[Hey, actually how long will you finish your upgrade?]
[Few minutes, why?]
[You ask me why? That lizard is chasing our tail, spewing fireball and you ask me why? Can't you get more serious and more faster with the upgrade?]
[Why, can't you deal with the lizard? I busy upgrading you know. Don't disturb me. And don't let me get hit. It disturb me. By the way, can't you use the water to pierce the wyvern?]
[I already tried but the scale is too slippery. The water just slide off like nothing. I also tried to slip in between the scale but no vain. Maybe because I didn't know how the scale work, it too far away or I just not experience enough using it. Hey, i just learn it today you know.]
[I know, useless. Then how you pierce the fish scale? The scales are slippery too right. To think you can kill fish like harvesting wheat but cannot kill a flying lizard. Useless, dunno why am I with you also?]
[Well excuse me. I more useful than you.]
"Shreikkk" The wyvern do a very steep dive toward them interrupting them.
[Well, incoming. I think it want do a divebomb and crash us out.]
"Don't even think about it." Zi Zen to make the water hit both of the wyvern eye as hard as possible. Being hit by the water, the wyvern lost it sense of direction but it still continue flying on it path straight to train.
But obviously, they will not wait for it to crash at them. Just move to the side a little and they avoid it just as simple as that. Not like the wyvern can see what in front of it when the water keep on hitting it eye like a bouncy ball keep on bounce on it eyelid. Kinda hard to when it try to open it.
'Crash'
The wyvern crash landed. And the train left the wyvern behind. Zi Zen say "Bye, hope to not see you again."
They escape far away with high speed leaving the wyvern behind. I just second, they can't even see the wyvern anymore. Moreover, the density of the tree in the area increase. Obviously, even though the train is puffing smoke. The stealth effect cover it so it cannot be seen by other than them and it have no smell either.
[Finally] The idiot train shout in Zi Zen brain suddenly. And it stop in the middle of the forest.
[Finally, I sick of waiting for you.]
[Time for my marvelous transformation.]
Then, it the instant. Various part in the train start to move around and fly around. Then, weird part start pop out of nowhere and combine or just stick to one side. Everything is chaotic and dangerous. A few of the part narrowly miss Zi Zen who busy dodging inside.
[Hoi, can you be careful? You fool. Are you trying to kill me by hitting me with you train body part.]
[How could I, I won't kill you. I swear] The idiot train reply. 'However pinning you to the wall is a different story or accidentely hit you is different.'
[I finally upgrade to tier 2. I can do more thing than just talking and moving only. I can add another new train car, what would you like it to be?]
[Huh?]
[Let me pick for you if you dunno. Storage then.]
[Hey, wait]
In an instant, nearby tree start uproot and flying around the train. Then, it start split by itself into plank and arrange into a train car. It awesome seeing the train car slowly forming itself. After awhile, the train car is form and attach to the train head.
Zi Zen walk toward the new train car from the train head. As he open the door, he shock.
[Why there nothing inside?]
[Well, it just storage. Of course it nothing inside.]
[...]
[Is it infinity storage?]
[No]
[Automatic store the thing around me by teleporting inside then teleport it outside when ever I want?]
[No, but I can help you arrange the thing inside after you put it in.]
[...That all?]
[Nothing for now until you upgrade me.]
[Can I change? Just now you ask me to choose right.]
[Did I say that? I think you misheard.]
[I didn't and you talk straight in my head. No way I misheard.]
[...After I done it, there no way I can change it.]
[It just a freaking empty train car, why cannot you change it?]
[Nah, it already set as storage. I cannot change it.]
[Then, make a new one then.]
[Cannot, I cannot add new train car without necessary material.]
[I just saw you use the tree around us to make it.]
[I need to upgrade myself in order to support more train car.]
[The storage train car is not what I need now. And that you choose, not me. How you gonna compensate me?]
[...Fine, I give you a new ability useful for you.]
[I want to choose.]
[No,but I assure you it certainly useful.]
