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Chapter 4 [Growth]

So, I'm on my way back from the river after killing and eating a few small fish, which I might add were delicious and easy to catch. All I had to do was reshape the roots from trees to act as a fish net and use those same roots to pull the fish out of the water, easiest meal I've had in a while.

From that short trip, I leveled up and reached lv5. I'm now 4 meters long and my wings are bigger and stronger now, I have better control over the muscles and can flap them now, but alas I still can't fly or glide... But I'm sure I'm close to taking flight soon.

I also noticed I have two bumps on my head... my horns are finally coming in and that my fangs taste weird... wait... is that new venom I taste. I got a new venom called Floral Venom, I bite and the preys body slowly grows parasitic plants of my choice, apparently by the end of the change, my target would resemble a plant statue of the original.

But those physical changes weren't the boons I received from this level, the real gifts were two titles, [Gardener] and [Topiary] were what I was excided for. [Gardener] allowed me to grow plants faster and use less mana while doing it, but the other benefit was the fact that It allowed me to reshape plants easier.

[Topiary] allowed me to make more complex structures and things from existing plants, It basically was an add on to the better reshaping aspect of [Gardener].

I got home and promptly began testing the effect of my new titles, the effects were obvious as it took way less mana and I could do way more. I made a bush statue of myself and also added snake carvings to the trees, I made so many changes yet used so little mana.

Then something clicked in my small snake brain, I get titles by doing things a bunch of times which then makes it easier to do that things easier or better. I promptly began further strengthening the trees that makes up my walls, I grew many new trees in the area outside of my turf as well as threw in a bunch of extra mana so they would grow bigger and better.

I also made more unusual plants for my garden and redesign and improved a few existing ones. You see, the way I create new plants from existing ones is by adding my intent and imagination to the mix.

If I want the berries of a bush to be another color, I just have to think about making a different color. If I want the flowers on a bush to grow into different shapes, I just have to think about it and use extra mana. If my intent is to change the smell of a flower or change the taste of a fruit for better or worst, it will happen but it takes more mana and focus depending on the severity of the change.

I also dipped my tail into sculpting and masonry, making bricks and brittle statues, but what I really wanted was a way to passively gain more stones and rocks without wasting mana. I would infuse a bunch of mana into existing rocks with the intent for it to grown, it would grow an outer layer.

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I was hoping to get something like rock farmer, passively gain rocks and minerals with ease. I continued these aspects and prayed to the system that I was doing this the right way, a month passed and I leveled twice to lv7.

My hard work payed off, my body was 6 meters long and my wings are way bigger... I can glide now, not far but I can glide nonetheless. I got two backwards pointing horns and my venom has only strengthened, my territory now sports some new plant statues curtesy of my unwanted guest.

I pack of wolves tried to enter my turf and are now permanent guess in the forms of flower constructs in my garden, If you look closely at the clumps of moss and bark on the ground, you would realize the white animal bones beneath.

This action of purposely turning prey into statues for decoration earned me the unexpected title of [Corpse Garden] which allows me a chance to receive unknown and completely unique plants from my foes as well as making my venom more potent and with the additional power of petrifying gaze.

If I stare at a significantly weaker target I can turn their bodies into wood or trees, but it only stuns stronger targets. My experiments with the other plant stuff worked out.

I got the title [Resilient Flower] meaning my plants are hard to kill and are naturally stronger and more deadly... I didn't know how this one would affect the moss and vines at first... but now its apparent. The moss can now eat harmful rodents and birds, but seems to grow flowers to attract more bees, the moss before only protected its host but is now actively helping it.

The vines will lash out and entangle larger foes, the poison seems to be more effective, and much like the moss, the vines will drop the dying prey into the garden to add more nutrients... it seems my home and my garden is more alive now, literally.

From causing plants to grow bigger and better, I got [Super Seed] which removes the natural growth limit and allows the plants more evolutionary options. From actively modifying plants for my needs, I got [Botanist] and [Druid]. [Botanist] allows me to make more outlandish and beautiful plants with relative ease and [Druid] allows me to make plants more magical in how they work and makes the control over plants easier.

The system says that druid title could one day allow me to communicate with the Ent's and maybe create Ent's of my own to protect my garden.

I got the [Mason], [Architect] and [Terraformer] titles, the [Mason] title allows better shaping of stones into buildings and statues as well as using less mana when shaping and compacting stones. The [Architect] skill makes it so structures made are more sturdy and provides simple architectural knowledge. The [Terraformer] skill was gained by accident and allows me to reshape areas classified as natural more easy, meaning I can change the environment to suit my needs better or take a lifeless landscape and add a proper eco system.

Lets just say the inside of my territory is way more lethal and unique than the outside to everything but me... lastly there is the [Geo Flora] skill... I just wanted my rocks to grow, but now I can make plants grow in solid stone or make rock based plants.

I have accidentally bridged the gap between rock and plant, meaning I accidentally opened a whole new category of activities to do and plants to garden.

After learning all that I have realized that in just two months I have become a force to be reckoned with, After thinking of the possibilities of what I could do, I head off to bed ready to make some crazy stuff tomorrow.

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