Lotus Year 7
The new skills looked very promising, they weren't a big deal when you looked at them directly, but things like [Hard shell] and [Create Water] had their uses.
[Hard Shell] would be very useful if I need to defend myself, as I can't move from this place, I need to look for ways to stay alive.
[Create Water] was another very promising skill, I drink a lot of water, so it's good to know that I can create my own water source in times of drought.
[Wast Wipe] was the most abstract on this list, but it also seemed to be very useful, the skill seems to be made to purify my body or the environment around me. in case it's poisoned, which is very good.
As I looked at my new skills excitedly, I could see my water nymphs becoming more agitated, and looking in the direction the nymphs were floating, I could see what appeared to be a bird, perhaps some kind of heron.
The nymphs didn't even want to know, and began to spray small angry jets of water at the heron, but the animal didn't seem bothered at all, and continued doing whatever it was doing.
Soon the heron opened its wings and closed itself into a kind of umbrella, so I could see it defecating in the water and patiently waiting for something. Before long, the heron advanced with its beak towards the water, and caught a large orange fish, then swallowed it whole and returned to umbrella mode.
'Oh... A fishing bird! It seems that wildlife is starting to use this place more frequently...'
Before this lake was a real mud pit, but since my arrival I have been working on it and turned it into something more acceptable, there was still a lot of work to be done, such as purifying 100% of the water, removing the algae, and perhaps exterminating all the fish that are not "Beneficial" for me.
That would require a lot of work, but time is on my side.
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Lotus Year 9
Skills
[Root Growth] - Lv Max
[Nutrient Absorption] - Lv Max
[Photosynsis] - Lv Max
[Blooming] - Lv 1
[Lunar Conversion] - Lv Max
[Summon Nymphs] - Lv 4
[Filtering] - Lv Max
[Mud Critters] - Lv 5
[Lotus Blessing] - Lv 1
[Hard shell] - Lv 2
[Create Water] - Lv 1
[Waste Wipe] - Lv 1
In the last few years I have been leveling up my skills and gaining more star points, in the meantime I filtered the water more, and then created more water nymphs and mud crittles, now I had several little helpers out there, several little mud creatures inhabiting the my roots, hunting anything slow enough to suffocate in their muddy bodies.
And small water nymphs that launched jets of water at creatures that came close. With this I managed to reach level 4 in the last few years, which wasn't a big deal, but still very rewarding.
I had 631 star points to use, and some skills that I could fuse into new skills.
'Very well... Let's start with [Filtering] and [Root Growth].'
Notice
Do you want to fuse the skills [Filtering] and [Root Growth]?
'Yes!'
Notice
The skills [Filtering] and [Root Growth] had fused in the skill [Filtering Roots]
Skill
[Filtering Roots] - Lv 1
Create roots capable of purifying water and absorbing nutrients.
'Bingo!'
It was a success, the skills really became something very obvious and predictable, but still very useful, now I would no longer need to spend my Sp to create roots and sponges at the same time, and I could focus solely on expanding my roots.
'Next option... [Lunar Conversion] and [Photosynsis]? Or [Photosynsis] and [Nutrient Absorption]? I can also try to merge [Lunar Conversion] and [Nutrient Absorption]... I think I'll go with [Lunar Conversion] and [Photosynsis], it seems much more useful and promising.'
Notice
Do you want to fuse the skills [Lunar Conversion] and [Photosynsis]?
'Yes!'
Notice
The skills [Lunar Conversion] and [Photosynsis] had fused in the skill [Celestial Absorption]
Skill
[Celestial Absorption] - Lv 1
Absorb the magical power of celestial bodies through the process of photosynthesis, generating MP and SP
'Oh!! This is very good! Now i can generate Mp and Sp no matter the time of the day!'
Using my new [Celestial absorption] skill I could feel that my leaves were managing to generate more energy and were generating MP and SP, even though it was daytime.
'Very good, it was totally worth it. Now for the next thing...'
Star Store Star Points: 631.2
Random skill: 120 Star points - Or more
Random Title: 500 Star points - Or more
Conversion: 10 MP - 0.1 Star Point / 1 Star Point - 10 XP
'What to do? Risk everything on a new super skill? Buy a title, or spend it all on several small skills?'
The options were very varied, I could get 5 "weak" skills, or try to get fewer skills with larger amounts of points. I could try 3 skills for 200 points each, or 6 skills for 100 points, or you could take a title and a skill for 130 points.
'I think I'll try to get a title, these titles seem good since thet are so expensive...' My only title was [Reincarnated] which already gave me a 100% XP bonus which was very good, so the titles seemed something that would help me permanently and immutably.
'So it's decided... 1 title and 1 skill of 130 points... I hope I win something good.'
