Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos.

After speaking with the Dragon, Liu Shu touched on her berry production and added the <Eternity Strand> cost into the calculations. However, as she did so, the large numbers began bothering her a little bit. "I can produce so many fruits… Will they even be able to get them all? I feel that it is impossible."

Liu Shu, instead of doing calculations with raw numbers, decided to divide the costs and use percentages. That way, she would be able to allocate her available regeneration much more easily. "Let's see, for starters, let's give the <Delicious Berry> a total of 20% of my energy capability. After doing the math, I can produce… 82,815,561 <Delicious Fruits>... per hour. This translates to 12.4 billion <Delicious Fruits> monthly."

After Liu Shu realized the sheer amount of fruit she could produce with just 20% of her energy, her mouth became a bit dry. "That's an insane amount, no?"

If it were without her regeneration boosts, she guessed that the numbers wouldn't be this ridiculous. However, with an 800% boost to her regeneration, it didn't just translate into better battle efficiency; it poured over to her berry production with incredible momentum.

Liu Shu slowly did all the numbers, and after a while, she realized another thing. "Oh… My babies won't really be able to take the same proportion of my production compared to before, either. Right? So, I need to tweak the numbers here. Since I have an 800% boost… Does that mean that my babies produce at a ninth of their previous pace…? Yes. After all, an 800% boost means a 9x, my base production plus the 8 times from the boosts."

Liu Shu tweaked all her mental calculations with ridiculous processing speed. The numbers slowly came to her, and eventually, she smiled. "Alright. I've allocated all percentages. The results are… Show me, system."

[Showing Tianlian Liu Shu's personal berry monthly production, leaving aside enough energy always to produce <Eternity Strands>. Current production from local <Lignified> species is equal to 1.1 times Tianlian Liu Shu's personal production.]

<Delicious Berry (20%)>: 12.4 billion (12,422,334,150)

<Phoer Berry (10%)>: 6.2 billion (6,211,167,150)

<Mana Berry (10%)>: 6.2 billion (6,211,167,150)

<Energy Berry (10%)>: 6.2 billion (6,211,167,150)

<Breakthrough Berry (5%)>: 628,290

<Resonant Berry (2%)>: 84.8 million (84,878,068)

<Refinement Berry (2%)>: 84.8 million (84,878,068)

<Affinity Berry (2%)>: 84.8 million (84,878,068)

<Palace Berry (2%)>: 84.8 million (84,878,068)

<Energy Cycle Experience Berry (5%)>: 987,886

<Cerulean Bloodfruit (5%)>: 258,199

<Element Lord Fruit (10%)>: 668,089

<Focus Fruit (11%)>: 1,133,450

Total Percentage: 89%. The final 11% will be reserved for the <Eternity Strand>.

Liu Shu hummed a few times after seeing the final numbers. Then, she looked around the city and searched for Flor. Once she found her, she spoke lightly. "Um… Flor. If the berries I can produce are in the tens of billions, what should we do?"

Flor, who was playing with one of her great-grandsons, froze in place. Then, she blurted out her honest feelings from the bottom of her soul. "Reduce it."

"U-Uh?" Liu Shu was baffled by the answer.

"Please reduce it!" Flor begged, tears almost gathering in her eyes. "How are we supposed to collect tens of billions of fruits monthly from a World Tree that's 9,000 meters tall! Just flying up and down ONCE takes a while, not to mention the number of times they must do it because of the sheer amount of berries!

Liu Shu coughed a bit. She could actually reduce the number. However, she was reluctant. "Isn't having over 12 billion <Delicious Fruits> monthly good? We can feed a sizable army to have them constantly Leveling Up, can't we?"

"We could do that…" Flor nodded.

Right after, the child in her arms patted Flor's shoulder and asked innocently. "Great-grandma Flor, why do you look like you're about to cry?"

Flor looked down and showed a smile uglier than crying. "Because great-grandma is happy."

"Oh!" The little bun smiled widely and nodded. "That's good!"

Liu Shu looked at that with an awkward expression. "Ahem… I could reduce it. I just have to use higher percentages of my energy on costlier fruits. That way, there will be much fewer berries to worry about."

Flor reached to the side, taking a sip from the teacup. Liu Shu blinked, confused. 'Huh? Where did the teacup come from? Wasn't that small table empty a second ago?'

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After drinking, Flor muttered, awed. "After you reached Level 100, this tea is truly—"

[Congratulations! You've triggered a random <Eternal> attribute buff. You won't age for the next three months!]

Flor almost dropped her teacup. "WHAT IS HAPPENING!? AHHH!"

The great-grandson clapped. "Wow! Great-grandma is doing flips in the air! So fun!"

Liu Shu felt her lips twitch for a second, wanting to burst into laughter. However, she knew that if she did so, Flor would spank her… somehow.

After thinking for a few moments, she used her roots to create a table with the numbers for her berries. "Ahem. Flor, that's the table with the new numbers. Do… As you please with it."

The Flower Fairy continued spinning in the air. "I WILL LOSE MORE LIFESPAN THAN I GAIN FROM THESE BUFFS! AHHHH!!"

So, guiltily leaving behind a spinning fairy, she moved to look for her dears. While she had been awake, her lovers had yet to come into her <Core Room>, so she was curious as to why.

