Weapon Log

Weapon Log

Year 115

The demon king didnt come this year. The entire year though, the heroes were out and about attacking and fighting any demon walkers that appear. This time, they mostly resemble regular demons.

No unusual demons. The large demon champion or demon walker-class monsters were just giant upright demons with massive wings, massive claws that resembled something out of typical RPG games.

Its a good thing, I think. Just regular demonic monsters that look demonic. As the heroes travelled the world to fight demons, they occasionally dropped by.

This year, Harris managed to obtain another 15 spell matrices of very good quality, so the heroes now have 25 crystals, of which, I kept 4, so each of them have 21 crystals, with 3 charges each. 63 charges. These crystals are far superior to the ones used by the mages from last year that created the defensive matrices. They contain more runes, and various crystals meant to absorb a different aspect of a spell or abilitys effects. Its through a combination of all the components within the spell matrices, that they are able to store a wood shield that contains almost 90% of my real wood shields power.

Its impressive crafting, and something Harris paid a lot of good money for.

I come here so often I probably should set a teleportation beacon here.

If you want to set it, set it up in Freshka. Not here.

Of course. Its good that the [message] system is partly online. Even if it takes a bit of... work. Thanks to extensive clearing of the demonic sludge, and the conversion of more hybrid trees into my network, Im able to suppress the effects of the magical interference, and so, [message] can now work, but it must be routed through the southern exits. Kind of like having to build telecommunication towers around an impassable mountain.

Without Astra, the heroes no longer have a flexible teleportation system, so theyre forced to use the teleportation system of the natives, which meant portal magic, like the one used by Madeus when I healed the Princess.

Harris was not a mage, so if he wanted to use portal magic, he had to use a beacon and a scroll. Something normal mages didnt, since they could manipulate the portal magic spell directly.

Of course, this is a good lesson. Just like me, as a tree, there are some things Im naturally better at. Like offensive abilities, mine is very low, if not for all the other boosts I get. The class system, while it works to amplify certain skills, at higher levels is quite limiting.

Why dont you take mage classes? Curious, I asked Harris

I already have 5 classes. Shield Hero, Warrior King. Weaponmaster, Inquisitor and Master Trader.

Dont some of those overlap? Why not remove it?

I needed their offensive abilities to cover my defensive focused [Shield Hero] class, else I would be quite useless in the battle against the demon king, and magic didnt synchronise well with my base hero class.

Then the trader class?

My kingdom was poor when I started. The Master Trader skill gave my kingdom some financial boost.

Oh.

5 classes for a human hero? Vissit novelbin(.)c.om for updates

You must be very high leveled.

If I add everything up, Im almost level 220. But I think thats not how it works, because one hero level converts to about 4-5 normal class levels at the higher normal class levels, and if you divide it up using that principle, Im probably about level 140 or so.

So your base hero is about... level 120?

Yes, about there. With 40 or so levels in King, and about 20 levels each in the other 3 classes.

You havent unlocked a domain?

Whats that?

...Nothing.

In terms of pure hero levels, Gerrards the highest because he only traded away 10 hero levels for his 45 levels in Master Brewer. So his hero class level is 135. Embarrassing, isnt it, to think that Gerrard the Drunkard actually managed to keep most of his hero levels, and we two, the sane ones supposedly, traded more of our hero levels away. Harris said, he placed his cup on the table.

Is this supposed to be some kind of classified information? I asked. Levels doesnt seem like something one should state out publicly.

On the contrary, as King, its in my interest to publicly state my levels. My levels help to encourage and convince the citizens of my ability to protect them, and the benefits that we have. Assassins are deterred by the fact that Im so high level that they dont even bother. But my children.... Well... they have reasons to keep their levels secret.

Its kind of like some games where the heroes have the option to unlock upgrades and buy new equipment without actually having to go to a blacksmith or physical shop. The system handled those nitty gritty stuff on their behalf.

The rest of us plebeians just have to do it the old fashioned way. But, observing how one of them used it constantly made me learn more about how the system did it, and I developed a better understanding behind the process of making their heroic weapons, and as a result, I got my skills upgraded.

[Skill : Woodshaping significantly upgraded.]

[Skill : Subsidiary Tree option expanded. Woodshaping Workshop unlocked!]

Im not sure why Harris is quite amicable with me. Why couldnt I have such a relationship with Meela and Alexis? Where did I go wrong? Or was it them that did it wrong?

They must be alive, right? I didnt get a notification. What have they been doing the past twenty years?

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I shifted my focus back on the hybrids, and the growing Freshkans and Freshlands. To me, their segments 1 to 10, but each of them refer to themselves differently, and they have names that I felt too lazy to even remember.

Kavio too, came rather frequently to provide briefings. Hes gradually getting used to the role, and to ease his mental state, I made a [tree of prayers] at the meeting place, and told him to present it as if he is talking to the smaller, much, much more peaceful looking tree of prayer instead. Its a mental crutch, because apparently his [fear] charms broke every other week.

The regular updates are mainly for news, diplomatic activities, things that I cant see using my trees.

Jasmine, Ivys replacement has been hard at work securing the border together with Trevor and Dimitree, and I made three more artificial souls to help oversee my massive territory. I named them Acacia, Brootus, Cyprus, and their task is well, to monitor the new refugees, and ensure that the Protected Forests remain protected.

How about some more beetles? Horns asked. We represent massive untapped potential, master! Imagine it, an army of massive hero-level beetles.

And I agreed. Its been too long since I made more subordinates, and now is the time for massive expansion.

Exponential growth!

Alright, I actually struggle with that concept.

So I made two more artificial souls to accompany Horns. I named them Bugsy, and Thorex, and sent them out to gain levels. They need to fight monsters, demons, to hit their level caps, but Horns was just super eager to show off to his two new juniors.

I think Horns is going to be quite useless in actual combat against the demon king, since, well... theyre too powerful.

I need to think about activating my Titan Walker, preferably with a heros soul. Maybe its a good thing that Harris is close to me. If he somehow dies of old age Ill get the soul. Oh and Lilies. I better check in with them.

> Hold on to it. We do not need it. <

> Gods champions destroyed, a decade of slaughter. Still, the world recovers, and life finds a way. <

It didnt answer me.

Seeing that I wasnt going anywhere with it, I went back to my own affairs. My attention is back on my large territory, and the hybrid trees.

Within each protected forest there are patches of demonic hybrid trees. Im beginning to understand them, at least, their inner structure.

In a way, imagine a natural tree that has to deal with an overabundance of oil, and part of its chemical reaction is to manage the oil surplus in the environment. Naturally, they may try to break down the oil, or burn the oil, or store the oil somewhere. The demonic tree reacts to the natural mana, air and water, and so it spends these natural mana the way it knows, which is to blow it up.

In a greenhouse environment tailored to them, theyre probably just as harmless as a normal tree.

Something tries to make trees that are adapted to the environment. I suspect, maybe its the spawning system.

Perhaps theres a spawning god, whos main job is just to populate the world. Quite like playing a strategy game with randomly generated maps and enemies. In its logic it tries to create something that suits the environment.

Now it would be quite lame if this entire thing is just a game, no?

[Skill : Hybrid Botany upgraded]

[Control over hybrid trees improved]