『Jexal Quart
Species: Forest Grass
Class: ---
LV: 2/2 [Evolution Available]
Health: 1/1
⦗Unique Abilities⦘
---
⦗Class Abilities⦘
⟪Concentrate⟫
⦗Advanced Species Abilities⦘
⟪Gather Light⟫ ⟪Gather Nutrients⟫ ⟪Gather Water⟫
⟬Titles⟭
⦉Worldfarer⦊』
WOOOO! My level finally reached 2! I wonder exactly how long I have been here… Anyway, I focus on the Evolution Available part of status.
『⦗Available Evolutions⦘
* Rugged Forest Grass
* Mind Grass
* Abnormal Forest Grass』
… umuuu… I was hoping for something along the lines of… I don’t know what I expected. Maybe something that can actually move. There are just different variations of grass…
Sigh… Well! Progress is forward movement! Today a blade of a grass, tomorrow a tree! Or maybe a year, we’ll see. For now… Hmm… I wonder which is the best option…
…
You know when I read all those books about reincarnating, where the main character comes to a point and struggles over which evolution would be the most beneficial, I always thought it would be much more rewarding and exciting.
I am piece of grass, evolving into a slightly better piece of grass.
Not as rewarding or exciting as I would have hoped.
Sigh… baby steps. Tiny little baby steps. Or maybe nudges, either way it’s forward motion.
Now then, which type of grass should I become?
Is there anyway to get better explanations of these? No? Umu… Well let’s see, rugged forest grass is probably a more sturdy version of what I currently am. Mind grass sounds like something that would be used in a mental recovery potion, however it might affect how easily I can get skills or manipulate the resources around me… But since it sounds like it would be used in a potion would there be people who would try to ‘collect’ me?
Umu… The next one is Abnormal Forest Grass… I have a feeling that I want to go with this. The reason being is because it sounds like it will have the most varied evolutions when I evolve again.
Yosh, I will go with Abnormal Forest Grass.
『Evolution into -Abnormal Forest Grass- shall now commence』
At that moment, even though I don’t have any eyes, I felt like I blacked out.
***
『Evolution Complete』
Uuuu… Feeling slowly returned to my limb- er- roots and the senses I did have recovered. So when I evolve I go unconcious? That is slightly annoying.
Well then, Status!
『Jexal Quart
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Species: Abnormal Forest Grass
Class: ---
LV: 0/2 [Exp: 0/10]
Health: 1/1
⦗Unique Abilities⦘
---
⦗Class Abilities⦘
⟪Concentrate⟫
⦗Advanced Species Abilities⦘
⟪Gather Light⟫ ⟪Gather Nutrients⟫ ⟪Gather Water⟫ ⟪Advanced Growth⟫
⟬Titles⟭
⦉Worldfarer⦊』
…. oi… this is barely different from before. Let’s see, an extra skill and an increased exp cap… Sigh… well I guess it is kinda expected from grass…
Now what exactly does Advanced Growth do? So far I have had to consciously use my mind to create skills, so how do I use one I know barely anything about? Let’s see… so far I have found out I can absorb nutrients and water faster through my roots, and can make it so light gathers more on me. Wait- couldn’t I also decide the directions my roots were growing it by moving the nubs on the ends? So far I have left it to instinct, but what happens when I try to move them myself?
I wiggled the nubs on the ends of my roots, of which there was about 100. Umu… but growing is still slow, can I accelerate it with the skill?
Grow! Grow and collect even more nutrients for me!
I focused on the image of my roots growing even faster, and suddenly felt the growth rate accelerate.
Aha! No ping though, must be because I already have the skill.
Hey, if I continue to grow my roots will I be able to collect more nutrients? This might be better than I thought. But wait if I am bigger doesn’t that mean I will require more nutrients to stay alive?
Umu… What to do, what to do… The most efficient way of getting experience would definitely be during a rainstorm, but that seemed to stop a while ago. The next best thing would be sunlight. However my roots can’t collect sunlight underground.
Hmm, can I grow a new blade if my roots breach the surface? Ah, but there’s lots of other grass around me as well, managing to get a little piece to grow without sunlight will be taxing.
While I brooded I paid attention to my roots, and then had an idea.
It might be cruel, but can I convert other grass around me to be part of my body? Of course that normally can’t happen, but this world isn’t the world I come from.
Well then for now, I’ll make it so my roots burrow into the roots of grass around me.
Go! Break into the enemy fortresses and bring me the spoils!
I urged my roots on as they started digging into the grass around me. Brethren!? What foolishness! We are merely grass! We have no parentage or family! Therefore I will take without reserve!
As my roots invaded the roots around me I focused on making the other grass ‘become’ me. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say I was trying to expand my senses into the grass.
Come! Those who would stand by with no fate! Kneel before me and become my limbs!
*ping
I felt like grinning, which of course for grass, was impossible. One down, from what I can feel there should be five others in the immediate vicinity. Actually, my senses now extended to the piece of grass I had just taken over, however the response was slow and dull, as if the blade of grass was going under some change. Wait, maybe it was, I am a different type of grass after all. Could it be mutating into the same species as me?
For now I couldn’t use it’s roots as it was too slow. So I focused on taking over the other grass with my original roots.
Go! Pillage and convert! Their resources shall become mine and their bodies my tools!
*ping
I ignored the ping in my head and continued to invade the grass around me. A couple more times the ping went off in my head, but I left it for now.
After taking over the grass around me I had 7 blades in my possession. Unfortunately the responses were slow, and I could feel the blades of grass that were originally foreign slowly converting to the same thing as I.
Well, until they finished mutating I would leave them be, then I would conquer even more grass.
For now, Status!
『Jexal Quart
Species: Abnormal Forest Grass
Class: ---
LV: 1/2 [Exp: 16/18]
Health: 3/3
⦗Unique Abilities⦘
⟪Metamorphose⟫
⦗Class Abilities⦘
⟪Concentrate⟫ ⟪Expand Perception⟫ ⟪Infect⟫
⦗Advanced Species Abilities⦘
⟪Gather Light⟫ ⟪Gather Nutrients⟫ ⟪Gather Water⟫ ⟪Advanced Growth⟫
⟬Titles⟭
⦉Worldfarer⦊ ⦉Infector⦊』
Ooo, my level increased. Does using a skill give me experience? Or maybe I got the experience from the grass around me. My health increased by two as well. Also, I obtained a couple new skills and a title. One of them is a unique skill, Metamorphose. Sounds kind of like metamorphosis, the thing that insects go through.
I wonder how powerful of an ability it is…
My new title is ‘Infector’, kind of foreboding...
Anyway, it feels like the transformation of the grass I had taken over is almost complete. Ufufu, time to conquer!