Forester's Constitution

*All living beings under the Heavens, one entity.*

## Summary

An high-quality skill that Zac gained from one of his three level 25 skill quests for his Hatchetman class. It granted a Dao Vision and it boosts his Endurance and Vitality. At peak F-Grade it granted a Forest Sense that became Nature Sense at E-Grade. It also has synergy with Hatchetman's Spirit.

It was upgraded to E-Grade during his time in the Twilight Ascent in **Book 7, Chapter 43** and upon upgrade to D-Grade it changed enough to become **[Inborn Predator]**.

## Skill Quest

* Forester's Constitution (Class): Fight in the forests, be one with nature. (0/30) **Book 1, Chapter 25**
* Forester’s Constitution (Class): Fight in the forests, be one with nature. Reward: Forester’s Constitution Skill. (29/30) **Book 1, Chapter 79**
* He had been annoyed when he had noticed that only the Axe Mastery quest progressed from kills, not the Forester’s Constitution quest. He would have to figure out what was missing later. **Book 1, Chapter 26**
* During his travels, he noticed that his third class skill, **[Forester’s Constitution]**, had finally had its first progression either during last evening or this morning, now showing 1/30. The problem was that he wasn’t quite sure what he did to progress it. it. The System gave no ping or notification when his quests progressed, leaving him with no information on when it happened. **Book 1, Chapter 33**
* Before they left, Zac showed Ogras the screen for the Forester’s Constitution skill after some hesitation. It was still stuck on (8/30), and Zac explained the situation. **Book 1, Chapter 75**
* “Fight in the forest is very vague, and you can probably exploit it. What constitutes a forest, and what constitutes a fight? If you want to complete it without wasting too much time, we need to do two things. First, find the spot closest to the mines that the Ruthless Heavens considers forest. Second, find out how often you need to kill something to be considered in battle,” he [Ogras] said ... **Book 1, Chapter 75**
* He was very close to completing the quests for both his **[Loamwalker]** skill and **[Forester’s Constitution]**, and he felt it would be better to complete those skills when he was alone. **Book 1, Chapter 79**

## Dao Vision

* Suddenly, Zac felt the familiar gathering of energy in his mind, and his heartbeat sped up. Ogras had told him that the skill might be a seed quest that was designed to award a Dao Seed, but Zac didn’t dare to hope for it after he’d already gotten a vision for the Dao of Axes. **Book 1, Chapter 79**
* He was a small pod in the darkness. Nothing existed apart from the warmth of the surroundings and the refreshing pearls of water that sometimes ran along his surface. ... He had broken through the earth, a small sapling being greeted by the endless sky. ... Seasons came and went and beset him with an ever-changing trial by nature itself. Zac started to realize he was different from his brethren around him, as while their growth stopped after a few centuries, he kept growing. ... He kept growing upward, eventually breaking through the vault of the heavens. ... He was the Lifebringer. **Book 1, Chapter 79**
* That tree he had grown into was truly gargantuan and reminded him of the old tale of Yggdrasil, the world tree. It was larger than a star by the end, but more importantly, it contained an endless source of life. **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* **[Dao Seed of Trees – Early. Vitality +10, Endurance +5] Book 1, Chapter 80**

## Skill Window

* [Forester’s Constitution – Proficiency: Early. Man and Nature One Entity. Endurance +5%, Vitality +5%. Effects doubled while in a forest. Upgradeable.] **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* [E] Forester’s Constitution – Proficiency: Early. All living beings under the Heavens are one entity. Upgradeable. **Book 7, Chapter 43**
* [E] Forester's Constitution - Proficiency: Late. All living beings under the Heavens, one entity. Upgradeable. **Chapter 898**

## F-Grade

### Early Proficiency

* [Forester’s Constitution – Proficiency: Early. Man and Nature One Entity. Endurance +5%, Vitality +5%. Effects doubled while in a forest. Upgradeable.] **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* Zac knew what to do now that he knew he had a new Dao Seed, and started channeling the Dao of Trees into the fractal, and it lit up with a green luster. The once dead tree started to emanate an aura, but it wasn’t oppressive like the one from his axe. Instead, it gave a refreshing feeling, but also spoke of unyielding perseverance. **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* No prompts lit up his surroundings ..., and the only discernible difference was that he felt it start to emanate a warmth that spread out throughout his body. It felt a bit like when he drank the azure water, but he instinctively knew that this warmth wasn’t hurting him. **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* Having an idea, he cut a wound on his left arm ... As he started to infuse the Dao and some Cosmic Energy into the tree again, he felt the warmth properly spread out once more. The wound on his arm started itching within seconds, and Zac felt how the warmth moved toward his wound and started healing it. **Book 1, Chapter 80**

