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Chapter 17 - Eden,The Great Tree, and The Road To A New Adventure

Size manipulation. 

This was a skill that the great tree can use. 

But this skill that changes its size,Doesn't come with a price. 

Leo who was staying on top of the tree felt very comfortable { just by staying in this environment for long my body's physical strength will differently grow just by breathing although it will take a long time,

Every breath here recovers some stamina. } 

"So,what do I need to be in an official contract with you?"

"..."

"Ah,is that so,but are you sure that is all,you won't came later asking some of my blood later,no?"

"..."

"No,it's just me being an Idiot,I seems to have read a lot of Chinese novels,that I couldn't help but ask this of you"

"..."

"Y-you want to know about what I call Chinese novels,although I can find them for you in the future,but are you sure I wouldn't really recommend them, before you know while reading them your brain will collapse , you will also gain a skill called [Coughing mouthful of blood every day,and for every insult.],after knowing all that are you sure you still want to read them?"

"..."

"Umu,don't say more I had already felt your resolve,all I can do is praying that after you read them,you won't get too corrupted."

"..."

"I am not,you are the one who is making light of this topic,I don't want to hear words like(Trash,young master,....) coming out of your mouth in the future."

"...!?"

As I was talking with the tree,I start to thing of a name for it,since that was the condition to do an official contract with it. 

{Hmm,what should I call it 🤔...YGGDRASIL as in the Norse mythology's world tree,hmm No,then what.....hmm....then let's call it this — } 

"...Eden this is your new name are you satisfied with it?" 

As I said that a branch had come and touch my hand then left it. 

As it did that I can actually feel an intangible connection is been formed between me and Eden. 

Using that connection I put my thoughts to work,then suddenly in front of Me a chair made of wood had  been materialised .

"...!!,Wow.It really worked" I muttered in somehow excited voice, as if a child had found a new toy, I started to materialize wood in different shapes, such as small house, chairs, doors, animals, people .... ,anything that came to mind. 

"Ohh,so I can see it's status now that it had become mine?,then—Eden status window!" 

Name: Eden Lancer 

Sex/Age: None(Note: it can't transform into a beautiful girl,too bad for you hahaha.)

/ 1+ million 

•Size/Weight: 250cm~6km+/ 7t~1 million T+

•Current Condition: Great

•Alias:  THE one who failed in becoming the world will,Eden,the greet tree, ....

I-abilities

• energy conversation(Ex Rank)

• Size alteration (A Rank)

• Shape alteration (A Rank)

• Material alteration (D Rank)

• Contract(Ex Rank)

• Energy draining(Ex Rank)

• Monsters/beasts communication (Z Rank)

• Weight manipulation (B Rank)

• Energy capacity(Ex~E Rank)

• Still being generated.... 

"Wow,some overpowering ability are those,hmm but what is this title,...." 

[THE one who failed in becoming the world will:

This title was given due to Eden's several attempts to take place of the unexcistence, world will in this world, but unfortunately it failed.] 

"So this world don't have a world will, does that mean that not every world will have a planetary will?"After a pause, leo said, "Anyway let think where i will spend the last ten days since I had already completed my quest here." 

...… 

"....Eden can you do that for me"

"…"

"Thank you,could you please be sure, not to make them go Extinct,leave some okay."

"..."

"Then thanks😊, Love ❤ you Eden,Ha-haha." ,As I said that  I went to the edge of one of Eden's branches,then sat down. 

With my enhanced vision I can see a lot from this place. 

Looking down I saw, wood shaped hands appearing all over Eden moving toward beasts in the middle and the outer region. 

I didn't have to wait for long as the first beast had already being caught by one of the hands, sending it toward me. 

After killing it,I put it in system space,to sell his body later. 

"What an overpowering ability  is size and shape manipulation, with this I can hunt most the monster here without even moving." 

As I muttered that to myself, I also realised that if Eden had wanted to really kill me before, it would be as  easy as breathing. 

{ 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮,𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣.} 

after that killed all the beasts that were delivered to me one after the other,but the more i killed the more came first it was only one at a time then two as the time goes the number grows,{ Ah,Eden are you perhaps trying to kill me, but anyhow this can be counted as a good training but I should as eden to stop if she had brought some strong beast, otherwise I would need its help to survive}. 

their huge number and the space size was small forcing me,to go toward the the center of the floor eden made for me before, where i slept before, as it had more space to move. 

There i could fight more freely. 

Just like that days had passed, and before long, the day that had announced,  my three months in this world had came. 

...… 

"Eden, time Is up ,we need to go now,  can you shrink yourself please?" I said as I sent  a mental image of how i wanted for it to look like. 

Then i suddenly felt the link between I and Eden is getting stronger,after that a green aura start to surrender my body, as i felt what one may call infinity vitality or strength being feed to me through my link with eden. 

my wounds had disappeared,my hair had start to grow at a very fast and before long it was already close to the ground,my skin had become soft as that of a baby. 

if i had a mirror now  , i would be very shocked since i had gone from  slightly handsome to a bona-fide handsome. 

