Chapter 368 - 6: The Great War Looms

Chapter 368: Chapter 6: The Great War Looms

After opening the treasure chests, Lin Yu drove out his high-level personnel who had gathered to watch the fun.

"The show’s over? Now get back to work!!!"

"My Lord, this is incredible. All these resources are perfect for filling the territory’s shortages."

"Exactly! With so many new resource packs, we can use them as emergency war reserves."

...

Chenxi, Phantom, Xia Luo... the territory’s senior staff started to console Lin Yu.

"Go on, go on, get back to your duties. Stop pestering me," Lin Yu pretended to shout angrily, but broke into a smile as he spoke.

Seeing this, Chenxi and the others relaxed. It seemed their lord wasn’t actually sulking over the pile of resource packs he got at the end.

And so, laughing and joking, they grabbed some Spirit Fruits from the table, stuffed them into their pockets, and left the Lord’s Mansion together.

’Heh! Not only do they freeload a meal, they even take some to go. Are they really that good?’

(After the resource control policy was implemented, high-level resources had to be redeemed by individuals, with the exception of Lin Yu himself.)

Lin Yu grabbed a Divine Fruit from the table and ate it.

"Delicious!" Lin Yu’s eyes lit up.

"This stuff is amazing!!" Feeling the Divine Fruit strengthening his soul and increasing his body’s various attributes as it digested, Lin Yu exclaimed again.

’It’s just that my body is a bit too weak. It’ll take way too long to fully digest one Divine Fruit...’

’It takes me a whole week to digest a single Mid-Level All-Attribute Spirit Fruit, but a Divine Fruit will take a month?’

’As expected, enhancing hidden attributes like comprehension and fortune is much harder than simply boosting physical attributes.’

Lin Yu focused on the Divine Fruit in his stomach and discovered, to his dismay, that he couldn’t use his Soul Power to aid digestion. Doing so would easily give his body indigestion and other adverse reactions.

Although he could prevent these reactions, doing so would turn him into a Tree-man, which was out of the question...

Before leaving the territory, Lin Yu hadn’t known how long it would take him to digest All-Attribute Spirit Fruits and Divine Fruits, so he hadn’t made them available for redemption.

This was the first time the senior staff had ever eaten the Attribute Fruits and Divine Fruits laid out on the table.

So, it was no wonder they ate some and took some to go.

’Sigh, it really is better to have a high-tier body. They can eat All-Attribute Spirit Fruits like regular fruit, with no digestion time needed.’

Thinking about the tiers of his senior staff and the speed at which they ate Spirit Fruits, Lin Yu couldn’t help but feel a little envious. If he had that kind of digestive ability, he’d eat all the fruits himself.

’Well, since my body can’t handle it and can’t digest so many fruits, I might as well make them available for redemption. Getting a 1% kickback isn’t bad, either.’

He would list fewer Divine Fruits, as he still had a great need for them himself.

Furthermore, the Hero Tier Enhancement Crystal (Gold) that had just come from the chests was instantly redeemed by the quick-handed Xia Luo the moment it was listed. Having been the Director of the Urban Planning Bureau for so long, she had accumulated quite a few military merits.

As soon as she got her hands on it, she immediately used the Hero Tier Enhancement Crystal (Gold). She was now a Legendary Tier hero.

After that, Lin Yu merged once again with the World Tree Territory Heart.

He had done all he could for his pre-war preparations. All that remained was to adjust the deployment of his defensive perimeters. With trillions of defensive plants, he had to get them positioned correctly before the war began—starting with the outermost layer.

This was a massive undertaking, and one he couldn’t delegate.

...

When Lin Yu opened his eyes again, his consciousness had left his physical body and was now hovering high above the territory.

’This feeling of controlling the wind and rain is incredible!’

With a mere thought from Lin Yu, the weather in the territory changed. The wind blew in a raincloud, and a Spirit Rain began to fall over the World Tree.

’If I were to give up being human, I could probably reach the Mythic Tier very quickly!’

Lin Yu felt his power. He could now use the wood element to transform his physical body into a body of wood element, then use the World Tree to assimilate it, turning his elementalized body into a World Tree Tree-man.

’But... I’ve been human for decades. Am I just going to give that up?’

Lin Yu considered it for a moment, then abandoned the idea.

’Forget it. I’ll see about it later. If I work hard, who knows? Maybe I’ll become a Mythic Druid instead?’

After a moment of reflection, Lin Yu’s consciousness moved to the territory’s outermost defensive perimeter and began to adjust the plants, one by one.

First, he cleared the land on the very edge of the defensive perimeter, uprooting all the defensive plants and replanting them in new locations.

The ground of the outer defensive perimeter trembled slightly. Countless slender plant roots emerged from the earth, grabbing the defensive plants and moving them to the outer and middle rings.

These plant roots were all tendrils of the World Tree. Though the World Tree itself wasn’t enormous—its mountain-sized form was but a drop in the ocean compared to the entire territory—its root system was incredibly developed.

The World Tree’s root system spread throughout the entire territory. No matter the nook or cranny, its tendrils were present underground.

This was likely one of the World Tree’s abilities, though Lin Yu didn’t know for sure.

In any case, when he was deeply merged with the World Tree, he could control these tendrils to perform any action he desired.

As for what other functions these tendrils might have, he had no idea.

Controlling these tendrils was like controlling his own limbs as a human; they moved as he willed.

But the extent of what they could do depended on both the tendrils’ own capabilities and the controller’s intentions.