Heda

## Summary

Heda is a Monarch, and skilled arborist, who Zac met in the Orom World while traveling through a Life Zone near the town of Samsara's Edge. He was at first ironically hesitant around her as she shares her soul with a Spiritual Plant, but later she became like a Master to him.

## Appearance

Half of her face looked human, except for the green hair and iris, but a transformation covered the other side. Skin was replaced by bark, and small twigs grew from her chin and eyebrows, sprouting small purple leaves. The woman almost made Zac think of a corpse that had been left to rot in a forest. But her aura was vibrant much like the trees around them, though Zac felt he could sense a hint of something malicious beneath the exuberance. **Chapter 797**

## Life Arborist

* These two cultivators were the first Monarchs he had received an invitation from though, making them even more valuable. **Chapter 802**
* “Just go visit Heda. She has tens of thousands of different types of plants, and she’s one of the five most skilled Arborists in the Orom World,” Ubo said. "Among us who walk the path of Life, she is surpassed by none." **Chapter 815**
* While Ubo's cultivation cave was meticulously crafted, it completely lost to Heda's domain in acreage. From the looks of it, each field only grew one type of plant, but there were small differences between them all. **Chapter 815**
* “Of course,” Heda nodded, and Zac’s eyes widened in alarm as he saw a thick purple vine suddenly emerge from her neck before retreating into her body. **Chapter 815**
* "My laboratories are underground," Heda explained, seemingly understanding what Zac was thinking as he looked around. "I'm sorry I cannot offer a tour. The saplings down there can be altered by the slightest change in aura, making the data unreliable." **Chapter 815**
* “This is Vivi," Heda explained as she caressed one of the flowers. ”She was one of my earliest experiments since being trapped in this world. She was both a great success and a great failure.” ... “My skills were lacking at the time, and I was unable to overcome the limits of her origin. Thus, Vivi never managed to become a Plant Queen. Today, I would have managed to do it. But it is much too late, the window has passed. ... **Chapter 815**

## Cohabitant

* **Chapter 802**
	+ “For some reason, she decided to fuse her soul with an unknown seed the Orom picked up a few dozen millennia ago. She hasn’t quite been herself since.”
	+ “It worked," Heda shrugged. “I would have been culled if I didn’t try something new.”
	+ “Is having your soul subverted that much better than simply dying?”
* "It's hard to explain. It's a gift of my cohabitant," Heda shrugged as a small glass container [*sic*] "I have a request." **Chapter 815**

## Zac's Master

* “I cannot think of any plant in the Orom World that perfectly suits your path," Heda said after some thought. “But that is usually the case. Living Weapons are best nurtured from a seedling, doused in your Dao from birth to maturity. That way, it will be perfectly in tune with you." **Chapter 815**
* "Between the spatial tube and Vivi herself," Heda slowly said before she closed her eyes. "2,500 Purchase Points. That's the lowest price I am allowed to set." **Chapter 815**
* With the help of the Arborist, Zac fashioned the pole into a back protector that ran along his spine. **Chapter 815**
* The second treasure was a single seed of something called the Heavenrender Vine. It was an item that he had been suggested by Heda to replace Vivi when she eventually passed on. **Chapter 819**
* Zac had visited the Arborist regularly over the past twenty months. Not only did she possess a wealth of knowledge regarding the Path of Life, but dueling against her thousands of plant species was an immense assistance in integrating the vines into his fighting style. **Chapter 819**
* Heda never held back when sharing her knowledge. She had treated him with utmost sincerity since day one, in contrast to Ubo who mostly seemed to have invited Zac out of boredom, and then after that because of Zac's connection to Three Virtues. **Chapter 819**
* The hexbrew was something mentioned by Heda, but even she had been unable to recommend it when Zac asked about items with powerful effects but large drawbacks. **Chapter 821**
* In many ways, the arborist had helped him as much as Pavina, and if Zac didn’t offer her this hint as well he’d feel bad about it forever. **Chapter 828**
* The desolate farmlands that the ring originally came with had been completely transformed since Zac purchased the seed, with Heda having set up multiple arrays to automate pretty much everything needed to nurture the Heavenrender Vine. **Chapter 828**
* It wasn’t only a matter of the techniques he had learned with the help of Pavina and Heda, but it was a matter of vantage. **Chapter 837**
* Zac had already confirmed with both Heda and Pavina that his remaining tokens were free from any tracking measures. **Chapter 861**
* Luckily for him, the Worldring that Heda had gifted him was quite high-quality, to the point that it would be able to accommodate Haro well into the D-grade. **Chapter 885**
* For example, Beast Tamers could transfer some of their Kill Energy to their beasts, and Heda had mentioned the possibility of doing the same for plants. **Chapter 928**

## Orom Escape

* "When you leave the Orom, please break this glass and throw it away," Heda smiled. Zac took the small glass container, and he saw that a shimmering seed was hidden inside. **Chapter 819**
* Before anything else, Zac threw a small bead into the shifting vortex of chaos. ... but his eyes widened when the seed rapidly grew, forming a familiar figure. *‘Thank you, little Chaos. Your display will live on in my dreams forever. I hope we meet again,’* Heda’s voice echoed out in his mind. *‘Please take care of Vivi.’* With that, Heda was gone, whisked away god knows where. **Chapter 833**