Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Chapter 22. Assimilating The Vault.

'Make it mine.'

With Tianlian Liu Shu's acceptance, an intense, draining sensation overcame her.

WHOOSH!

A wind of energies enveloped the place, making every Rose Fairy exclaim as they flew away to safety and looked on with curiosity and wonder at what their new Tree friend was doing.

Liu Shu's mind activity took a hit as her <World Tree Eye> became utterly unusable together with other ongoing functions. Then, her other skills stopped working, like <Nature's Gift>. Of course, this didn't mean that the berries she had started growing would wilt. Instead, it just meant that they would need to grow at a normal pace.

'W-Why am I so dizzy?'

Our Level 3 World Tree looked at her ternary essences and got a scare.

They were decreasing at a rate of almost one every five seconds. While it didn't sound as much, that was 720 of her Aether Mana and Anima Energy per hour! Her current regeneration didn't even reach a tenth of that number.

Liu Shu exclaimed. 'W-Wait, system! Stop. Take energy slower! What are you doing!?'

However, as much as she asked for it, the system didn't reply.

'What to do!? What should I do!?'

After panicking for a few moments, Liu Shu endured the mind ache and tried to do something about it. 'My energy is leaking from my roots, so I need to cut off the energy flow toward those places. Quick!'

Using the energy control she had been learning during the past few days, Liu Shu's every cell became active as they tried to move things in a direction that didn't mean her death or something worse.

Meanwhile, outside, the Rose Fairies became mesmerized as the tree's roots began coiling around the vault they built. The beautiful neon-blue veined roots moved as if they had a mind of their own, enveloping the entire excavated area in a beautiful shade of browns and blues.

After 10 minutes, each of her energies had lowered by around 120 points without including Phoer. This has been the thing that had calmed Liu Shu quickly, that her <Phoer Body Shards> weren't being consumed. Still, if Aether Mana or Anima Energy reached 0, it would mean trouble, more so if the assimilation of the vault kept sucking after that. It would probably start affecting her Phoer Body Shards.

Flor looked at what was happening and then frowned. 'This... So much energy? How are her reserves doing?'

Looking over and using her system, she saw they had been considerably reduced. Moreover, as she looked on, she saw that the spending pace was absurdly quick.

Flor's face became severe. 'Is this a constant decrease or a one-time thing?'

The Rose Fairy Queen didn't take long to realize the problem. 'What's going on? Is she too young to control her energies? Or has she done something that she shouldn't have?'

After 30 minutes more, with incredible efforts, Liu Shu managed to close a few of her energy pathways by compressing her roots, decelerating the speed at which the energy left her body.

That added to her own energy control and reduced the 720/hour to around 220/hour.

Even then, it was too much. After all, Liu Shu's Aether Mana and Anima Energy regeneration were much lower than that.

One hour passed and then another. Slowly but surely, Liu Shu learned new ways to manipulate her internal energies and quickly reduced her energy expenditure.

Her Aether Mana hit 400/1013, and her energy consumption was still at 50/hour. Liu Shu's exact Aether Mana regeneration was 36.5, so she needed to slice that 50 per hour more before she could relax her nerves.