《Living Life as a Plant in a Magical World, Quite Strange Right?》


 Prologue: *Sigh* an average day at work

    I am Lamerian Porina and I''m a botany scientist which are people who study about plants and their functionality, like how the plant works and whatnot. It seems like today will be another day of workload about the extremely difficult to understand Star Dragon Fruit.


    It gives the user the capacity of gaining more stamina, strength, or something along those lines. The side effect is atrocious as we learn soon enough that when it is eaten, the person faces particularly abdominal thirst, distorted sights, high amounts of pain, delirium, and would soon die afterward.


    This is an extremely dangerous fruit that should not be eaten at all cost but if we can remove the dangerous part of the star-shaped fruit then we can create a type of super boost that is capable of breaking a human''s limit. I thought in my mind, as I stare at the fruit which was placed on the table surrounded by glass.


    Everyone else is eating lunch, so I''m here by myself as I analyze the fruit a little bit longer before shrugging off my shoulders. I decided, that if I''m going to test anything else on this fruit then I will need the team to help me on this or else I might find myself in a bad situation.


    I soon heard thrashing sound coming from the door and quickly took out my gun in my lab coat. Don''t ask me why I have a gun in my pocket just accept it and get over it as I slipped over to the side of a table and took a ducking position before aiming my gun towards the door.


    Multiple people wearing SWAT armor with assault rifles and riot shields busted in and cleared the way, as I decided they were going to kill me even if I surrender. Since they don''t seemed to be the type of people to take prisoners by their aura that they are displaying right now.


    I started sweating because I''m completely outnumbered but I know this lab like the back of my hand and rolled towards a box covering a little gift that is in the form of a canister. Now, what this is, is poisonous mustard gas that was sent to us by the agency that works on plants.


    These were for testing out on plants and seemed to be the right kind of thing to use at the moment. It was also hidden there just in case we need it for later as we always know where to put our dangerous equipment at. I swiped the mask under the box as well as I prepare to use it.


    The SWAT like people were also using gas masks because they were using tear gas but I would be able to do something about that. I took the canister and press a button on top of it releasing the gas before throwing it at them. I shot their gas tanks and make them lose out air.


    We got into a long gun fight until they finish me off with more troops pouring in with riot shields and whatnot. I breathe a sigh of relief as this ends with me as the final victor, as I heard gunshots right behind the SWAT like men. Everything went dark as blood flushed out of my system faster than a toilet being drained.


    It hurts like a bitch but it seems like I will see myself in the afterlife, I thought to myself before closing my eyes one last time before my vision gone completely dark. My vision suddenly rewind as I open it once more and see only whiteness as it spreads far and wide.


    Really, I''m in the afterlife? I thought to myself before finishing up my thoughts as a beautiful snow white lady appears in front of me in an oddly nicely tucked clothing which is also white. "Hello, my name is Seria and I''m a goddess who is basically a replacement for my stupid brother who got trapped."


    Seria speaks to me with a calm expressionless face as she practically said that she was a replacement? I didn''t go into further details with that and began to ask my questions that is interesting me more. Such as..."Seria can you tell me why you suddenly wanted me?"


    She taps her expressionless face before giving me an answer to my question that I was hoping for. "It''s because I felt that you had a unique personality and decided that I will put you back into the reincarnation cycle but you will have to pull it out of these boxes."


    She said as and a three boxes appear out of nowhere with a snap of her hands as I looked at each one with questionable eyes. Each one of them not telling me what they are for but Seria will probably tell me or I''m just making everything up in a large dream which I highly doubt.


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    I looked at right and gesture for Seria to continue and explain what these boxes are for and what they do. "The one on the right is the race card that you will pull which practically means what kind of race you will start as, while the middle is to decide what kind of advantage you will have, like still having your memories, and the last one is for what kind of situation you are put in."


    Seria stops for a couple of seconds before continuing on explaining on the boxes of each one. "Depending on which cards you will pull, it will have a letter grade for each one as well as an explanation to specify each one. So, it will promptly tell you about what you will get.


    Now, the explanation is over why not get started with the real fun." She said before gesturing me to take a look at each one, as this is random I take no time to pull a card out of each one which lets me have three cards that tell me what I have. Seria expression face flickers a bit before she looks at all three of mine and made a faint smile.


    "Oh no, I looked like my brother now, oh dear maybe I should really keep my expressionless face." She said to herself as I''m over making an "Eh!?" stare at what kind of cards that I had grabbed. The things that had made me make such a weird sound was none other the kind of race I had picked out that made me have a bewildered expression.


    "Oh, it seems you got the Creatia plant species that have the ability to create other things to fight for it but has to use points that are gained through stealing life force like some sort of parasitical creature. By either killing or stealing it through other means, quite the good catch as it can also evolve into an B species with time.


    While you also get the past life memory remember which is an A+ rare card that is almost hardly ever given but sometimes it''s given out crazily by strong individual who aren''t even that strong compared to me, maybe they are a little bit weaker than me, around .00000000001% of my power, I guess that''s enough to revive people with their memory intact.


    As I can mostly likely beat them without using much of my power at all, but enough talking about myself and let''s see the final card you get, which is an C average card which means you get an average head start." I completely realized something that made me question what she said right at that moment.


    "W-wait how much is an + in this equation", I said in an inquisitive way to get an answer out of her. The reason why I said this is because C should be an average, and I should get an average creature as such, it should be a dog or something similar to those who don''t have any special features that make them stand out. She bolts her head towards mean to look at me with her expressionless face again.


    "The + means quite a lot as this is choosing your species for the rest of your life, then it means that it has to be greater than a normal creature who don''t have anything that makes it stand out and there are quite a lot of creatures with unique abilities so that one will be difficult." She promptly answer my question before I had one last thing to say before making my exit the new world.


    "What are you?" I said in a manner not to defend her in any way but it was a question that''s really been stuck on my mind for quite some time. Yes, I know she is God but why a replacement, what happened to the original all of this makes my head swirl around like a world pool.


    Seria makes a smirk as she turns her back on me and looks away in the far distances. "Indeed, that is a good question but as I said earlier, I am a replace to god nothing more, nothing less. There is a reason for this but I might talk about this towards you when you have grown into something that is a little more powerful."


    Seria said before snapping her hands and making me disappear as the last thing I saw a smile and a good bye.

 Chapter 1: The Start of a new life

    I don''t see anything as it''s completely blank without a person or thing insight as nothing comes into view. Until, I open my none exist eyes and look around myself as I observe the area with trees and other things in sight, while I stare at the ground and see that my body is that of a little spout that had just come from the ground.


    Hmmmm, so this is the creation plant Creatia or something similar to that as I played around a bit to get a sense of feel for this creature which is me. I suddenly go high as if I''m in the sky but I''m not as I see my little plant right below me which looks so small. As I look to the side of my plant as it seemed to not have a single tree near it at all, as I try to look around a bit but I''m limited to this small square formation around my plant.


    I wonder, does this plant let me change my view as freely I want to depending on how much it is grown? Maybe, but for now I will have to see what I have, and see what I can afford from what I am told about the Creatia plant. But how do I make other plants? Didn''t the goddess mention I was able to do this and there was even the description in the card.


    I try using my mind and find success as I see this blue box with a long list of plant species as each one has a number right next to them. What is set right next to each plant is an LF symbol which I might have an idea of what it means. As I take a closer look at it, it might stand for Life Force as Seria had told me about it.


    Wouldn''t that mean it will also be my own life at stake and how much time I have to live? That is what I imagine from hearing the word Life Force, as I look around the box to see if there are any number that say anything at all, until I see something with the same LF symbol but with 0 as its counter. Eh!?! Does that mean I''m dead!?! Calm down breathe in and breathe out let''s what the hell does this mean!


    [That is not your Life Force but is the amount that is taken from other species or individuals.]


    Woah! Who are you!?! Do you just randomly appear just to answer my question!?! I talked in my mind as I heard the voice talk about Life Force and its female mechanical non-human voice.


    [I am Elucidata and I''m part of the Creatia plant who operates the production and informative system for the main brain who gets all the information and order things around, I will also give choices depending on the action you do. And sadly yes I have to answer your question starting today.]


    Hey! That''s harsh at least be a little bit nicer! I said in my mind before looking through the list of plants and the counter for the LF which is 0 at the moment and I think of ways to get LF points from other things. Also, what I would like to know is how did Elucidata get all the information to be able to actually answer anything about this plant at all because we were just born a couple of minutes ago.


    [Information is gained from the soul or souls that enter the species and turns it into data for me to process it through and determined how much knowledge shall be given to me and converts into this world.]


    Oh! So, souls are just data that have been erased after the death of the host body which is containing the soul. That makes it a cycle of dying and reentering bodies but I''m a special case because I did not forget anything at all, and that-


    [Means I have all the information of a fully grown Creatia plant which should not be possible until adult age but the kind of soul which enter me is kind of special...]


    Yea I know, my soul is special but can you tell me about how we are able to get more LF points first before anything else.


    [Very well, the way to get these LF points are by either leeching off another life form, killing an individual, or waiting for yourself to absorb it from the ground under you. Which also has life force but it will be at a slow rate because you are only just taking a passive action and if you take any forceful measure against the soil it will slow your growth process.]


    How slow are we talking about here? More specifically the passive stance on the soil?


    [1 LF point per 6 months.]


    Fuck! Now, I want to know my options when it comes to using my own LF to increase the amount I can use to create other plants.


    [Yes, your LF is very precious and is not replaceable as it is that of a Creatia plant which is highly valuable and is almost nearly impossible to replace and is not recommended.]


    Tell me the reason why it''s not replaceable and why is it valuable?


    [Creatia plants are the longest living species but because of problems, they are not in sizable numbers, mostly for the reason that they kill each other. Another one is because they might as well be targeted by large amounts of species seeking out their blood for how much havoc they cause. So, you are the last living species of them and you need the same blood as your kind to extend the LF further or heal back the ones you used to get more LF points.]


    Oh damn! This really will cause problems! What if I''m found!?! They will totally kill me because I''m one of those parasitical race that will cause problems, so does that mean I''m going into hiding!?


    [Don''t worry, the race is long forgotten, after all, the records that documented the race and event are considered folklore or are completely erased from the libraries after many wars amongst the races.]


    Wait! How do you know the past as well as the present? I thought that you are supposed to get information about what is happening right now?


    [You remember how I told you that depending on the soul I will get a large portion of information about this world. Well, it means that I can have quite a lot of information that spreads to almost all topic even the time when the races gods arrived in this world or the location of where they are.]


    Okay, so just about anything in this world will be stored inside that head of yours, with all that settled what should our plan of action be Ms. Elucidata?


    [I don''t know, I''m just here to give you information, not suggestions.]


    Fine, I shall see to it by myself, I sorted out the list and thought about the options that I''m capable of doing. So, I am able to absorb things if they touch my body and if I want LF then the quickest way would be killing things but how will I be able to do that? No trees are nearby me and all the creatures are too faraway for me to touch, so I will either have to use my own LF which I don''t want to as it will give me fewer years to live or use the soil to grow my army.


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    That will hurt in the long run and will not be so good for me, I will have to either wait until something gets close to me or I can always just sit here and wait for my life to end. Oh, yea! How many points for the cheapest plant on the list Elucidata?


    [1 LF for an Oanita plant]


    Tell me the statistics of the plant and its function in how it will help me?


    [The Oanita plant is native to the Rolath region and is not seen very often, while, having vines that wrap around it victims and gives out an F grade poison effect.]


    What does the grading system look like for the kind of poison that it inflicts on the opponents?


    [Grade F, E, D, C, B, A, and S which are the system of poison, as the poisoning gets stronger with each letter grade. It inflicts on the opponent like paralyzing or damaging the body that is hit with the poisoning.]


    So, am I able to grab bits of the soil on the ground which aren''t able to hurt me in the long run, instead help me that is? If yes, can I extract one point of LF to get the Oanita plant without it causing any serious backlash in on me?


    [Yes, fortunately, we are capable of doing that and as it''s only one LF point it will not hurt our soil significantly.]


    I smile at this as I found some success but is there a reason why growth is so important? I mean Elucidata had said that it will slow down our growth but I don''t know what''s so important about the slowing of our little plant. As I wondered Elucidata already thought up a good reasoning for this as she tells me why.


    [Growth of plant will make you have more influence with your surrounding and will unlock some of the plants that can''t be bought right now, I thought you would notice the locked screens on the plants.]


    Oh, I completely ignored the locked signs maybe because I was a little too excited to see all the plants I can get. After all, I''m a botany scientist who studies about plants who wouldn''t be excited! Now, that I mention about that, what happened to my brother or sister?


    They used to always help me with my work until I had to leave them because I was being chased by the government. My sister''s legs were crippled but she would still help me and my younger brother was nothing less than a genius so I let him take care of her in my absence.


    I looked at my small plant from above as I still wondered how I''m able to do that without having a pair of eyes up here. I then waited for Ms. Elucidata to explain how such event like this is working.


    [We call that the Creatia''s plant unlimited view range which is outlined by the amount of territory that your roots have spread. It''s like how God can gaze anywhere but for you, it''s depending on how much territory you have. When the plant was made, it was accepted by the Goddess of Nature that it will defy logical standards and have a lot of viewing range.]


    How strange, but if it gives me an advantage I shouldn''t be complaining about such a useful tool. With that everything explained, I instantly took out one point of LF from the ground and produced an Oanita plant as I observed how this plant comes out. Seemly, a seed came from the rainbow colored Creatia plant that almost looks like a sapling.


    I took note of this and continued to examine the seed that grew from a small ball that had the colored green into this much larger plant. It looked like a chandelier but with a cabbage for the center and vines as arms. Really, quite the species of plant and interesting as well but I shook my head in my mind and continue to observe this plant with intriguing.


    That was when I realized, am I able to take control of this plant and make it follow my orders? That is what I was hoping for when I decided to make this plant so that I can strategically put it in the right place to draw in an animal and drain them of its Life Force. I forced my mind into the plant but I nothing happened, but as I kept on trying, Elucidata had given me this option.


    [Would you like to create a Hive Mind?]


    [Yes or No?]


    Woah! A Hive Mind? Elucidata tells me what the Hive Mind is and why didn''t I have this from the very beginning.


    [The Hive Mind is the control center where all the plants you have created will transplant their ideas and thought the process to you; where orders will be given or thought out. Kind of like ants and their way of thinking which are quite similar but overall different. Also, the reason you don''t have a Hive Mind is because you were just born and you didn''t have any plants before this one.]


    Oh, I see, then create the Hive Mind and let me connect to it as well so I can order things around and of such.


    [Creating Hive Mind and connecting Creatia plant to the main server.]


    My vision suddenly teleports to this empty space where I see nothing but darkness as I looked around a bit more. Really, I looked down and see darkness as a bright light flashes the room and I still see nothing. That was when a voice breaks the silent atmosphere which echoes through out the dark room.


    "What do you want my King?" The voice said with a sense of respect but I didn''t see anything at all but I can tell it''s very loyal to me. I cleared out my voice and gave out a superior vibe as I announce my goal towards the plant that had sworn its allegiance towards me.


    "I want you to ambush and bring in an animal by positioning yourself onto one of the trees." I wasn''t able to see the plant but I knew it bowed before the voice disappeared with an "as you wish" before going away. In my mind, I started making a sinister smile but I quickly replaced it with a cold stone face as Elucidata announced her presence by talking.


    [So, do you want me to give you the list of plants you are able to gather and other things?]


    Please do and I want all sorts of information on the costs of plants and about this world which also includes maps, races, and the standards this world will hold on a person. I want everything ready to rock n'' roll because we are going to take this world by storm!


    [Stop acting flashy and get ready. How did I get such a worrisome master?]


    Hey! I can hear you Elucidata! And that''s just out right mean!

 Chapter 2: Where are those LF Points at?

    Where we are is the Tiberis Forest, home to many kinds of plants, animals, and creature. Nothing less, it''s also a very contested area as multiple races and countries are claiming this large forest all to themselves. Since this place holds a lot of resources who wouldn''t but for me it''s a very useful place to grow as the Oanita plant is very useful here.


    The Oanita plant is one of those useful plants because it has camouflaged as I heard from the information I gathered when talking with Elucidata. The Rolath region is a forestry place with all sorts of plants, creatures, animals, you name it. Which is said to be deadly towards any kind of creature and only the strongest will survive in such a harsh environment.


    As Elucidata had said from earlier comments they are not seen very often which means these plants are extremely stealthy even with a weak poison it''s still strong. Stealth means a lot for an individual because they can dictate who gets to attack first and how much damage they cause.


    Certainly, it''s also something that I need to bring in predators that would like to eat me. So, I will become the bait while the Oanita plant will become the killing blow towards the animal quite the good combo but I need more resources, so I will throw in a gambit that will either kill me or give me high rewards.


    And so I threw in the dice when it comes to getting more LF for me to grow and expand into a much more threaten the enemy. I sent the Oanita plant into one of the trees as it gathers up more LF for me to use and expand how many plants I will have. Taking risk like that can lead to many outcomes like me being eaten by a bunny or something.


    I spot the Oanita plant as it hugs on to one of the trees nearby with its chandelier look but to an outsider''s perspective, it looks like a cabbage growing on a tree. It may look strange but with the leaves on the tree covering the cabbage looking thing. The Oanita may seem to mix with the scenery and only an expert marksman can spot such a plant at this point.


    My long-range vision allows me to spot a bird landing on one of the branches near the Oanita plant. Since the bird is extremely close to the Oanita plant it should be able to sense it but if not then I''m able to spot it and warn the Oanita plant of incoming with the help of the Hive Mind.


    It''s quite the useful tool in a situation like this, I can easily become the eyes of the Oanita plant. The Oanita starts to move slowly towards the bird with its vines and snatched up the bird like a fish being hooked. The bird tries to break from the grasp of the Oanita but isn''t capable of doing so as the vines slowly incapacitate the bird by adding poison to the bird''s skin.


    The bird gets tired the more it tries to resist until it stops entirely as the poison had kicked in and weaken the poor little creature. I see the Oanita plant come over towards my small little sapling and places the bird right in front of me. I make a sinister smile in my mind as this is more LF points for me!


    Well, the little bird I just hope you can become something better in the next life! Oh! And tell Seria that I said hi!


    [Seriously, stop joking around and get back to absorbing the LF master.]


    Oh right! Very well, let''s do as you say and absorb the little bird first and taunt later, thanks for telling me Elucidata! I said with a snickered towards her as she seemed to roll her eyes in my mind. A vine pops from the main body of the Creatia plant and starts to touch the bird and absorb all of its LF.


    The bird''s body starts to disappear at a rapid rate until the whole entire body disintegrates into nothing. I made a smile as more LF comes into my grasp! It fills me with power! I felt Elucidata watchful eyes as she stares at me but I know she doesn''t have a body or eyes. Somehow I felt it, as I cleared my throat with an ahem and continue to look towards my counter.


    It only goes up one LF which gives me another point for me to do something with it but I just shrugged my shoulders in my mind. Elucidata gives me the options for what I can do with the one point I have as of right now. Just like a secretary, she starts explaining my options I can do with the point.


    [The options that you have as of right now, is that you are capable of creating another plant such as the Oanita plant or you can increase the growth of your own. There is also the other option of upgrading the plant you have as of right now.]


    Hmmmmm, this is a hard one, maybe if I can get another opinion which isn''t Elucidata because she won''t give any suggestion about what I can do. Like for an example, the Oanita plant then I can probably make a decision on the matter. I get into the Hive Mind which feels as lonely as before but this time, I have a pal that will help me in this matter and I should really name the plant already.


    "Yes, Master have you called?" The Oanita plant said as it states, its presence inside of the Hive Mind, while I moved my fingers against each other inside my mind as I act like some sort of villain that is ordering a subordinate around to do his dirty work. "Ahem, yes I have something to talk about, which is what your name is going to be and something else I have in mind."


    "Yes, Master!" The Oanita plant said enthusiastically as I start to talk with authority towards the plant in my mind. "But one question are you a girl or a boy?" I felt a small confusion in its mind as the Oanita plant couldn''t register what I just said for a moment. "Hmmm, Master I don''t have a gender..."


    "You don''t have a what!?!" I said in a shocked manner at the fact that this plant doesn''t have a gender as I tried to apply my world''s botany on to this one. Since plants in my world are usually bisexual or single sex so I don''t know how this is going to work. I then used the last option I had and called Elucidata to help me out on this problem of mine.


