As Ram reviewed the details, a few changes caught his attention.
First, the race of the creature had shifted to a Beeman variant of the Wood Spirit, clearly reflecting its transformation.
Its quality had increased from ordinary to Elite, and its level was now a full Silver Tier—compared with its early silver tier. These boosts had improved its physique and spirit stats significantly.
Its racial traits had also adapted. Some were strengthened, and a new characteristic had emerged: Wood Spirit Body.
It enhanced maximum health and recovery speed, functioning like a smaller-scale version of Ram's own Life Spirit Body. This feature alone would make the Hive Guard more resilient than any ordinary creature of its type.
As for skills, there didn't appear to be any drastic additions, but the upgraded racial traits and improved quality clearly made the creature stronger and more versatile.
Looking at his Lord's panel again, the Territorial Population also increased by two, although he doesn't know how useful they can be, he glanced at the newly transformed Hive Guards with a sense of accomplishment.
"Using this method, unlike other Lords, I don't need to worry about not having enough soldiers to fight, all I need to do was to collect enough souls and resurrect them into Wood Spirits." Ram continued to check his own attribute panel and found that his experience also increased slightly from the feedback.
However, the 0.7% increase was very small compared to his current upgrade requirement, looking at it he couldn't help but mutter, "Damm... Unless I cultivate Tier 4 spiritual plants or Wood Spirits, I won't gain much experience from Tier 3 alone."
"At this rate, I won't be able to upgrade fast enough if I only concentrate on Tier 3, but upgrading any one of them to Tier 4 seemed like it needs thousands of points of Life energy and Spiritual power each." He continued to ponder, looking back at the Beeman who are adjusting to the new environment.
Leaving the newly transformed Hive Guards to adapt, Ram reached into his storage space and retrieved a small, palm-sized card marked with intricate patterns.
This was a storage card—he'd purchased earlier from the alliance store, loaded with seeds he selected. Crushing it lightly, he watched as a large group of seeds appeared, hovering momentarily before he swept them all into his inventory.
These weren't the seeds that enhance the personal attributes or perception, but the housing seeds he brought for the cavemen or other creatures to settle inside his space
Two hundred seeds floated in his hands—that cost him a hundred points of source power, but Ram knew the long-term benefits made it worthwhile.
Once fully grown, each housing seed would slowly absorb 'Ideal power' or 'Thought power' leaked from its inhabitants, slowly converting it into source power, and storing it for later use.
As you can know Source power is produced from the mixture of all kinds of thought power, whether positive thoughts or negative thoughts, which is a higher-level energy compared to Reiki.
It's not as pure as the Power of Faith, he saw before, but at the same level, and because of its unorthodox nature, it is hard for creatures to absorb it.
Even if someone tries to absorb it forcefully, their mind will get corrupted, turning them into bloodthirsty monsters.
Thus far, only The Divine Spirit Tree possesses the ability to freely absorb source power and create miraculous things with it, like creating Monster dens and so on.
Maybe there might be other creatures or spiritual plants like the Ancient tree of Elves, that can use source power like the Divine Spirit Tree, but Ram didn't know much about them.
Coming back to the housing seeds over time, these seeds could generate a steady supply of source power—according to Su Xing, most Lords use similar types of spiritual plants or other devices to gather more Source power.
Silver
]
[ Quality:
Elite
]
[ Type:
Housing Plant
]
[ Traits:
Source Power Collector, Resilient Structure, Growth Adaptability - Minor Healing Aura
]
[ Source Power Collector:
Slowly absorbs source power, storing it within its core. This power can be harvested periodically once every five days, with a maximum capacity of 0/100 source power
]
[ Resilient Structure:
The outer layer has a natural resistance to harsh weather and low-level physical attacks, ensuring durability in rough conditions and self-regeneration abilities.
]
[ Growth Adaptability - Minor Healing Aura:
Gradually transforms the surplus Reiki into an absorbable Life Aura, that can increase the speed of recovery by an additional 100%
]
"Perfect," Ram murmured, pleased with the Leaf-Dome Housing Plants, just then when he was about to close the attribute panel, his vision was flooded with continuous prompts that appeared one by one, asking him, whether to save the following skills from all two hundred plants.