Chapter 768: Unexpected
The Forest of Dreams had indeed changed quite a bit compared to 10 years ago. Still, these changes wouldn't be that evident without careful observation.
The Forest of Dreams was a living forest with its own will. Or, perhaps the Forest of Dreams was more accurately described as a part of Amelia herself… She was constantly expanding her own domain. Maybe those within the forest wouldn't feel anything, but if there was a satellite providing a bird's-eye view, then one would discover that the Forest of Dreams was increasing its area every year at a rate of more than 30%. Over the past 10 years, the Forest of Dreams had secretly multiplied its area by more than 10 times.
Apart from the Forest of Dreams' natural expansion, the wood spirits were also working hard to expand their forest, or maybe it should be called their territory. This was one of the wood spirits' most important tasks over the past few years.
The wood spirits started out by hiring adventurers to fight with them against the undead and help them plant seeds around the forest to expand the Forest of Dreams' territory. This kept repeating over the years.
As time passed, all of the newly planted forests became connected, which naturally multiplied the Forest of Dreams' area many times over.
A greater area would also represent more power of nature. This also represented that even more souls would enter the Forest of Dreams' natural cycle. The wood spirit population was increasing explosively. Amelia's personal power level would also explosively increase with all of this.
Amelia was the will of the entire Forest of Dreams. It could be said that the entire forest was a part of her physical body, and that every single wood spirit was her child and an embodiment of herself. The current Amelia now seemed quite gentle and low profile in comparison to her past extreme self, which only made me feel like she was even scarier and more inscrutable than before.
"It's likely that she's already reached the level of being a so-called Main God."
I was quite confident of this. Just from the fact that the wood spirits' products were becoming ever more inconceivable, I started viewing Amelia as a new Nature God or Life God right from the time that the wood spirits created the Dusk Fruit which was something that encompassed the secrets of life.
The Mother Earth Goddess was the only Nature God who had ever reached Main God level, but she had long since lost her own will. It was rather doubtful whether she should even still be classified as a Nature God.
Basically, the Mother Earth Goddess couldn't be counted on to help the other Nature Gods if the Nature Faction was endangered.
It was a fact that there were many Nature Gods, who ranged from moderates to extremists. Still, none of the Nature Gods were the type who wanted to conquer the world.
Of course, the Nature Gods were far too ancient, so they had many worshippers in the mortal plane. All druids and nature mages could be categorized into the Nature Faction. The Nature Faction's only obvious weakness was that they had always lacked the highest-level combat strength—a Main God to lead them.
Previously, the Nature Faction had been trying to make friendly entreaties towards Amelia to recruit her as a way of strengthening themselves. However, the Nature Gods then started to faintly keep their distance from Amelia after she showed off her newest creation.
The Nature Faction would enjoy recruiting a powerful comrade who was around their level, but they would reconsider if they instead gained someone who became the boss of them all.
Amelia had never made any response. She neither accepted nor rejected the Nature Faction's invitation. She only focused on developing her wood spirits.
I knew that this was because she looked down on the Nature Gods who were quite the loose alliance where everyone only did their own thing. Amelia was also waiting for the Nature Gods to make a better offer. She would be willing to be their boss in name if she could obtain major benefits.
As for the differences between Amelia's and the Nature Gods' philosophy on life? That wasn't a big deal at all. Even within the Nature Faction, many of the Nature Gods had their own territory and ideas, so it really didn't matter much.
If Amelia and the Nature Faction still couldn't come to an agreement in the end, then that would be no big deal for her. The Seven Virtues all had potential power sufficient to reach Godhood. They wouldn't even be Gods who relied on the power of belief. As long as Amelia and the wood spirits had enough time, they would be capable of creating an all-new Wood Spirit God Faction… Actually, they were doing so already.
Did this sound really mythical and inconceivable? But, since the elves had their Elven Gods (although all the Elven Gods were now dead), the humans had the Holy Light Faction Gods (currently in the process of becoming ruined), and the dwarves had their Dwarven Gods (who became weakened and then allied with the Nature Faction), of course the wood spirits could have their own Gods.
"I've already seen through Amelia's scheme! She just wants to recruit more people! I'm a man, so I definitely won't join a God Faction that's entirely female!"
I was simply spouting random ridiculous things while touring the Forest of Dreams in my free time. Just about every single wood spirit here knew who I was, so I was treated as a VIP for once, which actually felt quite nice.
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