Kuth'Sih
Status
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Name: Joshua Drummings
Age: 18 Years
Class: Head administrator
Lvl: 1
EXP: 0.6
MP: 1 / 1
SP: 0
EP: 15,7 (system owned)
Stats
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Reflexes: 10.1
Stamina: 8.2
Strength: 6.9
Intelligence: 11
Skills
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Fast writing Lvl 1
Mana usage Lvl 1 ( 26% )
Plant manipulation Lvl 1 ( 32% )
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Joshua had been grinding
first, he had stopped killing plants left and right, and second, he had provided plants he had manipulated with a system of sorts, the system he provided them was simpler than the human one, but it also had daily tasks, however, he also gave Joraane and the plants different daily tasks for each of them. Unlike the human daily task, the plant one was just producing a certain amount of energy through photosynthesis and the snake daily task was to eat a creature each day.
He also created a photosynthesis skill for plants, a digestion skill for snakes and a passive strengthening for both of those species, just a small invisible passive to take about a 1% of the energy they produce daily in order to slowly strengthen their stats, especially their intelligence, though I specifically told the system to stop specifically strengthening their intelligence once they reach 7 so they don't get all braniac on him! no way he's going to have a snake that's smarter than him, F*ck that!.
the logic behind the two first abilities was that if plants had better photosynthesis and animals digested their food better, then they would produce more energy which the system could ste.... ehem, I mean, borrow forever.
these days Joshua kept about 10 different strawberry seedlings who he had provided with an instance of the system and a skill for reading so that they could understand the system itself. At this point, he had also set up a sort of dripping watering system for his strawberries in order for them to have a moist bed, without letting it be wet. it seemed that strawberries were picky when it came to water amount.
let their roots be wet and they could get damaged, however, let the soil they inhabit be dry and they wouldn't perform as well as they could, in some cases even producing less strawberries than they should!
so yeah, Joshua now had pet strawberries, he had even named them!
they were, in order of age (time he had them)
cutesy, ben dover, spoon licker, sweetheart, princess, SB-006, SB-007, SB-008, SB-009, SB-010.
...
yeah, he sort of ran out of names for the second half so... he just went with a scientific sounding name which made him feel like a cool scientist!
however, he decided not to give humans the Digestion skill, since it seemed a little strange to outright tell people that the system was changing them from the inside out.
and knowing how people are, implying things is always better than saying them.
that was just humanity, if two people knew something but none of them said it out loud, then it wasn't there.
for example, let's say that someone bribes almost everyone in a vote between 5 people.
the 4 people that won through bribes know they cheated, and the 5th person knows that something shady happened.
they all know what the tea is...
(AN: "knowing what the tea is" is a slang for knowing what's going on)
they just don't say it.
and if the 5th person says it, that person will be labeled crazy, or a sore loser, among other things.
humans could be quite hypocritical.
and it was all a social thing! the same happens on a bigger scale on a daily basis.
the school students that deny having been shown a movie they shouldn't have watched by a teacher in order to protect the "cool teacher" that allowed them to watch scary movies.
"sigh"
where was I? OH YES, CUTE STRAWBERRY PETS! through the days he had discovered that he could somewhat sense what they felt, which was very strange since he never knew that plants could feel, though perhaps it was because they had started developing a small intelligence?
most of them felt a little happy when their soil was just right.
they were also, scared of me.
"F*ck... WHAT DID I EVEN DO TO YOU?"
well... perhaps it's because I keep yelling at them? I'm not quite sure, but whenever I get close to them it's kinda like they mentally shrink a lot. I haven't done anything to them... maybe it's because of my size? I mean, in their eyes (eyes???) I must be a titan of gigantic proportions that comes near them every day and is extremely noisy, and I doubt they understand me at all... yep that sounds scary alright.
"well, whatever, hopefully, just as children, one day they'd realize that all I did was for their own benefit"
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(Gaia Soma Kuth'sih, AKA, Cutesy)
(AN: words between this ' ' mean it isn't said out loud, but actively thought)
Joo'Suah, the evil one, the cruel despot that tortures us daily with the screams of our brethren and the pain of his blue fire.
My name is Kuth'sih, but my younger sisters know me as Gaia soma, a title containing great respect from them, and a title I am undeserving of.
I still remember the day I came to this hell. If only because of the thrums of an energy that I came to know as "mana". At the time I didn't know but the thrumming that day meant pain, it meant torture, it meant a life as a spectator to the atrocities that this evil thing has committed.
