Grow faster! - 1

Black saw his status and it took him almost a few minutes to understand the situation. He knew about systems, he knew about reincarnation, he knew about going from weak to strong but this was just unfair!!

people become slime, goblin, hell some directly reincarnated as humans or dragons...but why am i a fruit!? even a spider would've been fine, or maybe a zombie or skeleton?

Black then remembered how he died, maybe the one that writing his story was such a maniac that didn't just get satisfied with killing him by a whale and three neuclear bombs and wanted his life to be tad bit more miserable.

He finally calmed down and noticed other tabs under the status panel.

he again pulled up status window by thinking about status in his mind.

[Status]

Name - Black

Species - Fruit

Race - Devil's Tomato

Level - 1

Status

Mass - 10

Juice - 10

Weapons - None

Armour - None

[Skills] [Shop] [Encyclopaedia] [Inventory]

he focused on the bottom four options. three were grayed out and just skills tab was accecible. He concentrated on the tab as it cascade down.

[Skills]

[Active skills]

-[Part growth]

[Passive Skills]

-[Fruit of the Devil's tree]

-[Cosmic human's soul]

-[Cosmic bad luck]

-[Evolution]

Black was flabbergasted. There were four passive skills. He took his time going through them one by one.

[Part growth]

when you accumulate enough fruit juice and mass, you can convert it into predetermined parts from list of available parts.

this seemed like a standard skill of the perticular fruit or maybe it was because of system? who knows?

he didn't care as he proceeded further with the four passive skills.

[fruit of devil's tree]

in the forrest of Gragon, there are rare trees called devil's tree. As a part of the tree, you get 1 mass and 1 juice every hour from the tree.

[Cosmic Human's soul]

As a former Cosmic human, your soul is a little bit sturdier, thus it can survive with the help of the system even if it's inside a fruit.

[Cosmic bad luck]

After taking a look at how host died, system has determined that user is affected by cosmic bad luck. Not enough energy to mitigate the danger but with this skill you would know when the danger could come.

Get in a situation that Is threat to your existence once a month.

[Evolution]

Standard system specific skill, upon reaching required level, able to evolve into a worse, better or similar life form.

Black was speach less. What was cosmic bad luck!? is this the reason why he died in such a funny way? he felt relived after seeing other three skills as they can at least give him a chance to make a come back but he must get rid of the cosmic bad luck! this thing cost him his life and he wasnt sure if he would get another shot at reincarnation.

He finally calmed down and decided to take it as his own pace. one month had already passed since he became a fruit and the threat to his life may be near him anytime. he must make sound decisions and try to evolve as soon as he can.

Only thing he can do now was to activate the only active skill in his skills tab. He focused on the skil as another panel appeared in his vision.

[ Part Growth ]

Consume 5 fruit mass and 5 Fruit juice to grow one of the following parts.

[Poison Seeds]

[Sensory hair]

[Thorns]

Black looked at the options as he pondered which was the best option. The most logical one would be [Thorns] as it may act as a deterrent to any living beings that wanted to eat the fruit. the [Poison Seeds] were also a good choice but seeds would be inside the fruit and they would work after he was eaten alive. this was a suicide method to kill both himself and the enemy. the last one might be hair like growth on the outer surface of the fruit to pick up some sense like sound or smell?

he decided to go with [Thorns] as the defence was the first priority. Soon he felt as if his size was shrinking. the fruit juice and mass was moving from the fruit and slowly small projections formed on the outer surface of the fruit. it was a slow process and by black's estimate, it should take about an hour for the thorns to grow about the lenth of 1 Centimetre.

Black could feel the sansation of the mass moving and squeeze into the thorn and becoming hard. He didn't know what outer world was like or what colour he was but one thing was for sure, he needed to grow faster.

after a few hours black felt the thorns stop growing as he took a look at his status.

[Status]

Name - Black

Species - Fruit

Race - Devil's Tomato

Level - 1

Status

Mass - 5/10

Juice - 5/10

Weapons - None

Armour - [Thorns]

[Skills] [Shop] [Encyclopaedia] [Inventory]

Black saw that [thorns] were classified as armour instead of the skill but it made sense as the thorns wers basically armour of the sort for him which he can grow at will.

[Thorns]

The sharp Needle like projections would keep away any animal with soft tongue. Can regrow if broken.

Black saw the details of the armour but what confused him was his mass and juice. few hours passed since he used his skill and the mass and juice should be refilled but they were still stuck at 5. He tried using the [Part Growth ] skill again but the system gave him a warning.

[Warning - If the mass hits zero, the user would die ]

[ System requirements Met. Enough energy accumulated, Redirecting the resources flow back to the user ]

As soon as the prompt appeared, black felt a new connection being established in his fruit body. It felt as if on top of his head there was a tube attached and slowly juice was being pumped into him from the tube. it was his connection to the branch. his life force which connected him to the tree. It felt as if he was connected with his mother by the umbilical cord. it felt weird but he was happy?