Path of Dragons - A LitRPG Apocalypse (BOOK TWO ON KINDLE SEPT. 2)

Elijah rested his hand against Treebie’s trunk, the pulse of the tree’s spirit sending shockwaves through his soul. He bore it with equanimity, having long since grown accustomed to the tree’s uniquely powerful presence.

Over the course of the past year, Treebie’s roots had grown to encompass the entire continent and had even progressed beneath the ocean. Elijah had inspected the areas where those roots had emerged, and he was both delighted and surprised to find that they were entirely unaffected by the submersion.

That fact addressed an issue that had agonized Elijah ever since he’d begun to realize that Treebie’s roots would one day grow across the whole planet. At the time, he’d worried that they would be incapable of surviving such an environment. Most trees couldn’t. But as always, Treebie had proven just how unique of an entity he was.

More, he’d shown Elijah that his worries were unfounded. The tree seemed more than capable of thriving in just about any environment.

Otherwise, his roots had also made significant progress regarding depth, and after surrounding the core, they’d begun to grow to the opposite side of the planet. Elijah was eager to discover if they would emerge from the surface or if they’d simply start to grow outward once they reached the other side.

During that time, Elijah had also completed the final ring system, though his efforts were assisted significantly by M’yakein’s population of builders. They’d insisted on helping him map out the inner rings, though they had left the actual carving to him. It seemed like such a small thing, but it had allowed him to jump right from the outer ring to the inner circles, saving him a significant amount of time.

Even so, he’d only completed it a few days ago.

The results were better than he could have expected, with the ambient vitality skyrocketing as Treebie’s roots went to work terraforming the terrain. Elijah still intended to treat the continent the same way he’d treated everything else, by spreading plant life into living rune circles, but at that moment, he was content with the progress.

In fact, he’d begun to wonder if the stone circles were even necessary anymore. Treebie seemed entirely capable of terraforming the planet alone, though Elijah reasoned that any help he could provide would simply speed up the process.

To his surprise, Elijah had also managed to gain four more levels since gaining his demi-god class. Most of that progress came from building the circles and maintaining Druhmor, which was a bit of a change from his previous classes. He’d always gotten experience from growing things and healing, but the amounts had never compared to what he gained from combat.

Combat was still much faster – as evidenced by the results of his various monster killing sprees – but he was still impressed by how much progress he’d gained just by playing gardener.

Regardless, when he looked at his status, he couldn’t help but smile: