So, several days have past me by quickly. Unfortunately I found out something rather disappointing. The further away from me I try to take over the grass, the harder it is to do so. Currently I have about 323 blades of grass, 32 flowers and three roses under my command.
Also, I have evolved again. Into what? A rose bush.
I am much bigger now, and can feel the breeze passing in between my stalks. It’s quite a nice feeling. Oh, and I found out there is a tree near me, or at least I think there is. What else would it be that my underlings roots are touching? It was big, and definitely a root. However I had no idea how far away the origin, or trunk of the tree is.
I kinda want to try and infect it, but I have put it off due to the fear of failure. The feeling of the light falling onto my body marks the second day since I found the tree’s root. The root of the tree definitely absorbs a lot of nutrients, I could feel the difference in absorption between us.
Sigh... I’m jealous! I want to be a tree…
Well, no helping it really. Status!
『Jexal Quart
Species: Abnormal Rose Bush
Class: ---
LV: 4/5 [Exp: 62/73]
Health: 28/28
⦗Unique Abilities⦘
⟪Metamorphose⟫
⦗Class Abilities⦘
⟪Concentrate⟫ ⟪Expand Perception⟫ ⟪Infect⟫
⦗Advanced Species Abilities⦘
⟪Gather Light⟫ ⟪Gather Nutrients⟫ ⟪Gather Water⟫ ⟪Advanced Growth⟫ ⟪Charm⟫ ⟪Bloom⟫ ⟪Poison⟫ ⟪Purify⟫
⟬Titles⟭
⦉Worldfarer⦊ ⦉Infector⦊ ⦉Tiny Conqueror⦊』
Umu… 11 more experience points till level 5… However as I stated, taking over grass far away from my origin was rather difficult. I have been trying to grow my original roots further away from me, but it would take another day at least to surpass the distance, and I don’t even know if it will make it any easier.
Sigh… well my exp gathering is faster now that I have more grass and flowers under my control.
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Now the-
*Step
WHAT THE HELL IS STEPPING ON MY GRASS!
Calm down. Whatever it is so far it’s only- shit it’s getting closer. Let’s see, it is a rather heavy animal, but it’s feet are tiny. I can only feel it’s front paws because my area is not too big. And- OI! OIOIOIOI! I cannot be eaten here! STOOOOP IT!
Ignoring my internal screams the bastard continued chewing on one of my blossoms. It was truly a horrible sensation, my soft delicate petals being ground up in between some savage bastards teeth.
Alright, what do i do? I have poison right? But isn’t that in my thorns? Screw my thorns! I’ll just make poison in the blossom!
The poison that resides in my body! You assassin that heeds my bidding! Kill this gluttonous destroyer!
I felt the poison that was normally in my thorns moving through my stems at an incredible rate, all leading into the blossom that was currently being chewed on.
In one go! Deliver a large amount of poison to thine enemy!
With a burst a large amount of poison collected in the blossom and the raider instantly swallowed it down.
Then whatever was chewing on me reeled back, and started jumping around, crushing a few of my flowers. Oi! Watch it! Just because I poisoned you doesn’t mean you can kill my underlings! Oh, I can’t feel him anymore- wrong I can feel the tremors from it moving in my roots, it’s just not on top of me anymore.
I paid attention to the tremors, and suddenly I felt a large one, as if a huge body slammed into the ground.
*ping
Eh? What- ah I see, the animal must have died. My poison must be pretty nasty.
Wait, if I heard a ping does that mean I leveled up!? Status!
『Jexal Quart
Species: Abnormal Rose Bush
Class: ---
LV: 5/5 [Evolution Available]
Health: 23/28
⦗Unique Abilities⦘
⟪Metamorphose⟫
⦗Class Abilities⦘
⟪Concentrate⟫ ⟪Expand Perception⟫ ⟪Infect⟫
⦗Advanced Species Abilities⦘
⟪Gather Light⟫ ⟪Gather Nutrients⟫ ⟪Gather Water⟫ ⟪Advanced Growth⟫ ⟪Charm⟫ ⟪Bloom⟫ ⟪Poison⟫ ⟪Purify⟫
⟬Titles⟭
⦉Worldfarer⦊ ⦉Infector⦊ ⦉Tiny Conqueror⦊』
Hurrah! I can evolve again! I wonder if I can evolve into a tree this time. But besides that- the animal gave me quite a bit of exp. I believe I had 11 exp left, quite the amount in my circumstances.
But OW! I’d prefer to raise my level without being eaten!
Anyway~
『⦗Available Evolutions⦘
* Huge Abnormal Rose Bush
* Abnormal Mind Rose Bush
* Abnormal Poison Rose Bush
* Small Weak Rose Dryad』
… I’ve made up my mind. Nothing can stop me now. There is no way I am not going with the fourth option.
Yosh, Small Weak Rose Dryad here I come!
『Evolution into -Small Weak Rose Dryad- shall now commence』
And with my plant like body brimming with anticipation- I went unconscious.