This Necromancer Just Wants to Plant Trees

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"Transformation" is an exceedingly domineering legendary ability.

It can completely alter a person's thoughts, attributes, alignment, love and hatred, and even memories!

In the strictest sense.

Once Matthew applies transformation to a certain life, it equates to executing soul or personality-level destruction on the latter!

This ability grants him the power to toy with ordinary life forms like playthings.

In the face of "Transformation."

Those relatively humble lives don't even have the right to possess their most basic sense of self.

Let alone love and hate.

Just imagine.

Someone who utterly despises you with every fiber can instantly become passionately enamored with you, and it's an earnest, soul-deep affection!

How terrifying that must be.

Despite having made much psychological preparation in advance, Matthew's heart was still somewhat shaken when acquiring such a formidable ability.

His insight into the nature of supernatural powers greatly surpasses that of spellcasters at the same level.

Yet precisely because of this.

Matthew found himself even more shaken, even to the point of reverence.

And after a brief emotional upheaval.

Matthew quickly completed his ideological adjustment—

"Before using this kind of ability, it must be carefully considered and pondered, and must not be wantonly abused, as doing so could likely lead self-consciousness into endless loss."

This mindset of self-restraint does not stem from the reminder of the Temperance Sub-Domain.

But rather from Matthew's innermost sentiments.

After experiencing the calamity of the Divine King, his heart became even purer.

"The stronger one becomes, the more they should examine themselves by the standards of ordinary people."

This is the standard Matthew set for himself.

He hopes he can adhere to this rule for life.

Compared to the overbearing and complex nature of "Transformation."

The effect of "Miracle" is much more straightforward.

This ability grants Matthew the opportunity to transform a specific area into his home ground.

It's worth mentioning.

The more people that witness the miracle and the deeper its reach, the stronger the advantage an arena transformation grants Matthew.

To be more precise.

Ideally, the observers of the miracle should be the local native populace, that is, tribes that conform to the origin effects of the corresponding plane.

As long as these tribes recognize the miracle Matthew has performed.

It's equivalent to Matthew having temporarily become the local god.

Acquiring temporary home-ground advantage naturally follows suit.

"This ability is very suitable to use when entering other planes, or upon leaving Aindor."

"It can make a certain city, a certain area, turn into an environment advantageous to me, equivalent to moving Aindor to other worlds..."

Matthew is quite satisfied with this ability.

The role of home-ground advantage often becomes more evident in higher-level fought battles.

Especially for the legendary-mage or Superior Legend.

At least in his own domain, he can achieve initial invulnerability.

Whether he can win or not is another matter.

"First seek not to be defeated, then seek victory."

"This might be a strategy that should be prioritized upon entering the legendary realm."

Matthew thought to himself.

The newly mastered "Legendary Slumber Technique" is similarly full of many details worth exploring.

After a simple examination and insight.

Matthew realized the spell's function might not be for attack; it seems more like a protective incantation.

"The purpose of developing this spell appears to be for establishing a special, ultra-long-term sanctuary space..."

Matthew keenly detected the true nature of this spell.

First, the casting time for this spell is very long and cannot benefit from Instant Cast, Silent Casting, or similar super-magic abilities.

To put an entire city to sleep.

Matthew estimates it would take about two hours just for the chanting!

This is evidently unsuitable for combat.

It seems more like a highly magical domain field.

And within the region affected by the Slumber Technique.

All creatures are unaffected by time; outsiders upon entry immediately fall asleep, and calamities or magic that could destroy the city are nullified upon entering the area.

It's akin to time freezing here.

Only within the entire sanctuary space.

Matthew, as the spellcaster, can maintain wakefulness throughout—

This sounds somewhat lonely.

"If someday, to cope with an irresistible calamity, I use the Slumber Technique on Rolling Stone City and the area with the cemetery and sanctuary, everyone falls asleep, and the vast space leaves only my single conscious soul, just imagining that situation leads to despair..."

Matthew shook his head quietly in his heart.

Hoping that scenario will never come to pass.

The good news is.

Even if Matthew releases this spell, he can leave this space himself.

However, once he chooses to do so.

How long the effects of the Slumber Technique can last will become subject to a very random determination—

Namely, at the moment Matthew departs.

The laws governing this spell will perform an operation similar to rolling a six-sided die.

After this determination.

The period the Slumber Technique can maintain thereafter becomes a fixed parameter.

Upon analyzing this spell.

Matthew learned this parameter is approximately between 99 years and 1000 years.

Seemingly randomly chosen.

He himself cannot manually control it.

This greatly increases the spell's uncertainty.

"If something happens and I have to leave, they will awaken on some day hundreds or thousands of years later; what will happen after that?"

Several dramatic scenarios flashed through Matthew's mind instantly.

While he repeatedly undertook failed attempts to bury the two bigwigs of Baiyan City, he quickly gained new legendary-level abilities.