《Isekai trash story》Interlude: plant life
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My first memory is that of being bored.
The life of a seed is easy, there is plenty of food and the soil is quite comfortable. But something about having an idle mind nagged me.
I felt like it was odd that I knew things, but how do I even have a baseline of normalcy without experience. It wasn't long before I noticed the "link". There is so much information there, and focusing on it there is more than just the one... There are several creatures who I am learning things from without even realising it.
I can also feel strange sensations from them, the emotions feel right, but the way they breath just feels wrong and sight is such an alien experience.
It is not like I know nothing about my surroundings. I can feel the soil with my roots. The dampness, the nutrient availability, and even the slight acidity can be felt by my roots. My stem can feel the breeze, whether the air is clean or dirty, the humidity, and the temperature. It is distinctly different from the way they percieve thier surroundings, even if there are some similarities.
I spen a few days just observing them, feeling the adrenaline when Pythana sprints, Slimerene's endless hunger, Ratina being enthralled by the power of her magic, Nasby feeling like the sturdy wall that will never fall, and Auxentius enjoying the power but always worrying about dangers he cannot even sense.
I cannot get a clear view of what is going on, just trace images or feelings here and there with the occasional idea or concept being grasped.
I lose track of the time while watching them, but I eventually decide to try something else.
Magic, I already know how it feels to use it by observing them, but as I try to locate my own magic, I feel a familiar interference. Am I really going to be locked out of magic?!
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....Cheeky bastard... Now I see why Auxentius feels like the menu might be messing with us.
What else am I supposed to do, move my roots around? Wait maybe I should try that....
Root maneuvering LV1 Allows roots to move in a burst of motion, damage based on STR, duration based in stamina
This is nice and all, but I am still not level 1 and have 0 strength so the skill is completely useless to me. I use it anyway and I can feel some change in my roots, but can't move them at all. I try to focus on just what this changed feeling is as it isn't quite the same as magic, and try applying the sensation elsewhere.
I end up getting one more skill out of doing this on my stem.
Harden LV1 Increases defence and lowers mobility of a selected area. Defence increases 10%, mobility decreases 80%
I also end up getting a notification after a few minutes.
You are now LV1! A new world of opportunities awaits you.
I pull up my new menu.
Name N/A Race Angiosperm, hermaphrodite Age 0 LV 1 Class Flower sapling Rank 0 HP 10/10 MP 6/6 (+0.01mp/sec) Strength 2 Intelligence 2 Dexterity 1 Willpower 2 Stamina 4 Wisdom 1 Luck 47 Charisma 1 Skills Harden LV1: Increases defence and lowers mobility of a selected area. Defence increases 10%, mobility decreases 80% Titles Planted by Auxentius: +1 stamina, luck, and willpower Race skills Root maneuvering LV1: Allows roots to move in a burst of motion, damage based on STR, duration based in stamina
Now that I think about it, trying to use magic without any MP and less than 10 HP might not have been such a good idea...
But now that I do have MP I try it again.
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Magic perception Ability to sense the mana of your surroundings Now to learn the other essentials. Magic manipulation Able to alter the shape and properties of mana Magic sense Able to make a field of mana that will detect objects within it, Uses more MP/second the larger the field Finally I can sense the shape of my surroundings, though only in my immediate surroundings for a short while. I only have 6 MP and it doesn't last long, I use root manipulation next and I can wriggle around a little bit, but not much else. It is slow growing, over the next few days I learn the basic manipulation skills, but my MP is too small to form a ball skill out of the elemental mana. Soil manipulation is great though, I can cycle in fresh soil whenever the nutrients in my nearbly soil dry up, and I can push the nearby grass roots out of my territory. However, soon I encountered what would be my gratest foe in the future... A beetle. Not some giant beetle, or some magical abomination, just a regular old beetle. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but then I learned my mistake. It BIT me, tore out a chunk of one of my 2 leaves and started chewing on it. This was my first direct experience with pain and it hurt like hell. I smashed that beetle with the full force of my roots and crushed it with everything I had. LV up It was this experience today that lead me to set my goal. Bugs must be exterminated, genocide every species that eats plants cause if one of them is this painful when they bite me then I shudder to think what would happen if a swarm of them was crawling around me while biting off chunks of me. I don't care if the other plants use them for pollination, I AM GOING TO WIPE THEM OUT. But it isn't enough to just kill the ones I encounter, oh no, I need to exterminate them at thier sources and wipe them out all at once after making the preperations. Luckily I have some information regarding this from the link, I believe it is called systemic genocide? Unfortunately only ants and bees have a hierarchy you can manipulate to turn them against each other the way people do, but there is another interesting stratagy for killing bugs, a fungal parasyte that controls their minds and makes them kill themselves at high places to better spread spores. If I could slowly spread an infectious fungus that targets all insects in the woods, I could wait for all of them to be infected before killing them all in one fell swoop! There seems to be a forest with mind controlling creature nearby, maybe I could learn a thing or two from them....
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Cheep!?
