The boar and I were laying on the ground. It was breathing heavily and I could feel every breath that it was taking, no I felt every breath that I took. I understood that all this was happening because of the new skill, I was sure that I would get some kind of mind-reading skill at first when I saw the vision, I would never have imagined that I would get a possession skill.
With a surprised smile on my imaginary face, I said, “I did imagine the new skill to be good but looks like I hit the jackpot!”
Without waiting for another second I tried to stand up, but of course, I couldn't because my own roots and branches were twisted around the boar's legs. I released them and tried again, it was really awkward and hard but I succeeded in standing up. Just as I stood I started to run, but I didn't want to run and didn't even try to.
“The stupid pig it's still in control!” I screamed as I ran straight into a wall head first, the hit was so strong that I almost saw stars spinning around.
“Looks like the *Overtake* skill failed… Or maybe I just didn't finish taking control over the body.” I bounded the boar's legs once more and concentrated on the roots that were inside of it.
A few moments passed and I discovered that my view started to get blurry, it reminded me of the times that I lost consciousness but this time my mind didn’t feel hazy at all. Another few moments passed and I appeared in my small dark world.
This time though the world wasn’t empty there was a small yellowish fire in front of me, the fire was small as my palm and in this fire, there was a silhouette of a boar.
As the silhouette saw me look at it, it started to tremble in fear. “Found you.” I said while glaring at the small silhouette, “Hmm, is this the pig's soul?” I looked at it with interest, it looked so weak, so small, so fragile.
”Are you afraid? Is it because of my looks? Interesting I can't really see myself in this world, how do I even look around here?” I asked myself a question that I wouldn’t be able to answer for a long time.
“Anyway, it’s time for you to go.” I gave the small silhouette another glance and as if from an instinct some wave of force rushed out of me.
*Skill learned “Mind Wave”*
The boar saw the strange force rushing to it but couldn’t do much against it, the fire shone a little brighter for a second but couldn’t hold against the force at all. The fire broke into thousands of small sparks as it and the silhouette scattered around the small world while slowly vanishing into the ether.
*Skill learned “Evil”*
“...So let me get it straight, slowly stealing life force from monsters while they are suffering and screaming in pain is totally alright, but when I blow out a small candle of fire with a silhouette of a pig in it I become the devil?” I was a little confused about this new skill that I got.
I expected something like this to be in this world, but if killing monsters would be seen as evil wouldn’t hunters and guards be the lords of darkness in this world? After pondering for a few seconds about the skills I said to myself, “Wouldn't it be a lot simpler if I just inspect them?” And without any other thought in my mind, I inspected all the new skills I got.
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*Mind Wave* - The purest form of mind attack there is, while only using the force of one's mind and nothing else, one is able to confuse or even stun his target for a short duration. While this mind attack is mostly harmless it still could become deadly if used for a long period of time, as in lots of cases of Spector's monster types.
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“Mostly harmless? That’s weird, didn’t the boar’s soul explode into thousands of little pieces after getting hit by the wave?” I asked myself if the *Inspect* skill started to play his tricks again and failed to tell me something important like always. “Whatever, I will find out later anyway.”
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*Evil* - The core skill of the evil family, the skill lets the user have some connections with the evil energies of the world and allows him to use it to power the skills from the family tree. To get this skill you need to be cruel and unethical, to level up this skill you need to murder and torture hundreds of people, but if one wants to max out this skill you need to become the devil lord himself.
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“Well what a surprise, I guess the system thinks that breaking a soul into small pieces is unethical, if that was even a soul. Well as I see it it’s really easy to get this skill, anyway, now it’s time for the desert.” I mumbled as I inspected the *Overtake* skill.
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*Overtake* - Let the user take control over a body, most of the time by force but in rare cases willingly, if the body was taken by force the host's body could be damaged and lose some of its abilities. The skill is quite rare mostly found in ancient parasitic monsters, different from the possession skill when the user achieves control over the body the user would have complete control over the host's abilities and be able to use all of its skills as well, while not weakening the user abilities at all if there were no damage to the body.
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Drool started to form inside my mouth or more correctly to say in the mouth of the pig, “At last a skill that can be called legendary! With this skill I can steal anyone's body and won’t be weak anymore, maybe I will even be able to steal the panther's body!” Thinking about the possibility of having a real strong body and not being a pathetic bush for all my life gave me hope.
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“I wanted to get back to being human through evolution or at least a humanoid, but never imagined that another possibility will open for me so soon.” The eyes of the boar started to tear up as I said it.
