I gradually woke up, to the "sounds" of Meadran and Lumiar talking.
Night had fallen and I wasted no time performing the Ritual of the Bright Moon. It only took a few minutes and being able to see clearly was worth it.
Lum's tail started wagging as he noticed me finishing up.
"Everything Alright?"
'Yes, Young One. We have been setting things up. I hope you approve.' Meadran mind felt full of vigor, like he had just had his fill of coffee.
What would be like coffee to a Tree? Mana, right. Had to be.
'Small Brother, the Flying Metal Fish (See I'm not the only one) have been quite busy.'
He gestured with his head, and I turned on the South bank of the pond by where the path curves around to get to the bridge from the Moon Well was a structure. It had a circular platform for its base and hovering over that platform was a Brass Sphere slightly larger than me. A large Blue Crystal shaped like a lens was scanning around but especially the sky.
Further South by the Moon Well, I saw a new Pylon floating. I turned back to look more at the new Structure.
My Arm Branch, My Tree Connection... My BTC twitched.
[ Photon Cannon
Defensive Structure
Armor: 20
Shield: 10
Damage: 15
A Psi Powered Weapon Platform. It can detect Stealthed Units. ]
Nice. A Tough Cannon that can find hidden targets? That's the dream right there.
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I think I had like 1 armor... Oh right I could find out.
'System'
[ Name: Ryan Crestwood
Class: Druid of Renewal
Level: 1 / XP: 300
Race: Human (Terra 213,451)
Stats - Body: 5 / Reflex: 4 / Tech: 5 / Intelligence: 3 / Cool: 3 / Will: 5 / Spirit: 11 (+3 Modifier)
Abilities - Sense Mana / Ley Line Sight / Shape Mana
Skills - Rituals: 2 / Concentration: 1
Spells - Regrowth: 1 / Blessing of Nordrassil: 1
Free Points: 0 / Company Points: 1000 / Tree Points: 13
Weapon: Staff of Beginning - Damage 1 / +1 Spirit / +5% Mana Regen
Armor: Starting Cotton Clothes - Armor 1, Stating Druid's Robe - Armor 1 ]
So I had 2 armor, so yeah the Photon Cannon is a hell of a lot tougher than me. And could blow me into smithereens. Hope it works, against whatever's out there.
'Meadran do you know about these points?' It was silly of me to have not asked about them earlier.
'Ah yes. The Free Points are given when you level, and as a reward for some rare quests. They are used to increase your Stats. The Company Points are given as Quest rewards and defeating certain Enemies, you spend them in the Company Shop, on Powers and Items. It will be a while before we can build that. Tree Points are given when you plant trees, you spend them, with me, to get rare seeds. Sometimes even Elder Treants like myself.'
Oh neat, something to help me out. I'll have to earn a ton of those, Powers sound useful. (AN: I know, I know. But he doesn't, yet)
I looked at the Statue of the Keeper across the bridge.
My BTC twitched.
[ Statue of the Keeper
Defensive Structure
Armor: 15
Damage: 5 Ranged, 10 Melee
A Statue to Honor Cenarius. Can detect Stealthed Units. Becomes Stealthed in woodlands. ]
So not as good, but easier to make? Though maybe being Stealthed in woodlands makes it better? You have a harder time killing what you can't see. I'll have to think about that more.
I searched around and saw two new trees near the one we had grown before my nap. One looked somewhat like Meadran but wasn't a treant, the other had red leaves and yellow gold bark. Golden Wisps had bonded with both already.
How many more until this becomes a Forest? Probably more than I wanted to know.
Meadran told me he had some of the new Probes excavate a Mine and had already entangled it. So we had Wood and Metal rolling it.
Some new Minerals had been found and a natural gas pocket in the caves, the Probes were taking care of those.
So there wasn't much for me to do here right now. Until the Mana Density was greater we couldn't build most of the Kaldorei Buildings. So Meadran would make another Moon Well as soon as we had enough Silver Wisps.
The Nexus would use the Forge to upgrade the Armor, Shields and Weapons of Units and Buildings. That sounded great we queued those up also a Cybernetics Core.
'You must construct additional Pylons.' Alina intoned.
We set a couple up to the West and a Photon Cannon as well.
That's the direction the flying car went and the direction I could see a city's lights.
I think it was time to go see what was out there.