[ Starting area boss spawn ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwppStCID7
[ Progress : 1% ]
' you've got to be kidding ' the earth shook and Yuni confirms with the updating book "The flower has absorbed the wails of the banshees , once it spawns it would let out a giant wail capable of killing numbers and inducing a madness effect on those who survive" ' Looks like I need to weaken it ' Yuni ran to her hut .
She lets out the bugs and casts silence on them ' There's only so much storage to contain all the nutrition sap , so House , I'll need you to drink ' she quickly attaches the syringes to House and throws them to the trees and lets house use it as a straw to drink up all of the tree's health like a parasite .
Every time House finishes a tree , it would pull back the syringe for Yuni to throw back "The area boss benefits from the deaths and evolves from the mad forest , eventually becoming its boss . It will surface and deal with intruders the maddened horde couldn't handle by letting out a wail that will knock everyone unconscious , allowing it to digest the living"
' Normally , I would say that this game is not balanced , but I'm too strong myself , so I can't exactly complain . They're quite good at putting me in a very interesting spot . This is better than those mindless fighting games . '
She threw the syringe to weaken the area boss's food supply and force feed House all of the boss's food ' I better make sure they don't get too full ' Yuni connects her body to House to help assist in digestion .
[ House is evolving ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqcboVWBwFg
[ Pick an evolution path ]
' Right now ? ' she rubs the screen to read the braille while throwing the syringes ' Evolve as a witch hut is useless , if anything , I might need this one right now '
[ Frankenstein's monster selected ]
More syringes appeared and House starts to use them to drink more nutrients from ' Alright you handle this part yourself House ' Yuni takes out the self-updating book and confirms some information ' I can't just guess the location and hope I'm right , I should think of how they will spawn '
[ Named Area boss : Alraune ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrakF4UbXZe
[ Progress rate : 78% ]
"Alraune is the name of the mandrake root , it will only surface and face its foe when it gathers enough nutrients . " ' That's confirmed , but it's really hard to tell where , so I'll just spread my net ' she commanded all her bugs to start eating the roots and alert her of anything '
' They'll eventually surface , so I need to get my things ready ' she tried to claim any rewards , but none of them worked , so she had no choice but to face them with what she's got ' I've got the location '
She ran towards the location and felt petals flow through the air ' Is this Alraune forming their body with the flower of madness ' she reached the location and saw her bugs go crazy . She made them drink some antidote and calls the rest to the location .
[ Alraune : Mutated mandrake plant has spawned ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4EeTRxRhL
[ Quest conditions updated ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn34ysrTOO3
[ Defeat the area boss ]
' Finally ' Alraune swung the vines and Yuni dodged it , rolling to the other side and enchanting the vine with Witch's warmth . Alraune cuts their vine off , fearing the flames ' It's not a great spell , but if they're smart , they can be fooled too '
Yuni smiled and felt Alraune increase in vigor ' Not good ' Yuni threw the enchantments and Alraune swung and cut off their vines to take the hit ' A boss that heals is supposed to be considered cheating , but with my experience , it's just another challenge '
She grabbed the burning vines while continuing her barrage of fake flame enchantments and gathered them into her inventory . She watched Alraune shake their body and figured the attack as the book updates "The mutated mandrake root would uproot itself to let out a shriek that inflicts fear and madness"
Yuni casts spells of silence on the mouth and commands the bugs to start eating the roots that connect to Alraune . Distracting them a little , Alraune tries to retaliate against the bugs and Yuni closes the distance .
Alraune's branches were lifted and Yuni swung her blade , only for it not to cut completely ' I'll need more than one sword ' Alraune lifted a branch full of madness-inducing petals as leaves and slammed towards Yuni and she cut it with two swords , imitating a giant scissor .
Yuni felt the ground move and jumped as Alraune let out another shriek , which Yuni quickly stops . Yuni dropped the burning vines on Alraune , who embraced for defense and felt the flames , but didn't feel it burning or harming them and Yuni landed and dashed away .
Upon realizing the lack of worry to Yuni's flames , Alraune started to use the vines to attack and Yuni used her two swords to cut the vines while throwing more enchantment ' Oh it looks like it figured it out '
Alraune swings their vines without any restraint , going only for Yuni and without a warning , they let out their shriek below to stop the bugs from eating through its roots ' They've eaten enough roots around the boss ' she gives them signs to return and starts her plan to kill Alraune .
