《If I was going to Reincarnate why could I not have reincarnated as a Dungeon》


 So I am a tree now 1

    Warm light¡­


    cold dark¡­


    pleasant tasty drink¡­


    this is a simple life¡­


    ouch o that feels lighter time to grow¡­


    cold again better brace myself¡­


    I¡­ think the cold time has ended time to grow¡­


    hello trees of the forest we thank you for your bounty again this year and we invite you to join the dance of the spirits.


    Yea its that time again. I get to feel the dance of the fast ones that leave warm water. I get to hear the voices of the water flouter the flesh biters the warmth chasers and the other grate stoics. flower spreaders are always a joy to behold. Ow the song is over and I halve to return. I do not want to stop I guess I will dream about ant hills of stone again.


    Watching the ants crawling around from the vantage of an ant was fun until the warmth came again and it was time to work for my survival¡­


    Warm light cold dark a repeating cycle that continued¡­


    little wet drops that washed my body tittle wet drops that I drink¡­


    warm light cold dark I grow until I body can not support the weight.


    ouch the feeling of parts of my body being broken of is never pleasant but it is better then the crushing weight of my own body backing under itself.


    Now that the weight is gone I can get back to growing¡­


    the little wet drops are turning hard as they hit my body time to pull the heat from the ground in order to an harden the drops on my limbs in order to survive the long cold¡­


    the hard drops have fallen off¡­ time to get ready for the warmth to come.


    Worm light cold dark and I grow¡­


    Spirits of the land and forest we thank you for your protection and offer you this dance.


    Hello trees of the forest we thank you for your bounty again this year and we invite you to join the dance of the spirits.


    I was excited it was time again I had been waiting for it and felt more words than I had in the times before. Not content to drift in the winds as I was pulled around the dance this time so I leaped forth and found a fast one that was fresh with all of its warm water still inside and started to match its movement following the movements that I have felt so many times before. But my shape was wrong I was the shape of my body not the shape of the fast ones. But I wanted to move so I matched the shape of the fast ones and moved in the way I had watched them move so many times before.


    As I moved I whispered with the ones that floated in the water. I had a surprising amount to compare to the pray snatchers who ate the buzzers to nourish there roots. I talked with the the ones who greet the warmth with there face tracking it as it traveled. I reaffirmed my kinship with the grate pillars that stood for ages beyond counting most watching in stoic affirmation. Ass we all spread our flowers in a grand hurrah of life such a joy to behold.


    No no no I do not want this time to stop but the fast one I have been moving with is expelling warm water and it is starting to falter but there are other fast ones who still have there water inside them but they are not moving but when the moving stops I must return but I do not want to yet. I know wall there are others moving I will stop this one lead it to the fast ones that are not moving let this one rest and bring one of the fresh ones into the movement and make a cycle. Ow this one dose not now the movements well nether did I at first lets make my self look like it there you go follow in the movement¡­Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    I am happy I was able to extend the movement it is over now but I still want more. I will dream of the ant hills of stone? The things moving around the ant hills are in a similar shape to the fast things two branches two roots thin long leaves covering the entire body thickest on the top and bottom of the trunk a symbiotic covering of liken. And I am one of them in this dream I do not know where I am going or why but I am doing it the way all fast ones do it fast among the ant hills. The ant hills are not ant hills instead of pills of dirt it is more square cliffs of hard clear rock held together with the shaped bones of the earth.


    My time in the dream of remembrance a remembrance of what I do not know ended as the warmth came as I basked in the warmth of the world I realized there where voices bellow me that could not feel the warm I was blocking it from them. I felt grieved I need the warmth and they need the warmth I wanted to help but how. In the end I cam to a plan to help those bellow me I would do as those who face the warmth do but different I do not need to face the warmth I need to Gide the warmth down make paths threw my coverage.


    It worked for a time but I felt the warmth move and so I had to as well I tracked the warmth and soon I felt it was soon time to go dark and told the my friends as such so we stilled for the dark of night. Soon the warmth dawned again but if I let the warmth threw than it would not hit my friends bellow so I guided the warmth down to them some of my friends got more light then they where used to but after a some cycles of warmth and dark I got used to there needs¡­


    Soon it became the season of many drops of water falling from the sky my friends need water but do not like it when hits them directly so I learned to guide water as well as warmth my friends appreciated that one of the fast ones also appreciated it and spreed the seeds of more friends under my canopy. This made me happy more friend is a must¡­


    I love learning to track the warmth better this warmth cycle I realized that the cycle of warmth and dark is the same length of time when the warmth staid longer the dark was shorter when the warmth was shorter the dark was longer. I learned this by remembering the cycle I have felt for a long time in fact soon the warmth will stop getting longer and start getting shorter or did it already¡­


    The fast ones are walking around with the shaped bones of the earth in there hand to cut what is to much for the ancient pillars tho I am a pillar I have no way of saying that I am an ancient. Why they passed me by are they not going to use the bones of the earth on me they always have before the cold time¡­


    The cold time is hear my friends are not here gone to seed and scattered but all go in there appointed time including me this is something I feel is certain in every fiber of my being but I do not fear what has happened before. Why do I feel it has happened to me before MMM¡­


    again with a withop I cast aside the frozen water that covered my body using the skill I have learned over the cycles of warm time of flowers and dance and of the cold as I what for the seeds my past friends to grow into new friends¡­


    it is time again and I am waiting it is held in the same place as always I am not the first there are others who have been waiting Warm Dark cycles for this but I wont I have friends to help but it is this warmth and I am ready and the fast ones come.


    Are we ready than dancers to there places musicians at the ready here we are my fellow elves lets begin.


    Spirits of the land and forest we thank you for your protection and offer you this dance.


    Hello trees of the forest we thank you for your bounty again this year and we invite you to join the dance of the spirits.


    I found a fast one to dance with she was beautiful ass the warmth of the sky but soon she grew tired and so I guided her away from the dance and found a new partner he was strong and young too young to know the dance but I always gained such joy from teaching the new tacking there form and showing how there shape would do the dance best.


