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Chapter 156 - 148 Forest Priest_1

Chapter 156: Chapter 148 Forest Priest_1

Afterwards, Mu You crafted four more bottles of the Exploding Potion, using up the duration of the Fool’s Boundary.

This potion is quite unique. Even though he now has almost a hundred percent success rate, he still has to create it within the Fool’s Boundary.

Primarily, his resources were limited. It wouldn’t matter if he blew up the other materials or even himself, but he only had one furnace. If that was destroyed in the explosion, he would have nothing to use.

Therefore, he could only keep the boundary activated, just in case.

For the most part, Mu You spent the next stretch of time semi-afk in the game.

He grinded from two in the afternoon until seven in the morning. When his Vampire skin started displaying faint signs of fatigue, Mu You had no choice but to switch to his Watchman skin.

Under the Watchman skin, he couldn’t use the Ghost Cloak. He needed to be more careful. If he got blown up by a self-destructing fish, he had to immediately find seaweed to recover health. If he was blown up twice in a row, he would lose a life, leading to a slew of stumbles and slowed speed.

However, it was still better than not being able to travel during the day on land. Furthermore, the Seahorse he had spent his lifetime hiring couldn’t be wasted; he had to utilise it as much as possible within the 24 hours.

Busy until eight in the morning, Mu You left the space within the backpack and returned to the pet shop.

By now, Little Ya had already arrived for work as usual.

However, her first words after seeing him today delighted Mu You.

"Boss, I got a skin last night!!"

Little Ya looked absolutely ecstatic, running over to brag to Mu You the moment she saw him.

"Oh? How did you get it?" Mu You asked.

"After I got home last night, I logged into the game out of boredom and ran into an injured Little Sprite in the wild. I used an item to bandage it, and it gave me a task to find something in the Elf Forest," Little Ya explained.

"And then you completed the task?"

Mu You was taken aback, "Didn’t you run out of stamina?"

Little Ya had been coming to the shop every morning for him to roll dice, then logging into the game. Typically, she would use up her stamina by noon. Beginner players like them don’t have much stamina to begin with.

"Yes, but it was a time-limited task, I only had half an hour. I felt it was crucial, so I spent some stamina to follow the Little Sprite. In the end, I completed the task, found a deceased Forest Priest under a large tree, and inherited what she left." said Little Ya.

"That easy?"

Mu You was surprised. Her experience was somewhat akin to falling off a cliff and gaining an unbeatable martial arts skill in wuxia novels — a perfect example of a lucky win.

Looks like rolling six-pointer dice every day does have some effect...

"What did the inheritance include?" Mu You asked.

"A Forest Priest skin, a backpack, and a Big Tree House, which is a house carved inside a large tree. I can monitor the entire forest from inside the house. If anything happens in the forest, I’ll be the first to know," Little Ya shared.

"What does the skin look like?"

What Mu You was most curious about was this. To some extent, skins held as much importance as relics and were vital to a player’s strength.

And the inheritance Little Ya mentioned seemed a bit more complicated. Mu You didn’t think it was just a basic skin.

"This is it."

Little Ya transformed right on the spot.

In the blink of an eye, she turned into a tall female elf character with flowing green hair.

The most noticeable features were pointed ears and a pair of antlers on her forehead. The black-green armor she was wearing gave off a natural aura, and her dark green cape, along with her hair color, ensured that she could blend seamlessly into the forest surroundings at any time.

As Little Ya changed into her new skin, Mu You’s Omniscient Crystal also displayed the description.

[Forest Priest: An advanced skin for the Tree Nymph of the forest. One of the guardians of the Elf Forest, responsible for maintaining the daily peace and stability of the forest. They have some powers bestowed by the Nature God, enabling them to persuade the animals in the forest to serve them.

Lifetime Task: Maintain the safety of the Elf Forest. Drive away intruders in the forest or aid injured animals and plants in the forest to recover, add one year to lifespan, one settlement per day at most.]

In layman’s terms, this skin is basically a ranger.

But what surprised Mu You was that it was an advanced skin!

According to his current understanding of the game, it seemed like all advanced skins were unique.

Like his Vampire Earl, which was the advanced version of a regular vampire, directly corresponding to the Count of the Night, Liston. There were also others like the Butcher Wolf, and Saint Thief, all of which corresponded to a specific person in the history of the Star Spirit World.

"Little Ya, what exactly is your skin’s ability?" Mu You asked. All the advanced skins he had seen so far, be it the Butcher Wolf, Saint Thief or Vampire, each ability was incredibly powerful, so Little Ya’s must be too.

"Oh, the power is called ’Natural Persuasion’. It enables me to tame animals that are not higher than my level, turning them into my familiars. The limit of familiars equals my level, but I can only persuade them in the Elf Forest." Little Ya said, as she discretely switched back to her own form. She still felt somewhat embarrassed from revealing her form for the first time.

