I have barely managed to make a ring of leaves around my hill but hopefully it will be enough

  'Open GP store'

  'I need to be larger.'

  'To grow larger I must improve my stem.'

  'But that might not give me AP.'

  'I have made no progress on taking the blood from my hill.'

  'I must have blood for AP.'

  'Those small furry creatures have blood...'

  'Buy stem x4.'

  I feel slightly stronger as I grow taller.

  'I will take the small creature's blood, but first I must stop them from moving.'

  'I will cover them in my roots'

  'I will wait for them to return.'

  Meanwhile in the distance a group is being attacked by bandits, but their POV is in around four chapters so let us return to our patient protagonist.

  'The creatures have returned.'

  One cautiously approaches my leaves, I could sprout more leaves at it to scare it away but that would not give me their blood, that and I want to see how they react to my defences.

  It reaches out and... pushes away my leaf, the others emboldened by this do the same, quickly biting into the corpses thus tearing through my roots.

  'This... hurts?' I contemplate this "feeling" and-

  'I have decided I do not like being hurt'

  'Buy roots 5'

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  Swiftly just as one was about to bite into my roots i shoot a flurry of roots around it's body it opens it's mouth and the others run away.

  'Now what?'

  'Ah the blood is inside.'

  'Buy root x1'

  Forcing a root through it's squisher parts I can finally drain it's blood.

  'Open Ap store'

  'Buy Consume, Details.'

  'Open GP store'

  'Buy vines.'

  I look to the dead thing in my roots and inspect it.

  I feel like I have been deceived.

  'Consume rat'

  Slowly my roots split open and pinch onto the rats skin my outside roots seem ineffective but the one on the inside is slowly pushing meat along itself and to the base of my main stem.

  'Buy ground coverings'

  'I can afford none of this.'