Chapter 2102

Chapter 2102

Congratulations! You have completed the Animal Handling I Path! You have begun to develop a relationship with the animals you are raising due to proximity and kindness. Some consider the connection between owner and livestock to be no other than a transactional one. However, your experience allows you a deeper influence over them. Despite the fact that you will someday slaughter them for their parts, you treat them with respect during their lives. For that, they are happy.

Congratulations! Stamina +100. Congratulations! You have learned the Skill Rugged Ranching (R)!

Rugged Ranching (R): The ability to raise healthy and high-quality livestock in strange and harsh environments. Gives you an innate sense of the quality of the livestock and helps you assist them in adapting to their current environment. Effect decreases with distance. You have an intuitive sense of their needs and location. Slightly boosts their rate of growth and the quality of their bodies. There is an extremely small chance the animals will rapidly adapt and evolve into a new species. Specificity of location and effect increases with Skill Level. Chance of rapid evolution slightly increases with Skill Level.

Congratulations! Your Skill Tapestry of Ten Thousand Radiances (M) has grown to Level 279!

In a way, going through the Path was indeed very distracting for Randidly. At the same time, it was not distracting in the way he wanted, although he was slightly intrigued by the possibilities of Rugged Ranching in the Second Cohort. No, the Path completion became distracting because he could suddenly feel the way Paths work.

From a huge pool of sky-blue energy swirling within him, grains flew out and began to arrange themselves into a particular pattern. He watched it form, growing larger and more complete with every PP he put into the path. It wasn’t a Nether Ritual and it wasn’t an Engraving, either. The shape was fascinating. Due to how small the Path was, it quickly had assumed a profound shape and activated.

The energy and pattern began to burn, generating all the benefits that he received, which he saw as a silver radiance settling across his body. The Path was short, so the energy-light from it was extremely dim. The benefit sprinkled on him was lost almost immediately amongst the burning inferno that was his own energetic body. Yet there was something intriguing about the way the energy transitioned.

That is how Paths work. Individuals generate raw, natural energy and Paths take it and process it into very specific, rigid forms, Randidly pursed his lips. Theoretically, it would be much more efficient to keep it in its raw state and use it as needed. However... even for the current me, that would be an exhausting usage... But what the hell was that pattern it used...?

Congratulations! Your Skill Tapestry of Ten Thousand Radiances (M) has grown to Level 333!

Randidly refocused; further experimentation and observation could wait until later.

As his new Skill continued to rapidly tick up, there was an interesting struggle to remain overwhelming. First, he gained Skill Levels and could gather more information. He could see the light and energy in a larger and larger space. Had it not been for how long he had worked with patterns in the past, he might have been almost completely submerged in everything he now saw. On the other hand, he was rapidly adjusting. For now, he teetered on remaining somewhat overwhelmed.Visitt novelbin(.)co/m for the latest updates

But as with all Levels, Tapestry of Ten Thousand Radiances began slowing its rise. Randidly took another breath, settling into the new awareness of energy even in just the act of breathing. He returned his attention to his Path screen, now possible to view without feeling queasy, and blazed through a few more related Paths.

Congratulations! You have completed the Cultivator of Nature Path! You have developed the base tools to depart the beaten Path on your way to the Pinnacle and sculpt the environment into a more hospitable form around you. The worst sort of areas become treasured environments under your hands. Although this slows your journey, you leave a legacy of warmth and development behind you.

Not only do you release the signature energy of the Origin Beasts to nurture life, but you also have begun to recover their unique knack for recognizing the correct sort of individuals to help thrive. The efficiency of using your natural energy has vastly increased. All creatures react positively to your energy. The area covered by your influence has vastly increased. Within this sphere, there are layers of differing effects.

In your immediate area, all things thrive. Growth is abundant and rapid. In the area beyond that, most living things are attracted. Feed and aromatic flowers multiply and spread. In the area beyond that, wild mutations occur frequently. In the area beyond that, all living things feel a strange sense of natural contentment when they interact with the world.

Randidly took another breath as he observed the rather large final Path. By the end, the cost had risen to five thousand PP to finish the Primordial Agriculturist Path, which essentially depleted all the saved-up PP he had been maintaining since the Alpha Cosmos Tithe. However, he could also feel a part of him settling into a new and yet somehow comfortable role.

He raised his head and looked out at the world. Works extremely well with the Skill provided by the Pantheon. They framed the world as threads of energy... and this awakening of my influence from Origin Beasts let me embrace that more naturally. I’m a part of this wide tapestry.

He reached up and cracked his neck and then stood. The world was still a gleaming neon wonderland, but Randidly could accept that. Perhaps it wasn’t even a shift in awareness, Randidly mused as he walked out to the farm. Within the ground, he could feel the burning embers of each planted carrot seed. The rising apple trees seemed like bright, proud spears of energy. The land walruses released a warm green-blue light as they hooted and rolled around.

Perhaps it was better to consider the shift one that allowed him to appreciate the wonder of what happened all around him.

Congratulations! Your Skill Tapestry of Ten Thousand Radiances (M) has grown to Level 399!

Congratulations! Your Skill Heritage of the Bountiful Origin Beast (T) has grown to Level 2!

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Congratulations! Your Skill Heritage of the Bountiful Origin Beast (T) has grown to Level 50!

Pulses of white light periodically spread out from Randidly’s body and radiated out into the surroundings. He observed these waves of pure light sinking into the nearby energy threads and biting out small bits of dimness. With each pulse, the energy of each living thing in the environment was strengthened.

The pulses weakened with each purification until they dissipated. But as the nearby plants required less reinforcement, the pulses traveled further and began to establish the various zones described in the Skill.

At this rate, it will take a while to adjust the environment to its ideal state, Randidly scratched his chin. Then he shrugged. Well, I wasn’t in a hurry. I’ll give myself a day to recover and adjust, three days of shaping up the farm to incorporate all of the shifts... then its time I visit the third core of negative emotion. I’ve let these pieces of myself lay and rust for too long.