TW: minor violence. Also, bonus chapter coming in later tonight!
I waited a few minutes after the Laughing Vipers made their way away from me before beginning to try the enchantment process. When they were gone, I made my first attempt.
I imagined the whole process of creating ...
2025-06-08 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, what the hell are these?
Profane Leaf Gloves
Enchantments
o Profane
o Minor Slash Resist
o Minor Pierce Resist
Yes, I kno...
2025-06-01 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as Aspen was asleep, I got to examining the gloves she wore. I really wanted to try poking and stabbing at them to get a better look at how the enchantment on it works, but I’ll have to try that later. For now, I would have to settle with simple visual examinations. Well, and also using...
2025-05-25 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBrom paced his office a few times over. It had been almost three weeks since he had returned from his recon mission for his brother and the lord. Ostlan did not seem pleased by the number of powerful monsters that appeared to be congregating in that area. Brom confirmed there were at least two ea...
2025-05-18 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostShould I make the skill names in text Bold like in the early chapters?
2025-05-18 03:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirst thing’s first, I want to try making mana water outside of my body.
I was perfectly capable of creating it inside my body, as the slowly growing stockpile of the stuff clearly showed. Now I want to see if I can condense the mana outside to see if it will have the same effect or if so...
2025-05-10 01:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostNow that I had Axel’s measurements about his new weapon, I brought the head over to its handle. I used some Body Manipulation to get it properly fixed in and secured in place. There was little else to do to it besides that, some polishing, and a bit of sharpening.
To polish the weapon, I ...
2025-05-09 04:17:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is about what I had envisioned for the axe, except a longer handle, and the handle would be scaled like a snake's body. I couldn't quite get ChatGPT to do it exactly how I imagined, but it's pretty close, and I'm happy with it.
This is also my first paid member's only post. I wo...
2025-05-07 03:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: This is probably the longest chapter I've written so far for this story. Hope you enjoy :)
What the actual hell? Why isn’t this damn metal bending?
I had been trying to shape the lump of iron for almost an hour now. I was going to bring it back ...
2025-05-07 03:02:08 +0000 UTC View Postbzzzzzz
Huh?
bzzzzzz
Go away, I’m sleeping.
bzzzzzz
Oh, for fucks sake! What do you want?!
I opened my consciousness to the world and realized that I had a few notifications demanding to be read.
Through practice, you ...
2025-05-04 17:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t long until the Laughing Vipers were fully awake and getting ready for their day. While I did my best not to snoop on them, I couldn’t help but hear Axel’s absurd snoring.
He was loud enough to attract two sets of Orcs during the night. I killed both groups using a quick surg...
2025-04-29 02:55:54 +0000 UTC View PostI felt disgusted as this new mind invaded mine. My mind was my safe space, my temple, and most importantly, one of my most powerful weapons. It was an affront that this was allowed to happen to me.
I fought with all my might to prevent this tree from merging with me until I realized that wh...
2025-04-28 22:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostBrom couldn’t help but gawk in surprise. Where were the earth golems? Why wasn’t the dryad attacking? These humans and elf seem to have a preexisting, telepathic relationship with the giant tree of the clearing, but the dryad had just spawned a few days ago, so how on Vir is that possible? Th...
2025-04-21 17:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, now that I have my new puppet, I think it’s about time I took some time to relax again.
Rather than leave my new wooden puppet, I made a throne for it to sit in. I only really need it for when I have visitors, and other than the minor rustling I heard earlier, there isn...
2025-04-13 16:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostBrom stood in shock, watching as a giant rock golem sorted through a pile of broken tree branches, seemingly looking for a specific one. It worked quickly, seemingly knowing what it was doing. That was extremely odd, since everyone knew that most golems are actually quite stupid, unless they were...
2025-04-01 02:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostI think I need a personal rebrand. I mean, the Ants were literally all trying to kill me, so I feel perfectly fine with having wiped them out. Speaking of which, I still haven’t found a single ant pile or colony around the clearing. I can see about 80 feet outside of my clearing now, since my r...
