I was slowly stumbling through the forest as I wasn’t exactly in a happy mood. “At last, I found some people, but not only did they steal my crystal, I couldn't even understand them.”

Remembering all that happened to me I was a little puzzled, “Did that goddess really notice me using the *Inspect* skill on her, or was it just a coincidence?”

Just as I remembered the beautiful face of the goddess, the annoying face of the bastard with his annoying smirk entered my view as well, I cursed at him, ”You bastard! I will remember what you did to me and will get back at you one hundred times over!”

I was really lucky on my way back, I saw only a couple of monsters and it was really easy to sneak around them. After walking for half an hour I came back to the trap area, it was already getting really dark so I didn’t want to stay here for long, I looked around and said, “I really need to block the disposal room or more monsters will get inside.”

I went down to the trap, took the spiky shield, and placed it in the place of the door to the tunnel, after that I took the broken door pieces that were still located inside the trap and temporarily blocked the hole to the disposal room that I created.

I looked around and said, “Oh shit, the trees are getting lit!” I immediately started to run into my safe area, there was still some distance between me and the tunnel when my own leaves started to glow and with them, the terrifying feeling of the mark fell upon me.

It startled me a little and even my imaginary heart skipped a beat, I started to run even faster than before. The feeling of the mark was slowly getting stronger and stronger, I immediately understood that the panther had sensed that I wasn’t in the tunnel anymore and was making his way to me.

But even after panicking a little I still had arrived at the tunnel in time, I climbed using the holes in the wall and started to make my way into my tunnel room. Halfway there I could hear the panther growl coming from the entrance, I changed my view and looked at the panther.

The panther roared at me again and again, as he was leaving huge marks on the entrance to the tunnel with his huge claws. The only thought that came into my head was that the panther was a lot more aggressive than usual.

“Is he getting impatient?” I asked myself and then said with anger, “Why can’t you just leave me alone, if not you I would be already on my way following the goddess Luna!”

Just as the image of me talking to Luna came into my head, another image appeared as well, it was the villagers running after me with torches.

“No no no, the goddess would never let something like that happen. But still, I need to deal with you before I could even make a step from this cave. *sigh*” I sighed with disappointment.

I gave the panther another glance and returned back into my room to rest, as I returned to the room the roars of the panther didn’t stop and the sounds of metal claws scratching the walls of the tunnel only got stronger.

“Eh, whatever, there is no way for you to get in here.” I deactivated my magic perception skill, but instead of going straight back to sleep, I checked my status.

***

*Self Awareness Status*

-Visavil Bush Lv3-

Experience: 11/60

Rarity: Uncommon

Health: 10/12

Mana: 4/40

Stamina: 4/9

Health regen: 1.2/week

Mana regen: 3.85/hour

Stamina regen: 1.67/hour

Race: Berry Bush

Status: Intelligent(Unique), Shadow Mark

Skills:

*Magic Perception Lv3* *Self Awareness Lv3* *Calm Mind Lv5* *Inspect Lv4* *Rage Lv1* *Killing Intent Lv2* *Pain Resistance Lv1* *Mana Manipulating Lv2* *Wood Element Control Lv4* *Dig Lv3* *Stealth Lv3* *Detection Lv3* *Lifesteal Lv1* *Poison Resistance Lv1* *Item Crafting Lv2* *Stamina Storage Lv2* *Throwing Lv2* *Lesser Hand To Hand Combat Lv1* *Grow Lv2* *Increase Mana Regeneration Lv1* *Lesser Spear Mastery Lv1* *Thorns Lv1* *Falling Damage Resistance Lv1* *Roll Lv1*

Titles:

*Clutz* *Novice Trapper*

***

“Well nothing unexpected here, I guess I will go to sleep, good night.” I relaxed my mind and let my thoughts drift freely inside my head as I slowly fell asleep. Hours passed and I woke up in the middle of the night as usual.

“Digging time...” I uprooted myself from the ground and went to the extended tunnel and continued to dig, after half an hour the mighty voice rang inside my head.

*”Dig” leveled up to Lv4*

“At last!” I said as I started to use the *Dig* skill again, this time I could use a lot more mana in each skill usage, it almost didn’t increase the efficiency in digging the tunnel, but it did increase the speed by a lot.

Now every time I used the *Dig* skill on the wall a big stone fell from it and crumbled to smaller ones, even if I deplete my mana like nothing it was still a lot more useful than before. “Looks like now I would be able to dig up a few other spear traps quite easily.”

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Thinking about it a little I checked my status and saw that my mana was almost depleted. “I guess I'll rest a little more.” I slept till noon and started to move to the spike trap when I woke up, on my way out I looked at the entrance wall and it was full of claw marks.

“Damn this devil cat, I really need to start thinking about a way to deal with it.”

I got to the trap and looked at it with disappointed eyes, “Oh right I forgot I didn’t fix it at all.” So without further ado, I went to get my sled from where I left it and brought some more branches to the trap.

After a few trips, I got enough branches to create more spears, this time I wanted all the spears to be Gravis spears in case another wolf or similar size monster falls into the trap, so I started to craft the spears.

I crafted the spears while being rooted into the ground, of course, that way I could regain my stamina and slowly regrow my berries back as well. “I guessed that the stamina regeneration that was displayed in my status was only when I am at my best and only while I am rooted to the ground.”

While thinking about my stamina regeneration an interesting idea popped out inside my mind, “Can I force the berries to grow? With the stamina storage skill I should be able to forcefully create berries but I never tried...” Focusing my mind on the skill and the tip of my twigs, something slowly started to pop from the twigs and with it, a mighty voice came as well.