(You acquire telekinesis)
[Now you can manipulate stuff without using your hand. Moreover, when put anything into the storage, it will automatic rearrange. So you can just throw it in.]
[Hmm, let me try.]
Zi Zen pick up some stone around him. Then, it throw it into the storage train car. Next, it try to pick up a tree. It does not budge.
[Why it not moving?]
[You only can lift thing as heavy as your strength lift it directly. You cannot lift the tree using your own strength, right?]
[Well, ya]
Then, Zi Zen try to pluck leaf, pull out branches, grab a bunch of leaves, shake tree, punch it, attempt to pull the maximum number of leaves at same time and bend multiple branches at same time by using telekinesis only.
After a few trial, he realise that as long it not above a certain limit. He can manipulate as much as he want. Kinda useful and useless at the same time. I can manipulate water at my freewill, why i need this then? Feel like i getting 2 same function skill but different a bit only, one is force and another is water. I can just use water to carry stuff to me without long as the water can take it, without the weight limit.
Though it will be useful if I in a place that I cannot use water. Maybe in extreme hot area or extreme cold area, or vacuum. Maybe. But I won't be going there. I will die before I even have the chance to use it. Man, I want to change it.
[Hey, can I change my ability?]
[You have fish memory? I just said you cannot change it.]
[I mean the ability.]
[No]
"...." (No use arguing)
Zi Zen take a bunch of stone, soil, branch and leaves then proceed to throw all into the storage. And this continue until the place is barren around them. Of course, he mainly use the water manipulation rather than the telekinesis. The water just engulf the thing and when it reach the entrance of the storage. It just spit the thing out and into the storage. Of course, it a bit wet but you know the train storage can separate the water as well. Such convenient.
[Hey, hey, hey. Why are you throwing all the rubbish into me? Nothing to do, is it? Are you still mad at me. Not to mention that all the thing is wet, I have to work hard to se0a
[I found all this useful, so I keeping it.]
[Nonsense]
'Rustle' (Sound of something move in the bush)
Instantly, a stone is flung into the bush where the sound came from.
"Who there!"
Second before hitting the bush, the bush suddenly move it leaf in a way to stop the stone, making it look like it protecting something inside it.
"Oh, interesting" Zi Zen send more stone and a finally a rock toward the bush now.
"See how you stop this!"
[Why don't you just lift up the bushes?]
[Lift bushes? What to grab?]
[The bush lah, or you can pluck all the leaves like you do to that tree just now. So it have no leaves to defend.]
[Where the fun in that? Moreover, I want to try my skill on that thing.]
The bush try to block the stone with it leaves. But when the rock almost hit, the bush suddenly jump to the side narrowly avoid it.
"What the bush? Now that amazing."
The bush sense danger from the man here. It grow a pair of leg make of root and start running away.
"Oh no, you can't do that."
A wall of water appear in front of the bush blocking it escape route. The bush does not stop instead it jump over trying to escape. As if it was that simple. Few hand appear from the wall, grab it leg and pull it to the ground. However, that not the end. A rock that already flying over pinned the bush against the ground. Render it immobile. And for the finisher, the water envelope the bush.
Zi Zen walk toward the pinned bushed. The train follow behind closely.
"Reveal yourself! Don't force me to pull you out."
[I feel you crazy talking to a walking bushes.]
[Ahh, shut up.]
[Who know, maybe it a magical bush after all. Hehe]
[Well, to prove it. I think I start by plucking it leaves one by one]
[Wait, that sexual harassment.]
[Huh, how that sexual harassment? It just a freaking walking bush.]
[Think, if the bush is human, then it leaves are it cloth. And you are stripping it cloth]
[Only you have that wild imagination, I believe something is inside controlling it. Or all the bush around me will start to walking around and attack me.]
Zi Zen turn his head back to the bush, "Now, don't waste my time or I waste your life"
"@#!&$"
"What? I don't speak your language"
"@#!$&£¥"
[Hey, do you have any translator function]
[Of course, I have. Now I will deduce 10 crystal to translate it language automatically. Thank you for your patron.]
