Chapter 49: The Divine Buff

The Demon Race isn’t a mindless beast. If they see a wall they can’t get past, they won’t just wait obediently outside it.

They’ll go around.

Primrose looked at the map in her mind. Next to Tattel Town was a range of连绵 mountains. Beyond those mountains lay another human country.

If the Demon Race discovered they couldn’t enter the borders of the Kingdom of Aezera, they would definitely turn around and attack that neighboring country.

This was like building a Maginot Line.

The front was invincible, but the enemy just went around through the Ardennes region next to it and directly took out your home base.

What’s more, if the Demon Race attacked the neighboring country, what did the civilians there do to deserve that?

Why should they take the blow for the Kingdom of Aezera?

The final result of this plan would surely become diverting the disaster eastward, then ending up harming others and oneself.

Primrose shook her head and mentally crossed out the Maginot Line plan.

You can’t just block one side; that’s treating symptoms, not the root cause.

Since blocking one side won’t work, why not go big?

A second, even crazier plan popped into Primrose’s mind.

Go directly to the Demon Race’s homeland, draw a huge circle around the outskirts of the Demon Territory, and use a Divine Barrier to seal off the entire Demon Territory!

It would be like building them a giant cage, letting them live and die inside.

No one could get out, and no one could go harm humans.

The moment this idea came up, Primrose herself felt a bit excited.

This move was too absolute. It was practically a one-and-done solution.

But to realize this plan, there was one unavoidable hard condition.

That was mana.

The foundation for maintaining the barrier was her Divine Power, which was her mana. Each time it was hit, a certain amount of mana would be consumed.

The Demon Race could concentrate their forces and chip away at her mana bit by bit.

This trip to the Miracle Snowfield, even at the fastest round trip, would take several days.

What if the flow of time inside and outside was different? During that time, if the Demon Race attacked the barrier like madmen, could her mana hold up?

Primrose sat on her chair, closed her eyes, and used her will to call up a personal attribute panel that only she could see.

It had been a while.

As mentioned before, ever since she realized she had a phobia of long strings of numbers, she hadn’t opened her personal attribute panel in a long time.

She skipped over the dense attributes and skills and locked her gaze on the golden energy bar at the top of the panel.

It turned golden?

Originally, in the Fantasy Divine Domain, it was blue. But now, after her ascension to godhood, it had become golden.

Nothing wrong with that. After all, it was mana points before and now Divine Power points. Changing color made it more impressive.

Primrose focused and took a look at her mana bar. Her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

The mana bar wasn’t full!

In the past few days, she had applied full sets of buffs to Mom twice—once on the battlefield, and once outside town while training by killing slimes.

Then, during the speech, she used Sacred Healing Rain once…

The mana consumed by these skills was a drop in the bucket compared to her extremely massive mana cap—probably less than a quadrillionth of it.

If this were a game, as long as she left combat mode and stood still, that quadrillionth of mana would, given her explosive intelligence attribute value, automatically refill in less than zero point zero zero zero zero zero… one second.

But now, a full two or three days had passed, and that depleted quadrillionth was still depleted.

Not a single bit had regenerated!

A cold sweat broke out on Primrose’s back.

She immediately realized what was going on.

The mana level in this world was too low.

Her divine body simply couldn’t absorb any energy that could be converted into Divine Power.

In other words, in this world, she couldn’t naturally regenerate mana!

What about taking potions?

Primrose thought for a moment, then shook her head.

The principle behind making potions was also combining high-concentration mana with a special kind of water.

So even the most premium potions would probably have no effect.

At best, they would restore a tiny bit of mana, with negligible results.

This meant that her mana was used up little by little, never to return.

Consumed was completely consumed, unrecoverable.

Then that plan to cage the Demon Race…

Primrose smiled bitterly in her heart.

If she really made such a huge barrier to trap all the Demon Race inside, once they realized they couldn’t get out, they would absolutely go mad.

They would gather all their forces and attack the barrier day and night.

When the barrier was attacked, it would automatically draw her mana to maintain its defense.

Thousands of demon beasts attacking the barrier every day—the mana would drop like water flowing away.

Even if her mana bar was long, it couldn’t withstand such a bottomless consumption.

Too dangerous.

This plan was absolutely out of the question.

Too bad her inventory didn’t come with her. Otherwise, just throwing out some equipment would be enough for humanity to protect itself.

As for giving buffs to those soldiers like she did for Mom, the Unified Divine Realm also had rules against it.

If mortals experienced the thrill of invincibility, it might cause some psychological changes. What some weak-minded people might do after losing those powers was hard to say.

The Unified Divine Realm aimed to save the world with minimal interference in the lower realm.

Primrose sighed.

“Prim, what’s wrong?” Lin Naiyue asked.

Hearing her mom’s question, Primrose shared this issue with the two people present.

Cecilia and Lin Naiyue also found it troublesome.

Just then, the door to the room was pushed open again.

It was Yuna who came in.

She had already disposed of the towel and basin she used to wipe the floor earlier.

“Goddess, currently the Tattel Town Guard, including Warrior Chief Buck, after you resurrected them that day, the number of combat-ready soldiers has recovered to over five thousand.”

Yuna had overheard the conversation, so she reported, “However, the soldiers’ equipment is extremely poor. But after bathing in your divine light that day, their physical abilities have become several times stronger.”

“I wonder if we could organize an enhanced soldier phalanx to form a force to defend the border?”

Divine light?

Right, there was that.

Primrose had passively triggered her Absolute Divinity on the battlefield before.

Those soldiers who died in battle were resurrected in a white divine light.

She clearly remembered that the resurrected soldiers had a faint layer of golden light lingering on their bodies.

She hadn’t expected it to enhance those soldiers’ physical abilities several times over!

Being bathed in her divine light had such an effect?

And it had been two days, yet it hadn’t disappeared?

Could it be a permanent BUFF?

Primrose’s silver eyes lit up.

Absolute Divinity was a passive skill, not an active BUFF, so it didn’t violate the Unified Divine Realm’s rules.

Let the Tattel Town Guard, along with Warrior Chief Buck, be responsible for defending against the Demon Race during the time she went to the Miracle Snowfield.

Although most of the soldiers were only around level twenty to thirty, and even the warrior chief called Buck was only about level forty, with very poor equipment…

But had they ever heard of an iron rule? A solid support makes any carry shine.

If the support is strong enough, even a dog can be lifted to god of war status.

Now she had to see what BUFF was given after being illuminated by Absolute Divinity.