Squealing cries of pain could be heard in a small part of the forest, the cries came from a bunny that was struggling on the ground for its life. Who is this evil vicious person that would torture this innocent creature you ask? But of course, it was me.
“Plan B succeeded! Now that the poison is inside its system, I should steal its health and heal my wounds.” Yep, I poisoned the innocent bunny, don’t get me wrong it was me or it. The battle of the survival of the fittest as they say.
Plan B was really simple. All I did was get a few berries from my body and milk the snake's venom into them. After coming to an open area and placing the trap, I spread a little web of berries here and there to attract potential prey.
After that all I needed to do was wait for the prey to eat the trap, there was a small chance that the other monsters could smell the poison, but that was a chance I could take as in the worst-case scenario they would just leave.
“I should start before it dies.” I came closer to the bunny, it tried to stand up on its feet and escape but it was too slow as I placed both of my hands on it and placed some weight on it. Even though I weighed almost nothing it was enough for the poisoned rabbit as it was completely exhausted.
After that, I said with a creepy voice, “Thank you for the meal, *Lifesteal*.” But to my surprise, nothing happened, just in case I checked my status to be sure.
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-Ontopary Bush Lv4-
Experience: 38/40
Rarity: Common
Health: 1/6
Mana: 10/16
Stamina: 4/4
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“That's weird… Maybe it's because of that stupid sentence from the skill explanation.” I tried to recall from my memory what was it. “Right if I am not wrong it was, the correct way to steal health from the opponent is different from user to user.”
“Don’t tell me I need to be soaked in its blood again like what happened to the snake…?” I looked at the bunny with an expression of pity.
“Well, I have enough mana to make myself spiky again a few times.” I released mana from my body and concentrated on my *Wood Element Control* skill.
All the branches on my body started to wiggle and become more solid forming the shapes of spikes, the little bunny could feel the change in my body and started to squeak even stronger. It did bother me but I still had to do it.
“Sorry little fellow.” I said as my spikes pierced its flesh and blood started to gush from its wounds as it made a painful cry.
*Kreeee!!!*
“*Lifesteal*.” I used my skill again, but weirdly nothing happened. I checked my status with frustration but it was the same as before, except for the three mana that disappeared into thin air.
“Is this a jock? How the hell am I supposed to steal its life…” I was just standing there with no clue in mind. “I need to do something or the bunny will soon die, inspect *bunny*.”
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-Horned White Bun Lv4-
Health: 8/15
Mana: 4/4
Stamina: 10/10
Status: Poisoned(Strong)
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I didn’t have to think for long as an idea popped into my head, “No way, don’t tell me it wants me to do that....” I said as the expression on my imaginary face got even darker as I started to feel bad for myself and the bunny.
“I am sorry.” I said as my roots freed from their shapes and flew toward the wounded bunny, they entered the bunny's wounds as if it was a horror movie
Scary cries of pain could be heard from the poor little bunny, I tried my best to not think about it and used my skill again, “*Lifesteal*.” Something hot could be felt gushing through my roots, it felt like drinking hot soup in cold weather and slowly warming me from the inside.
I stood there for a moment to let this beautiful feeling soak in, then I checked my status to look at my mana pool. “There are some mistakes that I won’t repeat.” I said as I examined my mana.
“Looks like one use of the skill uses three mana points, the price is not small but I need the health.”
I used the *Lifesteal* skill again, this time the cries of the bunny could be heard getting weaker and weaker. I used the *Lifesteal* skill once more and the cries of the bunny stopped completely. “I guess it's dead...“
*Experience reached the desired quantity “Ontopary bush” leveled up to Lv5*
“Yep.” I pulled my roots from the bunny and backed off a little. In my mind, I still saw the bunny with pity, but sometimes there was stuff that needed to be done whether you wanted it or not. After giving my respect and thanks to the bunny I checked my status.
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-Ontopary Bush Lv5-
Experience: 11/45
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Rarity: Common
Health: 5/7
Mana: 2/17
Stamina: 4/4
Race: Berry Bush
Status: Intelligent(Unique), Poisoned(mild)
Skills:
*Magic Perception Lv3* *Self Awareness Lv1* *Calm Mind Lv4* *Inspect Lv3* *Rage Lv1* *Killing Intent Lv2* *Pain Resistance Lv1* *Mana Manipulating Lv1* *Wood Element Control Lv3* *Dig Lv2* *Stealth Lv2* *Detection Lv2* *Lifesteal Lv1*
Titles:
*Clutz*
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“Good now I don’t need to be a caveman for the rest of my life.” After looking through my status, the feeling of fear that followed me from the golden tree started to disappear. I looked at the dead bunny corpse again for a second, thinking if there was any use for it, but in the end, I just turned in the direction of the cave and left.
There was no use for the bunny carcass, I couldn’t eat it and the smell of blood would only attract predators. My way to the cave wouldn’t be so safe, and because of those reasons, I chose to leave it there as it is.
The sun wasn’t that high anymore, after just a few more hours the night would fall and all kinds of scary creatures would wake up. I hurried to the cave entrance, with a weird feeling coming from my body. “I feel funny...” Not thinking about it much, I checked my status again.