    [Plants that are created by you have no gender at the very beginning until the creator(which is you) give out the gender to the said plant. This will get rid of the parts that aren''t that gender but will keep the other side but if you get the bisexual one it will keep both. Also, if you haven''t noticed the Oanita plant should have a hole on the bottom which should create other its kind but as it is genderless it doesn''t.]


    Oh, I see, well then it will be she! "So, your name starting today will be Kona!" I said with enthusiasm as Kona starts to cheer in delight about having a new name. "Also, I want your opinion on what we should do with this singular LF point we have as of right now."


    From what I learned when Elucidata told me about the Hive Mind, it shares all kinds of information that are learned from the things that are connected to the Hive Mind. So, the mindless Kona didn''t have a single clue on what''s happened as she was just created a couple of minutes ago, but connecting to the Hive Mind gave her knowledge that uses my intellect.


    "Master, I don''t want to be selfish or anything but wouldn''t the best option to upgrade me? I mean, getting another one would increase the available personnel to hunt but what would happen if a strong predator walks in and we aren''t able to do anything to it because of how much damage we do.


    Also, the growth of you right now is kinda of useless because we aren''t able to get anything important done in one go which also leaves us wide open and we need to focus on firepower." Really, this little girl thinks so similarly to me when it comes to ideas but as I expected she left out one last thing.


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    "Yes, that is true but didn''t you forget the fact that if I were to upgrade you, what would happen if multiple opponents attacked at once? You would be left attacking another foe as one close in and kill me." I said as pointing out the weakness of upgrading her which she starts to shudder and goes quiet, so I eased her by telling her why I''m going with her option.


    "But I would highly doubt that such an event would occur because of my small size and the amount of creatures that would target me. The most I can think about is a bunny walking over and trying to eat me but that''s about it. Even that is highly unlikely, so a stronger Kona would be capable of solving those problems easily."


    Kona starts to give out a cheerful aura again as I gave the order to Elucidata to upgrade Kona for me. I go to my eagle eye''s view and see my plant touching Kona''s stomach area as she makes a small moaning sound for a second through the Hive Mind but I ignored it.


    A large flash of light appears and brighten up the forest like the Forth of July; it''s pretty and all but wouldn''t this attract attention?


    [Well...don''t worry because we are extremely deep within the forest, so the only thing it will do is freak out some animals or something.]


    Is that so? I guess if she says so we''re fine but I''m still a little worried as I looked upon the transforming which the chandelier looking plant transformed with thorns on the vines and the cabbage looking head had more of a spherical look and instead of a cabbage it looked like a large work out ball. The ball had a small hole on its head as thorns start to surround that as well.


    The ball kept the camouflage and had looked a little sturdier than the cabbage as I observed Kona with interest. "Master, can you...stop?" She said in an embarrassing voice as I looked towards the plant with question marks above my head. "What seemed to be the problem?" I said as I started questioning her behavior "N-nothing just pretend I didn''t say anything!"


    "Is that so?" I really want to question her further but I didn''t want to create any bad blood and just fixed my view on the surroundings as the forest spread for days. When she finished evolving I decided to give out my orders to Kona and what to do which was go into an ambush mode and wait for any prey to come.


    Kona hid in the bushes and placed herself around the trees and gotten ready in an ambushing stance before a deer walked near her. She sprinted after it and absolutely covered the whole entire thing with thorns until blood started spurting through the opening that Kona wasn''t able to cover.


    Ohhh, that was pretty brutal but necessary for us to continue our journey to become the biggest and strongest! I said to myself as Kona brought me the deer full of holes as it lied dead with green gooey stuff coming out of the holes. Ewww! That''s poison stuff! It just makes my face cringe but oh well a way of life! I said to myself as I started absorbing that as well.


    Yes, more points! As three points enter my body and I started tinkering with them and thought about what I should do with each one. Hmmmm, can I get something that can boost up my long run? Maybe, if I can let say improve my gathering but I also have to focus on defense! God damn this is annoying! I start to wonder about my options as the last thing I want is a bear ravaging my little rainbow sapling.


    I could almost feel the burning sensation of this thing called CHOICES! I really hate it but I guess we got to do something, so I was put on the judging seat what is the best course of action right now!? Do I want more servants or a powerful Kona? There is also the option of getting a better sapling but what is the right option!!


    I will choose to grow my plant so I''m capable of influencing the roots of mine and suck out more soil to grow it and give me more LF points instead of 6 months! So, I will give myself one point, while I upgrade Kona as well. And I will get a Survel plant with my one point which shall be useful!


    The Survel plant from my questioning of Elucidata tells me it''s a scouting plant that is capable of adapting to the scenery of wherever it is at. This plant is capable of moving by digging through the ground and popping up anywhere with soil and dirt. If the ground is connected, the plant can go there with time and this will become my reconnaissance to find animals and potential enemies.


    With that, I spent all my points as my rainbow colored plant grew a little bit more and Kona transformed once again but not as flashy as the first one. Also, another companion joins us as a seed comes from my rainbow plant and grows into a little yellow flower. By the way Elucidata, but why didn''t Kona flash up like the Forth of July like last time?


    [It''s because of the reasoning that it was a large transformation when you first upgraded her giving out large bonuses to her damage output.]


    Understanding the reasoning, I took that and looked at my new improved Kona who seemed to have roses spread around her vines now. I wonder what they do as I looked at the crimson red roses, while I stared at the small yellow flower and connect it to the Hive Mind so it''s capable of speaking.


    I hear something a small voice come out from inside my head as I go back to the Hive Mind and see our little new friend. "Hello, master." The small flower said in a small but hearable voice as I could hear it as I respond with "Hello their little one and welcome." I said with a welcoming voice.


    "Your name shall be...Daisy." I chose this name because of the color and how she actually looks like a daisy. I know, I''m not the most creative person when it comes to names okay! It''s not my forte! While I complain in my mind, Daisy asked a simple question in a small but audible voice "What do you want me to do?"


    "Ahem! I want you to scout out the surrounding and note anything that seems to want to harm us or potential prey for Kona to hunt, or something such as a sentient creature pass by. I want anything of utmost important to is seen and thoroughly observed and if any danger approaches you''re to retreats immediately."


    "Yes, master," Daisy answered before digging through the ground and disappearing from our sights. I looked at Kona who seemed to understand very well, what I was about to say and starts hiding in the bushes as she awaits for the next prey to cross her.


    There is also one last thing I want, Elucidata tell me the status on how many LF points we get from the soil now?


    [1 LF per day.]


    Woah! That''s a huge jump! What the hell was that!?!


    [1 LF is worth quite a lot and if you add in the fact that it''s capable of producing lives it can create a lot and I also decided to personally take control of the roots to efficiently gather more LF.]


    Wow! Thanks! I always thought you were a stereotypical informant who only gives out information and that''s about it.


    [D-don''t mention it.]


    Did you just stutter?


    [Of course, I didn''t!]


    I''m pretty sure you did.


    [You know I should have never taken your compliment.]


    I''m sorry Elucidata! Please go back to being cute Elucidata!

 Chapter 3: Its Time to Strike!

    I''m thinking of adding the harem tag, so should I or stick with the single love interest?


    -


    "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it confusing." I wonder why Mr. Confucius? We want to make life difficult because it''s the most enjoyable thing right now! I mean what''s more exciting than being chased by the government! I said as my gun was loaded with high explosive bullets that were hand made by me.


    I had stolen some high valuable plants that I want to analyze for myself as of right now, but it seems like the American government isn''t to going to let me do such a horrible deed. Oh, the horror! I have done such an atrocious and abhorrent deed that I am being chased down.


    Oh, whatever! Try to catch me if you can! Then I realized that I was leaving my brother and sister alone to fend for themselves. What should I do? They''re are only like eight year old or something like that. Nah, they''ll be fine, I mean my brother is a super genius that is possibly smarter than me when it comes to trickery.


    My sister has brains too but has broken legs so she can''t possibly do anything for herself, at least when it comes to leg work. While our parents are just the no good dumbass that only pay attention to my little bro because he is the more athletic and intelligent one.


    Even though my little sister is considered a genius, my parents just don''t pay any attention and focus on my brother. It''s just going to show how dedicated they are to my brother and would ignore everyone else in the family for all its worth. The kind of people my parents are just making me want to stick up my hand out and tell them they aren''t my real parents.


    Whatever, my brother is a huge siscon so he probably pays a lot more attention to her and if anything I will just be a memory of the irresponsible big bro that abandoned him. I smiled as my mind remembers all the times he tried to best me in all kinds of subjects but lost horribly and still can''t really win against me, while my sister laughed at us from the side.


    Only was it trickery was where he excel the most, as the memories reminiscent in my mind I take another breather before I walk out of the door. And saw an armored vehicle roaming the roads with a helicopter floating above my head, well aren''t they just eager to catch me. I made a small smirk before I made a hand signal with my hand standing straight up as I closed it down into a fist.


    A rocket was fired from one of the rooftops and blew up the helicopter as claymore blew up the armored vehicles. I made a devious smile as a helicopter flew in and taken me away in a ladder, while, the location they are flying me is somewhere in the country as escaping the continent will only make me easy picking for the navy to shoot me down.


    [Hey, Wake up.]


    God damn it! They sent jets! Why jets to catch a helicopter!?! And here I thought the Air Force was much better than that.


    [Wake up!]


    What''s this a hurricane!?! I thought it was clear today!


    [I FUCKING SAID WAKE UP ALREADY STUPID MASTER!]


    What''s going on? Are we under attack?!? Is there a nuclear strike going to hit us!?! I suddenly went into immediate panic mode as I heard Elucidata voice shout right at me. I could almost hear her face palm as I calmed down and organized my thoughts so I could get everything in order.


    [Yes, master a nuclear strike is going to hit us in the freaking medieval times!]


    Elucidata made a sighed as I stuck out my tongue and made a teehee sound before looking at the Hive Mind yet again. From the reports sent in by Daisy, I was able to find out about all sorts of animals, creatures, plants and even sentient being around us.


    Surely, it was a great find and important ones that shall be needed in the future as I started tinkering with the Hive Mind and finally created an image of what seems like a throne room. It has a red carpet and other things that will appear whenever someone enters and also I found out, while browsing the Hive Mind servers in my past time that I''m able to set avatars!


    The avatars are set to be any kind of species that are similar to human or have resembles close to them such as an elf. These avatars appearance will fit the kind of personality each of us has, for an example, we will use me when I was still studying about plants and of such.


    It will automatically give me the scientist look with the lab coat, glasses, and a slim body build. All the things that are stereotypical about a scientist and if I can get Elucidata into chat she will probably look like a secretary with glasses and a well-refined skirt and some other things.


    I smiled to myself as I keep my eye on the surrounds and I find Kona hunting down a deer and ravaging it with her new rose upgrade. From what I''m told about it, the Rose gives out a higher degree of poisoning and lets out a smell that would be that of sleeping powder.


    Some potent stuff I gotta say with a little more power Kona will become a powerhouse in the forest. My thoughts suddenly went into the throne room as I sat on the chair with my scepter in my right hand and a crown on top of my head. A fancy red robed covered my body as I looked towards the right of me to see a beauty of unmeasurable proportion with huge boobs and a clip board in her hands.


    The girl was a 7ft Amazon women with a black secretary uniform with a mini skirt and stocking as she wears glasses that go with it. The color of her hair matched the uniform with her snow white skin that looked very smooth with eye color that matches the rainbow. I could probably make a guess that she is Elucidata and is she pretty but as always I keep my cool with a smile.


    "Hmmm, master?" I hear a short but cute female voice as the direction it''s coming from is right in front of me, as I turned my head to see the cutest loli I seen in a long time. She had beautiful blond hair that runs to her shoulder as she wears a leaf green dress that seems to have small yellow frills surrounding her.


    I took a breather to compose myself in front of my servants because I don''t want to be an embarrassment! "Master, did you improve this place!?" I turned my face as a vine with roses and small thorns came from the sky and landed right next to the loli or should I say, Daisy. A gorgeous green and red dressed girl with vermillion colored twin tail hair came coming down from the sky, her eyes were clear green with the white surrounding the eyes.


    The girl had huge boobs and even compared to Elucidata they were about the same size! I shook my head of dirty thoughts and gotten myself to think of the reasoning on who decided to use the Hive Mind at the time. There really isn''t any problem with us using it because we don''t get into danger whatsoever with the fact it goes 1000000 times slower in the real world. Meaning that as of right now, we can basically instantly jump back to our bodies without even a millisecond passing by.


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    Pretty convenient if I were to say myself, while, the three girls looked at me with each one blushing a little bit. I was confused by such an action that I decided to ask "What seems to be the problem?" They responded by telling me "N-nothing." I was completely dumbfounded at their response because they all said it in synchronization but I decided to not push the matter any further and gotten to the necessary stuff.


    "So, let''s get back to business, and tell me why you have called everyone here?" Daisy adjusted her posture and looked at me with her azure blue eyes. Everyone looks towards me and shows me respect as I''m practically their master. Well, everyone but Elucidata and that''s about it but she is like my superintendent so the other two don''t pay it any attention, I explain my thoughts as Daisy continues to explain the situation.


    "Master, there is a goblin village west to us with a population around fifty, what is our plan of action?" I tapped my fingers on to the armrest of my chair as I looked at this information and thought of possibilities I could do with it. Goblins are a very well known to be weak and easy to kill creatures. I bet even Kona can just walk in and kill all fifty without even trying.p


    It would give me so much precious LF but then again it''s also known they can age very quickly as well. Maybe I can force them into a tribute system or something like pigs on a farm but someday it might bite me in the ass as I think of it a little bit longer. If I remember correctly they have evolution as well, maybe I can turn them into a subordinate like in that manga or novel I had read in my past life.


    Wouldn''t that be fun, oh now I can image it but that isn''t very efficient is that? I mean come on, if you think about it, they would be useless cannon fodder that would just run and die. Not very effective isn''t it, I contemplated to myself before I made a decision with an evil smile that could make the demon lord cry in fear. "Very well, we shall destroy this small village of their''s and don''t kill the children or the babies I want to test something out."


    I created the most sinister smile as I clapped my hands in delight, oh maybe I''m getting a bad habit. I said as we gotten out from the Hive Mind as I made preparations by creating one another plant with the extra points given to me in my sleep as Kona''s hunt gave me about 3 LF to do whatever with it.


    I used all the points to create another plant but this time, I created a Snipalon plant which shoots out silent poisonous thorns as it also has a high level of stealth and is capable of sniping enemies from very long range. The view range of the plant is overall very good and can be considered an expert marksman with the capability of finding a snail 1500 yards away.


    Really, an efficient stealthy killer capable of giving out the right amount of support in the upcoming fight. I waited as another seed came out and this time a plant about 5 feet tall plant came out. The plant was standing on four vines as it''s connected to a green cylinder like thing with a single hole in the middle of it. It was covered in vines with white and black flowers on it, quite the camouflage it got there.


    It''s really cool! I mean, who doesn''t like the badass black and white color scheme, I said to myself as I connected the plant to the Hive Mind and looked upon the plant which doesn''t appear just yet because I didn''t name it. "Your name shall be Crow!" Now, all those people who think I am bad at naming can suck a dick! Oh wait, it''s still bad! No, my self-esteem!


    [Ahem!]


    Oh sorry, I should really give her orders as I looked at the spot where a long black hair beauty with black eyes appeared with a complete white easy to move in and seemly tight white clothing. And for some reason, she is holding a 1-meter tall sniper rifle inside the Hive Mind...this is weird, hmmm let''s just get back to order her around. "Hmm, Crow I want you to cover Kona." The girl stays silent as she stuck up thumb towards me and gives the okay.


    Really, this girls personality is so...how should I put this silent, yea Daisy is pretty silent but man this just tops it off. Whatever, if she doesn''t like to talk then she doesn''t and also I just figured out how useless this throne room is because we don''t need to go into it but share it through brain waves.


    Well, I guess we need to feel each other presence and it probably became a habit at this point to do so. It also lets us hang out with each other and makes our bond stronger. Feeling that''s enough of that sappy shit I connect my vision to Daisy as I analyze what kind of situation we are in right now.


    A fence, no not even a fence but more like stacked up sticks complied together to form some sort of weird shapes, are thrashed up against each other. I could tell that they didn''t have the smartest of brains and couldn''t build a good formation of barricades to protect themselves.


    I blew up my hair and gone into the planning(Throne) room to prepare our strategy on how we are going to attack them. "So, let''s begin the plan to destroy this village, explain to us about their defenses Daisy." Daisy did a little bow before she started the explanation "As of right now, we are clearly out numbered but as they quality over quantity, so we clearly outclass them when it comes to individual fighting."


    The cute silent voice said for a second before continuing on the statistics of the opposing force. "There are very few with any armor at all and even then it''s only leather, so we can easily kill them, while, half of the population contains female and children." I nodded my head as females don''t usually fight and children will have to wait until they are the proper age.


    "Continuing on, they have only one person who seems to get more equipment then the rest and is possibly the chief of the village. We take him out the rest will panic, as taking out the leader will leave a large impact on the morale of the goblins." I clapped my hands at the analysis of Daisy before stopping giving my opinion on the matter.


    "Very good Daisy, if we take out the leader then the rest will fall, so we shall have Kona catch the attention of the troops. She will rampage in the front gate and cause enough damage to drag out the chief from his hiding and that is when Crow will strike him."


    Everyone nodded with my plan as I looked around and I waved my scepter around to show that this was the end of the meeting. Kona and Crow got into position to get ready to attack, while, Daisy will scout out the area for any more incoming. I felt like a real strategist as I took looked upon this plan with great joy.


    Let''s begin the operation!


    [You know, if you get rid of that carefree attitude of yours, you would be the perfect master.]


    Hey! I will never do such a thing!

 Chapter 4: That is so unfair!

    I see you guys in the comment section and yes I''m going to wait once more because some of you bring some pretty good points on the table. Since some of you guys really hate harems for the fact that they just make girls or boys fall in love with the main character for no reason.


    Well, it would be interesting to challenge that concept but for now, I will wait for feed back.


    -


    "Thank you for everything you did for me, but it seems like my life is cut short."


    A boy said with his black colored suit, stained in crimson red as it leaked downwards on to the floor without stop. He laid there without anything to hold him up as his body is covered in cuts or holes that fill his body with suffering. A beautiful girl was position there with her black hair tied to form a pony tail and a white colored dress with tears streaming on her face. "W-why would you do this."


    She continued to cry with died bodies surrounding them until a person walks in as he claps his hand in slow motion non-stop. This person made a devious smile as he approached the two who had seen his incoming from a mile away. The boy made one last attempt to get up, as he raised on his two feet and gotten in front of the young girl. "What the fuck do you want Auran Porina!"


    The boy screamed in anger at the person who had caused all the distress in the area and with a devious smile Auran pulled out a gun. It looks like a revolver but with eight bullets instead of six, and he holds up his black long hair with his purple eyes gazing upon the boy. "Now, now you should calm down or else I will kill her."


    Auran pointed towards the pony tail girl with his revolver ignoring the boy as he was getting ready to shoot. Everything seemed to stop, as the boy had only this much strength to support his legs from falling down and Auran made a smile only his dead brother can compete with. "Why are you doing this!?! We used to be best friends, with your Allison, Lamerian, me, and you hanging out together!"


    The boy said as blood dropped on the floor that was already covered in blood. With really no other option, he held his ground with blood coming out of his mouth and with time he will die of lost of blood. He kept on talking as if he will get through Auran "What would your brother think of what you become?!"


    Auran made a frown as memories flooded his perception but he didn''t let up his stance his he said a three words. "I killed him." The boy was dumbstruck at the words he heard as Auran put both of his hands in the air. "Yes! I was the one that killed him by sending in the SWAT team on his little hide out of his to have him killed! I even did it when his teammates were out!"


    Auran roared his announcement towards the boy about his decease brother with a smile on his face. "Everyone we know who died so far was no accident or by someone else, it was all by my hand!" He once again pointed the gun towards the boy "And now you''re next!"


    As Auran was about to shoot, the boy took out a letter and a pendant that showed a beautiful girl with black hair on a wheel chair as two other boys smiling in it. One of them made a goofy smile, while the other just made a much calmer smile but with a hand covering his head. One was much taller then both of them, which is Lamerian and the other one was his sister and Auran.