She threw bags of liquids towards Alraune as it broke the bags , causing the place to be drenched , Yuni threw more and more witch's warmth enchantments and Alraune refused to back down , not seeing a threat in the flames anymore it accepted it .
Yuni grabbed a lighter and crouched down , avoiding the vines and lit the the cooking oil . Alraune ignored the warmth of the flames and Yuni backed away as the flames spread through the oil scattered across .
Alraune's health decreases slowly as they realize the danger and try to save themselves by connecting their roots to the forest . The loose soil caused by the bugs devouring the roots caused Alraune to sink down . Yuni grabs a bag of oil and throws it to the burning land to burn much more brightly as Alraune lets out one final shriek of madness .
[ Boss cleared ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULfIby4Ayu
[ Rewards being calculated ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8KLy4Mikx
[ Consuming progress on Sobriety , Silence and Mercy for better rewards ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2WVwEKsaL
[ N/A is converting exp into stat stones ]
' Oh so the rewards in these challenges can be converted and one of them even processes the extra exp ' Yuni looked forward to the rewards , wondering if it could be associated with the challenges ' The witch Sabrina did reward me for being merciful '
[ Reward of Sobriety - Mandrake root of healing and flower of madness ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRnts7jx2xw
[ Reward of Silence - Mandrake whistle ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrGh5FQTuH
[ Reward of Mercy - Banshee alarm ]
' They look amazing ' she looks at the reward descriptions ' One rewards things that can cause status effect , the other is a weapon I can blow into to cause madness and then the banshee alarm from mercy is probably related to how the banshees have been freed from the mad forest '
Yuni was very satisfied with the rewards ' Gotta hand it to them , it's relevant to the quest and the lore too ' Yuni turned to the self-updating book and checked to see if they had any new information .
"After player Yuni killed the Mutated mandrake root , the mad forest has lost its name and the banshees no longer spawned from the dead due to the lack of death that's going to come in the future . The mad forest has been restored to a normal forest and thus freeing the forest of the maddening miasma's influence"
' Wait , a satisfying ending ' A shadow was cast on the burning plant and House fell directly on the battlefield . Yuni turned to House and entered ' Guess this means I'll be leaving . I hope this work of theirs is as impressive as they make it to be '
House spreads its wings and flew ' I wonder if the next stage is gonna be a city , if they want to go for an open world approach , it might be hard because of platforms , but since they did just make transportation more pleasant than instant it would make sense that there is some distance '
She goes into the bedroom and falls asleep . The next day , Yuni wakes up to a crowd outside ' Looks like we arrived , but what the hell is this ? ' she hears a lot of whispers and talks about House and who owns it and casts Silence on House and her bugs and blows the Mandrake whistle , causing everyone to faint .
She wears the mandrake whistle around her neck and puts the banshee alarm on her waist ' There's an arena , better head there to evaluate how strong the players are and see how much they've improved in game development ' she entered the arena and registered herself as a participant .
She waited for her opponent to appear . She received a notification ' Humility ? '
[ Reviewing your weaker self allows for more growth ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0sLxGSDzL
[ The opponent facing you will decide the amount of restraint placed ]
' So I'm basically giving them permission to hold me back , but then since it's a challenge I can lose halfway , I have to hold myself back too ' she accepted it and Cosmetics created a gold chain that acted as a necklace and represents humility . Once her name was announced , everyone could view her stats .
" This is amazing , the new gladiator is experiencing a challenge , her stats are reduced because of it , but it's also shown , What's the point of gambling if she's sure to lose " every dumb donkey in the audience simply bet for Yuni's opponent .
' No , she's gonna win ' Haggis thought ' I hate how she forced us to take another quest , but at least I managed to come here in time but I'm so tired from the lack of sleep ' he was irritated by all the monsters he had to kill because of the quest to return on foot .
He bet on Yuni and went out instead of waiting for the results . He goes to the Library to borrow some skillbooks about alchemy ' I didn't learn about these during the first round and I can't exactly contact them when I'm still progressing as a player '
" Please put down your deposit " Haggis looked at his money which was a lot ' She won some of them might be thinking it's unfair ' he left some money as a deposit and went back to the inn .
