[Plant-Life Creation]
-You can spend life essence to create plant life and mana to speed up their growth.
"Cool. But how do I get life essence?" Amok wondered but didn't think about it and moved to check his last talent.
[King of Kingdom Plantae]
1-You have absolute control over all plant life within your area of authority.
2-You can create new plant-based lifeforms, evolve, combine, and much more, depending on your progression.
_______[ Sentien Plant-lifeforms] _______
-None yet.
"All of this is good, but I want to get inside my human body," Amok sighed.
'Master, you can try to mutate your dead body with a plant-based lifeform and then put a part of your soul into it if you want to travel.'
'Eh? I can do that?!' Amok was shocked and pleasantly delighted. 'Of course, I want to do that! Quick, tell me how to do it.'
'How would I know?! It's your job to do it. I just said that you can do it because you can do it, but I don't know how to do it.'
'…'
'…'
Amok almost felt like strangling this blob of green forest spirit before him, but he calmed down and explored his mind and powers.
Before the giant tree, Amok's dead body lay peacefully. Only three hours had passed since he died, and getting buried by the forest spirit somehow didn't turn his body into a zombie.
Although the zombie bite was still there on his shoulder.
'Alright, so I can sense this forest clearly and control any plant if I wish to,' Amok thought, sighing. 'But I don't have life essence, and having this life essence seems must use my powers.'
[You have gained +2 life essence]
'What?!' Amok was startled. 'How did I get it?'
[You have gained +3 life essence]
"What the fuck! Wait, Forest spirit! Stop!"
Amok finally knew how to get life essence when he sensed where Life essence was coming from.
From his village!
Forest Spirit was absorbing people's dead bodies and zombies into Earth using vines and sucking their life force.
An arm-width vine appeared near his dead grandpa's zombie body and was going to absorb it before Amok stopped it.
"What's the problem, Master?" the forest spirit asked in confusion.
"What are you doing?"
Another vine appeared beside Amok's dead-grandpa zombie, which was connected to Amok's spiritual senses, allowing him to finally observe his house.
"I am harvesting corpses so we can get life essence. This is the only way I know to get life essence for now," the forest spirit said while grinning.
"Wait, and don't absorb any bodies until I tell you to."
After saying that, Amok grew vines in the village by consuming his mana and spreading them in the village to finally observe every nook and cranny of his village.
'49 dead bodies… Where are the other zombies? Did they wander away from the village?'
'Lily, Mother, and Father are not here. Angie is also not here… Micheal died, poor fellow. Uncle Martin also died? Sigh.'
'Rest in peace, folks.'
Amok felt sadness as he saw the people he grew up with lying dead.
'Alright, that's enough mourning.'
After a minute, Amok told Forest Spirit to absorb all dead bodies and turn them into life essence.
He also tried to process a corpse into life essence, and it worked.
The vine glowed briefly before the corpse touching it slowly decomposed and got absorbed into the vine before turning straight into life essence.
Not even bones remained after the process.
[You have discovered a skill, Life Absorption.]
[Life Absorption]
_Level: 1
_Effect: Absorbs dead organisms to produce Life Essence.
'Discovered? Right,' Amok internally nodded before he looked around the forest and found some mutated animals.
Amok controlled the vines in the area where a bunch of evolved ants were feasting on a dead deer and started killing all of them with vines.
Each ant was palm-sized, and they looked scary with sharp twin fangs.
But with a slap of a single thick vine, a few ants died.
So with a slap of several vines, all ants died.
[You have reached level 8. You have gained 18 stat points]
'So I also leveled up and only got 18 status points?' Amok thought for a bit before he decided to keep these points.
'I might be able to use them in my new body since I'll need them stronger to survive in whatever shithole this planet has entered and find my family.'
He got a total of 68 life essences since each of those evolved ants gave him 2 life essence.
Afterward, he absorbed the dead deer's remains and got +1 life essence.
'Let's see what I can do with my King of Kingdom Plantae talent.'
Amok focused on his talent as he wanted to combine his dead body with plant life to make it a semi-plant humanoid lifeform.
Two glowing transparent spheres appeared in his Mindscape a second later, and his physical body appeared inside the left sphere.
'Eh?' Amok was surprised. 'So I need to select a plant life that I want to combine with my body in the second sphere?'
'Hmm, what if I try to put my second body in the second sphere?'
His second body was none other than this lush, elder tree of the forest.
Naturally, he tried and failed.
He then selected a normal tree in his forest, and its avatar readily appeared in the second sphere.
A second after that, a small orb appeared between the two spheres, with all three linked by a thin-thread-like energy string.
'So I need to add life essence in that orb….'
Amok knew what he had to do since it was his talent, and the required information entered his mind after he initiated [Combine] the ability of his King of Kindom Plantae talent.
'Let's see…'
Amok touched the orb with his hand and added a single point of life essence as a tiny white mote with a green hue appeared in the orb.
Immediately after that, something appeared above the orb.
[1/100]
'So I need 99 life essence for this combination? Awesome!' Amok was excited because he would soon get enough life essence.
Amok focused back on the village and started absorbing dead bodies with forest spirits.
'Do you have any name, forest spirit?'
'No.'
'Alright, I'll give you one.'
'Really?! Ok, give me a good name.'
'Hmmm… how about Puffy? You are quick to puff up with your round body and big eyes, haha. This name is suitable for you.'
'Puffy? Puffy, puffy…ok, I like it.'
'Good, now back to focus on absorption. After we absorb all these dead bodies, I'll combine my dead human body with a tree.'