'I feel warm. Am I in heaven?'
Amok felt darkness fading before he felt something akin to his eyes opening and saw a bright, warm forest woods scenery.
Then he saw a second scenery.
Then third.
And after a second, over a thousand sceneries in hexagonal formation appeared in his vision.
'W-What the fuck is this?!'
Amok screamed in his mind as he suddenly started feeling strange pain.
'Fuck, am I in hell or heaven?! What god did my village worshipped again?'
'Ah yes, God Ros of the abundance and fertility… Hey, man. I visited your shrine a few times, alright? And I also prayed earnestly, so where did you send me in my afterlife?'
'Did you turn me into some creature with thousands of eyes or what? This pain…damn, it's so annoying, fuck….'
But the pain didn't last as Amok soon gained clarity. The thousands of sceneries vanished, and only one appeared before his eyes.
Right after that, a blue panel also appeared in his mindscape, greatly startling Amok.
[ Amok ]
_Level: 1
_Rank: Awakened
_Lifeform: Forest Lord (Unique)
_Area of Authority: 5 kilometers radius.
__Life Essence: 0
_Stats:
—> [Spirit: 100
—> [Magic: 100
—> [Mana: 100 [1000/1000] Recovery: 1/second.
—> [Vitality: 1000 = [10,000/10,000] Recovery: 100/minute.
—————[ Talents ]—————
—> {~ Spiritual Senses, Master of Forest Spirit, Plant-Life Creation, King of Kingdom Plantae ~}
—————[ Skills ]—————
—> { ~ None ~}
Amok's mind started filling with information as he looked at this strange blue panel.
He came to learn about his current existence as the biggest tree in the forest, and this shocking revelation caused the giant tree causing the huge tree to shake, scaring many critters around the tree.
'I am a fucking tree?!'
'Wait, this tree was touted as the tree of God Ros….'
'Whatever, fuck it.'
'For now, I need to see what I can do as a fucking tree.'
Amok looked at his talents after clearing useless thoughts and accidentally activated one of his powers as those thousands of sceneries appeared in his mindscape again.
But he didn't feel any pain or discomfort this time.
'Did I just connect to all plants of this forest? The vision is somehow better than human vision.'
'My village!'
Amok quickly searched for the plants in the village and soon found a spot.
'Damn it, I can't see anyone from this. I want to look inside my house.'
'And I can't even hear anything except for a slight windy sound. Is the village silent? How long was I out for?"
This row of flowers was beside his house, but he couldn't see any living people or hear any voices.
'Lily, Mother, Father...'
Suddenly, someone ran past the row of flowers beside his house.
'Who was that?!'
Amok tried to recall the feet he saw in the dark but failed to recognize them.
'But it was a living human judging from that speed.'
'Damn it! I want to return to the village,' Amok cursed in frustration.
He was alive but couldn't check up on his family and others.
'Talents… I need to check them.'
Amok opened his Talents tab, and when he focused on them, their description windows readily appeared in his mindscape.
[ Spiritual Senses ]
->You can activate your spirit senses through all plant life in the forest area under your authority.
-> Spiritual Senses: Spirit Vision, Spirit Hearing, Spirit Touch, Spirit Smell, and Spirit Taste.
'Taste, smell, and touch too? Wait, I can indeed smell blood and stink. Damn…'
Amok activated his spirit smell by mistake and started smelling foul odors.
'I should deactivate it and Spirit Touch too. Who knows if I would feel pain if someone stepped on the flower I am possessing.'
'Yeah, possessing sounds better. The talent should be named Forest Posseesor because I am a fucking human, not a tree!'
'Sigh, can I ever return to a human body or possess it somehow? Fuck!… Yeah, I can't even fuck while being a damn tree….'
[ Stop whining! First, you took my position, and now you are bitching about it.]
Suddenly, a cute blob of green with big spiritual black eyes and a toothless mouth appeared in his mindscape, looking angrily at Amok.
"Who are you?"
