Chapter 287: Late Starlight-grade Starlight Berry
[After you felt and experienced the surging power within your body, you further realized the gap between the Aether rank and the Starlight rank.]
[It wasn’t merely just destructive power, but mostly on an existence’s life level.]
[’In fact, one can be considered a legitimate Starlight rank powerhouse regardless of their physical attributes.’]
[’The biggest difference between a Starlight rank powerhouse and a non-Starlight rank living being is the ownership of a Principle. Just owning a Principle will increase the Spirit attribute to Initial Starlight rank.’]
[’In other words, I don’t even need to find items to increase my Spirit attributes. I merely have to increase the law fragment attainment percentage of my three Principles, and I’d naturally have my Spirit attribute increase accordingly.’]
[You realized that to achieve Initial Starlight rank, one didn’t even need to increase their physical attributes.]
[Just merely possessing a Principle will increase the Spirit attribute, which was directly related to one’s soul, to the Initial Starlight rank.]
[While not all powerhouses at Starlight rank possessed powerful bodies that could shatter stars, their souls and the abilities derived from their Principles were more than enough to achieve such a feat.]
[’Now that I have advanced to Starlight rank, I can finally consume those Late Starlight-grade Starlight Berries.’]
[Waving your hand, you created a bunch of Late Starlight-grade Starlight Berries using Unlimited Food Creation (Gold).]
[The Starlight Berries looked like miniature stars shining brilliantly, but in the form of berries. The conditions to grow and harvest these Starlight Berries were much stricter than the Ether Fruits.]
[As early as a few years ago, you and the Zenith Train Crew had schemed to steal the starlight berry bush of a Late Starlight rank powerhouse.]
[It was the time when most of your train crewmates had attained Initial Starlight rank. Due to that, they already possessed Principles and sufficient combat power.]
[Coupled with Astraea’s divination and your Wish Maker and All Stars Aligned in full effect, you’ve verified with Hint Prompt that your train crew’s plan to steal the Late Starlight rank Starlight Berry Bush would succeed.]
[Fortunately, everything did go as well as you’ve planned.]
[It was a plan that if it didn’t go well, you all would have to use Passenger Safety Mechanism as a minimum cost, and even X-rank Second Life if you all couldn’t deal with the Late Starlight rank powerhouse.]
[’Acquiring a Starlight Berry Bush is important for the Zenith Train Crew’s progress. Even with Old MacDonald’s Farming Principle, it would take several decades just to grow a Starlight Berry Bush using the seed of a dwarf star.’]
[’Not to mention, taking an already grown Starlight Berry Bush would be way easier than growing a new one.’]
[’At most, Old MacDonald merely has to ensure that the transplantation would succeed and that the environment where the Starlight Berry Bush is transplanted is enough to sustain its growth.’]
[’Fortunately, the Greenhouse World Carriage could allow the Starlight Berry Bush to grow without competition. Just opening a subspace within that carriage solely for the Starlight Berry Bush’s growth was already sufficient.’]
[Looking at the late-grade starlight berries on your palm, you didn’t hesitate to eat them.]
[The Starlight Berries were the equivalent of the Ether Fruits when upgraded to Starlight rank.]
[Of course, the Ether Fruit Tree wasn’t related to the Starlight Berry Bush.]
[Their equivalence was mostly on the fact that consuming either of them would increase one’s overall stat attributes.]
[Various Starlight-grade consumables could increase stat attributes. However, the Starlight Berry was one of the few that could increase overall stat attributes.]
[As for why you didn’t continue upgrading the Peak Aether rank Ether Fruit Tree to Initial Starlight rank, it was due to the Ether Fruit Tree reaching its limit.]
[Even if you used Absolute Boundary, World Order, and Old MacDonald used his Farming Principle, forcibly evolving the Ether Fruit Tree to Initial Starlight rank would only result in a Starlight-grade Ether Fruit.]
[The biggest flaw of the Starlight-grade Ether Fruit was that it could no longer increase overall stat attributes. It could only increase the Strength attribute, Agility attribute, and Physique attribute.]
[It could no longer increase the Spirit attribute. On the other hand, the Starlight Berries could do what a Starlight-grade Ether Fruit couldn’t achieve.]
[For most Starlight rank powerhouses, the Starlight-grade Ether Fruits would mostly be enough since the advancement of their Principles would compensate for the lack of Spirit attribute increase.]
[But in your case, you couldn’t do without the Spirit attribute increase.]
[ After all, the next doomsday simulation might not have Authorities and Principles. You couldn’t solely rely on your Principles to increase your Spirit attributes.]
[For this reason, you’ve used Hint Prompt and finally discovered the existence of Starlight Berries.]
[’Each starlight berry contains astronomical energy. The minimum requirement to eat them is literally Initial Aether rank. Anyone below who eats them and has insufficient physique attributes would literally implode.’]
[’But due to this, the starlight berry has an ability that the ether fruit didn’t possess. Unlike the ether fruits, the starlight berries could recover the energy of a Starlight rank powerhouse.’]
[’It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that the minimum energy a Starlight rank powerhouse possessed was equivalent to that of a star. Due to this, most energy recovery items would fall short in recovering the energy of a Starlight rank powerhouse.’]
[’As for the starlight berries, each berry literally contains the energy equivalent to that of a star. And unlike directly eating a star to replenish energy, the energy contained within the starlight berry is much milder.’]
[’Due to the rarity of Starlight Berry and the fact that it was mostly used to increase stat attributes, most Starlight rank powerhouses dared not use it as an energy recovery item.’]
[’But since I possess the gold-grade Unlimited Food Creation simulation talent, I can easily create these star energy-filled berries without any cost!’]
[Thinking about it, you further realized just how useful and convenient Unlimited Food Creation (Gold) was.]
[Among the several simulation talents you’ve possessed, its importance was even higher than Hint Prompt (Gold) and just below Power System Unity Physique (Red).]