Chapter 266: 266, [World Tree Heart]_1
Translator: 549690339
“What?! You know the treatment for ‘Plant Transformation Disease’?!”
Regent King Legolas dropped the staff in his hand, but he didn’t pick it up. Instead, he was staring at Su Yu with a piercing gaze.
Legolas had encountered many elves, humans, and beings from other races who vowed to be able to cure the Plant Transformation Disease before.
Most of them were fraudsters, and those who were genuinely skilled also failed. He didn’t hold much hope in this regard anymore.
But this man before him was different!
Su Yu was the emissary of the princess, and the [Senior Scholar Emblem] hanging from his chest was also real; he couldn’t be making ungrounded claims, could he?!
Because of the Regent King’s gaze, Su Yu’s clothes ignited spontaneously without wind and flames. His upper body clothing got burnt, revealing a large area of fair skin underneath.
This must have been due to the regent’s emotions flaring out of control, causing the density of fire elements to rise.
Su Yu didn’t really mind, he tore off the burning clothes and replaced them with a new set of reserve mage robes.
He smiled at the Regent King:
“I am a scholar who specializes in prophecies and I can witness snippets of the future through unique abilities.”
“Among these snippets, some part pertains to your kingdom. Your people suffer heavily under the assault of ‘Plant Transformation Disease’, but eventually, they are able to come up with a unique medicinal concoction. Conveniently, the recipe of this concoction was in the snippet I was able to witness.”
“Really? That’s great!” The Regent King became excited.
If what Su Yu said was true, then there might be hope for the resolution of “Plant Transformation Disease”!
“Yet you should know.” Su Yu rubbed his head as if in pain: “Someone like me, a low-level mage, whenever I perform prophetic magic, especially those that could change the course of history, I would experience endless pain, and my life span would decrease as a consequence, so…”
“So what do you need?” Legolas intercepted: “Would you want me to send you some top-notch elf beauties to ease your pain?”
“Let’s skip that.” Su Yu twitched his mouth: “I want the [World Tree Heart], and I only want it from this tree we stand upon now. No substitutions are acceptable!”
The [World Tree Heart] that Su Yu demanded had a similar effect on gamers as the Root Potion – Both could sublimate the players’ basic capabilities.
The [Root Potion] could upgrade a player’s basic capabilities from [Ordinary] to [Elite], causing their life value and magic power to increase by 4-7 times and quadrantal properties to increase by 1.3-2.3 times;
The [World Tree Heart] could further upgrade a player’s basic capacities from [Elite] to [Boss], where the life value and magic power could reach 10-15 times that of the ordinary level, and the quadrantal properties could achieve 3.3-5 times the original.
The [Boss] template is the highest possible level a player can attain.
Having this template, a player could simply rely on their endemic properties to fight with a boss of the same level in the game at equal capacities!
But these are ultra-rare treasures, extremely valuable. Among the billions of players in his past life, only about 90 had access to these treasures.
Moreover, all these 90 players invariably became seventh-stage powerhouses without exception.
Hearing Su Yu’s demand, Regent King Legolas hesitated: “You want the Heart of the World Tree? Are you sure?”
“Definitely.”
“This…” Legolas didn’t know how to respond.
The World Tree they stood upon now was the lifeline of the Elf Kingdom, so digging out its heart recklessly would certainly inflict severe damage on it, which would greatly affect the entire tribe.
However, on one hand, there was the World Tree, and on the other, there were the lives of millions of citizens.
If the “Plant Transformation Disease” went out of control, many more lives would be lost.
With a frown, Legolas was deep in thought, unable to make a decision.
Su Yu was not in a hurry either, he stood patiently waiting on the spot.
After a while, one of Legolas’s servants spoke: “Your Majesty, Princess Emily, she…”
Hearing this name, Legolas seemed to have thought of something and made a quick decision: “Alright then, I agree to your terms! Yet, I must witness the drug taking effect with my own eyes before I hand over the Heart to you.”
“Don’t worry about that!” A smile bloomed on Su Yu’s face again: “We could sign a magical pact in the name of the Elf God, to protect both parties’ interests.”
“That’s fine.”
Regent King Legolas closed his eyes and murmured a spell.
Several strands of emerald light fell from the sky, coalescing into a fuzzy emerald phantom in between the two.
Under the phantom’s witness, Su Yu and Regent King Legolas formally signed a magical pact.
Once both parties had confirmed the pact, the emerald phantom integrated it, and the pact officially came into effect.
Su Yu glanced over the contents of the pact satisfactorily, and extended his hand towards Regent King Legolas: “Pleasure doing business!”
However, Regent King Legolas didn’t extend his hand in return, he merely huffed: “There’s nothing pleasant about it! For us, the harm resulting from forcibly digging out the heart isn’t any less severe than ‘Plant Transformation Disease.’ If not for Emily… If not for my people, I would never have signed the pact with you!”
Then he urged: “Now that the pact has been signed, can you relay the prescription?”
“Of course.” Su Yu strolled slowly in the hall, recollecting and speaking: “2 grams of [Luminous Stone] ground into powder, 3 grams of Light Bird feather powder; [Intermediate Light Crystal]…”
“Plant Transformation Disease” was a persistent problem for the elf race in his past life and was not resolved until the end of the sixth expansion pack.
Su Yu had a deep impression of the concoction’s prescription for treating the disease because he had taken on a related medication-making task, and now it could be put into use.
Legolas did not dare to delay, he remembered Su Yu’s words by heart and instructed his servants to bring over all the materials mentioned by Su Yu.
All the materials Su Yu mentioned were quite common, and it didn’t take long for a dozen sets of materials to be transported into the central treehouse.
As Regent King, Legolas of course knew a thing or two about alchemy, and since the concoction was uncomplicated, he decided to do it himself. Under Su Yu’s instruction, he utilized his magical power to operate the crucible, input the materials and began concocting.
Legolas was quick at concocting, and in no time, a dose of medicine that emanated strong holy light was ready.
Upon seeing the concoction, Legolas fell into deep thought.
He realized that their previous approach to treating Plant Transformation Disease, through natural therapies, could’ve been flawed. They never considered that Holy Light could be effective.
But Legolas didn’t dwell on it too long.
“Mather.” He looked towards the servant who spoke earlier.
“Your Majesty.” Servant Mather bowed hastily in respect.
“Bring Emily here, her Plant Transformation Disease should still be treatable.”
“Your Majesty!” The servant was shocked, he fell to his knees before Legolas: “But Emily is the princess! Shouldn’t you have others try it first…”
“Less talk, hurry up!” Legolas commanded.
“Understood!” The servant dared not to voice any more objections, he quickly left the treehouse.