Start as a Spiritual Planter: I Have a Game Panel

Ram felt the gradual transformation as the process continued for more than half an hour as the Sylvan Soul Tree steadily devoured strands of soul power from the remnant soul.

With each strand of energy absorbed, Ram could feel his own power expanding, yet something unfamiliar happened again.

When his spirit attribute reached 99.9 points, an invisible wall slammed into him, stopping further growth.

It wasn't the first time he'd encountered this strange limit.

The first barrier appeared when his spirit reached 65 points, then at 85 points, then again at 95 points. Now, at 99.9, this third block felt unyielding, stronger than the two he felt before.

After crossing each limit, the amount of soul power required to reach the next limit became double. So far, he crossed three limits and consumed more than two hundred strands of soul power.

"I can't push past it this time... unless I reach Tier 4," Ram muttered, his brow furrowed. He didn't know there were such limits at Tier 3, but he made a mental note to consult Mai later.

It cannot be blamed on his ignorance, it only more than one week for him to evolve from an ordinary person to Tier 3 and there wasn't anyone to guide him.

However, he felt Mai should know about this, he had seen her attributes before and knew that she had already broken her first limit.

He shifted his focus to his Soul Power. Though its quality hadn't improved significantly, the upper limit had increased dramatically from 20 points to 70.

As he concentrated, he realized his spiritual perception could now extend up to more than a hundred meters—about two hundred and thirty meters a huge improvement from before.

"Well compared to spiritual awareness, divine consciousness is ten times stronger and this much can be expected," Ram also found that his divine consciousness also improved.

However, it was more restricted, stretching only to 14 meters, or 28 meters if fully focused in one direction.

After adjusting to the new changes, he checked the state of the remnant soul and found that only about ten percent of the soul's energy had been consumed.

"Huh, only ten percent absorbed?" he muttered, there was still so much soul power left in the Goddess's remnant.

With his consciousness returned back to his body, he noticed the Sylvan Soul Tree had grown significantly.

The once small sapling had become a one-meter-tall tree, its branches as thick as his arm, there were not many branches, but its leaves shimmered with an ethereal glow.

Compared to its previous state, this was a massive transformation. Ram couldn't help but smile at the sight, the state of growth was always in sync with his soul.

With every limit he broke it grew taller and stronger, or to say the Sylvan Soul tree helped him break those limits without much effort.

"If this is the result after absorbing just a fraction, how much can my soul and spirit attribute improve if I swallow it all." After feeling the benefits, he highly doubts that he will be able to find another one.

So, he was already thinking about swallowing it, instead of using Sylvan Spirit Rebirth and turning it into a wood spirit.

"Since I can't eat it now, leave it for later," Ram muttered, closing the current process of soul absorption.

He then turned his attention to his attribute panel, wanting to see if anything new had changed since opening up the territory.

As he opened his attribute panel, he found that the attribute panel seemed to have been upgraded, the whole interface became more sci-fi, but in between those interfaces a new white interface caught his eye—when he opened it, he found an extra panel that looked entirely different from his usual settings.

His first thought was that this new panel had something to do with the Divine Spirit Tree, and to confirm his guess, on top of this interface an image of a huge tree appeared, with the name 'Divine Spirit' displayed below.

"It's like my attribute panel is a smartphone, but now it's updated itself after connecting to a massive network," Ram mused.

He figured the 'network' here seemed to be the Divine Spirit Tree, which was now connected to his territory.

As he inspected further, he saw the name of this new interface was called Lord's Panel. Looking at it he wasn't particularly shocked.

After all, he knew all the awakened professionals and heroes on Blue Star had similar specialized panels.

Ram decided to check his usual attribute panel first. Not much had changed on the surface, so he shifted his attention to the new Lord's Panel.

As soon as he opened it, several prompts popped up:

[ The initial territory has been identified.]

[ Dear Lord, congratulations on becoming a new Lord and opening up your own territory.]

[ From now on, you have seven days of protection. During the period, the initial territory is protected by a barrier.]

[ During this protection time, you and your territory will not suffer any harm unless you voluntarily leave your domain.]

[ After seven days, the protection will disappear. Please properly protect the core of the territory.]

[ The core of the territory is a derivative of each lord's soul. Once it is destroyed, the lord will also die, unless they use resurrection crystals.]

[ After seven days, the novice protection period ends, and you will officially enter the Lord's space to compete with other lords and alien forces for hegemony.]

[ Opening the permission to visit the Lord's Cities. Each teleport requires 10 points of source power.]

[ Opening the permissions to use Lord's exclusive store, regional chat channel...]

[ Loading the Territory Details...]

Ram looked at the details, absorbing the new information.

First, there was a protection period, but he didn't know what use it was for him, he was already in an unknown space.

Unless the enemy knew the space coordinates, they wouldn't be able to enter here.

Even if he himself doesn't know his own coordinates, how can others know about it? So, for now, he felt safe.

"Then the core is tied to my soul... I already know that skip," Ram was about to skip the details, however at the end, he found a new detail, so he hurriedly stopped and checked it carefully, "Wow, there's already resurrection crystals..."

In his eyes, Blue Star seems to be becoming more and more game-like, "I don't know what else going to appear next..."

"So, I still have seven days...facing off against other Lords and even alien forces." he pondered, "Seven days should be enough for me to save large amounts of Life energy and spiritual power, but where can I recruit more soldiers."

Only then did he see the next prompt which solved his puzzle, although he didn't know what this lord's city was or where it was, with the permission to visit the Lord's Cities unlocked, he knew his first task would be to gather enough source energy for teleportation.

"Ten points didn't seem much, but now that Korrin has completely used up all the source crystals I acquired from the void space, I must find alternative methods to obtain them quickly." He proceeded to look further and discovered there was also an exclusive store and a regional chat available for him to explore.