### Middle Proficiency

* *Endurance +5.5%, Vitality +5.5%. Effects doubled while in a forest.*
* Forester’s Constitution – Proficiency: Middle. Man and Nature One Entity. Upgradeable. **Book 2, Chapter 71**
* This time, it was the **[Forester’s Constitution]** skill that gained a boost. **Book 2, Chapter 71**
* The only reason for the upgrade he could come up with was that it required time spent in forests to level up, since its boost was dependent on staying in forests. Other than that, he had no idea, as the skill was passive and not something he could train with. **Book 2, Chapter 71**
* But at Middle proficiency, it gave an 11% boost as long as he’d been in a forest in the last twenty-four hours. ... The lower boost improved slightly as well, clocking in at 5.5%. **Book 2, Chapter 71**

### Late Proficiency

* *Endurance +6.5%, Vitality +6.5%. Effects doubled while in a forest.*
* As for the small improvement, it wasn’t a lie. Zac had suddenly sensed a stronger connection with nature around him and had stopped to properly savor the feeling. Unfortunately, it wasn’t an epiphany or anything of the sort, but rather an improvement to **[Forester’s Constitution]**. **Book 5, Chapter 9**
* The passive skill had finally evolved to Late proficiency, increasing the boost to Vitality and Endurance by a full 2% each when the effect was doubled. Zac guessed that meant that the skill would provide a 15% boost at Peak mastery, which was nothing to scoff at. **Book 5, Chapter 9**

### Peak Proficiency

* *Endurance +7.5%, Vitality +7.5%. Capped by E-Grade Attribute Limit. Effects doubled while in a forest.*
* It was both horrifying and extremely intriguing to see the hundreds of paths to survival, and Zac felt something click into place after walking along for half a day. He was delighted to see that **[Forester’s Constitution]** finally reached Peak mastery. The upgrade had boosted his attribute bonus to 15% as expected. **Book 6, Chapter 43**
* But more importantly, he felt a sense of connectedness with the nature around him. It wasn’t like when he was using **[****Hatchetman’s Spirit]** and he essentially became omniscient within his conjured forest, but rather an innate sixth sense about the forest itself. It was like an inborn intuition had been implanted into his subconscious. **Book 6, Chapter 43**
* It wasn’t exactly that he could sense treasures, but rather that he had been given an instinctive understanding of the forests. He just felt that the brambles looked like a place that could contain some good things, and this feeling was in turn boosted by his massive pool of Luck. **Book 6, Chapter 43**
* He somehow had a far better understanding of what parts of the rivers would hold aggressive beasts or which types of foliage could hide something lying in wait. **Book 6, Chapter 43**
* The best thing was that the skill was passive too, meaning he could freely make use of his upgraded instincts without any ramifications. **Book 6, Chapter 43**

## Upgrade

* One skill after another was transformed over the next week, all of them successfully elevated to the next tier. Almost every evolution had some twists and turns, but he was definitely satisfied with the results. **Book 7, Chapter 43**
* [E] Forester’s Constitution – Proficiency: Early. All living beings under the Heavens are one entity. Upgradeable. **Book 7, Chapter 43**

## E-Grade

### Early Proficiency

* ... with **[Forester’s Constitution]** mostly staying the same **Book 7, Chapter 44**
* Zac had tried to put more focus on the part that improved his instincts, but it proved too complicated. **Book 7, Chapter 44**
* Still, his efforts had been enough to slightly change the description to no longer just mention “Man and Nature,” instead incorporating all living things. It was a step in the right direction, and he hoped it would broaden how the skill could be used. Being so dependent on nearby forests to provide the full benefits was a weakness he wanted to move away from somewhat. **Book 7, Chapter 44**
* He didn’t really sense anything different from the skill itself, although his attributes had gained a small boost. That wasn’t because the skill provided more points, but rather that it could scale with even his massive attribute pools. It now provided 15% Endurance and Vitality, as it had before Zac’s attributes grew too big. **Book 7, Chapter 44**

### Late Proficiency

* In fact, most of his skills were evolving, proving just how powerful the altar was. That was not to say it was all thanks to this temple. Many of his skills were long overdue for an upgrade, ... After having been through two tremendous epiphanies and getting blessed by the altar, they were all bursting forth at once. **Chapter 897**
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### Peak Proficiency

* By this point, almost all of his skills were already pushed to E-grade Peak Mastery, **Chapter 978**
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## D-Grade Evolution

* Similarly, **[Forester's Constitution]** had seen such a transformation that the System named it **[Inborn Predator]**. **Chapter 1,125**

