0042 – Athena Upgrades and Her nt Spirits
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<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px">Athena Ravencroft</td>
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<td style="height:24px;text-align:right" colspan="2">Experience:</td>
<td style="width:50%;height:24px;padding-left:40px">490</td>
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<td style="text-align:right;height:24px" colspan="2">Title:</td>
<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px">[ Hunter ] (Locked)</td>
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<td style="text-align:right;height:24px" colspan="2">Race:</td>
<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px">Human</td>
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<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px">Female</td>
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<td style="text-align:right;height:24px" colspan="2">Strength:</td>
<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px"><strong>5</strong></td>
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<td style="text-align:right;height:24px" colspan="2">Speed:</td>
<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px"><strong>5</strong> (↑0.4)</td>
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<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px"><strong>5</strong> (↑0.1)</td>
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<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px">4.8 (↑1.2)</td>
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<td style="width:50%;padding-left:40px;height:24px">Attachment</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Speed has reached the current maximum value!
Agility has reached the current maximum value!
Please break through the barrier as soon as possible!
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Extraction Sessful!
5 points in Speed Skill: Hunter! (Active Skill)
5 points in Agility Skill: Boneless!</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center"><span style="color:ccff">--> Skills Overview <--
<span style="color:ccff">[ Attachment ]
<span style="color:ccff">(Attaches strength to the weapon, enhancing the weapon''s attribute attack power,
<span style="color:ccff">with an extremely low probability of triggering a fatal state!)
<span style="color:ccff">[ Hunter ]
<span style="color:ccff">(Legs gain amplification effect, burst speed increases by 10%, cooldown time is one day per use.)
<span style="color:ccff">[ Boneless ]
<span style="color:ccff">(Greatly enhances body flexibility, able to perform some extremely difficult actions.)</td>
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Because of consuming the Light Fruit,ying a good foundation, this time allocating points was much less painfulpared to the previous two times. More so, she felt a warm flow passing through her body, enhancing every bone. The clear sensation of bing stronger and flexible was so intoxicating.
Athena opened her eyes again to find that the world around her had slowed down, the mes burning in the stove, taking a while to flicker, Mikmik''s ws swiping towards Witty, much slower than imagined. With just one step forward, she had already grabbed them both in her hands.
"Meow?" Mikmik couldn''t understand when its boss had learned teleportation? Witty felt lucky to have escaped.
To adapt quickly, Athena walked around the room more than once until she gradually adjusted, then sat back on the bed.
The nt spirits huddled together in fear, only daring to stay on the vegetable box. Athena tried tofort them as before, but they started sobbing in fear. Mikmik and Witty also came over to watch themotion, which frightened the nt spirits even more.
As for Paopao, it didn''t care much; it just aimed for the vegetable box below the nt spirits. The vegetable box was transparently packaged, and one could clearly see bamboo shoots inside.
It just reached over and pulled the box over, holding it in its arms. With nowhere tond, the nt spirits fluttered their wings around Paopao. Athena didn''t stop Paopao from approaching because she found that the nt spirits didn''t seem to resist Paopao''s approach.
She coaxed them gently, but Paopao, being indifferent, just grabbed things as soon as it approached, and they gathered around.
What kind of world was this? I''m so jealous!
Sighed.
The emotions of the five little nt spirits had eased, and Athena began to consider where to ce them. It wasn''t practical to put them outside the shelter, and inside the courtyard, she couldn''t care for them during monster attacks. She couldn''t use the workshop for a while either, as it had a wooden house for protection and a smelting furnace with suitable indoor temperatures.
She opened the system''s trading interface. There were all kinds of seeds and trees. She hadn''t considered nting before because in this uncertain world, perhaps the nts hadn''t sprouted yet when people were already gone. But now things were different; with nt spirits, the nt''s growth cycle could be significantly shortened.
Looking at the prices of various goods, Athena ultimately sold those five iron pieces to the system.
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Sell or Not</td>
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"Sell"
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Congrattions on receiving ten silver coins.</td>
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She needed to keep 100 silver coins for scene simtion, and ten silver coins to buy cooling wind chimes. Now she needed to buy some seeds, but she simply didn''t have enough to spend!
