Chapter 56

An idea hit me so hard it left me stupid for what I was sure had to be at least a couple huge mushroom growths.

I even quickly checked the proximity of the fire just to see if a significant amount of time had passed but it was only a short distance closer than I remember it being.

The idea that hit me was this: couldn’t I just release some of that compound I had in the bde monument? You know the one that FUCKING REPELS animals? If I grew some it would encourage jade to get the fuck away. Even better I could disperse the compound strategically in certain locations to encourage it to run in a straight enough path away from the fire.

Hot damn I’m such a fool it astounds me at times.

If it didn’t want to move out the way of the fire I’d very well make it. I didn’t know what that compound is or how it does what it does but it might just damn well help me save a life.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

Geez, crazy to think I was initially trying to find a compound that actually mildly poisons those who dare to eat me and now those same efforts would let me keep this damn depressed animal alive.

Several things jumped out at me if I did this though.

Those nutrients I was cannibalizing from myself would have to be used here in order to accomplish this. Since this allowed me to enclose the fire around my territory, which would let me spend less nutrients I otherwise would have used to minimal effect if I had to do it in any other way, I was willing to do it.

But I also had to stop watering the surroundings to entice the fire within.

Everything within my area was boggy with the water I was pumping out, which made it kinda difficult. It was what I wanted at the time but it wouldn’t help me out any now.

I’d keep as much as I could closest to the border intact and non-cannibalized and still pumping water as I still needed some time to grow and do what I needed to do to get jade the fuck out. But anything beyond a certain point was fair game for cannibalizin’.

That would let me acquire more much-needed nutrients I could use to disperse that repellant compound. To minimize costs I could also repurpose some of the mushrooms I had strewn about the place and grow some spores filled with the compound.

Even better I think I could even release some through the sensory network.

I got started on the new plan.

Ugh

I’m glad I found a solution that seems like it could work but all this was such a pain.

Couldnt I just be left alone in peace to live my mushroom life?