But I didn't have time for that ,since before long my vassal was filled with energy to its peak,cracks start to appeared on my skin as a flood of blood flow from them. 

before i was made into a watermelon,i call eden through our link 

"stop eden!" 

as i said that the endlessly energy that was flowing into my body was stopped. 

the green aura also had faded out. 

"what was that eden i was about to exploded by that energy ?" 

"…" 

"ah,so thats how is it,but you should have told me before, you have surprised me there!,i thought i would die." 

size manipulation skill is one of the skills eden own.but in changing eden's size it needs to expel some of its energy,the more it expels the small it can get,in the same logic, to get bigger it needs energy. 

when lossing energy it usually return it to earth , but since we got linked, its energy is being expels through me. 

"so what should i do now? eden" 

"…" 

"manipulation the energy and send it to the ground,hmm lets try, but if you can please send the energy slower than before please?" 

"…" 

"then lets start ..., Now!". 

The green aura and the overwhelming energy was filling my body again. 

" focus leo focus , controling...controling....

controling  yes just like that." 

sometime passed, as i was trying to move the energy i feel in my body,just when i was about to ask eden to stop again, a notification had poped out. 

[𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘍) 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥] 

As I got this skill I felt I got the ability to manipulate this energy even if it was just a little. 

"𝘩𝘮𝘮,𝘰𝘩 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴! 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥" 

𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦,𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.

𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴,𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯 start to 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 but only by 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 1 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳,𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 6000𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘵. 

"ᎻᎷᎷ, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒊 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒅,𝒊 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔." 

𝒂𝒔 𝒊 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆,𝒊 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚. 

𝘢𝘴 𝘪 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥. 

𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦. 

𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯,𝘢𝘴 𝘪 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸. 

"𝘩𝘮𝘮 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘤𝘩!" 𝘪 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘪 𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺,𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥. 

𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 new born 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 

𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳,𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦. 

𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 only 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 in one direction 𝘪 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯g manner  𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦 and the tree as the axis. 

3𝘮...30....70.....137..,𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 149 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.

even so this was enough,with how much of energy i am pouring out of my body at the moment eden is getting at least ten cm shorter every second means 6 meters every minute or 360 meter every hour. 

that means that i can make eden in the shape i wanted before the time limit otherwise i woudn't be able to take it with me. 

Hours Had passed, while i was putting all my effort in this, i felt that my energy manipulation skill had gone up a little so i tried to spread the energy more until it reached 207m that was my true limit,even so that help eden transform faster. 

Even so,after doing all that my energy manipulation skill had not upgraded to the (E Rank).

the final form of eden that i give it was a wooden spear 3 meter long. 

even though it was only three meter long,with the energy inside it it can instantly return to the 2km in size. 

after twirling the spear in my hand a little,i asked eden "eden can you please use your Material alteration skill and imitate the ore the strongest ore you know" 

"…" 

as i heard her positive respond ,the spear in my hand was suddenly filled with some green light then before long it changed. 

its Material changed from wood into an unknown strong looking metal,its length changed a little as the spear head alone is about half a meter ,its tip was unbelievably sharp enough that it cut through a tree nearby like cutting the air,its weight was also huge around 13 Tons. 

after playing with it for a while i finally had the time to look at the astonishing scene i had made. 

The newly born tree had become a 1 kilometer tree almost replacing eden,surronding by flowes in the range of 100 meter, circling this domain a forest of slightly big trees the smaller was 50 meter while the tallest was close to hundred. 

not only that after looking closely,the beasts that i hadn't kill before had grown stronger than before as well. 

"what the heck is this... Does that mean as long as i ....ah it looks like its not time for this" 

as i was on my thought a black portal had appeared before me . 

"anyway lets think about that later,now lets go" as i said that i moved forward without hesitation throught it ,leaving behind the island that i had spend on a whole three months without any regrets. 

— "Status Window". 

Name: Leo Lancer 

Sex/Age: Male / 22 

•Height/Weight: 193.5 cm / 91.8 kg

•Current Condition: Healthy

•Class: Guardian

• Sub-class :merchant 

•Alias:  THE ONE WHO KILLED THE FIRST MONSTER, Defender of the weak. Child of the planet, agent of the planetary will Earth, Earth's War Hero , Training addict 

I-Dispositions 

• Calm (able to rationally think in most dire situations)

• Conviction (will follow his moral code)

•  Suicidal (in case he found no other way to solve the problem in front of him he wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice himself if he find a chance where he can use exchange his life with his goal) 

II-abilities

•Unique Skill: <>

•  Calm (Rank D): Strong mental resistance is granted. Particularly resistant to confusion and impatience.

•  Basic Spear Techniques:(high)

•Intuition (Rank D) : the body moves intuitively without the need for thoughts, as it is only rank (D) it can only be used when the user perceives a significant threat to his life.

• Baijquan (F Rank)

• Wind flow reading (E)

• Wind resistant (D)

• 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘍)

• Meditation (F Rank): a non combat skill, that help the user think 🤔 faster,when in relaxing state. 

III-physical status

• Strength: D

• Endurance: C

• Agility: D

• Stamina: D 

True equipment: Eden, a tree, spear.