Finding a path to strength and not embarking on it would only mean foolishness. Becoming stronger to increase the rate of survivabilty in this world was already a prime goal that I was striving to achieve and then the mechanical voice had added rankings.
Now I needed to focus on getting stronger as well as appear on the rankings several times in order to uncover the secrets of this world and other so many other questions that bothered me.
I closed my eyes and started to focus on taking in the nutrients. I was shocked. I didnt know I was capable of such feats not for seconds or minutes but hours. Was it because i am a tree now ?
Three hours later, the mechanical voice went off once again. Thus I halted my focused state of taking in energy particulates and listened to what the mechanical voice was going on about.
DING.....LEVEL UP.....
STATUS WINDOW
NAME - AURIEL
AGE - 10 HOURS
SPECIES - UNKNOWN
LEVEL - 1
CLASS - NECROMANCER TREE (EVOLVABLE)
EXP - 0.5/12
HP - 180
MP - 330
STRENGTH - 2.3
INTELLIGENCE - 3.3
VITALITY - 1.8
SENSE - 2.8
MOBILITY - 0.01(CANNOT MOVE)
SUBORDINATES - 0
ATTRIBUTES POINT - 2
This time the mechanical voice brought a pleasant surprise with it. I had somewhat known that getting to next level was just a matter of time but still it provided me with some joy.
I had finally leveled up. I leveled up just after 10 hours of being brought into this planet. With this speed I could get to level 10 and even level 100 in no time at all.
I had seen the status window previously several times but the joy of opening it after levelling up was something different. I had seen it for several times but now I wanted to look for the changes on my status window and see what changes levelling up had brought me.
The 0 behind my level that haunted me for sometime now was replaced by 1. And the other more pleasing thing was that I had gained 0.5 exp already thus I only needed 11.5 exp to level up again now.
What surprised me even more was the amount of exp points required to get to level 2 because from my knowledge the exp points required to go from level 1 to level 2 should have been more but it increased by only 2.
Was it because of me being a tree? I tried to question and waited for the question to be answered by the mechanical voice but it remained silent. Thus I gave up.
I had to see the overall increase in my strength thus I started inspecting all of the stats one by one.
All of my stats related to strength, health, mana increased by 0.3 and mobility increased by 0.009. Why is the increase in mobility stat so less ? It seems that being a tree held its own advantages as well as some disadvantages.
But this first levelling event increased the hp and mp stat by 30 each thus creating a surprising experience.
Most shocking thing in all of this was the attribute points. Attribute points were special. I could assign it to any stat I wanted and increase it without the need of levelling up.
After seeing the different stats at first I thought the attribute points would also be less. I had thought it would be around 0.7- 1 but I had gained 2 attribute points. 2 Whole attribute points it was.
Without a second thought I added the attribute points to my mobility stat. The word cannot move was bothering me too much and I wanted to change it as fast as possible.
DING.....
Accompanied with a little bell sound the attribute point stat once again turned to 0. They were assigned. Thus my mobility stat soared and went up to 2.01.
The word cannot move also changed and became partially move. I was pondering what it was talking about but this time the mechanical voice didnt keep in dark for a long time.
ABLE TO MOVE BRANCHES TO CERTAIN DEGREE BUT CANNOT MOVE WHOLE BODY....
I had figured that much out because the rigidness I felt a while ago was not there or was greatly reduced around my branches. I swung my branches and with swoosh sound it moved. The movement of my branches could be heard now. With this I was closer to one of my goals of being able to move.
I looked at my status window and saw the word evolvable beside my species stat. I had also grown a little after the level up but I was still a little tree.
But the word evolvable was there from the begining and I had noticed it for sometime now. I had to know about it and what exactly did it mean.
I asked my only source of information, the mechanical voice, what did the evolvable beside my species stat meant and it answered once again.
THE USER CAN EVOLVABLE INTO VARIOUS HIGHER FORMS...
CURRENTLY THE USER IS ABLE TO EVOLVE INTO...
1. TREE SPIRIT (DARK)
2. DRIUD (DARK)
3. GUARDIAN SPIRIT (DARK)
4. MAGICAL BEAST (DARK)
5. DARK ELF (DARK)
THE EVOLUTIONARY TRAITS OF A TREE CAN BE ACHIEVED AFTER OBTAINING THE NECESSARY MATERIALS AS WELL AS FULFILLING THE CONDITIONS....
I asked about the materials and conditions for evolving but I was given the silent treatment by mechanical voice. The things I could evolve into were unnatural. Dark was written besides every evolvable trait.
I was a necromancer as well as a tree thus the traits and dark beside them could be somewhat explained. The higher forms that I could evolve into were all related to darkness and nature. It was sick combo.
THE PATH OF EVOLUTION IS TAKEN BY ONESELF...
POSSIBLE TO EVOLVE INTO THINGS WITH OTHER ELEMENTAL TRAITS BUT DEPENDS UPON PATH TAKEN....
THE ABOVE SEEN ARE THE COMMON EVOLUTION PATH OF A MAGICAL TREE...
My thoughts were disrupted by the mechanical voice once again. It gave some information on the evolutionary path that one could take on.
And the summary of what it just said would be how I grow and the steps taken for that growth will determine what I will become.
AFFIRMATIVE....
Mechanical voice cleared my doubt on this matter.
The matter of one's growth, its similar to my previous life. One's environment, how one was treated or one's own choice of path while growing up would turn a person into a completely different being than he was prophesied to be. Life could take a complete 360⁰ turn in just one or two years.
So I would evolve into different traits if I could do fulfill the conditions necessary to trigger the evolutionary path of that trait. And even if I could not trigger any necessary conditions, I could always turn into one of the evolutionary traits given by the mechanical voice.
I thought on this topic for a while but there was nothing specific I could think of. I wanted to be a human again but the mechanical voice had already implied that it was impossible.
I will not be able to transform into a human being but was able to transform into beings like dark druids and dark elfs that probably looked more human than this damned tree body.
The thought of being able to walk on my legs made me happy once again and in order to evolve I had to focus on levelling up again.
More and more things are getting added to the list of my goals. I already had the goal of getting stronger, being able to move and now this goal of evolving had also been added.