"Wait, is this me?" Amok looked down and saw an eighteen-year-old lean muscled body wearing a cool semi-opened light green kimono with mystical patterns.
Although his body looked physical, as if made of blood and flesh, the faint ethereal glow and hue of his body denied that possibility.
It was his spiritual body.
"Cool," Amok nodded to himself.
"I am the forest spirit! I was born three hours ago!' the green blob angrily shouted. "You took control of my body, forest, absorbed my power, and made me your servant! I am way more grieved than you!"
"What the fuck? And stop shouting…."
Amok flicked the cute blob with his finger, sending it far away for a few seconds, but it vanished from there and appeared before him again.
"Give me back my things! Damn it! I shouldn't have saved you."
Amok looked annoyed at the forest spirit and crossed his arms before adopting a somber expression. "You saved me? How?"
"I don't know! I was barely a minute old at that time! When I was born, I sensed your soul and sought it from my instincts or whatever! And then your soul suddenly took over my position, absorbed awakening power, and became strong!"
"One minute old?" Amok was dumbfounded. "Wait, if you are just three years old, how are you speaking so fluently? I mean, you are not human but some magical shit, but still…."
"Humph, it's because of your memories! We somehow integrated, and I read your memories. I didn't understand half of it, but I learned your language and other things."
"My memories? So you are acting this smartass and want this authority and power because of my memories… You bastard," Amok grinned and grabbed forest spirit.
"You are my servant, so stop acting like a spoiled bitch. If I can somehow enter into a human body, I will. There's no way I am sitting in one place for years, tsk."
"Heh, I have your body," the forest spirit smugly said. "If you want it, then give me my forest back."
"No thanks. I already found it," Amok said with a laugh.
It was right under his new body, the giant tree!
"As a three-hour-old, you did good by keeping it hidden right below my new body. I didn't have to search far."
"Alright, now get out of my mind. If you are bored, search for people in the forest and inform me."
The miserable-looking Forest Spirit looked at Amok angrily and said, "At least give me some food. I am hungry!"
"What food? I don't know what to feed you," Amok was speechless, but suddenly he asked while raising his blue eyebrows while smiling. "Do you want sunlight and water?"
"Or… feces? I heard they are a kind of fertilizer."
The forest spirit got teary-eyed before it started dropping big teardrops. "I am hungry… I need spiritual power."
Amok wryly smiled and quickly fed the forest spirit.
Since gaining inheritance knowledge, he knew he could turn his mana into spiritual or magic power.
"Alright, I'll feed. Stop crying."
Amok said before pointing his finger at the Forest Spirit and producing spiritual power by consuming mana.
A stream of white-gold specs released from Amok's finger suddenly sped up halfway through due to Forest Spirit opening its mouth, promptly sucking the spiritual power.
After three seconds, the forest spirit burped and grinned. "I am full for now."
"You only ate spiritual power worth five mana," Amok said with a speechless expression as he saw his mana bar. [995/1000]
"That's enough for now. Anyway, please allow me to have sub-authority of this forest...I"
"Sigh, I understand my situation, but I wanted to try." The Forest Spirit sadly sighed. "I can't go against you because you are my Master. You are the Forest Lord."
"It's good that you understand and worry not. Since you saved me, I won't let you be miserable," Amok said with a smile as he added this Forest Spirit as a sub-authority in his Plant Kingdom.
"Yey! Thank you, Master," the forest spirit cheered before vanishing from Amok's mindscape.
'Let's go back to checking my talents.'
Amok opened the second talent's description. [Master of Forest Spirit.] Clearly, this was related to that forest spirit.
[ Master of Forest Spirit ]
-The forest spirit has established a supportive servant contract with you.
'That's it? Well, it's just three hours old, and that idiot clearly formed a contract with me. Maybe it was stupid because it was just born then?'
'No. Forming a contract could have benefitted it somehow. That's why this happened.'
'That's the only explanation since that brat said its instincts sought my soul.'
Amok believed in his theory and moved on to the next talent.