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Published at 4th of January 2024 01:14:47 PM


Chapter 515: Closing In

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Chapter 515 Closing In

The farmlands could be expanded and developed into a precious source of rare resources. A wide variety of elemental seeds had already been planted and it was only a matter of time before he'd accumulated enough resources to mass-produce a bunch of potions that required 'rare' resources – resources Michael had in surplus thanks to the Untamed Jungle, the Elementals, the Nature Spirit, the Forest Pixies and so on.

Michael learned a lot about the plants, their products, their by-products, and how they could be utilized. It was a topic that intrigued Michael. Unfortunately, he didn't have several days to listen to the Farmers and Botanica Magicians as they talked to him about their finds, the mutation of a few plants and much more. They were in their own little world, and Michael was fine leaving them there as long as they continued to work hard.

There was only one thing Michael couldn't leave them alone with. It was the appearance of a plant evolving and gaining sentience. It was rare for plants to gain sentience because it required a tremendous amount of energy and unique resources to initiate an evolution.?But possessing the necessary resources and enough energy was not enough for plants to gain sentience and evolve. They had to meet various requirements.

At least, that was what Michael had read in a few books and the Botanica Magician who'd been researching the Plant Monster. The Plant Monster couldn't be left alone on the farmlands. Therefore, Michael told the Botanica Magician to work with a Monster Tamer and create a Monster Ranch for the plant monster. It might be quite difficult, but it was not impossible to tame and reproduce the Plant Monster.

Maybe, they could gain something unique from turning a plant monster into livestock – or maybe into a means of defense that blended perfectly with the flora of the Untamed Jungle. Plant Monsters might not be all that powerful under normal circumstances, but if they were raised properly and stimulated to mutate in specific ways, it shouldn't be impossible to turn them into his territory's weapon to fend off enemies within the Untamed Jungle.

It was a very interesting topic and something his Monster Tamers and the Botanic Magician should research thoroughly.

One way or another, Michael was very pleased with the changes in his territory.

Everyone was working extremely hard. Michael might not have been around for a few weeks but the majority remained highly productive. That was nice to see, even more so when Michael found out that the carpenters and construction workers expanded the housing district in the settlement. His subjects built enough treehouse complexes for more than 20,000 new subjects and it looked like they had yet to stop expanding. The architects came up with a few new inventions and their contagious enthusiasm reached the starless workers, construction workers, and carpenters, resulting in a few new constructions.

One of those constructions was a treehouse tower, a tower that was constructed around the largest rainforest trees in the proximity. The trees were used as a foundation and support pillars to hold the treehouse tower, which shrouded the entire trunk without harming it. The Architects made sure that the tree could continue to grow while similarly ensuring that as many families as possible could live in the treehouse towers.

At first, Michael was confused about the treehouse towers and how they came into existence but when he visited the Architects' offices he found numerous blueprints that had been discarded and thrown aside. There were hundreds of blueprints with most of them being quite interesting. Michael could hardly find any differences in some of the blueprints, but when he asked the Architects about it, they grumbled something about stability, scarcity of flexible material, and various other things. n/.0VeLbIn

Through that, Michael acquired a lot about the thinking process of the Architects in his territory. It was an interesting learning process, though he was more often cursed indirectly than he liked. The Architects seemed to love and hate him at the same time. He allowed them to experiment as they pleased but they didn't have enough resources to go all out with their experiments. The scarcity of resources seemed to hold them back tremendously.

There was a lot Michael had to do. But for now, he had to focus on his own strength. He had to advance to Tier-3 quickly to return to the ancient city where he could play businessman to buy numerous things for his beloved citizens.

Michael moved to a rather secluded area in his territory, and he retrieved a portion of the Inferior Energy Stones he'd extracted from the dozens of Tekur he killed in the Interdimensional Flag War. Two small hills of Inferior Energy Stones formed around him. There were thousands of these stones, each worth millions.

If he had been the same as in the past, Michael would have never used such a fortune merely to increase his strength a little bit faster. However, Michael was not the same as before. He had changed. Michael knew what it takes to make the most out of the opportunities that appeared in front of him, and he understood that he had to advance to Tier-3 as swiftly as possible to resolve the problems in front of him quickly.

He closed his eyes and unleashed the Dome of Extraction. Thousands of Extraction tendrils shot out of the ground, each connecting to an Inferior Energy Stone to suck it dry.

Leviathan Diffusion was unleashed in its strongest form and the full power of Superior Constitution was unraveled.

Energy flooded his body which was annexed immediately and forwarded to his War Rune.

It was time to reach the next Tier!"

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