My life went back to a steady crawl. I continued growing and training, sure, but with the absence of revenge filling my mind and driving me to push myself more than anyone else, I decided to take some days to train some of the less combat-focused skills and even try to complete both of my classes.
During some experiments, I discovered that a druid doesn't necessarily need to save nature through magic, even using things like items to help is considered ok, so thanks to Artificer Class, I made these.
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Bombs to Instant Regrowth (Rare)
Durability: 1/1
Effect: When activated through a mana switch, after 10 seconds have passed, a harmless explosion of pure nature mana will fill an area of 100 km, causing all dead plants to return to their glory, and also gain enough durability to become indestructible to the normal means of destruction, only if Nature deems it necessary and worthy will it let someone cut the tree/plant/bush down.
You have produced 68 Bombs for Instant Regrowth
Arcane Tinkering Lv.19=>24
Artificer 14=>21
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Placing them all around the world didn't take long, thanks to my portals, a quick search on the areas of the world with the most damage done to nature by humanity, a portal to the location where nature felt the most injured, and then repeating until all 68 bombs were placed.
There occasions where I had to deal with the wildlife protecting such areas, though, deal isn't the right word, the moment they saw they became friendly, wolves became cute puppies, lions turned into cats seeking attentions, snakes did their best feel my warth and hug my body, every single animal I met loved me, they felt my connection with nature and they deemed me part of it, part of the same things that created them.
I even learned a new spell through a bit of trial and error.
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Animal Speech Lv.MAX (Evolvable)
Effect: You can use a mix of nature and blood mana to change the structure of your vocal cords and hearing apparatus to understand animals and make them understand whatever you say
Cost: 100MP/min
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And just like I had predicted, wolves are either very honorable or just hunters wishing to hunt, lions are just cats too big for their good, snakes are either assholes or some of the kindest animals, squirrels can go fuck themself, every time I tried talking to them they threw nuts at me, and I seriosuly thought about exterminating Dophins from the face of earth, they are some sick fucks even withouth needing to talk to them.
Anyway, back to saving nature across all, not really, but close enough, the world.
I activated the mana switch on all the bombs at the same time, and while flying all over the world, I waited for them to activate.
10
I just stood there watching, nature pulsating with happiness at the idea of finally gaining back something it had given to help humanity over millions of years.
9
Even my connection to the World's heart seemed to deem the moment as something to be happy for, the growth, or in some cases, regrowth, could help in the spreading of more wildlife across the world, which means more life, which means more blood.
8
" Is it happening?" The voice of Yao asked me from my side.
" Very soon." I didn't question how he knew, he always does, and instead looked at him create a platform where Wanda, Agatha, and Mary all sat down while looking around. Yao floated to my side and looked around, though his face was calm, his eyes were filled with anticipation.
7
" Can you explain what is happening now? You just had us come with you, no questions asked." Wanda spoke first, Mary instead waved at me with a smile, and I waved back at her.
6
" The view is quite nice, but I have to side with Wanda in this case. What are we doing here?"
5
" Adrian is what can be considered an Artificer, someone able to make magical items; some of the things you see Mary wear were made by him." The two looked at Mary in surprise, seemingly only now realising that Mary was wearing magical items to protect her from the cold and any type of environment in general.
4
" But aside from that, he also is a Druid, someone whose first mission is to help nature survive and, in some cases, regrow from the ashes."
3
" And?" Came Agatha, her patience running thin on the inability of Yao to make things short.
2
" And he has created some items that will cause the growth of several either dead or missing plants, and will have Nature win back some of the areas taken by humanity."
1
" How many?" Wanda quickly asked.
" Yes."
0
They exploded, but I didn't feel it as a sound; what I felt was an explosion of mana, of vitality filling previously dead areas. Nature screamed in ecstasy, the more plants and trees grew, the happier it became, and the stronger I was becoming.
I felt my connection to nature deepen, become unshakable, fuse completely with my being as my reverse of Nature mana became purer and more refined, each level in my druid making my druid spells even stronger and easier to use.
But my Druid class wasn't the only one receiving tsunami of XP, what I was using were items that I had created, items that were changing the world in a very significant way, and an Artificer first job is to make items able to change the world, to reshape reality to his liking, to make him dreams come true trough magicla items, it wasn't a surprise it was levelling too.
The faces of the ones present next to me were a mix of awe and surprise as previously dead areas of the world began being covered in green, part of Africa, the Korean Peninsula, several zones of the USA, some areas in Japan, the coastlines of the Baltic Staes, and several other areas.
Where there once was nothing, now there were filled with trees, plants, grass, and nature had won back those areas; the effectiveness was very clear.
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Druid Lv.12=>...
Artificer Lv.21=>...
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