    I watched the young spirits drift around the dance I talked with friends to far away to visit often the ones who lived in the river on the mountains. Where it is too dry to rain and the only water comes from under the ground. The forest of the elves is massive the forest of the elves is my home.


    Fore a hundred cycles the dance went on I changed partners a hundred times I changed partners made my shape like my partners and danced most of my partners knew the dance only rarely did they not and it was as fun for me to teach as it was to dance with the best. But the dance could not go on forever eventually the music must fade as I always do at the end of the spirit dance I dreamed of stone towers.


    I dreamed I was an elf but not an elf this ears dream was different then the hundreds of times I have dreamed this dream I dreamed of the time I was young under my parents I dreamed of the time I first fell in love and my broken heart when she loved another I dreamed of my leaning both on the field in a job in a school and in my private studies.


    Even the warmth of the new cycle did not distract me from my dream I had already returned to my body long before the dark had ended. And I guided the nourishing warmth to my friend bellow my bows as I learned to walk again¡­


    the cold did not distract me from my dream as I read books on fantasy and science¡­


    only the dance could shake me from my dream but even then I returned to it as soon as it was done¡­


    as the years go by the dream of remembrance made a kind of ordered sense I was born I lived I learned I played I loved I worked I endeavored and died as a man. I was I human man and with this realization I became one body one soul one mind two perspectives I could use and switch between a three hundred year old tree and I twenty year old man. And both perspectives as there first thought had only one thing to say


    So I am a tree now


    I AM A TREE.

 Living in my head for a year 2

    ¡°I AM A TREE¡± said the perspective of a three hundred year old tree with the crushing weight of all of his years spent in silent bliss. Growing and meditating on the beauty of nature and life in my beautiful home.


    ¡°So I am a tree now¡±said the perspective of a twenty year old human man as he looked at the number of events that has happened to him over the years of his new life.


    ¡°A SIMPLE AND PLEASANT LIFE¡± said the perspective of the tree that was content with simple things


    ¡°This is a boring life¡± said the perspective of the man who had dreams goals and ambitions as he thought of all the stories he has read about reincarnation and has found himself with only being able to look forward to endless day¡¯s and years of nothing but watching the weather but he could not even do that because he did not have eyes to see ears to hear nose to smell or tong to taste even the sense of touch is muted with only a small fraction of the sense of pain or pleasure that he was used to in a human body.


    The tree found itself with a problem the Tree could not forget the feelings of the human perspective now that they had been remembered in there entirety. But he had no place or use for them which lead to a background discontent he could not shake despite loving the life he had lived for so long


    ¡°I SHOULD ASK THE FAST ONES WHAT I CAN DO¡± contemplated the perspective of the tree as he looked at the similarity of shape between them and the form of his old perspective.


    ¡°yeas ask the elves for help it would have been so cool if I was reborn as an elf I could use nature magic so cool¡± was the response of the human perspective as his thoughts where filled with dreams and story''s of magic and fornicating with beautiful elfin girls.


    The tree eventually put aside the day dreams of the human perspective but the idea of magic did stick and he wondered how much magic was involved in the dance of the spirits performed by the elves at the time of first flowers.


    Continuing to guide the warmth of the sun to his friend below him he noted how there voices are less distinct to him now until he remembered his new perspective was too impatient it could take days and years for plants to have a normal conversation form the perspective of the fast ones which his human perspective defiantly was.


    The tree decided the only thing to do was to wait till next spring it was unfortunate that he would half to wait most of the year in do to it being gust before summer equinox. So he entered his normal deep contemplation expecting his new perspective to make the normally short wait longer than normal hopefully not to long.


    The first thing his new perspective noted was that the years are a lot longer than he remembered a lot longer It was five hundred days after the summer equinox before the rain started to turn to sleet and snow.


    The new perspective tried to get the attention of the elves that where trimming the trees but they do not trim my branches any more since I started guiding the light to my friends bellow me I did not grow in a constant unrestrained bid for all of the suns warmth that would inevitably leave me to heavy to support my own weight. I now grow in measured and contemplated ways to facilitate my own health and the health of those around me.


    Also looking back on it I seam to recall that the elves that prune are not able to hear the screams of pain or they ignore them like a dentist. But any way the second thing my new perspective apparently observed is that there is a thirty day cycle where the warmth would be dim and brighten I had felt this before as it changed how I guided the warm light to my friends bellow but it was nice to know that it was there.


    The tree perspective found it interesting that the human perspective would completely ignore any and all spiritual movements which lead to it not hearing the voices of my friends when I was looking at the world threw that perspective. Giving me another reason not to use that perspective during the long slow days.


    ¡°Longest year ever¡± complained the human perspective that was still bored into non existence.


    ¡°YOU HAVE NO IDEA¡± was the return of the Tree perspective it had fond during the course of time that the human perspective was rather insistent on being used it had an innate curiosity that bleed over into the perspective of the tree but both perspectives had too little to engage there mind when looking at every detail that came about which lead into games which came to a realization the two perspectives where different enough from each other that the tree could play two play games with itself and not have the problem that the right knows what the left side is planing. Until the tree noted that one perspective would always win after the first time a game was played the perspective that one the first time would always win after that this made playing games between the two perspectives a rather dull endeavor.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    It was time the forest held its breath and the tree could feel the pull to the dancing grounds. He ushered his friend along the path it was time. Unfortunately the human perspective could not perceive movements of the trees and flowers as they danced out of there bodies leaving a tether to return on. Well a tether would be the human perspective it felt more like having one root in water and sending another to find more. Even if the human perspective could not see the tree could use the curiosity of the perspective to appreciate the way the spirits of trees floated along dancing around each other looking like tree¡¯s held in the grip of a hurricane being drown into the center of the storm.


    Entering the field set for the dance where few plants grow and elves are gathering for the dance the tree could feel the energy of the place thousands of plants many with powerful spirits had gathered. The way the energy of all of the spiritual bodies overlapping and enforcing each other becoming superimposed creating a spiritual energy so thick it could boil an ocean if focused to that task. And this is only the early birds once the dance starts the rest will come.


