Simply out of habit I lay down on top of the warm soft gut and close my eyes before I remember I'm wasting time and begin 'meditating' instead as I focus the entire night on strengthening my body. Whilst inadvertently training my healing and mist creation skills. After a short while, I feel my bed shifting about and feel her doing it again. Shifting my gaze towards her face I see a pair of eyes staring back at me. "AHH!!!" I quickly regret startling her as she tightens her grip as she screams then immediately pulls her hand away as I use mist healing to repair the poor innocent guy she has just broken due to the large difference in our bodies' strengths. After all, she has a level cap of 100 while mine is 3... Or wait 5... anyways why does this crazy lady have no issue getting naked and groping me for like a half-hour earlier for no good reason with the excuse of a bath but is embarrassed to get caught doing the same thing without a bath... If you are gonna rape people in their sleep why are you being so cowardly about it... Feeling my annoyance filled with impatience she stiffens and puts her hands to her side as I shrug and lay back down. Well, whatever I don't think I have any attraction to my own kind and clearly I find her attractive or I wouldn't be so amused so she's not the worst option. Curling my head to the side and focusing back on my breathing I feel her slowly calm down before her fast-moving chest eventually calms and slows down... Good, she fell asleep... Has she been doing that on purpose every time it happened? Was she asleep when I discovered it the first time or just pretending? Hmm, what would she do if my body was big enough? Well, it'll be a while before I learn that as I'll probably need to get my evolution requirement to 100 for that.
Hmm now that I think about it... Level and evolve were skills I wonder what would have happened if I chose the perfect pet thing? I mean clearly no... as even from her perspective my current evolutions helped her more but maybe I should select more choices like that in the future. Not at the sacrifice of my own skills of course... However, making sure this maid of mine never becomes a liability might be difficult if I level to 100 or beyond and fight someone on that level... I don't even know what would happen if she died either... If someone my soul is connected through dies does my soul take damage? If it does would my true soul also take damage? It is after all already shattered into countless pieces. So at a certain level, there's a chance that protecting her would be more important than protecting myself as even if I die it'll have no serious repercussion I can just go again. Hmm well, it's food for thought at my next evolution maybe I should evolve again at 10 and see if I can get that one too... Or wait how can you evolve to something at the same level as you or below? Wouldn't each evolution be raising high so it would require devolution to pick one of those choices right? I mean clearly, I am different now as I can hold more exp despite being lower level. I think with my first evolution my current exp would take me from level 1 to level 65... Despite still being only level 3... As I was thinking about the useless thoughts something interesting flew into my mist cover. Over the lake, I can see a group of ten massive bees that look like they could skewer the tree I am meditating in...
As the bees fly over the lake they drop some organs from other animals into the water and moments later began stabbing their 3 foot long stingers into the water and coming back with them entirely covered along the 3-foot length with the fish we saw in the water before. I guess they are baiting the fish out with the organs... Smart for bees... After the bees entirely filled up their individual shish kebobs with what I assume is the least balanced diet ever they each form groups of three then head towards different directions but due to the group having ten members originally one flew alone as it reached land whilst still in my mist cover I snuck a bit of mist into its head and the fibers on its body then waited patiently for it to leave my mist cover as I remember somewhere that bees use pheromones to communicate who knows if this guy will send an enemy signal and a whole swarm of massive bees would come hunting for the person who dared attack their hive member. With a shiver down my none existent spine... I got a back of course but nothing inside my body is weird... It's like a porcelain vase on the outside and all mist on the inside. Not to mention I've still never had to go to the bathroom... Would liquid come out if this girl got her way or would it be mist as well? Hmm, interesting... I wish I still had the other mist peeps around to experiment with... Not doing anything myself of course but I could keep them light pets and try to figure out why I couldn't control their mist or if they really have no mana or how they reproduce solid eggs without the ability to change the state of their mist... It's a lot of mysteries this species of mine. What even are we? Mist is like a cold and water element, right? So am I an elemental? Or just a weird lizard? Hell, I don't even know if I need to eat or not... Or drink? Eh... Forget it... Bees far enough away now I immediately change the state of my mist that snuck into its body and begin to attack it from the inside out. As I don't really understand bee anatomy as well I'm not entirely able to find the way to the brain through the eyes like I do with the other mammals and lizards I wind up taking a wrong turn like three times and somehow end up in the stomach... But whatever forcing more mist into its body from the outside I condense a series of thirteen different claws that all swipe out in different places inside of its body.
"-10"
...12 times...
Oh... This isn't great let's see what's my exp bar at Alex? Do I have to just let this prey go? Clearly, it'll give me a lot of exp may even be similar to the hawk...
"Level 4/12 Exp 150/175"
Hmm ok that's better I guess... just assuming it stays consistent twelve would be like 2475 exp right? and cause my cap is about fifty percent more than that 3712 ish... So... Assuming this bug gives 100 exp that means as long as it's under level 29 I'm good right? Also didn't it start increasing by 100 after my level reached ten last time? I should be fine even in that case... Hmm, fuck it worst-case scenario I figure out what my evolution is like if I evolve at level ten again. With that thought in mind, I continue attacking. With the dice still in mid-flight, they strike the table and begin to roll, and after they come to a stop my heartbeat skips.
"Leviathon Worker Bee level 23 slain Exp 1000*19
leve 12/12 exp OVERLOAD"
Ah, bust!!! Ha... As I laugh about my funny joke I roll off my comfy bed twitching on my back in severe pain Alex evolve!!!
"Initiating Protocol 'I expected you to make this mistake sooner tbh' exp overflow funneled to true soul to permit evolution when actually chosen rather than when forced."
As the pain fades, I turn to read the message and laugh to myself... Well, that works too... So the issue wasn't that I couldn't evolve but that I didn't want to huh? Curious... Is it possible for me to not prevent myself like that when I am actually trying to evolve out of fear of what might change? That would be annoying... Granted I'm not a very anxious person generally so I guess I'll be fine. Alex exp bar, please.
"Level 12/12 exp 2874/2874"
Hmm with a little quick math... I guess at level 10 it went from an increase of twenty-five every level to five hundred... and that the extra 374 is just overflow... Otherwise, that's way too far over... and that's the conservative guess it could also be higher... by anywhere between one and one hundred and eighty-seven... So unlikely to be higher... I'm confident in my assumption. Don't you doubt me... Me... Wait... does that mean I'm not confident in my assumption if my first thought is to prove my confidence? Hmm, whatever bug butt harvesting time.