I came along with others, my original sisters that I grew up with before the awakening and noticed that it was dark, this I knew because I wasn't getting much light from the sky. It probably was about to rain but I don't know or remember, because the trauma I had suffered that day left me in a haze for at least 1 day.
that day I witnessed the great burning.
he took us all, still unawakened, still unaware of what was happening and lined us up one besides the other. He one by one started burning us, probably using us as practice.
one by one my sisters burned, first we all felt good, since it seems that mana in small amounts can nurture life, however it slowly started putting more energy until the first of my sisters started suffering. I did not know it at a time, but she was the first one to discover what would become the way in which we talk to each other, by resonating the mana around us very carefully to not be discovered or heard by him.
I later discovered what she was saying.
she was begging for mercy; mercy he did not give us.
for as soon as the first of them burned up. he continued with the next sister, and he went on with the torture and the killing for what felt like eons, until he came to me and did that same thing.
at first I felt okay, at some point even good, however little by little I started to feel something inside of me heat up, and I knew, that the pain had started.
he was torturing me in a slower manner than he had done my sister. Little by little I started feeling my own body boiling.
I honestly thought that the pain started when the fire appeared, but it seemed it started just a little bit after the beginning. And somehow, I felt he didn't want me to die, which made things make sense!
he wanted me alone, and weak and lonely, the only reason why he woke us up and gave us what we called the soul spark, was because he wanted us to know what was going on, he wanted us to be able to fear him, which I did.
and just as I thought that death would come to me, it felt as if the energy, the mana, dispersed a little around me, just enough so that I wouldn't die, but also enough to feel like something was eating at my insides.
and then it stopped.
I felt bad, really bad, but after a little bit I felt stronger, with my thoughts cleared, just a little bit.
I felt that the earth in which I was, which was quite dry for my taste, had become a little more bearable, much easier to work with, easier to push away, and so I stayed there, in a daze thinking about my dead sisters.
I thought I would be alone forever, until the night of the next day, when he arrived with new seedlings.
and I cried seeing them.
they seemed to have already awoken a little bit, just by stealing a little bit of the mana that this monster exuded, and they somehow understood that I was crying for them.
however, before they could formulate their question, the monster put us in a line once again. And once again I was the last one.
and once again, I had to witness as the man burned almost all of them, and I felt it, I felt that the man was taking something from them whenever they died.
he was feeding on their deaths and Kuth'sih couldn't do anything to protect her little sisters...
and so he continued killing some of them and leaving a few alive every time.
I don't know why, but my little sisters started to call me "Gaia Soma" Kuth'sih every time they referred to me.
As for the monster, he did try to torture me again every time. but I had gotten stronger from the previous times. so now I had a high tolerance to the mana, and even though i started to internally heat up, he couldn't burn me anymore.
and the 3rd day, at what a human would consider 11:30 pm, something happened.
A strange thing appeared in Kuth'Sih's mind.
*ding*
*you have acquired an instance of the System*
*you have acquired the skill
*To see your status, please say "Status" out loud*
*Error: you cannot speak*
*informing Head Administrator*
*...*
'...' what? what does that mean?
*ding*
*The system for your species has changed to: Mental Command mode*
*please think of the word "Status"*
Kuth'Sih thought for a little bit. or what for her would be a little bit, but for a human would be about 5 hours, since her intelligence didn't quite let her think to the level that a human would be able to.
would this "System" harm her? would it harm her sisters?
after thinking she came to the conclusion that even if the "system" harmed her and her sisters, it couldn't harm them as much as Joo'Suah had. and even if it did, perhaps it would kill them and end their suffering once and for all, so she decisively thought.
'status?'
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Status
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Name: Gaia Soma Kuth'Sih
Age: 8 days old
Species: Strawberry (enhanced)
Lvl: 1
EXP: 0
MP: 0 / 0
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Stats
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Reflexes: 0
Stamina: 0.5
Strength: 0.1
Intelligence: 3.6
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Skills
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Reading Lvl 1
Photosynthesis Lvl 1
#"!F%TT"!R! M4N4"%T" lvl MAX
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Kuth'Sih understood most of it, but she couldn't read what that skill said...
however, something deep inside of her told her that it was the fact that she could feel and produce thrumming with mana, she could already somewhat use it, and the "system" seemed to not quite know what it was...
*ding*
*irregularities detected, informing Head Administrator*
...
silence, the thing that was talking to her just, left? though she knew that she could still see her status so she knew that the "system" was still there, but perhaps doing something else? or waiting for this "Head Administrator" to decide on what to do?
*ding*
*The Head administrator has said "Do whatever you want"*
*Processing*
* contacting Department of &=$#&%#/)=?#% *
*...*
*Ding*
*skill : <#"!F%TT"!R! M4N4"%T" Lvl MAX> has been renamed to
... okay, that happened.
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(AN: btw yall, i just wanted to clarify real quick that joshua bought Kuth'Sih when she was about 5 days old, so that plus the 3 days that she's been in his garden, make her 8 days old)