    "I found this after she died, it was inside her hospital bed as she was on her death bed". The boy continued "The letter says ''Auran, thank you for everything you were done, even though I was the useless out of the three of us you still took care of me, so please forgive Lamerian for not being here. He was even studying about botany to help me get better!


    I heard that he finally got the medicine to make me better, it was going to be brought in after he finally found a way to get to me without causing attention! He always sent letters homes but you always ignored them, so I read them because he cares about us as a big brother.''


    This was on the same date you went missing and the same day Lamerian died." Auran started to hold his ears as he analyzed the information "S-so you telling I k-killed Lamerian and Allison for no reason?" Auran said as the boy had made a mourning look but his lost blood finally caught up to him as he lost all of his strength "Really, how did I get such a smart yet dumb friend."


    The boy said before collapsing on the floor with the pony tail girl holding on to him. Auran had gone mad as he held on to his head, while, trying to reorganize his thoughts one last time. Finally, that was the end of the boy''s story as he starts anew, as a goblin...


    I was woken up from my nightmare as I remember that tragic day as Auran prepares to finish me off with a bullet in the head but he never did that. Whatever, that was my pass life, I don''t think it will be worth holding anymore as I take a bite out of a rabbit with my sharp teeth that go along with my body.


    I have proper and somewhat fancy clothing that uses quite a lot of things I hunted, such as animals hide and knits to sow on my clothes and made some sort of wolf fur clothes. When I was still in the goblin village, I created arrows and other stuff in their workshop, while I secretly took a knife and some other stuff.


    All of this was done secrecy, while I prepared all my things to leave and become something stronger and live out my life freely. It was all done in 20 days because of how quickly goblins grow, but I still kinda of miss being inside the village because my sister is still there. And if I were to come back, I would be branded as a traitor to them and probably be killed for it.


    Oh, yeah, I also evolve to become a hobgoblin, now I''m more powerful I gotta say from killing wolves, deer, horned bunnies, and even orcs. Really, I went quite far and found some real equipment like leather armor pieces that uses tough animal skin pieces for my shoulder and of such. I also looked in the lake nearby before and when I turned into a hobgoblin I became what I call a mirror image of my previous self with slight differences.


    I have the blond hair that reaches to my neck and blue eyes, with long ears but I also have dark green skin which really makes me different from the other goblin''s bright green. I wonder if that''s a sign of something I thought to myself, as I picked up my pack bag and covered my face with an hoodie.


    I had taken any safety measure I can to be sure I don''t die, so I''m always on high alert and making sure no enemies strike me in my sleep. So, with me gaining quite a lot of strength I decided to go back to the village and watch it from afar. I just want to check on them after so long, maybe they are doing well, at least make sure if my sister hurt.


    Well, at least, I finally know that feeling when Auran always cared about his sister like some sort of big siscon he is. I thought to myself, as I got on to one of the trees and climbed it as I got an overview of the village with my eyes resting on top of it. Something caught my eye but just barely as it snuck around the bushes, it had something akin to roses on it.


    It moved extremely quickly and even for me I had trouble keeping track of it from here as the plant thing strikes at the main gate with a ball and vines surrounding the plant. The ball had roses and vines surrounding it and thorns that are incredibly dangerous as I watched it from afar. It killed one of the sentries within a few second as loud out cry came from the other goblin and attracted all of them to suddenly come out.


    But as the goblin screamed, it died as well as the rose-like plant had already killed that plant within seconds. I looked upon the scene as I think about the type of options I have as of right now. Do I want to help the village, or should I just escape with my sister because I''m pretty sure that plant thing will kill just about everybody in there even the chief?


    Saving anyone else is just outright impossible because I have to fight the rose plant and I don''t know how well that is going to turn out. Let''s just say that if I do win, is the village going to let me live? I wouldn''t bet my ass on something as silly as that and not take any chances after what I learned from my past life.


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    So, here is my four-step plan on how I''m going to handle the situation, get into the village, avoid contact, grab sister, sneak out of the place. Yea, simple right? Well, I don''t have time to plan out the most complicated and intricate plan okay. I thought to myself as I jumped down from the skies and landed on to the floor.


    I rushed lighting fast avoiding the branches that are on the ground as I speed to run by but made sure not to make any sound. I got to the "fence" that my kind like to call but it''s nothing more than a couple of piled up sticks. I broke through the branches by cutting it fast with my knife but made no sound.


    I located the house where my sister, Gora was at, as I''m reminded that human girls are usually used to born goblin children. I remember this because I don''t have any parents at home in my younger goblin days, while my dad was probably killed in some sort of hunt.


    I hated my younger days because I felt absolutely useless with no power at all, as I gone into my sister''s home which is a crummy mud house with nothing inside of it. I walked in slowly, as my sister was wide awake and looking around in fright but I taught her how to fight when she was younger.


    She acts like this to catch her opponent off guard and strike at them, was what I told her to do. My sister was an outstanding beauty that actually looked like a girl when I first saw her it gave me a surprise attack. She had long blond hair that flooded to her elbow with rugs dressing her green petite body as her face looked much more different than usual goblins.


    "W-who is there!?" She screamed but I just flipped my hoodie up as my sister (fake)frighten look brighten up into a smile. My sister tackles me to the ground as her hugs were much stronger because of practice in muscle training. If anyone in the goblin village right tried to attack my sister, they will get a surprise I will just say that for sure.


    "Now, now I wonder how you were able to find out how your brother looked, even after evolution," I said surprised at such an adorable young girl was capable of finding me apart even though I looked like any other goblin when I was younger. "How could I forget my brother''s smell!" I didn''t hear that correctly so I told her to repeat. "Hmm, can you repeat that?"


    "Repeat what?" She said suddenly as I thought maybe it was just imagination. My hand then went to grabbing on to the shoulders of my sister. "Come on, we''re leaving," I said with my hand pulling on to my sister. "W-why?" She questions me, now she is much smarter than your average goblin, as she memories whatever I taught her about.


    "We need to leave now! At the moment, we are under attack by some sort of plant thing, so we need to escape before we perish with the village." My sister accepting my answer followed right behind me with her looking around, while I also did it as well. I decided to give her a knife before continuing onward as she might need to defend herself.


    I looked at the front gate as most of the goblins were being killed and in panic as I see a died chieftain with a hole on his head right in front of me. Tsk! It seems like they didn''t put up a good fight against the plant but they are better as a distraction than anything else.


    I said as I sense something whooshing through the air as I took my sister and myself to the ground. A bullet like object came crashing towards the ground and digging itself through the dirt. With us avoiding it, I instantly located where the sniper is and pushed Gora to a house near us to protect ourself.


    I then saw the rose plant finish what''s left of the goblin soldiers and targets us with its thorns aiming towards us. I gritted my teeth as I pulled out my newly prepared knife that was extra sharpened towards killing things in one or two slices. Keeping the sniper in check, I got into a defensive position as I aimed the knife towards the plant and gotten to my feet.


    I felt the gazing of the sniper''s eyes and kept that in check as my mind gone into a complete fighting mode. The Rose plant soon burst towards me like a meteor breaking through the sound barrier and came crashing down at my first position. I quickly jumped above the rose plant as getting hit by those poison thorns won''t be very good for my health.


    Something messed with my mind, as a sweet smell came over me but I shook it off with pure willpower and looked at where the smell is coming from. The flowers seemed to give out an aroma that freshly made anything with a nose fall asleep. Okay, these flowers give out a sleeping effect, anything else I need to know about before fighting this thing?


    So, I covered my nose and analyze the disadvantage I am at right now, it made me completely feel weak. There is a sniper, poisoning, and sleeping smell that limits my options to only a few as I took out my knife and charged towards the plant. The plant prepared against my charged but I stopped it by jumping into the air above the plant and came slashing down.


    Knowing that trickery and messing with its reaction time will be the only way to coordinate a victory out of this smart moving plant. But instead, I felt nothing being sliced, as the plant moved away from that position, with a sniper shot coming towards me in a fast moving pace.


    I prepared for that as I taken a gamble at where it might hit and threw a stone towards it, to messed with it''s aiming. Completely throwing it off coarse and hitting the grow next to me, I quickly looked at the projectile and saw a thorn. I put two and two together as I prepared for my next strike against the enemy.


    In such quick session, I prepared all of the material I earned throughout my adventures outside of the goblin village and aimed towards a better life. I took a breather, as I grab on to my knife and sprinted towards the plant with another stone in hand. This time, I stopped all my momentum in my tracks and pulled out a bow with lighting speed on my backpack, while I took out an arrow on my quiver.


    I aimed the bow at the sniper as fast as I can and draw the bow extremely fast even compare to an Olympic bow shooter. Without thinking about anything else, I shot it, the air blowing from the string being release hurts my hand a little bit. I knew the rose plant was ready to kill me and end my life but I did what I could do.


    I threw down the bow and sprinted towards the rose plant with my knife getting ready to strike down on the plant. My right hand was holding on to the knife as I strike against the plant in quick secession but it seemed to avoided it with clear movement. As it began the relentless attacks coming from all sorts of direction, left, right, below, above, center, diagonal, horizontal, and even snake-like attacks as well.


    I start sweating as the attacks were predictable but are very fast as I attacked right back with a forward slice. I miss as the fighting gets even more intense with each hit almost ending the other one''s life as I thought this back and forth battle will last forever. I could feel the sweat dripping off my face as I finally found an opening in the plant''s defense.


    I ran forward and strikes down with all my power but...at that moment a yellow flower popped up from the ground right in front of me as my foot hit it. My foot hitting the flower, felt like hitting hard concrete as it broken my center of gravity and made me fall back but that was enough time for the plant to rush as I felt my life flash between my eyes.


    I thought that was the end of my life, but instead, the attack stopped as a smell similar to the aroma filled my nostrils and made me faint to the floor, as I see Gora running towards me. My little sister thrust her knife towards the plant but was easily dodge as the plant did the same thing to her and made her faint using the flowers. That was the last thing I saw before my vision was taken away from my eyes and dark covers me.

 Chapter 5: Reunion?

    I really do enjoy the feedback but I want to end all of this already and say harem has won but I do remember something similar happening before, really, did I just make a full circle to my first ever story? Whatever, after I post this chapter I will put on the tag.


    Also, for those that have good criticism to share, please tell me what I can improve on as I know that I sometimes mess up my own grammar but how often? Is the story good? Am I not being detailed enough? All of this is what I''m looking for in a big review.


    Now, have a fun time reading and thank you!


    -


    I was lost in my train of thought, as Elucidata tried to call me multiple times but wasn''t able to until I notice and decided to answer the calls that she tried to make. Even though we are in the same body, we are still unable to contact one another each other via mind communication.


    [Master, what''s going on with you lately? After we bumped into the hobgoblin you just suddenly ordered Kona to not finish it off and gone into deep thinking.]


    "Oh that, well something seemed to be bothering me lately, it feels like I had seen someone similar to that hobgoblin as if I known the person for a long time. Strange, right? Well, I want to drag him here and get as much out of this as possible because he is also very strong."


    [Is that so? I guess maybe I been a little bit too worried about you master, my apologies.]


    "No, it''s my fault for making such a beautiful girl like you worry about me, it fills my heart with distress." I said with a smile on my face as I looked at the blushing Elucidata who covered her own cheeks in the Hive Mind. An awkward silence covered the room with each of us looking at one another without stop with hearts seemly in the air.


    [W-why is master suddenly saying this? I''m not a...]


    "You''re not a what?" As I said and within moments I heard an "Ahem!" sound and my attention soon go to Kona who stood there tapping her shoes in a repeated rhythm. I hold the back of my head with my neck twisting towards her and my tongue sticking out as I stare at the girl who seemed to be a little angry.


    "W-what seems to be the problem Ms. Kona?" I said to Kona with my hand still on the back of my head. Elucidata looked quite embarrass with her hand''s stuff into her face, I made an "Ahem!" sound as I prepared to fight the onslaught of murderous aura that Kona is going to produce. "Master! Were you just flirting with Mistress Elucidata!?!"


    "Of course not Kona!? You should have more faith in your master as I am not a skirt chaser!" Daisy looks at me as well, with the same eyes, while Crow just stares into space without a care. I took in all of their disgusted until they had enough of torturing me and starts to explain the situation.


    "Humph! I shall begin the report, we were successful in defeating most of the goblin warriors and being brought here to be absorbed. The hobgoblin also will be brought along with the children you ordered to be saved, but what should we do with the human women there?"


    What? Have they humans? I guess that make sense if they want to reproduce children to do more of the hard labor and keep the population afloat. I start tapping my head as I looked at them with my thoughtful eyes and made a decision. "Is their mind''s broken?" I said as I wanted to know that first before continuing on the reports given to me.


    "From what we saw, they can still react or at least don''t have the lifeless eyes of a person that gets constantly raped." Interesting, I guess they have been just brought in or captured just recently because they would have the lifeless of someone who keeps getting raped it over and over again until they break someday.


    I put both of my hands onto my scepter and pointed towards Kona once more, before continuing what I was about to say. "Bring in the dead bodies, children and humans all in single file, while I will have Daisy scout out the area once more and make sure no creatures are in sight for the massive transfer of people."


    Daisy, Kona, and Elucidata bowed before leaving off to do their duty but I stopped Crow because I want to ask her something. "Crow, how is your injury?" I asked because it seems like the arrow that the oh so familiar hobgoblin shot had hit the tree branch she was standing on had made her fall to the ground.


    Crow tapped her face before putting down her sniper rifle and pulled out a marker and a cardboard, as she begins to write in neat cursive handwriting. She then showed me what was on the cardboard that had the pretty cursive words. It says ''I didn''t really get any serious injuries but some scratches and a few vines that I will have to fix later but overall I''m fine.''


    Crow ran out of space on the cardboard and began to take out another clear white cardboard and drawn on it extremely quickly. What was written on it was ''Thank you for worrying about me master, but really I''m okay and please make sure you don''t hit on Elucidata when Kona or Daisy is here.''


    Crow made the most prettiest smile I have seen before turning around and taking her leave as well, with her body disappearing. Did I just seen the silent expressionless Crow smile and blushed? Maybe that''s my imagination and if it is, then damn I have one good imagery skill alright, as the mood in the room felt refreshing for some reason.


    I sat there a little bit longer to sort out my thoughts and everything in it, my mind just couldn''t wrap around who that hobgoblin was. So, I laid on the chair with a soft pillow on my back as everything seems to slow down, with my head wrapping around all the things that transpired in my life.


    He kinda looks like Alex? Alex was a friend that my brother used to bring over and play with, as we hung out by shooting my guns, beating each other up, and challenge Alex and Auran to see if one of them could beat me. Really, it was quite fun, as I remember at one point, I made both of them into girls in my experiments and soon after turned them right back to being a boy.


    Those were the good days, as a mad psychopathic plant scientist that did almost anything to find out what made the plants tick. Also, if I remembered correctly there was a certain kind of medicine that used the White Striped Tiger Flower to heal my sister, I wonder...


    Alli probably dies, there is no denying it at this point because the disease that infected her didn''t have a solution to cure it and my medicine was the last saving grace I could do for my cute little Alli. Auran will probably blame me for her death, I''m guessing he had something to do with the SWAT team as well but whatever, it''s not my fault that he had such an irrational and immoral personality.


    I bet Auran is probably going on a murderous rampage right now, why am I sounding so uncaring about my brother or sister? I may act goofy on the outside but really that''s just a mask if someone close to me died I will only look at their grave in the cemetery and tell them they messed up or they had bad luck.


    That''s just my personality, and it leads me to believe that humans can be so strange for them mourning the death of some close friends, humans are such emotional creatures but at the same time, they are interesting. Just because I''m like this doesn''t mean I do not accept myself as a human being and go like ''I''m not human because I don''t have emotional attachment or become sad when someone dies.''


    Who do you think I am?!? The main character from a novel who has this cold attitude and thinks that every human should die? Anyway, I got off track a little bit, so let''s get back to having a little chit chat with the hobgoblin. I came prepared this time, as having a functional conversation with a sapling isn''t very easy, as they don''t have mouths.


    I had started tinkering around with the Creatia''s abilities and learned that I''m capable of making my own personal space, where I could connect the brain of another person with a touch and talk to them. So, I want to learn more about this look alike and this goblin beauty that actually looks like a girl.


    I saw them in the big fight with Kona and Crow, as they had put up a valiant fight but in the end lost because of a flower bursting from the ground. It might sound stupid, but never ever doubt Daisy as she has the hardness of a diamond with the few upgrades I gave her.


    I wanted a scout that wasn''t easy to kill, so I made a few adjustments with some LF points as upgrading specific things like the body is easy for me. Changing a part of the body is something new I figured out as upgrading them as a whole will be much more costly for me using the entirety of the point, as for each body part will be half the cost.


    If a single point is capable of upgrading such a strong plant (in my perspective), I wonder what will the later plants will be in terms of power. I can''t just image it as of right now, but I do expect an increase for points to upgrade everyone else as well as some other things to change like my plant in general.


    I take a sip out of my tea that I created in my personal space as I set up a game of chess and waited for Kona to bring over all the pieces that will be part of today spectacular event. Since, I''m holding such an event I need to make the place look bright and colorful with so much decorations that it will be like clowns inside a car.


    Nah, I rather go with the dark sinister view with two comfortable chairs and a table with a chess game and some tea. I am quite the fancy guy when the time come for it, so I can get my black clothes and get ready for a good old talk with someone who isn''t a girl and have a good man to man talk.


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    Well, I guess it would be more like plant to hobgoblin but who cares, as I already set up some cookies if he wants any. After doing so, I sat down and saw through Kona''s vision that they were just about here. Taking my suit, I teleported, in my mind to where Elucidata is, as it is inside a dark circular like structure with a screen showing roots digging into the ground.


    Her hands were on a ball that probably controls the roots, as she sat in a rainbow colored rolling chair to move around the place. This isn''t the only ball as there a couple more, I saw her notice my presence and gives me the same look she always give me, at least when I''m not complimenting, which I mean what I say, sometimes.


    [What is it master? Don''t you see I''m kind of busy organizing all the roots to collect the LF points more efficiently?]


    "Don''t worry I notice, but it''s just around that time for us to prepare for our guests, so can you have left the leftover roots into auto drive and get ready." I said as she got off her too colorful chair as she followed right behind me, and teleported along with me to the control center of my plant.


    This place looks like something stolen off a Sci-Fi ship with its reflective silver light color that bounce around the place. I had walked towards a big ball in the center of the room before connecting my vision to the outside world and seeing a group of knocked out goblins children and women being piled out like they were going to be burnt in one big fire.


    I signaled for Kona to bring the two who I asked to get over here to be brought over, as I glanced around a bit too handsome and obviously noticeable individuals were dragged over. I might as well say it right now, but that hobgoblin has some good armor and equipment for such a creature like him.


    Also, we played nice and gave back all the equipment he lost along the way back to him but we obviously had Kona''s many arms carry it just in case he wakes up and grabs it. And you might be asking why the people being picked up aren''t being poked to death?


    Well, Kona is capable of pulling back all of her thorns into her vines so no one will get hurt. But they aren''t going to have a good time being dragged across the ground to this location, I mean image yourself being knocked and brought to some faraway place, while getting hit by all sorts of stuff on the ground.


    Not the most pleasant feeling ever,  but I ignored how they felt and dragged them here so, why stop? I said to myself, as I tapped my plant stem tapped on to the heads of the two of them which instantly brings me and Elucidata to my personal dark space.


    I sat on the chair and Elucidata was standing tall with a sense of pride as she looked upon the two. The both of them were replaced with very clean suits and dresses that would easily strike at the style fashion of the nobility of this world or even cause a revolution when it came to the clothing industries.


    The first one person I at looked was the guy who mirrored my old friend Alex who long blonde hair that reaches his shoulders and first class looks even though he was a hobgoblin. Having darker than usual skin even compared to the bright colored of the goblins.


    Really, does this mean something? Elucidata told me before that hobgoblins are supposed to be bright green like how they are before evolution. So, I made sure to give Elucidata the inquisitive look and gesture for her to tell me a little bit about this strange hobgoblin.


    [Dark green means for goblins or hobgoblin is that they are a variant that get special things, such as more strength, speed, and even intelligent. Sometimes they can get a special trait that is given to them.]


