A tree body is really attractive to these pesky insects isnt it. If I had my hands I would swat the life out of these insects but now being bothered by them is the only thing that I could do.
Even leaving them be is not working. If I dont retaliate against them, they will surely chew all of my leaves and leave them riddled with holes. The asthetic of my body would surely be damaged. With this thought I tried to swat these insects.
But something shocking happened. The previously rigid braches that would not even bother to swing along with the wind showed signs of moving. I concentrated my thoughts and tried to move it once more.
To my surprise, it moved. Even though the movement was not much, I could feel it. It moved... I could move my branches now, not by much but.... I COULD MOVE. The thought of moving plagued my mind so much that the will to level up was repressed. I wanted to increase my level as soon as possible but at the same time the thought of movement left me yearn for the extent I would be able to move.
I wanted to be free from this godamn place as soon as possible. This type of sedentary life was out of my personality. I was a free bird wanting to visit places and move without any restrictions. In my previous life I would have never thought that having ability to walk and move is so f*king awesome. Now that i am bound to a place reminiscing about it was the only thing I was able to do. I get angry everytime I try to move and cannot do it.
It had already been more than 10 hours since i came to this place and couldn't even properly adapt the inability of movement. This was something very very new to me. I was like a helpless infant that could not even perform what the previous me would have done with ease.
But now, even though only branches moved and it was not by much, I could move. I was little happy but still get frustrated by the inability of total movement.
I closed my eyes again and started to meditate again. Increasing my level and getting stronger could surely free me of this confinement. Thus I need more experience points to get to next level. But there was still another problem, I was not aware of other ways of getting experience.
So with previous experience, I closed my eyes and let the energy of this planet flow into me through the intricate root system. Trees have their own advantages when collecting nutrients through the soil. It sucked nutrients throughs its small, delicate but numerous root hairs. The tingling sensation of taking in the nutrients was refreshing.
As my concentration was reaching its peak, I was suddenly disturbed by something. There was large glob of energy that I was on the verge of absorbing but the disturbance of the moment made it vanish. A moment before, it was there but I could not sense it anymore.
I felt cheated and opened my eyes and there was a bug crawling up my body. This bug was different from all the previous ones. It was bigger than and even had a shiny armour along its body. I wanted to swat it at once but I couldn't. Even though I could move now, I was not fast enough to swat the little bug. And the little movement I was capable of did not shake it off my body. However I moved the bug would not budge and it even had a smug look look all over its face. Like it was mocking me, telling me that I would not be albe to do anything to it. Helpless, I decided to let it be for the moment.
I closed my eyes again and set my goal to acheiving level 10. Level 10 was a bottleneck that I needed to cross as I was still a sapling with very little vitality and going to level 10 was the only way for me to grow. With a stronger body this bug would not be able to trample all over me. I wanted to gain much more attribute points and allot it all to the mobility stat as it would help me gain the ability to walk again.
I stopped all my thoughts and started to meditate once more in order to reach the focused state again. I was eager as the 0.9 exp per hour increased to 1 exp per hour and 1.4 exp per hour in focused state increased to 1.9 per hour. This meant the distance towaed level 2 got a lot closer.
BUZZ...BUZZZ...BUZZZZ....BUZZZZZZZ...
Amidst my deep meditation I heard a buzzing sound. I wanted to ignore it as it was hard to focus while hearing that irritable sound but I was unable to as I felt something seeping out my body along with the buzzing sound getting louder and fiercer.
I was perplexed. The feeling of something going wrong grew stonger but I couldn't point out. I opened my status window to clear my mind. It had been 4 hours since I last leveled up. My thoughts drifting towards the experience points. I checked the status window for exp points. It should have been 4.5 exp points on there but now there was only 3.8 exp points.
I thought and thought but nothing came to my mind. My calculations should have beem perfect. Why was it so low now. After testing everything only one thing could be related to this anamoly and it was the feeling of something seeping out of my tree body after the starting of the buzzing sound.
It was hard to gain exp points as it was and now it was even slowly being drained. A sudden panic began surfacing in my heart. I couldn't even meditate well due to the anxiety of loosing experience points and the f*cking buzzing sound made it even harder to concentrate.
This buzzing sound was hammering away at my sanity little by little urging me to do something. But its source remained hidden. I felt the buzzing sound directly at my soul. I looked around but could not see anthing.
Suddenly my thought landed on the little bug that was persistently attached itself to me. After looking at it a bit, it showed a elated expression and it was not only attached to me, was it sucking my hard earned experience points away ?