*Skill discovered “Mana Storage Lv2”*

*Skill learned “Fruits production”*

A few bluish berries with a yellow tint grew on my body, I looked and examined them and then said, “I almost forgot that Visavil berries restore mana, that would mean that I already had mana storage skill here just waiting for me.” I didn’t inspect the mana storage skill because I already knew that it was the same as the stamina storage one, so I only inspected the new skill.

***

*Fruits production* - Let the user have the ability to grow fruits inside or outside of the user's body, the user can choose which size the fruits are and what type. The properties of the fruits deeply depend on the abilities of the user.

***

“Well, this is exactly what I wanted.” I immediately started to focus on one end of my twigs and use the new skill, while using it I imagined a bluish berry, and slowly a completely blue berry slowly formed on the tip of my branch.

“I see, my normal berries should restore stamina and mana together because I evolved from Ontopary bush, so while focusing I can create a berry that restores only one of the properties.”

Focusing again on the end of the branch a new berry started to slowly form there, its color was deep orange, the form of the berry was different from the blue one and it more resembled my old red berries.

“Lost the color but kept its form, most likely this berry will give a lot more stamina than the old ones.” I was interested in what kind of other berries I would be able to grow with the skill, but after a few tries, I discovered that I could only grow mana and stamina berries.

“Maybe in the future, I will be able to create some magical berries or other fruits.” A vision of a bush with glowing bananas entered my mind for a few moments as I giggled like an idiot. After growing a few more berries and crafting a few more spears I had a visitor, it was a boar.

A boar was walking not so far away from the trap and it entered my view, of course, most of the trap wasn’t complete yet, but there still were a few spears down there and some leaves that I spread above it just in case. My lovely sinister smirk formed again on my imaginary face as I picked up a small rock from the ground and flung it at the pig with full force.

“Bullseye!” I shouted with excitement as the rock hit the pig perfectly on its head. The boar immediately looked at me with an angry mug as steam was getting out of its nose. I picked another rock and threw it at him again, sadly this time I missed the target but the effect was enough because it angered the pig even more and it started to charge right at me.

*Wheeee!!!* *Wheeee!!!*

Any other animal would see through the thin layer of leaves that I spread out on the trap in a hurry, but of course, the stupid boar wouldn’t even notice it. So without any surprise, the boar ran straight to its death, only after he started falling he understood that he was in a world of trouble, but there was nothing it could do.

*Whhheeeeeeee!*

With a terrible cry, the boar fell on a few broken spears that were located in the trap, usually I would be a little bit disappointed that the boar took so little damage from the fall but this time I wasn’t.

I still wanted to check out if I could steal the boar’s vision as I did with the rat, so I needed the boar in good condition. I uprooted myself from the ground and started to go down to the trap, while doing so I inspected the boar.

***

-Wild Boar Lv4-

Health: 14/21

Mana: 3/4

Stamina: 11/14

***

“Aren't you a lively one, well that won’t change much.” I said as I looked at the struggling boar, the boar was pierced by three broken spears. They didn’t enter his body too deeply but for me, that was enough. As the boar saw me it started to struggle even more and broke free from the spears as it rushed straight at me.

I saw the boar rushing towards me and immediately jumped up into the wall as I used the *Dig* skill on it with my hand to hold myself into it. The boar hit his head straight into the wall while I was just above him.

I released my grip and fell onto his back, the boar was still a little shaken from the hit so I had some time to bind it with my branches and roots. I spread my roots and branches around the pig’s body, but just as I started the boar started to struggle.

“Even after a hit like this to the head the pig can struggle, looks like it really has nothing in its head.” I mumbled as I continued to twist my roots around the pig’s legs.

This rodeo continued for a few minutes but in the end, I won. Mostly for the fact that the pig was still injured and barely could damage me if at all. The pig was subdued and occasionally released a few weak cries, but I got tired from its annoying screams so I twisted my branches around its mouth.

“Well, lets the experiment begin!” I shouted as my roots slowly started to enter the pig wounds.

A strong feeling of fear entered my mind but I brushed it aside as if it was nothing and turned all my focus to my roots, slowly the white lines started to appear on part of my view, and when the lines appeared I moved my focus to them.

A few moments passed and more lines started to appear one after another, slowly they started to create an image. The image was of a wall, of course, it was the wall in front of me, I could see this wall through the eyes of the pig.

All this vision was nice and cool but something was really strange. “Where is the skill?” I asked in confusion, I already could see the image clearly but I still didn’t get the skill for it. “Maybe I am missing something.”

I looked at my roots, only the tips of my roots were embedded inside the pig. An empathetic smile appeared on my face as I said, “I am so sorry...” I wasn't really sorry but still wouldn’t want to be in its place.

With full force I inserted my roots deeper and deeper into the pig’s body, even with my twigs covering the pig’s mouth you could hear soul-shaking cries coming from it. It cried for mercy, but mercy is something it would never get from me.

The pig continued its cries as my roots dug deeper and deeper into its body, I didn't stop till all of my roots were inside. I spread them all over inside its legs, around its spine, and even around its brain. I spread my roots around its body as I focused all of my mind on my roots yet again and as I did it the mighty voice rang inside my head.

*Skill learned “Overtake”*

Just as I got the skill a strong feeling of pain was rushing through my body because of this pain it was really hard to breathe. “Ah, it’s so hard to breathe… Wait, what? I can breathe?”