    "Is that so?" I thought in my mind as I go to look at the two who seemed to be in shock right now, I just shrug my shoulders and gone to looking at them. "Now, now you are probably wondering ''Why am I!?!'' well it''s because I kept you alive so at least be happy."


    I smiled my sinister smile, as I waited for them to say something towards me or else the conversation won''t continue. "Are you Lamerian!?" oh my so he is Alex, Seria always said that people can be revived with their memories, so I''m not in the least surprised at all.


    "I will answer that question if you best in this small game of chess." I said with a smile on my face, while I stare at them with the non-changing smile that is plastered on to my face.


    ...


    Is this person really Lamerian!?! Did he reincarnate like me!?! Wait! Let''s think about this for a moment, what happen if this is just someone who looks like him but isn''t. But why is he here then? Why, is he challenging me to a chess game? Why why why why?


    All these questions?! I don''t have anything I could do but play his game of his and win to get an answer out of him. I contemplated to myself, with my face looking towards that smug ass look on his face with what seems to be her black secretary uniform and beautiful face.


    I broke away from her enchanting face and saw Gora right next as confused as me in such a situation but I played who ever this guy''s game of chess. He takes out a sip from his tea and starts the game. I analyze all of his movement in the chess game and saw the best strategy to use for the beginning.


    And within moments...I lost horribly without even realizing that he had made me fall for the bait as my king''s path is blocked by a Knight with a Rook blocking my other path. I say it with a sigh "Check, I lost the game so badly!" I said in defeat as the look alike Lamerian snickered at my misfortune or his domination.


    "Damn, so I won''t know who the hell are you!" The look alike slapped his head and made a stupid smile as he stared at me in my eyes. "You are a fucking dumb ass Alex, I said play a game with me and I will tell you." So, he is Lamerian?! Whatever, I give up damn, let''s be happy that we had a reunion and get over this mess.


    "Okay, fine whatever Lamerian, I give up just what the hell are you doing here." I said as I gave up trying to read his mind which should not be possible as I remember when the first time I met him, I got beaten brutally with his hands cocked on to the trigger of a gun getting ready to kill me.


    I was quite frightened, as I was still in my 3rd grade, and was already peeing myself until Auran stopped his brother from attacking him from behind but...let''s just say he got his ass whipped. I remind myself of the memories as I watch Lamerian actions, "I would love to talk with you Alex or whatever your new name is, but I''m here to give you an option.


    As you have survived a fight with my servants, you are to either leave here with her or stay here which I don''t mind but..." Wait wait!? So, Lamerian was the fucking one that attacked the village and killed mostly everyone in there!?! This really is nothing new, as I remember last time when he captured a team of commandos and experiment on their bodies for weeks to come.


    I sighed as my friend''s brother is just a psychopathic scientist that would kill, destroy, and experiment for the hell of it. If he doesn''t mess with me or my sister, I''m fine with whatever the hell he is doing. Lamerian wants something he gets it through any means, so I will be careful not to get in his way.


    "Yes, I will leave with my sister following me, whatever you are doing Lamerian just don''t get me involve." Lamerian made a smile as I just remembered another thing that I almost forgot, "Also, Lamerian your brother he..." Lamerian stopped my speech and finished for me "He killed me, yes I had expected as much but is Alice still alive?"


    Lamerian question me with a smile which always seems to be plastered on to his face but I know at this point, that''s a mask which hides his real feeling. "N-no she is not alive Lamerian." He stood up and took a sip of his tea before saying, "I see." I got irritated at him as he didn''t even sound like he cared about his sister, so. I stood up as well and charged at him with my hands.


    Instead of hitting something, I hit nothing as I go through the body like some sort of ghost but I knew something was up as my sister was getting up to help me as well. She soon was brought down by his secretary looking attendant with Gora''s arm in a lock. "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT ANGRY ABOUT IT!?" I screamed at Lamerian as he walked towards me with his go through body.


    He picked me up with one hand and practically put me in a choking position before he started talking, "Alex, you shouldn''t charged at someone for stating their opinions clearly and that is my sister tied because a mishap, why should I cry over someone in the past, in fact why should I cry at anyone''s death in general." He said with a smile still stuck on his face, and at that moment the room felt ever so colder as Lamerian bright smile soon turned into a frown.


    "You shouldn''t do something so stupid, it will hurt you Alex, and promise me that if you ever try to talk about this conversation again and attack me, I will not be so merciful with you." Lamerian said before snapping his fingers as it made my vision disappear with the rose plant standing above us.


    I should''ve of known that Lamerian personality was on the cold side, if I try to mess with him one more time I will die, it''s the last thing I want. So, let''s just leave and think of something else instead of that annoying ass Lamerian I said to myself before pulling Gora with me.

 Chapter 6: Stop messing with me!

    Chapter 6


    I looked at where Alex disappeared and made a sigh as my brain was in disarray for a little bit. No matter, I will continue to pursue my goals of becoming stronger and have a fun new life that is capable of equaling my past life. I thought in my mind and made a facial expression that showed a sinister smile with a goal in mind.


    Now, now that we have corpse let''s absorb them first, and get to the big plan I have in store for the people that were brought along here. I said to myself, as I look through everyone''s vision and thought of something. Elucidata had told me that countries or entire races are fighting for control over this forest right, but she didn''t tell me the location as that part was a blank spot when going through information transfer, by some sort of interference she said but I had already known who it was.


    Well, if you use common sense and some context clues, wouldn''t the human countries be west then? I mean, the goblins had kidnapped human girls and it has to be nearby, so that would be the next best place to get them at. I expect it to either be travelers or a village of some sort that has been attacked, really it''s extremely noticeable.


    I tapped on my face, as all the points were going into my plant! Yasssssss! More! Give me more! I thought to myself, as I looked at my counter which is in the form of a floating screen that follows me throughout my headquarters inside the plant. Hmmm, is this what people call a bad guy? Someone who benefits off of others people misery?


    Yes, you can call me a bad guy, but I like to think of myself as a business men who does anything he can do to become powerful. So, destroying a family or a hundred isn''t going to make me feel sorry for them if anything they should be sorry that I was ever born!


    It''s like the politicians in American, they would do anything to get more power than needed but for me, it''s just getting the necessary amount and not overdoing it, until I''m confident enough. I wonder how they are doing with half the world getting into a coalition against them right now.


    I saw my counter jump to 125 points, as I looked at it and found myself a little disappointed because I thought it would at least give me 150 LF instead. Well, take what I can and save the complaining for trouble, I thought to myself as my eyes focus on the other screens that show each perspective of my plants.


    I looked at the screen with the plant list and see what I can do, that also include upgrading my production of LF to maximizing the amount I''m able to make. Certainly, a good chance to actually make something happen, instead of standing here all. I checked the upgrade screen this time for all my plants and saw each one costing more!


    Not a little bit, but by twentyfold the normal amount and as it skyrockets to 20 for each upgrade now. I was completely confused! No matter, this is only a small setback for my plans as I go to Elucidata to tell me what''s going with the cost for each upgrade all of a sudden. "Hey, Elucidata what''s going with the LF points?"


    [Let me have a look here...]


    Elucidata browses through the command manual of the plants and looked at the screen win both of her eyes plastered on to it. At that moment, Elucidata made a shocked face as she stared at it and put the screen back down before facing me with her glasses on her.


    [Did you piss off a god or something?]


    Now, why would I do that? I mean, we haven''t met a god on this planet yet...fuck! So, it''s freaking Seria! She goddamn limited my buying systems! Seria said that she is doing this for entertainment values! That means if I got strong too quickly, then it wouldn''t be fun to watch me.


    Is it fun to watch my frustration and struggle! I question the goddess but the only reply I got was a letter with a name saying Seria. It says ''You are probably mad that I did that, but as a trade off I will give you a large boost in your plants fighting ability and when each plant reaches 100 LF in upgrades they will be able to unlock the mature homunculus which gives them a full humanoid body.


    Something useful if you don''t want some plants walking around a city like they owned it and get attacked for doing so.'' And that was her message, I guess it''s better than nothing and I can infiltrate places with much more ease I guess.  That''s at least better, as I took in all my options and accepted this increase in LF as I sighed and made a chair before sitting down.


    "Well, I can at least say that not everything is so bad Elucidata, and get back to work," I told her off as she bowed before leaving, as I gotten my shop list screen and allocated 20 LF to my plant, 20 LF to Kona, 20 LF Daisy, 20 LF Crow, and brought the 25 LF for a Teman Mushroom.


    So, let me organize things first, Kona has about 23 LF points into her, Daisy has 21.5 LF, Crow has 23 LF, and I have 21 LF. I rubbed my tempest, as I pressed the accepted button and suddenly everyone starts the evolving process and starts looking different from how they usually are.


    The first one I look at is Kona as the color of her entire body changes from a grass green body to a...loli that looks like a smaller version of her imagery body in the Hive Mind with only vines covering the body. *Sigh* Fucking Seria!!!! Can you tell me why the hell does Kona look like that!? Also, didn''t you say that they will get a homunculus body when they get 100 LF points!?!


    Another note randomly flew into my face as I begin to read it ''Dear Lamerian, I would like to inform you that if you pass the 20 LF mark for each of your plants or is already past 20 LF they will immediately get a body, but they can transform back anytime and I said ADULT BODY okay.


    I tapped my fingers slowly and looked at my screens with a sigh as most of the girls become humanoid and have the capability of infiltration but if anything, it should be Daisy. I''m going to say this now, Daisy looks almost the exact same as her body inside the Hive Mind but shorter than the usual height, with beautiful flowers surrounding her no-no spots.


    So, Crow also has black and white color flowers that all connects to surround her and stop any naughty perverted eyes from seeing too much. At this point, I''m on the chair with both of my arms holding up my head at the frustration but no matter I can handle this.


    [Would you like to become a Cronaila Flower or a Creatia Tree?]


    "Oh for the mother of god what now!?" I said as Elucidata just teleported in front of me with her eyes locked onto mine. I questioned what the problem can be now, with all the troublesome and stupid things happening to me all at once! Elucidata refocuses her eyes and said


    [Now that you have reached 20 LF you are given the option to pick between being these two things which have different specs that make each benefit in a different situation.


    "Give me the statistics on how different are the two and what advantages are given off to each of them." I said as I recuperated enough of my energy to say that as I multiple tasked by looking at the screens and seeing each plant within it as they are still naked. I order each of them to steal some clothes or make it themselves as I don''t have time to do any of this stuff.


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    [Cronaila Flower is capable of moving almost anywhere with dirt such as Daisy''s movement options but much faster, and it''s able to snare creatures with a gas if anything gets close to it. Not only that, but it can also give out buffs to the plants that are created from the flower, and does the same thing for existing plants. There is also the seeds that capable of going great distances and land where you want it to.]


    [There are some classified hidden stuff if you don''t choose this route and will be kept that way as it would be useless information by then. And then there is the Cretia tree, as it stands tall and proud with its rainbow leaves blowing in the wind.]


    [The Creatia tree will have more capability than what you have as of right now, meaning your sphere of influence will not be this small plot of land and will spread to even the trees nearby. So, you will get a huge amount of LF in let''s say in 1 day for an example, not only that but you are capable of producing traps to stop any potential threats. Also, new things will be unlocked for you, like how you saw some lock screens, well those are tiers of plants that you are able to get if you become the next evolution of a plant.]


    "Your hiding something aren''t you? As you said classified, and how little the Cronalila has compared to the Creatia tree but maybe I''m just overthinking it." I said as my arms were crossed against each other, while my eyes locked on to Elucidata for the longest of time. She started to sigh with her eyes closed, and then looked right back at me.


    [My apologies master, it''s just that I don''t want to leave master''s side.]


    "Wait! What do you mean!? Why would I kick out my cute assistant!" I said in my defense as I stare at her, while, she has a sad look on her face. Elucidata sighed again before she stared at me. Getting really close to me with her arms wrapping around me, I panicked a little bit as my eyes wonder on her chest!  "What are you doing Elucidata!"


    [Nothing, I just overreacted a little bit, well let me explain, master, when you choose a different species of the Creation plant series, they tend to have different body parts and the Creatia is no different. Meaning, if you chose the Cronaila Flower, I would be gone...]


    "Don''t worry! I will obviously pick you over a different type of plant any day! Just calm down and listen we had been partners since I first came here. So, I''m going to say this with absolute seriousness, thank you for everything you did for me Elucidata." She saw a bright smile, as that was the first time I smiled because I felt happy about something that doesn''t include my family.


    [Master...]


    Elucidata said slowly as she tightens her grip around me and pushed me even further into her large breast! Get your mind out of the gutter boy! I need to calm down the situation before it gets out of hand! "Elucidate can you-" I felt something wet on my shoulders as I turn my head to see Elucidata with red eyes and tears flowing down her cheeks.


    I guess, I will let her stay like this for a while, I said to myself and felt my brain being a little softer than I used to be. Maybe, going to another world is also affecting my mentality as well, hmmmm, now isn''t that fun. I thought in my head as we sat on the floor for a little bit longer as time seemed to have slowed down.


    [Sorry master....]


    "No, no no it''s okay! It''s my fault for letting someone as beautiful as you cry in the first place, my apologies." I said as to brighten the mood from the sad and emotional event and decided to tease her a little bit. She started blushing harder than ever and giggle, while she got off from the ground.


    I felt like my mind was blown out of a nuclear missile explosion, as I looked around a bit and scratched the back of my head before looking right back at her. "Anyway, let''s get back to business before anything else Elucidata..." At that moment, we formed a larger bond than before as everything seemed to slow down for a while.


    [A-anyway, I''m going back to analyzing the improvements we had, what are you going to do?]


    "Oh just the usual, I''m going to find out how everyone is doing with the new body and see our new friend that has jumped aboard the ship with us." I said before waving my hands at Elucidata before going towards the control ball and started looking at everyone else that is around.


    I saw the new plant in front of me using the actual viewing system of the Creatia Tree which has grown taller from the small sapling it was just a couple of minutes ago. It grew about 20ft tall and 10ft wide, making it quite large as it almost contested the other tree around here.


    I saw a mushroom in front of me and knew instantly it was the going to be a new companion starting today. A small vine came out of the huge tree and connected the Teman Mushroom to the Hive Mind, as I can''t see what the person is like until I actually name him/her.


    Maybe, I need some guy friends, it''s kind of lonely being the only guy but then again...no no no dirty thought! "Your name shall be Leon!" I said as a black hair guy appeared with glasses and amethyst eyes that shined brightly with a white lab coat on the body.


    He wore a neutral expression as he stared at me with his purple eyes, "I''m Leon it''s nice to serve you, master." He said with his hand on his heart with a bow he looked towards me. "Now, now  enough of the formalities and let''s get back to business, from what I heard you are capable of producing a healing or poison gas or liquid that is quite useful.


    I want you to be the support and when the time calls, you will battle alongside Kona in any upcoming battles, is that understood." He bowed his head before disappearing leaving only light to replace his body. From what I''m told, Leon is a capable plant that is incredibly dangerous in multiple ways, such as the poison which is a B rank poisoning, not the normal stuff I guess.


    Also, Leon has some sort of explosive that gets ignited whenever a specific gas is in the air. Really, he is worth quite a lot and will be useful against any enemies in the far future. I still had a lot of things to do first before I''m in the clear, so I moved through my body which somehow feels quite spacey.


    I looked at all the new features unlocked by becoming a Creatia Tree and saw that this body does let me set down some sort of thorn trap that when stepped on it, it will pierce that part like nothing. I made my decision and started putting traps close to me that will be in range for anyone to try to cut me down.


    I also looked at the amount I gain a day and saw that it boosted up to 5 LF a day and felt satisfied with the results. Today, I will look through all my options before proceed with my plans on what I am able to do with the goblins and humans. It''s going to be a little project of mine, that includes a little mind control for the goblins and some convincing for the humans.


    Really, I am quite excited for today, as I made a sinister smile as I looked at my ceiling that seems to go on forever.

 Chapter 7: You are interesting!

    "Leon, do you know how to produce clothes?" I said as I recalled that everyone needed clothes or else they will be walking around naked all day. They are practically nudist and I''m not so sure that I want them parading in the forest without any clothes to cover their body from the lolicons who would so eagerly stare at them.


    Oh wait, we are in the forest so it shouldn''t be necessary but it really makes me uncomfortable when my servants are walking around naked but Leon is just newborn so maybe not. "Nah, on second thoughts I shouldn''t-" I was suddenly interrupted by Leon as he stands proudly in front of the throne room.


    "Actually, I felt uncomfortable or awkward walking around naked with my new companion who kept covering their bodies and said ''I won''t show this body to anyone but mmhmm'' " I saw the other three servants suddenly gotten right behind Leon and covered his mouth and put his arms into blocks using a technique reserved for restraining people.


    I raised my eyebrows at the strange event and looked at Crow who has his hands in a lock, with Kona covering Leon''s mouth and Daisy getting a sock. "So, he actually meant to say is that he learned how to make clothes using the knowledge from the Hive Mind and put it into practice right?" Leon nodded his head before he was let go, "Oh yes, from the information I analyzed, I''m capable of creating clothes for everyone."


    I ignored the fact that Kona, Daisy, and Crow were tying up Leon with some rope, as I looked towards the three girls and coughed a little bit before saying "Very well, Leon create the clothes and prepare bottles of some of your poison and healing liquid." Leon looked a little surprised as he starts talking "How did master find out I''m able to build bottles?"


    "Oh please, I built bottles in my past because I wasn''t able to go outside very often, as getting caught by the military isn''t the best thing in the world. And you expect me to not make the assumption that you find such useful information in my database when you mention about being able to create clothes?" I said as my scepter was pointed at him, as he makes an impressed face before bowing and with everyone else before I dismissed them.


    Now, that''s over and done, why don''t we get to controlling some goblins, since it''s a good idea to have some diversity when it comes to fighting at least. I already have enough diversity but I have ideas on what I''m going to make the goblins do, so I got off my lazy ass and moved to the ball that gives me eye sight.


    I saw the bodies of the younglings of the goblins and thought of something, I can manipulate their minds, so they don''t remember anything about their past event of the complete slaughter. I said as my hands rubbed against each other, before tapping onto the goblins bodies with my seemly hundreds of vines I have now.


    I want some interesting conversations and I''m pretty sure completely control of the goblin''s will is going to be boring, so let''s make them a sentient being, with more smarts, that will be quite useful. I also will have them survive and grow into a much stronger individual to fight in my ever growing army.


    Once, they form an adequate group of fighters they shall return and be part of my plans. And some of you might be asking why am I doing something like this and not suck the LF out of them or just choose to let the grown up lives? Well, I at least have some morals of not being a complete asshole, now that I think of it, I''m on the borderline of becoming the evildoer of a story.


    Whatever, if I become a complete dick, tell me that it''s boring as hell, I mean what''s the fun in torturing anyway!? Some of the stories I read before had sadistic characters that are almost always on the verge of slowly cutting a person''s figures. Okay, maybe I got off track a little bit, so let''s get right back to the other reason as I mention before, they are younglings and can learn faster than the adults.


    Meaning, I want to implant it in the goblin''s minds when they start to grow into adults, as they will gain traits such as leadership, cunning, cleverness, teamwork, fighting techniques, and training. So, I''m going for the long run when it comes to my new soldiers but I will have Leon supervised them, and help if any troubles happen.


    As having them die, when I just saved them isn''t something I want to happen at all, and if that were the case then I should''ve killed them back in the village. I said as changing bits and pieces of the tragic memories is number one on my priority list. The process was me going their minds as I''m capable of doing as discovered from my earlier rant with Alex.


    Multiple blue screens float around me, as I looked around and saw memories of goblin children aren''t able to eat any food and have water to sustain their obvious hunger problems. Also, they were treated like they were in some sort of hierarchy system where they had to fight each other.


    Even siblings had to destroy their own relationships for the sake of being on top but it seems the girl that gone along with Alex turned out to be number one; interesting. I thought to myself as I looked at how they were treated and the type of feeling they hold about staying there.


    You know what? I will keep them under my wing, this is entirely different from what I image. Really, I don''t even need to control them, at least this saves times but how am I going train them? Do I let them join the Hive Mind? No, such a decision might backfire on me for things like gaining more knowledge than necessary and a rebellion starts.