After removing the bindings from the boar’s legs I wanted to check my status because while binding the boar I felt lots of branches and roots were torn to pieces, but I didn't expect something like this.
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*Self Awareness Status*
-Wild Boar Lv4-
Experience: 36/45
Tier: Low
Health: 7/21
Mana: 3/4
Stamina: 11/14
Health regen: 0.4/day
Mana regen: 1/day
Stamina regen: 5/hour
Race: Boar family
Status: Weakened(Medium), Bleeding(Mild), Symbiosis
Skills:
*Consume Lv5 [Sealed]* *Charge Lv3* *Enchanted smell Lv4* *Dirty healing Lv3 [Sealed]* *Ram Lv2* *Stealth Lv1* *Digging Lv1* *Thick Skin Lv1*
Titles:
*Junk Eater*
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-Visavil Bush Lv3-
Experience: 11/60
Rarity: Uncommon
Health: 6/12
Mana: 32/40
Stamina: 8/9
Health regen: 1.2/week
Mana regen: 3.85/hour
Stamina regen: 1.67/hour
Race: Berry Bush
Status: Intelligent(Unique), Shadow Mark, Symbiosis
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 Lv4* *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* *Mana Storage Lv2* *Overtake Lv1* *Mind Wave Lv1* *Evil Lv1*
Titles:
*Clutz* *Novice Trapper*
***
After reading all of my status my eyes lit with light, “Right the overtake explanation did mention something like this, I am sharing my body with the pigs. Wait, no I am fused into its body even if the status says symbiosis it's not something so simple as a symbiotic relationship, it's more direct I just stole his body and there was only one winner from this bargain.” I said with a quiet voice as I was completely immersed in the idea that I just stole someone's body but I could only give out a *Sigh* in the end.
“Who cares, in this world, the strongest survive and the loser will die…” As I said that sentence my mind started to feel empty as if I was missing something.
I shook my head to return to reality, no I shook the head of the pig, at last, I had a real body so I didn't lose the opportunity to use it, but before that, I checked the status of the pig again and saw that few of the skills were sealed out.
“Why consume and dirty healing sealed? Is this the damage the *Inspect* skill was talking about because of the forced overtake? It doesn't really matter to me though, this body is only temporary and will be discarded anyway, but I hope that in the future it won’t cause me many troubles.”
I stood up on my feet and started to try to move. It was really hard, I couldn't even compare it to the first time that I started to move as a walking bush. I even fell a few times trying to take a step, not only that I still could feel a lot of pain from the boar’s body, it was heavily damaged because of the *Overtake* skill and the wounds from the spears but it didn't bother me at all as I forced the body to move.
“At last, I got a 'real’ body so no matter what would happen in the coming days I wouldn't get down.” I said to myself with a smile on my imaginary face.
After an hour of trying I got the hang of it and could move freely, it wasn't perfect. I still was dangling from side to side but for the moment it was good enough, but then I found myself in a pickle.
“Wait how I am going to get out of this trap and even if I do get out of here what would I do? The fat body of the boar would never enter my hideout…” So without a way out of the situation, I decided to leave my new body in the trap after learning to control it a little bit more.
Without further ado, I choose first to get out of the trap and to try to run around and experience its skills. I started to dig one of the walls and make a small ramp with the fourth level of the *Dig* skill. It was really easy, I went outside the trap and started to run around as if I was a boy with his new toy.
I started to cry while talking to myself, “I wanted a running skill so long ago but never got one but this pig has it and could enjoy it without a problem.” I ran so many times from monsters but never got the skill so I was in heavens from joy while running with speed.
“Why the stupid pig didn't use the charge skill while it was running after me?” I asked myself as I ran with my head into a tree. After struggling a little with pain on the floor I stood up and inspected the skill.
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*Charge* - Let the user have the ability to throw their body forward with high speed while decreasing its general mobility of the body, lots of monsters and people alike died from using this skill recklessly in dangerous situations.
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“Looks like it did indeed use it... That's why it hit all the trees and rocks as it chased after me.” I looked around to check my surroundings to see if someone saw this embarrassing moment but of course, I was alone.
I started to check the other skills, I used the smell skill and found a tasty-smelling smell coming from somewhere nearby but in the end, I understood that it was me.
“So that's how it found me so easily, good to know.” In the beginning, I was concerned about being able to lure monsters to myself, but now I was only happy about getting new prey. Now that I will need to get new hosts and learn about their skills, getting new prey would be best for me.
I continued to experience and inspect the skills of my new body.