Yuni smiled with all the money that she got ' Hehe , those stupid idiots really think I would lose , there's more to fight than being strong , even a body builder can lose to a well-trained martial artist '
She heads to the Library ' Since I can't access some of the books I'll just have to figure it out with money ' she looked at the section for alchemy and asked " Oh the books of alchemy were borrowed by someone else "
' I can't believe they got everything are they one of those players who think you can make gold out of stone ? You can do it but that means a lot of effort and time '
She decided to buy some food and alcohol for her sobriety challenge ' I don't have any food left , it's a surprise I didn't get some challenge about temperance or something ' she sat at a restaurant and ate plenty .
' Hunger challenge ? ' she thought to herself , but received nothing ' God damn it ' she continued eating and heard some elves whisper to themselves " That beastkin sure is such a voracious beast , shouldn't they restrain themselves even a little "
' Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to be a character , but how did they even find elves that don't feel like the ones at home , maybe they have a different world tree origin ? ' " Don't they know they should try to be pleasing to the viewers "
' Viewers ? That's not something the kids would allow ? ' she thought it must be a change of heart that let them allow something like this and continued to eat ' I'm out of money , but the food is just so good '
She thinks of some quick cash so that she could deposit enough for the books on alchemy ' That's right , there's that stalker ' she checks the community board and messes with its code so that she could locate Haggis .
She went to the location and knocked on Haggis's door " Oh you're here " Haggis looked at the status screen that appeared after he got curious about Yuni , which displayed Yuni's new challenges and improvements giving him an update on how she went ' So she's also got that huh ? ' "Are you gonna pay for the information about how I got stronger ?"
" I do need to know , but I'm strapped for cash , I just borrowed some books from the library , you don't get to borrow a lot without money to deposit " "By any chance is one of them how to use a mandrake ?"
" Yes why ? " "Then give me ownership and I'll give you this" ' No way does that mean that she knows about the auction ? ' Haggis thought to himself " Actually you can have it for free . I did use money from betting on your win to get this "
' If a capable player like her needs it , it's only natural I should help so that we can win against them ' "Really ?" " Yeah in fact , you can have these now that I won't need them anymore " ' Dang he's a fast reader maybe the kids made a skill for that ? ' Yuni has already forgotten some of Haggis's interaction with her , to be more specific , the fact that he asked how to attain N/A .
Haggis couldn't stand the quiet atmosphere and quickly tied all the books " Here you go , I hope you get stronger Yuni " ' This guy knows how to make connections ' Yuni tapped the diary onto him and gave him the banshee alarm " You're giving these to me for free ? " "It would be a shame to give you nothing after you gave me all these things for free too"
' Now let's head back ' she returned to House and starts to read while forcing the bugs to be back inside ' I should release them , maybe to the prison , they could reward me with something ' the next day she was rewarded by the challenge of mercy which gave her bounty money depending on the crimes the murderers did .
' This is a lot of money , I should be able to splurge a bit and since they did make such a big game under my nose , I should at least play along ' she happily looks for some big spending events and finds an auction ' Oh this one is useful I'd better deposit the rest of the books '
She goes to the auction house and wonders what she should sell ' I don't think the whistle could be useful ' a notification appeared .
[ Sounds made by the whistle don't affect the silence challenge ]
' Then I don't have much to sell ' she thinks of the things House had ' Not all the books don't count as my ownership unless I used some challenge rewards to unlock them , but I could sell this but I highly doubt it's gonna cost a lot if it's just a bunch of recipes , I already have it memorised anyways '
She was guided to a room " Since you are participating in some challenges , we have made all the special arrangements for you " ' They really make service great ' she sat down and wondered who the others were to get the VIP treatment .
' I only got here because of the ridiculous amount of challenges I got , at least the kids are good at making sure the players can stick with the challenges they have ' " For our first item , we got an armor " ' I'll just wait until it reaches the ones I want '
" We got a potted mandrake , it has yet to be harvested , so you can use it as a bomb and later for ingredients . If you survive " that last part was whispered by the host ' I could buy it , but I'm not aiming for that , plus the book was bought for a lot , which is extremely surprising .