After searching throughout her domain, she was able to find one of the four. "Hello, Cinderielle!"

The tall, elegant, and red-haired Sylvan blinked and smiled. "Tiantian, how are you doing?"

Cinderielle was currently in the forest surrounding the city, scorching a few <Fourth Energy Cycle> beasts that had appeared. While this was usually the job of the <Explorer Association>, Liu Shu's growth had made it a bit hard to keep under control. After the Level 100 power-up, all her titles and abilities influenced her surroundings much more, giving birth to stronger monsters.

There were rumors around that the <Fifth Energy Cycle> natural monsters were about to pop into existence at any moment. Hence, to not cause any problems, the government moved the armies together with the <Explorer Association> to clean up the surroundings. They didn't mind if the affected places were remote, but when the trade routes became affected, it was a problem that couldn't be ignored.

"I am doing great! Sorting out my domain so that I can forget about it and look at how to start spreading out…"

Cinderielle jumped, dodging the pounce of a large tiger-like beast, and then summoned a house-sized fireball.

BOOM!

The tiger was blasted away, its body full of scorch marks. "That's great to hear… Wait, it's not!" The Fire Sylvan glanced over at the giant tree in the distance, a wall of fire blocking the attacks from the outside. "What do you mean that you are still clueless as to how to stretch your roots out?"

Liu Shu spoke with a pouty tone. "Why? Can't I struggle? There is no guidance at all on how to extend beyond the planetary level. So, I am having a hard time with it! I can't just… I don't know, create a pillar of roots that pierces into the sky, right?"

"Why not? That doesn't sound like a bad idea."

Cinderielle moved the firewall and mixed a foreign energy, creating a faint multicolored glow. The fire leaped into the form of different beasts, swallowing the pack of wolves that came to attack her.

Liu Shu observed the agile dance of her lover. When she heard her question, she chuckled. "Do you know how sturdy I must make those pillars? Not to mention… It is ugly! There must be another way to reach space without creating a spiky planet!"

Seeing that there were no more beasts, Cinderielle landed on the ground and smiled wryly. "Love, you can't really expect to have everything aesthetically pleasing, right? Sometimes, rough work is more than needed."

"I refuse!" Liu Shu harrumphed. "With my skills, there must be a way to do it!"

Cinderielle chuckled and extended her hand to touch one of Liu Shu's roots that poked out of the ground. "Alright, alright. My love is always right. Still, I think that creating large root spores that spread once outside the atmosphere is not a bad idea. You can even sort those spires through spatial sections. That way, you will have them rely on information orderly from different space locations."

"But what about the World's rotation? Such big structures might throw the entire ecosystem out of balance!"

The Fire Sylvan snorted. "Love, you ARE the ecosystem. You can throw it off-balance and then fix it. There are no problems at all!"

"..."

Liu Shu blinked in her mind a few times. "Well… you are right… But!"

"Alright, alright." Cinderielle smiled and kissed the root. "Tell me, dear. Why have you searched for me? There must be something, right?"

"Yeah…" Liu Shu asked, somewhat timidly. "Why have none of you come to my <Core Room> ever since I've awakened? Do you not want to have more children? Even if you don't, you can come visit my Avatar, right…?"

Cinderielle was startled. "Oh, dear. You were worrying about this?"

"Well… Not worrying, but I am a bit confused."

Hearing Liu Shu's timid voice, Cinderielle felt her heart soften. "Love. We are not going because we want to cross into Level 100 as fast as possible. From what I know, all four of us have enough Experience to reach it. Nevertheless, we are waiting and fighting outside to consolidate our foundation before doing so. We want to have as high an Energy Cycle as possible."

Getting the answer, Liu Shu let go of her worries and sighed in relief. "That's great. But, if you want to Level Up, isn't it better to go to the <Dungeon> in the <Origin Water Continent>?"

Cinderielle nodded. "We are rotating our turns monthly. This month is my turn to take care of our work in Golden Sap City. If you want to search for those three, you'll have to wait until they come out of the <Dungeon>."

"Oh… I see."

Hearing the clear, depressed tone, Cinderielle laughed and smiled. "Do you want me to go for a little while? To be honest, our Evol… Ah, right, the name was different. Our <Ascension Paths> are quite similar, which is probably a result of us being your wives."

"Oh?" Liu Shu asked, curious. "What are they called?"

Cinderielle sighed. "While we have many options, the comparison between 'That' option and the others is just too large. So, I will only say the shared option. In my case, it is called [Infant Thermis Chaos Sylvan (Mythical)]. The others similarly have an <Infant> stage and <Mythical> rarity species with the Chaos modifier."

"Infant…" Liu Shu asked, confused. "Will you become a young girl after you evolve?"

Cinderielle burst into laughter. "I won't. Have you returned to your child form after becoming a Sapling, dear? The age is more to show the potential of the species. Of course, that doesn't mean that you can go from a high-maturity form to a younger one. Only, the chances are much lower."

Liu Shu hummed. "I see… Huh? How do you know that my species is a Sapling Stage form?"

Cinderielle blinked innocently. "Hm? I can read your <System Page>. That's why."

"..." Liu Shu asked, baffled. "Since when?"

The Fire Sylvan smiled happily. "Since I unlocked the <Hidden Title> after our first steamy session~."

"..." Liu Shu didn't know what to say. 'I guess love does miracles.'