Leveling
All the new information exhausted me mentally which made me able to sleep. Before I went to sleep I used the |Iron bark| skill so it could level up. The |Iron bark| skill costs 20 MP once and afterwards 5 MP/minute. When I woke up I used it again and I would use it repeatedly after every 4 hours to get the skill to level up. After 40 hours of using the skill I finally got a notification in my mind.
|Iron bark is now level 2. |
With the notification came a sudden Joy, as my mind understood things about the skill. I just suddenly knew how to increase the density as well as durability of the bark. I also got another notification that was somehow even better.
| Achievement :
learn the skill:
Conditions: bring a skill up to level 2 for the first time.
Reward: +10 XP, +1 stat point, +1 evolution point|
XP was another new factor. It seems that by gaining XP I will be able to level up and to my surprise the 10 XP were enough for me to level up.
|Level up, you gained +5 stat points|
I felt a sudden pulling movement as if someone tried to tear me apart. My body got stretched and bended.
Suddenly it stopped. A sudden feeling of warmth overcame me, as I understood what happened. I was a little sapling and the level up boosted my growth, turning me into a sapling of a gigantic size of 10 centimeters. I know had 4 leaves attached to me.
'this is all so exciting I am so happy to be alive. '
If one had looked at me at this moment he would see me wobbling in a weird way left and right.
' I will need lots of MP so let's put one stat point into intelligence. I will save the evolution point for now since I might need it in the future.'
I thought the rest of the day about new ways of using words what they meant and what I wanted to do in the future. I looked at the list with abilities I could buy which, I wanted to buy in the future, and which I could already afford . Just as I was done I heard a weird noise.
It sounded like a creature eating something. But I could tell it wasn't one of those 2 legged creatures. By sensing and hearing the tremors in the earth I could tell it was an "animal ". A vile creature created to massacre plants and my kin in the thousands.
I somehow knew this creature was an enemy.
To warn it and to make it back off , I immediately made 5 thorns protrude from my body and shot one right at it. One Thorn depending on the mana put into it costs 1-5 MP and deals the same amount of damage when shot. The first shot made me lose 2 MP.
|5 dmg|
|-2 hp|
'Eat thorns vile monster, fear me the might sire sapethorn! Thornasap ? I am still experimenting with my name, so don't judge me !'
I heard it as the thorn hit the creatures body. It's attention was on me immediately .
'no, no. No, No, NO,NOOO get away '
It jumped at me and in panic I shot all of my thorns at it which reduced my HP by 20.
|-20 hp|
|32 dmg|
The creature fell on me dealing additional damage.
|-17 hp|
'aaaaah please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me...'
These were my only thoughts as I was in complete panic
after 10 seconds that felt more like 10 minutes I heard a sudden notification
| Opponent"mouse " died of blood loss +20 XP|
' I did it , I the mighty lord plant-o-thorn, defeated the cursed abomination that created chaos everywhere ! Praise me! worship me ! Thank this God among mere grass for his bravery'
| level up, you gained +5 stat points|
| skill gained: Bloodbath(passive)
condition: kill one enemy, bath in the creatures blood( or get covered by it completely)
The blood of your enemies gets sucked up when you touch it, and makes you stronger (might grant new skills) |
'wow! that seems to be a crazy useful skill. Wait have I gotten 5 stat points for my last level up ? arrgh, yes I did ! I just overlooked them! That is so embarrassing'
I slapped my own metaphorical face for my forgetfulness. In the last minutes my body had already absorbed lots of blood which got me +7 hp. I felt my body getting stretched like with the last level up .It made me grow another 5 centimeters making me the tallest sapling in an area of around 2 meters.
'Do you guys witness my might?! where was I ? ah yes .let's just pump all those stat points into intelligence. know I love my new Status!'
|Status
Race: Oak Sapling
Age: 1 year, 5 days
Level: 3
HP: 32/64 ,HP/regen: 3/ hour
MP:20/42, MP/regen: 5/ hour
Stats:
Intelligence: 21
Wisdom: 5
Strength: 3
Vitality: 32
Agility:/
Endurance:/
Charisma: 1
Abilities:
Racial: Monster, You are a tree, Nature aligned, Photosynthesis, Rooted, Conscious tree
Passive: |Hearing lv.2|, |Bloodlust lv.1|
Active:|Augment lv.1|, |Vine Creation lv.1|, |Bullet Thorns lv.1|, |Iron Bark lv.2|
'The only question is... how do I get this huge mouse body off me !?'
After 20 minutes of trying to push the mouse off by wiggling around, I had a sudden genius idea. Why don't use the Vine creation skill ? In the end I made a thin vine and pushed the body of me.
The problematic thing about that was that flies had already occupied the body. Which means I head to whip around my vine, and activate the Iron bark skill, to whip the storm of insects to infinity and beyond.
As soon as I started massacring the insects notifications appeared in my mind
| XP +0.1|
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