Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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Melisa was forced by Teressa to do everything necessary to disqualify as many participants as possible, deciding to attack everyone at once.

However, Planta used her magic to defend them, creating mighty spiritual barriers that protected the participants from the deadly curses spread from the cursed insects Melisa summoned.

At that point, Melisa already wanted to give up, she found that there was little point in continuing, yet the woman behind everything wouldn't allow this.

"You've been constantly trying to pretend you can use them for good, that your dream was always to make items and equipment, but at the end of the day… Your powers are made to harm and make others suffer. So do that! DO IT!"

Melisa was a girl that didn't want to use her powers to harm others, despite this being a game for her, since she started playing that she wanted to have fun and earn money.

Mostly to help her sickly mother with their daily expenses, and because the girl had crippling social anxiety, she saw BNLO as a way to earn money easily for someone like her.

But because of her bad luck, she ended falling into a mysterious, never seen dungeon at the beginning of her playthrough.

She survived through it after dying countless times, and at the end of this strange, "Miasmic Dungeon", she was given a "gift", a new power, in the form of a Class and a new Evolution.

It gave her tremendous, cursed powers, but also gave her a hideous, demonic appearance… Something that has left her speechless since then.

She sought help, never finding it, nobody could remedy her avatar's condition, it was permanent.

And even less, because of her dark powers and her hideous appearance, would anybody employ her inside a guild to work for them.

And even the NPC seemed very scared of her, no alchemist NPC ever helped her…

However, that's where Teressa appeared in her life, the guild master of the greatest alchemist guild saw tremendous potential in that girl.

Not as an alchemist, but as a tool.

Melisa knew this, she knew all of this, she wasn't dumb.

But she needed the money, for her mom, for her livelihood. Read new adventures at empire

If she defied her boss, she would get fired and where would she get money from?

Not everyone could just go out and kill monsters, nobody would form a party with her, and her powers were very draining to her.

Without a lot of potions and some supporters, she wouldn't be able to complete a single dungeon, despite the potency she carried.

She couldn't falter now, her entire life depended on this…

"I'm sorry…"

FLUOSH!

Suddenly the insects began to mutate, fusing together and becoming gigantic monstrosities, enormous in size and power, groaning furiously, and beginning to attack Planta's barriers.

"GRUOOOHH!"

"SHAAAAAH!"

"GROOOAARR!"

They roared ferociously, using their gigantic claws and pincers to tear through the strong barriers, beginning to slowly weaken them, small cracks appearing and then widening through their cursed powers.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Crack, crack…!

Naturally, Planta's team was rather furious of what was happening, Titan seemed openly angered, glaring at Melisa with disbelief.

"She's going too far!" Titan said. "Is this even allowed?!"

"Nobody can tell if she's doing it at all, she's not even looking here, no traces of curses connect to her either," Planta said.

"What? Then what do we even do! This is way too much!" Ambil groaned angrily.

"But the same could be said about me… Melisa, I'm sorry, but if you're going to continue with this, I'll have you disqualified."

Planta decided to end this once and for all.

Titan and Ambil quickly knew what she meant with this, glancing at her as their eyes widened.

Although Planta was working on the ring and the necklace the two finished, giving it the last touch.

A part of her mind was also concentrated in fighting back, spreading her Domain underground, roots and spiritual energy fusing together into Planta's strongest spells, Verdant Green Domain Magic.

RUMBLE!

From below the ground, giant and sharp spears of wood started emerging, coated on holy spiritual light, they pierced the Cursed Insects and made them explode into ashes one after another.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Planta didn't stop there, rapidly expanding and spreading her domain towards Melisa's spot, the girl who was working on her accessories, was quickly surrounded by giant wooden roots, slowly beginning to change shape into sharp spears.

"E-Eh?!" Melisa panicked. "W-Wait…! Wait a second!"

She panicked, but clearly knew that if she acted directly, she could be disqualified instantly… yet Planta's wood didn't attack her though, it only continued destroying the insects.

Until none were left.

For a moment of silence, everyone was wondering why Melisa's entire place wasn't being wrecked so she could be disqualified.

Planta, who was attack indirectly, didn't wanted that.

"Melisa."

Her voice echoed inside of the cursed girl, her red eyes widening.

"S-She can speak into my mind?! What! That's only something that the strongest Archwizards can do, right?!"

Melisa was shocked to learn of Planta's ability to talk into people's minds through Telepathy, an Ability derived from her [Myriad Minds] Divine Beast Skill inherited from her mushroom familiar, Terra, who also was developing psychic powers.

"I don't want to attack you, even less to disqualify you, girl."

"Ah…!"

Melisa panicked, she felt like Planta had her cornered, and with a gold knife pointed at her throat.

"However, I cannot let you forcefully disqualify others… So tell me, why are you doing this? You seemed honest; you seemed shy yet… I could sense within you no malice."

Planta immediately guessed that something wrong was happening with Melisa.

The girl couldn't even tell how, but Planta knew something was wrong with her.

"T-That's… I can't… I can't tell you."

"Are you in a contract with someone? Perhaps bound by that?"

"…"

"Is it your Guild Master, perhaps?"

"Ah!"

Melisa was below a powerful contract of her own creation, if she were to violate it and talk about it with someone else, she would receive a heavy backlash, enough to kill her.

She did this after Teressa forced her to swear loyalty towards her for the rest of her life, just as a way for her to be contracted and earn money at long last.

"Based in that response, I can guess I was right…"

What will Planta do now?

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