Chapter 580: Writing Letters to the Child of Nature

【Naulin's obedience to you +8, current obedience: 74】

【Obedience surpassed 74, unlocked shared skill with Naulin】

【Beginning random draw.】

【Draw successful】

【Shared skill: Reverse Scale of Causality】

【Details: Transfer one lethal damage you sustain to a specific creature within your line of sight.】

Another survival-grade powerful skill.

Naulin is undoubtedly a Cursed Dragon of grudge, every skill she draws is exceptionally potent.

He saw she needed time to absorb the dragon body materials.

Luo De did not disturb further, exchanged a few brief words, then left Willow Grove.

He then found the ghoul Pan Ni training troops at Dusk Hills.

As a necromancer who grows stronger with each battle and more corpses.

After the Coral Bay battle, her necrotic forces reached a peak of 2, 00.

Among them, there were also over a dozen elite seventh-rank necrotic warriors.

But they were all watered-down seventh-rank units.

Still, for this forest region, high-end combat power was never lacking.

And due to the necrotic legion's massive increase in numbers,

Even with the boost from her 【Negative Energy Constitution】, Pan Ni showed signs of losing control.

But after all, they were necrotic entities—neglect them and they decay rapidly, returning directly to the earth as negative energy.

Hence, she had been coming to Dusk Hills recently to train.

As for why Luo De found her?

The intelligence from the inside agent Master Shemus regarding the Igo Cult was deeply troubling.

Even though it lay far in the far west, Luo De felt he needed to understand it clearly.

He planned to write a letter to Isabella, the eldest daughter of the Argyle family, to inquire—and also to check in on Daphne, whom he hadn't communicated with in a long time.

Since it was a letter, writing was unavoidable.

Luo De knew his chicken-scratch handwriting was unfit for any respectable appearance.

So he had to turn to Pan Ni.

Her handwriting was the best in the forest, second only to Kallist.

"'Dear Miss Isabella'? Who is this to the master?"

"An acquaintance? Not quite a friend—more like someone from a well-known family."

"Then don't use 'dear,' it's too intimate. Use 'respected,' right?"

Pan Ni suggested.

The two sat in an abandoned stone shed in Dusk Hills, once used to store firewood, where a table happened to stand; they decided to write there.

But there were no chairs.

Pan Ni had to stand, leaning over the table to write.

Which meant her rear was sticking out.

It was somewhat unseemly.

From the side,

A pair of eight-character charms hung in midair, swaying gently with each stroke of her brush.

Nearly bursting past the loose collar of her mage robe.

Luo De raised an eyebrow and stepped behind her.

"You handle the phrasing—just let me state what I want to say."

"Yes, master."

Pan Ni remained oblivious.

She tapped her feather pen against her cheek, as if pondering how to begin.

She had just written "Respected" when she felt her mage robe lifted from behind.

A warm, skilled hand—expert in judo—settled atop her.

She froze stiff.

She turned back, embarrassed and hesitant: "Um… master, could I finish writing first? The characters look bad like this."

"This is also a test for you, Pan Ni."

Pan Ni bit her lip, exuding a wifely, coy charm: "Alright…"

……

Luo De spoke the content of the letter.

His mental energy still had surplus.

He began considering who to assign the point from the witch-cat's shared skill 【Skill Ascension】.

This point wasn't simply adding +1 to a skill.

It was ascending the skill itself.

He thought for a moment.

……

In the two months since the Coral Bay battle,

he hadn't stopped forging spirit warriors, directly filling all ten spirit warrior slots to maximum.

Besides the original Bronze Dragon, Star Ambusher, Fungal Warrior Gorgon, and Hyakumei,

he added Storm Elementals, Shadowsteel Golems, Multi-Armed Giants, and others.

But honestly,

the useful skills he'd drawn were few.

This made Luo De realize that for his current stage, spirit warriors were about quality, not quantity.

A single excellent spiritual warrior could surpass the sum of others.

Even if he ascended this skill, without good spirit warriors to forge, it would be of little use.

"Hmm, then let's go with 【Tree's Blessing】."

This skill had provided Luo De, early on when his spiritual energy was low, with exceptional recovery speed.

Moreover,

it had spawned 【Growth Spirit】.

It also allowed 【Dragon Scale Art】 to manifest differently across various trees.

Even the Emerald Tree's 【Spatial Tree Form】 was a derivative of 【Tree's Blessing】.

Luo De did not hesitate.

He clicked the + next to 【Tree's Blessing】.

On the panel,

the words "Tree's Blessing" began to blur.

Moments later, it transformed into 【Child of Nature】.

The original details of 【Tree's Blessing】 remained unchanged.

But three new lines appeared.

"Sprout Phase": Accelerate plant iteration and evolution within a ten-kilometer radius, spawning spiritual species.

"Coexistence Phase": Fuse your spiritual veins with the entire forest, sharing all tree perceptions.

"Origin Phase": Trace ancient tree memories to recover lost natural arts.

These were three natural phases.

Luo De could switch between them at will.

Meanwhile, 【Growth Spirit】 also gained two new skills.

"Tree Pattern Enlightenment": Carve tree patterns onto surfaces to imbue them with specific properties.

"Spiritual Symbiosis": Actively share one skill or buff.

Additionally,

a new skill appeared on the panel: 【Thousand Trees Domain】.

He glanced at it.

It seemed to activate matrix effects by combining different trees.

Luo De nodded.

He was very satisfied with this ascension.

The two letters took a long time to write.

And several sheets of paper were ruined.

Only when Luo De was finally satisfied did Pan Ni's legs give out, clutching the table to avoid falling.

She squatted on the ground, her feet trembling violently.

……

She clung to Luo De's waist with one arm, refusing to let go.

Reluctantly.

Luo De could only bring her back to Henry Farm to rest.

He himself went to Shi Ying Town to have the elderly gentleman Humbert introduce a Hobbit to deliver the letter.

Humbert's efficiency was swift.

He immediately sent a knight to find someone.

In the afternoon.

Luo De was informed that the hired Hobbit messenger had arrived.

This Hobbit had not come merely to pick up the letter, but also to deliver one to Luo De.

One of them was unmistakably a warning from Stormwind City.

(End of Chapter)