While Zonyan's party was working hard to open the curtains to the Age of Discovery for the Players, Xi Wei was thinking about how the Players were doing after the new version was released.
Since rangers weren't a particularly popular class in the first place, there was no way to tell how popular the Players were with the Junglewalkers' class change rate.
Still, the Players seemed to be very accepting of the Life Skill setting.
Even if learning a Life Skill required precious skill points, Xi Wei could still see from his Pantheon Computer that around ninety percent of the Players had learned more than one Life Skill.
It seems that the Players understood that fighting wasn't the only way to gain EXP.
Moreover, Xi Wei deliberately left out some Life Skills as an Easter Egg and a surprise. Even so, some Life Skills would actually buff the Players' attributes and class.
For example, after learning Butcher or Dissect and leveling it up to a certain level, it would be easier to inflict weak-point damage when attacking an enemy with a sharp weapon.
Moreover, some Life Skills would also buff other Life Skills.
For example, once the Botany skill reached a sufficiently high level, there would be a considerable increase in potion skills. This increase was not only reflected in the stats, but the Players were also familiarizing themselves with the various herbs when they cultivated magical plants. Hence, it would be easier for them to brew potions with these herbs later on …
Although they didn't know the reason, the most popular Life Skill among the players was Botany.
At first, Xi Wei thought that it was pretty good. He felt that the Players had the gift of rabbits, and he could probably see his starter village surrounded by a beautiful sea of flowers.
But when he activated his Divine Eye to look down, he was left speechless …
The parterre that Xi Wei had deliberately left on both sides of the road when the Unnamed Town was being built were now filled with plants by the Players.
Xi Wei would still think that the Players were romantic if they were plants with emerald leaves, beautiful flowers or delicious fruits.
But the problem was that the players had planted all kinds of weird magical plants in the flower beds on both sides of the road.
The Man-eating Flower that could swallow a Goblin in one gulp was just the basics. There were also magical plants that looked like a buttocks and spat out yellow foul-smelling mist from the cracks in the middle. Magical plants that looked ordinary but had humanoid roots and could make petrifying cries. Magical plants that looked like mini Hydra that would whip anything that came close. Magical plants that looked like a Peashooter but were actually Peashooters …
It was unknown when it started, but it seemed to have become a trend among the Players to nurture strange magical plants and show them off to other Players.
Xi Wei, who had assumed that they would use Botany to make the town green couldn't help falling silent, reconfirming the Authority he used to perfect his Botany Life Skill. Then, he realized that apart from normal Botany, he had also included grafting techniques and techniques to inherit mutated traits.
He didn't think that there was anything wrong with that at first, since he was hoping for a Grand Druid Yuan to appear among the Players, which was why he had added some weird techniques.
In the end, the Players never expected that the seeds of the magical plants they obtained from Lady Kinley the Alchemist and successfully planted them in this world would be altered on their own, to such an indescribable state.
They didn't even realize that the wild rice that Xi Wei had been secretly growing by a small pond nearby was edible, let alone becoming Grand Druid Yuan … and the magical plants that they had grown were no different from the Lion Tiger Beasts, incapable of reproduction and simply looking good.
That reality made Xi Wei realize one fact sadly: he had been underestimating the Players' idiocy all along.
Are you trying to play Plants vs. Zombies, you bastards!
"As I thought, I shouldn't have expected anything from them …"
Feeling a headache coming on, Xi Wei simply turned on the Player forums, intending to have some fun by reading some random idiotic posts before taking a short nap. While he no longer needed sleep as a god, he deliberately retained some human habits to remind himself not to lose himself in divinity, perhaps because he didn't want to become a complete god.
Sleep was one of them, but he usually only slept for a dozen minutes a week. That process could be used to stabilize his divinity that had recently become bloated due to his rapid leveling up, and to organize his thoughts, so it wasn't a pure waste of time.
At the top of the forums were still the two world-famous paintings' Picking Shit Between the Stones' and 'Scream' that the Players had manually pinned to the top. But aside from that, the most popular post was made by Edward the Quest Maniac.
[Title: I'm Too Hard]
Edward: [Damn it! We've spent five whole days running around the forest, and we're about to reach the depths of the Trinia Forests! And now you're telling me that the Dragontail Fern in Lady Kinley's quest could be grown with Botany?! Someone come and tell me that all of this is an illusion, that it's all fake, that it's all a lie!
Lia: [It's true, I've grown it.]
Boris: [It's true, I've grown it.]
Vanke: [It's true, I've grown it.]
Terrosche: [Do you see this Dragontail Fern [Picture]? No, it hasn't withered or gone. I just want you to see this Dragontail Fern that's rated as' excellent '!]
Edward: [Player's foul language (blocked)]
Terrosche: [That's what I want to see. That look of jealousy on your face!]
Lia: [No, you can't see it … he's not in town.]
Eggface: [You better be careful, Terrosche. Edward was about to kill himself and return to town just now.]
Terrosche: […]
Angora: [I'm borrowing a building. Does anyone know who planted that man-eating flower on the south road of town? That thing mutated into a giant man-eating flower yesterday and killed a Player. If you see this, please come to the Liege's Residence to pay the fine.]
Ivan: [Has anyone seen Mister Marni? We agreed to meet at the Iron Cauldron Tavern yesterday, but he still hasn't shown up.]
Angora: [You're wasting your time. Marni is the one who's dead.]
Ivan: […]
Ivan: [No wonder his Thunder score is higher than mine.]
Jom: [Edward, I've asked Miss Kinley just now. She said that the Dragontail Ferns planted by the Players are generally mediocre, and that wild ones are better. She'll give you an extra reward if you can get one.]
Edward: [Oh, that's good. Thanks a lot.] [I really would've died if it wasn't for your information.]
Joe: [That's right. There are so few monsters in the Trinia Forests. It's so boring. I should've gone with you guys to fight the Marsh Drake.]
Eggface: [Hey, guys … I might have found a little problem.] [Picture] [Picture]
Xi Wei was instantly no longer sleepy when he saw the pictures Eggface took. "Woah. Interesting."
He promptly activated his Divine Eye and looked at where they were.
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Chapter 184
I'm So Hard
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