Start as a Spiritual Planter: I Have a Game Panel
Chapter 102 - 102: [Affinity - Plant Lord (Beginner)], Advance Skills

Those that failed to evolve into Rare quality but were upgraded to Tier 3, despite not possessing Rare quality, still experienced a substantial increase in strength and agility or spirit attributes.

Additionally, their features developed the distinctive sharpness and elegance associated with the Half-Drow heritage.

Ram, however, didn't rest. He immediately continued to evolve the remaining cavemen, especially those who had accumulated the same amount of evolution points as Nyra.

He was determined to make the most of his time and resources on cavemen for now, not knowing what Mai and the others were doing at the moment.

His current recovery rate allowed him to evolve one or two cavemen to the second stage every half hour.

As the hours stretched on, Ram's focus remained unbroken. He had a feeling that the newly summoned Half-Drow Fire Mages, were likely concentrated on battling Bio-Mechanical Soldiers.

This meant he had a small window of opportunity to strengthen his forces without any immediate threats, but he knew time was precious. Any delay could prove costly.

In the meantime, Ram assigned Korrin to lead the newly evolved Half-Drow cavemen, helping them adjust to their new bodies and the abilities they gained.

According to Korrin, evolution points were earned through battle, as shown by the Spiritual Eye, but the more dangerous the fight and the stronger the enemies they defeated, the faster their evolution progressed.

Small victories would only give minimal growth, so frequent combat was key.

Ram knew that before they reached the limits of their current level, they could use these evolution points to rapidly increase their strength.

With this in mind, he gave them freedom to move and hunt. With over 30 Half-Drow hunters and mages working together, even if they couldn't win every battle, they had the advantage of numbers to retreat if necessary.

Also, after evolving more than thirty of them he found a serious problem, with the improvement of species level and their individual strengths, their appetite improved drastically.

With their current strength, it's easy for them to hunt stronger monsters to fill their stomachs, but the problem is that this void space doesn't have many monsters available, except for low-level monsters like Yellow toothed rats, Ore eating rats, Bamboo spirit rats there were no other species.

He didn't know what to do, but let Korrin handle it, he continued to evolve more cavemen, pushing his Life Energy and Spiritual Power to their limits, and he focused on maximizing the potential of each one.

The next batch of 20 cavemen took a toll on him, although not on his body, but continuously evolving these cavemen one after another for more than twenty hours, hearing their tragic screams, and watching their bodies, he felt mentally disturbed by the cycle of destruction and regeneration.

However, due to his continuous efforts five of them evolved into rare quality, while the rest became elite.

Ram was satisfied with the results but knew he was reaching his limit, stating, "I won't be able to advance the rest to the second level, but evolving them to Cavemen/Half-Drow should suffice."

Just as he finished, and the cavemen were adjusting to their new bodies, the communication device that Mai gave him started buzzing.

When Ram activated the holographic device, it wasn't Mai who appeared but Liam, who was practically bouncing with excitement.

"What's up, bro? It's been a whole day! Where are you? We just hunted down a small group of Fire Mages!" Liam's hair was messy, and fresh blood stained his body.

He was so caught up in the thrill that he didn't seem to notice his injuries.

Ram patiently listened to Liam give him the details, even Sid joined Liam as they both explained how they successfully ambushed a group of five Elite Fire Mages and managed to obtain a Return Card.

But the downside was that their actions seemed to have triggered those larger number of Elite Fire Mages, like kicking a hornet's nest. Now, they were being hunted.

Sid went on to explain that all the Mechanical soldiers who had attacked various cavemen tribes had gathered together.

They had occupied one of the larger cavemen tribes, turning it into a stronghold to defend against the Half-Drow's growing numbers.

Ram could only guess that the cavemen of that tribe were likely all dead by now, having been wiped out by those Mechanical soldiers

"And, thanks to their efforts in drawing the attention of most of the Half Drows, were finally able to catch their breath since the last ambush." Sid asked, "What about you? Have you come across any suitable cannon fodder?"

Understanding the situation, Ram didn't reveal what he had been doing but instead gave them new orders.

"Draw those Fire Mages toward my location," he replied, and before turning the communicator off, he explained his plan and asked them to collect any Source stones if they came across.

With the newly evolved Korrin and the other Half-Drow cavemen at his disposal, Ram was confident they could handle the incoming Fire Mages that were after their team.

With the addition of his team members, they could overwhelm the Fire Mages, as most of them are only elite level, but he already had more than 10 rare level Half Drow Cavemen on his side.

And if he can collect enough Source stones, he can summon more using Korrin's racial characteristic.

His plan was simple: lure the Fire Mages into an ambush, wipe them out, and then turn the cavemen's location into their own stronghold.

Building a stronghold in the cavemen's current location should be good.

Not only would it give them a defensible position, but it might also attract other professionals, pulling more allies into their cause.

Ram knew that even if casualties occurred, it wouldn't be a major setback. With his ability to evolve more cavemen, he could replenish the ranks quickly.

And with Korrin's innate talent of boosting the strength of his subordinates, those who survived would only grow stronger.

Ram stopped upgrading more cavemen and turned his focus inward, pulling up his own attribute panel.

He hadn't taken a good look at how his skills had evolved since becoming a Spiritual Plant Lord.

With over three thousand points of Spiritual power now stored up, he was ready to upgrade some of his basic skills and Immortal techniques that had been put on hold due to his previous lack of power.

However, when he looked at his skill panel, he was completely shocked, there were so many advance skills that, many of which he had never even heard of before.

[ Skills:

[Affinity - Plant Lord (Beginner)]: Basic understanding of spiritual plants, can summon small plant-based spirits like saplings or vines.

- The number of plants controlled depends on the Spirit attribute.

- Wood Spirits, when directly enhanced by the continuous support of Plant Lords' spiritual power, receive an additional 200% increase in their growth rate.]

[ Planter skills:

- Plant Enhancement -> Spirit Empowerment

- Seed Collection Lv-5 (0/10,000)

- Rapid Growth -> Overgrowth]

[ Martial Skills:

- Basic Fist Method: Lv2 (0/50), Characteristics: Light Strength Level 1

- Basic Footwork: Lv3 (0/100), Characteristics: Light Agile level 2

- Basic Knife Method: lv3 (0/100), Characteristics: Light Strength Level 2]

[ Immortal Techniques:

- Greenwood Heart Technique: Lv2 (0 '+' /100), Characteristics: Spirit Level 1, Plant Affinity Level 1

- Thousand Leaf Pinnacle: Lv2 (0 '+' /100), Characteristics: Spirit Level 1, Multiple Blade Control Level 1, Leaf-Shuriken Level 1]

[ Advance Skills:

[Overgrowth Lv-1 (0/10,000)]: Causes plants to grow explosively, covering the battlefield in dense plants that entrap enemies and provide cover for allies.

[Spirit Empowerment Lv-0 (Locked)]: Enhances the powers of summoned spirits, granting them additional abilities like flight, elemental control, or increased combat efficiency.

[Rejuvenation Field Lv-0 (Locked)]: Plants spiritual seeds that create an area of rapid healing and spiritual energy restoration for all allies standing within it.

[Wood Pulse Lv-0 (Locked)]: Sends a shockwave of energy through wood and plant life, causing trees and roots to surge outward, damaging enemies caught in the pulse.

[Root Network Lv-0 (Locked)]: Connects the lord to the surrounding plant life, enabling fast travel through the earth via an underground root system.

[Ancient Tree Command (Locked)]: Summons an ancient spirit of Green Blade Sentinel Hero, a Nature Warrior with strength equal to +1 Lords level through an ancient ritual, with a time limit of 15 minutes. Cooldown: one day.]

"Fuck, so many advanced skills; How did I learn all this?" Ram was not only shocked but also confused as he delved deeper.

First, his plant affinity changed to Plant Lord giving him the ability to summon small plant-based spirits like small saplings and vines, roughly with the strength of Tier 1.

"Some of my planter skills appear to have upgraded to Advance Skills, while the other Immortal and Basic Martial Techniques have not changed much." He couldn't comprehend where he had learned all these advanced skills.

Ram understood that even if he were to become a Spiritual Plant Lord suddenly, he would not possess knowledge of so many advanced skills.

Not only him, but even if someone naturally awakens a Lord Profession, they may awaken one or two advance skills even before reaching Tier 4, but not as many as this.

Soon he thought of the seed given to him by Master Orion, "Is that you again?" he pondered, and this was the only explanation he could think of.

However, after looking at them clearly, except for the advance skill [Overgrowth Lv-1 (0/10,000)], all the other skills are clearly locked, when he focused more intently on the 'Locked' option next to [Spirit Empowerment Lv-0 (Locked)], a new prompt appeared in front of him.

[ Note: A strength level above Tier 4 and a Territory token are required to unlock the Advanced skill.]

"Huh?" looking at the prompt he became even more confused, understanding the strength requirement of Tier 4 but, "What is this Territory token?"