It had been over 12 years since the war ended, and around 2 years since the envoys arrived at Ceperet. During this ti, the envoys had naturally tried without much success to inquire about Liu Shu’s buffs.
Other than that, they had not t too often, allowing the envoys to live as they pleased. Two years were neither too many nor too few. It was enough to beco accustod to life in Ceperet and the surrounding worlds, but since they were all guided by the Verdant Elder, it wasn’t really enough ti for anyone to switch sides to Liu Shu.
Or so it would’ve been if the Covenant had a tighter rein over their people.
The Eternal Church was a place where many of the Covenant people went out of curiosity, and among the thousands, so who were dissatisfied with their mission to co to the Golden Sap Empire as envoys decided to defect.
These people were low-ranked, though. So, the information they could give was not really substantial. What Elyne and Cael knew from before their arrival covered much more extensively the information about the Covenant than what these people spoke about.
Of course, seeing their fickleness, Liu Shu didn’t dare to give these people her buffs and expose her cards. Even when it was a matter of ti before soone sold out her buffs, she wanted to stretch that inevitable mont as much as she could.
In summary, while both sides were probing each other, there were no big movents from either side. After all, Liu Shu had managed to get the upper hand, and until the Verdant Elder got ahold of so information with equal importance, her advantage would not disappear.
This stalemate was what Liu Shu wanted, making her quite comfortable. The few thousand people from the Covenant couldn’t make a splash in her empire through bribery or anything similar due to the nature of her empire and Liu Shu’s culture. Did they want to make her people betray her? First, show better benefits than her buffs. Second, make sure to guarantee a life more comfortable than what she gave. Third, if the individual who was bribed was family-oriented, they needed to ensure that their children would have better buffs than those Liu Shu gave.
Overall, people who were approached by the Covenant treated them like pests, scrambling away, fearing that Liu Shu would strip away their buffs if they stayed for a bit too long. Even the greediest and stupidest among her people understood deeply what it felt like to be without Liu Shu’s buffs.
The reason?
It happened not too long ago, when Liu Shu visited Eluan and saw his children beco dizzy when they asked her to deactivate her buffs. Therefore, to ensure that her people understood its importance, Liu Shu had created “the day of nature” for the day before the year ended.
That day, Liu Shu completely shut off her buffs for absolutely everyone other than those in hospitals, retirent hos, or similar places.
Rembering the dizziness, Liu Shu was not so brutal as to shut off everything for 24 hours. Instead, she made sure to deactivate them for a few minutes each hour, and in the final hour before the new year, she would completely shut them off, then activate them upon the arrival of the new year.
This made everyone quite cheerful and grateful when the New Year arrived.
Overall, it was a day that people were quite reluctant to look forward to, but at the sa ti, it showed her people how utterly absurd Liu Shu’s existence was. The first year she did this, the few non-religious people in her empire almost overnight decided to beco part of the .
At that ti, Liu Shu rembered Flor and the others marveling at the effects of those few minutes without buffs. Even her children complained that the last hour felt torturous and whined at her not to do it again.
These complaints did the opposite, though, as Liu Shu sealed this day as a necessity. Otherwise, when her people left the Golden Sap Empire in the future to spread out, wouldn’t they all beco useless?
“Now… 12 years after the war, I finally managed to complete what I wanted… System, pour the energy necessary!”
[ has !]
[Transformation complete.]
[You’ve gained .]
Liu Shu’s eyes widened as the skill’s effects transford and her perspective shifted. This skill, which had previously given her the ability to create a reincarnation circle within her domain, had now transford into a new sothing that allowed Liu Shu’s senses to observe the world through a new lens.
“Whew. With this, all the skills needed to create the would not be few.
So to make the tea might even reach the S- Rank!
“If that’s the case, I need to inform the producers to make sure to separate them. After all, S- Rank tea could be sold as an incredibly precious commodity outside. No matter how much I can produce, with the zillions of beings roaming space, I will never really create enough.”
Rereading all the skills, Liu Shu sighed loudly. “Whew. This brings much more change than I initially expected.”
She shook her head, thinking that the jump between A and S- was truly… impressive. “Then… what about from S to SS-?”
Just thinking about it made her feel excited. Perhaps, in the far future, all her skills would reach SSS Rank or sothing!
“Alright, hehehe, let’s stop fantasizing for a mont. I am about to fly to the sky even when I don’t have wings! Hahaha.”
Gently scolding herself, Liu Shu focused on another very important matter. “How have my berries changed? I can finally grow S- Rank berries!”
Her berries were sothing all creatures and soldiers ate to strengthen themselves, and most potion makers used them to create Aether, Anima, and Phoer potions, among many others. So this change would once again transform the very foundation of her empire.
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