32 Ready (1/2)

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A lot of time passes. I can't keep track at this point. It's not like I have a clock or any sort of thing to record it. What I did was watch the cycle between light and darkness and mark down a day. However, what is the point of that? Time does not seem like an important thing at the moment.

Anyways, 120 mounds have been created. I plan on having Kess continue producing them and have Xelu and Vulki start on constructing their own. The experience to come from this war is going to be massive. I do regret having to sacrifice the spiderlings but, they seem to know about this and are fine with it..... Well, that is according to Kess..... Perhaps they reincarnate into new spiderlings after they die?

Back onto the matter of experience, Kess has been stagnating at level 5 and the rest of us at level 6. For now the goal is to get everyone to level 15 and to possibly rank up again. It won't be easy this time. There was no way I would have completed the last rank up if it wasn't for the treants and harpies.

This time we are facing off against wretched. I got a lot of information from Vulki on them. Apparently, they are a legend of sorts. Not the good kind either. They devour anything and everything and assimilate whatever they eat into themselves. The ones they devour don't die either..... That's the reason they are called wretched.....

I ask her about their affiliation with the aspect of gluttony and she gets confused. I mention all of the coincidences that I have encountered. I have a lot of relations to gluttony. Between Kess, my roots 'eating' things, the larder, and now these wretched.

”This is.... I think there may be more examples than you think. When you assimilated me into one of your subordinates, that could be seen as 'eating' our old selves and producing a new being. In fact, now that I think about it, would experience be seen as eating power from other creatures? That's odd though, the system effects everything so for that to have-.....” Vulki

”This talk is too much for me.” Kess

'Master, why don't you talk to me this much~.'Set

'????' Xelu

Everyone else is upset for various reasons. Xelu and Kess don't understand. Set however is a little scary at the moment. Her tone was pleasant but, there seems to be something weird mixed in as well.... Likely my imagination.

”-.... You said you have a relation to the larder? Do you know what the larder is?” Vulki

”Not really, It has to do with why I am in this world is all I know.... I was attacked by some rats from there a while ago as well.” Gin

”WHAT!?!? WHY!?!?” Vulki

”Ehhh? I kept on getting messages like about gnawing after level ups and after my fifth they appeared from a portal. Luckily we were in the middle of a war so, we let them kill each other.” Gin