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Chapter 147 - 99: Natural Imprint · Second Level, Achieved!_2

Chapter 147: Chapter 99: Natural Imprint · Second Level, Achieved!_2

Now, the only thing that could truly enhance his physical quality was the Asyncritus Spirit Root, but this thing was like growth; you couldn’t just force it, or it would easily be ruined.

And while the Marked Druid did increase his physical quality, that fixed value was nothing. Gu Shanhai needed percentile increases, like how the six natural marks of the first layer gave him an additional 50% attribute increase for his six attributes—now that was true power.

But to forge iron, one must be strong oneself: even with an additional 50%, 1 point of attribute would only be 1.5 points.

Attributes, however, shouldn’t be taken too literally. Gu Shanhai didn’t have any numerical data and had to rely solely on his intuition instead of complete quantification.

So, he needed a way to enhance his attributes autonomously, like Mana, and not just through growth.

Mana had the Circulation Vine, so grinding slowly wasn’t much of an issue, but the physical body didn’t have an equivalent way to grind.

Of course, if he left for the neighboring Martial World now, he could obtain various Cultivation Techniques to enhance his physique, maybe even enough to develop his own peerless Divine Arts.

But he knew he couldn’t leave this place now. With the harvest so close, leaving would be nonsense.

"Good things come to those who wait," Gu Shanhai comforted himself, not too demanding. This life, he had started much higher than in his previous one. Without datafication, with his current strength, he was confident he could be called the top player.

Even against those players who had future forum simulators and the like, he had the skills to kill them.

Gu Shanhai was quite disciplined about his greed; he knew what to covet and what not to.

"Yo~" Little White bounced back and shouted at Gu Shanhai.

"Oh, time for dinner, huh?" Gu Shanhai came back to his senses. In the past few days, Little White had been frolicking with the Water Seeking Beast Akfan.

With ample water and what seemed to be permanent enchantments of Druid Divine Skills like Pacify Animal, Charm Animal, Confuse Animal, and Dominate Animal, Akfan had become very well-behaved. On the day after Akfan had knocked over Gu Shanhai’s wooden hut and sprayed him with water, it even brought back enough timber for him to rebuild.

All in all, it had settled down, occasionally mischievous but nothing serious.

Once the danger was past, Little White went to play with Akfan, and Gu Shanhai didn’t stop them.

"Have you noticed you seem a lot rounder lately?" Gu Shanhai measured out the nutrient feed and mixed in the potion before giving it to Little White. Then he scrutinized the pet closely and spotted an issue.

"Yo?"

After taking a mouthful, Little White looked confused. How could it be rounder? It felt it had always been this way.

"Hisss... You didn’t get fat from overfeeding, did you?" Gu Shanhai was shocked. It seemed unlikely, but he quickly picked up Little White to weigh it.

After comparing it with the recorded data of Little White’s growth plan, he reached a conclusion.

"Yep, you’ve put on weight," Gu Shanhai discovered there was an error in the weight and growth indicators.

"Yo!" Little White expressed its shock and then continued eating. It didn’t care about being fat, or rather, it had no concept of it—in the wild, being fat was equivalent to being strong.

"..." Observing White’s condition, Gu Shanhai pondered one thing: perhaps it was time to start some early education.

Since it was possible to overfeed now, he could start some pre-school training.

"Tomorrow morning, you can play outside, but in the afternoon, we’ll start the corresponding training and studying, got it?" Gu Shanhai said to Little White, who was busy eating.

Little White seemed a bit puzzled but nevertheless made a soft meow to indicate that there was no problem.

Communicating with Little White wasn’t really a big deal. In addition to his natural senses and wild recognition, he could rely on the 1st-level Druid Divine Skill "Animal Speech," which was enough.

"Druid Divine Skills are really useful, it’s just a pity that there aren’t many clues for integration."

Gu Shanhai had smoothly integrated his "Green Emperor Longevity Scripture" with the aspects of Marked Druid and Prophetic Divination, but when it came to Divine Arts, there was still no progress. He had researched for several days, yet he couldn’t even maintain a 0-level spell consistently.

The main reason he had found was that Druid Divine Arts were issued through marks as external commands, which meant Gu Shanhai actually didn’t know Divine Arts at all; it was all based on external feedback.

Nature’s mark was like a one-click fool’s package; whatever Gu Shanhai pressed, it would produce the effect.

His Prophetic Divination was from the inside out, whereas Divine Arts were from the outside in; it wasn’t his own power. Even if the force of the element’s blessing in the nature’s mark was his, it was a paid process. Using the one-click fool’s package required payment, and upon payment, the effect would be formed.

This was related to the world itself, and once he went to other worlds, this process would fail. Other worlds didn’t have this one-click fool’s package, so not only did the payment fail, but even the Divine Arts effects that followed vanished.

Those formal players with semi-datafied status were different from Gu Shanhai. Their one-click fool’s package didn’t belong to the world but to the "First Epoch," which is why they could continue to use it, unlike Gu Shanhai, who didn’t have that ability.

That was precisely why Gu Shanhai had always been lukewarm towards Divine Arts and didn’t have too many thoughts about it.

What he needed to do wasn’t to use the one-click fool’s package, but to have a program of his own. This was equivalent to Gu Shanhai decoding the entire Druid Divine Arts system, a process during which the natural will, the world itself, and even the universe were needed.

Such a grand project was beyond his current ability to complete.

To finish, he would at least need to be the big shot he was in his past life, not the current self who had reset and started over.

"However, now that I think about it, I’ve reached 2nd level. I should be able to use the Magic Pet Skill ’Group Magic Pet Pocket,’ right?"

Compared to the 1st-level Magic Pet Pocket, the 2nd-level Group Magic Pet Pocket Gu Shanhai remembered was not only more stable but also had a larger space.

Unlike the Magic Pet Pocket’s tiny single room, the Group Magic Pet Pocket boasted a massive space, akin to a 300-meter large flat level, where multiple Magic Pets could be accommodated.

"I’ll need to find time to study Magic Pet skills too. If I can combine Magic Pets with animal companions, Little White’s growth and potential can further improve."

"Right, once I complete this power growth, I can use Prophetic Divination to look for this Wizard or his other labs. If I can get the complete data of Magic Pet skills, the efficiency of improvement will be much higher."

Researching on his own wasn’t impossible, but it would take too long. He needed to finish his current work first, and even then, the results would likely differ from the original Magic Pet skills. Gu Shanhai’s thought process wouldn’t coincide with that of the Wizard’s, and their knowledge differed as well.

Gu Shanhai wanted the Wizard’s complete skills, then to conduct his own research and develop his own animal companion skills, not simply copy the Wizard’s Magic Pet skills.

Little White wasn’t a Magic Pet; it was an animal companion, so only the Magic Pet Pocket was somewhat useful. The rest of the enhancement spells or control skills specific to Magic Pets weren’t suitable.

They could only be referred to, not directly applied, or else there would be trouble.

"Hmm, how does that saying go again? ’Earthly treasures are for those with virtue; as long as I’m shameless, hypocritical, and morally flexible, then I can rightfully snatch from others.’" Gu Shanhai expressed that he was completely unburdened and possessed a strong heart.

Should a player feel guilty, then how would they face life and death, or handle plot-induced killings?

In the many worlds one would face frustrations and helplessness, and without enough strength, one needed sufficient mental endurance instead.

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