Chapter 28 – Deal.

"Originally, I wasn't this…. Thing."

"Before, I was a female human, but… Because of some stupid brats I ended up dying stupid death!"

"Anyway, after I died, I found myself in alien body and I couldn't see anything."

"I later found out that I was a thing called mouth plant."

"!"

"Oh, you have been reincarnated." – said the spirit.

"!"

"You know about the reincarnation?" – asked the deerwolf.

"Yea. I had heard about this."

"But question, are you from this world or a different world?"

"Different world."

"In my world magic and all other stuff didn't existed. There were also no things such as spirit or elves and monsters did not existed."

"I see."

"So your soul must have been weird."

"???"

"My soul was weird?"

"Yea."

"Sometimes a souls from different world, what was it called? Earth?"

"Sometimes world from that world are sometimes special or weird."

"Simply put, they are more tough or elastic than average soul and because of that, they sometimes end up drifting away and entering this world."

"However, the souls from the world that magic didn't existed before had undergone special mutation or an evolution to adjust to the new world."

"This souls are reformed and reborned into a new souls."

"These souls however are not completely normal yet, and so to adjust to this world they would act like sponges and absorb things like mana."

"Because of their circumstances as well as soul mutation, the mana and the nature of a being ended up combing and forming something called unique skill."

"!"

"Based on your reaction, I can tell that you have one. Unique skill?"

"Yea. But I was born with it. I only got later on."

"?"

"You weren't born with it?"

"No. Should I have been born with one?"

"…Em… I don't know."

"I don't know? Maybe you had some sort of delay or something because of your soul or something?" – said the spirit.

"Honestly, my knowledge about reincarnations and all isn't that big. I only heard bit from my big sis. Maybe she would know something?"

"Oh. Then I have a question."

"What is exactly unique skill?"

"I do understand concept of skills after learning them and understanding them firsthand, but I have no idea what is so special about unique skills."

"Oh. I see. Well then, allow me to explain."

"Unique skills are a special skills that are specially formed by the being. Be it a living or unliving being."

"There are many ways of getting unique skill, but one of the most commonly known way of getting unique skills are awakening."

"Awakening are something…. Hm… How should I put it?"

"A understanding of yourself and creating a new poetical within one self?"

"Sometimes a monsters or a being that are able to evolve may create a unique skill upon their evolution."

"Or sometimes things like gods may bless you or something and grand you aspect of their power or something."

"Beings like high ranking spirits like spirit queen is able to gran unique skills to some individuals, but it's not really that easy and even gods cannot do that often."

"Anyway, unlike regular skills the unique skills are something like a special skills that possess nature of their own."

"Sometimes it's something like a simple as cooking or somethings its big as ability control vast amount of mana."

"Hm…"

"Honestly, I got my unique skill like this."

"While I was hunting, I was ambushed by a wolf while I was still weak and small monster."

"I somehow managed to kill it, but I was badly wounded and I was losing consciousness."

"However, I managed to somehow pull through and hid."

"But I was losing consciousness, so I was in hurry to choose my evolution path."

"However, among the evolution paths I had available, there was that one weird one."

"Plant deerwolf."

"I had an weird evolution where I realized that my brethren had to eat animals to evolve into an plant animal, but that was something completely different."

"This feeling… It nothing alike I ever felt before."

"I was almost out of time, so I decided to go with it."

"When I woke up later, the evolution was completed and I found out that I got a unique skill."

"Not only that, but it seems that plant deerwolf evolution path was caused by my unique skill."

"Wait. But you just said that you didn't had that skill before you evolved?" – said the spirit.

"Yea. But after thinking about it and checking things out, it seems that it was really doing of my unique skill."

"…"

"Hm… I…"

"Wait."

"Huh."

"Okay. Hear me out." – said the spirit.

"It doesn't make sense that your unquiet skill influenced you, when it still didn't formed yet, so maybe that unique skill you got wasn't a skill you got from evolving, but it maybe was a unique skill you were born with?"