    As more elves gathered so to did more trees the tree watched as some elves preparing dried fruits set in water alive with tiny souls that are born and did before they can give themselves a name burned the flesh of the dead with cast of tree limbs. Checking the fruit he could tell by there contentment that their duty to make sure there seed ended up planted in a good place was well accomplished. With there contentment so to did he feel content. Looking at the flesh of the dead he could also feel contentment with only a little sorrow he had lived a good life he had kids he watched them grow he had a good life a short life but a good and pleasant one. Looking with new eyes the tree watched the spirit of all that was prepared by the elves both living and dead and that which had never lived was all in a agreement. The elves had helped them live a good life and they would bless them in return. Looking at all this good tree wondered.


    Ow wow that is so cool they have alcohol grilled meat grilled vegetables wow those dancing clothes have plant fibers woven into them in the shape of a leaf to hide there delicate places wall being shear and transparent every where else that is so hot. Yeas there is a bow elf ranger yeas trope is here. Ow she is drop dead gorgeous I so want her into my harem with her flowing corn gold hear well defined breasts¡­


    the tree decided that this was not an appropriate place to have a conversation with that perspective to many distractions he will need to find an elf he can talk without the dance and hope he can get the elf to find him later but for new the tree walked near the center of the dancing field it was time to begin.


    The tree watched as the old elder who had made the same speech every year for one hundred and seventy years got on a little stool made of stone cleared his throat and spoke


    ¡°Are we ready.¡± with a slight paws to see every one nod and no one say other wise the old man continued.


    ¡°Then dancers to there places musicians at the ready.¡± he says that every year even when every one had been waiting on him.


    ¡°Here we are my fellow elves lets begin.¡± when the elder said begin the musicians started there music the first clear notes resonating with the instruments the forest and the energy in the air.


    ¡°Spirits of the land and forest we thank you for your protection and offer you this dance.¡± Tenoned the elder elf with his deep voice the took the clear music and turn it into a wave that rushed out into the forest around. And with the word dance the elves and spirits gathered started there dance. I got to appear as if in a corporal body before the elves. I only looked like a tree for a moment before joining my first partner of the night and rearranging my self to look like my partners twin. And the dance was begone.


    ¡°Hello trees of the forest we thank you for your bounty again this year and we invite you to join the dance of the spirits.¡± with a soft low and melodically calling the invitation was given and the rest of the forest responded and cam to the dance with the force of a tidal wave braking upon stone wails. And the dance was truly begone.


    I danced with many partners this dance as I did every dance when at one point I was escorting my current partner out of the dance as he pored sweat of of his skin I spied an elf with a presence and depth I could feel even in this crowd of spirits. So I did what I usually do not do I ignored the perkiest and strongest dancer ready and waiting to get in and instead went to her. She was surprised but faltered and took me up on my offer to enter the dance.


    I should do this more often she lasted longer than any partner I have had before the shear energy hear spirit can produce for so long was breath tacking as we danced in squares and circles fitting into lines and leaving them in a convoluted and ancient dance that resembled a square or a line dance but instead of some one calling the shots only the music cued the next move and the music cot its cues from the energy in the place and the spirits around.


    As the fast ones danced some of the trees like me took the shape of elves and joined the steps of the music wall most drifted in and out and around like leaves and flower blossoms disturbed by and drifting on the wings of the wind.


    When her energy ran out I guided her out of the dance where she was praised by many who seemed younger and fitter but she out performed. Before moving on to another dancer I stood before her said I find myself in need of a different perspective and would like it if you could find me some time after the dance is done I share my roots with firelilies and shadowglorys and a male singing harp has a nest in my branches. That should be enough for her to find me again. I find another dancer before the shock has left the faces of thous around me.


    As always I enjoy the dance of the spirits at the time of flowers to the best of my ability it is always sad wen it is time to part but this time I return to my tree with out fuss and wait for my plea to be answered.

 A conversations with an Elder Elf 3

    Gnigit Summerstar usually spent her time sleeping between each of the various festivals sometimes missing them in her sleep. But not this year this year was special. she was singled out by a tree spirit that needed a new perspective.


    ¡°A new perspective?¡± normally if a tree spirit has a problem they will find there satisfaction during the dance of spirits. Still a tree spirit taking the form of an elf to dance with elves is a little eccentric especially for such a young spirit. That dance left me twitchy and excited like a girl not even a hounded years of age yet. she would find out what this tree wanted herself.


    ¡°Natalia get dressed I know you just got ready for meditation but I am going out and you are coming with me in case I need some tasks done.¡± Gnigit smiled at the sound of her apprentice as she jumped off of her meditation mat four rooms down and missed her footing it would sound by the thump as something about the weight of a young girl hit the ground. If this tree singled her out for something stupid than she would have her apprentice handle it and tell the gardeners she had been forced to deal with a vary whimsical tree and the tree should be marked as such. The only thing more annoying than silly people are silly tree¡¯s.


    Hearing her name Natalia jumped. she could not have meditated that long. she paled when she realized that the voice belonged to master Summerstar herself. she felt her legs weaken at the sound of her masters voice it was not until her body hit the ground that her brain compiled the command from her master. She jumped of the ground with renewed vigor what ever had Master Summerstar herself active after the festival was over she was merely there to save her master time. Wall Master Gnigit Summerstar was the most gifted and powerful of elfin enchanters and the best teacher in the forest being marked as silly by her was the worst thing that could happen to an elf in this forest short of being forbidden from returning.


    The tree stood among his friends guiding the warmth of the son to them insuring that the light was not to bright and not to dark for each one. He could tell that the fast ones the elves where bustling in a manner that is not normal they where looking for something and taking note of the flowers under my bows and the bows of other trees.


    ¡°SO MY PLEA HAS BEEN HEARD¡± smiling the tree took bustling of the elves the same as one would take an increase in humidity as a portent of rain hoping that he would not be ignored by the elf once she arrived.


    ¡°I get to talk with an elf yes I hope she can teach me magic I hope she is beautiful¡± the tree was again bemused by how much his human perspective had internalized his need to find a mate instead of going out gathering the work of his hands and presenting it as a means of attracting those who are interested.


