292: The Elf Forest is expanding

Normania Continent.

Clarissa stayed for a week, then, thinking Isis should have woken up, she went to the Elf Forest to find Isis.

Ellie looked at Clarissa, who had gone out again, feeling that Clarissa seemed quite busy recently.

However, Ellie originally thought she could help Clarissa, and even become Clarissa's "combat partner," but so far... it seemed quite unlikely she could achieve that.

Under Clarissa's intentional or unintentional guidance,

Ellie has now completely "integrated" into this world, and now she mostly follows Alice's lead.

Alice also bestowed upon Ellie the title of "Queen's Guard" and granted her certain rights and status.

After all, Ellie's master is Clarissa, the "Pioneer Honored One"!

And her friend is the Queen of the Grosster Empire... with such background and identity, even without Alice granting her status and rights, no one would dare to easily provoke Ellie.

She could be considered a top-tier "second generation" without equal.

These days, Clarissa's source points finally broke through 50 billion.

Clarissa didn't save them; she directly spent 50 billion source points to upgrade one of her abilities:

[Talent Boost IX] → [Talent Boost X] (Next level requires 60 billion source points)

After the upgrade, Clarissa was left with over 4 billion source points.

The demand for source points is too great... [Dragon Blood Warrior], [Unknown Form], [Talent Boost], [Sword Mastery] all require a large amount of source points.

And she also craves [Three Swords].

It seems there are simply too many places that require source points.

Although this will be a long accumulation.

Clarissa also suppressed her "restless" heart, continuing to quietly accumulate her strength, cultivate diligently, and temper herself.

...

After a while, Clarissa arrived at the Elf Forest.

"Clarissa! You're here!" Before Clarissa even arrived, Isis communicated with her telepathically through the "Heart of Nature."

"Yes, I'm here," Clarissa nodded and replied.

She had Isis's buff on her, so basically, Isis could know where she was.

Of course, it was simply sensing the aura of this buff.

Clarissa also knew this, and if she didn't want to be known, she only needed to casually use her Calamity Power to conceal it.

A teleportation passage appeared before Clarissa.

Clarissa looked at this teleportation gate full of life energy, and through it, she could see the gigantic Tree of Life.

Clarissa walked straight in.

She arrived directly at the center of the Elf Royal City—the Tree of Life.

Isis's petite figure was under a branch of the Tree of Life, where a swing made of vines as ropes and cork as a seat hung, and Isis was sitting there, swinging back and forth.

"How do you feel?" Clarissa walked over and asked Isis with a smile.

Isis nodded; she knew Clarissa was asking about the feeling brought by the Life Core: "I feel incredibly good! How to put it, it's the kind of good I've never felt before!"

Isis's eyes were curved, and she indeed looked very happy: "Moreover, I feel like my understanding of the Law of Life has deepened."

"That is indeed a good thing," Clarissa smiled and nodded.

"Oh, right, the small bottles I made for you are all ready," Isis said to Clarissa, and a large pile of special wooden bottles of various sizes appeared. These wooden bottles were created by her power, containing a trace of life energy, and were the best containers for preserving Life Nectar.

According to Clarissa's request, Isis first made 100,000 wooden bottles for Clarissa.

Fifty thousand bottles were for one drop, thirty thousand for three drops, ten thousand for five drops, and ten thousand for ten drops.

"Thank you!" Clarissa thanked her, then stored all these bottles in her system space and registered them in the shop. When someone wanted to purchase Life Nectar, it would be automatically dispensed.

And different container inventories also appeared behind the Life Nectar.

"You're welcome! You've already given me a Life Core; just this alone is enough for me to be your tool!" Isis said happily, then directly used the word "tool" she learned from Clarissa.

"Hmm~ Happy cooperation. If we sell more in the future, maybe I can give you a second, or even a third Life Core!" Clarissa said with a smile: "Perhaps even better Life Origin is possible!"

!!! Isis's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this: "Mm-hmm! I will be a good tool!"

Clarissa smiled as she listened to Isis's words. Although Isis said she would be her tool, Clarissa would not simply treat Isis as just a tool. They were friends, and even more, partners.

Fortunately, the Elf people did not know about this, otherwise, they would probably be shocked to death that their god would voluntarily become someone else's tool!

Then what were they? The tool's tools? Or the tool's subjects?

Clarissa chatted with Isis for a while; most of the conversation was about Isis talking about the Law of Life, then its related influences, and then various matters concerning the Elf.

"Oh, right! Clarissa, what do you think, should the Elf Forest be expanded further?" Isis asked Clarissa.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" Clarissa paused when she heard Isis's words: "Why do you suddenly want to expand the Elf Forest?"

Isis was talking about the Elf Forest, not the Elf Royal City.

To be honest, the current Elf Forest was already quite large, although it couldn't compare to the land area of human empires.

But the entire Elf Forest was already a dozen times the size of the Grosster Empire's capital, and the Elf Royal City was no smaller than the Grosster Empire's capital. Besides, how many Elf people were there anyway...?

"Well~ it's just that I also want to expand the Elf Royal City, and then make the Elf Forest even larger, to give the Elf a greater range of activity. And I feel that since I am the god of the Elf, and my power is growing stronger, naturally, the territory it encompasses should also be larger. Otherwise, I would only be able to suppress my power... If I suppress it for too long, I'm afraid it might burst out and expand wildly," Isis thought for a moment and said to Clarissa.

"That's no problem!" Clarissa nodded: "Anyway, the Elf Forest is already very remote, and near the Elf Forest, there are only mountains and rivers, no human habitation. You can expand it if you want..."

"Hehe~ That's good!" Isis smiled: "Then I'll expand it, but I won't actively expand it. The Tree of Life is growing larger and very vigorous, so naturally, it will require more 'absorption' of nutrients, and its radiation area will increase, so it naturally needs a larger place."

"Mm-hmm, I understand," Clarissa nodded. The Tree of Life was a good thing; for a world, the existence of the Tree of Life was entirely beneficial. It was like the world "gives" 10 units to the Tree of Life, but the Tree of Life, after "processing" and "transformation," not only satisfies itself but can also give back 20, or even 30 units to the world.

Moreover, as the Tree of Life grows, it gives back more and more, and the quality also improves.

From the world's perspective, the Tree of Life could become a "World Tree."

From this perspective alone, Clarissa had no reason to refuse. And just as she said, there's no human habitation nearby anyway, so just expand it! No one is stopping you.