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— POV Mathias —

Man, why do I even try? Everything I do just ends up going to shit because of someone else. First, some God has cursed me to death just because I wanted to keep being me. Then I’m eaten alive by thousands of bugs. THEN I try to learn mana sensing and get my energy parasitized by a yet-to-be-determined-friend-or-foe grass. The my kindness is rejected by a bug, I’m eaten alive again by the lowest of the low slime. And then, and THEN, I’m torn apart by magic blasts and sword slashes only to have my children cruelly stomped to death under a combat boot as they sneered at me. I am truly pitiable.

Truly this world has forsaken me, and so I shall forsake it. This grass plain? It will be my grass plain. I won’t think emotionally anymore - it is time to be my old scientific self. Emotions can go away, there is too much at stake to let myself be deterred just because it might inconvenience someone else. I’ve come to a realization - Don’t Move For the World, Make the World Move For You. It’s very profound, and deep if I say so myself. It might take philosophers a millennium to truly understand my sentiment behind those few words.

It’s been awhile since I took stock of all that I have.

]Name:--- (Mathias)Age:2 MonthsGender:♂/♀Level:50Class:Plant Sage+Race:Bermuda Grass Unique Variant: CarnivorousHP:15/15Mana:2/2 (+3 pt/hour)Growth Points:15000Growth Rate:55 (45) pts/hour day (night)Strength:2Vitality:15Agility:1Intelligence:130Tamed Species1Tamed Total13Titles:[td colspan="3"] [Destined to Die], [Reincarnator], [Martyr], [Boundless], [Late Bloomer], [One of Many], [Eaten Alive+], [Kin-Slayer], [Bug Tamer], [Unnatural Predator] [/td]

Abilities:[td colspan="3"], , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , [/td]

Drug Compounding: Caffeine, Cyanide, Simple Sugar, Octopamine, Nightshade Toxin, Milkweed Toxin

I also have a draconic dog to and see what I get from him, as well as some blood I need to analyze. Still not sure what to do with it. I’ll keep it stored in an air-tight vessel until I find a need for it. I have an idea for it, but I’ll have to wait and see what my Slaughter Guards do. I don’t think feeding it to them would be good right now - they are still slowly evolving, this might be too big of a jump in genetic material. I will try to give it to their children though - if they lay anymore :(. That sickening crunch still haunts me. All of my hard work - it reminds me of an experiment in uni where another lab worker disposed of 3 weeks of work because she didn’t know what was in the splicer - I was like Bitch, ask the fuck around before you do something like that. I wanted her expelled from the lab, but unfortunately it was the only lab where she could do her own research.Then before I could pursue things further, like a little data sabotaging, the Grey Death kinda put things in perspective for me.

Anyways, what to do now. The Slaughter Guards are back on aphid murdering duty, and are slowly growing in power and size as I keep feeding them mana, caffeine, and sugar. You know what, I’ve changed my mind. They deserve some of the blood I stored up. I’ll give them a small amount and see if that speeds up their growth more. I’m planning on making these guys my primary guards in the future. Let’s hope they lay some eggs after they absorb the increased food supply and grow-up. I want better experimental test subjects sot hey have a better probability to live from the changes I make to them.

So let’s list my priorities again - I want to have someone to talk with, I want to live, I want to fuck, I want to evolve my Slaughter Guards, I want to take over this glade, I want more abilities, I want to evolve, I want to punish those four fighters, and I want to become powerful enough that no one on this planet can kill me. And oh yea, why not kill the very god that put me here? I don’t know if and how that may work out, but I feel like it’s my duty to avenge myself in some way. Maybe with enough mana, or enough power, I can trap him maybe? At this point it’s just conjecture - but I’ll keep this on a high level-goal. I guess the first and the third one on the list are temporarily out as well, fuuu. Evolving my Slaughter Guards I’m currently in the midst of, so the glade and huh?

‘Stab’ I’ve pierced the slab of meat in the ground with my roots - them skinning the beast made this much easier - I wonder if that will prevent me from getting some sweet armor? Here it goes - - Pierce thy flesh and take thy power - what thou once had, I shall now have! Ooh, I can feel the power! Just what, exactly, is it?

No.. Fucking.. Way! This is so cool! I might finally, finally get to talk with someone!

‘Sniff, weep, Sniff’

Rank: B[td colspan="2"]Allows the user to form an emotional bond with another that is either vulnerable, weaker, or is willing. Emotion can be passed between the linked. [/td]

Well, not TALK talk, but I can get my emotions across. That’s cool! I can finally tell my Slaughter Guards how thankful I am towards them! But this does kinda go against my whole spiel earlier about not being emotional - but hey, I’m fine being a hypocrite. I’ll just keep the emotion to a minimum then. For now, I’m gonna try and link to my Guards so that I can spy- I mean see how they’re doing, as well as give them a sense of home. I’ll be a kind Father to them, giving them emotions of relief, gratefulness, and love constantly, but as they wonder further away I’ll send less love and more worry, making it seem like they have to stay near my main body if they want my love. It’s a cold, hard world out there, and it’s not safe away from me.

I BELIEVE I’m stronger than them, so they should just accept my link without a chance to resist, but I’ll try to not be forceful with it. Let’s start with my favorite - my little assassin/stealth bug June. Oh, she’s resisting a bit, that’s great! She must be getting really strong, I’m impressed! I’ll giver her a little bit of sugar+mana in front of her, and see if she’ll link with me now. Hopefully she gets my intention, and success! It worked! I can feel the link between us, June seems to a little trepidation, but also hopeful. I should send her some warm feelings - that she’ll be taken care of here. June’s definitely calming down now - good. She’s the most important one anyways, the only that has appeared to have taken a variant route of evolution compared to the other 12.