    Than again when trying to find someone that is going to bond with you for the rest it helps to look at the soul. Looking at the soul seems to be one of the senses I had as a human and completely ignored which is a shame because if my human perspective could understand souls than I could use my conversations with my friends to entertain my human perspective¡­


    thirty days after the dance of the spirits the tree felt them coming two fast ones that had souls that glowed like a burning fire the smaller was lick a camp fire in the dark wood wall the larger was like a tall building burning to the ground across the street. In a word there strength and purity stood as a source of inspiration. Before the two fast one got close enough that he could confirm that they where indeed coming to see him he recognized how the camp fire had a sense of how of completeness of self about it wall the burning build was trying to impress something.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    Directing his attention to the camp fire the tree complained to himself that without the dance he could not see the shape the soul desired to project.


    ¡°Hello, and thank you for coming.¡± to his words the two female fast ones approached faster.


    ¡°I am sorry for the interruption to your time.¡± he felt that the campfire was surprised by his statement. He could not think why before he moved on.


    ¡°but I have a problem that is beyond my knowledge to resolve.¡± the burning building excepted that statement as completely natural having full confidence with the camp fire before her.


    ¡°I would tell you my name but for the longest time I have only considered myself a tree.¡± his human perspective had no love for the name he had been given and the tree found names one to be the hardest thing to pull out of that perspective almost like they had been blurred intentionally and he had never bothered to force the remembrance


    ¡°but for now I would like to here your names or should we dive directly into my problem.¡± the tree had finished his statement as the two elves arrive in front of him and simple waited for the reply.


    ¡°My name is Gnigit Summerstar¡± communicationed the campfire with a short pause that was indicative of some motion that the tree could not see.


    ¡°and this is Natalia Springbrook. And you are referenced in are ledgers as the Sunning Tree. Now that introductions are over what is your problem Sunning Tree.¡±


    ¡°My problem is that I have remembered my past life. In that life I had a shape similar to your own. I have also noted that the perspective of my old life is changing my perspective of this one. I need and desire a third perspective to tell me how to rectify both of my perspectives and figure out what I know form my past last and this life that is wrong before I make a deadly mistake.¡± with out a voice to speak. he was forced to send the message with his soul. this allowed any elves, with ears to hear, to sense a tree that did not know how to deal with a driving need to do and a curiosity to satisfy. And under that a human hue could not see, could not hear, could not taste, could not smell, could barley touch but was paralyzed. A human bombarded by sensations that he can not comprehend.


    ¡°I Gnigit Summerstar have heard your plea and will answer but first. Why me and why could this not have been settled during the dance.¡± the tree could feel how important this question was to her so he answered as truthfully as possible.


    ¡°I could not use that perspective during the dance. Without appearing to be a fool who only had fertilizing flowers on his mind. And without using that perspective there would be no point. I asked you because I could feel you as an individual despite how thick the spirits where. I¡¯m sorry to say the I could have asked anybody I thought they could her me without the dance.¡± the tree was happy that she was happy with his answer. Especially since he believed she was vary important and her time was worth a lot.


    Vary well thank you for your honesty. Natalia you will teach the Sunning Tree what it is interested in knowing and help it work out its existentialist crisis. After I have done some other business I will send Organt Springbrook to keep you both company. With her business her concluded Gnigit Summerstar walked away. And Natalia tried got to work teaching a tree how to think.


    ¡°I have been Silly.¡± Said Gnigit Summerstar to herself as she continued to grumble to herself as she walked threw meadows and over bridges. ¡°for certainty there needs to be some one who can hear the trees to check on them. Gust to see if the odd ones are starting to awaken. I should have known there would be trees that would have there sapient nature stimulated by things we could have missed. I need to talk with Argnthait Winternest so that he can instruct the gardeners.¡± with her conviction affirmed and destination set Gnigit Summerstar quickened her steps.

 Knowledge and Magic 4

    The tree felt Gnigit Summerstar walk away into the distance wall Natalia Springbrook found a place to settle down for a long conversation. Deciding to start slow the tree asked a question that was near and dear to his current life before broaching the interesting topics.


    ¡°Before we begin I have a question that is important to me but merely a whimsical start to are conversation. ARE MY SEEDS VALUABLE.¡± the tree watched the female elf grow uncomfortable with his question before answering


    ¡°no the seeds of a cotton pine are not valuable wall the floating cotton of a cotton pine is one of the softest things in the world it deteriorates to fast to actually bee useful¡± wall the tree was milling that over the elf continued. ¡°I have heard that some tribes use the seeds as a contraceptive in some way but I do not know how¡± that sounded promising to the tree but he got a feeling that after they where done with the seed it would not be suitable for planting ¡°I now that my brother loves using the cotton pine is as a soft lumber for chairs and houses.¡± the tree having no objection to having his body used for such after he was dead decided to move on.


    ¡°If I was going to ask you to teach me magic would we need to do¡± asked the tree hoping it would be something simple.


    ¡°For now I would like to ask you some questions wall using a divination to get true answers¡± conveyed Natalia with some trepidation. This made the tree curios and excited wall the human perspective was apprehensive.


    ¡°WHY¡± the single concept seemed to make Natalia stop as if she did not even think I would think about saying no.


    ¡°I would like to know what kind of magic I should try to teach you. Learning magic is a long and sometimes painful process. If the person trying to learn a particular school of magic does not have the need desire and perspective required than that person will never do anything no matter how hard they work. One exception being when someone hue can cast magic is trying to coon someone by grafting there ability to cast magic onto someone else temperately.¡± The human felt like he had just asked a nerd about his favorite subject


    ¡° but that is not important rite now. later you will need to decide on your focus after you have learned a few spells a focus is a mental construct of your goal and the path you want to take in order to acquire power. There are any number of philosophies on what makes a good path¡± The tree learning what a nerd was from the human perspective decided that he would not get any where if he did not find a way to get her to stop talking and allow him to control the topic of discussion.


    ¡°I except your request to use divination magic if I can ask you some questions as well.¡± the sudden statement halted Natalia¡¯s lecture so she could take in what he communicated.


