Making Moves

"Mother tree!" "Mother Tree!" "Where are you?"

Slowly Luke opened his eyes he didn't know how long he had been asleep mostly because the sun never sets. When he got up the worm looked straight at him with confusion in his eyes.

"What, why do you look like a human mother tree?"

Luke was also confused, 'How did he know it was me?'

"I got a skill that allows me to transform to and back, but how did you recognize me?"

"Well after the last time you changed your appearance I made sure to remember your sent so I know it's you just in case anything like that happened again, and it looks like my prediction was correct", after saying that he gave something that looked like a smug smile, but Luke couldn't tell if he was trying to be smug or not since it's hard to read a worms face.

"Ok, why are you back though did you finish the thing I asked of you?"

"Well...no, but I did gather all of the metal I could find until I realized that I didn't have any tools I could use, so I came back to see if you could help build me a shelter so I can focus on my work...if that's ok with you of course", Luke noticed that he got timid again at the end.

"Ok, I will help you, on one condition. I need you to stop being so timid, it will only harm you in the future so I need you to suck it up and get back to how you used to be."

Although the statement did make the mechanical worm a bit upset, he quickly got over it, mostly because of Luke's worm affinity and charisma.

"Yes sir, I will try my hardest to get over it", After saying that Luke nodded his head at the worm and got to work.

Luke opened his storage and took out his axe which freaked the worm out a bit, but Luke didn't notice as he was already looking at his target, a tree. He ran up to it and was about to swing at it until he remembered how the last time he swung at full power the tree practically exploded, after remembering that he took the axe and placed it next to the tree and started sawing the tree with the axe. Normally this would be very inefficient, but with how powerful the axe was it was working, quite well in fact, after he sawed through the tree like it was butter he moved onto the next tree, after doing this for a bit he did the same thing but instead of sawing new trees, he sawed the trees that he already cut down to make smaller logs.

After doing that for a while he started to place them together and once he found a place assembled the logs into a log cabin, although it was a lot it didn't take Luke long at all especially since he was in the 5th beginner spirit realm, only about 10 minutes.

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After a couple days of work, he finished the cabin and all of the tools the worm needed, the main reason it took so long was that he had to listen to the worm to make the tools perfect and worm accessible.

"Wow it's perfect, thank you mother tree", the worm looked like a kid who got a pony for Christmas, he was in pure joy.

"Yea you're welcome, it wasn't too hard, and now you can focus on making that thing. Also, I don't need you to make one for me I already got a great weapon," Luke then pointed at his axe before continuing, "All you need to do is get proficient in making them, afterwards you can just make your own little gadgets.

"Yes mother tree, I'll get right to work", although it might seem unfair that the worm worked all the time, he really enjoyed it, he was born as a mechanic after all.

'I guess I better get back to training and learning a lot more about what I can do with my qi', Luke was extremely excited to learn to use the elements, after regaining part of his memories, he remembered a lot of his interests, up to when he got attacked by the demon, of course, one of these interests was the show 'Avatar the Last Airbender', he really enjoyed it throughout his childhood and the idea of earthbending and lot of other things made him happy.

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In a place near Luke.

"Hey you, why hasn't the crew come back yet with the red worm, it should be almost instant with the time difference", he asked looked like he was in his 40's or 50's his head was bald and he had a cigar in his mouth, he was getting angrier every second the collecting team didn't return.

"Well you see, the security team is looking at the footage right now, since the time difference is 1 hour to 1 year, it takes a while to find out, but I'm sure that they will be done any second now."

"OF COURSE I KNOW THAT, DO I LOOK STUPID TO YOU!" The boss was about to go off on him when he heard his phone ringing.

"Count yourself lucky, now get out this is private information", the underling was happy that got lucky enough to avoid the boss yelling at him, every time he yelled at someone they got fired the next day unless they couldn't be replaced easily.

Once the underling left the room the boss answered the phone, "What is it?"

"Sir, this is the security team manager, after reviewing the footage, we have figured out that the team was killed by the worms, they seemed very organized like someone was leading them and we soon figured out why, you see the worm tree, soon after the slaughter, somehow evolved into a worm king and seemed to be in the 5th beginner spirit realm, after killing the rest of the team he transformed into a human and somehow figured out some ways to use qi, very quickly."

"WHAT? How quick did it figure out how to use its born element."

"It figured it out on its...first try", the security team manager was embarrassed because he was outdone by a worm and by a lot at that.

"WHAT ON ITS FIRST TRY?!? SEND IN THE ADVANCED SPIRIT REALM CULTIVATOR AND ANY OTHER CULTIVATORS WE HAVE AVAILABLE WE NEED TO CATCH IT NO MATTER THE COST!"

"Yes sir, I will be as quick as possible.'

The boss then hung up, he was excited. If he could get this worm he could move up the corporate ladder super fast, he might even get on the board of directors, 'These guys better now screw it up, my promotion is on the line here.'