Chapter 311: Tree
There were monsters growing in a garden in the Devil’s Den.
To be more accurate, the garden was below the Devil’s Den. That may have arguably been worse, but Lillia was almost entirely certain that the monsters were never going to get out. She’d fattened them up so much that she was confident they’d never have any desire to venture forth from the stone cellar that she’d spent the majority of her free time over the past few days working on.
Ridley had made a large, multi-room cellar back when he’d expanded the tavern a short while ago. Lillia hadn’t been quite sure what to do with all of it at the time. She didn’t have enough ingredients to fill the entire place, so there were just several rooms that had sat empty.
They could probably have been turned into rooms, but there was definitely something about living in the basement of a monster-themed tavern that felt like it was just a little bit too cursed.
And so the extra rooms in the cellar had sat empty in wait of use — right up until she’d gotten the [Hellish Nurturing] Title from the Mesh as part of the Menagerie’s rewards for destroying the Ashleaf Tree.
It had been a rather interesting title, simultaneously descriptive and also almost entirely useless at telling her the full extent of what it allowed.
[Hellish Nurturing] - Your dominion over the Hearth spreads to even the weeds that push their way up between the stones. Plants that you grow within the area of your home will be empowered and take on magical effects.
It was clear bait. The Mesh wanted her to see what the Title was capable of, but it hadn’t stopped there.
When she’d reached Journeyman 1, one of the skills it had offered her had been [Turn-ip the Grave]. The skill had been so stupid sounding that she’d been forced to take a closer look at it.