《Watching Grass Grow》Chapter 5: Status, Servants and Races
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Authors Note: As I explained in my message on the last chapter I'm not stopping Ive just been having some trouble finding the time to write these chapters. I just wish I had a better chapter to give you after my 2 week break but my world needs more substance.
POV: Parasitic Seedling
‘Ooowww… I really hope I don’t make a habit of choosing options that unknowingly cause so much pain they cause me to pass out. Ok calm down first let’s check my calendar and find out how many days I’ve spent sleeping.’
*Calendar
14th of Second Sun, Midday*
‘Thinking about it I haven’t actually attempted to understand the common sense of this world, though everything is translated; time, dates, seasons, everything is unknown to me. Maybe my new servant can answer these questions for me, but first how long, if I remember correctly my status screen has an age counter that could work.’
*Status
Rank: Parasitic Seedling
Age: 14 Days
Titles: Landowner, Monster Under the Bed, Deep Rooted
Durability: 90% (Repair with 10N)
Nutrients: 33830
Nutrient Absorption: 201N/hour
Abilities:
· Status System
· Life Blessing
· Character Growth (Currently Updating)
· Grapple Root
· Vampire Root
· Steel Root
· Plant Sight
· Plant Hearing
· Easy Capture
· Invasive Countermeasures*
‘7 days again, am I going to have 1 day were I don’t pass out for a week, well at least the nutrient count was growing all that time. On another note, I have to fix the damage I took in my first battle, it’s been bugging me since I opened the window.’
*Do you wish to repair the damage to your body for 10N? (Y/N)*
‘Yes, now that’s one thing out of the way time to move on to the next thing on the agenda, gathering information let’s see where she is.’
Using my Body Layout tab now update to create a map of my general surroundings I found the nymph in front of the tree I recently conquered.
‘Wait she hasn’t been waiting for me this whole time has she, for 7 days and nights all alone, my goddess this isn’t good I need to see her immediately.’
Traveling along the connection I made with my former adversary I opened my eyes or what can be classed as eyes for a tree and gazed of my new body.
‘What is this?’
[Ellie] “Master I have brought these three to see you, they wish to form a contract with you as I have done and serve you to the best of their abilities.”
*Tia, Maria and Aria wish to form a servant contract with you; they will gain enhanced growth in exchange for their servitude. Do you agree to form the contracts? (Y/N)*
‘Wait a minute, Ellie how did all this happen and where did you get these 3 lolis from?’
[Ellie] “I apologies master for not explaining, these three nymphs live in the area close to you with my evolution I am now capable of exploring at a further distance from my home so I went to see if there were any threats. When I found the first one and explained my story she was inspired to also serve you so she came here, the other two had the same reaction. I sensed when you awoke so I came here to greet my master and to show my loyalty, did I do good?”
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‘Damn that last line should be forbidden by her species, it could be a weapon of mass destruction that rivals the atom bomb. Back to her story these girls saw that my servant has big boobs while still being a nymph and realized they could also get them if they served me, what a shallow thinking species. If I look at these girls they all look completely identical; short green hair, innocent green eyes and childlike stature with a one piece dress crafted from leaves. Seriously even Ellie would be identical except now with her new form her hair now reaches her waist and her flat chest has become a melon field. If her entire species is nothing but flat chests that would be a pity except for those interested in those things, nothing wrong with the childlike body since there older than my grandmother which make them legal lolis, no rule breaking involved.’
‘Need to get my mind out of the gutter and back on topic, so these three want to become my servants like Ellie, I can’t see any problems with it, no loss to me and I get a group of girls to talk with, is it always this easy for an other-world to make a harem. Ok yes I will accept the nymphs requests to be my servants.’
*You have accepted Tia, Maia and Aria as your servants, followers list updated.*
*Followers
· Ellie, Forest Nymph
· Tia, Tree Nymph
· Maria, Tree Nymph
· Aria, Tree Nymph*
‘Ok, so like the ability list I focus on their name and I can get more information from them but currently it’s only there name, species and condition except for Ellie. Now then with that done time to do what I should have done ages ago, nymphs tell me about this world.’
The group of nymphs still recovering from my first message accepting them as my servants were shocked again when the second message arrived, they discussed for a bit then answered.
[Ellie] “Yes master, but beg your pardon what type of knowledge about our world would you like to know?”
‘Hmmm, let’s start with time, seasons and year cycles.’
[Ellie] “Yes master, well a year has 365 days separated equally into 4 seasons Birth, Sun, Leaf and Cold; each season has three periods so you would say it like Third Sun or Second Cold. The season of Birth is when life starts anew, plants grow and young animals are born, Sun is the warm season, Leaf is the harvest season when seeds are released and young leave the nest, Cold is the season of survival were weak plants die and animals struggle to find food.”
‘So it’s the same as back on earth, only the words are shortened and seem to have a deeper meaning behind them, but what about the year?’