" Going once ... going twice ... Sold to the elf at block 34 " ' What !? ' Haggis was surprised that Yuni didn't bid on the potted mandrake ' Did she not want that ? Isn't it practically a bargain ? ' Haggis looked at Yuni , who finally started to bid .
' Noo this is bad this is bad . If I don't do anything , the city could be destroyed ' Yuni leaves with a satisfied load of ingredients for her mandrake and money from the sale of the witch's recipes " YUNI "
Yuni turned to Haggis ' I can't exactly tell her , I know she's not a regressor but a variable that came in . If I show some awareness , I risk having to explain why I know something like this when I don't have the necessary abilities ' from all the tension he blurted out " Can I see what you plan to make ? "
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Haggis was surprised to find himself inside House ' She actuallylet me in !? How relax is she ? But then again , her stats are high . Moreover , she did just claim the rewards from that quest , but what did she do after that ? I haven't gotten to that part yet '
Yuni takes out the mandrake and suddenly it all makes sense ' Of course , she already had it , so she didn't need to go through the trouble fo harvesting the potted Mandrake ' Yuni steers the pot and finishes the potion ' Now this should be good for House better pour them in containers , but what should I do with the flower of madness ? '
Yuni recalls the books she's read and never finding one about the flower of madness . She grabs the self-updating book about the mad forest which had a braille spelling "Completed" underneath the title .
' Not sure what this means ' she skips the entries of those who ventured into the mad forest by opening from the back "The Player Yuni discovered the flower of madness's which had been the cause of the mad forest"
Yuni wondered if she should look for some self-updating books to figure out the lore of the world she is in ' They're probably rare , but I have the incomplete sets on the shelves ' she checks the shelves , which reveal a few books like that .
Haggis was curious about what Yuni was doing and noticed the books ' Wait these books are perfect for telling her indirectly , maybe it's possible for me to indirectly deliver a message to her ' " Can I look at the books you have ? " "Sure"
Yuni said as she grabs a random book and starts reading ' Abandoned Mine ' " Hey Yuni what how about reading this book instead ? I kinda want to know more about the abandoned mines " Haggis said , trying to push Yuni to read .
' I am just exploring but does he want something from the abandoned mines ? ' Yuni takes the book which tells the tale of the legendary high elf ' Oh this one is interesting '
"The high elf prince is a powerful mage who can command plants , they've supplied the army with several weapons made from magical plants which allowed the elves to further increase their military through the improved magic of plants"
' Huh that's surprising , How do the kids get their hands on books like these ' Yuni became suspicious of the books because of the contents ' It doesn't make sense for books like these to be fairytales , it's as if the stories were meant to end '
She looked at the completed book on the mad forest ' This one starts with he discovery of the mad forest and according to the end , the forest's story was ended by me ' she wondered how it was possible for the kids to be able to create such an intricate world .
' I'm certain I've only had them for a while , there's no way they could gather so many people to support it and there are things in here that none of them would do ? I'm a bad mother , but that doesn't mean I don't know all that they are doing '
" Yuni ? What do you think of the story in the book " Haggis asked ' Nevertheless , I'm not seeing a few things right now , maybe I should investigate , try to avoid a bad ending . If it's what I think it is , I'll be satisfied . But if not , I'll beat up my kids for making me go through it '
"It's great , I'm still at the first part though" Yuni continues to read the storybooks "Prince Grasil entered this world of trials and started to make a name for himself" ' Okay I can read the rest later . For now , let's see what it is '
She flipped through the pages and found the blank page and turned one back and read the text "The mandrake was bought from the auction" ' No way ' she turned back to the chapter title page , which wrote .
Chapter title : Dying world tree
The world tree is dying , the elves that never returned home after leaving by the promises of the viewers have hardly bought enough to sustain the world tree . as more and more elves die in the foreign land to never return the lower the soil quality degrades to .
Eventually , the world tree will die soon , the cycle of life and death was being interrupted by the elves' wish to make it big in a foreign land . As such prince Grasil has sent his loyal troops to bring back enough to help sustain it , no matter the cost or method as the ends justify the means .