    Not something I want to happen anytime soon, so what should I do now? I can control them and give the knowledge to the goblins which could work as well but I don''t want to do something boring like that. So, let''s give them the option of picking their fate, even if this is the most insufficient method, it''s the most fun method and living my life to the fullest is also one of my goals.


    I snickered to myself before bringing in all the goblins into a larger room that is all white as far as the guys can see. I created a chair to sit on as if I''m god waiting for some peasants to wake up. Taking an arrogant position with my head hung low with my arm holding it up, while, one of my feet are on top of another.


    I stare at the incoming goblins that appear one after another, looking a little shock but at the same time a little scared. But some of them stood up with pride as they were trained to be soldiers that are supposed to be capable of fighting for survival. Some of them took up stances, while others cower away with their heads hung over.


    Hmmm, I thought the goblins would be stupider and attack me right from the start, I thought to myself before analyzing their memories yet again and see that they were taught by Alex but one of them excel from the rest and taught everyone else. It seems of been before he left on his journey to become much more powerful as some of them tried to stop him but failed.


    They show quite a lot of respect to him but seeing that he was about to escape with possibly his sister, that he still has his brain and decided for the best option. Always been quite smart and bold but just like Auran, too many feelings and takes an unreasonable risk.


    I take the risk as well but for the fun factor and if there seems to be something I want, I will get no matter what''s the risk, so yea I''m probably more reckless than him. I looked at them with an oppressive aura as a smile soon crept up on my face, while, my eyes were locked on them.


    "Now, it seems like most of you are awoken let''s get back to business shall we or are you not capable of understanding me? Shake your head up and down if you do." Most of them do and seemed to be smarter than the average goblin as that is what I''m expecting because they were trained by Alex.


    I never knew Alex likes to share, whatever let''s get back to talking with these youngsters about how life is going to work. "Let''s begin, I will give you an option between all of you and if declined, I won''t do anything to you and if you accept, all of you will serve me but at the same time, I won''t hold you back anyway."


    ...


    What''s going on!? I was suddenly knocked out and then I appeared at this strange white room that would seem to go forever. Really, if it wasn''t for the fact that knowledge wasn''t given to us by Guna, I would be freaking out. I hope he''s doing well on his adventure, after all, he was the one that taught us everything we need to know in a few days.


    I didn''t know much but he just overwhelmed us with knowledge and was capable of at least giving us the ability to make our own decision. The thing was is that we had to basically fight each other to get food in the village and such. It made me feel completely disgusted by the actions that were processing through the adults minds.


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    Some of the children were starving when we had enough food to survive, but each and every one of us had to continue fighting till one either dies or is close to death. The winner overall was was Gura''s sister, Gora who had practically destroyed everyone with her smart and technical fighting skills.


    I was second place in terms of skill but the hierarchy system of their''s is a little ridiculous, I am probably weird in my own sense as I''m capable of analyzing all the information given to me by Gura. So, I find myself the strange one out of the bunch as well, but playing the adult''s game was something I been trying to do. So, when everything was prepared I would kill all of them and end the suffering.


    I thought to myself before thinking of the situation face upon me as of the moment, with a person wearing some oddly high-quality clothing. He sits upon a luxurious chair that would be made of seemly expensive material. The person welcomes us and tells us about our options, as he tries to see if we understand which we all nod to.


    Attacking the person is out of the option because we don''t know what abilities he has and if he could have easily killed everyone here. Really, doing something so risky is not good for the health as Gura used to tell me. I start analyzing everything I can to see if we could get out of this situation, nothing seemed to show me such a suggestion as of the moment.


    Indicating that we either listen to this guy or die, I start hearing him out as he tells everyone off here that we could basically go free or let him control us. Wouldn''t this be a no brainier? I asked myself, but if you actually think about it, would he actually let us leave alive?


    No, if that was really the case we would have died a long time ago, so maybe he is true to his word. Then, should we really let him control us? It may sound crazy as being forced to do someone''s bidding isn''t the most pleasant thing in the world, but it would give us a better chance at life.


    At least as far as his words go, he even tells us how he would not hold us back, what does that really mean? Hold us back? So, he is saying that he won''t force us to do something that we don''t like? Then, what''s the point of controlling us in the first place? I thought to myself before I forced myself to talk, as the pressure he is compiling on us is too much.


    "Can I talk?" I said with a brave upfront attitude, while I stare at this individual who focuses his attention on to me. I swallowed my spit, as the others stare at me in amazement and curiosity at what I''m about to say "What do you mean hold us back? Just a question I wanted to ask."


    A smile perks upon his face which seemed like he enjoyed my little stand up as he directly gets up and walks towards us with a stick suddenly appearing to his side. What the fuck?! Does he have special powers!?! I question myself, as I stare at the golden stick but I refocus all my attention on to him yet again.


    "My little girl, aren''t you quite the observational out of the bunch? It makes me wonder, do you have something that makes you different from the rest?" He picks up the golden stick and points at me and starts talking with a smirk on his face. "You mostly like do I''m guessing but what is it? I wonder?"


    I stare at him awe but shake my head look at him again, this time, I want to be like Gura who had bravely stood up for me as well in the past. "Maybe I do, so what I''m asking you to tell me what you mean!" He makes smirks and laughs hysterically at me with his hand on top of his forehead.


    "Oh, my you are quite entertaining! Very well, I shall tell you what I mean, I will not oppress what ways you can talk to me, I will not beat you, and most certainly I will keep every one of you alive if you follow my orders, if I go back on any of this, you can leave anytime you want." He stops talking and continues as he is faced the other way.


    "Remember, though you guys will have to face hardship along the way as you are serving me, I will put you through survival challenges that will put each one of you in dangerous and potential life or death situations. It''s all up to you, as you can either survive out in wild without my assistance or follow my orders, your choice."


    Everyone stare at me as they all looked at each other and nodded to one another before looking at me again. "We decided that Gorna should be the ones to represent us, you are smarter than the rest of us, please do." They all nodded their heads and put through heads down just for me...you guys!


    I thought to myself, as I''m putting everyone''s life on a piece of string right now, what should I do! If we serve this person that we don''t even know, would put us under someone thumb again won''t sit well with me, but at the same time if we go out in the wild alone and without any weapons. Are we capable of surviving!?


    Listening to someone orders doesn''t sit well with me, but really are we capable of surviving in a would quite hostile to us? But if we follow this person''s orders, he would help us and protect us, under the condition that we do hardship which is an equal trade off. I start putting my head together until I finally made a decision "Very well, we shall serve you."


    I said as the mysterious person before he made a smirk and said "Wise decision." as everything gone dark and we wake up to see ourselves under a rainbow color tree. "Was that a dream?" I suddenly felt a tugging inside my mind as a voice appears "No, it''s not."


    I was completely surprised at the sudden voice as I shook my head and tried to think straight yet again. "You know that isn''t going to work?" The voice said again but this time, I had given up and decided to talk to the voice. "So, that was your real body, can you at least tell me what your orders are now."


    The voice starts speaking with enthusiasm "Oh! So, you aren''t going to ask any more question and just get to the job eh?" I sigh as I talked it''s the voice "What''s the use of asking questions that I won''t be answered." The voice laughs again and begins to talk with a little chuckle coming out.


    "Very good, I will give you that but as a reward for not wasting my time and getting straight to the point, I will give you knowledge about a certain Gura who was here just a while ago." My mind didn''t process that for a bit as I just heard him say those words ever so slowly. "What!?" The voice made a chuckle before continuing "Yes, I had him here as well, he really pissed me off but I decided to let him off the hook with his sister as well.


    They are probably on their adventure in the forest right now, but it''s not a good idea to visit at the moment, wait until you become strong enough to do so." He said as I begun to shake my head up and down, the voice is right, if I were to suddenly get in their way as I''m now, I would only be a hindrance to their process.


    "So, what do you want us to do?" The voice starts to think as it made the hmmmmm sound out loud which isn''t necessary, but I ignored it as the voice made aha! Sound as if he thought up an idea "Why don''t you go to one of my servants, he will provide you with the necessary materials, he should be appearing any minute now..."


    A boy who is of a different race as he has different skin color and a completely different appearance that of a goblin, he is quite handsome I gotta say with his clothing being made out of some expensive material I''m guessing. The clothes are all neatly tucked in, which is the color black, fitting for his appearance, as he has his eyes closed.


    His black hair fits him, as I stare at the person with awe but shook my head and focus on the given task that will soon appear on us. The boy hints for us to follow him, as everyone woken up and were completely on the defensive? "I only let you listen to my voice as talking with everyone would be annoying." The voice said as I tried to calm down everyone "Guys! Calm down, the mysterious person sent him to guide us!" I said to catch their attention, as they put down their guard and begins to follow him without hesitation.


    I saw some girls lying on the ground as well, weren''t they captured just recently when we were in the village? I thought to myself before getting along the way with everyone walking in a neatly filed line.

 Chapter 8: Looks like God is at it again

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    Now, I wonder where Leon got those clothes from? The clothes were outstanding, I mean come on, if you were ever a tailor clothes I''m pretty sure you would call this stuff close to perfection. Well, people have different tastes and all but one thing is for sure as many people probably asked first, where the hell did he get the materials for this shit!?


    I mean come on Leon! You were just born a couple of hours ago! And somehow you become our leading producer in making materials! You guys think I''m joking?! Well, let''s see what he had made shall we? I said as my vision gone to where Leon was, as I see a large pile of weapons and clothes, with armor made out some sort of improvised materials.


    The armor looked very well camouflaged as it would fit in with the forestry green color and would be hard to spot if position correctly. Not only are they high quality material formed but they were also done quickly when Leon went into hiding to make some stuff, it seemed to be masterfully crafted as well.


    Something tells me that the liquid he forms aren''t only for poisoning and healing as well, maybe they have some sort of buffing effect. Maybe something similar to enchanting things in this world, Elucidata had told me about this before in the past about the capabilities of magic as of right now.


    But that doesn''t add up, there is something missing, like the type of materials used to create all of this stuff as I pay even more attention to the armor plating, clothes, weapons to see what it is. The things used to create these items are made out of some sort of leaf that would fit more like hardening scales from a snake but I know they are leaves.


    The type of green fits the leaf part and doesn''t resemble scales since it had they are much more of the darker green instead. Really, this makes me wonder, did Leon grow these leaves and used it to make the materials that he is going to give the goblins and everyone else? He must have a special ability that allocates his liquid to grow a plant or something similar and collected the leaves on it.


    If so, then Leon surprisingly has a lot of tools that are for general uses that I didn''t look at, I wonder why I wasn''t able to see it? I looked at the screen for the Teman Mushroom again and see only the combat status which is on the first screen. Wouldn''t that also mean I shouldn''t be able to see Daisy''s scouting potential?


    No, I didn''t check her''s other things, more so I had Elucidata tell me the pros of having her and the specifics about the plant, while for Leon I only looked at the screen. Since Elucidata was kind of busy I took the leisure of doing it myself and only looked through the combat effects, if I looked a little bit longer I could have probably found the producing liquid which makes a small tree with flexible, hard, and enchanted leaves.


    The tree can be cut down to be made into a much stronger version of the leaves and will be the key difference between the leader and the foot soldiers. The tree trunk seemed to be able to change brown to green with the help of some watery substance from Leon and that isn''t all as he can create a different type of plants with the watery substance as well. It makes me completely baffled at how useful Leon is and makes me smile in satisfaction that I made the right choice in choosing which type of plant.


    There are something I wonder, like what kind of freaking evolution path did a fucking mushroom take to get liquid that grows harden tree!?! I sigh as Seria summoned me to an unnatural world with some weird ass stuff, it makes me think about how such a world came to be.


    I coughed a bit to myself before taking a lazy position with my back on the right armrest and my hand on the left one. I looked at all the glowing balls like I''m watching TV and took a glance at everyone perspective since I''m not in no rush to talk with the humans I decided to do this in the mean time.


    From the looks of things, everything is going well with Kona protecting the human girls from above and Crow eyeing the area like a hawk. I summoned Daisy to the throne room as I wanted to have a talk with her first before anything else since she got knowledge that will be essential for my next move.


    "So, Daisy how is the new body for you going?" I said with a carefree voice with an ecstatic countenance that would make anyone believe that I''m just always having fun. Really, this is just how serious my face is ever going to get, well at least not as serious as that time when I was talking with Alex.


    I said as Daisy gotten on to her knees before looking at the carpet right in front of her, the chair was very comfortable but I gotta get off it as I need to have a little chit chat about the scouting reports. It''s not something super important, so I wouldn''t be calling everyone here for a meeting.


    "Come on Daisy, have a seat." I said with my mellow voice that seemed to be capable of chilling anyone out. A table, two chairs, and an umbrella appeared out of nowhere, as I began to sit on the new seat that I had made out of nothing. The power of imagination is an extremely powerful skill, now if only this could be recreated in the real world, then I will be invincible.


    The teacup fit the English style with its small handle as I hold on the tea like an Englishmen and drank out of it. The flavor was that of the lemon zipper, as it gave a bittersweet taste and made me calm down for a bit before I looked at Daisy with a smile.


    She seemed quite reluctant to sit down, so I pushed her over the edge for a bit by saying "You know it''s rude not to accept someone''s invitation to a seat?" Daisy seemed to sigh and took a seat on the chair opposite to me. Now that we got all that settled, let''s get ready to talk about business!


    I know that there is still the human girls I need to deal with, but they can be saved for a later time when I''m able to organize all the scout reports first. That is of utmost important since we will never know when an attack will strike us or if anything that seemed to be dangerous is heading towards our location.


    Making me quite the paranoid fella, I do say myself, as the azure eyes of Daisy lock on to mine without flinching or making unnecessary movement in front of me. Instead of doing something that isn''t benefiting of a lord I watch her with my eyes, until she finally breaks the long gazes we gave each other.


    She seemed to take a large breath and started the conversation "Yes, the body is somewhat strange but I will get used to it, also I''m capable of moving just like before but it seems much quicker." Is that so? I guess that''s what happened if you get a sudden 20 LF point increase but what else is new?


    "Anything else you found out about yourself that you find new, instead of the body? Sorry, I wasn''t specific enough, any new features or abilities that were completely new to you?" I said with my ever so bright smile, while I see Daisy start to think with her hands on her chin and eyes looking down.


    "I think my body strength was increased tenfold as I''m capable of destroying a rock with ease. I am able to control my speed so I won''t have to crash into everything in my way and my body seemed incredibly sturdy now as far as I''m aware of. There is something that I couldn''t figure out though like this strange sensation I felt about this body ever since I got it, it felt like there was an extra bonus and I couldn''t figure out what."


    Hmm, so I wonder what that extra bonus is Seria mind? Giving me an answer? Just as I thought of that, a paper plane came flying into my eye and stinging me quite a bit as I fell onto the floor with pain, until I got up and opened up the paper. I start reading it as Daisy had a question mark above her head, ''Hahahahahaha very funny, maybe you would like to tell that to me in your afterlife. Anyway, ask someone else or try something like getting closer to her, maybe the power of love will release her power, yea if you put your co-''


    I crumpled up the piece of paper and burnt it into a blazing blue fire that cooked it into ashes before I made it disappear. Ah, that felt refreshing, now where were we? I said to myself as my head turns around to see a blushing Daisy that had her hands behind her back.


    "Daisy, what do you have in your hand?" She looked a little bit shaken up as I stared at her with an inquisitive look on my face, I felt a little awkward standing here but I stood my ground and waited for her to answer. "I...need to go." I felt a little shocked because of the sudden goodbye but if she just doesn''t feel comfortable about something I should just let her handle it herself.


    I will get the information about the surrounding place at a later time, I said to myself, while I saw Daisy''s body disappear. I wonder, what is it that Daisy was hiding? I mean, it''s not like she had her panties. I contemplated to myself before giving up, since I''m not very nosy when it comes to other people but that doesn''t mean I can''t wonder.


    As I thought a little longer because she was blushing, so could it mean she actually did have her panties!? That would be awkward alright, I decided if she has them, then it''s a very good excuse to leave without telling me why. Well, that''s extremely unlikely I thought to myself before taking a sip out of my tea again as I made an ahhhh sound.


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    Now, what to do? I thought to myself as the tea started running out and I stopped to think about the situation. Maybe I should really wake up those human girls and get some information out of them, like the location of the surrounding countries or how much bad blood the races have, as Elucidata had also told me about the country''s name but if we don''t know where they are, so what''s the use of knowing them?


    I call Kona through the Hive Mind as she appeared right in front of me with her knee on the ground in a respectful stance. "Well, let''s begin Kona, I want you to bring in the human girls near the tree so I can connect them, can you do that?" I saw Kona shake her head with enthusiasm as her breast jiggled as well.


    Really, that''s a little too much but anyway, I will ask her about the evolution when I''m done with this task. I sigh before I see Kona sniffing the air for some reason like some sort of dog. "What are you doing Kona?" She goes back to looking at me with her eyes "I smell Daisy''s scent, was she here?"


    What the hell? Seriously, what do girls do on their free time for god sake, I said to myself before looking at Kona who seemed to walk towards me and started sniffing around and found yellow panties on top of my seat.....what the fuck!?!?!?!?!?!?!


    A goddess had cracked her ever so expressionless face and laughed, while smacking the ground of her domain in a continuous fashion.


    ...


    What the hell is this!?!? When I was talking with ,master, a paper plane suddenly came flying in and hitting his eye but after that happen, a piece of paper appeared in front of me. The curiosity of the paper took ahold of me as I grabbed it from my hands with it being held on either side of it.


    I started reading the paper as these were the words that came out ''Hello! I''m the almighty goddess Seria and yes I am an actual God, while being your personal love assistant! Don''t crumple up the paper as Lamerian will be doing it to my paper and burning it to the ground.


    Stupid Lamerian for not taking my advice, anyway I will help you with love as some people might say since I have decided that your special ability will be unlocked when you have sex.'' My face instantly gone red with embarrassment at the word as it echoes through my mind, while my imagination is going wild at the thought of master putting his...


    I stop myself from thinking as I hid the paper right behind me as master rips up a piece of paper and throws it on the floor before setting it on fire. Master asks what''s in my hand but I immediately rushed out of the throne room and into my own personal headquarter which had a beautiful red bed with a task and a mirror on a wall next to the bed.


    I sat down and pummeled my own head with my hands at suddenly running away from, master! Why did I do something so stupid! It only makes me more suspicious! I smacked my head on the pillow a little bit more, before calming down and reading rest of the letter ''You probably ran away and yes that was the best option for now, also this paper will be completely invisible towards everyone but you.


    Oh yea, the reason why God is helping you is because it''s interesting and besides don''t you like him?'' Yes, it''s true I do like, master, but we are servant and master it can''t work like that! I said pounding my head as I look at the ceiling above me, why God! Don''t you have any idea that the other three like him as well!


    I go to read the paper again and see that she wrote in new contents saying ''Yes, I have and that should make you even more motivated to beat at least half of them! Since Crow is still having that in the middle phase, and the other two feeling will be a little secret but just do it! The only way you will be capable of getting the new ability I gave to your body is getting laid and kissed!''


    What!? That only makes me feel guilty now! I mean come on, it feels like I''m just using master to gather more strength! I read the paper once more to see even more words, ''Oh don''t worry, if you two aren''t truly in love with each other it would not activate.'' I started thinking heavily on this as I put the paper down and sighed yet again and decided to continue to do my scouting mission and wait for master to punish me later.


    I took a breather before getting up and out of the Hive Mind before my mind shoots out as I am still on one of the trees with my new improved body. I had a fast moving tight green clothes made by Leon, which had no unnecessary decorations. Really, that Leon is too smart for his own good, I bet he would do some sort of experiment which will go horribly wrong.


    I thought to myself before spotting multiple animals which I took note of and made my way towards the location of a frontier village that was set up by the humans. It seemed like it was attacked numerous times by monster, animals, and even other races.


    It makes me wonder if there were other places like this? Like for an example on the other side of the forest, maybe I will say that for sure but we haven''t seen a map in a long time so we don''t know. If only I can get a map things would be much easier, and locating stuff will have master be happy.


    Finding this will make master very happy! Maybe, he would give me an...no no you can''t have a dirty mind, Daisy! It''s only God trying to make you turn into a pervert! I grumbled to myself as the villagers were getting attacked yet again but this time had enough defenders to beat back a bunch of wolves.


