Epsilon Twilight

8. Paper

After a bit of a discussion, Aloe tried wearing the slaver's clothes again. Her new hourglass shape actually made it easier to wear the pants, which she would have expected to go otherwise, but there still was quite a bit of an issue with the shirt. Her shoulders weren't as broad as before, but now she packed quite the rack, which also made it impossible to button the shirt.

With a bit of quick thinking from Xochipilli's part – who was blushing harder by the minute – Aloe took the w...

7. City

There was something very wrong with the landscape. Buildings couldn't be that tall, it just didn't make any sense. At most, Aloe had seen buildings – or more accurately noble dwellings – with four floors, but from what she could see with her enhanced sight revealed that even the shortest of buildings had five floors, and the tallest ones were beyond the tenth mark.

Simply mindboggling.

She had seen this imagery before in the dream she had hijacked, but that had been a dream no...

6. Disciple

"Morning, sleepyhead~" Aloe booped Xochipilli on the nose once she noticed the child was waking up.

"M-morning?" He looked around in confusion before assimilating where he was. She didn't blame the boy for thinking all the past events had been a bad dream, she had thought that more than once.

Wished that were the case more than once.

"Lemme help you getting out," Aloe carefully undid the wrapping of the Cottonpull's sack and freed Xochipilli from its clutches. All the cotton...

5. Coziness

One may think that Aloe was embarrassed by her nakedness, but she had long outlasted that type of shame. For better or worse, her life had forced her to throw away her clothes more than she would have liked. No, what made her blush – her cheeks heated up, but she doubted the color of bark could change – was the fact that she had been called out.

"I… have had no need for clothes for a long time. All that I had… was reduced to rags. But it's not that I need clothes with my current...

4. Perennial

Aloe felt bad for having reacted that strongly to the kid, Xochipilli, having seen the contents of the veritas, but some things should stay outside of the minds of people. Of any mind.

Even after being shouted at, Xochipilli dutifully obeyed him and broke one of the leaves on her hips for her. She hadn't purposely planted them there, but the silhouette they made was too amusing to remove it. A bit of vanity didn't harm.

She had to remove her stances otherwise the boy wouldn't have...

3. Goddess

It all occurred in one heartbeat. In one moment, he was facing certain death; and in the other, a regal figure stood between him and the slaver. He had heard of the creatures across the ocean, but he had never expected one so… arboreous.

The monster – which looked slightly female with its curves – grabbed the slaver by the head and spat at him. By the time he processed what was happening, the slaver was screaming and pleading for his life, but that didn't stop the monster from end...

2. Joy

The sheer greenness of the scenery stunned Aloe. The soil was overflowing with grass and a thick undergrowth, the skies were partially covered with ample canopies of foliage, filtering through lovely rays of gold.

"Ah~" Aloe moaned as she basked herself in the soft breeze and sunlight. "I don't know what's better: the sight or the light. Radiating Undergrowth light cannot compare to the real deal. It lacks… life; unlike the sun which is truly the provider of all life."

Aloe exte...

1. Garbage

This is by all means and accounts the most visceral, disgusting, and brutal chapter I've written.

Content warning for: slavery, rape, pedophilia, gore, and heavens know what else.

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The foliage was dense, but the pants were more. Noise filled the surroundings, not just that of the birdsong and the crunching jeering of the undergrowth, but those ragged breaths doing their best to escape.

"It's useless, you know!" The man calmly shouted; amusem...

Release Update

Hello there,

I decided from now on that I'll post 20 chapters ahead of time on Patreon instead of just 10 to offer more value, so enjoy! For now, I'll be releasing two chapters each day until we reach that number, and I don't discard the possibility of publishing even more. I'm kinda sitting in 100k unpublished words, though most of them aren't from Cultivating Plants.

Also, I'll change the membership tiers a bit. Current patrons will remain unaffected.

Anyhow, editing time ...

Evolving Self Finished!

Hello there,

As some may have seen already, book 4 of Cultivating Plants, Evolving Self is now completed! The addendums have been quite fun to write this time.

As always, this will mean a one-week hiatus before starting with the next book which will be Infusing Ideals. I'll leave an attachment of the cover for y'all. As a bonus, I intend to make an extra chapter, an 'Ars Botanica' once I have the sketches of all new plants from book 4, but I will probably have started posting book...

Addendums

Infusion

First of all, it would be wrong to call Infusion a power system; a complete misnomer born out of the ignorance and lack of understanding of mortals. Infusion is not aligned with any Aspect or Incarnation, so it would be wrong to call it as such. The term 'magic system' would be correct though. After all, Infusion does engage with multiple 'magics'.

But let me give you a better picture.

Infusion is the amalgamation of three distinct power systems. Because Khaffat's...

75. Evolution

Many things should be said about the grafting of Heartgrowth body parts, but the only one that mattered to Aloe was the loss of vitality. She had been long aware of the fact that loss of blood correlated with loss of maximum vitality, and amputating her fingers did – in fact – cause a lot of blood loss. The answer to such a conundrum was quite simple, just a healthy dose of self-cannibalism.

She was thankfully not required to eat her finger, most vitality was stored in the blood rat...

74. Symbiosis

If she let her mind wander, time truly was a construct devoid of innate value. Before she became aware of the passage of time, Aloe was already evolving Heartgrowths. Even if she didn't even need half of her reserves to evolve the living stones, she still had to have maximum reserves of one hundred and fifteen mansworth to avoid any exhaustion and damage from the evolution.

Or minimize it.

With her combined natural vitality regeneration and the recovery internal infusion, she coul...

73. Garden

After a few more weeks and restoring the mansworth-sized hole that the blood infusion had made on her reserves, Aloe was ready to evolve a new Heartgrowth. Even readier than before as her reserves edged on the three digits.

With recovery on, she had nothing to worry about as she poured her copious reserves into the living stone seed, but she still performed the evolution through her hair.

Just in case.

Maybe she was impervious to amputations – or more exactly, could shrug ...

72. Slime

Aloe rested for the following weeks. The massive blood infusion had wrecked her body more than she had originally thought, even five days later she was feeling a modicum of discomfort. But that didn't prevent her from evolving five Slowtides per day. Whilst twenty mansworth were still a considerable amount of vitality, she now had frice that much, so her body could easily assimilate such taxing evolutions if she scattered them along the day and took breaks.

However, her experiments on H...

71. Heartgrowth

As much as her lust for knowledge and discovery was assaulting her, Aloe still had to do some chores. Namely cleaning and dressing herself. Now not even the coldness and the dampness of the Tehen River could faze her with toughness on, but in the name of civility and decency, Aloe chose to wear clothes.

Once she had cleared the mess she had made, the cultivator went back to where she had planted the Heartgrowth seed.

"I… I should have expected this," she muttered as she beheld t...

New Story

Hello there,

Today besides publishing a chapter of Cultivating Plants, I also posted the first two chapters of my upcoming story, Astrotemporal Alignment.

Here's the blorb (please comment if you think I should change something for the release):

Nolotl Xocoyotzin, prince of the Tezlan Confederation, was a student like any other at the Empyrean Academy. He studied in a neutral country with many other sons and daughters of influential people, far from the instability of his hom...

Chapter 2: Information Magic

Instantly, Nolotl could tell something was amiss about the Empyrean. And he wasn’t talking about the status.

“I am surprised with your Alignment,” the Empyrean of Information explained tentatively.

“Really? I always come here at the start of the month.” Enantyum said.

The gnosiamancer briefly connected to the Cognition to check what day it was, because keeping track was for losers. I mean, it’s the second of Space, so I guess IT IS the beginning of the month....