After a long day of trying to find new work I'm exhausted. Getting in my car and heading home I noticed too late the derailing train heading my way as I was thinking about what to do about work. With a sick crunch and a slight feeling of pain I was gone.
[Year ???]
After an unknown amount of time I stir awake. I'm floating in a black void. All around me is darkness like a void. I look down and see my silhouette, a white outline, a stark contrast to the blackness around me. Am I dead? Then I hear a ding followed by a grey panel with a gold border.
[Ding]
[System online]
[Welcome host to the Tree System. I'm the AI of your system but I won't talk often unless it's life threating or a question directed to me. As you've guessed, you're dead. You're currently a tree around 10 years old. You've been in something akin to a coma for the past 10 years, and due to reaching 10 you have been awakened by the system. You can live freely. Be a hero, a villain, or just live as you please. To see the rest of the system, say Menu. Good luck]
I sit there, well more like float, for a second to process what I've been told, and what has happened. Coming out of it I say 'Menu'
[Status, Inventory, Map, Gacha, Settings]
I click Setting and go through them quickly turn on/off things that I think should be turned on or off namely Auto loot. Next I look at the Map to see where I'm at. Unsurprisingly it seems I'm in the middle of a forest. On the map a blue dot is shown, which I assume is me, with a radius of a mile being show. I open my Status then look into the Inventory. It has a [Gacha Ticket] and nothing else, but it seems it has infinite space which is nice.Â
[Name- N/A
Age- 10
Race- Spirit Tree
Skills- Absorption]
Looking over the Status I feel like it isn't a lot. Then I use the [Gacha Ticket] getting the skill [Life Sense]. As I acquire the new skill it feels like a new sense. I see the blades of grass, the trees around me, even the critters running around the forest in a greater clarity than before. It's not quite what it was like when I had eyes, but its better then relying on the map or looking at the void like realm I float in.
I inspect the two skills, [Absorption] allows me to absorb organic and inorganic matter and use whatever I absorbed even gaining skills or abilities if they have them. [Life Sense] as you could've guess allows me to sense life within a center range. With everything about the system settled it's time to look around my new home for the foreseeable future. As I concentrate on the surrounding flora and fauna around me I gain the [Observation] skill. Doing it again but with the help of the skill I gain different results.
[Tree]
[Mushroom]
[Horned Rabbit]
[Poisonous Mushroom]
[Apple Tree]
Going further and observing the [Poisonous Mushroom], [Apple Tree], and the [Horned Rabbit] further I see their Status.
[Poisonous Mushroom
Skills-[Neurotoxin]
Description- A neurotoxic mushroom with a flat red cap with white dots on it.]
[Apple Tree
Skills-[Apple production]
Description- A fruit tree that produces apples.]
[Horned Rabbit
Skills-[Dash]
Description- A rabbit that has a horn in-between its eyes used for offense. Still a herbivore.]
Trying to move my roots, or anything really, I try to go to the [Poisonous Mushroom]. Eventually after 15 or so minutes of trying nothing happens. It seems it isn't easy to move as a tree. The most I achieved was swaying my trunk slightly and the crown of me a little more then a tree could do normally.
With little else to do besides waiting. I just bask in the warmth of the sun and photosynthesize.
[Name- N/A
Age- 10
Race- Spirit Tree
Skills- Absorption,
New Skills-Life Sense, Observation]