    There were some notable humans I see in the village such as one of the swordsmen helping in the defense. It seems like the person had some kind of armor that is different from the lesser armored village defense. I had seen that they were experienced fighters that learned how to fight after days of survival in front of the forest.


    It made me ponder if this person is from Elucidata''s explanation, an adventure that goes out and fights monsters and hunt for dungeons or does that kind of thing. I mean he might have some useful materials I could use, like a map of where we are and that sort of thing.


    I kept in mind about this kind of stuff as I watch them carefully on top of this tree, with my eyes locked on the quite young adventure waving at the guards, who are getting back to their post. I take note of this and think about what I should do first, maybe I could tell master? No! He is obviously still angry about me leaving him behind!


    I need to think about this carefully, should I go up to him as some sort of child and rob him of the map? No no no! Something like that isn''t going to work because he might fight back and then I might destroy his whole entire body with the map. I am not a precise shot like Crow or a master at controlling my attack like Kona.


    Even though I can cause a lot of damage, I can''t control how much damage is caused into the area. It would severely hurt us as we are supposed to have as little attention as possible, and keep ourselves off the radar of some of the surrounding countries or important individual with the power to mess with us.


    I decided to talk with the young adventurer but in a different outfit as this one is a little too suspicious. Good thing I had made a small base for myself and I am the only one capable of reaching there. Just because I have this new body doesn''t mean I lost my ability to get anywhere that is connected to the ground but it''s an upgrade version as I can get almost anywhere now.


    The method I use is quite different as I tested out before, well I should''ve of told master about that as well but some god decided to ruin the conversation! Well, then the method for me to go anywhere now, is that a yellow flower will appear where I want it to be and I will immediately go from the location I''m standing at, to the yellow flower.


    The weakness is that it will be easy to predict where I''m going to beat but I can make as many as I want, so I shouldn''t call that a weakness. I then arrive at my hideout and pick out a set of clothes which has a nicely colored out black skirt with red outlining, as my shirt has the same color patterns.


    A yellow hat covers the top of my head as I have a white umbrella that I bring along in the sun. All of these clothes were just in case we needed to go into populated areas and investigate anything in there. These were made by Leon who was capable of changing the color using the liquid he produced which is basically like a coloring for clothes.


    Leon said before when he first met us that he was able to make plants but none of them are combatant plants like the Iron Leaf Tree. I gotten the flowers located all over the place so I''m able to get to any convenient places with ease so I placed one near the village. I plant them by telepathically putting a flower to the point where I want them to be.


    I was then instantly transported to a small hillside that had grass and some flowers as far as the eyes can see. The hillside lead to a lake where I sat there looking at before getting ready to rise from the ground and follow the guy. That was until someone called out to me and it was the same person who I was targeting for information.


    I looked at him and said in my silent voice as I am not very loud at all, so I tried to talk to him like any normal person. "Hello." I said as the guy was frozen like a statue that would not move no matter what I said, this is awkward...

 Chapter 9: Where should we begin?

    It seems like this week seemed to have the trend of work piling up on me lately, so I had to make this chapter with the little amount of time I have. But thanks for waiting I appreciate it.


    Also, I seemed to have more work to do so expect the next chapter to be in a while.


    One more thing before I leave this author''s note, this chapter mainly focuses on the side characters, so if you are one of those guys that are all about the main character well...live with it.


    Anyways, thanks for waiting for such a long time and here is the chapter.


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    I didn''t say a word but being greeted by such a beauty was a blessing that had my eyes goggling at her body which is near my age...oh wait!? I forgot about introducing myself! Yes, I am Keith Merinca part of the Merinca knight family that has a bit of territory that is about the size of a small village.


    Really, the territory is so small that it gets eclipsed by any other village in the area, and the territory is quite poor in terms of production as we can only make agriculture such things, so we don''t have anything worth talking about. I''m also the fifth son of the Knight that lives there, so our ranking is almost at the bottom when it comes to nobility.


    Being the fifth son gives me almost no chance of becoming the heir that would inherit the title and the territory that my father owns at the moment. So, we are given a choice of leaving the house as we are extremely low in the nobility ranking system, giving us almost nothing to do.


    My 1st and 2nd brother are to stay at the house as the 1st will inherit the land and title while the 2nd is just the replacement in case the potential heir dies. I am glad that it wasn''t me, as taking the responsibility of running a small village doesn''t sound so pleasant at all.


    I would say that my looks are at least decent as I have thick black hair that makes me look completely different from your typical blond or dirty brown hair. Even my parents questioned why I had such a hair but got over it later on but others not so much. My face isn''t too rough looking as well, and the skin of mine is clear white with adventure clothes.


    For an example, the breastplate and shoulder pieces are covering a normal light brown plain shirt. It''s not like being part of a noble family always gives you the benefit of getting money all the time, so I had to make money myself using various methods. One of them has me hunting animals of all kind, such as birds, bear, wolves, deer, and others.


    While the other methods use illegal means which is not something that should be done often or else you want to be captured and locked away. I said reminiscing of all the times I almost got captured, well that in the past, as I redirected my attention towards one of the most beautiful girls I saw up to date.


    The girl was lying with a white umbrella on the hillside that leads to a lake like a flower that just blossomed in the summer, the light beamed on her blond hair as a bewitching face was astoundingly beautiful to the point of catching some unwanted attention. Her breast size was nothing to write home about but it was at least popping out from her clothes.


    The clothes were absolutely gorgeous! I mean the dress in its entirety had the black color that almost showed the darkness with the vermillion red color had made it give out this elusive but gentle vibe I can''t explain. A yellow hat covered the top of her blond hair as I tried to call out to her "H-" but my voice cuts off half way.


    What am I doing!? She must be a noble or something so what''s the point of talking to someone of the higher class than me. I scolded myself as the girl turned around and saw me with just her eyes beautiful green eyes that could easily incapacitate any man that she looks at.


    I''m frozen! What should I do?!? The young lady says with her red lips slowly with a smile perking up as it almost seemed to blind me! "Hello." oh no!!! It''s too much for me to handle! I said to myself while I stand there not moving an inch from my spot, she looked kind of confused at my awkward stare. I guess, I should say something since it would be rude of me not to say anything.


    I scratched the back of my head as I stare at her face and decided to say something "It''s n-nice to meet you." I said with my voice a little shaken up but I continue to look at her with my eyes. "What are you doing all the way out here?" I said as I''m also curious why such a cute girl is all the way out here.


    I mean, we are near the forest that has been long fought by multiple nations and it''s also near B rank in danger. Deep within in the forest are rank B monsters that are capable of shredding adventurers low to high adventures apart. Also, if you don''t know our ranking system, it goes like this G, F, E, D, C, B, A, S.


    An alphabet system is probably the easiest way to explain this but if we were to get into specifics there are more stuff I can tell you. For now, I don''t think right now is the time for such a things so let''s get back to thinking about the response. "I''m kinda of lost and just because I''m a cute little girl doesn''t mean I can''t be here if that is what you are implying."


    She said while puffing out her chest in pride at her abilities which I haven''t seen at all, and I wonder about that. I mean there are people like that as well, I shouldn''t be too surprised at what this world has to offer to me. Like the Witch of Carnage, Yune, who looks just like a little girl but think again, she is one thousand-year-old lady that shouldn''t even be called young.


    I think she stopped aging and stuck with her childish looks, also don''t think I just suddenly met her in some sort of badass ways like a 1 vs 1 or something. She just walked up to me in the middle of me getting some snacks and said: "From now on, you are to follow my orders and give me your snack." And not accepting an invitation by someone like that isn''t going to end well...


    It was the strangest meeting of my life but I got used to it after a while being under her care, to this day I don''t know why she picked up. Anyway, enough about her, what I''m wonder is why this girl is out here but being too nosy is not something I''m interested in.


    "Oh I''m sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Keith Merinca an adventure that is out on a little quest." I said as my composure was kept in a cool setting after the first exchange of words. "Very well, I am Daisy." I looked at her for a little bit and blinked "You don''t have a surname?"


    Usually, nobles have a surname to identify which house they belong to or else we won''t be able to classify which tier of nobility they are. "No, let''s just I want to keep that a secret." I''m guessing she just doesn''t trust me enough to tell me anything about her, quite a cautious one I guess.


    Besides, there is no need to keep my name a secret since I''m just part of a lonely knight family so nothing of real importance. If anything I''m just a no namer in the nobility I would say myself. No real big achievements have been accomplished by me and the only thing that I have actually going for me is the fact that Yune practically gone like ''Hey, you are my bitch now.''


    And if I''m found out that I have connections to the Witch of Carnage then I will probably be burnt on a stake or something. People in the Kingdom of Lativna aren''t very friendly towards them and especially one of the Witch Empress. Oh yea, witches at least in this world, are sub-human species that are always girls with a large mana pool that is completely different from your normal humans.


    They are not like mages at all, they are two different entities that you can''t group together. The reason for this big difference is because they have what we call cores which are crystals that contain a soul. If we were talking about the body, then we would be chatting about the fact they are weaker than an average human.


    Even Yune the Witch of Carnage, had confirmed it herself with me before when I was introduced into the witch society. Anyway, it would be rude to not talk with this girl a bit "Hey, by any chance do you have a map?" Daisy said with her hands behind her back.


    I looked at her and thought about it for a bit since it should be very well known that maps nowadays are expensive. Especially the more detailed ones, is she an new adventure or is she someone that doesn''t know this? Now I''m really curious about her identity and her goal inside the Tiberis Forest.


    I mean if you think about it, finding a cute girl that looks like a noble inside an B rank forest is quite strange in itself. I said as my brain process the idea, well that''s enough thinking and let''s just tell her. "My apologies Daisy but I don''t have a map but there is one in the village I pass by."


    I said as my fingers are pointed towards the way I went just a few minutes ago. Well, the reason for my trip here was to get a certain flower which is the Tankaris flower which is one of the ingredients Yune asked me to grab for her. Yune wouldn''t give any support at all! At least give me a map or something! I sigh as that lady loves torturing me more than anything else.


    Daisy looked at me for a bit before shrugging her head for a bit and followed me from behind as we went back to the way I came from. "So, Daisy why were you here in the forest anyway?" She looked at me and stared into the sky as Daisy begins to talk "Well, I''m on a little errand, nothing really."


    I see, she must be someone capable and was sent on a mission of some sort, but then what''s the point of looking at a map? That doesn''t make sense unless she just randomly walking around in the forest without no map to help her out. That I can understand a little bit,


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    I said to myself as we headed towards the village with Daisy following me from behind.


    ...


    I am Gorna as a goblin that is now serving a master, I have to follow his orders and whatnot to survive out here in the wild. Also, I have to get stronger and repay Gura for what he did for us when we were younglings. I mean what other reason would I become stronger for, it''s not like I''m obsessed with him or anything!!!


    I''m serious! Why do you guys think I would be into something like kissing and all that stuff! I said to myself as a blush appeared on my face with me positioning myself near some bushes. What master was asking for us were to hunt some animals and other things and then bring the dead bodies to the tree.


    He also asked us to hunt some animals to feed ourselves, it''s also another way to gain experience. Well, with our new fancy equipment, I think we might just be capable of doing so. That is depending on the monster since this forest is extremely dangerous with camouflage monsters and animals making it very hard to know where the next strike will be coming at.


    Master gave me this important information before we started the hunt, so I am much more circumspect of my surroundings. I look around to see if there were any threats and wasn''t capable of spotting anything at all. So, I made a hand signal to Goia and ask him if he saw anything.


    Ever since we were young, we had teamwork with Gura teaching us all the information needed for us. Sometimes we had to kill each other because if we don''t, we won''t get food and the grown ups will kill the people themselves. It really was a horrible system they set up but that was something that made us stronger at the cost of each other lives.


    Goia pulled up his hand and points towards a couple of bushes and trees near us as I use my eyes to spot what seemed to be a camouflaged green boar. Really, this should be an easy kill since we aren''t hunting down the more dangerous animals. There are a lot of different monsters and animals such as the Elemental Bear or anything like that.


    Oh yeah, monsters and animals are quite different, in the way that monsters are the ones which absorb more mana which gradually make them stronger. At the risk of becoming more aggressive that is, so they become more dangerous and unpredictable, I found this out when I read about a book stolen from the humans, for some reason I understood it very quickly.


    I contemplated to myself before I made an hand signal with my fingers spread out until everyone got into position. I clenched my fingers into a fist which told the archer to aim the bow and shoot it. The aim was to spot on as the arrow had made a direct hit on the head of the boar.


    Going into its head, usually, for such thick skin like this, an normal arrow wouldn''t be able to pierce it as I had experimented before in the village. But these arrows are made out of a strange material I haven''t seen for, it seems almost stronger than your normal stuff.


    I said as my hands made a signal for the other goblins to secure the area, with our secret training back in the village, it''s an easy task for us to perform. I said as everyone got into position inside the bushes before I walked towards our prey. One of the goblins looked hungry and was about to pounce on the piece of meat but I put my hand in the air which basically told some goblins to hold him back.


    I had asked some escorts to protect the food, while another hunting group which I had ordered to find more food was coming towards us. We were still very careful about our surrounding and rechecked the area twice before giving the okay. The other hunting group brought in some animals such as foxes, rabbits, and other animals for us to eat.


    Master said that he only need one animal and we could hunt to our hearts content to feed ourselves. Also, the boy that we first saw had started building stuff, he said it was a house for us to live in. I wonder, how will it turn out? I thought to myself before ordering everyone to start moving.


    We had moved back to where the tree was and saw the human girls being placed around there. I scratched my head for a bit before putting the boar there and moving my whole group to our base of operation. The place where we set ourselves at was around some trees with a fireplace in the middle.


    Everyone sat down and began to chow down on the food, while I sat there maintaining everything and see if all the things were in order. I got up from the ground as my second in commander, Goia looked at me with his eyes, "Where are you going Gorna?"


    He is probably the only one that is capable of analyzing my orders to the utmost extent out of everyone here and he also has the most combat experience with how well he does against everyone else. Goia is an probably what some would say a natural prodigy, only second to my skills in leadership and fighting.


    He has short black hair that reaches his shoulders unlike his companion with a nice face to go along with that, as a sword fits into his hand. Goia had dark green eyes along with green armor and a green shirt to cover his body. For some reason, he just looks completely different than the rest, who have the hairless and ugly faces. I guess Gura is the same along with his sister Gora as well.


    Goia is a sword wielder and has just about triple his training session, at least more than the rest. "I''m just going for a walk, can you keep an eye on everyone and alert me if there are any troubles." I said as my hand is on the handle of a curved knife that has the same forestry green color of the trees and bushes just like the rest of our equipment. I bring along my backpack full of equipment made for ensnaring, killing, and attacking from a range on to my back.


    Goia looks at me and turns around before waving his hand and sitting down with the rest. I move across the ground quicker than even a wolf with the camp behind me getting farther and farther away from my eyesight. I looked around as I get into a sitting position, which is the one where your legs go across each, I''m between two large rocks and a bush, a tree we above it as well.


    I looked up at the skies, it was quite beautiful with the azure color and clouds floating in the air. I sigh as the thoughts about this sudden change in lifestyle pops in my mind and my new plan on how we are going to survive. My thoughts are suddenly interrupted as a roared had broken the silent night, I get on both of my feet and looked around to see what the hell it was.


    I looked around with both of my eyes to see a bear which has multiple scars and a green body that is five times my height, it sniffs around and moves towards the camp fire! My eyes suddenly go wide at the sight of this beast. Damnit! What should I do! Wait! If I can contact master, then maybe he could come up with an idea to kill it.


    I try using the mind ability which master had done to chat with me and such things, my eyesight suddenly changes from the forestry area with trees that stretched for days, to another room that looked different from the other one which I talked to him in. What I find is an awkward situation between master and a gorgeous woman that have large breast and twin tail red hair.


    She seemed to have a red and green dress that fits with her hair, but she doesn''t seem to look so happy. Her green eyes scowl while they stare at master who seemed to be holding up his head and sighs. Maybe this wasn''t the best time to just appear....


    Master suddenly looks at me with delight as he clears out his throat and stares at me like he found a solution to a problem. "Oh goody! Did you find something Gorna?" He said as the girl still looked at him with those same angry eyes before sighing once again and said: "Master if you are going to keep something secret from someone, do a better job at it and please don''t do it again but I don''t mind if it was me~."


    Master soon awkwardly looks at the twin tail girl before sighing and walking towards my direction as he says "Stop joking around Kona and get back to work, also I didn''t take it!" Master says before teleporting us to a much more private room that is almost completely dark but with a soothing green light above a red table.


    He invited me to sit down with a cup of tea and some sort of circular snack that I have never seen before. I sit down and ate the circular snack which was an explosion of crunchy and sweet flavor I never ate before. "You like it? Its chocolate chip, something I don''t like as much but maybe something that suits you." master said as he drinks a cup of tea when he sat down.


    I ate all of it faster than anything I ate before as I even licked my hands just to get what''s left of it. I then see master looking at me with a smiling face as I quickly got up and bowed "My apologies master!" he smiled before waving his hand at me "Don''t worry about it, just sit down and eat as much as you like."


    Now, what was my reason for being here? Oh, yea! I need to warn master! "There is something that needs to be spoken about!" his face gets serious as the eyes seemed to have changed but he keeps his cool smile that seemed to never break. "What seems to be the problem?"


    He asked as if it was the most natural thing in the world "One of the 3 Kings of the Forest is approaching us!" Master sudden stares at me with blank eyes as if he just misheard me "What?"

 The reason for my inconsistency and this isnt an chapter

    Well, here we go, for all those that have read my FF thank you but what I''m here to talk about is my inconsistency in updating this page. It really infuriates me that I''m unable to finish this one chapter for you guys but work and my own laziness is getting in the way of this chapter being out. When I get home, I want to continue this chapter but I get side track or I''m tired from work or I want to start up a new series. Now, I know this isn''t an excuse but I just want to update you guys on the state of this story, sorry for those that are persistently waiting.

 Chapter 10: So does anyone have a plan? (Last chapter before Hiatus)

    Everyone move with utmost gratefulness without stop, I certainly didn''t teach them this stuff but as said about the Hive Mind, all kinds of information is shared between everyone here. Now, if only such a convenient thing were to exist in my other world and I would be capable of getting such information so fast.


    I lost the storied spirit! Yea, you read it correctly, my inspiration to type is gone like the wind. When I first started as an author, I typed for days and finished multiple chapters but something inside me burnt out and I can''t even put one chapter in a few days. So, I decided to put this story on Hiatus for a couple of weeks or so until I can get back my story spirit, please forgive me.


    This is the last chapter before I leave on my journey to the mountains and learn the reason for why my story spirit is missing so...bye! But depending if I am able to get my story spirit back, I might be able to type out a story sooner than expected but as I said "might". Also, I can see the comments rushing me to come back as I type this chapter out.


    Also, this is an extra long chapter, since I''m going on a hiatus, I might as well go out


    with a bang.


    ...


    "So, Elucidata can you tell me more of the Tiberis Forest?" I said with my eyes staring at the surrounding areas of my small sapling. I really wanted to learn more about this place before I jump right into it. I mean, information is key in just about anything you do, be it trying to figure what''s your next move or researching about plants.


    I made sure to double check with Kona first before I was in the clear, I turned my attention towards Elucidata as she starts signing like always. The signing probably came as a habit of staying with the awesome me, most people who I known in my previous life always slapped me to get that smile off my face.


    [Oh yes, let me explain, this forest is an incredibly special as it''s an important region in the middle of several surrounding nations. Each of these nations wants it so much that they practically thirst over it by having small skirmishes here and there, craving the resources it holds and the tactical position it gives. Naturally, it makes the forest a prime target for expansion but some things are getting in the way of these countries desires.]


    "Can you tell me this reason, even though I can probably guess about one of them but there are other problems as well?" I said with my inquisitive look and my ears wide open to receive the extremely important information. Well, plants don''t have ears so...never mind, let''s actually listen in or else I might miss something.


    [Oh yes, there are three main reasons for this, one of them being the fact that the countries around the forest would immediately respond in ways such as an increase of espionage. Not like that part matters anyway, but it''s more of the fact the surrounding countries will bump up their military and take more direct efforts into retaking this forest as I said earlier, it''s a tactical position that is given for the country that gets it.]


    She stopped for a bit before continuing the conversation by stating the second reason of this seemly non-expansionist agreement.


