First Pov
There were no hiccups or other disturbances during my little trick at the ceremony. I honestly don´t know what I expected, this was real life after all and not a story where the author made the MC go from one conflict to another and set up flags with each sentence. There was one thing that worried me however, my study of the world tree has proven itself much slower than anticipated, not that I expected to succeed on the first try but it has been four months and I still was as smart as before but it didn´t matter, if there was one thing I didn´t lack it was time but a peaceful environment, so I decided to stay in the village for the rest of this bodies life if needed.
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60 Years. 60 YEARS!!! That was how long it took me to finally make the spell how I wanted him to be. 60 years was not a long time for me but still immensely for any other human, it just showed freaking complex not only the spell was but also the world tree attribute on its own. But I have finally done it and it was perfect. All I had to do was plant one tree somewhere in the universe and its roots would spread across dimensions to absorb any kind of energy to grow even further and absorb souls from the vicinity into its roots, send it to its trunk and store it there form me to devour. I could either just pick up the souls once every while or I could connect myself to the tree trunk to immediately devour the souls. I was planning to do more research while the tree did its job, at least until I had the ability to create a real body so that I could just stay in the tree until my body´s time is up and create a new one to reincarnate into and continue the circle.
Now it was really time for me to leave, not only because I needed to plant the world tree and let it grow nut also because lately the village folk has been relentlessly asking me to become the new village head due to me being the oldest person in the village and it was getting annoying. I had enough of community life, I spend so much time in the nothingness alone that it has become a normality for me and I wasn´t planning to change that. And in case you are asking how I could have spent such a long time in a place where time didn´t exist, while the nothingness didn´t have time the universes moving past me did and if I saw the birth and natural destruction of one, I can say with confident, I am very old.
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I am currently flying over a Mana zone in the middle of the ocean far from any land. This place was perfect for planting my first world tree, on a planet with many souls but far for from them as well as an energy rich starting zone. Without hesitation I pulled out my grimoire and started casting the spell, it was a long and complicated one so after half an hour of just flying there with closed eyes due to concentration something finally happened. The space in front of me started to shimmer and form a small transparent looking seed the size of a coach. It drained way more energy than I expected but after the seed finally stabilized and started to germinate inside its dimension it began to absorb its surroundings energy instead of mine. I felt like hollowed out, I already had energy reserves beyond anyone in this world yet I was still on the verge of death from exhaustion, I new that this body only had a few days maybe weeks left to life so I decided It was time to reincarnate again. I looked at the tree for a last time before I cast a quick spell to reduce my body to ash. I wasn´t worried that anything could happen to the tree, only extremely skilled space magic users could feel its dimension, even stronger once where needed to enter it. The only ones who could feel and enter the world tree dimension from a mile away where other world tree magic user but they were not only ridiculously rare but also incapable of even putting a scratch on it, as the tree could absorb all energies including mana and kinetic energy. I could now enjoy my next life and only needed to go and empty the storage every once in a while.
Becoming powerful can be so easy.
Now what identity should I reincarnate into? I already had villager twice, maybe a noble or maybe not even a human, being a cat sounded nice.