Now that June’s been taken care of - time to with the other 12. And that was surprisingly easy - it must be either because they accepted it due to their lower INT values compared to June, or maybe they were just weaker. Oh well - at least it worked. They have a lot less complex emotions - it’s definitely due to their INT scores. All I feel from them is a mild sense of contentment, the need to procreate, and the subtle sense of hunger. Much easier to understand - but also why they aren’t my favorite. I mean, they are all in my top 13 favorite beings that I know and care about it. It’s not like I have any other companions anyways.

Mmmm, now I can more effectively control my minions and guards. They need to hurry and lay more eggs, but I’m not exactly sure how often that happens. I just have to cross my fingers and hope it’s soon! While I hand-off managing my guards back to my other thought-process, I was thinking. You know what, I think I have enough energy to take over this glade. I have over 9000 Growth Points! A lot more, but I still have to say that quote. It’s part of who I am! I could use these points to finally buy a mana stone! Ha, yea right. I saw that wizard instantly go for my mana-laden eggs and rip the mana stone from the throat of the beast. Again, no thank you.

What’s awesome is that I can almost be 100% assured of my winning this epic battle!Finally my activated on the grass around me, and boy am I not impressed. All the grass around me is either level 1 or 2, infested with the bugs I cast aside, and each has less than 0-1 growth points each. Doing some simple math, there are close to a million individual clumps in my area, but all the energy they have is only closer to around 170,000 GP… Still a daunting number, but they don’t have intelligence nor do they have . I can clearly see each and every link between the grasses, and history has taught me much. Disable the supply lines and reinforcement, and the rest are sitting ducks. After that, it’s just a matter of absorbing the weaker plants first, then using something I learned when I was dismayed by my roots’ limitations: while I can’t transfer energy back to my main body for storage, I can definitely use it where I collect it. I’ve just started to put it into effect - I have small potatoes stored throughout the clearing, storing GP slowly. I can still not use all of my energy at once - and I’m not storing all of the energy, I’m still losing quite a bit - but it’s a start! It’s kind of like how my feeling decays as it gets further - my control lessens as well.

I’ll try a trial run to see if my plan will work - First, isolate a group of grass that is interconnected. Then, attack everything that I just isolated, wait an hour to acquire more energy from my new extension, and then attack the next group. This way I can keep my energy total relatively high, and progressively take over the field, one blade of grass at a time.

Hmm… The ideal candidate is actually really close to where I am. There are only two connections to neighboring clusters, and their overall energy stores are in the lower range. I’m hesitating though - I hate feeling pain when it’s this close to me - it is a roughly exponential curve, probably something akin to 1/distance squared.

Shit, I gotta just bite the bullet - here goes nothing and everything!

Go my two roots - start ! Uggh, as I thought, the whole field is starting to send energy this way to fight me, but little do they know it’s too late! activate! Shit shit shit shit, that fucking hurts! But the connections are gone - the energy resistance has gone to 0. Now, my precious 5 clumps of grass, it is time. I thank you for hiding me all this time - but your duty is over. Maybe you were like me - a soul that needed to be cleansed, well let me do that for you. You are released - full on go! And I’m not listening to your cries this time - at least this part of me isn’t. The epic struggle is much easier this time - having a GP bank this big doesn’t really give them enough room to fight back. Their defenses are trifling as my cells invade, consume, and replace. Wave after wave of my energy crashes into their defenses until I reach the center of each plant, filling them with my foreign energy.

5 more tufts of grass are mine, and it cost me… about 25 points. In an hour they should generate me about 10 GP, so if I discount the future amount of grass here by that ratio of 3/5, I will need 1,170,000*3/5 = 702,000 GP to do all of this total. If I further discount it by waiting another hour between bundle conquest, it will cost me only 234,000 energy, but finally, if I wait for 3 hours, even with some energy loss, I shouldn’t need to spend any energy at all! Operation Blitzkrieg underway! I’ll attack 100 bundles of grass at once, expending about 500 GP to take them over, wait a few hours, and good as new! Each hour thereafter I’ll have more and more energy to use! As long as it’s day. I don’t think I could take even the dulled feeling of pain if it was night. Thankfully there is only the initial pain from attacking and separating their root structures. I can handle that, as long as I do them sequentially and not all at once.

Each neighborhood of grass is slowly being subsumed by my root and energy structures. I can see the energy change in the field slowly grow darker as my dark-green with a mix of blue energy invades the light green energy field. It’s quite beautiful actually. It reminds me of a risk board as my pieces slowly take over the various countries. By next week, finally this glade will be under my jurisdiction, and I will sorely need my Slaughter Guards to guard me even more. The Cyanide is helpful and all in killing the bugs, but that doesn’t mean I want it, like, everywhere in my body. With the world the way it is, something could eventually gain a resistance to it with magic or something else. I have no fucking clue, and I don’t really want to test it in-case the specimen gets away. I’m thinking of just cycling the Milkweed and Nightshade toxin throughout my body to kill off the bugs. Multi-layered defenses are always the best.

I may go back later today or tomorrow and re-edit this - I think it could use some better flow. But Homework is a bitch haha, so rather than wait to post this tomorrow, thought you all could use some grass in your life today