Day 14
Well, I had had enough of this! Eating raw at was disgusting. Way too disgusting even for . It had almost been two weeks since my reincarnation and I still definitely wasn't used to any of these. Minerva on the other hand was eating it like it was nothing. Then again, a few years eating this would probably make you think nothing of it.
'Ne, ne, Minerva-san! Don't you have any spice for your food?'
"Spice? What is spice?"
'You know, that thing you add to at to make it taste nice.'
"Nice? Add?"
'Uwaa! Agent! Help out here!'
'Eh? Seriously? That easy? Caulala, huh? Where are they found?'
My holographic map popped up and it was in the zones I hadn't explored yet, so I didn't have a detailed mapping of it, but at least I knew where I had to go.
'Minerva-san, can I go out today while you're napping?'
"Hmm? To find the spice?"
I nodded my head in response.
'You see, it'll make the food taste a bazillion tis better!'
"Bazillion?"
'Yes! Bazillion! That's like, really, really big! It'll be so nice!'
"Will it be as good as the elder's?"
'Uhh… I don't know who the elder is, but sure.'
"Oou! Yes! Go out, Tori-kun! Get us spice!"
'Very Well!'
And so my adventure for the day was set. I just needed to find a caulala, grab it and go back to the cave to eat so yummy food. Or so I thought. On my way there, I ran into the hob-goblin mage from the goblin village. Her na was Oda. She was battle sothing called a bull deer this ti. I helped her kill the bull deer, acquiring the skills [Horn Protrusion] and [Stomp]. I thought that would be all for the day, but she ordered the goblins to take the bull deer back to the cave, then tried to follow around.
I decided to ignore this however, but she was scaring the crap out of . I tried flying away, but she ended up finding either way and since I couldn't communicate with her, it was getting creepier and creepier. In the end, I gave up and simply decided to walk next to her since she had no malicious intentions.
"This may be weird to say, but thank you."
The hob-goblin said sothing rather unexpected. I looked at her from the corner of my eye and she was sort of blushing.
'Eh?'
"You may not understand , or even rember, but I think you were a chick when we first t. You saw injured and didn't kill back then. Thank you for that."
'Oi… did I land the kuudere jackpot or sothing? Hob-goblins are really different from actual goblins, huh.'
I was certain that if I could talk, she would be stamring this out like so tsundere. But because I was an animal, she didn't seem to care much. Still, why was she blushing?
"So, I wanted to let you know that, I'll try my very best to help you in your endeavors as well."
'Ah… I'm a chicken, you know? A chicken! You don't try to help out chickens! What possible endeavors could we face? Ah whatever, I can't say no to a cute monster girl in the end.'
I simply nodded for her to know that I understood her.
"You understood that?"
I winked to show her that I understood everything word for word. She really lacked energy in her voice. She was sort of like a machine. Ah well.
It wouldn't take long for us to reach the caulala's area. I would simply nab this creature and go back to Minerva. Normally, I should have asked Minerva to co with, but she might have scared the creature away with her aura.
Lalalala!
It didn't take long for us to hear singing. It was a calming voice, humming a beautiful tune. Slowly, we approached and we were stunned to find 5 large flowers in a patch of grass, singing gloriously under the sun's rays.
"Caulala? Is this your goal?"
I nodded to her question.
"Huh? Does the Mad Witch want this? Ah… never mind. This is dangerous. We can't get the flowers on the Caulala."
I wanted to ask why, but that question was soon answered.
"Water ball!"
Oda scread, shooting a ball of water at the flowers.
'Ah! That will destroy them!'
Or so I thought. The patch of grass rose up, taking the water ball easily like it was nothing, then returned back to the ground, looking like regular grass.
I gulped.
'W-What the hell is that?'
The patch of grass on which the Caulala grew suddenly started to morph. It was waving and from it erged a massive creature. It was a marsh-like thing with yellow glowing eyes and a pissed off attitude.
STATUS
[Na: -
[Species: Caulala Originator Level 21/40
[Status: [Angry]
[Age: 1 year
[Rank: C-
[Race rank: Tier 3
[Titles: |Of World|, |Fertile One|
[Blessings: [Goddess of Fertility, Zengari's Blessings]
[Level: 51
[Health: 1360/1360 Stamina: 5000/5000 Mana: 1100/1100 Strength: 720 Speed: 400 Defense: 790 Dexterity: 520 Intelligence: 40 Luck: 40 Magic: 120
[Skills: [Rooting], [Chorus], [Encore], [Spice splash], [Echo], [Solar Absorption], [Seismic sense], [Whip Lash], [Soothing Aroma], [Voice over], [Spice Storm] [Spore Generation], [Sap spores], [Poison Gas Creation], [Spawn spores], [Co-ordination], [Mana Absorption], [Mana Control], [Amorphous Body], [Earth Affinity], [Earth Magic], [Earth Magic: Stone Shot], [Water Magic Resistance], [Wind Magic Resistance], [Earth Magic Resistance], [Fire Resistance]
'Sa sa!'
I tried to use a simple [Fire breath] attack to check how well it resisted fire attacks and the result was pissing it off. I flew around it, trying to scan for weak points. Vines shot out from the creature's back and they were aiming to whip . I narrowly swerved the first vine, but the second, I wouldn't be fast enough. At least I thought so, but my body glowed with a blue light and my stats went up.
