"As I expected, these things are really useful"
Crack– Crack–
Tssss–
"Over the course of the last few days, evolving all of my tentacles and body has been truly useful. It's also thanks to that stupid flaming bird for giving me fire element aptitude."
A large mushroom with 2 large flaming eyes and a frightening mouth could be seen laughing as its 4 huge tentacles destroyed its surroundings.
It was Su Mu. Reborn from his shell as a useless old mushroom into a useful née mushroom.
Many beasts learned to avoid the giant mushroom causing havoc and just mind their business, it was really annoying for Su Mu who needed them.
'Damn it, I just need a few more to buy my first skill!'
A day or two ago, Su Mu had unlocked the shop and could buy things for DP, in one of the shop's tabs held a gacha for an innate ability.
"C'mon! Damn animals!"
"Hey hey! Come over here~"
From the smoke came a small little squirrel, but instead of being cute it was more like a half dead zombie.
"You look disgusting."
"Chirp."
"What squirrel chirps? Come here so I can turn you into my points!"
Before Su Mu could unleash his tentacles on the poor squirrel, it climbed on top of him and sat on his head.
"Eh what are you doing?"
"CHIIIIIIRRRRRRRPPPPPP!!!!!!!"
It let out a loud scream, it seemed to be a skill.
"Hey what a-"
Somehow, it's scream attracted all the nearby animals to go into a mindless state and run towards it.
Su Mu quickly realized the value of this squirrel and protected it with 2 of his tentacles before going crazy on the rest.
[You have gained 1 DP]
[You have leveled up]
[You have..]
In a short while, he was able to accumulate not just enough for one innate skill, but 2. 300 DP was in his account balance.
Sadly, he couldn't just keep buying gachas after getting very powerful in the future because it multiplies exponentially by a lot.
"Buy 2 innate gachas!"
"Chirp?"
The squirrel looked in front of his new friend and realized something strange, his new mushroom pal was schizophrenic!
[Rolling...]
[Obtained {Humanoid Form}]
[Obtained {Fungal Essence}]
"Oh these aren't that good..."
"Humanoid form might be useful if I want to leave but I don't need to since I have the squirrel. I'll see what this essence thingy is."
[Fungal Essence]
-Creates a spore from your body containing Life Essence that will not affect you in any way. This spore will become more concentrated with life essence as you grow stronger, you can dilute it if you wish. It can be used to create replicas of you, fuse life essence with organisms to strengthen them depending on the concentration of essence in it, and finally, you can use it to control those stronger than you if you get enough of it on them.
-Rechargeable Skill
-Life Essence Concentration: Rank 5
"I see, this is a way to make my companions stronger...hmmm"
Su Mu turned to the squirrel who was being shielded by his tentacles on the ground.
"...Chirp?"
"Hey, eat this."
A small white spore that kind of looked like a candy ball of some sort came out of Su Mu's tentacle.
Before this, he diluted it to Rank 3 so the squirrel could handle it after seeing it's status window.
[ Name: None
[ Race: Mutated Undead Squirrel
[Power: Rank 2, stage 6
[ Innate Skills: Annoying Chirp
[ Skills: Taunting Chirp, Undead Chirp
"Stupid squirrel who can chirp, you're only a little useful to me."
As soon as the spore touched the squirrel, Su Mu could somehow feel a connection with it, as if he and it were one. It's condition, location, everything could be felt by Su Mu.
At the same time, the squirrel underwent some sort of rapid evolution.
"Chirp! CHIRP!"
it became white and it was completely healed, it was now a white squirrel with a mushroom tail.
"I'll name you Chirp because that's all you can say."
[Achievement "First Friend" +100 DP]
"Nice, that'll help me soon. I'll try put my new human form now!"
To the confusion of Chirp, the big scary mushroom became smaller and more human-like,he couldn't help but shiver when thinking about humans and what they've done.
"Wow, I look like a mushroom person. I guess I'm a Mushman now. I like that, yeah I'll call myself Mushman to humans if they are still in functional societies."
"Anyways, Chirp we are gonna be moving from now on. Get on that tentacle and watch the very roots of this ecosystem be lifted.
"Chirp?"