Offer an alliance

Ordering your vinelings to move to their location, you shift the trees and send several of your tentacles to the elves, making sure each of them had mouths to speak. Sending them to wrap around the trees, you prepared yourself for the show of a lifetime.

"I am the Spirit of the Jungle. Who dares intrude upon my lands?" You bellow, your tentacle body amplifying your voice into a deafening roar. At the same time, you **** the entirety of your biomass to converge on the Ice Spider Queen, sending all manner of tendril and biomass to slow it down.

"Great Spirit, we beseech you, still your anger! We have no intention to harm you!" Asriana shouted, fear stricken across her face as she kept one eye on the Ice Spider Queen's location.

"Then why have you brought this insect to my land?" You ask, knowing full well that the bug was chasing them for a quick meal.

"It was pursuing us! Please, aid us against this monster!" Asriana begged as you use your second monster core to hold off the massive arachnid, the secondary mind taking control of combat while you maintained negotiations.

"I do not kill those of the natural world unless necessary." You declare, causing every elf to go pale at the declaration. When they seemed on the cusp of suicide, you continued speaking. "But I can halt its movements to aid your battle for a price." You declare after a dramatic pause. Wasting time was dangerous considering how quickly it was wiping out your biomass, but you needed to let them think you were stronger than you were.

"What is that price?" Asriana asked hesitantly, clutching her bow while looking back towards the Ice Spider Queen.

"You shall bear my young to replace all that you have destroyed from luring such an insect to my lands, and protect them until they have matured. On the day of their maturation, you may leave my lands." You declare with a deafening boom. At the same time, the Ice Spider Queen began breathing ice cold air, wiping out 5% of your biomass in a single second.

"Captain, no! You can't take this deal!" One of Asriana's subordinates begged, only to wince in pain as she clutched her stomach wound.

"I accept!" Asriana bellowed as you ordered your tentacles to clear the way, allowing the Ice Spider Queen to make its way to the elves.

"The pact is made!" You declare as the elves yelp, spotting the Ice Spider Queen appear.

"Insect! Begone from my lands! This is my sole warning!" You bellow while ordering your vinelings forward. Using their ensnare ability, they vinelings wrap themselves around the bug's legs, sealing its movements in place as Asriana readied another arrow. She fired it, destroying another eye in the beast. The creature wailed as the area around it began to freeze, casting another ice spell on the entire area. Wasting no time, you send several tentacles over, blocking the ice spell to defend the elves at the cost of 10% of your biomass and your vinelings. You make a dramatic howl of pain as you grab the wounded Elves, dragging them towards your core while sending another wave of tendrils to bind the arachnid in place. Asriana, ever the sniper, fired another shot into the arachnid, destroying another eye as your tendrils shattered like glass.

"Accursed bug! Do not think my kindness to be weakness!" You state, feigning power as you send a never ending onslaught of tentacles to bind the arachnid in place. Despite the severe level difference, the arachnid was still overwhelmed by the sheer mass of your body, giving Asriana the chance to fire 4 more arrows, each one taking out another eye. One eye remained as you finally ran out of tentacles to bind the the creature, having only a handful of basic injector tentacles and the mouth tentacles to use. Sending the tendrils onwards, you roar loudly to distract the bug, forcing it to fire another wave of icy breath towards the trees, killing them off while Asriana fired the final shot, destroying the bug's last eye.

A cry of pain echoed through the air as your mind was filled with prompts of level ups. Since you didn't use a single class skill and focused solely on your monster skills, your monster level increases several fold, the discrepancy between your levels giving you the boost of a lifetime.

Verdure/Erosarkic Level up

Verdure/Erosarkic Level up

Verdure/Erosarkic Level up

Verdure/Erosarkic Level up...

You watch in fascination as your body grows in power, its regenerative prowess jumping immensely. By the end, your monster level has hit 200, unlocking a variety of skills from both Verdure and Erosarkic skill trees. As for your body, the injuries from the attack were already healing over. By your estimate, you could regrow 90% of your body per hour, tripling your regenerative rate instantly. You still couldn't kill such an Ice Queen Spider on your own, but you could slow its advance to a crawl. Throwing a glance to Asriana, you withdraw your tentacles, leaving the quartet alone.

"Rest. Treat your wounds. I shall partake my end of the bargain when you are ready." You state as you begin harvesting the local vegetation, converting it into a vast array of aphrodisiacs and **** to create your first sex ****.