Chapter 394. The Third Temple.

Liu Shu didn’t waste time. She entered her system interface and asked about the temples that she could build. A list that was slightly longer than before appeared in her mind. 

[Temple Of War]

[Temple Of Life]

[Temple Of Death]

[Temple Of Craft]

[Temple Of Fire]

[Temple Of Wind]

[Temple of Music]

“Hm?” Liu Shu couldn’t help but notice the relation between the new temples and her lovers. After pondering for a while, she couldn’t understand the conditions to unlock new temples. “Well, let’s check the new blessings.”

<Fire Blessing (D- Rank)>: While under its influence, Fire Aether Mana becomes much more controllable. Creatures who have this blessing will be able to learn how to control Fire Aether Mana much more efficiently.

Fire Aether Mana control +100%

Fire Aether Mana abundance +100%

All creatures gain 20% resistance to Fire Aether Mana.  

Proficiency needed to upgrade Fire Aether related skills -10%

“Hm~. Not bad, but somewhat lacking and too specific for my liking. Perhaps in the future it might come in handy, though.” 

Liu Shu then checked the <Wind Temple>’s blessing.

<Wind Blessing (D- Rank)>: While under its influence, Wind Aether mana becomes much more controllable. Creatures who have this blessing will be able to learn how to control Wind Aether Mana much more efficiently.

Wind Aether Mana control +200%

Wind Aether Mana abundance +100%

Proficiency needed to upgrade Wind Aether related skills -10%

Liu Shu wasn’t impressed. “There is no resistance, but in exchange, the blessing enhances control onefold. Quite common. The last one…” Liu Shu was quite interested in this one. It was such a specific one, after all.

<Music Blessing (D- Rank)>: While under its influence, Music Creativity will become an innate quality. All music created can evolve beyond limits and affect the surroundings greatly. 

All effects created from music will be positively enhanced by 30%.

All crafting of instruments is enhanced by 50% and will be blessed with special effects. 

All future instruments will have a <Tier-Up> upon creation.

The success rate when creating instruments increased by 10%.

Liu Shu chuckled after reading the blessing. ‘Very powerful! However, my forces are not music-based. Only Harmonixia and a few of her followers have those techniques.’

While very interesting, the slots for <Temples> were too limited for now. Therefore, she shook her head and discarded the new three temples. 

“The Death Temple is strong as well. However, the final choice should be between War, Life, and Craft. Show me the four temples.”

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<War Blessing (D- Rank)>: While under the influence, you are able to learn combat skills much quicker. There is also a chance to break your potential limits as long as you put in hard work and discipline.

During a War, all allies’ stats are increased by 10%.

Ternary essence efficiency increased by 10%. 

The Experience Points needed to upgrade combat-related skills are reduced by 10%.

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<Life Blessing (D- Rank)>: While under the influence, you are able to heal much quicker. Some crippling wounds will be able to be recovered with time or healing magic. 

Lifespan increased by 10%.

Phoer Recovery per healing spell increased by 10%.

The Experience Points needed to upgrade health-related skills are reduced by 10%.

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<Death Blessing (D- Rank)>: While under the influence, every creature that dies will be purified and returned to nature’s cycle. 

Afflictions and curses have a 10% increased chance of working. 

Each time you kill a creature, you’ll steal a sliver of their life essence, recovering yourself.

The chances of obtaining negative titles due to killing are reduced. 

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<Crafting Blessing (D- Rank)>: Your speed to learn and comprehend craft-related skills is increased while under the influence. There is also a chance to break your potential limits as long as you put in hard work and discipline.

There is a 0.1% chance to have your items imbued with a blessing, increasing their quality one sub-tier. 

Your craft-related tools have 20% increased durability. 

The Experience Points needed to upgrade craft-related skills are reduced by 10%.

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Liu Shu’s glance lingered in the Temple of Life. Recently, she had lost many people due to the relatively short and finite lifespan of living creatures. As a World Tree, she had a different way of seeing things. Therefore, such losses didn’t affect her as much as unnatural deaths. However, that didn’t mean that she was emotionless. ‘But… Is it okay to choose a temple based on those factors? Even if they don’t die in two years, they might die in four…’ As she thought about it, the urge slowly disappeared, and she thought deeply about it. ‘I am just delaying the inevitable. Once it happens, I will feel much more the loss because I was invested in preventing it.’

