I am gonna die? But... I had gotten so far... I had just built a home... But the roots... my main body is gonna starve... only a sliver of roots still remains connected to the main body. I picked the seed because I wanted to live a long life... I didn't expect it to be this short. Why isn't my regeneration helping me? Shouldn't any amount of damage be heal-able? Why lose my roots like this? Could it have been the act of dragging my body all the way here? Did I make to many roots? I should have paid more attention.
As I wallowed in my own self grief a ringing could be heard. I looked over to Alex and began to read the alert. *Title: [Idiot] has been acquired.*
What a dick... I mean I'm dying here and you gotta make fun of me... I didn't know dragging my body around was so stupid.
A snap could be heard as the final root was severed... But no pain came... I sat waiting for the starvation to take me... Hours passed but I was fine... Not even the slightest discomfort... All I noticed was the rats seemed to have woken and left there city... they are amassing beneath my tower... but they won't get the chance to kill me the way I built my tower even if they destroy it from the bottom it'd hang on from the ceiling and they'll never reach the top also the vines have many spikes along them covered in poison to prevent climbing. At least I thought that was the situation but as long as I waited... Not a single rat even touched my tower. They had placed something on top of my roots around the base of the tower but that's all I had noticed... It's heavy... Are they building something? Eh... It doesn't matter I'm dying anyways... Let's see what they got. I moved my vision to the roots they had built on and looked at what they were building. A stone building of some kind? They pieced together small rocks and filled the holes with mud using what appeared to be minor heat magic to dry and harden it. It's crude but I guess they are trying to build another tower to get to me? I sat and watched as they continued to build but it didn't go nearly high enough... Idiots... After sitting and watching I kinda wanted some popcorn... I must be hungry... I mean my main body should be starving after all it's no surprise I wonder how long I got... After many hours... They had finally stopped building... But it wasn't a tower... It was a large stone building inside was a large grey rat one of the guards...
It sat inside the tower slowly molding something out of mud as it worked a few small black rats were heating the mud with magic hardening it slowly once the other rat had it in place...
Ok so they are just building some kinda shrine? I guess it's a memorial to there lost king... even if he was a terrible ruler who only treated his people cruelly of course some will have something good to say right? They probably want to bury him here. Why not just bury him inside of his home that seems weird...
I moved back to my main body to check on it... But it was the same? What's going on here... I wonder... Alex?
I turn to her to see my status...
*Status: Purified, Rapid Growth, Uprooted
Skills: [Level- 40/202][Evolve- 4][Vision- 4][Bright Light- 10][Radar- 3][Regeneration- 70]{Weakest 1/1} [Soul- 113] {evil} [Independent Roots- 5] [Poison Maker- 11] [Fruit Maker- 13] [Magic regen- 5][Magic Water Growth- 3] [Light Eater- 8][Strengthened- 5][Magical Waters- 8]{Magical Starvation Nullified}[Nutrients Sapper- 99][Magical Defense- 8][Disease Resistance- 9]{Limitless Magical Growth- 1/1}*
It doesn't say anything about starving... I wonder why...
After a couple minutes of staring at Alex... I finally realized...
God dammit I deserve that idiot title don't I? I wonder how that works anyways... How can the roots both be independent and connected to me supplying nutrients?
It's certainly a skill that defies common sense... I think I'll try to defend myself with that... As I said that I heard the ring and a alert popped up blocking my view of my status. I decided to read it.
*Title: [Idiot] Temporarily revoked.*
Did... did Alex just call me a idiot then apologize after I figured it out? Alex is a conscious individual this proves it... But I mean it's not my fault... There were so many skills that showed up at the same time most of which I still don't understand the purpose of... How can I possible understand the use of a bunch of skills when I don't even know what some of the words are even meant to imply. And what's this temporarily thing? Is this foreshadowing? Eh... I kinda wish I had a mouth so I could scold Alex right now.
<<<_Fuck you you're never gonna hold a conversation pure thoughts until I die... Ok yeah I'm having a conversation with myself... moving on_>>>
I moved down to the building to see how the statue is coming along. I'm shocked to find... It wasn't a tomb...
The statue was being made by one of the kings guard because he was one of the only ones who saw it... My main body... It's a shrine... Are they worshiping me?
As I thought that I heard a ring once again... I turned cautiously expecting a insult again... I read it... *Skill [Nutrient Sapping] reached level 100 skill [Evolve] and [Soul] will upgrade the skill to inherent skill [Devouring Roots- 1]*
Wait... What's that mean? Do I have to eat my own roots now?
*"Guardian"
Status: Purified, rapid growth, Uprooted, Dehydration
Skills: [Level- 40/213][Evolve- 4][Vision- 4][Bright Light- 10][Radar- 3][Regeneration- 67]{Weakest 1/1} [Soul- 113] {evil} [Independent Roots- 2] [Poison Maker- 1] [Fruit Maker- 6] [Magic regen- 3][Magic Water Growth- 2] [Light Eater- 5][Strengthened- 3][Magical Waters- 6]{Magical Starvation Nullified}[Devouring Roots- 1][Magical Defense- 7][Disease Resistance- 9]{Limitless Magical Growth- 1/1}
Title: UI Companion - Murderer - Self Reliant - Protector - Selfless - Magical - Pest Exterminator - Revolutionary - Savior - King Slayer - False God*