Charles Monroe survived the disappearance of his parents, did his best to hold things together for himself and his sister. He survived when she, too, vanished, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic note. He was devastated, but he kept moving forward as best he could. Cancer didn’t put him down, and after suffering through several rounds of chemotherapy, Charles Monroe thought that things might finally be looking up. That is, until a virulent strain of ebola swept through the city. With his immune system strained as it is, the odds don’t look good for Charles. Now, on the bridge between life and death, he hears a voice claiming to know where his family went. It claims that it needs his help and that it can give him a second life, one far away from all the pain he’s ever known. So, Charles answers as any reasonable person would. He says no. Charles isn't ready or willing to die yet. But, as with everything else to this point, even his choice to keep fighting is taken from him all too soon. With no other option but the dark oblivion of death, Charles chooses to make a deal with the spirit of a distant world that's seeking a wild card in its battle against the gods, monsters, and mortals that threaten its existence. Someday, he’ll find where his family went. Someday, he’ll uphold his end of the bargain and hunt beings powerful beyond anything he’s ever known. Someday, he might even – hatch? “CHEEP!?” Things to Know: -Cheep!? Will release on a minimum weekly schedule. -After a backlog of chapters, posting will slow, but in the interim you can expect a chapter a day up until roughly 25 chapters. -This story at times will potentially carry some heavy moments, but the tone is intended to be lighter overall. -There are invisible game-like elements in this story, but nothing so concrete as a dedicated gamelit novel. -I personally have some issues with anxiety, so I may or may not interact with the community a lot. I'll try if anyone has questions, but I can't guarantee that it'll be consistent. -MC is a non-human lead, and will never actually become human. Romance will potentially happen between side-characters, but not with the MC. -MC IS NOT THE ONLY VIEW POINT. I have to put that out there because people sometimes hate alternate PoV's in a story. None of them will be filler, and they'll be there only to give a little bit more nuance and meaning to the world that the MC has stepped in, or is about to be imminently important. I'll try to keep them down, but this also helps to prevent me from burning out getting trapped in one view. -Most of all, I hope that this story is enjoyable to you, and that you have a great time reading it! -Written by Michael Adams, Cowritten/Edited by Summer Kent
8 521No Strings Attached [Rewritten]
Warning Just so you know, you better be paying attention to the chapter title or else it's going to be like travelling across multiverses. Explanation Due to a single comment made by a wonderful person, or some douchebag in real life, I have decided to create two seperate stories. A rewritten version, and the original version. The rewritten version will somewhat follow the original storyline of the original version, but will have extra content, extra side stories of course rewritten personalities. The original one will be like a rough draft of where I want the story to go. Like for instance, the original story is like the first Link from 'Legend of Zelda', choppy but fun to read. The rewritten story is the Link from any game during and after Windwaker, smooth and somewhat follows the main premise. Overall both are going to be probably terribly done but hey, I'm creating a furture and past story so what should you expect. - Styx Whatever just put up the revised description. - Ariel Edited Summary Jay W. Blu, a dashing and charming rich boy who's been spoiled his whole life. He is very cocky, has a case of egomania and isn't exactly what you call a 'Relatable Main character', unless you somehow fit one of these descriptions and then relate all you want. He had everything you would probably want if you weren't pessimistic, realistic, or chronically depressed. But as most reincarnation/summoning stories go, he get's himself killed at whatever age he was and is sent to another world. Normally, he would be summoned as something you would call a hero, but since that's to cliche by my standards he is something else. Instead of being the hero of the people that he was told about by a friend, he instead summoned as the anti-hero aka, 'The Hero of Demons'. Now he must traverse the lands slaying opposing heroes as he tries to keep his mind straight, although it's to late. There will be weird people along the journey like a fangirling war general, a hive mind and a manly magical girl? Oh well, Jay is too pure to see love anyways.
8 145Apollo and Daphne (Modernized)
What happens when the nyphm Daphne got her wish? To be normal again? Does it have consequences? Yeah, and a whole lot of them. Can Daphne ever return Apollo's love? Would Artemis ever succeed in helping her brother? Would the war of the gods have an end?Read Daphne's adventure as she flee's to New York and how Apollo chased her. Again.
8 111Once in a Blue Sun
First, the Blue Screens came, Transforming their lives into a game, Kevin's got a bomb, what a shame, Life will never ever be the same.
8 351DICE
As people around Evan start disappearing, he begins to suspect that his overprotective parents are involved. And when he wakes up alone in the basement, trapped, he learns just how far a parent's love can go...
8 188QUEEN OF DEATH ✔
❛THEY WOULD TELL YOU OF A KING WHO STOLE ME HELPLESS FROM MY SUNSHINE GARDEN.❜They won't tell you about the woman who came to him sublime, lily eyes and lily lips. A king does not ask permission from his prize, but she, oh she, she knelt, kissing my flower crown fingertips, and laid a kingdom at my feet. A Hades and Persephone retelling.❛AND WHEN I PLACED MY DREAD HEART IN HIS PALM; HE CALLED IT A KEY AND ME A QUEEN.❜rubyruins | all rights reserved ©
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