Reincarnated As A Plant Life Chapter 38 Surveying

"Finally, so real moves," Ghost said in excitent.

​ "Watch carefully," said Lucius, moving a few steps back to create so space. He got into a neutral stance, standing still for a mont as if waiting for sothing, before moving forward with terrific swiftness.

It all happened in one fluid movent, a high head quick followed by a spinning back kick. The ferocity from it alone was enough to send Ghost to the floor.

For a mont she couldn't process what had just happened and stared blankly at Lucius, whose leg was still outstretched on the back kick.

[ 4 Agility.]

"Do you think you can do it?" he asked, putting his foot down gently before carrying on with his work.

"I-I think so yeah," she stuttered, before getting to her feet.

"Great, you can start imdiately since you have nothing else to do," Lucius responded as he weaved a few lines of rope out of grass.

"So how was it again? This leg?" Ghost whispered to herself, trying to imitate the high head kick.

"Start with the other one. Your right leg is better at balancing than your left," Lucius comnted as he bound the remaining pieces of twig to the ladder.

As expected, Ghost couldn't even lift her leg up high enough without falling over. Much less throw it out into an effective kick.

~ At least flexibility doesn't seem to be an issue faced by leafings,~ he thought to himself, noticing that her leg movents weren't restricted. Her lack of balance seed to be the only thing hindering her right now.

"Okay, all done," he whispered, staring at his makeshift ladder. And makeshift it was indeed. The sides of the ladder moved around, making it unstable, and since the twigs weren't of equal size it had an overall skew appearance.

"At least it's sturdy," he comnted, testing whether it could hold his weight. The individual twigs moved around a bit to account for the added weight, but after the initial movent, it stood relatively still.

"Yeah, I just have to be careful," he decided, carefully stepping off it before carrying it toward the droopy branch. After making sure its legs were properly planted into the ground, he began his ascent.

He took each step slowly, making sure to give the ladder so ti to adjust to his weight before moving up. Unfortunately, even as careful as he was, the ladder begin to wobble, and it only seed to get worse with every step he took.

On the final three steps, he quickened his pace, jumping off the ladder onto the branch right before it fell to the ground.

"Getting down will probably hurt," he sighed to himself as he clung onto the branch. Luckily the branch seed to have dried out due to its severed connection with the main tree, so its bark was rough and had many cracks that he could use as platforms to climb on.

[ 8 Strength.]

[ 2 Stamina.]

[ 3 Agility.]

~Yeah, thought so. This feels like rock climbing,~ he thought to himself as he struggled to climb to the top.

After a few minutes, he finally reached the other end of the branch. Though his arms felt like they would fall off at any mont.

"Maybe I should do more bodyweight exercises," he whispered in between labored breaths as he got a look at the surrounding area.

He was currently standing on top of a large branch, perhaps one of the largest in fact. It extended all the way towards a nearby tree, mingling with other branches. He estimated that it was at least 60 centiters in diater, which to him was quite massive.

"It's quite flat," he comnted, as he walked along it.

"But I'll probably need to remove the bark and sand out the bottom to make it flat enough to use as a base for construction," he realized, walking further up the branch.

From here he could see Alpha standing guard a few ters away from camp. He could also Hannibal sitting by himself a few ters off in the opposite direction, and Ghost who was still falling over trying to master the move he had taught her.

"Though I wonder if I can remove this bark," he wondered, trying to rip off a piece of it, but failing to do so.

"Nope, I'll need so sort of tool," he realized, after trying a few more tis.

"I'll also need a tool to cut up a few larger pieces of twig. I can't use them as they are now. They're a little too.." he whispered looking down at his disfigured ladder.

"But what would work as a cutting tool at this size? What's accessible to ?" he pondered, using the moonlight to look around the forest floor.

"Stones?" he wondered, his eyes landing upon a cluster of pebbles a few ters off.

"I could grind them against each other to shape them, but that'll probably take a while. I'm in for a long day's work tomorrow," he said reluctantly.

~Atleast I'm bound to increase my strength points,~ he thought to himself, looking on the bright side.

After slowly descending to the tip of the branch and falling down the rest of the way, Lucius decided to head back to the tent.

"You should co in as well, Ghost. You can continue training tomorrow," he called out before going in. However, she seed adamant about continuing so he left her to it and took a quick nap.

*

The next morning started like the ones before. A few exercises, a bit of stretching, and then a martial arts session. The only difference was that this ti, Ghost was right next to him attempting the move he had taught her last night.

Though if he had to be honest, she seed to be getting worse. Now she couldn't even stand one leg for more than three seconds without tumbling over, and overall her movents seed to be more sluggish.

"Go take a rest, you'll get nothing done this way," he ordered, picking her up and carrying her to the tent despite her protests.