    [The second reason for this is the presence of the 3 Kings of the Forest, they are a powerful force to be held inside this forestry biome, they are to be capable of destroying armies upon armies that decide to act aggressively inside their lands. Each of them being completely different and separate from one another, as the type and location are different for one another. Two out of the three kings are one the west and east side, while the most powerful out of them is in the middle. The animal¡¯s race are a tiger, bear, and the most dangerous and probably largest out of the three is a dragon but I don¡¯t know if I should consider that an animal. Not only are they powerful but also have quite a lot of intelligent and is capable of speaking the native''s tongue.]


    Elucidata kept her mouth shut for an amount of times as if hesitating to say the final and third reason of it until her mouth finally opened.


    [The third reason is some big shots are not letting any of the surrounding countries even dare to send even an inch of their military inside the place. The ones that guaranteed this place are some of the most influential and powerful leaders in this world. Let me name all of them for you, Yune the Witch of Carnage, Wilka Lonfeart the Emperor of the superhuman empire, Tansarn, and the mysterious Demon Lord Aur who has been rising in the ranks of the demons at a fast pace.]


    I looked at her with one of my eyebrow raisings in an inquisitive manner "How much knowledge do you have? I don''t have the exact number of things you know which is the strongest out of all things considered." I looked towards the surround before shrugging my shoulders in my mind and said: "Never mind, we don''t need an exact number on how much knowledge you possess or else my mind will go crazy, but those are some intriguing things."


    [Is that so master? Very well, ask me anything you like.]


    I smiled once more inside my mind before pinning my eyesight on to Kona as she starts to do stretches like some sort of Olympic participant. I was extremely curious about what her thoughts were so I took a small peek inside that mind of her''s ''Yosh! Let''s train hard and become strong! I mean if I don''t do my job master might punish very well, hehehehehe!''


    I got out of her mind and looked at my plant for a long time before I heard Elucidata cold voice.


    [Hey, you were the one that created her.]


    "Elucidata, I guess you''re right about that part." I said before getting back to work like always and scouting out the area like a hawk.


    ...


    I took a thinking pose as I thought about my options, the situation turned out to be quite a problematic one indeed. I watched Gorna go back to eating cookies as if forest king that frighten her earlier is nothing more than an act. Maybe it wasn''t the best idea to introduce her to modern day snacks yet, I contemplated to myself before I decided it was time to have a little conference with everyone, so we can plan our next step.


    Daisy is probably on reconnaissance, and she might find something worth wild but if this event turns into an emergency I will have to immediately recall her. For now, I will order everyone but Daisy to enter the hive mind and get Elucidata''s opinion on this matter. I moved off from the table and looked at Gorna before sighing and snapping my fingers which made all the cookies disappear.


    Gorna had the face of a child that just got her favorite taken away from her, which I just sighed at. "Gorna, I will give more if you do well okay?" I said as her sad face brighten up before I teleported her out of this place. I instantly teleported to the throne room and sat on the chair before giving the message for everyone but Daisy to have a meeting.


    I sat down and looked at the surroundings before putting up my infamous smile that people could easily get annoyed at. Everyone soon appeared with each of them bowing their heads down but only Elucidata doesn''t bow. Since she is basically my sectary, it gives her a higher position in what you can call my court.


    "So, let''s begin everyone! We don''t have all day, actually, we do since we are basically inside the hive mind which slows down time so we do have all day but..."


    [Ahem!]


    "Anyway let''s get back to business, I have some news for you guys and it''s pretty big."


    [Don''t tell me it''s another one of your pranks master, I heard what you did to Daisy and I''m a disappointed in you.]


    Elucidata stared at me with disdain as if looking at some sort of rapist, seriously I need Daisy to clear up a crime that I never committed! I sighed to myself before shaking my head and looked at everyone once more. "Seriously, I didn''t do it!" I said with my hands up as Leon and Crow are looking at everyone with confusion about what''s going on.


    Kona looked just like a smiling demon that had just exposed her cards but I won''t get torn down by your snitching! I will somehow turn this around you Kona! Just you wait!


    [Oh really, I heard from Kona that you had pranked Daisy by shooting some sort of white sticky hot stuff on the walls and bed, don''t tell me it''s your sem-]


    "Hell no!" I stopped her before finishing her sentence with my legs standing up and arms going back in fourth in denial. I point my scepter towards Kona who is laughing with the back of her hand covering her mouth like a rich girl laughing at the people of lower status.


    "Elucidata, who would you believe more? The hell spawn I created or me?" I looked at Kona who seems to be laughing silently towards the three of us. Elucidata soon went into a deep thinking phase, while Leon just started pulling out a pen and notebook as he started off writing notes about our conversation I think.


    Crow just sat there and pulled out a cardboard that shows a beautifully drawn girl that looked like Crow with a shocked faced. The colorless girl had one of her hands covering her mouth as Crow expressionless face looked between Elucidata, Kona, and me. Crow seemingly tapped her face before making the decision of walking towards me with her taking out another cardboard that was right behind the shocked one.


    The cardboard said ''I''m trust Master!'' the cardboard said before she took one of my hands onto hers and press it between her breast. Holy shit! This is getting out of hand! If things aren''t corrected right now, we will probably forgot about the important announcement I was going to make. But but the softness...


    No, no think about your purpose! I said to myself before getting the courage from the inside of my heart to get back on topic. "Come on! We gotta get back on topic! Seriously guys, I have some important news to talk about and it has something to do about the one of the Three Kings of the Forest."


    All of their faces got serious but the expressionless Crow who holds my hand tightly between her breasts. I still felt the softness but I somehow ignored it and decided to clear out my throat with a cough before looking at all of them with a smile plastered on my face once more.


    "So, now that we got off the topic of me spreading my thing around, let''s get back to what this meeting is about in the first place." I said while looking at everyone and nodded my head before sitting down and taking things at my pace.


    [You think I let you go on this master, so when we are done with this business I''m going investigate matters with the most trusted person around here, Daisy herself.]


    Damn, I have to get to Daisy first before Kona or else things could get very ugly. I took note of this and stood up before walking towards a portal that looked like a magical red door appearing out of nowhere. It had a golden door knob with the outlining marked with golden ropes going around it. I took the first step through the door, the others followed right behind me.


    I looked towards a white table with a cube in the middle of this spacious reflective room. The place looks like it was stolen off a science fiction movie or something, really, maybe I need to redecorate this place.


    I sighed and looked towards the table with the cube as I approached it and stopped right in front of it. Taking my hand I swiped at the cube and made tons of rectangular shaped appear out of nowhere, each of them showing a part of my view range that had skyrocketed when I transformed.


    Taking this into account, I swiped it yet again and made it all move towards my servants who looked at each one carefully. Ever since my territory grew, I was capable of seeing such long distances that I wasn''t capable of analyzing anything too big. Come on, I only just got this upgrade not too long ago and I am not too use to the large range yet until I am capable of using it correctly, it will only be used for looking towards specific areas.


    Good thing Gorna was in the area where the King might be so it will be easier to locate him. A red dot on a point shows the location of Gorna, allowing me to make quick work and find the animal that might cause me trouble, also I have finally gotten around talking about the human girls.


    Seriously, I am being piled up with even more problem until it feels like I''m a boss ordering people around a company. I need to make a schedule later, I thought to myself before looking at the rectangular screen with Gorna eyes closed. I zoomed out and looked around the forest and saw this huge green bear sniffing the ground as it looks around.


    It seemed to have multiple scars from the amounts of battles it has gone through, just how many? If I am expecting a King of the forest than it would probably be over 9000! Anyways, it seems to be moving towards the camp that the goblins set up but at the same time not really.


    The King seems to be moving in the same direction but it seems to be focused more to West North more than anything else. Maybe, the king is going towards the home it laid out or something entirely different. I pondered to myself and continued to think of my next maneuver.


    Since it could be nights curtains for me if I do something to the King, I don''t even think the strengths of everyone here is capable of beating that bear, I can think of a strategy that is incredibly risky but too much is at state. I kept pondering on what to do until I hear the voice of Elucidata talk to the side of me.


    [That is certainly one of the kings of the forest, really, if we were to attack him as of right now, it would leave us as a bloody mess. Since it seems to be moving a little bit more into the north, it probably won''t attack the goblins so the best option is to prepare just in case it does attack us.]


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    Elucidata, repeating what I had in mind since we are on the same track, I might as well continue after this. "Yes, you spoke my mind but what seems to be a sufficient way dealing with an overwhelming opponent with less firepower?" I said the most important question that is needed to be asked as of the moment.


    Everyone had gone into a deep thinking phase, even the jokester of Kona was thinking of ways to get around such a mess. This is going to be a long day....


    ...


    Well, it''s me again Keith Merinca, the boy who seemed to found a beautiful yet enigma girl in the middle of the Tiberis forest. It isn''t all the time you find such a short dangerous girl in a forest, as explained by her but I haven''t seen her skills yet. So, I don''t really know, but what I do have information about is that she seems more like a lost puppy more than anything.


    Daisy seemed to be looking for something and got lost along the way there, so now we are heading back to the village to find a map and help her along the way. I don''t really think it was necessary for me to come with her but you never know what can happen.


    I paced myself back the way I just came from, as the little girl follows right behind skipping the whole entire way. I wonder, how could such a cute little girl that is smaller than be so dangerous? But as I had learned it the hard way to never judge by appearances or else I will get my ass whipped.


    I guess entering the underground with the guidance of Yune, had made me quite a perceptive one in this field. I sighed as my arms were still on my sword just in case something jumps me and Daisy, you never know when you are in such a place restricted to people below B-rank adventurers.


    We walked around for a little bit longer until the sun was about to reach the night, so I warned Daisy of day turning into night and moved swiftly. Daisy caught up with me and soon was even ahead of me, she soon stopped which had created a dust storm that blew into my face. I covered my face ¡°Why did you stop all of a sudden?¡± I said with a question mark above my head.


    ¡°Shhhhhh!¡± Daisy said with her index finger on my mouth to shut me up, I soon looked ahead and saw nothing but I feel like if I don¡¯t follow her orders, things could get ugly. She then suddenly disappeared like she wasn¡¯t there in the first place, I looked around like a child that is trying to find his mother but to no avail.


    Right at that moment, I heard a silent but audio swooshing sound coming behind me, I didn¡¯t take the time to look at it and swiftly ducked. Two large humans-like creatures with fully dark garments and a two-dot smiling face mask flew over me and in front of me. Both of them wear hoodies that cover their heads and just looking at them, you can tell they have a dangerous vibe.


    I didn¡¯t take any chances and moved away to analyze my opponent before anything else, soon enough something caught my eye. It was a body of some sort coming from the sky with extremes speed as it crashes into the ground.


    It shook the entire ground as dusk was sent into the air covering the thing that landed onto the ground, the black garment people jumped away on reaction as they analyze the situation. I and the mysterious people are placed around the crater that formed from the mysterious thing, a dress flutters in the wind as I finally have a good look at the person which was Daisy.


    "Who are you?" Daisy said as she was standing up straight, I sighed and looked towards her, the hands of the small child were across against each other. Her face stern and serious as they focus towards the two mysterious figures with aggression "Who might you ask? That question should be directed towards you!"


    One of the figures says with a girly voice and starts laughing, while doing the same stance as Daisy, it was more carefree and silly, unlike the serious Daisy. The other person standing right next to the one talking suddenly slaps her forehead and looks towards her partner in crime.


    "Seriously, we will never get things done if you keep picking fights with people over and over again." The person said in an educated and polite manner that is capable of making people feel at ease around her. "That is certainly true sister but if we don''t fight we won''t get stronger! If we don''t become stronger than we can''t serve master!"


    "Nice speech but master will still let us serve him even if we do something moronic, and you do have point sister, but you are still missing the larger picture. Master, is someone that will let us stay with him for the sole reason of us being useful to his services. So, if anything we should actually..........hey are you awake?"


    Snoring soon erupts the girl who was talking with conviction and intelligence, I looked at the person right next to the intelligent girl. The girl who had her hands crossed was standing up straight, while her back went up and down, like someone that just fallen asleep standing up.


    The awaken sister hit the other one on the head, it made a loud thump as the other girl grabbed on to her head and looked towards the one that did it. "Hey! What was that for?!?" she said with a question mark above her head "Sigh, why do I have a sister that has muscles for brains?"


    "Hey!! That''s rude!" the girl said before they turned their eyes towards the crater which had Daisy in it. "Why don''t you both shut up, I had enough of your bickering and waiting for your answer." she said that before standing still in a fighting stance as she gets ready to fight.


    "Muscles for brains, why don''t you finish what you started?" the intelligent sister said as she adjusts her position into a more defensive one. "Sister, I was about too, okay!?" she responded before charging towards Daisy. I just walked towards the girl that stood there with her legs standing still on the ground, she didn''t seem too bothered by me approaching her, so I walked right next to her and stopped moving.


    "It must be troublesome having a sister like that." I said with some pity in my words, while the girl sighed and looked towards my direction before signing. "It''s quite an obstacle for me indeed, I wish she was at least a little calmer, but no she is very hot blooded, what about you and that girl?"


    "Well, she was lost in this forest so I was just helping her get a map." she tilted her head a little bit and looked at me "That''s strange, why would she just suddenly waltz inside a forest and for what reason?" she moved her head little bit more "Well, she said there was something that was essential to get for a certain master."


    "Her too? Well, we are on a mission as well, but that doesn''t explain why you are here?" I looked up at the sky and said: "Just a troublesome master wanting her servant to do her dirty work in getting materials." I sighed before looking towards the intense battle between two people of seemly equal strength.


    "So, who do you think will win?" I said with a curious voice "Obviously I would choose my sister, I know her better than anybody, even if she is a meathead that doesn''t make her weak as she is much tougher, faster, and stronger than me." I see her eyes go towards the two girls who is fighting at extremes speed.


    "Also...she has more experience." the girl said as her eyes went towards the two who is starting to wreck the area they are fighting in. I saw the extraordinary duel unfold in my eyes, with each one trading blow for blow. I also like to think I''m at least somewhere near their level, so I can somewhat understand what''s going on.


    Daisy is actually winning in terms of strength as her punches will literally blow the other girl away but some things are missing for her to claim victory. Her movement, for example, is messing up her follow up attacks she throws at the girl, her footwork brings her closer towards her opponents but if she doesn''t move correctly she will never be able to get into an acceptable range where Daisy can hit her.


    Her movement overall is not flowing correctly and it seems like the other girl is adapting quite nicely and counter hitting every now and then. I watched her get one hit in and blowing Daisy away, at least 2 meters away, she is powerful even compared to Daisy.


    I watch as this fight goes out and feel like the other girl is starting to overwhelming Daisy but I don''t see any worry at all on her face. It almost looks like Daisy is analyzing her to the utmost limit, as each punch bounces off Daisy''s arms. "Why don''t you give up!"


    The girl yelled, obviously with a smile through her mask "Don''t get too cocky sister or else it will come back to bite you." the girl right next to me advice her sister "Yea, I know." she said right back but I don''t think she taken that advice to heart. Daisy suddenly disappeared from everyone sight and confused the girl and the one next to me.


    "W-where did she go?!" the girl fighting Daisy said while the one right next to me tried to analyze the situation. Suddenly, a punch came from the side of the girl which instantly blasted her towards the ground and implanted her head into the ground. I almost laughed but kept it under ropes as I was also confused on how she disappeared without any of us seeing it.


    It seems closer to teleportation more than anything else but at the same time, I shouldn''t judge things right away. I intently looked at the situation and saw that other girl...you know what I''m tired of just saying girl so let''s just ask the person right next to me what her name and the other one.


    "By the way, what''s your name?" I said with my ears wide open, the girl looked at me and thought for a few second before saying something "I''m Rina and my sister is Tina, we are twins, you could probably say that we''re one of kind in a whole lot of ways. We''re here because of our master''s orders and that is as far as I''m allowed to talk, nothing else will be said."


    Rina said with her head face downward, towards the ground where her sister Tina is, with a sigh she just watch Tina pull her head from the ground with the mask and hood getting pulled off. What I see was a beautiful emerald hair girl with clear sky blue eyes and green dog ears, something akin to the Beastmen.


    "That was quite nice! I didn''t see you disappear, it almost looked like you teleported but whatever!" she said with her fist smashing against each other until they made a loud thumping sound. Tina eyes suddenly turned ruby red and a weird vibe started spreading from her body.


    I felt this sudden power as my body shivered from the aura she was spilling out, Daisy didn''t shake as much as me but her whole entire body was in a defensive position as to take in the attack. Within a couple of milliseconds, I see Tina go so fast that I thought she was lighting, and when the fist was just about to hit Daisy, a purple bubble shield appeared in front of her.


    "What are you doing sister? If you do something like that, all of your energy is going to be depleted in this fight alone and you won''t be able to complete our mission. Blocking your attack was even more of a pain in the ass already, was that even your full attack?" Rina said with an unwelcome vibe coming out of her, her head tilted to the right just little bit, though.


    Rina''s body disappeared from my side and appeared right next to Tina "Sorry, I got a little carried away." Tina said with one of her eyes closed and her tongue sticking out in a goofy manner. Rina sighs and looks towards my direction "It was nice talking to you, hope we don''t meet in such a strange manner next time."


    She said before my eyes get covered in light, I closed my eyes to stop the light from invading them and reopen them to see the whole entire field which was littered with craters and broken trees from the fighting, all fixed. I was still asking a question towards myself but decided maybe it is better that I ask the person herself for what I just saw.


    "Hey Daisy, let''s get going." I said as Daisy looked around and shrugged her shoulders before sweeping the dirt from the fight earlier and following right behind me. Man, this is going to be a long day, I thought to myself as I got off from the ground and moved towards the direction we were supposed to be heading to.


    ...


    "Do you think master will be angry sister!?" two people run on top of the branches with ease as one of them wears a mask, while the other has dog ears and emerald hair. "Well, what do you think? You did take your time fighting a strong opponent which you didn''t finish quickly. But we still have enough time to quickly investigate the mysterious flashing lights.


    Master wants answers to this phenomenon, so we will give him one, if answers aren''t produced, I don''t think he will be so happy about it." Rina said and quickly covered up her footsteps. They scouted out the entire area, looking for the mysterious light that was reported a couple of days ago but nothing was found.


    Rina stops her movement focus her attention towards a single direction, Tina stops with her and looks at Rina. "What''s wrong?!" she said a little bit too excited "Just some stalkers following us." Rina responded "Is that so? Should we give them a warm welcoming?!" Tina said with her fist smashing against each other.


    "No, if we were to fight with the Tansarn agents, it could get complicated and you don''t want confusing things right?" Rina said towards her sister which made her stop pounding her fist altogether. "Maybe you are in the right sister." she said and continued to move like nothing happened.


    "If they want to start something then they can try." Rina said before making a sphere of purple energy that surrounded both of them and turned them invisible towards the eye. "This is going to be a looooong day." Rina said and moved along with her sister.

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    Looks like I finally came back from the mountains and those monks taught me very well! Now, I will make this announcement of starting Volume 2, it will be full of improvement from and with the added addition of grammar checks! I know right? Well, for those that have stuck through that hiatus of me not working on the chapters for a few weeks or even a month, I thank you for reading and enjoying the trip so far and one last thing, I have the new grammar checked Chapters for 1-10. So, for the new readers that can into this, tell them I can engrish.

 Chapter 11: The Sisters

    "Hey sister, how many people are we fighting going to fight on this trip alone!?" I heard my sister call out to me with excitement in her voice as she seemed to almost drool from the thought of fighting. "Don''t get your hopes too high sis, this is a reconnaissance mission not a raid or helping a strike squad in breaking through enemy lines."


    I said while mountains of foods are compiled into a small magical pouch that master had made using a strange and mysterious method that involves a string. From what I heard, it''s a powerful item that was created by a god or some sort of powerful being but I have no clarification on that yet. If I should be thinking about something, it should be my sister''s large appetite for food, it really distress me when I go try to find something to eat and everything is gone.


    That''s why I made sure to pack more food just in case she goes on another eating spree like last time. "Maybe we''re going to have ten battle or maybe a thousand more!" She ignored my answer and continued talking to herself as her fist pound away at each in continuous fashion.