Thinking until there, Liu Shu sighed slowly and thought rationally. ‘War Blessing is definitely a favorite. After all, we’ll go to war soon with the entire continent. Giving them that extra edge with the War Blessing might be the thing that tips the balance in our favor. Life Blessing is also powerful for wartime. After all, recovery will become easier. In a drawn-out fight, it will have the most effects.’

Then, her eyes turned toward the other two. ‘Death Blessing is not too influential. I want to prevent deaths, not embrace them. Finally, the Crafting Blessing…’

Liu Shu couldn’t help but feel that she was underestimating this blessing. ‘We are a developing nation. Crafters are currently working at 110% to create and cope with the increasingly larger army. Even if I use War Blessing and increase our soldiers, can we arm them all? Are there enough weapons of enough quality for everyone?’

Honestly, she could see that Flor and the others were starting to struggle. Even when we looted the corpses of the armies that attacked us, the usable equipment was not much. If armies collided 2 or 3 times in a short time, Liu Shu could see a situation where her people would not have anything proper to fight with.

“Honestly, the crafters being much stronger will allow us to use large Arrays, Runic Fields, and develop everything. Adding my other titles to the Crafting Blessing, the value of each of our workers will be more than double that of other nations.” After the <Dungeon> opened, materials from inside it were also pouring out en masse. So, Level 50+ raw materials were not too scarce. Liu Shu just needed hands to transform all of that into usable gear.

Once her entire army was clad in high-level armor, adding to her existing buffs, Liu Shu was sure that it would be quite terrifying. Plus, she had tens of thousands of <Sylvanium Ore> and the other materials at her disposal. Moreover, she was going to get <Sylvanium Alloy>, a level above <Sylvanium Ingot>. 

Warriors were needed, but even if she had a C Tier warrior, what could it do facing D tiers with C Tier armors? She would be wasting her talents against ordinary soldiers. Liu Shu remembered something else and looked inside the massive ant colony. 

In a place near her main body, a strange industrial area had been constructed and was ready to go the second the ants managed to get the ability to craft items. According to Ignatia, she needed a small push, but she didn’t know what. 

“I guess this decides it.” Liu Shu chuckled. “System, show me the materials needed for the [Temple Of Craft].”

[Showing materials for <Temple Of Craft (D- Rank)>.]

‘Hm? Still D- Rank? I thought you would show me the materials for a higher-tiered version since this is a new Sylvan Quest.’

[Tianlian Liu Shu’s <Tier> is insufficient to know about higher-level <Temples>.]

“… I see.”

Liu Shu was mildly annoyed. However, she had absolutely no idea how to increase her <Tier>. So, she sighed and looked at the recipe. 

<Temple Of Craft (D- Rank)>: 5500 Soulwood (D- Rank), 5500 Ironwood (D- Rank), 5500 Soul Stone (D- Rank), 550 Essence Stone (D- Rank), 100 Animaheart Lignum (D Rank), 100 Phoerheart Lignium (D Rank), 10 Greenheart Wood (D+ Rank), 10 Soul Timber (D+ Rank), 10 Ironwood Timber (D+ Rank), 10 Delicate Fabric (D+ Rank), 10 Delicate Anvil (D+ Rank), 10 Delicate Broches (D+ Rank), 10 Delicate Runestone Brick (D+ Rank), 1 Forgecrystal (D+ Rank), 1 Corecrystal (D+ Rank), 1 Runecrystal (D+ Rank).

Liu Shu’s eyes widened. “Ha!? Why is the list for this Temple double the length of the others!?”

[<Temple Of Craft> is one of the rarest <Temples>. The materials needed are naturally many more.]

This surprised our World Tree. “Rare? Isn’t crafting the most common thing? Why would it be rare?”

[<Temple Of Crafting> is one of the most influential precisely because it affects most. It is rare because no World Tree consciously practices crafting, making unlocking conditions impossible.] 

Liu Shu tilted her head. “Do I practice it consciously?”

[Tianlian Liu Shu has unlocked the skill <Runic Living Wood City>. One of the skills with the highest potential among <Crafting> skills.]

