonous due to the excess Ara, or they might wither away quickly as you burn through their lifespan.”]
“Pnts have lifespans?! Ah, well, it’s wiving it a try anyways!”
As everything occurred and Vd g his iory and noticed he had almost two hundred pnt seeds, mostly able pnts he had bought to expand the farm, he heard Chris’ voice.
“T-This is… Isn’t this the farm you made yesterday?!” Chris asked in disbelief.
“Yeah… I think so,” Vd smiled in disbelief. “I think I got an idea, mother.”
He g Teressa, who was still looking as the strange and bizarre pnts destroyed the heavily armored invaders and the approag golems.
A si alone was not enough at all, but as they attacked in unison, their attacks proved to be quite lethal; they seemed to be even abs the essend nutrients of the soil to work.
However, this could also prove to be a fatal weakness, as the nutrients of the soil were rather limited; eventually, the soil would no longer have more nutrients for their energy, and they would stop fighting.
In fact, a couple of the pnts had already seemingly stopped attag and grew slightly discolored. The few surviving armored monsters quickly rushed against them, and the humanoids swung their halberds and swords, cutting through the pnts and redug them into pieces.
“An idea?! Vd, what are these things?” Teressa asked.
“They might be our best shot at realistically defending the city!” said Vd. “However, I’ll need everyone’s help. My Bzing Doppelgangers and I aren’t enough. I least thirty people; you leave them to me?”
“What for?” Teressa asked.
“I’ll spread these seeds everywhere around the abandoned farms,” said Vd. “And I’ll tinuously expand the Domain as I move. While moving, those I bring along will dug out soil and put the seeds beh. This is our only ce before the rger hordes get to us.”
“So those pnts are a result of your Subcss?! To think you jure such powerful familiars already! I was pletely wrong; you’ve already bee a full vampire, my son.” Teressa roud of her son.
“T-Thanks, but we have to hurry!” he said.
“Of course, I’ll apany you as well!” she said. “Chris, you too! Camil, remain with the soldiers. Thirty of you, e with us!”
Teressa was incredibly quick, immediately bringing with herself thirty soldiers. Vd wasted no time, giving them the seeds in order as they advanced.
He khat the Blood Potatoes seemed to be defes, so he told them to pce them in the front, then he assighe Moonlight Rice behind, Blood Fruit Trees, and Sweet Venom Lily Roots behind; they seemed to be led attackers that unched either huge seeds or fruits.
Trees also seemed quite strong, but they took much more soil nutrients to grow; they were much harder, durable, and could even attack use roots aside from firing explosive fruits!
There were many other pnts: Bck Heart Carrots, Crimson Moonlight Watermelons, and many other types of rid potatoes, roots, fruits, and herbs.
One of the most notable herbs that Vd noticed was the Freezing Tea Leaves, which were his mother’s favorite tea.
This tea was always incredibly cold, good to refresh the body after a long day. Upon growing into Demonic Martial Pnts, they were able to briefly freeze targets by releasing cold winds, slowing down their advance siderably!
It was also beneficial that most of the monsters were walking creatures and didn’t seem to be capable of flight; being forced to move forward on their march, they would eventually face the pnts.
In only ten mihey covered over six kilometers surrounding the Elderbridge’s walls, which Vd tinuously spent his Ara on blessing with his Farmer Skills.
“All done, Vd!”
He heard Teressa’s voice through telepathy, as Vd nodded, quickly rushing bato the walls as the monsters seemed just a few minutes from reag them now.
“Is this really going to work?!” Chris wondered.
“I don’t see any other option here,” said Vd. “Chris, tell Argentia to cover and defend the areas that are least protected!”
“O-Ok!” Chris nodded, unig with Argentia through their e.
“Argentia! Please protect the areas that are the weakest; we’ll take care of this area!” said Chris.
“Are you sure, priestess?!” Argentia was worried. “V-Very well then! I shall trust you.”
At the same time, Vd was creating a different e with his pnts.
“I feel it….”
He had used the power of his two Farmer Skills, [Spiritual Ki Farmer Agricultural Arts (A): Lv2] and [Blessing of the Martial Spirits of Harvest (A): Lv2], in bination with Geomancy.
This way, he maniputed their elemental properties, turning them into durable threads, which he interected with his own hands and his Ara Aura.
Therefore, even while being far away, Vd was able to actively imbue his Ara into eat individually through these blessing threads!
“Now… let’s begin.”
Vd quickly started infusing more and more Ara through the threads, rapidly awakening the seeds and helping them grow.
The many Martial Spirits of Harvest within every area of the Domain he expanded floated around the pnts, blessing them with their very existences.
FLAAASH!
Bright golden and green light surged from the soil, infused with the nutrients that the Spirits granted. Vd jured his Skills bined with geomancy.
Oer ahe pnts started growing; from seeds they became tiny leaves and then tinued growing rger, and rger, and rger.
Eventually, the golden and green auras they exuded turned bck, purple, and red, suddenly undergoing mutations!