Star Store Do you want to use 500 Star points for a random title?
'Yes!'
Notice
You have gained the title [Guardian of The Pond]
Titles
-={Guardian of The Pond}=-
+50% life regeneration if you are in a water body.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
'Oh... How specific... But I think it works for me... 50% more health regeneration is a significant bonus, but it ties me to a body of water... Well, it's not like I I could get out of here anyway... Wait... What is that?'
Star Store Star Points: 131.2
Random skill: 100 Star points - Or more
Random Title: 1000 Star points - Or more
Conversion: 10 MP - 0.1 Star Point / 1 Star Point - 10 XP
Star points in the new title to get a new title have doubled, this has never been mentioned, and it is a horrible condition, it means that I cannot take titles according to my need, but it also means that the next title will always be better than the last one.
'But 1000 points .... would I need ... 1? 2 years to generate all this ... '
Without thinking much more about the subject I continue to my next purchase and spend the remaining points on a new skill.
Notice
You have gained the skill [Lily Pad Shield]
Skills
[Lily Pad Shield] - Lv 1
Create Lily Pads that can serve as resistant shields, Lily Pads cannot generate energy.
'Oh!! This skill looks really good! Especially if I think about the future! If I can fuse this with [Hard shell] I could create even more powerful plant shields, or if I fuse this with [Celestial Absorption] I could create shields that can also generate energy!'
'Lets see what i got there...'
Information Name: ----- Level: 4 Gender: ---- Age: 9 Years Hp: 42.1 Sp: 28.2 Mp: 12.3 Race: Lunar Nymphaea
Attributes Str: 0 Vit: 32.5 Def: 14.4 Dex: 1.8 Spe: 0 Magic: 0.4 Hp Regen: 1.8 + 0.9 MpRegen: 0.03 Luck: 0.5
Skills
[Filtering Roots] - Lv 1
Create roots capable of purifying water and absorbing nutrients.
[Nutrient Absorption] - Lv MAx
Absorb nutrients from decomposed materials
[Celestial Absorption] - Lv 1
Absorb the magical power of celestial bodies through the process of photosynthesis, generating MP and SP
[Blooming] - Lv 1
Create flowers that can bear fruit
[Summon Nymphs] - Lv 4
Use your MP to summon and maintain water nymphs that can protect you.
[Mud Critters] - Lv 5
Use your MP to create and mantain mud minions, who can fight for you.
[Lotus Blessing] - Lv 1
Bestow a blessing upon an allie that ncreased luck and fortune.
[Hard shell] - Lv 2
Use your Sp to make the surface of your shell harder
[Create Water] - Lv 1
Use Mp to create pure water.
[Waste Wipe] - Lv 1
Use MP to purify dirt and harmful substances
[Lily Pad Shield] - Lv 1
Create Lily Pads that can serve as resistant shields, Lily Pads cannot generate energy.
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Lotus Year 12
Over the last few years I have been purifying my lake, the water is much clearer now, and I can even see some fish on the surface of the lake, the algae is still a big problem, but I plan to get rid of it all.
My roots are growing all over the bottom of the lake, and are reaching the edges, I can feel that the lake I am in is connected to a small stream, my roots are also treating the water, and creating a very healthy environment for everyone.
My water roots have taken on a different shape, before they were just normal roots with a darker color, but nowadays my roots are porous, full of holes that filter the water.
This was really cool, but I also had to deal with the problem of algae growing in my roots, and sealing off the water intake, which slowed down the water filtration.
My old sponges were still around, I didn't lose the ability to create them, but now they didn't take Sp to maintain, so I could use them to create bigger and more powerful filters.
My leaves dominated the surface of the lake, and I could generate energy day and night. But with certain limitations.
My power to generate energy increased a lot, but it also came with several limitations, I generated little energy at the beginning of the day, and it increased until the highest point of the sun, then as the afternoon arrived, energy production also fell. And at night everything depended on the stages of the moon, on full moon days my mana generation count would explode, but on other days this energy would drop more and more, so even though I can generate energy every day, the amounts dropped a lot. . But at specific times and days my energy generation was so great that I could generate up to 1 star point in a single day.
Speaking of star points, I currently have 1342.2 star points, which were great points, but when I think about how difficult it is to earn them and how easy it is to lose them, I get upset.
In recent years my helpers have also grown a lot, as I leveled up, and they too, these little helpers have become very useful.
The water nymphs were now very large floating water blobs, the size of a large frog, and my mud nymphs were the size of snails.
The nymphs began to kill everything that came close, as they evolved the nymphs learned that jets of water were not the best weapon, so they used their bodies to trap invaders and drown them inside themselves.
