See this! I just gifted the story: Balloon

It also means he sells the first generation essences he gets. Which helps the story in the fact that he doesn't ever 'need' money anymore (casually dropped hundreds of millions on her ring when two million was a ton at the beginning) and allows other people to potentially learn and start to catch up to the MC so its not always something convenient like the Zhao clans naturally superior genes so he can face actual challenges and the story can progress better

Great Story! Did the tree revive that species she used as a blanket?

Awesome! Just wanted to make sure I understood what happened :)

Did she decide not to tattoo the gargoyles, lizards, or lions? And they seemed to have got sidetracked with the baby and such, did Bridgette and Alfred get their tattoos (or at least Bridgette seeing as she is a "bad" guy now)?

In chapter 235, where she is giving the tattoo to the dwarven king, Voluri, there is a paragraph that says she gave it to the entire council and then it jumps into the halfing mess. It's a short paragraph which mostly skips over the process, and shouldn't be too awkward to remove for the more fleshed out version now 😁