MC POV
After running through the mountain tunnels and reaching the entrance, I decided that this would also be a great place to train up my stats to hit the maximum I can achieve because I highly doubt that I would be able to train forever and become stronger than a god. I might be able to get as strong as a tier 3, but this body now has limits. Had I gotten rid of evolutions, I would have to rely on my class to get stats after a while. So I will need to combine my workouts to get the best increase in gains possible. And seeing how I now have new training gear, I should put it to good use. I looked into the tunnel and pulled out the door from the tattoo. I made the door as wide as my chest and small enough to hold to with both hands to my chest. Now slowly increase the weight of the door till it is heavy and hard to carry but not too much. I began running back up the tunnels, constantly fueling the door with mana to keep it from losing weight. And after a while, I received a message from the system.
From constantly using your brain to think of problems of a tier's limitations and ways to improve your training efficiency +6 Int.
Yes, I knew I was right. So this form has a limit to its growth. But seeing as I am not at the limit yet, I should take the next few days to get there or close to it before getting it. I have enough food and water, so I won't need to stop anytime soon till I can't gain any more stats from training.
As happy as I was, I ran harder and increased the door's weight slightly more every time I got used to it. Nothing is better than growing stronger as fast as possible.
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Spider POV
The number of followers is increasing for the Mother of the Void and the monsters within. I am pretty pleased about the increases, but it is not enough; there needs to be many more who worship our Void Mother. Her love is never-ending and shall never falter. Even if we worthless beings never knew or cared before, she still loves us all.
I will build her an army worthy of her grace. We now have a number of 118 members total followers for the Mother. However, we should have a name for others to call us. That would make things easier for us to gather more members. Maybe something like The Mother's Embrace. That sounds like she embraces me in a loving, warm hug. It sounds good, but I will have to ask Mother when it is safe to contact her. Or maybe the chosen can help decide on the name.
Nine new guards to train up to protect me now since I don't get exp from killing any more. When they are in the second tier, I shall send them out with the others to help train the other tier 1s. I am so close to the second tier and am ready to evolve.
We have lost sight of the chosen after they evolved and went to the mountain area since no one is at tier 2 and stealth-based to watch over them from the shadows, but the monsters over by the mountain are much harder to avoid than the ones in the plains and forests surrounding the south of the pond. But soon, we will have those with stealth abilities, and classes will be able to get them out there in a week or so.
More ambush-pack hunter monsters have joined us than any other types. Magic and close combat monsters have joined, but only the weaker or starved ones. So that lowers the number of them if we train everyone more and show the power the Mother gives those who work hard, even if they are weak or wounded.
We tried to convert the monster that the chosen fought to a standstill, but that was a big no-go since none of us could talk. I killed a couple of the newer guards I had just trained. So that was a big waste of time and resources that were put into them. But with this many monsters under my lead, I have only a day or two more before I evolve into a tier 2 with the ability to talk. My Chs has reached 70. I wonder how much faster it will grow when I am tier 2. I might even get another tier 2 monster to join us in The Mother Embrace.
Still, I need to find more followers soon to increase the number. We can grow the numbers easier but slower with breeding when they reach maturity or higher tiers later. But we need a quick fix now; we can't wait for the option now since that will take years, and the chosen will leave us far behind if we can't hurry and grow faster to catch up.
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Some monsters can pop into existence after a while since some monsters die before leaving offspring or evolve before they do. So for some reason, these monsters appear out of nowhere. I don't know if Mother is doing this, but I believe she does help by doing this or something else. We could grow faster if we capture the newly made monsters and feed and train them. We could also go from nest to nest of monsters killing the parents and taking the eggs or babies. This would give us more followers for the Mother faster doing it this way. And since we are monsters, there is nothing to stop us from doing so since it might makes right. We have no way of knowing what is on the other side of the portal for tier 3 monsters, so we would use numbers to fight back against whatever is there.
I began tapping my legs while pacing around, trying to figure out a plan for how to work this out. Tier 2 nests will be off-limits since fighting them would be very dangerous. The older tier 1 monsters would be somewhat strong due to their ages, but even then, they wouldn't be able to stop us for long.
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A ring of sea blue water started to glow with a dim light in a white room sealed off from the outside to keep prying eyes away from the darker side of things used as experiments and devices not allowed. It went unnoticed for a few days since the glow was so weak. The glow was light blue initially, but as time passed, it changed slowly to become a darker blue. Black slowly snuck into the light like corruption. The ring began to change as time went on.
A being of light entered the room and closed the door behind them. Looking around the room, nothing had changed until their eyes landed on the ring. Even though the glow was dim, the sudden change in colors made it easy to notice the difference. And before someone else entered the room behind them, a small box was put over the ring. The box disappeared, and the glow and changing ring returned to how it looked before it started changing.
"Nothing has changed yet. Time to begin the trials to see how the monster races react to different environments. Test one, a shadow-type monster is growing and evolving in the realm of light." ??? The being of light did not say anything about the ring, nor did they think about it to make sure that anyone with mind magic wouldn't be able to take notice of the ring's change.
By working on the trials and writing about everything to keep their mind from thinking about things that should be avoided in this place, days went by with them working nonstop.
After working for six days straight, everything was going fine until that evil bitch kicked the door of the room open and scanned the room. As I was in the middle of dissecting the corpse of a lava monster. Only looking up for a second, I went back to examining and recording everything, ignoring the bitch.
"You should greet your higher-ranked leader." Evil Bitch said to me as I worked.
"Pause the recording and begin the secondary record. You are higher ranked only because you married up instead of working and growing stronger. How you still have that rank while your husband was killed is pretty suspect to me. He is dead, while you have more power than ever after his death. You have never had to do anything before that consists of being hard. And that ring was the only reason you have your high tier and level." I said to her in pure disgust.
"I should show you why I have a higher rank now. I am the left hand of the light god now. Third in command of everything. I could have you killed for treason. You have always been jealous of me since we were only tier 1. I wonder what our god would say if I were to say that you were trying to betray him." Bitch face said.
I started to laugh at her like a lunatic. "That was the funniest thing I have heard in 400 years. Jealous, no way. I was just disgusted that you even existed since you are a waste of space. Continuously leaching off him and never doing anything for yourself except betraying him. It wasn't hard to tell what you did. Nor do I care at all. I warned him in the beginning that you would be his death. Did he listen? No, he did not. So I forgot that the two of you existed and did what I always did. Kill and research for the light and knowledge god. And even with him dead, you now leach off of our god instead. Truly pathetic." I looked at her with pity in my eyes.
Anger filled the evil bitch, and she attacked me. Only to have her head smashed into the floor of the room. "Listen up bitch. I don't care whose dick you suck, but the next time you try to attack me, I will pop your head like the time I did to the planet that needed to be destroyed. I don't even care about the light god either coming to punish me since this is in the bounds of our contract with him. I study new ways to make his slaves stronger and have less free will without losing the ability to become more powerful. Leave and don't come back while I work because I ain't your bitch and never will be." I told her as I let the magic fling her out of my room, only to have the door close and begin working on the dissection again.