Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Chapter 33. Liu Shu Checks Out Her New Knowledge!

After looking at the information newly stored in her head, Liu Shu began pondering what to create. 'What do Flor and the others need?' She was interested in asking, but because she couldn't communicate complex thoughts yet, she decided to do something that could be used.

Thankfully, Liu Shu had seen them fight a few times, so she knew that they preferred ranged attacks. Looking through the catalog of weapons stored in her mind, she excluded all the melee weapon designs and focused on ability-enhancing ones.

'Hmm... What to do~? What to do~?' Liu Shu pondered and went one by one through what she had. 'Bows? Hm... It doesn't suit them. A bow usually relies on tension force to transform into kinetic force. With their petite size, creating a helpful bow would be very inefficient. Not to mention, the arrows would be needle-like.'

Something Liu Shu learned with all the information indirectly was how tiny Rose Fairies were. At first, she thought that Rose Fairies were the standard humanoid size while Thornstride, River Beavers, and similar monsters she had seen were giant. But after seeing the measurements needed for weapons for average-sized races, she learned that Rose Fairies were very petite and cute. 'Hehe, I didn't know they were so tiny~. They are very cute!'

Considering all of this, Liu Shu ignored all projectile-based weapons and moved toward staffs, orbs, talismans, chains, amulets, etc.

'Which one would be best for them?'

Each had an advantage that could be used, but taking into account her current production capabilities and the Rose Fairies' combat style, she finally decided to make amulets.

While it didn't change much weapon-to-weapon basic stats-wise, they each had a certain chance to have different types of abilities. For example, <Staffs> usually had offensive abilities that could be channeled often but lacked explosive strength, <Orbs> were useful while summoning creatures, <Talismans> had powerful abilities with long cast times and rest times, <Chains> were apt to develop immobilizing spells, and <Amulets> were adequate to give buffs to the user.

There were more types that Liu Shu wasn't currently considering, like <Books>, <Wands>, and many more.

While some of the ones she discarded would be perfect, she didn't have the materials for them, and the process of creating them was not maintainable.

While Liu Shu was not a genius of any kind or a planning master, she was a tree, and trees liked the "long-term" benefits of things. Creating a non-sustainable production method was entirely against her nature, only doing such things when she either had no chance or didn't realize the "long-term" benefits of something.

'Hm... Let's go with... Amulets!'

After considering it for a long time, she believed that amulets were the best choice. First of all, amulets were one of the easiest equipment to obtain materials for. They were smaller and, therefore, needed much less to create effects similar to those of others. However, in turn, the complexity of making them was much higher.

This was not that big of a problem for a World Tree; after all, the complexity spoken about before was related to standard races. If World Trees were known for something other than their specialness, it was their energy manipulation abilities.

Seeing the miracles that World Trees could create with the same amount of Aether Mana or Anima Energy that other creatures used was mind-boggling. As a recent example, Liu Shu's ability to assimilate the entire <Lignified Vault> as hers at Level 3 was nothing but miraculous, even between World Trees.

Usually, a World Tree would need five to ten thousand minimum Aether Mana Reserves to perform a similar action, but Liu Shu did it with 1,000.

'Hm. Let's begin. What do I need to get first?' Liu Shu pondered and exclaimed. 'Right, I need to choose which rank item I want to create. How much does it cost each?'