World Seed

Author’s Corner: Good evening everyone! Enjoy the chapter.

After Yin came back, she continued to escort Yang around the elven village, promising to take care of her. I wasn’t sure if the two of them were literally sisters, or just treated each other that way because they were both my animal companions, but it was nice to see that Yin wasn’t getting mad at her anymore. There’s only so much space on that small ship and in my grove, getting angry at each other doesn’t really help anyone.

Anyways, our stay in the elven village lasted a few more days before the first of the two druids managed to successfully complete all five element seeds and fused them together. When they successfully completed their grove, they were again amazed at this new aspect of their power, and wanted to fully explore it. Naturally, I first made sure that he was willing to teach the other druids, and even watched him help the second one through this final breakthrough.

Out of these two druids, neither of them had chosen the path of a Xeno-Shifter or a Colony Druid. One wanted to be a Plant Lord, while the other wanted to be something he called an Earthshaker. According to Celeste, it was a druid that specialized heavily in the earth element. Not an uncommon choice, but not exactly one that we could help with. As such, I could only direct the two of them towards whatever information Celeste had left in the elven networks.

Of course, our attack on the bosses did not stop during this time. Although we did not go up to personally witness the destruction of the other five, they were all killed over a matter of days. Apparently, Celeste had to go back and attack the spider boss’s location three more times to completely clear out all of the little pests that had hidden away. As for the dragons, they were all wiped out with one direct hit. The mountain golem didn’t fight back or resist at all, even though it took two shots to fully kill it. And for the ice wolf… well, according to Celeste, it literally melted under the orbital laser.

Once the two druids had been trained, and the bosses killed, we spent a day touring around the elven world, taking a look at their cities. The high elf cities were really quite impressive, holding large metal buildings instead of the small stone shacks of the wood elves. While we were in the city, I made sure to spread out my Mana Sense and properly study the high elves’ auras to add it to my collection. Although they physically looked very similar to wood elves, their ears were slightly shorter and their bodies a bit taller.

Before we left Gerin 6, we even met with High Queen Maeve in person. Though, this time there were guards present so she was using a business-like demeanor. The purpose of the visit was very simple, and she wanted to thank us for the help we have given to her planet and her people. She told us that, for our services thus far, we could ask any reward we wished, even a place in a royal castle. Sure enough, she was hinting that she wanted us to hook up with Talia, and seemed a bit disappointed when we declined.

Finally, before we left, she asked that we visit one last time before we left the system, to receive a reward arranged by all three High Queens. Celeste made sure that I agreed, even though she wouldn’t tell me why. Anyways, after that we left to visit the other worlds, but all we really did there was blast the bosses from orbit. Apparently, Gerin Prime had already taken out another two boss monsters by the time we got to it, using their biological weapons. The remaining monsters were all made of inorganic materials, so doing the same thing again wasn’t really an option.

Thankfully, none of the monsters were light elementals or something that could just shake off the laser. This made dealing with them just a matter of time. However, one of them was tricky, and required us to build a specialized bomb to deal with it. This was because it was buried deep underground, and would only surface when it was ready to eat. After getting the local High Queen’s approval, we(Celeste) spent a few days constructing a bomb that would not harm the planet itself, and made sure to accurately target the monster with it, sending it straight into the thing’s stomach.

Not surprisingly, this teleport took all of our remaining power, and I had to store Sharon in my grove while switching to my void elf body until I recharged the generator. We really needed to get a few upgrades here…

Oh, something I forgot to mention before. I managed to find a way to use this to power level myself! Though it’s not completely effective, I gained a few levels from doing it. After slaying some of the boss monsters who were safe to approach after death, or who managed to leave behind some of their body, I used my Soul Arts to slowly purify their aura before absorbing it into myself. It felt strange doing it this way, but after I got back to the ship I would then ‘share’ the absorbed aura with the others. This gave me a rather interesting ability.