Dark mud covered hands keenly scrutinized a yellow spotted branch with polka dot berries growing perched on the branches instead of a flowering bud.

Potent Dotted Berries

'Edible berries plant species that grow near water sources, a delicacy to the taste buds full of nutrients. Affects Intelligence and Vitality stats!'

"Exactly what I was looking for." Said Audry, sinking his teeth into one of the juicy spotted berries while using the brownish branch the same way one ate skewered barbeque meat from a brochette.

A burst of sweetness had then embraced his taste buds, sending a warm current to envelope his half naked body.

Ting!

You have Ingested Potent Dotted Berries

You have gained +1 vitality

You have gained +1 Intelligence:

During his excursion, Audry had discovered that eating wild magical fruits for breakfast did more than just alleviate his hunger, it also instantaneously gave his body power. At first he feared that such a cheat like ability would cause some sort of instant harmful side effect, however after stuffing his mouth full of these treats and waiting to drop on the cold floor frothing in the mouth, and spasming. Such an event did not take place. So being the glutton he was, he ate his fill.

"To be honest I don't mind being vegan, if this is what I will be eating in this forest." He said laid back on a large tree canopy, covered by green moist lichen. Its canopy like leafy green branches embracing him with its dark shadows.

Harvested mushrooms lay strewn beside him, all of a different variety and range, wrapped up on a green leafy blanket the length of his waist downward. He had been not only exploring the forest but also had been searching for stuff to eat. Specifically poison mushrooms and stat boosting food.

Flammulina mushroom

'Hallucinogen inducing mushroom, that makes whoever that ingested it see, feel, smell and hear fire burning inside and outside of them.'

Phuniota Mushroom

'A laugh inducing mushroom that causes the victim to laugh hysterically for over six hours, which can cause choking and suffocation of the victim till they die when taken in large doses.'

Escenty irate Mushroom

'A scented mushroom that wards off small critters and also induces an irritative stench to sensitive nosed monsters causing blind rage...

He then opened the description to a specific stat.

Intelligence: Ability to acquire, learn and apply Spells, and manipulate your innate mana abilities and evolutions of Spells. Spirit point recovery rises with the intelligence stat.

Vitality: Permanent increase in your life-force and longevity. Health point recovery speed rises constantly with the vitality stat.

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The more he investigated to his interface the more intrigued he became by it and its features. 'Spells huh!' He thought.

While on his searching quest he had tried to know more about spells and if he could cast them, like propelling lightning out of his hands by just thinking about it. From shouting nonsense like 'Abracadabra' to 'Shazam' but still nothing happened, however doing that for some reason attracted another 'viewer' called 'SaintlyClown🤡', who he guessed probably liked seeing people make a fool of themselves, but the existence decided not to enter the chat, to Audry's dismay as he thought he could have gotten some more clues to finish his search quest. 'Callous Bastard.' He thought.

“Do I need a grimoire spell book to get a spell like in some anime I used to watch?" Said Audry idly laid back on the tree the sweet taste of the berries still lingering on his mouth, to which he took another bite just to satisfy his tongue even though he was full.

'Sometimes the tongue just wants more I guess,' he thought not paying mind to it.

"If I can increase my vitality my plan of eating small quantities of some of these mushrooms beside me won't be that fatally risky. And with my identify skill even showing me the descriptions of these plants It has reduced chances of me eating a deadly plant that might cause hemorrhage, I think I can deal with some hallucinations. Heck! Might even experience some kind of euphoric effect if I’m lucky.” He mused.

He continued. “But with these varieties of mushrooms I have here, I wonder what 'poison mushroom' will qualify for the bastards that are watching me right now to give me the power coins, maybe that coin is what I need to cast spells." He said, now unconsciously gnawing at the branch of the Potent Dotted Berries.

"What the hell am I doing!?" He said, aghast at himself while tossing the branch away.

You have ingested Potent branch

'While the fruits are safe the branches of the Potent Dotted Berries contain a potent magical substance that instantly induces addiction related symptoms to the body to those that ingest it directly."

You are are affected with instant addiction

Audry’s nerves flared up instantly as if fire was coursing through his veins, he tightly clutched his stomach that felt as if tiny ants where eating up everything he had ingested, as he rapidly felt hungry again.

He tried to forcibly calm himself but the growing hunger became too much for him, and his concentration was broken by a notification.

Ting!

[SaintlyClown🤡 has Joined the Live chat!]

{SaintlyClown🤡: Hahahaha Idiot glutton!}

"Damn It! f*k*ng clown." He said in a chagrined tone, his hands inexorably shaking. His tongue started to rapidly become dry and the intense longing for the berries affected the state of his senses by heightening them to which he could smell only the potent berries from the further Southeastward direction compacted with damp vegetation and thorny shrubbery, leading into a damp dark area the further you looked.

Audry’s mind threads snapped upon smelling the berries, he then frenziedly bolted to the extremely aromatic smell of the berries with a ravenous apatite, ignoring his previous cautious behavior.

Only the thought of alleviating this thirst and craving took hold of him. His boxers and camouflage got ripped by the throng of thorny branches and foliage blocking his path to which some shallow cuts and bruises got formed along the way, as he was now streaking across the forest naked.

{SaintlyClown🤡:Hahahaha! Forester nudist here is some power coins for your troubles!}

Ting!

You gained 10 power coins!

All of this just went past the now crazed Audry who by now was nakedly dashing out of the shrubbery and into a meadow and by the distance was a lake with the Potent Dotted Berries growing near the bank, however near the berries was a small kid who looked around five years old eating them too, which when seeing this greatly enraged the now crazed Audry.

Ting!

Quest: Explore your surroundings

Objective: Explore the unknown forest

[Quest Complete]

Gained Reward: Forester Machete

Audry continued ignoring the notifications and like the crazy junkie bastard he became. He savagely dashed towards the bent over young boy and viciously punted his butt into the lake creating a large splashing sound. Afterwards he bent down and gorged mouthfuls of the berries till his mouth swelled up from all the stuffed fruits.