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"Her majesty is simply sowhat panicked that half the city is destroyed. She had planned to ask you for so resources, and in exchange, she would offer you several benefits," Chloe said.
"Huh? Ah, she doesn’t need to ask. Half of it is definitely hers, as her army defeated many invaders," Elayne said. "Actually, we only slew about thirty percent of the remaining barbarian army, the cyclops, and the demon. We’ll distribute things fairly, so please don’t worry. I am an honest and fair person."
"We never doubted that," Chloe said with a warm smile. "The bathroom with warm water is available at any ti. I’ve brought snacks for you to start the day, but please co downstairs to dine afterward. Her majesty is awaiting you... Despite feeling quite lonely, she has, for the first ti recently, begun to enjoy the company of others."
"I see... I’ll do that! Thank you, Chloe," Elayne said, as Chloe left the room after setting down fruit juice and cookies. "Hm, I feel very hungry... There’s scant sunlight up here with all the clouds. I can’t easily photosynthesize."
Elayne swiftly walked to the table and started munching on the cookies, eating them nearly compulsively and drinking half the juice that was left.
Only then did she feel slightly relieved, but there was still ample room.
"Ah, is it because of the baby? Maybe Photosynthesis was keeping the baby well fed without needing to eat so much food..."
After that, Elayne woke up Mark and little Gabriel, and after sharing so snacks with them, they went to take a warm bath together.
Well... Gabriel wasn’t supposed to join them, but the boy forced his way into the bathroom by passing through it in spiritual form and ended up bathing with them.
...Even though he didn’t need to bathe, as his true body was elsewhere.
After their bath, they joined the rest of their family and friends’ downstairs, where they were already dining with Khione.
"Good morning, everyone," Khione said with an expressionless face. "Please co and enjoy breakfast. It’s all quite delicious today."
"Thank you," Elayne said, taking a seat and quickly starting to discuss matters after greeting all others.
"I see, so you plan to distribute it based on how many my army and I killed. That’s fine, though I had planned to let you have everything because you saved us ultimately," Khione said. "However, if you insist, I’ll gladly accept the resources. We need them to restore the city properly. You see, there are self-repair functions within the entire city that operate through a special Spiritual Formation I placed above underground Spirit Veins, but I require several hundred cores to start it properly and to strengthen the barrier a bit more."
"Alright, that sounds fair," Elayne said. "Shall we distribute resources right now? Your backyard is very vast."
"Yes, Chloe has already summoned the entire Hunter Guild for this occasion, and they’re all ready to help us butcher and sort everything properly," Khione affird.
"Good! Let’s get started then!" Elayne said.
While preparing to start, Elayne also explained to them her ability to "divide" all resources using the Inventory Exploit of extracting nearly an entire Spirit Core from a corpse and then allowing it to regenerate through the inventory power of "itemizing" things within it.
However, doing it more than once would stop this regeneration process and leave the items with a "Damaged" Status, so she could only duplicate the Spirit Cores, as duplicating whole bodies was too complex.
As for the cyclops, its gigantic Spirit Core was also successfully duplicated, and she was asked to duplicate its giant eye, an incredible Magical Spirit Treasure containing large quantities of Mana and Spirit Energy.
Once completed, Elayne and the Hunter Guild divided everything, and after nearly a full day, they finished sorting everything properly.
The total number of barbarian corpses reached 1,056. Elayne kept approximately 300 of them, which also ant 600 Spirit Cores as well.
She also kept both of the Cyclops Spirit Cores and gifted the duplicated eye to Khione as a gesture of goodwill, which Khione accepted with great joy.
"We can use this incredible treasure to enhance our formation and the barrier and further evolve it into a much sturdier form!" Khione said, appearing excited and finally displaying so facial expressions. "Thank you for all you’ve done, Elayne!"
"It’s nothing, really. You’ve done so much for already," Elayne said, expressing deep gratitude. "Well, now that we’re done here, shall we have dinner?"
"R-Right! Of course, let’s do that," Khione agreed. "Chloe, is dinner ready?"
"It’s almost ready, Your Majesty," the ice golem said with a gentle smile.
"Good, let’s go then," Khione said.
Elayne, her family, and her friends enjoyed another wonderful dinner with Khione and Chloe. This ti, they had invited many of the great knights and magicians of her territory, so there were nurous conversations and a lot of noise everywhere.
After this great festivity, Elayne and her family went to sleep until the next morning, when they decided to absorb so Spirit Cores to power up as much as they could.
Throughout the day, Elayne also taught them what she had discussed previously and helped them upgrade and strengthen their equipnt through her new Spiritual Runic Engravent thod.
She was able to copy so of the abilities and spells infused into her own living weapons, granting everyone equipnt that could resist Demonic Power, Miasma, and even Nether to so extent, reducing their damage by at least 30%.
Although so of them grasped the principles behind the Spiritual Runic Engravent thod, no one was able to replicate it like Elayne could, only managing to make one rune at a ti... and that was only the ones with the most dedication, such as Mark, Elena, and Katherine. Nobody else fully understood the process of replicating it at all.
"Hm, every ti I do this, it always feels so relieving."
Elayne sighed as she closed her eyes and ditated, letting the Spiritual Essence of the Spirit Cores flow into her body and her Spiritual Heart, enhancing its power.
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