    ¡°Yes that works my focus has to do with all encompassing so that maces it simpler for me.¡± affirmed Natalia as her focus went else where until the tree felt a root form between himself and Natalia. Going beyond the trees perception.


    ¡°It is done you ask the first question.¡± the tree considered the question the human did not.


    ¡°What color are your panties.¡±


    <u>¡°I have always gone commando.¡±</u> the tree and Natalia were left in confusion wail the human perspective was laughing his guts out.


    ¡°How is I am not wearing any a lie?¡± grumbled the elf to herself.


    <u>¡°The question I asked was not what color is the panties you are wearing but what color are your panties¡±</u> and now the tree knew that any question asked would be answered.


    ¡°Hay that was not the question I wanted to ask so it is still my turn. What was the ability that contributed the most to your survival in your last life?¡±


    <u>¡°</u><u>T</u><u>he ability to eat my own cooking.¡±</u> the human perspective could have sworn it was his ability to invest well in the stock market. The tree deciding it was time to get back on track asked.


    ¡°What is the name of the energies involved in magic?¡±


    <u>¡°Mana, Essence, Life-force and death-touch.¡±</u> he could feel satisfaction coming from Natalia like the cat that cot the mouse.


    ¡°Was your last incarnation of pure stock?¡±


    <u>¡°</u><u>No.</u><u>¡±</u> god no he was not into incest and he had no royal blood to keep pure any ways.


    ¡°Does this truth spell make it so that you answer the question that you are asked, not the question you thought was asked?¡±


    <u>¡°Yes.¡±</u> the tree was vary happy with this now he could ask more direct question about magic.


    ¡°What is the relationship between the races of your ancestry and are there any god given commands on the your races of your blood line that where active during our life time?¡±


    <u>¡°</u><u>the sons of the sky looked </u><u>upon</u><u> the gardeners daughters </u><u>and took some to there home. And giants walked the garden. but the giants became greedy and in there greed destroyed the garden. W</u><u>h</u><u>en the master fond his garden destroyed he </u><u>sentence</u><u> the giants to </u><u>drowning but having mercy gave instructions that only those who where </u><u>loyal</u><u> would hear when the master returned he </u><u>found</u><u> </u><u>only one man had fallowed his instructions </u><u>and</u><u> saved his family. And so the master said go have children for there will be needed to tend my fields.¡±</u> what the heck


    ¡°why it that important?¡± asked the tree


    <u>¡°Any commands given by a god on a speacies can chainge every thing about it as whell as what magic that race can comprehend.¡±</u> why would that question bring out that answer and is this a strange rendition of the story of the great flood. Before the tree could communicate his doubts Natalia asked her next question.


    ¡°What where you expecting to happen to your soul when you died?¡±


    <u>¡°If My mother was right I would go to the Masters Garden or the pit of pain and if my dad was current the soul did not exist.¡±</u> Thinking about it the the tree decided that he did not care about where he did or did not go he was a tree now so it was time to get to what is important now magic.


    ¡°What is mana?¡±


    <u>¡°Mana is a conglomerate particle that consisting of world energy, essence, and a world rule.¡±</u> it would take some time to ask all of the question that answer raised.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it


    ¡°You did not have magic in your past life did you?¡±


    <u>¡°There where legends and story¡¯s and history''s but the knowledge of magic was lost to the common people me included.¡±</u> he would not have been able to tell her what was history and was was story but it was time for the tree¡¯s next question.


    ¡°What is Essence?¡±


    <u>¡°Essence is the particle that interacts between the soul and the physical world.¡±</u> well at least essence is simple.


    ¡°what was the power of the people of your civilization?¡±


    <u>¡°The Dwarfen hypothesis that world laws are stable when not tangled with essence is correct measurable and interact able with physical objects.¡±</u> cool there are also dwarfs that is good to now and so cool now I want a katana forged by a dwarf not that I can use one right now a magic.


    ¡°What is Life-force?¡±


    <u>¡°Life-force is one of the most common forms of world energy along with Death-touch love and wrath and the other grate emotions Life-force is only formed when something is born or made.¡±</u> well that saves me asking about death-touch I can guess it has to do with things dying.


    ¡°Were did you get the energy to interact with world laws without essence?¡± asked Natalia with incredulity


    <u>¡°The interaction of the World laws of motion and power. Motion, all things in motion stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force. Power, was short handed to energy equals mass times acceleration times acceleration with the rest of the law of power being ignored until changed.¡±</u> and that is a question I do not half to ask


    ¡°That is just cheating just blatant cheating.¡± yelled Natalia at the top of her lungs with such indignation and rage that many of the birds that were flirting in the trees stopped there conversations to stare at the silly elf.


    Organt Springbrook decided he was in a mood today. one the one hand he was told to go tend to his wife. On the other he was told to tend to his wife wall she had to teach a tree how to think for itself. He had been told stories about how teaching a tree how to think has changed people made them slow an ignore the world except what is currently important to them things like that.


    That all came back to the reason for his mood he needed to allow his wife to do her task as fast as possible wall still keeping him in her mind so that she still wants to love this little old essence stupid man as her husband after she comes back from teaching her pupal. Some times he wished his heart had heard the words his mother had told him so long ago when he finally came to the conclusion he was not going to interact with the worlds laws on his own terms.


    ¡°Son get hitched with a girl with the same amount of talent as you. So that you will not be afraid that she will leave you for a better man the rest of your life.¡± wall the mind knows its duty the heart has a mind of its own and will only be happy with its own unmitigated choice. As Organt quoted his mother he walked over a hid a way bridge. They had a different name once such bridges are all over the elfin woods in the places that do not see much traffic treated wood plated in gold in order to prevent the weather and time from destroying the bridge wall it is unattended for years. Such places always made a good place to woo the heart of a girl. Not that he would have a chance at that again he had given Natalia every thing he could give that he could to bring her home as his wife.


    ¡°So that was the last bridge now which little hill is hiding my wife?¡±


    ¡°I still thing that it is cheating you cant call on a world law and just ignore most of it because it is not relevant.¡± grumbled Natalia beautiful voice. ¡°That one.¡± said Organt pointing at the offending mound as he turned to saunter over it get to his wife.


