24 Magical beast tree

Evolution!

It was time for me to take the next step. Utgard would not like my new attitude nor the death of that noble and if they came to make trouble, I wanted to be as strong and prepared as possible.

The next evolution would allow me to grow living beings. For that, a major increase in deduction power was a necessity. The amount of magic I had gathered this time was many times more than what was needed for my last evolution and this time all the magic would be used to upgrade my core.

This increase in deduction power would also bring me another advantage. According to the system deduction power was also relevant to fine-tuning one's control over magic.

I guessed that I had around one week left until Utgard's actions would reach me. I had to hurry and become stronger!

I dropped the last of my newly grown ingots into my stash and sealed it. Since I would be unable to grow more ingots, I had dug a hole at my base and stored some ingots there. My current inventory consisted of 500 iron ingots, 200 silver ones, and 50 gold ingots.

Now you must ask yourself, where did the copper and tin go?

Well, I re-assimilated the tin because I couldn't find any immediate use for it and the copper was safely hidden in my tree crown. From there I could use it as a means of attack without anyone suspecting it.

I was all set. I moved my full focus onto the stored magic and began to compress it into my core. Since this process was done solely through compression, it was unnoticeable from the outside.

As the compression increased so did the size of my core. After all my magic was used up, my core had reached the size of a melon and I could feel an increase in deduction power. However, this wasn't enough. I needed more.

To that end, I began to once again apply compression. Not to magic though, that had been used up, but to the core itself. It wasn't just the size of the core that mattered but also its density. As they say, quality over quantity.

Thus, under my careful actions, the core began shrinking until it was only the size of a grain of rice. Its color had also changed, from a pale, light blue to a pure, crystalline white. It really did somewhat look like a grain of rice. Maybe calling it a small pearl was more favorable.

I now felt like I was overflowing with deduction power. My evolution was nearly complete. The last step was to deduce the blueprint of a living being.

I chose to first try with a squirrel. It was a small normal animal and shouldn't be to complex.

Boy was I wrong. Three days later I was finally done. A simple small critter had cost me three whole days!

'Oh really, what's the average duration then?'

'...'

Good thing I had above average deduction then.

Turns out deduction wasn't the only thing that took long. Growing the squirrel took another day.

On the bright side, I was now officially a magical beast tree! Yay me.

The finished squirrel was now hanging from one of my branches. Its outline and auburn fur were vaguely discernible through the semi-transparent membrane in the shape of an egg.

'Why does it look like an egg?'

No reason then. But really, it didn't seem any less strange. Time to hatch it! I dropped the egg.

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It landed on the ground in a splash of gelatinous liquid and from it, an adult squirrel emerged. It immediately climbed me. The gelatin in the meantime seemed to just evaporate.

'Stop running around on me like crazy! It feels itchy and really pisses me off!'

The squirrel stopped. Could it understand me?

That sounds like fun. Let's deduce the tempest wolf next. Chances that I would finish in time for my possible confrontation with Utgard were slim but I could still try.

Three days later Aldi arrived with the usual messenger and I wasn't even halfway done with my deduction.