The agent explained for while I dodged the vine. I thought that was cool, but now wasn't the ti to relay that information. I used [Sprint] and [Peck] to try for [Spearhead], but I passed right through the patch of grass. The grass even wrapped around my legs and flung into a tree.
Oda shot a water spear at the creature and it roared at us. She ran towards , probably trying to heal , but the creature went on all fours and the flowers on its back grinned like mad.
'That doesn't look good.'
Oda looked back and her eyes widened.
"Cover your ears!"
She put her hand over her ears and crouched. I did the sa with my feathers, but it wasn't effective. I could still hear it. The annoying sound of caulala singing. Like a coin being scratched across a tal pipe or chalk being scraped across a board. Very annoying, but this ti a hundred tis more lethal.
The sound blasted us so tres away and I lost so health points. I looked at Oda who was still crouching.
At this point, I knew that we were a bad match up against this originator. Our stats and abilities, it had a counter to or they simply wouldn't work, but I still didn't want to leave here without achieving anything. I simply needed to get one caulala. If I couldn't get even that, I couldn't get strong.
I got up and flew towards the originator again. I shot my threads at it, but it would keep destroying them with its vines and whenever I flew in close, the caulala on its back would imdiately use their [Echo] skill to attack . It was tough, but at so point I even attempted flying through the skill.
It didn't work. The originator was however then worried by Oda throwing her water balls at it. I then used my [Timber Wolf Howl] to stun it and shrank myself so my speed would go off the charts in addition to [Sprint]. I managed to get in close and pluck off one of the caulalas, but that was the only part I had planned.
My landing was horrible, seeing as I hit a tree. The originator looked pissed after what I did and it roared even angrier than the first ti. I gulped then looked at the caulala in my claw. It was withering quickly.
'Sa sa! You can't just be dying when I got you! Hey Oda, think we can do sothing about the caulala?'
She didn't understand and was rather busily running away. I followed after her, and the originator gave chase, his caulala destroying everything in his path with [Echo] and [Voice Over].
I threw the dying caulala into Oda's hands and grabbed her by the shoulder, trying to fly off with her. She was heavy. Or maybe I was weak. I didn't know. All I did know, was that we were screwed.
"Tori-kun? Why are you wet?"
Minerva asked . She looked a bit surprised, but her eyes switched to the person behind .
'Uh… long story. I got us spices though.'
Oda brought up the sleeping caulala. It was still in her water ball. Apparently, it wasn't easy for her to keep up that water sphere for so long. It took an insane amount of concentration and mana from her. Although I assud it would be easier to channel a ball of mana in front of her and use the [Water Affinity] to transform that ball of mana into water, rather than constantly pouring mana into forming a shape.
According to the agent, that was a very practical use of mana, but Oda was too dumb to think of it. Or should I say because she hadn't received proper tuition she simply didn't know how to do it? According to the agent it was most likely the latter, given that monsters that evolve and suddenly have the capability to do sothing should have had an instinctive know-how for these sorts of things at a basic level and that instinct could be tainted by soone teaching them sothing else.
That ant, Oda's teacher was dumb as hell. Oda was just a blind sheep following a confused shepherd. I couldn't ask her who this teacher was so I simply ignored it as a matter for later.
Oda was taller than Minerva by a few inches so Minerva looking up at her was kind of cute, but Oda was flinching so bad I thought she was going to pass out. And with good reason too. She had constantly been throwing mana into sothing useless for about an hour now.
I quickly dug up a hole next to the cave and signaled for her to drop the caulala into the ground. She quickly dropped it into the whole and covered it up. Soon, a patch of grass grew around the flower and it started waving around.
Its mouth opened up and it started growling at . To so extent it reminded of the shrubs.
'Crap! I forgot those little guys!'
I was suddenly reminded of my kids. Eh… erhm, servants.
'Well tomorrow will co and I'll go search for them.'
I told myself then looked at Oda. She looked really pale, almost like she was going to die.
'Ah… Oda! Don't die! Minerva. Can she sleep here tonight?'
Minerva's head was tilted, her bangs falling to one side. Her hand was to her chin and she looked like she was trying to figure out sothing.
"Did sothing happen to Tori-kun?"
I looked at Minerva. Why? Had sothing happen to ?
'Is sothing wrong with ?'
Minerva shook her head.
"No. Tori-kun is more… bold?"
'Eh? Seriously?'
She nodded her head and I could only blush.
Well, the reason to what she noticed was probably because of the fact that I now knew what I wanted to do. It may not be well thought out, but I wanted to beco strong enough to end fights like they weren't even worth my ti. To be able to do absolutely anything I wanted. I wanted strength beyond any others. This may sound edgy, but that was my goal and I wouldn't stop till I achieved what I could only term "True Strength".
DAILY ACHIEVENTS
[Tori acquired 50 stat points]
[Tori consud 1 soul]
[Tori acquired 500 experience points]
[Tori added 20 stat points to speed stat]
[Tori added 10 stat points to strength stat]
[Tori added 20 stat points to defense stat]
[Tori acquired the skill [Horn Protrusion]]
[Tori acquired the skill [Stomp]]
[Tori obtained a Caulala]
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