    Seeing his wife deep in the almost meditative state required to talk to most trees Organt decided to do what he always does. Since its not like the tree is going to object to flirting it cant hear or see. He does the little dance of his that he knows his wife listens for when he is around and wants her so that he can get without disturbing and then when he is close enough he reaches out and caresses her ears. After she rolls in to the touch he moves his hands down her neck then over her arms to her elbows from her elbows to her hips from there he lifted her up and than stat down where she was sitting than letting Natalia down putting her on his lap. The hole thing not even tacking him ten seconds.


    Seeing that she has not been disturbed he sneaks his hand to the places she always wants him to tease and whisperer with his chin on her left shoulder. ¡°Na Na what yea doing.¡± Natalia lets out groan before tuning to him giving him a deep kiss where she takes the chance to equalize there mana before ending the kiss. Looking him in the eyes she sais


    <u>¡°falling in love with you.¡±</u> recognizing when his wife is using truth magic he asks what her current problem is. he wanted to be involved in what she was doing he did not even bother listening to how he asked.


    <u>¡°This tree has awakened a consciousness by remembering its past life and believing that its consciousness is unstable and is asking for help.¡±</u>


    ¡°well then why did the tree think he was unstable.¡±


    ¡°I did not ask that yet.¡± sometimes he wondered how his lovely wife could get so cot up in her research that she forgets what she should be doing.


    <u>¡°the Sunning tree now has a need to live learn and to find a goal to work towards but cant with the abilities of a tree.¡±</u>


    ¡°that¡¯s easy teach the tree a battery of skrying spells and be done with it let the tree explore on its own.¡±


    ¡°husband trees cant use skrying spells they half to be able to see in order to use it.¡±


    ¡°Wife a mage that was blinded can use a skrying spell to see and if this tree remembers how to see than it should have the ability to too.¡± Natalia¡¯s eyes glazed over but before he could get comfortable to wait, her hand reached out and grabbing Organt head and pulling him into a long passionate kiss.


    ¡°Thank you Organt, you are a genius and I love you.¡±


    ¡°O,K, O,K, I love you to.¡± said Organt now he just had to figure out how he made her so happy. So he could do it again.

 Learning to skry the sky 5

    Magic is hard. he had it ease and it was still hard. Not that he had a cheat. He was told there are no cheats the ones that looked like cheats was because something was giving them that power for a reason.


    The two examples he was given was a hero arch mage. The hero had been summoned by grand immortal. What is a grand Immortal short answer a god long answer later. After the hero had finished his task for the grand Immortal he had been given a choice go back home or stay. After the hero chose to stay all of the power the Grand immortal gave him was returned to the grand immortal leaving the hero helpless. The hero actually had a happy ending the three girls that he had fallen in love with and the reason he stayed in this world stayed by the hero¡¯s side and helped him reinvent some of the abilities that had been granted him before and was even able to make a kingdom that lasted for over two hundred years by the way the years on this world is 2193 days so on earth that would be more like 1000 years.


    So what is a Grand Immortal any mage who has gained so much power that the concept of life span has become meaningless the vast majority of Grand immortals have gotten to the point where simply exerting themselves could kill every one in miles of them from the shier level of distortion in world laws. Hence the need for intermediary¡¯s when they need something done. Also it is common practice that if you know you have a grand Immortal keeping tabs on you that you register it to all relevant parties and were the regalia of your grand immortal. Helps prevent problems and allows grand immortals to protect the people they want to.


    The arch mage did not have a good end he made a deal with something when he was the apprentices to a war mage. Only he could tell you with what and he is dead. To make a long and depressing story short after that the mage had what he referred to as a system only he could see and it gave him points for killing things. So he had it ease after 12 years he became the arch mage of a kingdom two years latter the kingdom was destroyed in a bloody ritual of his making. Before the mage could do much more a grand Immortal moved. Twenty billion souls died because the Arch mage. half of that number was because the grand Immortal stepped in after his children where all killed by the mages ritual.


    Magic is hard. I am just glad I have a teacher who is willing to help me, even if I cant learn to use one spell in 378 days of trying.


    We know the spell will work because I can cast the spell I just cant use it. The spell I am learning was suggested by Natalia¡¯s husband Organt. I feel so embarrassed about flirting with a married woman and it was also the most toxic and crass kind of flirting ever. When will the mortification I feel go away.


    Ugghh The spell suggested by Orhant is called the Skrying spell it is used to see things fare away or by a mage that has gone blind to see again. When I am thinking with the perspective of a tree I can cast the spell like talking with my friends. No I am not kidding the way I talk with the trees and flowers around me is. I feel the essence around me use my soul to gather the essence and capture would energy with it. I did not know it was would energies when I was learning to talk. After I had the essence and world energies I would focus on the need to communicate until the whole thing solidifies then I would make my message and throw it at the intended target of the message.


    Casting the spell is just a little bit harder requiring me to do all of the steps several times each time considering a different concept each time during the solidifying stage. After I have assembled the spell I just use it and it works. if you can call the fogged up bathroom mirror behind one way glass working. When I switch to the human perspective after I have the spell going I find myself looking at a movie clear high definition picture for all of a blink. It took my tree self three days to have the spell memorized. And a week after that of casting the same spell over and over again for Natalia to deiced that the human perspective has to cast the spell himself at least once before we can move on. And so her we are 368 days later for a grand total of 378 days to not learn one spell.


    Magic is hard. In case you missed it trees are soul based creatures the question is not if a tree can cast a spell the question is will the tree cast a spell and why. But it is not the perspective of a tree that needs to see it is the perspective of a human.


