Chapter 683: Tree Patterns and Occupation

Whether it is 【Whisper of the Galaxy】 or 【Prophecy of the Mind】, as prophetic spiritual arts, both require a medium and a cost.

Generally, the prophetic medium for half-deer people is their deer ears, and the cost is lifespan.

However, the shared skill in its full state gives Rod room to choose.

That is to say, no cost, yet the prophetic content is not so accurate.

There is no way around it.

As a human, Rod not only lacks the deer-ear medium, but his lifespan is merely a hundred years.

If every time I pay with a lifespan cost, how am I supposed to live?

"An opportunity to become a god is within reach?"

Rod pouted, not caring too much.

The yellow sand characters crawling on the stone steps vanished, and the vigorous sound of wind and sand once again filled Rod's ears.

A certain Young Lady Naga's post-battle speech had already concluded, and the Naga soldiers roared with passion.

After that, they began the frantic work of looting corpses.

Speeches aside, greed is human nature, especially for the world-famous land-dwelling Nagas.

Eve had no interest in these petty looting efforts, even regarding those four corpses of the high seventh tier.

She had her own greedy target.

Her scales shimmered brilliantly; she arrived by Rod's side with high spirits and a radiant expression.

"How was it? Wasn't my line just now, 'Tomorrow, the enemy will lick their wounds and return—but we will tell them with double the fury who is the master of this battlefield!' spoken well?"

"Pretty good."

Rod hadn't even been listening just now.

Eve pouted in dissatisfaction, sensing his lack of sincerity.

She shifted her serpent body, revealing the part of her 【Radiant Scales】 that had been smashed, where even the inner silver armor had been dented inward.

"Look, the armor is broken. How about you give me a new one? One of good quality, preferably a treasure."

Her beautiful snake eyes shimmered with light, full of hope.

Rod smiled.

The spoils of war gained during this time were not few, and there were certainly armors among them.

But the problem was that Rod simply did not want to indulge Eve's outrageous demands.

He shrugged: "Do I look like someone who uses armor?"

Eve's expression immediately fell: "Tch, what use are you?"

"However, I can add some other properties to this armor."

After advancing to 【Child of Nature】, 【Growth Spirit】 also gained a new effect: "Tree Pattern Enlightenment."

【"Tree Pattern Enlightenment": Carve tree patterns onto the surface of an object, granting it specific attributes.】

This 'specific attribute' looks quite powerful.

But in reality, it must be combined with the basic function of 【Growth Spirit】 randomly generating skills.

That is to say, skills randomly generated by 【Growth Spirit】 on an item can be recorded via "Tree Pattern Enlightenment" and then specifically assigned to a certain item.

"What does that mean? Are you an alchemist?"

"Just watch."

Rod placed his hand on her silver armor, consumed 5 points of Growth Spirit, and bestowed the attribute of 【Memory Metal】.

The metallic surface of the silver armor flashed with tree patterns, then faded, becoming difficult to see clearly.

Crack!

The dented back began to push itself back out.

"Yo-ha?"

Eve cast an appraisal spell, her eyes immediately lighting up. "Again, again!"

【Bind to Master】.

"Again, again!"

Rod didn't mind; he had accumulated quite a bit of Growth Spirit recently.

【Glow】, 【False Shadow】, 【Shock Reduction】, 【Lubrication Spell】, 【Blindness Spell】, 【Self-Translation】.

He generated quite a few in one go.

Especially after the effects of 【Glow】 and 【False Shadow】.

It made Eve, entirely, fall into a brilliant and hallucinatory halo radiating from the silver armor, making her look particularly holy and luminous.

Nagas always loved vanity; she immediately burst into laughter.

She kept spinning around to show it off.

Especially spinning in front of Tally, as if to say, 'Do you have this?'

The succubus rolled her eyes at her, too lazy to care.

"Rod, this is armor; why didn't you add any defensive enhancements for me?"

He shrugged.

It wasn't that he didn't want to; he truly had none.

A unlucky ranger like him never managed to roll a skill that satisfied him.

"Hey, wait, what does this 【Lubrication Spell】 mean?"

"Slipped my hand."

Sneaking in personal content, friends.

Land Naga's figure was incredibly hot and eye-catching, unlike Kali's natural harmony and perfect proportions.

Her slightly larger build combined with the same plumpness, and because the muscles for walking with a snake body differed from two legs, her waist was slender like a water snake, with slight muscle lines that did not lack beauty.

If she were coated in some lubricant, perhaps it would have a unique flavor.

Eve didn't mind, of course.

She was intoxicated by the magnificent beauty on the ground wrapped in radiance and distorted shadows, her mood excellent.

"How about it? Shall we go in?"

Rod pointed his chin toward the tomb entrance.

"No, we won't go in for now."

Eve's smile was both wicked and dazzling. "Emptying the tomb is simple; in and out. But afterwards, this place has nothing to do with us. Hehehe, I don't just want the tomb; I want this territory and the oasis area we saw when we just came!"

Rod understood.

First, dispatch troops under the guise of development to occupy it, then indefinitely delay the development; over time, it would become their territory.

An old imperialist trick.

Rod glanced at the tomb entrance; it seemed the Tu Mu Fa construction wasn't finished yet, and the stone stairs going down hadn't even reached the bottom completely.

"Why not just say the bottom is one of the Bralar clan's ancestral tombs? Falsify a few Bralar clan artifacts, claim they were dug out from inside, then propagate that the Quraish clan split off from you. When the time comes to attack, it will be even more justified."

Eve was stunned.

Immediately, she was overjoyed, flew over, and gave Rod a loud kiss on the face.

"Great idea, great idea! With you here, my becoming the King of Mirror Desert is just around the corner!"

Rod was just speaking casually; after all, in his past life, ancient uprisings and rebellions cared most about having a legitimate cause and being justified.

Under the influence of history, even he, a fish that slipped through the net of nine years of compulsory education, could make up a few lines.

Although Land Naga tomb raiding and grave digging violated all sorts of promises, being warlike and greedy.

But within the clan, priests held high status; they didn't dig ancestral tombs and worshipped ancestral spirits, so it seemed they still valued legitimacy quite a bit.

One could say she was a good girl.

What followed was simple.

Eve urgently contacted the army to come over and cleared a route all the way.

Rod sat in place; the combination of 【Fear Aura】 plus the Bronze Dragon War Soul's Dragon Might was a combo for crushing weaklings that scared the Quraish clan, who heard the news and came, completely disoriented.

They worked until night.

Only then did the Bralar clan's army successfully arrive and quickly set up camp and establish defensive works and such.

The Quraish clan also knew Rod was not to be trifled with and sent a document requesting negotiations overnight.

Seeing the other side respond so urgently, Eve reacted quickly, immediately realizing the tomb might be far more precious than she imagined; Jin Guang literally sparkled in her eyes.

But forging Bralar clan tokens required time, so she pretended to agree and postponed the negotiation date to three days later.

The other side, under Rod's overwhelming dominance, had no choice but to comply; who knew if they would be honest and obedient from then on.

By the time the situation was barely stabilized, it was already the evening of the next day.

The main general, the beloved Princess Eve, who had worked hard for two days and one night, only then, under repeated urging from the generals, reluctantly entered the tent to rest.

Little did they know.

Once inside the tent, another great battle would begin, and it would be even more intense and bloody.

The main general, Princess Eve, was miserably captured, tormented by a certain Forest Ranger until she was in a wretched state, and in the end could only emit lifeless, exhausted delirium and panting.

(End of this chapter)