Elemental Upgrade

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Remaining time: 9hours

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After making a small bed frame and filling it with grass and hay, Camellia made a desk, a few chairs, a counter and a closet to finish off the inside of her house.

Even now, Camellia could be seen sitting at that very table gnawing away at some ribs with her face full of grease and sauce.

"GAH! BUAH!"

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A few minutes earlier...

After finishing the renovations, making her new house look impeccable, an exhausted and starving Camellia was transported to what was once a dark, empty, void-like room with just a small tea table.

"This... it's a bit..."

With a giant barrel of water here, a pile of burlap there, a corner of over ripe fruit laying on top of wood and hay and a pile of dresses folded neatly, taking up the whole table.

"A.. about my rewards..."

***So selfish!

Letting out a big sigh, the beautiful woman lightly laid her hand on her forehead and quickly made a wheel appear into thin air.

"R- Right! About that, would I be able to improve that control with practice? Or would I be stuck at that amount of control until I get another re-"\

*Tick tick tick*

'This demoness...'

That sounds... unfair somehow? What if I can't improve on my own too... That's no good, if that's the case then I'm basically screwed. I can maybe talk Mona into giving me another reward or two, but I doubt she'd make it an upgrade like this...

*Tick tick tick*

Peeking out the corner of her eye at the somewhat disappointed looking loli, Mona couldn't help but sigh and feel an ounce of pity build up from the deep abyss that is her heart.

Wha-

***Did she just help you?

[Who is this lady? This isn't Mona...]

{Imposter}

[Didn't you curse them with multiple plagues and natural disasters?]

***The random solar flares?

{Cancer}

[I mean seriously, that one's kind of fucked up don't you think?]

***Seriously, like that goes for innocent children too, no?

-Disgusting-

*TICK!*

As the wheel stops Camellia couldn't even see what the arrow had landed on before losing vision and consciousness only to be woken up by extreme pain in her stomach and muscles.

'AH GREAT! MORE TORTURE!'

Having the feeling of lava in her abdomen for what felt like an hour, accompanied by the stinging tight feeling in her muscles, she could finally feel a sensation of relief when all seemed to settle.

'That... What?! Wait if you didn't do that already then what was that pain in my muscles for?!'

YOU FUCKING SADIST SLU-

Suddenly losing all consciousness, everything went black and empty.

"Hm~?"

Suddenly feeling warmth on her back, she could feel the weight of her body once again, but couldn't bring herself to move. It was as if there were weights holding her down.

'I... Can't'

Feeling a stinging burning sensation on her face and arms, it was as if the sun was cooking her alive.

'Oh... you'll eat my meat then....'

'Hm?'

"LIKE HELL!"

Shooting up from the ground, she found it difficult to hold her eyes open from the blaring sun. When she could finally look at her surroundings she found there wasn't much to look at. There was nothing but sand, rocks, sand dunes and more sand all around her!

'Where...'

"WHY THE FUCK AM I IN THE DESERT?!"

'You... bastard...'

Quickly standing up she ran forwards, stumbling a few times along the way.

'Why the fuck-'

Scraping the end of her shoe, two large beak-like spikes emerged from the ground, sending her flying a few meters forwards as it snapped shut.

'What the fuck?!'

Rolling about a few times, she quickly springs to her feet only to jump down a sand dune, sliding down on one foot and her but, ripping parts of her 'work attire' as she slid.

'Miss Mona!?"

Jumping up from the sand dune she continued to run through the desert, stumbling as she went.

'Don't yes dear me! Why the fuck am I in a dangerous ass desert!?'

"THE FUCK YOU MEAN REMEMBER?!"

*BOOSH*

Looking at the loud noise that came from behind her the sight did nothing but terrify her to the ends of the earth and back.

It had a long worm like appearance, but with a sharp razer-pointed bird's beak for a mouth that looked sharp and big enough to cut a battleship in half. Now sitting in this beast's shadow, despite being very far away from it at this point, her legs stopped moving as she trembled slightly.

*SQUUAAAAAA!!*

'Aha... Oh fuck...'

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Upgrade your earth affinity!

Goal: Survive for 5 hours using nothing but the land at your disposal! (no items from your 'inventory'!)

Reward: Higher Earth Affinity, Basic Earth control

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'5-?!'

*SQUUAAAA!!*

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As if the worm also had a notification, it quickly pointed its beak at Camellia before shooting towards her.

'J- JUMP!!'

*BUUSSHH*

Piercing the sand at her feet, Camellia simply bounced off of the worm's back sending her a few meters to her right.

***'Bounced' My ass you shitty narrator! It looked like she got hit by a freaking semi truck!

"Gah!"

Rolling onto the ground, she crunched up her body slightly while gripping her left arm tightly.

'Dammit! That freaking hurt! I think it almost dislocated my shoulder even though it only skimmed me!'

As if she had a spider's sixth sense, she quickly jumped to her left once again, only to have the beak pierce through the sand once again, this time taking her other shoe off completely while leaving a deep gash on her heel.

'Fuck!'

Although she had jumped quite sporadically, she landed quite gracefully this time, landing on her right knee.

'This isn't good, I gotta get out of here quick before it-'

*SQUAAAA!!!*

Rising from the top of the sand dune with the posture of a snake, it's beak seemed to pierce the sky as its body raised from the ground, surrounding the small pink girl from all sides.

'Too late...'

'I hate it here...'