[Ellie] “I’m sorry master, I know the years are recorded but the fairy race especially us nymph don’t keep track as we perceive the world differently to other races. I can only say that the other races count the years and couple it with the name of a great calamity or miracle, the last one I heard was Dragons Rage 195. This was the calamity when a dragon became enraged by the humans and demons whose war disturbed his home; he annihilated a vast majority of both armies leading to a retreat from both sides and the dragon eventually returned home.”
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‘Ok plenty of information there; humans, demons, dragons, miracles, calamities and war’s, the next question is so obvious, Ellie what other races live on this world and were exactly do they live, I mean like continents or do they prefer to live in forests and such?’
[Ellie] “Yes master, well to start we are currently on the central continent the biggest continent and one with the most diverse population. Elf’s, beastmen, fairies, dwarfs, humans, demons and dragons all live on this continent though only elf’s, beastmen and fairies are the original inhabitants.”
‘Original inhabitants, I can make a pretty good guess what she means by that.’
[Ellie] “Il start with the elf race, created by Irina the Goddess of Life that master worships, they were tasked to be guardians of nature. Though they still play there role as protectors of nature they don’t worship the goddess anymore due to past incidents. They live in villages hidden within large forests, they are an athletic race that is gifted in magic, there main features are long life spans, long pointed ears and there nature magic.”
‘Ungrateful elitist jerks, how dare they turn their back on the goddess, the one who created them and gave their lives purpose, well Il say it now this part of nature will not bow to their magic.’
*Due to your rejection of the elf race as guardians of nature you have gained Bane of Elfs, neither you or your followers will be affected by nature magic unless you allow it.*
‘I think I made my point.’
The nymphs have shocked expressions after reading the update as they have always seen the elf’s as allies but cannot go against their new master.
[Ellie] “The beastmen race are beings with features from various animals, they have separated themselves based on these features and have created a clan system such as the wolf clan or rabbit clan. They were created by the God of War as such the various clans are always fighting each other to prove to their strength. This race does not use magic however there beast traits grant them abilities that make them some of the best fighters, there beast trait can also affect their life span and personality.”
‘Cat girls or dog girls, maybe wolf girls, no the rabbits definitely, with their cotton fluff tail and long ears, but wait a second what if its more than just ears and tail. What about faces, Il just stick a pin in that for later, don’t want to have nightmares next time I pass out.’
[Ellie] “Next is our race the fairies, as I said before we are more of a natural occurrence so we should be present on every continent. Our appearance and personality depends on our environment as such many fairies in the same area will often look the same. We don’t age but were not immortal either, our link with nature enables us to live so long as our homes is alive, when nature is destroyed in that region we will also die unless we break the link but then we can only last by taking nutrients from other sources.”
‘Literal slaves to nature I guess, but if there appearance changes depending on the environment I wonder how many types there are, should I collect them all.’
[Ellie] “The humans were originally from a continent to the east, created by the God of Light they are a varied race able to use many styles of combat and magic, they also breed very quickly and die just as fast, they are also very destructive. It is said they conquered there whole continent killing and enslaving others, even the fairies on that continent were not safe, it is now called the human continent. And then they attempted to invade the central continent, but were held back due to the demon race that they are currently enemies with.”
‘It’s the same were ether you go (sigh) I know I used to be human but sometimes I think humanity should just die out, not that we don’t have good points; computers, satellites, spaceships we truly are an ingenious race. But if you look back over our history we truly are a bunch of assholes even when everyone was the same species we thought over the most ridiculous of reasons, so I have absolutely no hope for these guys stuck in the medieval ages.’
[Ellie] “The demons are a varied race ironically similar to humans except there personality can be judged on their appearance, but they also share a hierarchy similar to the beastmen were the strongest rule. The demons have 7 major families with the demon king the strongest of all demons as the ruler; I don’t know much about their clans sorry. But all demons have strong physical and magical capabilities add their unique ability available to each type of demon and you have a powerful race. However the God of Darkness was unaware that creating such strong beings will naturally have faults, while they live long there birth rate is very low in comparison to their strength.”
‘No matter how much you try the laws of nature will always restore balance, God of Darkness you should’ve known better a race with that much power will naturally have trouble in other areas.’
[Ellie] “Dwarves are the only non-invasive race that came to this continent, they are short but strong, renowned as the best crafters and use a power similar but not quite magic. They came here simply for trade and research and have expressed no desire for conflict with other races. Though they are complete opposite to the elfs which causes some tension they live in completely different environments which keeps them separated. The dwarves came from the mountainous north continent which they share with the dragon race.”
‘Matches my fantasy image of the dwarves, except for the pacifism but I guess living with dragons will do that to you, don’t want to anger the violent powerful neighbor.’
[Ellie] “Dragons are large, powerful, long lived and are extremely easy to anger, they say insulting a dragons pride will result in everything you know being destroyed, I’m sorry I don’t know more.”
‘It’s ok Ellie, not like you can pass anything onwhen there’s no one left to say anything, but if I’ve learn't anything that’s to keep away from the north and giant flying lizards.’
[Ellie] “Last are the angels the God of Creations children…”
‘Ellie thank you for the information I don’t think I need anymore, figures she would choose that race to represent her in this world, well knock angels off my list of fantasy creatures to do it with.’
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