I Am Genie-Chapter 82: Energy Herb And Holy Herb

Michael right now remembered those weird plants or flowers or whatever that Iris ate earlier. He felt those things weren’t ordinary stuff. Anyway, she’s Dragon God, she wouldn’t be so broke that she actually eats flowers and grass, right?

"What were those things you ate earlier?"

"What I ate? Ah, you mean energy herbs, right?"

Iris said, then reached into her chest and pulled out a bag covered in gems that was even more sparkly than her outfit.

She straight up shoved her whole arm inside while Michael looked on, shocked. Leo had seen it before but he wasn’t the type to ask random questions like Michael, so he never asked her about it.

Her bag was only a bit bigger than a hand but the space inside seemed endless. She had to fumble around for a bit before pulling out several flowers with pretty colors but that had something about them that didn’t seem like normal plants.

Staring at the flowers, Michael, of course, couldn’t see anything special but he had the system. In this case, the system probably wouldn’t refuse him.

’What the hell are these flowers? What do they do?’

[System scanning...]

[As she introduced, these things are energy herbs. They aren’t normal plants so they don’t need nutrients from soil or water to grow.]

[There’s a lot of energy in nature and under random conditions when the density is high enough, energy herb will be born.]

[Energy herb absorbs energy and matures over the years. When they’ve stored up enough energy, they will transform into a higher rank.]

’Anything else?’

Michael, who was listening mid-sentence and got cut off, felt a bit annoyed. What the hell is the higher rank of energy herb anyway?

[I only help you up to that point. You can’t always depend on me.]

Michael’s eyelid twitched. That damn system thing clearly knew a lot, maybe even knew everything. But if it wouldn’t tell him, Michael didn’t have any other choice except to ask Iris.

"Hey, what do energy herbs turn into after living for a long time?"

"Huh? That thing called the system didn’t tell you?"

Iris was a bit curious about the relationship between the system and Michael. From what she observed, the system wasn’t an ability completely under his control.

"I don’t really get the system either. It always says I abuse it so it refuses to answer a lot of questions. The explanations sometimes cut off halfway to make me figure things out on my own."

Michael had been through that frustrating feeling many times because of it. The system’s replies were way too random. He really couldn’t predict it.

He even sometimes wondered if the system was actually some kind of life form, but it always insisted it wasn’t. The system always used AI as the example closest to it. It said its level was way higher than any AI Michael had ever heard of.

Hearing that, Iris felt even more that, being a god too, how come the genie was so much weaker than Dragon God? Michael had no subordinates, no power, no special knowledge, and no super intelligence.

He only had his immortality and a system that helped sometimes and didn’t other times... Looked like he also had that outfit that instantly fixed itself even if it got damaged.

Thinking about Michael’s clothes, Iris was a bit curious what they looked like. From Leo’s description, they seemed pretty weird.

Until now, Michael never used the genie’s clothes because they were both weird and looked too fancy. He always wrapped himself in rags for clothes, same as Leo, to fit the ’poor kid’ image.

"Well then, let me tell you... It would be embarrassing for me if you guys get tricked later."

Iris added another sentence and then put on a teaching pose, ready to explain to Leo and Michael about something called ’holy herb’.

An energy herb that lives for a thousand years will accumulate a massive amount of energy and evolve into a holy herb.

Energy herb can only be used to eat for fullness and quickly replenish lost energy in the body, but holy herb has a huge different use. A demigod-level existence, after absorbing all the energy of a holy herb, will immediately increase by one level.

One level, besides significantly increasing the energy reserves inside the body, can also help a demigod-ranked human increase their lifespan by twenty years.

According to records, when reaching level ninety, the initial lifespan, no matter how long it was, now becomes one hundred twenty. Because of that, the maximum limit humans can live is three hundred years.

"Never thought this world had such magical things."

Leo couldn’t help but sigh in admiration. As someone who trained in martial arts for many years, he knew the higher the rank, the harder it was to increase power. Yet this world had something that could make those at the top of the pyramid easily level up instead of spending over a decade trying.

"You’re a god and the ruler of energy monsters. Your assets must be pretty rich too, so you probably have a few holy herbs, right."

Michael’s train of thought was pretty different from Leo’s. Looking at Iris’s haughty, showing-off attitude right now, he immediately guessed she had at least a few holy herbs.

"Mm, smart. Never thought I hid it so well and you still figured it out."

Iris nodded, satisfied, like she wanted to say ’the kid’s easy to teach’. At the same time, she reached her hand out, planning to ruffle Michael’s head.

But how could Michael have guessed her intention? The moment he saw her hand reaching out, he rolled away on the ground to get far from her.

"Pfft, ha ha ha..."

"What the hell are you doing?"

She held her stomach, bursting out laughing. That posture right now with the luxury dress she was wearing totally didn’t match.

Michael froze, his face turning red as a tomato. He hung his head low, not looking at her or Leo, covering his ears with both hands. Can’t see, can’t hear, heart won’t be troubled.

Seeing him pull that silly stunt, Iris moved closer to him. She casually took a flower from her bag and shoved it straight into Michael’s mouth when he wasn’t paying attention.