“It’s w!” Teressa said.
“It’s really w?!” Chris gasped.
This feat was not easy for Vd though, as it drained his Ara in tremendous quantities. His natural Ara stat wasn’t even that high due to his debuff, but when bined with all his equipment, he had an immense pool.
However, even with that taken into sideration, the pool was still not enough to easily raise all seeds into pnts. Hence, Vd took out piles after piles of items he had created and saved to sell ter.
Whenever one of his rings or bracelets ran out of Ara, he would quickly store them and equip new ones, effectively using equipment as if they were magic batteries.
RUMBLE!
“GROOOOHHH!”
The footsteps of the giant Armored Beasts and the Bs neared closer as they finally faced off the army of pnts, which tio emerge from the soil.
And as the monsters seemed to be finally within the range of the city, suddenly, a new system message appeared.
Ding!
[The City of Elderbridge has successfully triggered the [World-Wide Event]: {Awakening of the A King of Neburias}!]
[The A King of the Fallen Kingdom of Neburias has awakened from his slumber; his A Kingdom of Underground Dwelling Demoo recim the surface as their own. After having beeed by the Vampire Emperor three huhousand years ago and sealed away, he wants nothing but the Empire of Iron Blood to fall against his Bck Armored Army!]
[He will relentlessly send a new wave of monsters every day until he pletely destroy the Empire of Iron Blood! However, he will bid his time and make sure every city is destroyed in order. He will target Elderbridge, the closest city to his Tomb.]
[Survive the Daily Raid of Hundreds of Eo earn Special Event Points, which you ter exge for special Event-Tied Merts. The Monsters avaible for this World-Wide event are limited, and onough Raids are pleted, s may happen. So make sure to not miss this opportunity!]
[This World-Wide Event is limited to the area within Elderbridge until the city is pletely destroyed. Either defend or run; it's your choice.]
[Tip: The Neburians are fierce mohat e divided into three categories: humanoids, beasts, and golems. Among every living being in this Realm, their naturally grown biological metallic armor makes them tremendously heavy and defensive foes. However, they’re slow and uo cast magid are partially weak against certais. Use magid defense-pierg equipment to deal extra damage against them!]
“T-This is really a world-wide event!” Chris said. “Wait, did every Pyer here get this message?!”
As Chris wohat, Vd didn’t have time to wonder; he g the Tip area, telling him very valuable information! The reason why they had yet to devastate their city with magic was this. They actually couldn’t cast magic!
In exge for their tremendous physical prowess and defehe Neburians were uo use magic, were slow, and were also partially weak against “certain” elements.
“I guess we’ll have to find out which elements they’re weak against…!” Vd said. “Mother, the pnts will help, but them alone will never be enough. We should joitle now! Let’s surprise them with a frontal attack!”
“Very well then!” eressa, her Aura of Frost surging from her body. “Soldiers! Charge!”
Teressa carried everyoh giant ptforms made of ice. As she let them step into the battlefield outside of the walls, the giant armored beasts, humanoids, and golems emerged.
“Defend the city!”
“OOOOHHH!!”
With brave roars, the meraries, knights, and soldiers that posed their army charged forward. The Demonits immediately began b the monsters with explosive seeds and ung venomous and acidic fruits that slowly dissolved the armor of the Neburians.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Their attacks, resembling small explosioending across dozens after dozens of foes together, created small sparkles of light amidst the otherwise dark forests surrounding Elderbridge.
The people of Obscuritas could naturally see in the dark, so even if this pce was incredibly dark, they were not troubled!
As the soldiers charged into battle, Vd sent all of his Doppelgangers while supervising the pnts over the walls.
“Chris, shoot them down as they approach!” he said.
“Gotcha!”
Chris jured several elemental arrows that floated around his petite body, which he fired in quick succession, releasing huge explosions of elements.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Ice froze them, thunder electrocuted them, fire burhem, light weakehem or stuhem, and poison dissolved their armor slightly.
Eventually, the accumuted damage started making several of the Neburians die oer another, as Vd’s Bzing Doppelgangers jured swords made of fire and copied his swordsmanship teiques.
More pnts kept popping up oer another as he tinued feeding them with Ara and Spiritual Nutrients into the Soil. They battled like warriors did, putting their lives on the line.
Many of the pnts put themselves in front of soldiers, dying on their spot as they were cut down to pieces, but this helped Vd minimize casualties!
“Emperor of Blood! You will know the wrath ament of the Neburians!”
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, however, a giant of teers emerged amidst the dark forest near Elderbridge, humanoid in appeara burly and with six enormous arms, holding a different on in each hand.
Ding!
[The {Raid Boss: 1/3}: [Zergeous, The Giant Six-Armed Bight (Tier 5)] has stepped into battle!]
[His presence alone raises the strength and morale of the Neburians, increasing their Stats by 30%!]
“I will destroy these walls! And your city shall fall tonight!”
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