Results of slow living.

Ahh, this is pretty nice.

For the past, I don't know how long, I've been living inside a house I built with earth techniques. Building it was pretty darn hard, but I did manage it. And in the progress, I leveled up earth techniques to lv. 3, well, I call it a house. But it's actually like an artificial cave that is hanging on the roof. Sort of like a bee nest. Guess I'm now bee Lisa.

With the evolutionary points I had, I developed wings and obtained a skill named flying lv. 1, the cost was a whopping 10 points, but now I wasn't going to fall to my death anymore! Well, at lv. 1, it wasn't really flying per se. It was more like gliding. And I did have great fun climbing up the pillar and gliding around the place. Uh, but I wasn't playing around though! It was all surveillance! Although I did eventually stop after seeing a horde of hornets flying around.

I spent most of my time grinding skills or lazing around in my home. My home was super crude, but I felt safe in it. Something that I didn't feel for a very long time. So even though it's pitiful compared to what I had when I was a human, I was pretty happy. Maybe continuing life like this isn't so bad? I mean I do have food, and I'm not constantly fighting for survival. And what purpose did I have previously? I wasn't on a journey to save the world or anything. I was just trying to survive. So maybe I finally accomplished it now?

Nah, the purpose of survival was the only thing pushing me until now, if I just settle here I'll eventually get bored or die. I still need to go on. But where? I don't know, traveling without a destination is usually dangerous, especially for a beautiful lady like me, might I add.

But protecting my food supply was pretty nerve wracking, I had to gather it all in one place and build a cave over it. Dozens of monsters tried to attack it, and I had to let them snatch a monkey or two to get them away instead of fighting them. It kind of ticked me off, but it's better than dying. And I had finally completed the food cave after a while, but now I have another problem.

The food supply was about to run out. I guess this lazy lifestyle can't be supported for a long time without working. So I'll have to return to my usual life of wandering and fighting, but I don't want to! I just wanna be lazy. Is that too much to ask for?

Well, I guess it would be a good opportunity to get more exp, since I didn't get a level ever since that huge battle. It's definitely not because of my laziness ok?

It wasn't all laziness alright? I did level up a few skills. I leveled up energy perception to lv. 5 and manipulation to lv. 6, I also leveled up eye of force to lv. 3. And oh my, it required a pretty hefty amount of work.

As for evolutionary points? Well ten of those was gone on my wings, 8 on regeneration which upped my auto hp recovery skill to lv. 4, and I think I upgraded my eyes to see better three times, which in total cost me another 8 points. With the final 9 points I dumped them all on upgrading scales. Which meant only once and I had 3 remaining so I put them on muscles.

Upgrading my scales gave me a strange notification though, which was:

[Proficiency of skill "Dragon scales" reached the required amount. Increasing level of "Dragon scales" to lv. 2]

So I had a dragon scales skill? It was drake scales or something? Well, I'll take it thank you very much. And I guess with the wings, I'm finally graduating from being a drake right? I'm sure my mom and dad would be proud of me. Now that I think of it, I was born away from any drake, drakonus, or dragon looking thing. But I must have some? The only dragon I ever met was Megalos, and I certainly don't wanna meet him again. My grudge against him mellowed out after staying here. And I realized that going after him is absolutely insane.

No point thinking it over. Now I have to think about the important things and not the past. If I'm about to run out of food. I'll have to continue on, there is no running from that fact. So I'll set off soon from this house. I'm pretty sad about it. But sooner or later. This house won't stand anymore. Because all this time, I've been feeling it rumble, and the sounds of roaring were pretty loud here. So there must be something nearby.

Even though I spent a long time building this house, I have to leave soon. I guess I'll start preparing for that trip... but I'm still pretty sad over the idea of having to leave my home.

Alright, enough procrastination Lisa! Just do it now! But why am I rushing? I could go at any time... No! I need to go quickly, something here is making me feel uncomfortable too. That roaring sound and the energy that I could roughly perceive. It is definitely bad news.

With a heavy heart, I force myself to leave the house and go to the storage for one last meal here. There wasn't much anymore and it was starting to rot too. Ew, I can't eat the rotten ones anymore. So I'll have to get the ones that haven't gotten yet. I cook it with my fire breath and I eat it. Yep still tastes terrible.

Well, this is goodbye. I'll continue with my spelunking now. Now where should I go? Well, from the data I have from my "surveillance"... I still have no idea where I should go. I only know where I shouldn't.

And from all the directions available, I think the one next to me could probably be the best. I mean, I didn't see too many monsters on that path, except the giant hornets every now and then. So I guess it's probably the best.

Well, it's time to go now.

...

I kept walking for a while, it was quite uneventful on top of the roof. Except with the occasional hornet that would pop up, each time one of them popped up, I just ignored it and hid myself. They always passed me by, I'd prefer not to fight everything in my path. That would save me quite a bit of... well, everything really.

I keep walking for a while, until something frightening comes up into my sight.

A giant hornets nest appeared in front of me. It had hornets entering and leaving it from a different side than the one I was facing, there were quite a number of hornets flying around it. But they didn't notice me since I had stealth activated.

But what was truly frightening wasn't the hornets nest, it was what it was connected to.

Looking at it, gripped me with the same feeling of wanting to get closer to it. After all, this was the cause of my problem earlier.

It was the giant tree root.