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Book 2: 42 - Bronze
🕑 Added 2023-09-07 21:00:02 +0000 UTCCongratulations! Stasis has reached Iron 20.
Congratulations! Stasis has reached Bronze 1.
(Active 3 - Stasis - spell - targeted
Tin - Can put a small amount of herbs into stasis.
Iron - Herbs in stasis may now be put into a spatial storage.
Bronze - )
Stasis becomes Druid Grove!
Active 3 - Druid Grove - spell - targeted - realm
Tin - You may place herbs in stasis. Additionally, you are able to establish a small Druid Grove.
Iron - Herbs in stasis may now be put into a spatial storage. Plants and friendly creatures within your Druid Grove are constantly affected by the base effect of Healing presence separate to your aura.
Bronze - The spatial storage effect of this ability is now linked with ‘Ethereal Vault Gauntlet’, creating one larger space. This space is considered part of your Druid Grove.
Druid Grove Added Effects
Healing Presence.
Druid Grove Base Effects
The protective energy of your Druid Grove extends to ward off harmful magical influences and creatures, providing an added layer of defence to those within its bounds.
Your Druid Grove changes with the seasons, adapting its flora and effects accordingly. In spring, it might emphasise growth, while in winter, it offers protection from the cold.
Your Druid Grove becomes a haven not only for plants but also for animals. Creatures within the grove may form a bond with you, aiding you in various ways.
Mana - low / n/a
Cd - n/a / n/a
Congratulations! Herbalist class has reached Iron 20.
Congratulations! Herbalist class has reached Bronze 1.
Congratulations! All of your classes have reached Bronze. Would you like to ascend to Bronze?
Zalia was overwhelmed as a surge of messages and the feeling of another two linked attributes flooded her consciousness. When she was feeling a little better, she accepted the ascension.
Congratulations! You have ascended to Bronze.
The sensation to begin with was one of disconnection. She could feel her three classes, each with their two linked attributes at Bronze level. Each pair was linked to each other as well, she could see that now. It wasn’t something she had noticed last time around but now it was clear as day.
As the ascension clicked into place, she could feel the disconnection between those attributes… not quite disappear but, lessen. It felt as if they were closer, more in sync with each other.
She could feel it too, she knew the strength and speed of her mind and body, she had felt the health that had flowed through her when the Herbalist class had reached Bronze but they now complemented each other in a much better way. The speed of her mind lent further speed to her muscles even as they were kept in one piece by her resilience.
The strength of her body had its power applied perfectly by the instinctual knowledge of how to use it granted by her intellect, that very same body kept in peak condition by the health brought by her vitality.
She could feel the two new connections, the link between Dexterity, Wisdom and Resilience and the link between Strength, Intellect and Vitality.
Those were the links that bridged her three classes, the links upon which her abilities evolved to better compliment each other. No longer were the classes separate, they were closely connected.
Yet, she could still feel there was much to learn, much room to grow. She had reached some checkpoint in her advancement, the threshold of Bronze making her now more supernatural than she was human.
It took a while for her to finally come back to her own body, the sensations dying down to a new normality. She was laying on the floor, Boreal curled up against her. She had a few more messages now as well.
Congratulations! Your ability Stasis has evolved to Druid Grove and formed a bond with ‘Ethereal Vault Gauntlet’. ‘Ethereal Vault Gauntlet’ is now deeply bonded.
She breathed out and read through the new ability, Druid Grove. Much as when the previous ascension had changed Escape to Fight or Flight, the upgrade was substantial. It added an extra effect at each previous level of the ability as well as the additional one granted by Bronze.
In this case, it was this Druid Grove.
Reading through what it actually did, she was ecstatic. It would be a powerful addition to her defences, depending on how far it actually stretched. Another overlaid Healing presence alone made it extremely powerful, though the effect was only the base one which she took to mean it would not provide things such as the anti-death ability.
She started testing things one by one. First, the melding of the two spaces was a little confusing. She couldn’t store just anything through the old Stasis ability, still limited to herbs and plants only.
The look of the Ethereal Vault Gauntlet had also changed dramatically. It was now like an exoskeleton wrapped around her hand and wrist made of wood. It had druidic looking runes carved into its surface with imagery of what she could only describe as Boreal and various starry images.
She summoned her bow and realised it too had changed. It now had some minor ethereal looking imagery to it, like vapour. She also found that the gauntlet had melded to her skin.
That was somewhat alarming to begin with but she didn’t mind how it looked and it was actually quite comfortable to wear. It had become a part of her, in a way. She opened her vault and was taken away by the changes inside and out. The portal itself was no longer a tear in the air but a nice archway grown from two intertwined vines with leaves shooting off them
The clean and sterile environment inside had changed to one of natural beauty. The same ten shelves were there, five on each side yet they were now made of wood, flowing in a way as if grown naturally.
The floor had become earthen and tiny pinprick warm lights floated around in the air giving it a nice atmosphere. Rather than a wall at the back, there was now an open space with sun shining in from above. In that space were all the herbs and plants she had stored within her Stasi- Druid Grove ability. The whole plants were planted in the centre of the space with the harvested herbs stacked neatly in ordered piles on a long bench that stretched around the circumference of the half circle.
Each of the items stored in her gauntlet were still there, kept safe by golden domes that held them to the wooden shelves. She also noticed that there was another warm Healing presence in the room, the origin of the effect being her Druid Grove. With it came a sense of safety that wasn’t just in a metaphorical way. She could feel that it actually strengthened her a little, increasing her resiliency.
She left the vault, having to be quite careful with her newfound strength, yet to adapt to it. Closing the vault, she tried shaking Boreal awake.
“Boreal,” she said gently.
Boreal rolled over in her sleep.
“Boreal!” she said a little louder.
Boreal let out a quiet mew, still asleep.
Rolling her eyes, Zalia started poking her finger in between Boreal’s feet pads. One paw twitched. She poked it again. It twitched more violently. Poking them once more, Boreal finally awoke, looking around in confusion.
“Wakey wakey,” Zalia said.
Boreal slumped her head back into the pile of slush she was asleep in.
“Oh no you don’t, look I’m Bronze rank!” Zalia exclaimed.
That finally got Boreal to wake up.
“I’ve got this cool new ability called Druid Grove and my gauntlet changed to look like this!” Zalia said proudly, holding her hand up.
Boreal examined the gauntlet, looking a little smug when she saw the depiction of her carved into it.
“Oh yeah, go on and gloat. Just because you’re a big old meanie doesn’t mean I don’t love you,” Zalia said, rolling her eyes once more.
She got up and opened the vault again for Boreal to explore. While Boreal sniffed around, Zalia explored the bounds of her new ability internally. There were usually a few things not stated that she could determine instinctually. For instance, one of her biggest concerns was immediately wiped away as she discovered she would be able to move the Druid Grove if she so wished. The process wasn’t easy but it was doable.
Establishing a grove seemed to require a fair bit of work becoming intimate with the area, changing it to her liking and taking care of the plants there. She could only have one grove at a time, which made a lot of sense.
Something that hadn’t occurred to her immediately that she realised was that her chances against any serious corruption aura just increased massively. Two Healing presences stacked on top of each other as well as the aura dulling enchantment by the living plant ritual would provide quite a lot of protection.
With that in mind, she started doing what she did best. Planning.
Comments
Leif Roder
It's not so much another Grove as part of the larger one as a whole.
Irakli Jishkariani
Hmmm, she can only have one druid grove, then how come she has one in vault and is making one outside too?