The number of summoned creatures was limited by level?

Mu You was stunned. This effect was remarkable.

At level 1, you could only have a single summoned creature, which didn’t seem impressive, but by level 10, you could have ten, and by level 20, twenty...

When her level was high enough, just the minions alone could form an army!

This ability was undoubtedly very powerful!

Of course, there were restrictions. Firstly, she could only tame animals within the forest, greatly limiting the types of summons. Secondly, she could only tame animals at or below her level, fundamentally capping the strength of the summons. This meant that the summoned creatures could only be helpers, not fighters.

However, when considering Little Ya’s relic effect, these two restrictions appeared surmountable!

Not only could the Evolution Scepter increase an animal’s level, it had a chance of evolving the animal into a higher level species, which perfectly complemented the persuasion ability of this skin. It was a match made in heaven!

Realizing this, Mu You gradually understood that Little Ya’s skin may not have been obtained purely by luck.

The Little Sprite responsible for issuing tasks could have detected Little Ya’s potential and capability long ago, identifying her as the best successor for the Forest Priest role and deliberately picked her to guide her through the tasks...

"Not bad! It’s a skin that suits you perfectly!" Coming back to reality, Mu You gave her a thumbs-up in praise.

He didn’t share his speculation with Little Ya. Regardless if the Little Sprite did it intentionally or unintentionally, in the end, Little Ya benefitted. That was all that mattered.

"Hehe." Little Ya blushed slightly and chuckled.

"Did you convince any familiars?" Mu You asked. Little Ya was currently level three, theoretically allowing her to persuade three magical beasts.

"Mm, I persuaded a cheetah and a small wild boar. Both are level three. Also, the Little Sprite was the familiar of the former Forest Priest. After I received the inheritance, it automatically became my familiar. The Little Sprite’s ability is to twine around plants, helping to restore their damage."

After listening, Mu You understood. This Little Sprite was probably similar to a Gargoyle, specially assigned familiars to help their owners complete their life tasks.

"In that case, don’t use your Evolution Scepter in reality for now. Raise your pet’s level in the game first." After some consideration, Mu You gave his advice.

Little Ya’s strength mainly came from her summoned creatures. It was only when the summoned creatures kept leveling up that she could gain levels faster and acquire more and stronger creatures.

The characteristic of her skin was growth like a rolling snowball. Once she got the ball rolling, the growth would become faster and faster.

Mu You then rolled a dice for Little Ya as per custom, leading her to the bag space to retrieve the Evolution Scepter.

It seemed the little animals had adapted to the routine over the past few days. At this point every day, they waited eagerly for Little Ya’s arrival. Upon seeing her, they immediately sat down neatly around the Evolution Scepter, like little chicks waiting to be fed.

Seeing this scene, Little Ya couldn’t bear to disappoint the animals. She let them soak in the light for twenty minutes before finally taking the Scepter out of the bag space.

Storing the Scepter in the game, Little Ya simultaneously minded the store and let her summoned creatures bathe in the Evolution Light in the game.

Meanwhile, Mu You was busy as well; he was crafting two new magic cards he had exchanged for in the game earlier this morning.

He only made one copy of the Water Prison Technique as a backup, as this spell was very practical and was to be permanently equipped on the Crystal. He also got the Tenacious Light, which is another card to be kept permanently.

With this, he only had one of the three card slots left. Given that he needed to use the Summon Zombie spell in the game, he could only temporarily hang this summoning spell and switch it to Small Fireball Air Cannon or other cards during battles.

Now Mu You had finally gotten a taste of the constraints of the card slots. Three card slots were indeed a bit tight. It was no wonder that the Lion didn’t dare to accept Scorpio’s Teleport card. Having too many stationary cards would make the daily switching of cards less flexible.

For the remaining ’Tide of Mana’ cards, he replicated two on the spot, and merged them with the Crystal’s input surface, thus increasing the natural magic power recovery speed by three times.

According to the current magic power density on Earth, Mu You could now ’recharge’ the Crystal in less than an hour in a meditative state.

"Boss, today is the seventh day of the internal test, right?"

Little Ya was fooling around in the store and browsing the forums, when she suddenly asked Mu You.

"Yes." Mu You nodded. She was referring to the large-scale internal test which began last Thursday and lasted exactly a week.

"Then isn’t Sister Xue supposed to work today?" Little Ya asked.

Mu You was momentarily stunned, only then remembering the matter.

Indeed, last Thursday Lin Xue had asked him for a week’s leave. Today was the seventh day; she should be coming to work. However, there was still no news...could it be that she hadn’t finished handling her affairs at home?