The bug would not be the death of me in my second life. I will try everything within my ability to send the bug to its afterlife. I would not gurantee about other but this bug, this bug will never be able to see the light of day tomorrow.
How would I swat the fuck out of this bug, the thought came to my mind over and over time and again. It felt feasible. Swatting it with my branch with full power would probably kill it for sure. The reslove of killing this bug became stronger as this bug was able to annoy me to the fullest extent as well.
But the main problem here was my speed. I was slow as f*ck. My movement was so slow that this bug could see it coming from a mile away. I knew that. I wanted to unalive this little bastard not just scare it away after knowing it was the reason for my exp points going down.
I looked at the bug once again. Closed eyes, full focus, happy expression of that bug was able to push my anger to its peak.
I tried testing this bug. But this bastard kept on ignoring me. It kept on sucking on my energy like it had some right to bite on me and take away my energy away.
I tried moving my branches more heavily. But as my branches was about to swat this bug, it suddenly stopped and looked at the branches with a worried expression. It felt something was wrong. But my swing was not strong enough to reach this but. I panicked and thought that this bug would run away.
However this bug looked at the branches for sometime and continued sucking on my energy. It would never have imagined that the energy rich plant it was preying on was a sentient being that was hell bent on killing it. It had never seen other plant retaliate. And this plant being dangerous for it was not a thought it would ever contemplate on.
The bug thought it would gather as much energy as it could and leave this place as soon as possible. It could feel danger but did not associate this danger with the plant it was feasting on.
As the bug was more focused on sucking on my energy, it did not give any more glances towards the swinging branches. A relaxed feeling washed over me. I waited for the right opportunity to take a huge swing and kill this bastard. I calmly waited for a while like a deadly preadator waiting for its prey to put its guard down.
The moment for my action came soon. The bug fully immersed stopped caring about its environment. As soon as I saw my chance, I raised one of my branches and swatted it with as much force as I could.
I was slow for sure but the bug with its full attention away from the brancher and on the energy it was gathering gave me a advantage. I took a huge swing toward the bug and before it could react to the threat, I was already above it.
Without giving it a chance for retaliation, I swatted it with my full power. It died. It did not even know how it had died.
No resistance, no flying, not anything, it just died. I was happy, now that f*cking bug was gone I could again focus on gathering energy and increasing my level.
Just as I closed my eyes to recover what the bug had taken from me, the mechanical voice suddenly rang once again.
DING....DING....DING....DING....
KILLED A LEVEL 1 KILLER MOSQUITO.....4 EXP POINTS GAINED
KILLED A BEING WITH SOUL....ONE SOUL GAINED
DO YOU WANT TO ABSORB THE SOUL ?
Y/N
There was a lot of information. And out of curiosity for the new type of prompt the mechaical voice gave I said yes.
DING...ABSORBING THE SOUL ....4 EXP POINTS GAINED.
DING .....DING.....DING....LEVEL UP.....
STATUS WINDOW
NAME-AURIEL
AGE-15 HOURS (sapling)
SPECIES-UNKNOWN
LEVEL-2
CLASS-NECROMANCER TREE (EVOLVABLE)
EXP- 1/14
HP- 210
MP- 360
STRENGTH- 2.5
INTELLIGENCE-3.6
VITALITY-2.2
SENSE- 3.2
MOBILITY- 2.05(CANNOT MOVE)
SUBORDINATES- 0
ATTRIBUTES POINT- 2
I blinked many times with a sense of confusion. Not that I had real eyes. After a moment of confusion I started to calculate my exp points. I had four from the cultivation , four from killing that insect and I gained four from absorbing its soul.
The calculations were correct. I was shocked. Killing that damned insect was the best thing I did. If I had disturbed it and let it go, I would not have been able to gain a level this fast. This bug was a gift sent to me from the heavens.
Even though I was ecstatic from the level up, something bothered me. The happiness from the increase in strength was replaced by a sense of worry. What does it mean by absorbing the soul ? How was i able to absorb the soul ?
As I was perplexed the mechanical voice replied still in its stoic voice.
THE INNATE SPECIAL TRAIT OF NECROMANCER.....ABLE TO ENSLAVE OR ABSORB THE SOUL OF THE DEAD KILLED BY NECROMANCER....
OH ! That was what it was about !!! Now it all made sense. The subordinate column below my various stats was weird on the first place. The subordinate column was for the beings I killed and made my slave or as I would like to call, an aide.
NO....YOU CAN GROW SUBORDINATES WITH THE SOUL YOU HAVE COLLECTED OR RESURRECT THE DEAD...
The mechanical voice rang once again but what it said was not making anysense now. Grow subordinates? What the hell...
NOT ABLE TO ANSWER DUE TO USER BEING LOW LEVELED
I wanted to cuss out a few words toward the mechanical voice for giving me such a beautiful answer but I refrained from doing it. I knew it would not react but getting on its bad side would never give good result was what my instinct screamed.
Leveling up twice was not enough. I need to get stronger. I had already levelled up twice now but I could not get any more answers. Even the mechanical voice was making fun of me for being low levelled.
I ignored all that and started to look for the changes that was brought along with the level up. I was for now a low levelled being but with the speed of my level up , I would soon catch up to the level that mechanical voice wanted me to be on. And if one or two of those damned bugs came to me for energy, I would level up even faster.