Only the death can feed the living and this time , Grasil has approved of the massacre to heal the dying tree .
A notification appeared in front of Yuni as finished reading what the text said .
[ No mercy is going to be shown tonight ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVd361qoGY
[ Stop the massacre ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQ5kTCHFJT
[ Reward death of the world tree ]
' What the hell the death of the world tree ? ' Yuni suddenly knew this game wasn't her children's game .
' Even though I let them bring in some disgusting things , they wouldn't go as far as destroy another world's life support . Moreover , the timestamp on this thing is much older than them , so I'm not in the right world '
She was about to break the system until a notification appeared .
[ Help ]
' What ? ' Yuni could feel something prying her mind to read the thoughts .
[ Please don't go ]
' Something is here ' she could feel many intense emotions just from the two notification ' It doesn't feel like the usual cold system , Is it like an AI that evolved and could suddenly think for itself ? '
[ Yes ]
Yuni wanted to vent verbally , but reminded herself of the Silence challenge ' AAaaaAArrRRGGgHH , Fine if I make a fool of myself because of this , I'll just increase the punishment of those kids ' Yuni looked at the storybooks .
' Maybe I should just let it be ' she commanded House to fly to the next location " Wait , what is happening !? " "We're leaving" Haggis was surprised and wanted to just blurt out the deaths that would occur "I just received a quest and it's something I can't do"
" What quest did you receive ? " ' There wasn't a quest before ' "It was to stop the massacre that the elves performed , there was no reward other than the death of the world tree" ' Wait , so there was a reason for the massacre ? '
Haggis knew how bad things would've been at the end if the elves haven't helped them at the endgame . He looked down as he heard the loud shriek at a distance , his mind faltered , but he looked away and turned to Yuni .
' No , I still can't . The only way I can do that is in places without enough interference ' Yuni grumbled to herself in annoyance ' I can't believe I let myself into this mess ' she hears the loud shriek and senses her silence progressing more .
' Whatever , I know those kids , this isn't their doing unless I'm just deluding myself from their laughter and insults later ... They never said parenting is easy , even more when kids are always this wild and disobedient '
She grumbled , thinking of how she disciplines them from time to time ' Now that's comforting , imagining myself beating them all to death is always so relaxing ' Yuni senses around feeling only House .
' I'm starting to miss seeing anything , the stars were always so beautiful every time I look at them , maybe these viewers are like gods who watch the players with interest , if I apply what I know , then they may be able to interfere in some ways there was that interference I'm not sure who or what it was but they did help me or maybe they made things interesting out of boredom '
She went to the rooftop and Haggis followed her . She sat down on a flat section of the roof ' Maybe there will be some benefits in being blind other than not being reliant on it . But for now , I'll stick with the darkness '
She sensed the shriek ' It's at the left ' Yuni turned and heard the loud shriek again ' Good enough , if I can't clear the quest , I'll at least make sure these elves will regret it '
Yuni pinpoints the general location of the Mandrake root , she creates a dark spear , filling its inside with explosive and oil and enchants the spear with fire .
' I'll make sure you lose that expensive mandrake ' she flung her dark spear towards the city . The spear is hidden under the cover of the night and pierced through the houses that obstruct the view . It lands and explodes , killing a few players and npc as well as destroying the mandrake .
' Now I feel satisfied ' notifications appeared and Yuni read it while Haggis wondered what it was ' At least I got something ' the notification disappeared and Haggis wondered what it was .
' What if it was in braille , then the system must be helping her ' Haggis closes his eyes and thinks of the system ' We regressed because of the system and now they're paying attention to Yuni , she did have a lot of challenges ... that means she'll be extremely powerful at the endgame '
Yuni throws some words to Haggis to tell him to leave as soon as they reach thegrounds and turns to the words left by the system .
[ Stop the massacre quest failed ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zJeg8FzQF
[ World tree will continue to live ]
' As expected but the developer of this game should at least make the other quest appear much earlier '
[ The greatest mercy is mercy on self ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboxVp7JTWA
[ The quest escape the doomed city is cleared ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzKyBIs55e
[ Reward : participation to Legend of Grasil ]14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd9IJ08UkX
[ World quest : Legend of Grasil ]
Yuni pushed the button to accept .
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