"Maybe it didn't had a solid form or something on the start?"

"Honestly, I don't know, but maybe this is an answer? Maybe my sis would know more, but she isn't here."

"Hm… Well, your guess is good as mine."

"Still, thank you for all the information."

(Well, this is a finally proper start.)

(Maybe her theory with my unique skill, correct? Maybe I the reason why I got this skill was maybe because I was reincarnated with it, but it didn't had an form?)

(Still, there is way more I need to know.)

(Thanks to her skill, we are able to communicate, but I don't know when I will ever be able to find another being with this skill AND is willing to talk to me.)

(This girl, she is her contractor.)

(Will that spirit disappear if she dies?)

(I cannot let that happened!)

"…"

"I want to make a deal."

"?"

"As I told you before, I was only born in this world recently and I still right next to the nothing about this world."

"This girl is being targeted by elves, right? Then how about this?"

"I will protect this girl with my life and you will give me information about this world and teach me things."

"How about it?"

"…"

"Wait a moment." – said a spirit.

The spirits alongside the elf child walked away and began discussing things.

After long time passed, the spirits and the girl returned.

"Question." – said the spirit.

"What would happened once I teach you enough knowledge?"

"Then the deal would have been completed, right? We would go separate ways."

"…"

"Is it possible to make the deal a bit different?" – asked the spirit.

"…"

"Go on."

"I want you to protect this girl until she dies."

"…"

"Hey. I know that I said that I was only born recently and I'm in dire need of information. But the thing you are asking for is too much."

"What if I encounter somebody who can explain better than you about this world or something? It may take a year or two to find another person like you, but it would be way better than binding myself to this girl I never met before to the end of her or my life."

"…"

"I know."

"Then how about this?"

"How about we give you upfront payment?"

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked the deerwolf.

"Your race was originally a plant path, yes?"

"How many times you evolved so far?"

"…"

"5 times."

"Then based on how strong you are, you have probably 1 to 3 more quick evolutions, thanks to your race trait."

"And you also still possess your early adaptably ability of your race."

"Then we have something you would like."

"A spirit core."

"?"

"What is that?" – asked deerwolf.

"Spirit core is an gem made by spirt mana."

"And no, its nothing alike to the spirit gem those guys made."

"Spirt cores are an pure spirit mana that also harbors an nature of a spirits inside."

"Its an powerful object and depending on its nature, it can possess different ranks like spirits."

"If you were to consume this thing, you maybe be able to evolve into a spiritual being like dryad or maybe a race with powerful magic abilities and you would be able to use and handle spirit mana."

"This sound like a good deal, yes?"

"…"

(Wait… If what she tells me is correct, then that spirit core maybe a thing that I desperately need to grow stronger!)

(If the info she told me is real, if I were to eat that spirit core, I would be able to evolve into something powerful.)

(But…. Is it worth it?)

(If I agree to this deal I would end up becoming stronger and I would have somebody finally telling me and teaching me about this world.)

(But I would be bound to protect this girl and take care of her, until either of us dies.)

(What do I?)

(Honestly, I was lying just now, with trying to find an person or a being with that ability to talk with plants.)

(I don't know how long it would take me to find another being like this.)

(The more important thing than evolving and getting stronger right now is knowledge.)

(I need to know about this world, about magic, about monsters, about skills and all other stuff.)

(….)

(Should I betray them and abandon the girl once I have all the necessary knowledge?)

(No.)

(Considering how spirits "Fucked" the elves, messing around and betraying the promise I made with them may have dire consequences.)

(…)

(Fuck it.)

(They have both things that I need and they are offering them to me.)

"..."

"Before I say anything, how powerful is the spirit core you would give me?"

"…"

"I can offer only offer you low rank spirit stone."

"It's better than lesser rank stone, but I cannot offer you anything above low rank stone."

"Your body may not be able to handle it the higher rank spirit core, so only low rank spirit core will do."

"I see."

"…"

"Okay. I accept it."