Well, thinking about it, at least. About the spores, I have collected from the farms I have, which now add up to the thousands, and the number of small mushrooms growing on the walls and floor would give anyone trypophobia. Each mushroom fully grows in 5-6 days and fertilizes immediately when fully mature. Anyways, I figured out that 69 spores produce 23 mushrooms, and each mushroom has 230 spores, so if I have exactly 1,487 farms, and each farm has 23 mushrooms, and each mushroom gives 230 spores, then some quick math shows me that I have a total of 7l,866,230 spores.
If I have been here for about 5 years, it would equal about 521 mature cycles. And if you multiply that by 71,866,230, it would equal 37,442,305,830. And the best part is that after every 10,000 spores I collect, my level for [coalesce] goes up by one. It also turns out there are tiers to the skill level as well. I took a good look at my stats and was thoroughly surprised. *click*
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< Name: unknown >
< Race: Error… {Spore} >
< Strength: ? >
< Agility: ? >
< Vitality: 20,266,230 >
< Stamina:∞ >
[SSS+-Coalesce Lv.100+]
Conversion factors:
1 Lv. = 10,000 spores
10 Lv. = 100,000 spores
50 Lv. = 500,000 spores
100+ Lv. = 1,000,000 spores
Skill Ranks:
F rank = Lv. 1-10
E rank = Lv. 10-20
D rank = Lv. 20-30
C rank = Lv. 30-40
B rank = Lv. 40-50
A rank = Lv. 50-60
S rank = Lv. 60-70
SS rank = Lv. 70-80
SSS rank = Lv. 80-90
SSS+ rank = 90 - 100+
Spore time -> Human time
20 Mins = 1 Min
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I've mentally made a conversion sheet over the years and ingrained it into my memory so that I don't have to overcomplicate the advancements I made. The best part is the SSS+ rank [Coalesce] skill. Originally, I was only able to lift and connect things the same size, mass, and weight as me, but now I can lift things 100 fold the size, mass, and weight me. This would be about the size of the pebble I used to launch myself years ago.
Wow, it is so weird that it has been a year since I have been here. I'm almost positive I have been here for at least 5 years, so that would make 52,56,000 minutes spent here. If you convert that to ST, it would equal 262,800 minutes of human time, which would also convert to only half a year in human time! However, that is assuming my conversion is right. Anyway, my mass size, weight, and mass have grown quite a lot thanks to those 32 billion spores.
Turns out I can permanently merge myself with the same species as me, and since I had a lot of spores to use, I merged most of them into me. You think through the combination of all 37 billion spores, it would grow to an exponential size. Turns out it amounted to around 27 feet, based on the same method I used to find out the original size of me, but this time it was much easier to time it and use the cave floor.
Next is the best part. The exit.
The exit is brown and crumbling into dust as it is probably older than most ancient artifacts back on Earth. Rolling to the ancient door, I set aside some of my pores so my size is down to 5 feet in diameter. The entrance to this cave, which I now assume could be some sort of abandoned temple. Around the middle of my fifth year launching myself with the Pressure Spring, I landed smack dab in the middle of the knocker on the door.
The door was made of solid rocks, and the only sign that it was a door was the slightly carved-out door frame and the intricately carved knocker, seemingly made out of the crystals that were abandoned inside this Temple. As I hung there by my 'tail' of spores, I tried leaning on the door by swinging myself back and forth on the knocker. After about an hour of ST, I got it to know ones, and I felt a faint *click* on the other side. Thinking that I had to knock on the door more than one time, and I did not have enough spores to get the momentum, I kept launching for another 5 years until I thought I had enough, and then some more.
Anyways, I shed some weight so I could get a certain distance away from the door, to get the most power from the swing of a hammer. What hammer? A hammer was created from my skill. Yes, over the years I have learned to create multiple tools with my spores and other stuff, like pebbles and some large rocks as well. Remembering the exact shape and size of a hammer, but multiplying it, I made some pebbles the size of my original body, creating a solid-looking hammer that looks like a factory-made one, because of the size of each pebble, which could also be recognized as dust. Using millions if not billions of rock dust, I made a hammer that would make Thor jealous.
Making the hammer bend at the handle, I used all the experience I had to yeet the hammer at the door. Sigh, like many isekai novels, there is almost certainly a magic circle or some barrier blocking such simple brute force atta… *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!*
'What the fuck??!' I thought. I guess that not all things created in light novels are true, huh. Turns out it was just a slab of granite, probably 100's if not 1,000's years old. As the cloud of dust settled, so did my giant hammer. It fell apart in pieces like kinetic sand. Gathering all my other spores, and going to each farm to collect the spores that have already matured, I turned my spore mass into a sort of wheel, with me being the center.