This worked on insects, slugs, small snails, and young frogs. But it was useless against birds and other larger species of animals.
Now the mud monsters devised a new strategy, they blended into the ground, and then waited patiently until something passed by them, then the mud monsters grabbed them, and pulled them under the ground. Killing them by suffocating.
This pushed me to level 10, and made the ability to create nymphs and mud crittles reach maximum level. Which made me realize that my new skills had a big problem.
They took a long time to level, in these 3 years I have been using [Filtering Roots] non-stop, and even so the skill did not go beyond level 3.
Now I had the option to fuse some more skills, and I needed to try to find something that works well.
Skills
[Filtering Roots] - Lv 3
Create roots capable of purifying water and absorbing nutrients.
[Nutrient Absorption] - Lv MAx
Absorb nutrients from decomposed materials
[Celestial Absorption] - Lv 3
Absorb the magical power of celestial bodies through the process of photosynthesis, generating MP and SP
[Blooming] - Lv 1
Create flowers that can bear fruit
[Summon Nymphs] - Lv MAX
Use your MP to summon and maintain water nymphs that can protect you.
[Mud Critters] - Lv MAX
Use your MP to create and mantain mud minions, who can fight for you.
[Lotus Blessing] - Lv 1
Bestow a blessing upon an allie that ncreased luck and fortune.
[Hard shell] - Lv 3
Use your Sp to make the surface of your shell harder
[Create Water] - Lv 1
Use Mp to create pure water.
[Waste Wipe] - Lv 2
Use MP to purify dirt and harmful substances
[Lily Pad Shield] - Lv 1
Create Lily Pads that can serve as resistant shields, Lily Pads cannot generate energy.
'Few options... Maybe the best thing would be to merge the water nymphs and the mud crittles into a single thing, that way I can end up with very powerful minions... But I like how things are now, the water nymphs defend the outside area, and mud crittles the inner area... And it took my helpers years to create their own hunting strategies, if I just smelt them, will they have to learn everything from scratch? Maybe I don't even need to get rid of them... After all, I fused my roots with the purification skill, and I can still create sponges, so by fusing the 2 helpers I should be able to create separate versions of them.'
“But if I fused my mud servants, with [Absorb Nutrients], wouldn't I be able to create servants that can generate food? Maybe they can look to external nutrient sources if one day the lake runs out of nutrients...'
I decide not to risk losing my 2 servants, I choose to fuse the skills [Mud Crittles] and [Absorb Nutrients]
Notice
You have gained the skill [Clay Guardians]
Skills
[Clay Guardians] - Lv 1
Use Mp to create and maintain clay guardians capable of generating essential nutrients for the soil using MP.
'Oh!!! This is promising, these new guards can basically ensure that the land around me is never deprived of nutrients!! This is much better than I expected! '
Testing the skill, I see a small ball of mud emerging from the bottom of the lake, and then taking the shape of a mud slug, the little thing was just over 20 cm long and without any effort it began to crawl through my roots while patrolling the area.
'Cool I guess... It's quite interesting to know that these guardians took the form of a slug.' For my next task, I open the star store, and analyze my options.
Star Store Star Points: 1342.2
Random skill: 100 Star points - Or more
Random Title: 1000 Star points - Or more
Conversion: 10 MP - 0.1 Star Point / 1 Star Point - 10 XP
'Very well... 1 title and a 300 point skill? 1 Skill of 1300 points, or several small skills? I could also convert everything into 13k XP, which seems like a lot of Xp... But I have no apparent reason to want to level my own level, so I think I should focus on new skills. I can buy 33 new and weak Skills, which I can use to fuse into more powerful skills later, or I can try fewer, more powerful skills...'
I must admit that it is a great temptation to find out what a 1300 point skill would be, but when thinking about the usefulness of having several small skills I am torn.
'I'm going to try a single big skill... At least once I need to test if this is worth it.' Deciding to spend it all on a 1340 point skill that was 33X the value of a common skill, I soon received my new super skill.
Notice
You have gained the skill [Solar Beam]
Skills
[Solar Beam] - Lv 1
Use a flower to generate a concentrated beam of energy capable of causing massive damage, the solar beam must be charged and its strength is limited by the intensity of sunlight.
'Wow! My first offensive skill! It seems very powerful... But very limited too.'
The new skill looked very promising, but it had 3 glaring limitations that I noticed right away. 1st it needed to be activated on a flower, and I don't have flowers, 2nd it needed sunlight, which was a big limiter and 3rd the skill has a charging time. So I would need my enemy to stay still long enough to be able to launch the attack.
'I guess it's better than nothing.' Deciding to at least try, I decide to use the skill that I never used [Bloming] and start creating some flowers, they would take some time to be ready, but soon I would have flowers to use.