I feel weird...
I can't see, everything is black...
I can't move...
But I can feel, I can feel things. Oh, I can move an arm, or arms — wow! I have so many arms — oh wait, are these branches? How come I can move my branches?
"Yo Hin es"
What? Did someone talk?
How can I hear? I'm a tree, right?
"H is m a jes can s e u"
Is someone spe — OUCH!!
I felt a sharp pain all around my body then suddenly, like light breaking into a window, I can see little by little, but everything is blurry. I can still feel the sharp pain in my body, but it's getting weaker.
Oh, everything's getting clearer! All I can see is a black and red room filled with red lighting and a long hallway filled with what probably is blood, guts, and bodies together with 6 figures kneeling. Why are they kneeling?
Can I talk?
"Herlhow" Wow, I'm a slow speaker.
After my very inaudible speaking, one of the figures wearing a gold-colored yukata with a lot of red stains suddenly stood up and spoke for a whole 5 minutes.He seems to be speaking in a different dialect, I can't understand him.
'What on Earth' is the only thing I can think of. I get accidentally killed, I meet a God, he turns me into a tree, and now there are 6 figures kneeling before me? What!?
Ugh, my head hurts. All these things happening one after another gives me a headache, usually when I'm in this status-
*Ding*
Wha —
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Status Display
Name: Abies
Title: Demon Lord
Buff: None
Debuff: Weakened
Abilities:
-Transfer Consciousness
-Nature Magic
-Fruit of Yggdrasil
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Whaaat?!!
What's this?
Is this some Isekai novel?!
Why am I a Demon Lord?
Oh my Godd! What is happening?
After 20minutes, I'm still trying to process everything, and I'm still confused. But here is what I can put together; I know a whole different language, and for some reason, I know how to speak it. And after multiple tries, every time I say 'status', a status display appears, like in MMORPGs, and according to it, I'm a Demon Lord. But although I can see my status display, I can't see the numerical figure of my stats, such as my strength, dexterity, etc.
"Hello" I tried to speak in English.
When I spoke, a thick and old voice came out, and it's probably my voice. At least, my voice sounds cool.
After that, the 6 figures in front of me, none of which look human, stared at me questioningly as if trying to decipher what type of stupidity is standing in front of them.
"Are you speaking in human, my lord?" The man wearing a golden yukata asked.
Oh, so they can understand English? What?
"Yes, I am."
Hearing that, the air around the man turned red for a short period of time and shouted, "But My Lord, you deeply desecrate the human tongue, why would you speak it in front of your remaining loyal subje — I'm sorry for shouting, My Lord."
"It's fine, it's just that I find it hard to speak the other language that we totally used to communicate in before."
The man's face turned even uglier upon hearing that and slowly walked back to kneel beside the other 5 figures.
It's quite hard to describe how the other 5 figures look.
One looks like a small human with gray skin and pointed ears. The figure appears to be a woman also, she is wearing a cute pair of round glasses and is wearing what seems to be a hakama? Well, that's cute.
The other is basically a huge chunk of menacing looking armor with red, black, and gold colors, and a whole lot of blood with a huge sword on his back the size of a whole person.
The other two look like female twins, both of them are wearing skin tight suits with yellow and red. The one on the right has a huge bow on her back while the other appears to not have any weapon at all.
After staring at these figures for probably 2 hours trying to make sense of what they are wearing, one of them finally spoke.
"We were only able to make a narrow escape, My Lord. If we arrived even just a few seconds later, we could not have been able to extract your consciousness from your body and find a tree worthy enough to contain your majestic soul." The girl with cute glasses narrated with a low and cute tone,
Damn, I have to up my acting game.
"I see, good job, then."
Hearing that, the girl's cheeks turned beet red.
"May I ask you, my loyal subjects, to leave me for a while?" I asked.
To which they all replied with a, "Yes, milord"
And proceeded to leave the long hallway.
Where do I even start to process this
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"Ren, I have doubts that the Gods have meddled with our world again", said the man wearing a long yellow kimono.
"Why do you say so?" Ren, the small woman with cute glasses replied.
"BECAUSE MY LORD DOES NOT SPEAK THE HUMAN TONGUE!" The man exclaimed as the surrounding space seemed to twist and bend due to his anger.
"But he is my lord, I swore to give him my life and I shall not speak ill of him behind his back", Ren replied as she suddenly disappeared.
"Yes, yes he indeed is my lord as well. It might just be the effects of the soul transfer." The man mumbled to himself.
"Iris, Ivy, secure the perimeters, make sure no one finds this place. If someone does, ensure the Lord's safety first, he is very weak as of now."
"As you wish, Maxim", the twins replied to the man wearing the kimono then disappeared.
Then, Maxim pointed to the big hunk of armor, "Glut, guard the Lord."
To which he replied, "As you wish, Maxim."