2025-03-30 14:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostAfter about a day of serenity, I noticed a bit of discomfort in my branches. It wasn’t much, something similar to what I remember a cold or flu feeling like, but isolated in my branches. The thought of a woodpecker came into my mind, so I just kind of dismissed it. I remember hearing that woodp...
2025-03-28 23:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostElsewhere
“GOD DAMNIT!”
A man was seen throwing a rather impressive tantrum. He just finished brutalizing one of many chained up goblins in a dungeon. The rest were off to the side, cowering in fear that they would be next.
“I prepared for months, no YEARS, and it’s all ...
2025-03-28 23:43:11 +0000 UTC View PostJesus, this growth rate boost is amazing! In only 24 hours, I have grown from being under 50 feet tall to over 80 feet! My trunk hasn’t fallen behind either, standing at almost 11 feet around. And this Giant’s blood has done wonders for my branch growth as well. Each of my 5 main branches has...
2025-03-28 23:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, this guy is too big. Do I really need to kill him? I mean, Club was fun to hang around. What do I really have against this guy? Sure, he stole my kills, but other than the Orc who fucked up my now already destroyed puppet... Oh right... He destroyed my puppet, so he deserves death. Ugh....
2025-03-28 23:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few days of shut eye, I rustled my branches and got back to work grinding my levels. I say that, but I didn’t really have much to do. I checked out my surroundings to find that the Orc corpses had decayed greatly and were being eaten by a few scavenger birds. Other than that, not much h...
2025-03-28 23:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostGiven how often new Orcs keep invading my area in search of food, I doubt that I’ll need to get the monster lure skill I was thinking about any time soon. Knowing that, I decided to hold off for now on getting my level 35 skill or skill upgrade. I just left the notification hanging in the back ...
2025-02-25 05:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostIn order to keep my branches off of the ground, I needed to either get rid of the hobbit hole, which I refused to do for now, or stretch out my trunk. Since I only had one viable option, I needed to figure out how exactly I can do that. So far, all of my growth has been adding on to the top of cu...
2025-01-29 21:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Laughing Vipers ended up staying for one more night before heading back to their city with Lilly. I would miss the lass, but I knew she’d be better off with her father. I couldn’t exactly offer her an appropriate diet, and while I was safe to be around, the forest was apparently picking u...
2025-01-26 02:02:21 +0000 UTC View PostI shouldn’t have said that. I should NOT have said that.
Well, I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Time to tell them I’m actually a talking tree.
While I went through the dozens of scenarios in my mind about possible ways this could go, Lilly came up beh...
2025-01-17 03:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I did was beef up the end of the arms. Doubling the mass would double the force of each hit, after all.
While the pigmen were still sniffing at the air in front of them, I brought my newest toy right up to them. I added two sharp spikes of stone at the end of both han...
2025-01-14 16:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostI stopped listening after the third group of Orcs they defeated on the way here. Apparently, there were a crap ton of monsters rolling in from the south, or something like that. I couldn’t bring myself to care. It felt too much like they were bragging, and didn’t pique my interest. The only t...
2025-01-14 15:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostI kept messing with the woman by flooding various parts of my little structure with mana, then moving it around. I could tell she was following the movement by the way her eyes moved to wherever I moved the mana. She kept tightening and adjusting her grip on her staff with her knuckles going whit...
2025-01-14 15:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostI thought we had more time.
The night was smooth and delightful. Lilly slept and I watched over her and even got to experience her dreams with her. She ended up sleeping until a bit past noon, by my estimate.
While Lilly slept, I focused more on continuing to fix the place up for her....
2025-01-13 03:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostRight when Lilly fell asleep, I put my little plan into action.
I dipped my awareness a little more into my roots than I usually did and started pouring mana into the ground below me. I kept to the top layer of my roots so I didn’t lose track of time, as I tended to do.
When I felt ...
2025-01-13 03:27:14 +0000 UTC View Post