Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Chapter 25. Trying to build something? Flor's peculiar encounter.

Liu Shu looked into the <Lignified Vault> and searched for the things Flor left there. 'So many materials~. Which one should I choose?'

Of course, the thing that appeared when analyzing a material with the system wasn't a full description of every detail. If one just needed the system to know everything about the material, there wouldn't be science studies and similar.

What appeared was that the person analyzing could understand. For example, when Liu Shu analyzed one of her fallen branches that Flor had stored, this message appeared.

[World Tree Branch <D+ Rank Sylvanium (Level 3)>: A branch from a very young and weak World Tree. It is valuable, but it can only be used for low-level crafts. Its elasticity and sturdiness are its biggest qualities, and it can add all-rounder stats to anything crafted by it. As a branch from a World Tree, it has incredible energy conductivity, making it more useful to create weapons that aid channeling energies.]

Liu Shu pouted as she read the description. 'I'm not weak! You are weak! Stupid system.'

[...]

Either way, she decided to start making the weapon, and then she realized she had forgotten something really important. '... Flor hasn't told me yet how to do it.'

Liu Shu stopped in her tracks, her entire body starting to sulk. 'I wanted to create a weapon...'

Flor looked at Liu Shu's mood change from cheerful to sulking, and her eyebrow twitched, somehow knowing why. 'Did she remember? I tried using Ignatia as a distraction, but it seems that it didn't work.'

While Flor thought of that, she suddenly felt Liu Shu's energy clinging around her, like a child asking for their toy. Flor almost burst into laughter. '...Why is she so cute?'

She passed her fair hand through her lush red hair, and her jewel-like red eyes focused on Liu Shu. 'What do I do with this little one?' After interacting with Liu Shu for a while, Flor came to know how young Liu Shu's mind was.

It really felt like she was talking to a Rose Fairy child. 'Hm... How do I distract her?'

Flor thought about it while Liu Shu's energy spread all over her body. In her mind, Liu Shu was calling her. 'Flor, listen. I want to learn. I want to learn. Flor. Flor. Flor!'

With her newfound energy control, one of the branches that was limp by the side moved clumsily and wrapped around her. Flor couldn't hold back anymore and burst into laughter, flying toward her and giving her a tight hug. "Ah! Why are you so adorable, Liu Shu!?"

Liu Shu looked at the 45-centimeter-tall fairy who was hugging her and felt happy. 'Hehe, Flor and the rest of the little friends are also cute~.'

Flor clapped and said. "Okay. Liu Shu, want to fight something? You haven't fought anything of substance since you leveled up, right?"

However, Liu Shu was a World Tree. Who would like to fight? If it were for our tree, she would spend all day looking around lazily and spreading her roots through the earth slowly.

So, Liu Shu threw quite a clear "No!" With her energy signals.

Flor's smile faltered. 'Tsk. It didn't work.'

Flor coughed. "I see. If you don't want that, then how about trying to communicate with nearby trees? You are large enough to entangle roots with them and exchange a conversation, right?"

<Willow Strike>

BANG!

Flor was slammed down into the ground by a whip-like branch. Her body became half-buried in the dirt below.