“Oh, I see.” Liu Shu chuckled and went to the biggest mission center of the city. 

In one of the largest plazas, thousands of people were walking around and looking at the enormous lists of missions and requests posted on the walls. This place in the <Golden Sap City> was created for people who wanted odd jobs. The employer would give the job details, payments, and rewards, and the government would sort them out in a priority list. A person could pay to increase the priority level as well, just in case someone with an otherwise common request was in a rush to complete something.

The person in charge of this area suddenly felt the ground tremble slightly, and everyone looked over curiously. From the ground, a powerful root with gorgeous blue, glowing lines sprouted and landed on the table. The root had a scroll coiled around it that Liu Shu had written. 

While everyone’s eyes were locked onto that scroll, Liu Shu’s voice reached them softly. “Hello, I am here to make a job request. Is it possible?” 

The woman at the reception table almost fainted. “L-L-Lady World Tree!? W-What did you just say!?” 

Liu Shu saw her reaction and mistook it for rejection. She sighed somewhat embarrassedly. “Oh… Am I in the wrong place? I’ll need to ask Wert… Sorry for—”

“W-Wait! Lady World Tree, don’t go!”

Liu Shu was somewhat startled at the woman’s shout. “Um. Yes?”

The woman desperately tried to control her ridiculously fast heartbeat. Everyone around had turned silent, while some were even closing their eyes with reverent looks and praying toward Liu Shu’s main body. 

The receptionist felt her arms and voice trembling as she spoke. “L-Lady World Tree. You can, of course, make a job request. We’ll even waive all costs and place it in the highest priority table! Please, do tell this lowly one Lady World Tree’s request.” 

Liu Shu sighed in relief and laughed softly, her voice as ethereal as the song of nature itself. “That’s good to hear. I thought I was being a nuisance.”

“Never!” The receptionist woman said with the most serious expression. “Lady World Tree will never be a nuisance!”

This woman was someone who was here before the corruption event. Therefore, she knew how much their majestic World Tree and her forces had sacrificed during the years to keep the seemingly peaceful atmosphere in the city.

Liu Shu chuckled. “Thank you. Then, I wanted to ask you to gather these materials if possible. Send them to the <Lignified Vault>’s treasurer.” Liu Shu paused. “Oh, and forget about waiving the costs. I am not so poor that I can’t pay for my own things, haha. I’ll buy everything at twice the retail price since it is not something too extraordinary.”

The receptionist saw the gorgeous root pointing at the scroll, and she took it as if she were dealing with the most precious material in the world. This was a scroll written by her Ladyship, the World Tree herself! ‘Lady World Tree doesn’t know it, but the written scroll is probably already valuable enough to buy whatever is written in here!’

After Liu Shu saw her read everything once, she asked curiously. “So… Is it possible?”

The woman was slightly surprised at the number of materials. ‘This many things are enough to build an entire building… building?’ Her eyes couldn’t help but glance at the buffs glowing gorgeously at the corner of her eyes. ‘Don’t tell me…’

Still, she didn’t say anything and nodded with an extremely serious face. “I will create the job and post it as fast as possible. Thank you for your patience, Lady World Tree.”

“And thank you for your attentiveness. I’ll be waiting.” Liu Shu slowly hid her root below the ground, fixing it as if nothing had happened. 

Once Liu Shu’s presence disappeared, everyone who had been frozen exploded into discussions. 

“That was Lady World Tree’s voice? It is so dreamy! Ahh!”

“Right? Right? I told you when I listened to it once in the past, and you didn’t believe me!”

“Lady World Tree’s presence is indeed as vast as her canopy.”

“Long Live Lady World Tree!”

The highest manager of this area approached the receptionist and told her with a solemn face. “Place Lady World Tree’s request at the very top of the priority list. Also, you don’t need to do any other work until this task is completed! You will also be promoted to a second-level manager.”

The receptionist nodded. “Understood, Sir. I will make sure the request is completed as fast as possible!”

Once the job post was placed at the top of all the lists, everyone approached, eager to contribute to it.

Liu Shu was notified 3 hours later that all the materials had been gathered and that the cost was around 400 <Bren>, leaving her speechless. ‘So cheap? Also… They are more efficient than Flor and the others.’

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