So far, everything Voraci had eaten tasted pretty good. Even the burnt up trees tasted… fine. Once Voraci had eaten the first tree, she had dumped all of the aspects into upgrading her ability to summon explosives.
In total, she had gotten 5 summon explosives from one tree. She would have definitely eaten more trees, but the words in her head which were apparently her god had complained.
SssO SsO BORINGSss! GO TO WATER NEARBY! GO To OTHER REALM! SOMETHING OTHER THAN EAT TREES, CAN GET FAST ABILITY GO TO WATER!!! YOU WANT!?!
And her god was totally right, Voraci really did want more of the increased speed aspect. Voraci scraped another layer of bacteria off of her face and carapace and shoved it into her mouth. She didn’t get any aspects this time but it didn’t totally matter.
Voraci just decided to go. As it turned out, this forest was pretty empty. She had seen a few birds, all of which she tried to grab, but they just flew away. There weren’t many plants other than the lush grass and tall trees. She had seen some bushes, filled with juicy, red, delicious looking things, but strangely, those bushes had actively run away. And fast.
Voraci looked forward more. In front of her was a thick line of foliage. Not just grass.
Voraci raised her weight with weight control again to resist any attacks. She had not needed to pull weight with the weight imbuement node, nor had she really needed to push her weight into anything.
Voraci hadn’t needed the color change at all, but when she had the opportunity to gain a new node she took it. Because why not? Maybe color change would be useful eventually.
Voraci stopped as she came across the foliage. She was just slightly shorter than it, even with her size increased. Voraci looked at the tall plants, a strange, prolonged sound coming from behind them. Cutting edges, of course.
Voraci looked at the base of one of the plants. Could she disable it just by biting there? Voraci snipped the base of the plant, letting the remains fall backwards at her, but moving to the side. Voraci extended her sub-mouth and snipped the plants to the side of it as well. There was another layer behind it, but she could deal with that later.
Voraci looked at the bundle of plants which she had. Voraci bit at the side of it, trying not to get cut. She was successful.
OK CHOOSeSss A AsPECT!! 4 FROM PLaNT BUNDLE!
There wasn’t much to this plant that she could tell. It had sharp edges, colored a dull orange. Other than that it was nothing important. Increasing the sharpness of her mandibles couldn’t be complained about anyways. ‘Sharpness is alright’ Voraci decided.
YOU GET!!
Voraci’s various biological cutting instruments sharpened quite a bit. Voraci wasn’t sure if there would be a limit to how sharp they could be, but if they got sharp enough, she might be able to do a lot of damage. To what she didn’t know and didn’t care, as long as she got a nice meal.
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Voraci looked back at the second layer of plants. She could see something behind them but couldn’t tell what it was. Voraci opened her mandibles and sliced through the plants, this time, they fell forwards.
Voraci saw the plants fall into a strange moving substance. It was water, clearly. Voraci carefully squeezed into the gap between the sharp ferns. Voraci scooped up the water and let it funnel into her stomach.
Voraci thought it was a pretty neat thing to eat, but it probably had some good aspects. It being clear could probably combine with her color change, but it could also not, which would make it inefficient. Being able to constantly output a force was something that Voraci would probably need, she could only do large hits which needed a moment to reprepare for now.
There were a lot of things this substance could probably give her, but strangely, she didn’t hear the words- her creator, or feel the feeling the words provided, suggesting she should choose an aspect. Of course! ‘This is an easily attainable and consumable substance,’ Voraci thought, ‘I would need to eat a lot to have something actually happen’
Voraci looked into the substance. This would clearly provide some nice aspects should she get them. Invisibility? Consistent force exertion? She could even gain speed, as her god had suggested! That would be what she got, speed increase.
How would she eat so much? Well, optimally she would need to be fully submerged, pointing her proboscis-like sub-mouth straight upstream.
Yes, that seemed like a great idea. Voraci took a step into the water. Unlike the plants and bacteria, it didn’t seem hostile to her. It did carry a fair amount of bacterial slop which attempted to coalesce around her leg, but the leg was already coated, with no more room to grab on. Voraci stepped deeper into the river and looked at the direction the water was coming from, the same direction as some sort of coalescence of rocks she hadn’t seen before. Voraci stepped a bit deeper into the water, but still wasn’t under the water level.
Voraci suddenly slipped on a rock, she curled into a ball as a defensive response, but that was even worse as she lost all ways to keep traction. At that moment, the river suddenly doubled its speed, literally doubled, sweeping her into the middle of the river.
Voraci opened her shell again, extending down her legs. But her legs slipped over all of the rocks that passed by and were high enough to reach. Voraci turned to face downstream, but a sharp rock greeted her, thankfully far away.
Voraci increased her weight, while she had it low for travel, she could tell she needed it now. Her weight increased just enough for her to sink under the water, but it would take a bit longer to become heavy enough to stay at the bottom of the river. Voraci took some weight from the water surrounding her as well. The Fully affected water started to float up, but nothing notable happened.
Once Voraci was able to submerge herself into the water completely, she opened up the panel on her back which was added along with her acid launcher enhancement. Voraci pushed out the tube part of it in a perpendicular direction to the sharp rock, rocketing away from the sharpest underwater section of the rock with a spray of acid.
Voraci wasn’t out of the way yet though, and the rock was much closer than it was before. Voraci was also very far downstream from where she started. Voraci put her acid tube straight up stream, opening up the gates inside it. The pocket filled up with water very quickly.
Voraci pointed her acid launcher in the same direction and sprayed it at full force. Voraci lowered her weight slightly right before, allowing for the force to carry her further. And she was carried far. Voraci wasn’t out of the river yet.
It was still impressive, on her behalf. The river was at least 12 times larger than her longest side. Even with her enlargement from the tree, which admittedly wasn’t doing too much. Voraci looked forward again. 'What is that? Why is that part of the river so white and bubbly?'