Red Nectar

Sling!

Seth woke up in a sleeping state and then opened his eyes. It was nighttime. He sat with a lot of difficulties and then sighed, today he was going to visit Poison Beauty or die trying.

For the last 2 days, he had been researching poisons from plants and venom from animals. And he came to a pattern.

He glanced at the floating Womb and Will it to come close and it did. Then he raised his and grabbed it.

Ding!

[The Womb has reached the Stage limit of its current Form]

[Will you like to Evolve it?]

Seth stared at it dumbfounded. Was this for real? He wished there was a place where he could ask some questions about this Womb.

"Yes! Evolve it!" He hurriedly said.

Ding!

[To Evolve the Apex Womb you must have some extraordinary Feats on your name]

This flashed in Seth's face, and also the Womb in his hand began to exude a pressure that rattled his body.

Apex Wombs were the ultimate Womb known in Asteroids Online because they can only be obtained from the oldest Dragon in its last year of life span. And their life span can reach up to 3000 thousand years at the lowest and up to 12000 thousand years or even more.

The Womb can vary based on what species the Dragon was and also its bloodline purity. Ultimately it should be old.

Seth's Womb was Apex and thus it has many layers of mystery that he had to unlock. Sadly, nothing will be given for free, he should be worthy of it.

What appeared next was not from game notification, but the womb that flashed some symbols on its body and by glancing, Seth was able to understand what they meant.

~Input your name~

[__________]

~Input One Great Feat~

[__________]

What he felt was the Womb was rejecting him until he proved himself worthy of it. If he puts his name and feat that was unworthy he will be punished and fully rejected.

Seth ready himself to touch the place where he should input his name, but then he stopped, he should think about it for a long time. This game might end up screwing him. 

He ends up crawling and roasting some meat and eating while wondering the damn thing. And the last thing he came up with was the Alphabet used.

His mind can understand the meaning but they were not the alphabet he knew from Earth. He concluded that with a thought of Temporal Pearl, the Feat section will accept the answer in this Alphabet but if he thought of putting Seth, it might not cut it.

Temporal Pearl was great enough to bypass language and race but what about his name? Perhaps he needs to learn the language, right?

"No, I'm overthinking this!" Seth ruffled his head in frustration. He was tired, and now it will take him about 10 min or more to go back to the cottage.

Well, he went back and then glared at the imposing Womb before he touched the Feat Section and thought of writing Temporal Pearl's name. 

Normal Hausa Alphabet was written and then they converted into Womb Alphabets which he perceived as Temporal Pearl as well as the meaning of something else.

That means he missed some of the meaning in his mind.

~Input your name~

__________

~Input One Great Feat~

[Temporal Pearl]

Ding!

[You have tapped into one of the Dragon Race languages]

[Congratulations]

[You have learned 17 Womb Alphabets]

Seth at first was lost but then he went back and counted the non-repetitive alphabets that appeared on the notification, they were 17 in number.

His conjecture was correct, now he has to write his name using the damn Womb Alphabets. Seth felt his head aching, this is just absurd.

"No, it wasn't absurd. There is E-T, I only need S and H to complete my name… damn my name is the shortest there is but still in the damn Womb there were two missing letters" Seth cursed.

Ding!

[Quest]

~Living Roots is an ancient forest that has hosted countless life forms both intelligent and not. Recognise and identify Single Tree Plants in the forest.

[Reword]

~Ask for a single Womb Alphabet

[Failure]

~Unable to evolve Apex Womb

[It's a repetitive Quest]

____

Seth smiled as he read the Quest before he burst into laughter. The game knew what he wanted. Among the Womb Alphabets, he needed "h and s" to conclude his name. But now with the quest, he can obtain it.

Seth grabbed his Staff and then made the Womb follow him as he staggered outside the cottage. From time to time he sipped water from Soothing Gourd.

By the time he was at the gate, he collapsed, he was dead tired. Minutes later, he stood and continued forward.

Seth would have started to identify Border Trees around the town but that wasn't his goal. He wanted to find the fucking cure for the damn poison in his body.

It took 4 hours of persistence before he reached the damn Poison Beauty. It stood alone, in the middle of a 100 metres clearing that was filled with special Red Roses that were said to be poisonous too.

Seth collapsed in the clearing, he was tired, and his mind was slipping away to sleep. Despite all the rest he took along the way, it served nothing but gave enough means to move forward but now that he was looking at the destination, he couldn't move anymore.

.

.

.

Seth hasn't left the cottage to go back, but rather to stay out till he found his cure.

An hour before logout Seth woke up, his head a bit cleared. But found himself bound by the rose's vines.

Ding!

[You are being poisoned by Red Nectar]

But Seth didn't feel a change in anything in his body. He moved his hand but was bound and then he pulled it with a bit of strength that allowed him to free come free but seeing the hand, he realizes something.

The Red Rose has a lot of thorns which pierce into his skin and release a red poison called Red Nectar. It makes the bodies of animals red without causing pain or weakness until it spreads everywhere and kills them, eventually. In turn, the animal dies and rots to become its manure.

Seth pulled himself up, stood and he walked back out of the clearing. Panting, but then, he saw the thorn vines retreating back into the earth leaving the flowers alone.

He was sitting there when an Antelope passed and entered the clearing, it fed on the Roses, and then it left as if nothing happened.

He had the urge to capture and feed on it but he couldn't move. He crawled into the clearing and plucked a flower and licked it.

[You have licked Red Rose]

Then… his tongue swelled and filled his mouth, not only that, his eyes bulged and almost popped.

[You will be consumed forever if you slept in a Living Root forest]

The time was almost off and Seth had no idea he would lose his avatar if he stayed here. He began to panic as he had spent 4 hours reaching here, how the hell will he go back in a short amount of time?

But what will consume him? He has no idea. 

In the end, he dragged himself inside the clearing until he was very close to Red Beauty and plant Staff Of Elevation. 

~Size Reschedule!

He turned it short, then he made its width expand to 1.5m which was its current limit. He sat on it and.

~Size Reschedule!

It extended to 4 meters long and due to its large width, that was its current length.

Then, Seth Enoch lies down and closed his eyes to sleep.