Novel23 Chapter 210: Divine City Core
Chapter 210: Divine City Core
Since arriving in this world, Ethan had only managed to obtain two SSS-Rank items from over a hundred premium gacha tickets.
Honestly, that was no small feat.
Many powerful factions, even after hundreds of years of existence, didn’t come close to amassing two or three SSS-Rank artifacts.
The Darkwall family itself possessed only a single artifact that might be classified at that level. As for the entire kingdom, there were likely no more than a few dozen scattered among its oldest nobles.
Even in the central empires, such artifacts were extremely rare. Only families with hundreds or thousands of years of history possessed them, and even then, in absurdly limited numbers.
Ethan, however, was already receiving his third.
His eyes sparkled with anticipation, and when the light finally faded, he could see what he had earned.
[Congratulations, you have received: 1x Divine City Core (Rank SSS)]
"Huh?" Ethan raised an eyebrow, slightly surprised.
He had been expecting a weapon or some other combat-oriented artifact, not a city core.
Still, he didn’t let that discourage him. An SSS-Rank city core could never be underestimated, and the name itself made that abundantly clear.
Ignoring the dozens of other items popping up before him, he focused his attention on the description of the Divine City Core.
[Name: Divine City Core
Description: A legendary city core of the highest level in an intermediate world, the foundation of the capital of every great empire that has ever existed.
Can replace the current city core.
Triples all magical density within the city’s territory.
The chance of children being born with Rank B+ talent is quadrupled.
Residents of a city with a Divine Core will experience a gradual strengthening of their immune system and a higher life expectancy.
The efficiency of all types of aura and mana arts training doubles.
Effects: +150% attractiveness, +150% attractiveness to adventurers, +150% base agricultural production (growth speed and vitality), +200% base population vitality, +200% base population production, +500% to Aura, Mana, and Stamina recovery speed.
Rank: SSS]
It was, as the name itself suggested, divine.
Without a shadow of a doubt.
Honestly, what excited Ethan the most were two things in particular: the fourfold chance of Rank B+ talents appearing, and the magic density multiplier.
If the base aura and mana density in Goldenveil were one hundred points, and he used a city core that increased that density by ten percent, the final result would be 110%.
That, of course, considering Goldenveil’s current core. An insignificant city core, but one that had consumed several other cores as sustenance and now possessed power equivalent to that of an ordinary city core.
If that same ten-percent core were used in a Goldenveil with a base density of one hundred added to the divine core, the actual result would be three hundred and ninety.
A difference of nearly four times.
Ethan calmed his breathing for a moment.
He still remembered the last time he had been in the royal capital, about three years ago.
Comparing the magical density he had felt there, such an increase in Goldenveil would likely place his city very close to the capital of the Kingdom of Burning Ice.
It might not seem like much for an SSS-Rank item, but Goldenveil had only been developed for a single year.
The capital of the Burning Ice Kingdom, by comparison, had existed for over one thousand one hundred years and possessed an already active magical vein. Small, but one that helped a great deal.
Just thinking about that made Ethan extremely excited.
Where would Goldenveil be in ten years? In fifty? Would it already be able to keep pace with the superpowers of the central empires in aura density?
Sighing, Ethan retrieved the Divine City Core from the system’s inventory and didn’t hesitate to use it to replace the old one.
[Do you wish to replace: Insignificant City Core (Rank E) with Divine City Core (Rank SSS)?
Insignificant City Core will be lost.]
[Yes] [No]
He didn’t hesitate to press yes.
A faint golden glow spread across his eyes as he felt the divine city core gently dissolve in his hands, its warm energy seeping into his palms before sinking deeper, down into the very foundations of the mansion.
In the next moment, all of Goldenveil trembled.
The elves, naturally more sensitive to magical changes around them, were the first to notice.
They abandoned the fields where they had been planting and harvesting frostweed sprouts, a cultivation method taught by one of the third-stage elven elders Ethan had rescued.
Their eyes turned toward the mansion just as a golden pulse rippled outward, spreading for miles around Goldenveil.
In the next instant, the density of mana and aura throughout the city exploded to such a high level that even those not sensitive to mana could feel it shimmering in the very air.
Ethan froze for a moment, absorbing the sensation of the heightened density around him.
The technique he had used just minutes earlier had consumed a considerable amount of his aura. Still, with a single light breath, he felt he could recover it all.
What would previously have taken hours of meditation now entered his body naturally, flowing into him like a steady current.
He could say with certainty that, in just ten minutes of meditation, he would be able to recover a thousand aura points.
Before, that had taken about a full hour.
In other words, the density of aura and mana in Goldenveil had tripled overall.
That truly filled him with immense satisfaction.
Naturally, he wasn’t the only one to notice the change.
The elves who cultivated frostweed sprouts with their nature magic watched their creations burst with vitality, the stems gaining a healthy glow almost immediately.
The guards felt their bodies fill with renewed vigor, and even those taking advantage of the end of the snowstorm to continue building new houses felt their strength surge considerably.
That was the power of a divine city core, applied to a city that had barely been developed for a single year.
What if Goldenveil had another hundred years to develop? Or another thousand?
It was a prospect that left Ethan quite excited.