    "Sigh, this is why you will never have a boyfriend in your whole entire life span." I said to myself but with her super sensitive ears, my sister was able to pick that up as I could tell by her looking at me with a smile on her face. "Oh really sis! I bet you that I could get a boyfriend before you!"


    I look at my sister and made a big sigh "Sister, you should know more than anyone else on how involved I am when it comes to love." she smiled and gazed at me with her blue eyes and said "That''s why I''m going to win!" whatever, I''ll wait until she finally forgets about it and we can go back to doing normal sister stuff.


    ...


    I wake up from that conversation we had earlier before the mission "Damn, why did I have to say such a thing and to make ''that'' relevant yet again." I talked to myself while my purple eyes looked at my surrounding. We were inside the portable house that we had obtained before leaving on this reconnaissance mission.


    My sister is snoring like a pig as she lied down on another bed that was just across from mine. I had set this place up after clearing the area and made sure those stalkers have finally stopped following us, I then set up the barrier before putting down the house.


    That was the less technical way of putting things, there was the scanning sweep I did that shouldn''t be as effective since we are in an area with all kinds of creatures. If it weren''t the fact that I had to redesign my scan to indicate which creature is which, there were some question marks that identified them as unknown creature, those are what I''m looking for.


    The scanning sweep is part of my package of powers, it shows an immensely detailed map of the area inside my head and I''m even able to project to others if necessary. I look through the map that I made improvements too with the added addition of putting names of the people I know and allies that are important in any way.


    A dot that shows the I met earlier...why did I do that? Why did I put him as one of the important people to remember? I said to myself as I forgot to even ask his name! Whatever! We will continue with the plans and I will visit him later on a normal schedule of doing nothing.


    I reorganized everything and look through the window to see the orange sun that had arisen in between the ground and sky, I could tell even with the trees in the way. "Sister! Wake up!" I said in my loudest voice, if I were to make a comparison to how loud it is, it would be around the level of an explosion. My sister falls to the ground as a loud thump is heard behind me "Sister! Didn''t I tell you to wake me up normally?"


    I looked at her and sighed once more "Last time I tried that, it took five hours for you to wake up, do you think I would do it again?" I said in a low monotone. My sister in some ways, is a master at fighting and planing out strategies to finish her opponents in a 1 vs. 1 situation.


    As you could probably tell, I''m a tactical fighter that uses magic as my main source of weapons, it''s versatile and is capable of letting me adapt to situations where I''m not able to. My magic is different from others, it isn''t elemental based like some other magicians I have seen or met, I don''t even know what to call it.


    It allows me to create barriers, hide our presence, seal things, shoot purple light which I don''t even think is light and etc. I also have my trump card just in case things gets dicey for me and my sister, all in all my abilities are just a little too useful in some of the things that I do.


    "Who cares about my sleeping habits! What I really want to know is what we are doing today!" my sister whines at me while her eyes wonder to the window like mine. "Really, if it weren''t for the fact that master spared our lives, we wouldn''t be able to see such a beautiful thing..." I look at my sister and started talking as well "That will be one of the few things you might have said that makes sense for once."


    I commented, me and my sister start moving after we settled down to have some breakfast. She ate half the food, I then again sighed while eating one bowl full of rice before finishing it off with a bottle of water. This is why I brought a whole mountain worth of food, she will gobble it down under seconds I tell you!


    I almost sigh again but figured it was more than enough for a single day and looked at the mess she made. "Thanks for the meal sister!" "Your welcome." I said as my hand-made a snapping sound, a purple bubble appears and covers the plates, it picks all of them into the air before landing in the magic bag.


    I used the magic powers of mine to carry stuff and do normal house work and the such, it''s extremely useful in these kind of situations. I still haven''t figured why my magic is purple and whatnot, so I have been thinking of a name I should call them by, since it might be something that hasn''t been discovered in the world yet.


    "From what I had gathered, we will move into another part of the forest we haven''t scouted and check there, we are not going to fight ANYTHING while we are going there okay?" I had made sure that she remembers that as well, my sister holds the back of her head as she responded with a "Yes ma''am." and burst out of the house.


    I then notice, she is still in her green patterned pajamas, I was already in my battle suit in preparation for any attacks. So, my sister was left with her pajamas still on "Sister come back here now!" I dress up my sister quickly with a two dot mask on her face and green camouflage garments that covers her whole entire body.


    Now that we are prepared for the mission, I began by creating a invisibility barrier that encompasses me and my sister. I want to avoid all kinds of interactions with the Tansarn operatives in the area for various reasons. One of them being that a fight might break out and cause tension between our separate forces.


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    The political situation is also a difficult one to approach since they are one of the more aggressive human nation that taken a more forward approach when dealing with the Tiberis Forest. They had declared it as their territory or in other words a claim and threatens to declare war on anyone who decides to take it.


    It''s a maneuver that is meant to solidify their influence in the area and to kick out any potential greed in taking the land. I don''t think anyone would try to fight a superpower like the Tarnsarn Empire without any proper support. It also doesn''t help by the fact my master and the Witch of Carnage also guaranteed the territory as well.


    And anyone with a good mind knows not to mess with that Witch which almost always seemed to destroy her opponents and the site where they are placed at. Gaining her the name the Witch of Carnage, I made sure to be extremely careful not to anger her under the circumstance that I meet her.


    So, there''s that and also the problem we have back home, master has to face all the other demon lords that have rivaled him. Master is one of the Lords of the End, they are the most influential demons in the world with an overall scary reputation that would make any hero that faces them pee their pants.


    He was granted this title after he had massacred a whole entire clan of demons that had opposed him and killing one or two lords as well. We were in the forefront of it all as well, and let me tell you it was getting quite dicey for us. Doing fighting upon fighting till the bones in our body creaked from just moving was always something my sister wanted, but not so much for me.


    The accurate number of how Lords of the End are about five in total, so yea, it''s no joke getting a title like that. "Sis! I''ve been wondering about something for a while now, what do you think of that boy we met yesterday." my sister looks at me with her eyebrows going up and down while I stopped and she nudge me with her elbow.


    Obviously she forgot the bet that she made herself but I still remember "I don''t like him if that was what you are implying sister, I think of him more so as a friend than anything else, even if I don''t know his name." I set down my boot to crash any sign of me having any sort of relationship that goes beyond friends.


    "Really sis?" my sister makes a sinister grin as we begin to move once more until we reach the site that we haven''t scouted yet. There was just an empty field with some grass and trees along the way, nothing really that would signal a bright light to flash or anything like that.


    I get on to the ground and try to find any kind of traces of anything that is out-of-place or something that is similar. "Sis! I''m bored! Can we fight something?" I hear my loud mouth sister talk to me as I scout out the area. "Shut it, I''m trying to concentrate on trying to look for clues if there any at all."


    I look around just a little bit more on the ground before I spread out the mana inside my body out into the field to see if there are any traces of magic around here. It''s a trick that takes a lot of mana control as I have learned that if you use your mana by not activating it for spells and all that but rather just taking it out of your body, you can still sense it and move it but at the same time you can''t use it.


    When your mana touches other mana that isn''t yours, it senses that the object is foreign and will begin to dispel it. So, I use it as a detector, even though mana is everywhere, mana in a certain area can be thicker than others by a spell that might be used or other sort of things.


    That is what I''m doing at the very least, and it seems like I had found something close to one of the trees but something seems odd about it. I don''t know why but I feel troublesome about it...tsk! Damnit! "Sister! Get down!" my sister''s eyes gone into full serious mode as she ducks to ground pulling me down with her as I set up a bubble shield to defend against the impact.


    An explosion occurs as the mana I had spread out had seemed to activated a trapped that senses mana. My purple bubble shield had blocked a large explosion of orange colors and whatnot with enough mana to fight whoever had done that. I let go of the shield after I figured that the show was over and told my sister to let go of me.


    My sister instantly smiled under her mask as she let go of me and disappeared from my position, I didn''t see where she went but I can probably guess it was somewhere near me. I stood up and used my teleportation spell that lets me move just about anywhere with ease.


    I don''t use it too often because I''m pretty reserved when it comes to mana and care about efficiency. I have the mind map which helps me locate my sister and take me to her location, while I see two other humans that are facing her off, I''m guess they are the Tarnsarn agents.


    What a pain in the ass, do they have like a problem with us or something? I didn''t think about it anymore and moved to her without delay. The location where I teleported too was near one of the tree''s branches that was close by, I can support my sister while not being close enough to attract more attention on me.


    I patiently wait as my sister just stares at the two humans with their black cloak clothes and hoodies. I can tell they are male from the way they move compared to the natural girl who has a different walking pattern. The two of them seemed to be magic users as an influx of mana is surrounding their body.


    You also maybe wondering how I''m able to tell they are Tarnsarn''s agents, well, that''s easy if you look at the design of their cloak they are using. If you focus your eyes just enough, you can see the marking of the Tarnsarn emblem of a Lion growling and standing on its hind legs inside of the shirt.


    My sensitive ears pick up on the conversation that my sister started with a smirk probably behind that mask of hers. "So, which one of you wants to die first?" my sister said as she pounded away her fist. Both of them looked at each and nodded their heads before approaching my sister.


    "Oh, so both of you want to die together, bring it on!" my sister said in an arrogant manner. I sighed as I start my observation of how the battle will go, since they don''t seem inclined to start a conversation, then again, my sister did threaten them so there is that.

 Chapter 12: Trouble on the rise

    I''m sorry for the wait but here you go!


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    My sister is more inclined to pick a fight, especially if they do it first, making it difficult handling her as she could probably thrash a building without even using her full strength. I used a magic spell that enhances my defenses before doing a long-range support ability that buffs my sister''s already insane power to another level.


    I am a diverse mage that is spread out into three different categories when it comes to my magic. The support role comes into play when I use spells like the map from earlier and the invisibility barrier, I can also boost my allies attack and defensive measure.


    The defense category will turn me into an indestructible force that is capable of flicking off attacks from physical and magical attacks like they are flies. If I have to, I can activate the Astral Defense which is my final line, it one of the few things that I''m confident my master isn''t capable of breaking easily.


    The attack category will turn me into a relentless killing machine that if you don''t any good defensive measures things won''t be looking so well for you. Every attack will put you on edge as it''s stronger than any magical ability under the second to last tier of spells discovered. I stare at the battle that rages in front of me as I take in this form, speed, power, weakness, strategy, anything is observed by my purple eyes.


    "You are quite the observant one, are you not?" the world instantly slows down to a halt as a voice comes right next to me as I could feel it right next to me. I put up the bubble shield and prepared to fight against the enemy while I put some spells on myself in a millisecond as I turned my head around.


    I feel my shield drop in a second and my hand is grabbed by a force that is stronger than my physical form. "Hey, calm down for a bit and we can keep this situation at a more surface level state." w-what did he do? My magic was suddenly brought down just like that? I contemplate on what just happens as my surprise must have shown on my face since the person responds.


    "Oh you must be wondering how I was about to break your barrier so easily? Breaking is the incorrect term for what I just did, using the physics of magic, I rewind all of your magic back into your body, you will still have the mana as the spell was just converted back to its original form." h-how I don''t remember no such spelling doing something to that magnitude in my whole entire life.


    It almost felt like he read my thoughts as he answered my question "It''s not a spell, actually, what I did is convert the spell back to its former state that means doing the reverse of a spell.¡± I close my mouth as I am out smarted by someone who isn¡¯t my master, it has been quite a long time, his knowledge extends further than mine.


    ¡°So, who are you?" I said with my eyes finally paying attention to the person¡¯s looks instead of the words coming out of his mouth. The person was dress in all cloaked garments that looked much similar to the guys fighting against my sister but he has a different vibe, something akin to master but at the same time entirely separate.


    It''s like he is a level down from reaching master''s level but there is a large gap between them. One level below master is already scary enough so I wouldn''t say he is weak or anything. I just need to find the correct strategy to deploy against him while he is still at this level and crush him.


    I made it even harder for other people to understand what I am thinking by masking my face with a expressionless face and changed my voice to a monotone one. "Isn''t it quite rude to ask someone of their name but not introduce themselves?" I closed my mouth and kept it shut since we both know that each one of us is on a mission but I already know he works for the Tarnsarn Empire so what''s the point of keeping it a secret?


    "Indeed, why should I keep it a secret even though you figured me out hmmmm." as if reading my thoughts like a book he answers my question and begins to contemplate it inside his mind of his. "Then, why don''t you tell me who you are and we can be on equal footing, if you do that I will happily tell you my name and besides, I have the upper hand if you don''t want to play nice."


    Humph! I figured as much, he is using his strength to push me around like a rag doll. Too bad for you but have something interesting under my sleeve that I had just in case I meet an opponent stronger than me. I will not blow my cover, master will be disappointed in me, if one of his trusted advisor has been discovered on an investigation mission. Teleporting won''t work because of the interference I would gather from this person right next to me and escaping is useless at this point, so my only option is this.


    "I''m sorry to disappoint you but..." I activated the mechanism stuck on the back of neck which isn''t a magic powered tool but something master created himself. A formation of clouds comes from the sky and shoots a purple lighting to the ground which blinds everyone in the area and makes the man let go of me, it creates a massive distraction but that isn''t what I''m looking for.


    "Why have you called for me Rina?" a voice similar to a young boy comes out of the thunder and seemly walked out of it. The boy or should I call him my master walks out of it and puts both of his childish hands on each other as his black hair that reach the lower part of his neck.


    His eyes are just like mine, amethyst colored, he has horns that curve up instead of going back, while, his body size is that of a child. Master wears a comfortable looking black and white suit, while, he wears a mask that covers his whole entire face, it has the simple two dot design that me and my sister have. Such is the way of our mask since master always liked the simpler version instead of the long and decorated kind which holds no value and only makes it look pretty.


    Since we aren''t very well-known amongst the human factions, I thought it would be ideal to call upon master as it would even the playing fields and master is probably happy getting out of the estate and getting a good work out session. Nothing much should be known about us instead of the fact that we are one of the more unknown demon factions that had gained increasing amount of influence in the demon world.


    In other words, we are noobies that had a sudden gain in reputation by killing lots and making others lick our boot. Even if my masters is one of the Lords of the End, it doesn''t mean we did anything of significance in the human territory as of lately to catch their enthrall. So, we could spare a few skirmishes every now and then with the humans until we get our plans rolling. Also, if we kill the witnesses there won''t be anyone spreading anything about us at all.


    I get down on my knees and put one of my hands on my chest while the other one is on my chest. "Stand up Rina, if you always do this when I arrive, you might get attacked by a random enemy or a stray spell might hit you." Master rubs his temple as his eyes go on to me with a sigh just coming out of him.


    "Formalities are more important than being attacked by an underling that is not able to hurt me and if the spell isn''t capable of breaking through my barrier I think it would be fine." I made my one rare smile behind my mask as my head face the ground, he sighs once more. "I also met my limit when it comes to opponents, so, I wanted get some help as blowing my cover isn''t the best of situation or me being dead, and since I know how much you love doing ALL the work back at home when I''m on a mission."


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    I made a smile as Master seemed to have looked passed my masked as he made a big sigh come out of his mask. "Whatever, let''s just get this over with so we could get back to our assignments." He said as something thin spreads out in the air and quick turn this whole entire area into his battlefield.


    "And besides the point, I didn''t think that beacon would be necessary since I had full confidence you are one of the best but I guess we would need to help you get up to scratch with the new players on the field." I felt my heart tugged on as I heard he had full confidence that I would be able to things independently.


    "Sorry master." He looks at me and sighs once more before looking around for a bit as his eyes refocus on me. "Where''s Tina?" Master is much more worried as his voice sounds a little more strained when talking about her. "Well...she is pretty busy right now..."


    A boom of wind burst through the air which is coming straight for us! I take cover as master gets ready to defend against my sister''s onslaught. "Hey! Master! Can we fight! Please! Please! Please!" I can feel the world spin as the tree branch I am standing on bounces up and down as if it was ready to break.


    My sister is holding her prize she got from fighting the opponent earlier, as shown by the two guys struggling to get freed from both of my sister''s arms. My sister let''s go of the two who are tied up by vines that are incredibly tough as their mouths are no exception.


    My sister stuff master''s small body into her breast as she twirls him in a circle as Master''s face is looking a bit dizzy from being thrown around like a doll. "Stop hugging me Tina! I am not a toy for you to throw around!" my sister starts giggling as she puts him down and puts her hand behind her back.


    "So, sister, why did you suddenly call master?" my sister ask me as she focus her attention on our little master. Looks can be deceiving, especially when you are talking about our Master. "I had faced a problem with my opponent, he seems to counter my way of fighting and would be extensively difficult for me to win the fight without more information." my sister looks at me half confused by what I said and looks towards my master for explanation.


    "In other words, she faced an opponent that seems to have the upper hand when it comes to fighting her." as if gaining a sense of understanding she hits her fist on her palm which made a boom sound as it echos through the forest. "So, who was this opponent you were having trouble with anyway?" Master said as he looked around himself as he searched for the person that I had trouble with.


    "I thought he was right there..." as we looked around no one came into sight and we tilted our heads in unison to find that everywhere we look no one is there. "Did he run away while we were in the reunion?" I asked as Master lets out a sigh as a massive vein pops on his head as he looks at both of us. "YOU GUYS LET HIM ESCAPE!"


    Master had become mad, he looked at our eyes through his mask as the whole entire area felt like it was burning up. "Hmmm, sister do you want to teleport us out?" she looked at me and made a smile "Yea, let''s run away!" grabbed my hand as I had the spell in preparation.


    I instantly casted the spell as my vision changed from a forestry biome to a more field like place with grass spreading out all around us. I knew that Master will be capable of catching up to us so I decided to make a final stand, my sister looked at me and I looked at her back as we both made a smile and said: "We''re dead."


    We both said at the same time as Master instantly appears in front of us with a huge grin on his face. Even with the mask on I can tell very well that me and my sister aren''t going to be treated so nicely, maybe it wasn''t a good idea to call him. "Tina didn''t you say you wanted to fight and oh I brought your prey with me as well."


    He said as he snapped his hand and two worm like things appeared covered by Master''s string, they are the materials that he use to make whole assortment of objects. It''s strange that he is able to make so many things with just strings, I always found it weird but I didn''t question it.


    "You guys were always troublesome, even as kids, I had so much trouble taking care of both of you." He sighs with his hands moving ever so slowly "And that is why both of you need some punishments." Master made a smile as webs surround us like some sort of spider web with no way out.


    Me and my sister hugged each other in fright as the threads got ever so closer to the both of us. "Someone! Please save us!" Master looked at the both of us with a smile on his face as laughter soon fills the air. "MASTER! I think I can find him!" I said with confidence in my words "Oh! Really? Well, then, why don''t we start, I want to keep ourselves as secretive as possible to the humans but if we expose ourselves a little bit it will be fine."


    He said with his feet tapping in a repetitive pattern that continued until I was ready to answer his question. "From what I had gathered from the map that is in my brain, I had him marked, I found out he is still inside the forest and moving at an alarming rate to the borders of the Kingdom of Lativna."


    I continued my sentence as words fluttered out of my mouth to save myself from Master''s wrath. "That''s why I teleported here to intercept him from going into their borders." Master tapped his finger a couple of times on his hip until he started laughing hysterically.


    "Oh Rina, if I was here to capture you, I would have done it when we were on the tree branch, I only teleported here since I put one of my own tracking device on him while he passed through one of my strings." I wiped the sweat on my forehead before getting ready to fight the enemy in which I don''t even know much about. "Now, that we got that over, what kind of information do you have on this individual?"


    I calmed down and gotten my sister off me before I continued my report "Informational wise, we should be in the clear and the individual seems to have some sort of anti magic powers that allow him to interfere with my spells, his strength if anything is strangely strong. I feel like that wasn''t all the tricks he have under his sleeve and I expect him to be somewhere around one of the heroes in this world. I am expecting him to be Tarnsarn agent that was sent out to do the same mission as us."


    Master tapped his shoe on the ground for a couple of minutes before finally deciding to start talking. "We will fight him in an upfront battle and kill him before he gets to the border, I want to make sure his allies don''t get any information he has obtained about us or this forest. And these two will be visiting Eliza for the time being, I made sure she will be presented with something manageable."


    Master said before snapping his fingers and disappearing from our eyes view but I knew he was around here hiding. "This is going to be a loooooong day sis." I looked at her sighed "This will be one of the rare times I''m going to agree with you."