    Argnthait Winternest walked out from under the canopy of the ancient wood to one of the fields of new growth. the demi grand had considered Gnigit Summerstar¡¯s words vary carefully and found she was right in the short time since the wounds of his last conflict had burned down a third of the forest many of the trees had gotten to the point where it would take little more than a nudge from an active tree or a meditating elf to start the thirst for knowledge. Had he not began the process of shielding his power from the world in anticipation of becoming a grand ancient he would have already felt it was time to start sending the aspirants and apprentices to find and awaken a tree. But before he did any more than he had he should take the exception into consideration. Time to visit the Sunning Tree.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    That is it I am angry now, I know this spell works for my tree perspective. and I still cant cast it in my human Perspective I just want space. Screamed the human perspective in a fit of frustration as he failed to cast the spell as a human or make the spell as a tree and pass it to the human perspective with out the spell falling apart. Thinking about space he thought about how it would be fun to see it again but he would need a telescope since there are no satellites on this world but that was only¡­


    he had magic now he could not see it for more than a second. but he could see it by casting his spell in the sky. Is there a spell that is used to remember an image and display it. No he does not need some one else to tell him that is possible he lived with pictures all his life as a human. The humans of his world could get to space without magic why could he not with it.


    How would someone without magic do it. Step by step first he would calculate where they want the satellite and why. Geosynchronous orbit for a relatively still image. How would he calculate where to put it on earth it was fifty milled above see level or was that when atmospheric pleasure stopped but hear he had no idea he had no reference of size without being able to see. He would not be required to all he needed to do was make a tether and send the object straight up into the sky and guide it into geosynchronous orbit using that. After all he had gone more than fifty mills on a tether every year when going to the dancing grounds.


    It was at this point that the tree that was thinking and dreaming like a human man felt that he was gathering essence and world energies into a ever more complex knot. The tree decided to go on, he had a low success rate of succeeding his spells but he could turn this half backed idea into an attempt. Next was how he was going to get the spell up there. you now what I am using a tether any way might as well use it. If I set it so the tether will transfer electric signals from the satellite to me I can send it higher using an ion drive. all it takes to get thrust is to kick one big something or a lot of little something in the opposite direction of where you want to go.


    Now that I can get the satellite up there I need to see. So equipment camera but how should I set up the camera do I want more than one camera one for each different image. No all I need is one camera all I half to do to change what spectrum of light I am looking at is to change the light absorbing properties of the lens I am using. And after that how am I going to remember the image send the image down the tether that is what it is for I will have a small little thing to store format and display the image. Which leaves the defenses after all I doubt there is nothing else out there. Lets go for a simple bubble shield that has the properties of transparent aluminum except that I can program what light can pass threw it and done now all I need is to give the whole assembly a good starting velocity so that the ion drive does not halve to compete with escape velocity. How about a magnetic rail. And to start the hole process going pump all of the world energies I can and done.


    Argnthait Winternest continued his jaunt threw the new growth not a single tree over five hundred years old but so much life every where it was good for him to come see this he had been grieving over the loss of his friends for far to long. look at how there children are coming into there own and he had almost missed it. Braking form his internal revelry Argnthait continued in the direction of the third order spell that was gathering so close to him. It was sending his hair on end having a spell of war strength cast so close to him. Cresting a little hill Argnthait took in the little valy no more than ten feet acrows dominated by a cotton pine tree that had sunbeams streaming down on the flowers mingling with its roots. He could understand why such a tree had been called the Sunning Tree switching attention to the non flowers. Argnthait recognized little Gnigits apprentice and the apprentices mana bound since he could tell they both had the same signature. Seeing that the apprentice was communicating with the sunning tree Argnthait turned to the man hue had a training sword in his hands the elf was still sweating from the exertion of binding the mana to his body since physical exertion was the only way to bind many to you body if you cant put it in place directly.


    ¡°What spell is being cast.¡± breathing hard the man hue had recognized him simply bowed and said.


    ¡°My wife is teaching the sunning tree the skrying spell Lord of the Winter court¡± interesting the elf had not bothered to lie but why here might as well ask.


    ¡°you do know that this location has words to prevent magic harmful to the forest and scouting magic that could be used to single out a particular plant is considered harmful to the forest I mean any tree could get around the words but why would a tree need to.¡± Argnthait stopped talking when the young elf seemed to pale.


    Argnthait seeing that reaction realized something was wrong and took a closer look at what was going on. He could see the laws of mettle, tension, light, strength, communication, electromagnetism and nestled in the center of the mass was indeed the most complex skrying spell he had ever seen. But he could immediately see the caster was casting the spell with out the little quarks that a tree would naturally do unless the tree was trying vary hard to not think like a tree.


    Not thinking like a tree having an idea of what was going on he reached out to the wards he had laid long ago and set it so that the sunning tree has call to cast the spell he was currently casting with out interference. As he put a trace of using his mana into the spell so that he could learn on how the spell was using the rules it was standing on. He found he had lowered the wards just in time because the whole spell just shot up into the sky the moment he had set them aside and when the spell shot into the sky. It was when the spell stopped and he could see how the spell worked and what it was supposed to do he was impressed a for it was war spell class indeed.

 Space and a Surprise 6

    For the first time in this life it felt like I opened my eyes and I can see. Not just a flash of light or a blur of color. I can actually see. in the distance an expansive star-field filled with stars in green, blue, red, orange, violet, maroon, and more colors than I know know the name of. And not gust starts the sky is filled with a nebulous cloud of purple and green in the background.


    Soon it was time to pay my respects and look at the sun that sustained my life as a tree for three hundred of my current years. And so I turned my attention to the closest star for the first time. Well stars it seems I have reincarnated into a binary star system witch would explain the thirty day bright and dark cycle warmth of the light. the larger star is blue and the smaller one is green. Using what little he knew about stars the blue one was bigger and hotter than its green counter part. Looking at the suns he wondered if he could see the corona as if there was a true solar eclipse so he attempted to adjusted the spell in order to filter out the unnecessary bright light in order for that which can not normally be seen to become see able.


    Looking at the structure of the spell I maid I found I could not make heads or tails of it. I knew for a fact that the tree perspective could understands all of this. but if I switch to the tree perspective then I would lose the ability to understand and comprehend sight and tell the difference of how the change maid changed the spell. And so I tinkered with every single structure that I felt like I maid in a fever dream I knew I made every bit of the complicated structure of this spell but I could not tell any one how I did it or what ever little peace did.


