My Parasite Skill System

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What found its place, in all this setting, too, was Calming and the other beholders' useless presence.

This place, the forest's core, it was a funny place, so to speak.

If we only speak in terms of trees and vegetation, there's the big tree, loyally protecting and guarding the magic pond against any unwanted interaction, going about spreading most of its thick, brownish branches all around itself, reaching to the sky in both horizontal and vertical way.

All of which was to be done as he also bent up his solid and unshakable main trunk towards us--Or rather, towards the little pond, seemingly protecting it even further.

That tree was huge.

But if anything, it was practically alone.

Weird, right?

That's the forest's heart we're talking about.

Shouldn't there be even more of that deep green color here?

I didn't know.

But be that as natural or not as it may, there weren't any woods too much near us.

It was just a clearing, with a big sturdy tree in the middle of it resting higher on the ground than the others.

Other trees, they weren't quite so near to us.

Turning my face backward, I could see Calming … and the other beholders, the dryads.

Dryads were behind us, too.

I bet they didn't know I was seeing them, but oh well.

They were acting just like the three others back when we met with them. Acting shy or cowardly, or maybe even both.

Going about hiding the best they could--or maybe not the best they could at all--they'd just be there, a couple of meters away behind Calming.

There were trees there too, yes.

The clearing wasn't that big of a clearing, indeed.

And so, a dozen meters away from myself and the helping dryad, Calming was just standing there, being washed by the rains, alone.

Soaked in water, he only waited for his princess' return.

The rain consistently decreased, though he and I, we'd already been exposed to it for a long time.

Rain was light, but soaked in water he was, only awaiting his moment, that he may go back to his folks and take care of whatever needed taking care of.

Sad he wouldn't get the princess back, though.

Having turned towards him and facing him for about ten seconds, now ... without a word, I nodded to him.

Facing me back with his humbled head, he nodded back to me.

Along the way here, I'd already told him what to expect: "The princess might take a long time to wake up, so you be patient, okay?"

"It's fine, really."

"I'm sure I'll be getting one hell of a body, just like Sturdiest Orc."

"To whom might you be referring to?"

"And after that, we just go about our separate ways, Calming."

"Highly intended."

Hmm.

Thinking it was maybe the last time my eyes would meet with his deep and calculating ones, I nodded back at him again.

And he did nod back at me again too.

And in a quick, sudden movement, I turned myself back towards that pond I'd be dealing with from now on.

"Getting my character created!"

My eyes grew serious and, what's more, as weird as it might've looked like, I patted myself on the back, painfully stretching an arm the right way to do so.

"... And starting the Game!"

After I wake up with that … well, I don't even know what to expect in the first place, now that I think of it.

Will I just get a new body, just like that?

Old enlightened me about that, since I got to talk to him about it, but well.

It was still all too vague.

According to the guide, when reaching a higher level, a monster has to obtain nobility, in most cases, if being coped with rationality and sentience.

What did that all mean?

He also talked about a human-like form and the fact that according to him, since ancient times, it had always been that way: among intelligent (and supposedly noble) beings, to compete with each other, yielding tools was just one natural thing one would do.

Thus all evolved with that ability to manipulate tools throughout time.

Much blah-blah, but, I should be obtaining my own human form … then I guess?

Scoffing at myself, I abandoned further reflections.

There was just a pond.

And I needed to jump in it.

"Since everything's been taken care of, big dryad sis'," taking a step onward, "I'll be going then."

"Huhuhu," her usual charming giggling rang into my ears, "That's the spirit, isn't it, now, Player."

My right foot stomped right before the Pond of Vitality.

Let's just dive into it--

Ringing!

And as I just thought I just had to dive into it...

And a ringing sound rang.

❮Notification.❯

Hm?

❮Interact with the quest's object 'Pond of Vitality'?❯

❮Yes/No❯

My eyes squinted.

What was that?

All I needed to do was take one foot after the other, and painfully get myself into that thin space that composed the tiny enclosure of that pond.

As uneasy and unpleasant as it would've been, that's what I needed to do.

Big dryad sis' talked about bathing into it after all, right?

…

But well, what if it was just the way I should go, however?

Maybe I should just let myself be guided into it.

And so… "Of course, 'No.'"

❮No❯

…

Ahem.

Doesn't it need to ask for a second confirmation, though??!

"Come on, Player," waving with her hands towards me from behind, "You just have to bathe in it."

Oh, hm.

What if that notification won't come again?

"I … I know, I know," taking a step back, then a step back onward again, "Ahem."

Ring.

❮Interact with the quest's object 'Pond of Vitality'?❯

Phew.

It came again.

❮Yes/No❯

Stomping with my right foot at the same spot, right before it'd go and dive into the pond, the same ringing sound came out in my mind.

"I choose ... 'Yes.'"

❮Yes❯

And this time about, I chose 'Yes.'

…

I waited.

Extending my arms in front of my eyes … "Meh."

Nothing happened.

"Yeah, well."

That was that I guess.

"I'll just have to get this over with by myself, huh."

Without letting myself feel down whatsoever, "Hoh!

"Hoh!

"Hoh!"

Swinging my waist from left to right, lining it up with my shoulders' stretching, "Just gotta enter that myself, yeah."

Having just finished to get this neck of mine cracked too, I was ready to--

"--Woah?!"

The white weird mass of magical energy…!

White fumes of mana appeared again!

But this time about, it was all around me.

"What's--"

Shou--Should I panic?

It wasn't like with big dryad sis' at all, though … I guess?

Panic, you say?

"Wh--"

Erm...?

What was that now?

The princess' lips wouldn't even speak as I ordered them to...

But, hey...

But I couldn't even panic either.

It was weird … I was just … calm.

And I could see.

Upon closer observation, that 'pure mass of magical energy,' as the dryads had called it, it wasn't quite like fumes.

It's more like liquid.

It's white, bright, even sort of glimmering, and floating around me.

It seems to me it's milk.

I don't think Calming could see that from behind.

There wasn't much light due to the stalling over clouds, plus he wasn't near me at all.

Who could see that phenomenon, then, you ask?

Obviously, the one who'd tasted it before too.

But aside from her usual bright big sis' composed and reassuring smile, her lips didn't manage anything else.

Oh … and soon enough, as it was previously only revolving around me--It placed itself upon me, and just vanished.

Well, yeah, okay, it was different from my big sis' experience.

That, I was sure of.

When that thing only violently came rushing at her, seemingly forcefully getting into her--It was quite different with me.

❮Pond of Vitality.❯

My legs were straightening myself up … but soon they brought me down.

Am I being controlled?

❮Pond of Vitality: quest's object.❯

My legs were now crossed, my butt on the earth that wasn't quite so moistened.

❮The Player interacted with the quest's object 'Pond of Vitality.'❯

Yeah, that was right.

It wasn't me, though it still was at the same time…

❮Interacting with the object 'Pond of Vitality,' the Player will move on in the story: warning - no coming back in time will be possible afterward.❯

The Player was just sitting down there, butt on the ground, heeding the guide's notifications.

❮Proceed? Yes/No❯

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