Emerson looked through her starts with surprise. She decided her base stats were incredible based on her level of 3. But what really surprised her were her skills which besides swordsmanship and magic were incredible.
'Most of these skills are from me and not this body' Emerson thought. 'Let's see what they can do.' Emerson closed her eyes and thought about the feeling she had when she used the power of her soul inside the void. The feeling was similar to back then but also completely different. Most likely because now she had a physical body, she decided. A great amount of warmth spread out from her chest and spread out her entire body as it reached her eyes she opened them. From the outside one could see that when Emerson opened her eyes, it was almost as if a fog had covered eyes turning them milky white. 'Void Eyes.' She thought. And immediately upon activating the skill thousands of pieces of information appeared in her head causing considerable strain. Emerson fell to her knees crying out in pain holding her temples. It was like someone shoved a book through her eyes and expected her to understand the information within. Emerson immediately stopped the flow of power and the skill ended, she thought to herself 'that was a lot of info, maybe I need to focus on a single thing.' Still on her knees she picked up a rock that was in front of her and activated the skill once more focusing on the rock. Information on the rock slowly entered her mind.
[Rock: an ordinary rock. Contains a trace of mana from a powerful ********* being. Insufficient world knowledge]
That was very strange to Emerson. She decide to try again with a different rock and recover the same information. She then decided to try a tall tree in the distance. She focused on the tree and activated the skill.
[Eternal Forest Sapling: 1057 years old. Contains a trace of mana from a powerful ********* being. Insufficient world knowledge]
'A 1000 year old tree is a sapling? That thing has to be a 100 feet tall. What doesn't an adult tree look like?' Emerson wondered. 'Besides that, I think everything here has a trace of a powerful being. This forest must be that being's territory. I should be careful.'
Emerson decided to try the other skill she used in the void. She cycled the power that originated in her chest and started slowly letting it flow around her. The power of her soul spread out in a circle around her physical body and spread until there was circle of power surrounding her about 500 feet in diameter. Emerson stopped there even though she still felt strong and as if she could spread herself out even further but decided not to in account of that powerful being. Emerson did not want to be noticed by that thing. Once her soul settled it was like she was back in the void again her vision shifted from her physical body to the point of omnipotence. She could see everything in her 500 foot circle. From the strange rabbit like creatures with two horns, to the birds, to every single blade of grass. All was within her sight. This felt more natural to her than the eyes of her physical body. 'Maybe because of all the time I spent in the void.' She thought. Emerson decided to keep using her soul search skill and started walking in the opposite direction of the men who killed this body's former host. She walked for hours without realizing, the forest gradually growing taller an taller while the incline of the ground was also growing as if she was starting to walk up a hill. This feeling she had while using this skill was intoxicating. Emerson felt like she was one with the world . She was queen of her 500 foot domain. She could see all within her circle of power and was just walking while enjoying all the brand new scenes before her.
If one were looking from the outside at Emerson. They would see a beautiful girl with flowing red hair, perfectly walking though this ancient forest with her eyes closed. But what only very powerful and sensitive beings would see is the massive amount of spiritual power radiating off of this girl. Any intelligent being would realize this girl is terrifyingly powerful. Unfortunately for Emerson who was wrapped up in the bliss of her new power, one of those intelligent beings felt her intrusion into their territory.
Emerson was exuberant. She was having to much fun just being in the state. When suddenly she stopped in her tracks. She felt something wrong within her little domain. Something had entered it. Black wisps of smoke were slowly creeping their way towards her on all sides. Emerson immediately realized that she was trapped, had no escape. From these black wisps Emerson felt terror. These wisps emanated slaughter and death in was that froze Emerson. She wanted to move, wanted to run, do anything at all but was stuck in her place. The wisps coalesced around her, wrapped around her physical body. When they did a pair of large yellow eyes with a split down the middle that must've been the pupils, appeared in her mind. Those eyes, they were beautiful, at first glance they were yellow but behind the yellow there was red and orange flowing around like a sea of fire. But they were also terrifying, they emanated malice and looked at Emerson like she was an interesting ant. Emerson felt a cold sweat down her back. The mental and physical excursion it took to just stand upright and not fall into a fetal position while looking at those eyes was immense.
"What are you?" A cold and gravely voice said into Emerson's mind.