    One peace at a time this one helps recognize color that one shields the every thing from space dust. That one records images that I can see. Here this one deals with the opacity of the shell. Since I am looking at the sun lets block all of the light from every not in the peripheral of the suns to make thing faster. Now the two suns are orbiting each other so I if I want to see a corona I will have to block the light from both suns as if there are two moons in the way in order to simulate a twin full solar eclipse.


    In a word the coronas are beautiful the blue one had little flicks if indigo. The green one had little flicks of yellow and sky blue. Soon My eye simply drifted into the star field behind the suns as I watched the corona fleck and highlight the stars and galaxies in the background as I continued to emulate that the stars where eclipsed.


    Soon I focused my sight on two different stars one that pulsed with a color of light that I knew was not blue but I could not tell the difference between it and star that had a steady bright blue light. Wondering why I perceived them as different even if they looked the same to me I tried limiting the light I could see into only the blue spectrum. And one of the stars vanished.


    The steady blue star was still shining but the one that pulsed was one of the ones that was not shining. Returning the settings I had on the spell I still could not tell how I could tell the difference in the light. I tried thinking like a tree and found the pulsing stare was giving so much more energy.


    So I then returned my attention to my spell hoping to find the section that was telling me that the two stars where giving different amounts of energy. After a wile I found a section of the spell that was in charge of analyzing color so out of curiosity I mad that section more complex using knowledge of prisms to separate the light before analyzing it. After I did that all of the colors went funky and unstable so I added a section to the spell that would dedicated to equalizing the light after it was separated before and after the light came out of the prism and reinforcing the light analyzing section of the spell.


    After I tweaked that part into the spell. I decided to take another look at the suns and removed the darkening that was mimicking two eclipsing moons. And was greeted by a panorama of bright and shifting color and the funny thing is now the light of the suns did not cloud out each other or the stars behind them and the carona was a splash of color around the suns with my new spectrum grafting the suns looked like a spiraling mix of every color of the rainbow with thousands if little spots that shifted from the standerd mix of low energy light to a spectrum of high energy light that carried a stream of particles that radiated in more mundane low energy light.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    I looking at the suns mesmerized by the motions as the suns orbited each other. I soon felt the pull to the dance in the background. And simply allowed it as I drifted like a leaf in the wind of the dance like I did in ages past. My mind still mostly on the sight of the suns.


    When my soul returned to my tree after the dance I returned my full focus back on to my spell. Undoing some of my changes to the spell I allowed all of the light into my lenses. So that I could see all of the light in the sky I returned to the two stars that had my interest earlier. Finding them no longer behind the two suns. Finding them to be blurry like I was looking threw the wrong glasses I tweaked things In the spell until both stars where in focus. One looked like a tiny version of the blue sun in this system but that one is alone, and the second one looks less like a stare and more like shining disk in space around the first true dark spot I have ever seen.


    ¡°ho that looks like the accretion disk black hole.¡± No way this time I changed the spell to only to only allow the visible spectrum of light form the performance of a human eye. The night sky changed half of the light emiting bodies stopped shining and all of the ones that where left looked like I was looking the clearest night sky ever the big sun mostly shined blue and the little sun mostly shined green but both also emitted light in other hues of the rainbow and the spots that shined in higher energy looked like dark spots. The stars are different but I as I looked I found looking into the night sky as soothing in this life as it was in my last one.


    The only thing I was missing was the sounds of the insects at night to make this more relaxing, sound. Sound has octaves where some sounds resonate with sound in earlier octaves but come of as different. I halve to test this. But my spell has no way to red or blue shift light. So back to tinkering after a wile I finally made an addition to my spell that seemed to do what I needed basses on time. Turning back to the two stars I used the spell I had to progressively red shift the light from only the blue disk up the rainbow until it hit red and form red into violet. This pattern repeated several times until after six octaves of light the light from the blue star and the blue disk was exactly the same.


    Armed with this new information I started to rearranged the insides of my spell to keep track of the different octaves of light for ease of viewing and cataloging. And decided it was time to take a look at the orbitals of the local suns including the one my tree is rooted on and its green moon. Looking down I found a mess. The first thing I could see was a deep green forest directly below my spell held in place by the tether. the Second thing I could see was large pit that glowed red and belched out yellow clouds. To the north of the forest about where I would assume rotational north to be. The yellow clods seemed to rain down and dissipate before hitting anything else leaving a circle of yellow around the pit. On the south side the white sheets of ice seamed to be more.


    The next thing too notes was I distinct lack of an ocean the enormous continent had a massive array of rivers that all funneled to the equator in massive river deltas going into a band of lakes with several mile stretches between each one. And a roving storm that traveled with the moon shooting clouds and other weather activity all over the place that seemed to pull a tax of water out of lake as it passed them as it traveled in its band.


    In the hope of finding something more normal I looked at the moon and it is green with little flecks reflective something mixed in. what can I zoom in. tacking a closer look at the moon there are three continents I can see each one is covered in buildings with forests on top of them and two large oceans separating the see able land mass. Well so the moon is an idealistic paradise and the planet is a mess fine.


    Its magic lets figure out why later. You know what I am done I don''t want to even look at the other planets lets figure out how to recast the spell and be done with every thing. And so using the tether I started reeling in the spell as I started to dismiss and recast each part of the spell piece by piece. And by the time that I had pulled the tether in all of the way to the ground I was pulling the spell apart by its constituent parts and putting it back together in its totality.


    Returning to the point of view of a tree after so long was different the long time using the perspective of a human made some things as a tree foreign wall once foreign thing are now common and intimate. A tree sees with its leaves but the more use there leaves as mouths to eat. Turning his attention to his leaves and the ground he was happy to learn that he had been directing the warmth of the suns to the flowers bellow his bows. He was already directing the light what was the difference between directing and understanding. And so keeping in mind the structure of the skrying spell the tree shifted its leaves and processed the information that he received as he turned the light into food.


    Before long the tree had an image collected and as it processed the image the tree soon learned he was surrounded by sitting elves. Switching to soul sight the tree felt all of them ancient pillars of power and all of them where just sitting there passively just meditating in peace. This made the tree slightly uneasy so he asked.


    ¡°MAY I HELP ANY OF YOU.¡±