## Commentary

* The last quest seemed either extremely easy or rather hard. Just 30 fights and it would be done. [Ha Ha Ha] **Book 1, Chapter 25**
* He had initially thought the Forester’s Constitution would be some sort of defensive skill like the stone skin he saw the earth mages use, but he was only partly correct. It was rather a passive buff skill that worked like a title that improved his survivability. **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* The properties of the Dao indicated that it wasn’t a Dao meant for battle, but he was fine with that. **Book 1, Chapter 80**
* The only difference was that the boost to Endurance and Vitality that he’d gained from [Forester’s Constitution] seemed to be gone [as Draugr]. **Book 2, Chapter 93**
* The only thing that remained seemed to be the effects of **[Forester’s Constitution]**, and Zac guessed it was because the skill worked like a title, giving a passive attribute boost. **Book 2, Chapter 95** [This is at variance with the quote above it. And shown wrong in Draugr Stat Screens.]
* He had already passed 1,000 Endurance in his human form ..., but he didn’t get the title then. Perhaps the System didn’t count boosts like **[Forester’s Constitution]** to avoid people cheating with the help of skills like **[****Hatchetman’s Rage]** and Emily’s boosts. **Book 4, Chapter 55**
* Zac also guessed that the skill **[****H**a**tchetman’s Spirit****]** counted as being inside a forest, which renewed the boost he got from **[Forester’s Constitution]**. **Book 4, Chapter 86**
* Forester’s Constitution had only upgraded once, and it was while he ran through the corrupted forests of the Dead Zone. Since then, there had been no improvements in the skill, making Zac believe it might need constant exposure to various forests to progress. **Book 4, Chapter 91**
* Zac wasn’t too surprised that the skill had finally evolved, as he had traveled through all kinds of forests during the past fifty-odd levels, including topographies he would never encounter on Earth. **Book 5, Chapter 9**
* Progressing skills wasn’t necessarily about energy density, but rather about opportunity and insight. So secluded cultivation might be good to improve some aspects of his strength, but skills were not one of them. A few of his skills, like **[Forester’s Constitution]** and **[****Loamwalker]**, were still stuck at Late proficiency, and this might be a good place to practice those skills. **Book 6, Chapter 15**
* The forest didn’t look like it was full of treasures to the untrained eye, but **[Forester’s Constitution]** had opened Zac up to the truth. **Book 6, Chapter 43**
* They immediately set out, this time led by Zac, who was using his natural affinity with the forest that came from [Forester’s Constitution]. **Book 6, Chapter 74**
* First of all, all three skill fractals that came with a Dao Vision had changed, not only **[****Axe Mastery]**. The other two skills, [Forester’s Constitution] and **[****Bulwark Mastery]**, had been transformed as well. Previously, they had resembled an axe, a tree, and a shield respectively, but they now looked like abstract skill fractals just like all the others. **Book 6, Chapter 78**
* He at first didn’t understand what **[Forester’s Constitution]** was trying to tell him, as there were no herbs there, but his eyes widened when he noticed something. There were footprints, and not something left by the wolves. **Book 6, Chapter 81**
* In a way, it was almost a relief that his Peak-mastery **[Forester’s Constitution]** couldn’t keep up with his ballooning attribute pool any longer, and the actual boosts to Endurance and Vitality it provided were far below the advertised 15%. **Book 7, Chapter 60**
* For example, he had considered fusing **[****Hatchetman’s Spirit]** with **[Forester’s Constitution]** to form an amazing domain skill, but he ultimately didn’t feel that would bring much to the table. **Book 7, Chapter 77**
* Zac didn’t encounter anything of interest over the next week, except the occasional plant he found with the help of **[Forester’s Constitution**]. **Book 8, Chapter 38**
* Zac found himself assailed from every direction, but his evolved [Forester’s Constitution] proved its worth. He instinctively understood how these previously unknown plants would act, and he swam in a pattern that allowed him to dodge most of the vines. **Book 8, Chapter 44**
* He was trying to use the intuition gained by [Forester’s Constitution] to find herbs [in Twilight Chasm] ... **Book 8, Chapter 48**
* The large cave was soon filled with another source of verdure, the spectral forest of **[****Hatchetman’s Spirit]**. Zac’s already sharp senses from [Forester’s Constitution] were supercharged, and he wove back and forth between the roots as large blades formed like leaves slashed into the frenzied roots. **Book 8, Chapter 54**
* Zac nodded, and the two soon entered the nearby forest in search of something more exciting than the endless supply of F-grade moss. ... Zac's **[Forester's Constitution]** might as well have been turned off from how he got no impressions from it. **Chapter 941**