“How could I miss that, I am poisoned!” It wasn’t that unexpected, I knew that there was a small chance that I could get poisoned by life stealing directly from the bunny, but I was sure it would not happen, well I was wrong. “Inspect *mild*.”
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*Mild* - Weakest state of a status barely noticeable.
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“Thank god at least it's mild, there shouldn't be much danger from it.” If the poison was worse it would have bothered me, but it was nothing special, so I just ignored it and returned to the cave.
As I returned to my cave, I didn’t bother to train any of my skills or do anything else, I just wanted to go to rest. And at this moment it was the perfect opportunity for me to start checking something out.
I came close to a wall and embedded myself into the floor, but I didn’t use the *Dig* skill, because my mana was low and I could faint after using it even once. Which would be really troublesome, if I won’t be able to root myself to the ground before falling asleep.
After rooting myself to the ground, I took out my hand and pressed it against the wall, and used the *Dig* skill. A weak light was emitted from my hand and a small rock fell to the ground from the wall. Slowly I started to lose my consciousness, and everything around me started to get darker and darker as my mind went blank.
*Skill learned “Poison Resistance”*
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I woke up feeling refreshed and new, checking the state of my body I could feel a spark of joy because at last my body almost returned to its original form. I still had a little less leaves than I was supposed to and a few broken branches but I still felt my body is full of life and energy, so it didn’t bother me that much.
All my fruits returned as well, now that most of my body leaves returned their color, more berries grew and were more than last time. After examining my body I checked my self awareness status as usual.
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-Ontopary Bush Lv5-
Experience: 11/45
Rarity: Common
Health: 5/7
Mana: 17/17
Stamina: 4/4
Status: Intelligent(Unique)
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I slowly explored my status and said with a thinking tone, “Looks like the poison effect disappeared. Sadly my mana didn’t increase, maybe I was wrong?” I failed to increase my mana pool. But I still wasn't one hundred percent sure how sometimes the mana pool increased, so I chose to try a few times to lose consciousness with mana loss.
“Oh I got a new skill, man this is great I am getting skills while sleeping. Now that I think about it I never inspected the *Pain Resistance* skill, because it was pretty obvious what it does, but still just to be sure, inspect *Poison Resistance*, *Pain Resistance*.”
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*Poison Resistance* - The effects of the poison are decreased on the user's body.
*Pain Resistance* - The user's tolerance to pain increased.
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“The poison resistance is nothing unexpected, but the pain resistance is a little weird. It does not decrease my pain, but makes my body care less about it?... That's strange.” But that didn’t really bother me, the effect would be the same anyway.
After waking up I used the *Dig* skill to get me out of the ground, now that I was almost healed I wanted to explore the area around the cave. To be safe I took one dead snake with me, even though I could already smell the disgusting rotting smell of a corpse coming from it.
“If I am not wrong there should be a small pond around the area, I think I can get enough water from the ground, but monsters gather near ponds and it will be nice to heal my wounds completely.” If I could find a weak monster group and lure one monster away from it, restoring all my health won’t be a dream.
“Or if there are no monsters around it I could take a bath, haha.” I joked to myself as I imagined a bush taking a bath in a bathtub with a hair cap.
I exited the cave and started to look around for a pond. In the forest, there were lots of ponds located here and there, but most of them were surrounded by groups of monsters for obvious reasons, so I was trying to find one with a really weak group.
After walking for twenty minutes or so I found a pond, luckily or not the pond that I found was not guarded at all, just in case I used my detection skill to be sure. I couldn’t feel any auras around the pond so I sighed with relief and approached it.
I embedded myself not that far away from the pond and waited for monsters to appear, but after close to half an hour I got impatient because not even one monster approached the pond. Thinking about my last joke seriously, I dug myself out of the ground and started to slowly approach the pond.
“For now at least I take a bath, later I will wait here some more and see if any monsters will come.” I said my plan out loud inside my mind.
I left the snake's body near the pond and jumped inside. “Stay here, don’t run away, I still have a few plans for you.” I said jokingly before moving deeper into the pond, as you can see I was euphoric at that time.
The fresh cold water in the morning was so refreshing that I almost moaned from pleasure. It was the first time I took a “proper” bath in this world. I relaxed inside the pond for a few minutes then a ripple could be seen forming not that far away from me.
I was startled and didn’t move for a while, as I looked at the source of the ripple. A few moments passed and I could see a log slowly drifting out of the water in my direction, the pond was not deep but at the same time, it was kinda dirty so I couldn't see inside it.
However, I was sure one hundred percent that the log was alive. “Stupid detection skill, surely that's not a log, that's a crocodile!” I exclaimed with fear and didn’t want to discover if I was correct, so I started to move out from the pond with maximum speed.
The “log” started to rush as well. I didn’t bother to look at it and continued to sprint like a madman. I ran out of the pond and passed the dead snake. My view was locked on the snake's body for a moment, as I saw a huge long jaw emerging from the water and flying with speed in my direction.
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Fun fact: The number of fatalities from logs(the ones that can’t move on their own) is in the thousands in America only.