Mutation

I slept till night, waking up to find Selena, who was seriously practicing a basic fist style martial art.

She noticed me waking up, but ignored my presence to continue what she had been doing.

When she finnally stopped, it was to fight against me as my daily partner. She took her stance and pointed at me to attack her.

In response to her actions, I did a weird strech, bending on my back so that my head almost touches the ground and made a funny face to distract her and land a suprise attack.

But, I only managed to resist the following dog-beating through sheer endurance. My genius skill in martial arts was basically useless against her overwhelming palm arts!

As I laid on the floor, panting for air, Selena threw a red strawberry like fruit on top of me.

"It's a Grade 1 fruit. One of the perks of being my subordinate." She said impassionately.

I look at the red fruit on my chest, not knowing what I should do with it. Should I eat it? What are the benefits of eating it? Or should I plant it in soil and grow a tree to harvest more fruits? Since I'm from Alesky, with a huge world behind me, it seemed best to grow a tree and make a plantation out of it.

On serious thought, Alesky was trying everything to own Andriscius, a grade one plant! Adding another grade one resource is quite tempting.

But I knock these unpractical thoughts out of my head.

Looking at Selena, I ask to confirm my doubts.

"Is it beneficial to eat it?" I hold the fruit up, trying to gesture that I'm asking about the red fruit.

Selena was quiet for a moment. She seemed taken aback at my lack of basic knowledge.

"It's best to eat it. You can also sell it at a good price, but I advice against it." She added.

Selena seemed to have misunderstood the intention behind my question, thinking that I was going to sell it for money, so she spoke more than she usually would.

I nod to reassure her, and directly throw it into my mouth. For a moment, I'm quite unsure whether it's dangerous to eat the whole fruit at once, and that the fruit is supposed to be eaten in small portions, at different points of times, but since Selena was beside me, I believe she can take care of any accidents.

A few seconds pass by in which I relish the strong chilli taste of the fruit, as tears appear in my eyes, and snot in my nose.

After another few seconds, I realise that my body had started aching and that pain had overtaken most of my body.

As most of my thoughts are dominated by irrational pain, making me unable to think rationally, I calmly activate my Sleep skill and enter Deep Sleep.

I slowly lose consciousness under the worried gaze of Selena. I guess, eating it whole was really a mistake.

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I open my eyes to find myself in my room, feeling completely healthy and energised. Entering Deep Sleep turned out to be a great idea.

Selena must have asked the maids to carry me over to my house after making sure that I was safe.

I got to say, it's not bad being taken care of by someone.

After i clear my thoughts, I open my status immediately to see how the red fruit changed me.

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Name: Dan the White

World: Alesky (Grade Zero)

Path: Body

Skills: Sleep lvl 3(40/400), Digest lvl 1(79/200), Enhanced Body lvl 2 (272/300)

Exp: 152

Mutations: Enrage Gland

Free skills: 0

World Menu(open)

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My Digest and Enhanced Body skill gained a lot of Exp, especially the latter, increasing by more than 250 at once, while the former increased by around 15 points.

But that's only natural given that the red fruit was supposed to be immensely beneficial for those on the body path.

As for the new additions, there was a new status called Mutation. I guess it's a result of carelessly consuming the whole fruit.

Most mutations aren't useful, and often are harm causing, so most Climbers preferred Skills or Spells over mutations as they are more beneficial and are more controllable.

As for wether anyone gained immense power from their mutations, I haven't heard about any. But there's bound to be some lucky fellow out of trillions of worlds!

As for my mutation, it's a hybrid. It's both beneficial as well as harmful.

It's benefit is that it temporarily allows me to overdraft my body to output a higher level strength.

It's drawback is that it makes me easily prone to anger, taking actions due to my feelings rather than due to rational factors.

But I guess the mutation is temporary.

As far as I know, my body is epitome of human genes, mostly because I've trained it to the peak and partly due to the nature of my birth. It wouldn't allow such small mutations to alter it.

As for why there wasn't any training session the previous day, I can guess that it had something to do with the Red Fruit that Selena gave me.

I guess she had to go collect it from the Aquarain Headquarters, and needed everyone to be there as a formality.

If my guess is correct, our training session should go back to its normal state now.

As it was already morning, I cook breakfast and make my way to the training hall.

When I got there, I noticed that Selena was already present. Ever since the day I got here before her, she never let me be the first person to enter the training hall.

In some things Selena is quiet stubborn.