[.... You crooked train, I just ask only. Doesn't mean I want it. What more, you straight make the purchase even before asking me. Have you secretly making some purchase without me knowing?]
[.....Opps, errrr. No, I mean no.]
[Hmmph]
[Trust me]
[Ya] ( Obviously not)
I will deal with it later. Now for this bush.
"Please don't, I mean no harm."
"Then come out, stop hiding"
From the bush, emerge a small little girl wearing cloth make of leaves. He so small which make me hard to spot him. Somehow, she make air bubble around her head to keep breating.
"Who and what are you?"
"My name is Hibiscus. I what the other call, forest sanguiner."
"What are you intention of hiding in that bush!"
"Not....nothing. I just want to know what manage to escape and repel the fire dragon."
"It was us. So what you gonna do about it?"
"Please help us kill that creature.That creature had been wreaking havoc in our forest ever since it come here. Disturbing the food chain, simply burn a part of the forest for fun, breathing fireball into the volcano just to make it erupt and recently it start to sleep at the branch of tree belong to tree of life."
"What tree of life?"
"It a giant tree fill with life force. The closer you are to the tree, the stronger the life force. Normally, it just like any normal tree. However, every 10 year, it will grown few fruit which fill with life force. Usually, spirit and high fairy gather the fruit and perform ritual. Then, accumulated life force from the fruit will be release to the surrounding. Thus, blessing the land with life force and vitality. And the 10 year period almost end. About 2 week from now, it will be another full 10 period. "
"So what it gonna do, I mean the fire dragon?"
"The dragon wanted to horde all the fruit by itself. It drive away all creature that attempt to go near the tree. It even attack burn my house and attack nearby village when I told the dragon the the fruit it for all of the creature in this forest."
"Where the spirit and high elf then, despite a dragon is claiming the tree for itself and attack you. Chicken out?"
" I ....I don't know. Ever since the dragon start to go on rampage. They not been seen even once."
"So? What I get if I help you?"
"Huh?!?"
"Of course, you expect me to do thing for free? I busy you know, looking for something important to me. I don't have time for this."
"But..but, the tree... (sob, sob) the tree.....Wahhhhhh (Start crying)"
".....What?"
[You make her cry. Don't you have shame? Making a girl cry.]
[....How I know if she cry so easily. Fine]
"Hibiscus is it? I will help you get rid of the flying lizard if you stop crying."
"sob, sob, really...sob. You will help me?"
"Ya I will help you. But obviously I expect some sort of payment. Anything will do, I don't mind if you give me some vegetable or fruit. I just don't do thing for free." (I hungry actually)
"...I don't have anything with me. All my family member is killed and I been expel from the village as punishment for the dragon attack on the village. (In low voice) Wouldn't you want me?
"Hah? I can't hear the last sentence you say." Zi Zen move his head closer while placing his hand near his ear because he cannot hear what she at the end.
"I will join you for your adventure."
"I never said I am on adventure. Nor I need you to join me."
"....But...but(Sob, sob)
Oh man, she cry again.
{Hibiscus (Forest sanguiner) request to join your party. Would you accept?}
Zi Zen turn his head and look at the train.
[What you scheming?]
[Nothing, I innocent. This is the new feature that I have. Come on, accept it. I prepare something for you.]
[Hmmmm, the thing you prepare must be something useless to me. If I not mistaken. Knowing u.]
[Nope, I sure it will be useful.] But not for you.
[...Fine, I accept.] Zi Zen turn his head back to Hibiscus. "Fine, you can come with me."
"R-really?"
"Yes"
"Truly?"
"One more question and I will take back what I said."
"Yayy" The Hibiscus jump to me and tackle me at my knee since I so tall. Then, she hug it tightly.
{Hibiscus (Forest sanguiner) have join your party.}
"Well done, here your something."
In an instant, nearby tree start uproot and flying around the train.
"I seen this just now."
Then, it start split by itself into plank and arrange into a train car. After awhile, the train car is form and attach to the train car.
"Done"
Zi Zen walk toward the second train car and open it.
"This....."