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center" colspan="2">[ Peach Tree Seeds ]</td>
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<td style="width:71.8182%;padding-left:40px">10 copper coins</td>
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<td style="width:28.1818%;text-align:right">Description:</td>
<td style="width:71.8182%;padding-left:40px">nt it, and if you live long enough, you might taste delicious peaches.</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center" colspan="2">[ Cabbage Seeds ]</td>
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<td style="width:28.1818%;text-align:right">Price:</td>
<td style="width:71.8182%;padding-left:40px">2 copper coins</td>
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<td style="width:28.1818%;text-align:right">Description:</td>
<td style="width:71.8182%;padding-left:40px">Deliciousrge cabbage, who wouldn''t want to eat it?</td>
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With a wide variety of choices, each one tempting Athena, but she remained unmoved. She only had five nt spirits, definitely not enough for all these basic nts. Scrolling down, she finally saw what she wanted.
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center" colspan="2">[ Orange Tree Seeds (Mutated) ]</td>
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<td style="width:28.1818%;text-align:right">Price:</td>
<td style="width:71.8182%;padding-left:40px">10 silver coins</td>
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<td style="width:28.1818%;text-align:right">Description:</td>
<td style="width:71.8182%;padding-left:40px">Can bear oranges that are only sweet and not sour, after mutation, it has even more magical functions; consuming it can instantly eliminate fatigue.</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Note: Only 10% of the fruits produced have special effects!</td>
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After scanning around, Athena found that the ones with good performance weren''t cheap, and she couldn''t afford them. The ones with slightly poorer performance weren''t very useful either, not worth it.
Gritting her teeth, she ced the order, buying an ordinary peach tree, two packs of cabbage seeds, one pack of carrots, and one pack of chili.
This brings one to the system''s ruthless nature; all seeds can only be used once, meaning they cannot be bought, grown into nts, and then used for seed after maturation. Since she bought trees, they couldn''t possibly be nted indoors, and her previous n to nt them in the workshop wouldn''t work either.
After some thought, she decided to nt them in the gaps between the house and the short stone wall.
As long as she blocked the monsters in front of and outside the courtyard, the nt spirits wouldn''t suffer attacks. She asked Paopao to apany her and the five nt spirits out.
At the chosen location, Athena took out the purchased items, all in the form of seeds. She threw the peach tree seeds and orange tree seeds on the ground, and the seeds naturally merged into the ground, quickly taking root and sprouting, growing into saplings.
When the cabbage seeds were scattered, they also merged into the ground naturally, but there was no change; they needed to grow naturally.
Seeing the nts, the nt spirits no longer circled around Paopao but excitedly surrounded the nts.
The originally ordinary trees began to glow from the roots, and the light spread upward; the branches extended with slight tremors. Under the impetus of the spirits'' lives, the trees seemed toe alive.
Each tree had a nt spirit; there was one for the carrot patch, the cabbage patch, and the chili patch. They joyfully circled above the ground, and as they danced, some shiny white powder fell from their wings.
The seeds below sprouted and broke through the soil, all in an instant. Just as Athena was expecting them to grow instantly, their growth slowed down.
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Peach Tree Result: 06.00.00</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Orange Tree Result: 12.00.00</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Cabbage: 02.00.00</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center">Chili: 02.00.00</td>
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Indeed, they were nt spirits; the shortest vegetable harvesting time was only two hours, and two hourster, Athena could eat fresh vegetables.
Since she was already out, she decided to get everything done at once. She took out the just-obtained binding tower blueprint and ced it next to the arrow tower.
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center;height:24px">Build a Bundle Defense Tower?</td>
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center;height:24px">Cost: 1 Bundle Defense Tower Blueprint, 100 Wood Blocks, 50 Stone Blocks</td>
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"Yes"
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After the white light, a triangr tower with special white vines wrapped around it appeared sessfully next to the arrow tower. Then she took out a Fire Defense Tower (Basic) and ced it next to the Defense Tower (Intermediate).
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center;height:24px">Cost: 1 Fire Defense Tower (Basic) Blueprint, 100 Wood Blocks, 50 Stone Blocks</td>
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The Fire Defense Tower looked no different from the ordinary defense tower, except for some me patterns on top.
The ordinary defense tower seems more st-type while the other has fire attribute.
Looking at the neatly arranged row of towers, Athena thought that next time she might have to start cing them from the second row; the courtyard was a bit small.