Now in a dome-like room with slimy green walls and up to my knees in acid, I begin to make my way out of the plant. Thinking acid would not work on the interior of the plant I used my heated claws to dig my way out.

It did not take me long to dig my way out from inside the plant and get back to the surface. Although if I thought about it a plant monster would be a good counter for me in a battle. My poison and venom would not work as it is not compatible with their anatomy and for some reason, I could not control their body’s [Maybe because they have a different cell structure?] The reason was unknown. When I was out of the plant I found and collected its core, had a half an hour rest and then continued my walk deeper into the forest.

As the beasts in this area are strong I will only walk for another half a mile before I started to look for a place I could make Into a base. [All I have done for the last couple of days is fight, and as much as I love it I need to rest now as well as in the future. Making a base could be fun and give me a place to rest].

I eventually find a suitable place in a small clearing with a patch of bamboo to the side and a river 20 meters away. It was surrounded by dark barked tree grove which had oval-shaped bright green leaves.

I spend the rest of the day and night making a small hut from sticks, leaves, mud, and hair. Once the hut was finished I use the heat from my claws to dry the mud and make a door from bamboo tied together with hair.

Once my hut was made I begin to make pitfall, tripwire and net traps around the hut. I also make a perimeter from outward-facing wooden spikes, I know they won't stop any beats or monsters but they may slow them down or give me a warning. I then use webbing to cover all the gaps in my defenses while leaving a small pathway for me to come in and out.

Finished with my defenses I go to the river to set some traps for fish and to collect some water. When I am at the river setting up a small fishing net I hear a gentle and soft voice singing what sounds like a lullaby [That is 200%, a trap.]

Despite my suspicions, I cautiously go towards the source of the voice ready to fight at a moments notice. The source of the voice turns out to be a very disturbing looking monster. It had a lower body of a spider, the size of a carriage, with odd-looking tubes of various lengths coming out at random angles. What caught my attention, however, was its weird tentacle-like mouth that had huge mismatched teeth. Branches come off of the tentacle mouth that ends in unblinking eyes that stare off in all directions. The whole monster is a mismatch of green, orange, and black.

[Well that is one ugly mother fucker.] I was debating whether or not to fight it, after all the previous battles and not knowing if there was anything to gain other than fun, when of its eyes swiveled around and stared right at me [Well that answers that question for me, I just can't catch a break can I?].

The monster stops singing and black ash looking gas comes out of the lower facing tubes. Green goo comes flying out from the middle facing tubes and orange slime is launched up into the air.

[Well I am no expert on the subject but I properly don't want to breathe in the ash stuff or touch its multicolored goo] Cataloguing the hazards in my head, I hold my breath while using the air gems to oxidize my blood as I dodge the goo and slime that is flying everywhere.

The orange slime seems to be corrosive as it melts the ground and plants it touches while the green goo does not seem to do anything but stay in the shape it lands in. As the creature I have mentally named ‘Tube spider’ is blowing its load, I close the distance between us to attack, but some of the green slimes touches my foot sticking it to the ground [So the green goo is an adhesive]. My momentum and strength carry me forwarded but my steps are slightly more difficult than before as my foot sticks to the ground with each step. With a snarl, I remove the outer layer of scales of the affected foot to remove the issue before regrowing them.

In the process of getting to the monster, I am bombarded by green goo and orange slime, some of which lands on me causing me pain and discomfort as it melts away my flesh. Once I was close enough the tube spider stopped its chemical attacks and started to use its gait spider legs as spears. A few of the giant spear legs graze me, causing me to bleed. "Hehehe" I let out a giddy laugh as I get closer, eventually, getting in too striking distance to begin my assault.

The creature did not take long to die once I was able to attack it but I was still severely injured and covered in slime and goo. I stare at the mutilated corpse and snort "Whos the monster now bitch?"

Despite my heartwarming victory speech, my face was half burnt off, showing my jaw and skull bones. Burn marks scare the rest of my body haphazardly and the green goo sticks to me at random intervals. [Well this is not a good look. The river should dilute the acidic affects enough for me to fix the rest of me] so I went to the river to wash it off of my body.

When my body was clean I went back to the tube spiders corpse to absorb it so I can better heal myself. Sadly I could not learn or copy anything from the corpse as it the whole thing was infused with magic so I couldn't even copy a magical glad [Does this mean when I can use magic I still won't be able to copy abilities from monsters? I will have to wait and see guess.] I did, however, find a crystal inside the body which I put inside my space ring.

When I finish absorbing the body I decided to collect the green goo as it may be useful in the future or for my hut construction, so I made a sled from hair, sticks, and leaves to collect and carry it all. As I collect the goo I find a small black and purple bird that is missing a few feathers and one of its wings. [Poor thing must have gotten hit during the fight, It's so small I see no point it eating it, Maybe I could take it in, heal it and make it my pet? It would be nice to have company, even if it is a bird].

Reaching a decision I take the goo back to the hut and then gently wash the bird in the river to get rid of any leftover slime or goo. Once it is clean I take it back to the hunt and begin to heal it. To do this I use some of my body mass to regrow its feathers and begin to regrow its wing. It is slow going as I haven't fixed a bird before and the little creature has some magic in it which makes the process slower. I sense a small crystal in the bird and conclude that it is a monster, which will probably make it harder to tame but I was invested now.

At some point It wakes up but I use chemicals such as dopamine in its brain to calm it down and I also reduce the pain, It didn’t get rid of it completely because I wanted it to know it was injured so it wouldn't attack or try to leave [I think I will name you Shade].