Waking and more reincarnators?

Waking and more reincarnators?

A dream. A dream that contains visions of what looks like my home world.

It begins, in a vast sea of stars, like the milky way and more. A galaxy, and a nebula in the distance. From the vastness of space, it zooms in on a solar system, then a planet. Earth. Or is it? The dream does not linger, and it moves a bit too fast. The scene zooms in on a hospital or a clinic A doctor, a nurse, a child and probably the childs family. The child smiles and nods. A few around him cry.

And the child sleeps, and those around him give him a hug, crying.

Then it zooms out again, back to the view from space. Stars. Thirteen streaks of light, all from the planet. They shoot up, and then the view speeds up, like a warp, or a slipstream.

A white layer emerges around all the streak of lights, and just as it exists the slipstream, a black barrier appears. It shatters, like glass.

And a green planet is seen. Thirteen streaks of light, they fly towards a point, but ones brightness starts to flicker, and move a little slower. And that one streak of light loses speed, and starts to drift apart from the rest of the group.

And it crashes into the planet. A little while later, the twelve streaks of light crash on the planet as well.

[Twelve reincarnators have arrived!]

Year 71 Month 10

2 Months. Ive been asleep for 2 months? The elves! What happened to the elves?

Oh. I still feel them here. The elves are alive, thankfully. I had a scare whether my fruits or [secret hideout] or [nourish] would be disabled when I woke up, but everything seems to be alright?

Jura, Laufen what happened?

Oh?! The elves jump, surprised. Tree Spirit, you are awake!

Ah. Yes.. Ive been sleeping for two.. Months?

Yes. All of us are really surprised that you did not respond earlier, and one of the captains mentioned it could be a kind of mana-sickness.

Then?

Oh, erm The humans left after the battle 2 months ago. They want to talk to you but they all left after waiting for a few days. After the demon champion is defeated, its quiet around here for a moment. The demon hordes in this region are in disarray and their behavior is erratic. Other than that, nothing much, we mostly continue hiding here, your fruits and [nourish] ability is still working so we knew you are merely sleeping. So, we've been keeping ourselves busy since. We gained a few levels too!

Jura did participate in the battle against the demon champion, so, it makes sense for him to gain levels. Ah. how many levels did you gain, Jura?

Oh levels. Erm.. I think I gained 4 levels, and a skill? Well, that's a big difference. Is it because I landed the finishing blow?

Jura smiles and nods. Thank you, most importantly, battling such a huge golem helped with my worries and boosts my confidence, and my [tormented warrior] has improved to [tormented warrior (mild)]. I think if this keeps up, I will lose the penalty soon enough!

Laufen and the rest shake their head, no levels for them. All they did is just hide after all, if you didnt participate, you dont get levels. Sounds fair. In fact, this whole fuzzy logic behind leveling incentivizes hard work and participation. Its probably designed by a school teacher somewhere to reward kids, no? Laze off, dont take risks, and you get nothing!

Year 71 Month 10

A few days after I wake up

Ah, that reminds me, I have new skills. Kind of forgot about them in the daze of waking up. It feels like a bad hangover really.

[Wood Magic]

A wheel pops up in my mind, at the center of it a leaf shape. There is a lot of greyed out skills and menus that grow out of that wheel.

Ah, I unlocked the magic type, and I have under it two skills. [Bind] and [Bloom]

[Rhizofiltration]

This is a passive skill. Will extract minerals and other items via roots, and automatically filter out negative effects in the ground.

[Dream Tutor]

May use dreams to learn, and to teach. Requires a collection of spirits, memories and objects to unlock more Dreams. Essences can be used to bestow certain skills via dreams. Target must be sleeping for the ability to kick in. If sleep is interrupted, learning may not be effective.

I immediately test it out on the elves, once they go to sleep at night.

Year 71 Month 11

Demons, or more accurately the hounds appear like locusts. Swarms of them, here and there. I kill those that I can, and ignore those clever enough not to come too close. I mean, it's not like I can chase them. KInda like a venus flytrap. Gotta wait for my stupid prey to come near. Maybe I can get a "lure" skill some day in the future.

[Level up. Level 87!]

[Healing fruit upgraded] [Healing vines upgraded]

Obtained a new skill: [Solar-healing]

Oh. I feel like a bulb shaped monster now.

Year 72 Month 4

A horseman passes through. He rests a while under the tree.

He sleeps under the shade, right on my trunk.

I drop a fruit on his head.

Ouch.

He grabs it, examines it for a while, and then eats it.

Thanks, tree. He rides off after his nap.

[Skill : Fruit-attack obtained]

Oh.

Year 72 Month 5

More demons.

Seriously, these things never end. How do these guys deal with so many demons?

The demons appear on average twice a week, thats pretty okay. When demons are actually terrorising us a few years ago, they appear daily.

Ah wait, I keep forgetting my sense of time is different from the elves. Killing all the demons though gives me a new skill.

[Obtained skill : Root surge]

[Obtained skill : Lesser demon suppression aura]

Year 72 Month 6

Big harvest! The elves have crops, and some of the trees around me are growing larger. Its quite unnatural to see them grow so quickly, but apparently a common occurrence if there are tree spirits around. Apparently I've grown taller as well, and I am now about the height of a four story building.

Excess mana harvested by tree spirits (who usually do not spend their mana) is dumped into the land around it, and that turbocharges all other plant growth.

Also, thanks to [wood creation], all the elves are now equipped with weapons and armor I made, which also gave that skill an upgrade.

Year 72 Month 7

One thing being a tree, I am mostly immobile. So in a way, I really spend a lot of time doing mostly nothing. It's really a waiting game, hoping for things to happen. Do trees always feel like this, just waiting? Or maybe a rock? So I usually try to use my plentiful idle time to help the eleves, by using my skills [dream tutor], [powerlevelling] and [wood creation].

Right now, Jura is level 54, Laufen Level 31, Emile is 26, Belle is 25, Brislach and Wahlen Level 11 and Lausanne is still unknown.

Lausanne, the now 3+ baby can talk quite well but still does not know how to access her menu. Maybe in a few more months she will tell me what level she is.

"Tree-tree." Lausanne would walk around, her steps now quite stable, and crawl up and down the roots.

Laufen would then pet her daughter's head. "Now now, that's not how to refer to a tree spirit."

"Tree-tree." Lausanne mumbles. "tree-tree?"

I kinda like that name, I should call myself that.