I spent all my daylight hours gathering the equipment that I needed and packing it in bags. I couldn’t make several trips in and out of the safe room because it would reset each time. It was just part of what kept the place clean. So that meant that I needed to bring with me everything I needed for the projects that I had. Then when I finished, I needed to take it all back out.

From my landing, I gathered as many thumb thickness sticks as possible, each around three feet long, and bundled them up. Afterward, I filled my large bag with the smaller half dollar-sized river stones. It made the pack heavy, but it would let me get a lot of practice imbuing. Besides, I was only going to the safe room.

I headed back in to get to work. The problem with the dungeon was it was a great solution that was overkill. So the shamans figured that Chaos got a little jealous over how well I worked for Order. So that meant that she waited until I was ready to leave to spring this on me.

The whole process, however, was something that many of the shamans had gone through themselves as they came up. The process was to create a Shrine, make a way, secure the route, obscuring the shrine, provide a path, and then call the worthy. The provide a path wasn’t going and making a trail, but rather it would end up being providing sleeping arrangements for those who needed to come. Secure locations that they can rest in while traveling. This used to fall to the tribes to maintain, but as I am just one person, it might be me until my tribe could grow.

Once I got to people being called, I would get tasked with providing for them as well. Not much, but I needed to be able to offer them something when they got here. All the shamans thought that the Sisters would let me travel and so I should be able to make it to Lannah. Several of them laughed when they heard we were bonded. Depending on which era of the shamans, it was either marriage or where the shamanka came from.

I set up all my gear in the largest room of the safe room and got to work. The plan was for me to build stakes that I could link to a tree and have the tree grow better. I was also going to see if I could give them some other abilities so that this area was safe. If everything went well with what I was doing for my landing, I would move much of the idea up above as well.

Plants were going to be my friend on this part of the assignment. It just seemed like the right idea to protect this whole area and obscure the path like I was told to. Also, since I was going to need to provide food for people, I was going to try to get fruit and nut trees.

I got started with my idea of a growth stake. I took a sharp stake that I would use for a pitfall and then started with my growth runes and call rain. I then also added my plant empathy rune and a limiter rune. My plan was that the call rain would happen when the plant needed water and would stop once it said it was good. I put on it also that the growth would end after the tree hit twenty years of age and wouldn’t bond with another tree until either moved or the one it was connected to died.

I also put the runes for the large lay to rest on there with a seek link over to undead and dead. I figured that if this was something I was leaving here for a while, then I might as well make it so that the undead wouldn’t bother me.

I then linked again the seek over to dead and animal and put rot and a delay with three days on it. So anything animal that was dead would get three days within about ten feet of the stake before it started to rot out. With the fast rotting and the call to rain, I was hoping to help fertilize the trees if I wasn’t there to care for them. Lastly, I added a power stone to the top of the stake.

Once I had the power stone in, I socketed a core.

Item core created

World first!

Tree Growth stake!

As your Growth Stake core is the first it is uncapped in level

Normal Growth Stake cores will be capped at level 5.

As your Growth Stake levels its helpfulness increases.

General

Showing up in all gold with a orange glow .

Arn’s Tree Growth Stake

Level 0

Type item core

Class Ultra Rare magical

Durability 100/100

This is Arm’s Tree Growth Stake. Like all Tree Growth Stake this is a will help grow the tree that the stake is staked near and linked to. This one is enchanted to help the linked tree grow and provide protection from undead.

This Tree Growth Stake has a core. Like all items that have a core it can level. As this is an item core it can not reproduce itself.

To make new Tree Growth Stake cores the correct building must be constructed.

This had Three tabs.

>Growth

>Traits

>Link

>Growth

To level your item core you must use it for its purpose and provide for it material to level to the next level.

Topsoil 0% Mana 0% Stone 0% Bone 0%

>Traits

These are the abilities or traits that your Tree growth Stake has.

Increased growth- The tree that this Stake is linked to will grow at a rate of one year for every month of time it is linked up to twenty years of age. Increased health- The tree that this stake is linked to will be healed of wounds at a rate of recovery of one year for every month. Improved growing conditions- The temperature and soil conditions for the linked tree will be improved by 5%. Self watering- When the tree that this stake is linked to requires water a rain summon spell will be cast if any cloud is within site of tree then there will be rain for the tree. Reduced mana cost 5 per cast. Self feeding- Any Animal that dies within ten feet of the linked tree’s roots or canopy will have the rot spell cast on it at three days from the time it enters the canopy. Any undead that re-dies will have the rot spell cast immediately. Reduced mana cost 5 per cast. Lay to rest- Any potentially reanimated creature that enters into the trees canopy will have the Lay to rest spell cast on it. Any undead that enters into the canopy will have Lay to rest cast on it. Reduced mana cost 5 per cast. Mana reservoir- This stake has 30 mana stored in it and will recover on its own 3 per hour until full.

>Link

Select target tree to link Tree Growth Stake to.

With the first growth stake made, I started the long process. Each one took about 2 hours to make, and so after a week in the safe room, I was ready for the next step in the plan. First, I needed to create a thick happy forest full of fruit and nut trees. I already had two, and so those would be the first trees I was boosting the growth on.

When I exited the dungeon, only 7 hours had passed, and the night was almost over. I needed to check to see what all was required to level the cores as it would be best if I could quickly level these while they worked to build up what was needed here.

I then went and started the feeding process to find out how much this core would take to level up. It needed two square feet of topsoil, drained me dry on mana, two large granite rocks, and a Unnt Femur. Which honestly was a manageable level up. Most of my 0 to 1 core level-ups had been easy, quick ones. It was always the higher levels when I moved a core to level 4 that odd things happened.

Level 1 dropped a week off the year’s growth and adjusted the growing conditions to a 10% last improvement was the mana reservoir went up to 50. So I pushed on until I got the two stakes that I had near the nut trees to level three.

Level 3

>Growth

To level your item core you must use it for its purpose and provide for it material to level to the next level.

Metal 0% Life blood 0% Mana 0% Stone 0% Bone 0% Carcass 0%

>Traits

These are the abilities or traits that your Tree growth Stake has.

Increased growth- The tree that this Stake is linked to will grow at a rate of one year for every week of time it is linked up to twenty years of age. Increased health- The tree that this stake is linked to will be healed of wounds at a rate of recovery of one year for every month. Improved growing conditions- The temperature and soil conditions for the linked tree will be improved by 30%. Self watering- When the tree that this stake is linked to requires water a rain summon spell will be cast if any cloud is within site of tree then there will be rain for the tree. Reduced mana cost 5 per cast. If the tree reaches 50% dehydration the Stake will draw free water from withing twenty feet of the canopy. Mana cost 30 for 10% hydration. Self feeding- Any Animal that dies within ten feet of the linked tree’s roots or canopy will have the rot spell cast on it at three days from the time it enters the canopy. Any undead that redies will have the rot spell cast immediately. Reduced mana cost 5 per cast. Lay to rest- Any potentially reanimated creature that enters into the trees canopy will have the Lay to rest spell cast on it. Any undead that enters into the canopy will have Lay to rest cast on it. Reduced mana cost 5 per cast. Mana reservoir- This stake has 120 mana stored in it and will recover on its own 3 per hour until full. Lightening strikes on the tree will be completely converted to Mana and stored.

Twenty weeks to grow the trees to a twenty-year-old perfect growing condition tree would be helpful. The thing was, I didn’t want to stay here for twenty years, so I was going to have to push forward some other ways as well. So this would be a good base and should make it more doable for me overall.

It was time to go looking for the plants that I needed. I was going to change up this whole area for Chaos and hopefully not make Order mad…