Chapter 38: Flower Paradise
Chapter 38: Flower Paradise
Arthur:
[Assistant System]
[You have met the requirements to activate your ability]
[Your Body Learns]
[Skill]
[Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 1)]
[Description: You now possess resistance to poisons. Your body recognizes unwanted guests and fights them with all its strength. Your cells quickly adapt and form special soldiers trained against them, and I help you strengthen them.]
[Level 1 —> Level 2
Condition: Poisoning]
[Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 1)] —> [Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 2)]
I pulled my hand away from my stomach; the pain became lighter and lighter, and I heard my stomach growling, asking for something else.
Oh my god, I ran toward a certain tree to empty my storage.
Phew... I wiped my forehead, finally feeling relief. After resting and contemplating the flowers a bit,
I continued moving in the same direction, entering a garden of radiant flowers of various shapes and colors, unaware of the danger of the place.
And to describe the danger of the place, this explains everything:
[Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 2)] —> [Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 3)]
How did the skill level up even though I wasn’t poisoned?
[No, you’ve already been poisoned. The air is full of toxins. These flowers may look beautiful, but behind their beauty, they hide many dangers.]
Damn it! Are you saying I entered an area full of poison? I look around and see nothing strange or any odd smell. Everything seems normal, but you’re saying the poison is in the air?
I moved carefully, avoiding suspicious and dangerous plants. In this place, I was able to see wonders... animals I had never seen before, strange in appearance, as if they were fusions of several creatures.
"Ugh...!" Suddenly I felt a sting on my hand. I slapped it instinctively, and when I lifted my hand, I saw a mosquito with wooden legs like roots, green eyes, and a large needle in front of its head, its size similar to one of my fingers!
[Assistant System]
[You have killed a normal insect: Toxic Tree Mosquito]
[You gained 10 experience points]
[Level 5 (1600/870)] —> [Level 5 (1600/880)]
How didn’t I notice it before it bit me?
[Hallucination]
What do you mean?
[A toxin it secretes to avoid being noticed. And it itself is poisonous.]
Yes, I can see that clearly. I looked at my wrist, where a purple dot appeared and started spreading, veins of violet gradually crawling outward.
Is its venom that bad? Because I don’t feel anything. I tried to move... I couldn’t.
[Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 3)] —> [Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 4)]
[Its poison specializes in paralysis, ensuring it can suck its victim until it’s full. But unfortunately for it, the moment it pierced you, your hand moved involuntarily due to one of your skills.]
[The poison’s effect has already been neutralized.]
Suddenly, the purple veins stopped spreading, and I began to regain sensation in my body.
Phew... I felt terrified for a moment. I need to get out of here fast.
I hurried to leave, witnessing the terrifying wonders of this toxic environment:
A pink frog spitting strange liquid at me — definitely poisonous. I dodged them with lightning speed and passed by a strange plant shaped like a cute human child, moving in a line, holding each other’s hands, smiling innocently.
They looked so cute that I wanted to grab one and play with it, so I reached my hand toward them.
[Stop!!]
[In front of you is the most dangerous creature you’ve encountered so far. It looks cute, but its skin is covered with a deadly toxin. One touch, and you’ll turn to stone. Look around you.]
I looked around to see different creatures turned to stone along the path this group passed. Without thinking, I leapt over them and continued my way.
I arrived at a cluster of ferocious plants that attacked anything approaching them — from insects to mammals.
I went to the side to avoid them and continued moving forward.
Behind them, I found orange flowers releasing an orange gas. By mistake, I didn’t notice one under my foot, and it released its gas, which hit the edges of my hand.
The moment the poison touched me, my hand turned red and began to feel as if it were burning.
[This is the Burning Poison Flower. It doesn’t actually burn — it’s named after the sensation it causes. In truth, its toxin begins killing your body’s cells.]
[Don’t worry, you have the skill Rapid Cell Evolution. Its poison is merely an itch for you.]
[Skill II Greater Pain Resistance (Level 3)] —> [Skill II Greater Pain Resistance (Level 4)]
Terrifying! Any normal human entering this place would die instantly.
After a harsh, torturous path filled with countless poisons, I began to see the end of this hell: a forest of giant trees without a single flower. What made it distinct were the huge branches connecting one tree to another, covered with green grass — actually, everything was covered in it.
Finally, I made it out, inhaling the natural air and looking at the new environment I had entered. The important thing was... there were no flowers.
There was a strange plant everywhere; I stepped on it without checking. It doesn’t move... does it?
[...]
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[States]
[Character:
– Name and surname: Arthur Field
– Title : Wolf Killer
– Ethnicity: human
– Ability: Learning – Rank S
– Level 5 (1600/880)
– Statistics Points: 0
]
[Properties:
– Strength: 17 + (81)
– Agility: 8 + (47)
– Defense (Vitality, Resistance): 7 + (22)
– Intelligence (mana): 15
]
[Skills:
– [Skill I I’m not thirsty (Level 1)]
– [Skill II Stacked Damage Resistance (Level 2)]
– [Skill I Sword Art of the Field Family (Level 2)]
– [Skill II Rapid Cell Evolution (Level 2)]
– [Skill I Burning Hand (Level 3)]
– [Skill II Warrior Miner (Level 3)]
– [Skill II Blood Will (Level 2)]
– [Skill II Greater Pain Resistance (Level 4)]
– [Skill II Big Muscles (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Street Fighting (Level 1)]
– [Skill II Beast of Lightning (Level 1)]
– [Skill III Muscle Rage (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Fatigue Resistance (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Thermal Sword (Level 1)]
– [Skill I Poison Resistance (Level 4)]
]
"Special Skills <Passive>:
– [Lightning Move]
"
"Special Skills (positive):
– [Rage :
– Effects: Strength attribute increased by 50%, agility attribute increased by 25%
– Duration: 10 seconds
– Cool down: 5 minutes
]
"