<h4>Chapter 184: Life is Hard</h4>


    While Zonyan’s group was diligently setting the stage for the yers ahead of their era of great voyages, Xi Wei waspiling yer data following the new version update.


    But since Rangers were not an especially popr ss in the first ce, there was no telling if the new Junglewalker ss was well-received amongst the yers.


    That said, the yers seemed were very epting of the Life Skills setting.


    Despite the need to spend their precious skill points for learning Life Skills, Xi Wei could tell from the data of his Pantheon Computer that ny percent of yers had learned more than one Life Skill.


    It seemed that they had understood that fighting wasn’t the only path to gaining EXP.


    Furthermore, as a surprise Easter Egg, Xi Wei deliberately left one matter unmentioned: Life Skills could boost the yers’ individual stats and ss.


    As an example, learning Butcher or Dissect and improving those skill levels to a certain degree makes it easier to attack the enemy’s weak point with sharp weapons.


    On the other hand, certain Life Skills would boost other Life Skills as well. A point in case is the increase of potion skills with a sufficiently high level in Herbalism—a boost that not only presents itself in the data. As a matter of fact, yers were actually familiarizing themselves with various medicinal herbs when they grow magical flora, and therefore brewing potions with those nts became easier...


    One should also mention here that—for whatever reason, Herbalism had be the most popr Life Skill amongst the yers.


    At first, Xi Wei thought that it was a good thing and that the yers had ir, imagining that he would find Starter Vige surrounded in a beautiful sea of flowers.


    But he became speechless when he energized his Divine Eye to look down in the mortal realm.


    ***


    When Xi Wei was constructing paths in the Unnamed Town, he had carefully set aside flower patios on both sides of the paths for ntation.


    As a matter of fact, he would have considered that the yers had some romantic sense if they had nted something with bright emerald leaves, beautiful flowers, or delicious fruits.


    The problem was that the patios were now overgrown with all unusual manner of magical herbs.


    And man-eating flowers that could gulp down an entire goblin was the most basic of them.


    Others include a magical herb that looked like pair of buttocks that kept ejecting smelly yellow gas from the crack down its middle; a seemingly normal nt which roots grows into human shape and could unleash a wailing which could petrify actual humans[1]; a nt that grows into a shape resembling Hydras andshes out at any living thing that came too close with its serpentine tendrils; a nt that looked like a Bellsprout but was actually a peashooter...


    It appears that a weird trend had started amongst the yers at some unknown point in time. They grow the weirdest sort of magical herbs, and use them as a point of bragging to other yers.


    Xi Wei could not help being left speechless. He had assumed that the yers would greenify the Unnamed Town, and so rechecked the Authority with which he used toplete the Life Skill ‘Herbalism’—that was when he realized that aside from the normal definition of nting, he had also incorporated the ability of grafting and nurturing mutated attributes into that skill.


    At first, he thought that there was nothing wrong with introducing those weird abilities at all since he did hope for some Grand Druid to rise amongst his yers.


    Be that as it may, he just didn’t imagine that after the yers had obtained seeds of magical nts from Alchemist Kinley and sessfully sowed those seeds, their skill automatically altered the nt magically to those indescribable states.


    The reality was that the yers never realized that Xi Wei had sneakily grown wild edible paddy nts by a pond nearby the Unnamed Town, let alone having them develop into Grand Druids... not to mention that the magical nts they grew were like ligers that only looked good but could not reproduce at all.


    Still, the reality made one reality clear for Xi Wei: He had underestimated the yers’ stupidity.


    ‘Are you wretches trying to y nts Versus Zombies?!’


    “I knew I shouldn’t have put my hopes on them...”


    Feeling a migraine, Xi Wei briskly opened the yer forums and find a silly post to entertain himself with, before having a nap—though he did not require sleep as a deity, he deliberately maintained some human habits perhaps because he didn’t want to be utterly assimted as a deity and be lost within divinity.


    Sleeping was one of those mentioned habits, although he would only nap for a dozen minutes in a week. Still, it would stabilize his divine attributes that had been getting bloated recently due to rapid leveling as well as adjust his mood, which wasn’t a real waste of time.


    At the moment, aside from the two top posts ‘Picking Manure Between the Rocks’ and ‘I Scream’ which the yers manually pinned above the forums, there was another trending post uploaded by Edward the Quest Demon.


    [Title: Life is Hard]


    [Edward: Damn it! We spent five days running about the forest and almost actually reached the heart of the Trinia Forests! And now all of you are telling me that the gathering quest for Dragontail Ferns which Lady Kinley assigned could be grown with Herbalism?! Someone tell me this is all an illusion—that it’s fake, that it’s all lies!]


    [Leah: It’s true, I nted it (image attached)]


    [Boris: It’s true, I nted it (image attached)]


    [Vanke: It’s true, this old man nted it (image attached)]


    [Terrosche: Have you seen this Dragontail Fern (image attached)? No, it’s neither wilted or lost, I just wanted everyone to see this Dragontail Fern which was branded ‘excellent’!]


    [Edward: (blocked for use of vulgarnguage)]


    [Terrosche: I wanted to see that look of your face. That look of you, envying me!]


    [Leah: No, you can’t see it... since he’s not in town]


    [Gou Dan: Be careful, Terrosche. Edward just attempted suicide to return to town]


    [Terrosche: ...]


    [Angora: Borrowing this post. Does anyone know who nted that man-eating flower down at the south part of town? That thing turned gigantic yesterday and gulped down a yer—owner of the nt, please proceed to the liege’s residence and be awarded with your paid summons]


    [Ivan: Anyone saw Marni? We were supposed to meet at the Iron Cauldronst night but he never showed up]


    [Angora: Waste of time. The victim was Marni]


    [Ivan: ...]


    [Ivan: No wonder he just passed me in the Thunder leaderboard]


    [Jom: @Edward I just asked Lady Kinley. She told me that wild Dragontail Ferns has better medicinal propertiespared to the ones yers nted, and she would provide additional rewards if wild ones are gathered]


    [Edward: Oh thanks, that’s better. I would really have died to return if not for your message]


    [Joe: Yeah, the Trinia Forests is boring and rarely any monsters showed up. If we knew, we would have gone with you all to fight the Marsh Drake]


    [Gou Dan: Hey, buddies... We might have run into a problem (image attached) (image attached) (image attached)]


    Xi Wei’s drowsiness faded the moment he saw the images Gou Dan took. “Oh, ho... interesting.”


    Promptly energizing Divine Eye, he looked in their direction.


    [1] Harry Potter’s Mandrakes