boyutpedia Chapter 36 Post-War Harvest
Chapter 36 Post-War Harvest
What does a large amount of flesh and blood plus the Demon Sword's blood-eating equal?
A wealth of skill experience!
Klein used the magical power restored by these flesh and blood to improve his skill experience, and incidentally planted his own seed throughout the Wild Dog Forest.
However, he only buried them. Klein didn't have enough magic to parasitize all the plants. He only parasitized some plants near the plantation as nutrient packs.
In other words, Klein can now move freely throughout the entire forest.
Klein's skills, except for [Detection], [Identification], and [Parasitism]—which cannot be activated because they have no target—have all been upgraded by 1 level.
[Accelerated Growth LV3: Accelerated Growth works on living flesh to heal injuries, but consumes ten times the mana.]
It acts on flesh and blood...?
So, it can be used for healing?! If Yanami gets injured again, it seems this skill can help her recover, although the magic consumption is quite high.
[Seed LV3: Allows setting and storing commands for offspring plants. Mana cost: 50]
LV2 seeds are storage instructions, which are actions like forward or backward, but LV3 is storage commands... Is there any difference?
Could it be used on parasitic monsters to pre-set commands? For example, to set a monster to attack its prey upon sight?
It's not very clear from just reading the text; it seems I need to put it into practice.
[Remote Control LV2: No need for active activation; mana consumption halved.]
[Perception LV2: Halves mana cost, doubles range. Can grant perception abilities to offspring plants; duration depends on mana cost.]
Should I turn on the daughter plant?
In other words, if we can give the vines of the offspring a sense of feeling, can we combine this with "commands" so that the vines see a specific target and execute the command?
[Magic Replication LV2: Stores 3 spells.]
These three skill upgrades are very straightforward, without any complicated functions.
Klein was most pleased with the improvement in Magic Replication; he never expected that the storage capacity would increase to three.
However, the skill experience for LV3 has now reached 10000 points, which is an astronomical number.
This upgrade already relies on a lot of flesh and blood, so a normal upgrade would definitely take a very long time. It seems impossible to upgrade to LV4 in a short period of time.
Klein had more than enough flesh and blood left by the Bloody Slime to use, but the problem was that there was no way to preserve it.
Before the Demon Sword Blood Devourer could convert all the flesh and blood into magic power, the flesh and blood had already become foul-smelling, and the Demon Sword Blood Devourer could not work on the corrupted flesh and blood.
In addition to upgrading his skills, Klein also gained a massive amount of experience from killing Blood Slimes.
His current level is LV21!
In other words, fighting and killing Blood Slimes gave Klein at least 40,000 experience points.
The Bloody Slime preyed on a great many monsters in the Wild Dog Forest, resulting in a very high level. If it hadn't split into two individuals and had its level divided equally, Klein's improvement might have been even greater.
From LV16 to LV21, Klein has five more options to choose from.
[LV17: The leaves of the rockflower are needle-like.]
It doesn't seem to be of much use?
Let's try increasing the root system's absorption rate by 10%, since the current growth rate is a bit lagging behind.
[LV18: The fruit of the stone-stone fruit, with seeds encased in a stony pericarp.]
Stone-like pericarp? Maybe it will be useful. My seeds are very fragile right now, so I've chosen that.
[LV19: Foxgrass, has a scent that attracts fox spirits.]
What exactly is a Demon Fox? It doesn't seem very useful.
Choose the option that increases toughness by 10%.
[LV20: Wild Bear Chrysanthemum, yellow flowers, sweet taste.]
...A completely useless option.
So, I choose to increase the hardness by 10%.
The randomness is too high; it's always some useless characteristics... This is the last one.
[LV21: The stem of the catching lotus is hollow and can grow underwater.]
This is... a characteristic of underwater plants that I've been longing to discover!
But the Bloody Slime is gone now...
Why is the pillow only brought to you after you've woken up from your nap?
Klein was somewhat emotional, but he still chose this option.
It might come in handy, and the cave safe house is already proving useful. Maybe one day, when another powerful monster arrives due to the demonic tide, Yanami can hide there.
The level increase also improves Klein's base stats.
Besides these, Klein had another improvement he was concerned about.
Individual characteristics upgraded!
Parasitic plants LV3:
【Status Absorption LV1: Absorbs the negative status of the target through direct contact and converts it into magic power.】
Mana cost: 300
Success rate: Increases or decreases with state intensity.
State absorption? Absorbing negative states?
Absorbing the enemy's negative status effects would be harmful to yourself... but maybe it can also absorb your own.
Reincarnated LV3:
[Status Bar LV1: Upon successful detection, the target's real-time status bar will open, displaying their health and mana. Continuous skill.]
Mana cost: 10 points per minute
The status bar is a very useful feature.
This way, we can know the enemy's status in real time.
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Having acquired a new ability, the natural thing to do is to test it out.
Klein's soul traversed the forest via the sub-species network and quickly located the monster that had survived the rampage of the Blood Slime.
A thunderhorn deer.
It was grazing by the grass, completely unaware of Klein, which was supposed to be its food.
Activate skill: Accelerate growth
Klein quietly grew a bullet pod and aimed it at the Thunderhorn Deer.
Pong!
A bullet-shaped seed was fired, but unlike the previous wooden bullets, it was a rough gray.
"Ooh!"
The bullet struck the horned deer in the thigh. It jumped a few times in alarm, but the excruciating pain in its thigh made it stumble and struggle to escape.
They continued to grow at an accelerated pace, but this time their target was the thigh of the horned deer.
"hold head high!"
The horned deer seemed to be suffering from some kind of intense pain again; its injured hind leg stiffly straightened and trembled.
Through the skin, tentacles seemed to be crawling inside, slightly protruding and writhing.
Immediately afterwards, Klein activated his next skill: Parasite.
Success rate: 87%
The operation was successful, and the Thunderhorn Deer is now Klein's servant.
How can it parasitize something that has no seeds?
Actually, Klein used the newly acquired plant trait [Stone Fruit] to strengthen the seed's outer shell, then fired it like a bullet, directly hitting the Thunderhorn Deer's body and initiating parasitism.
Klein's seeds used to be small and fragile, but now they have become hardened and can withstand such a launch.
This is an LV3 seed, so I can take this opportunity to practice the LV3 ability.
But before that, Klein needs to help it recover.
Activate skill: Accelerate growth
When used on a Thunderhorn Deer, its leg stopped bleeding, red flesh gushed from the wound, and then fur grew back, making it look completely undamaged, without even leaving a scar.
The recovery was complete, but in just a few seconds, Klein had already consumed more than a hundred magic points.
That's really extravagant, considering it's protein...
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Having reached LV21, Klein's current stats are:
【Magic Power: 1154】
【Spirit: 97】
【Strength: 45】
[Base growth rate × 145%]
[Base plant toughness x 155%]
[Base plant hardness × 155%]
[Root absorption rate ×145%]
[Mana Recovery Speed ×155%]