《A tree's simple life》 Prologue "GET HIM!" roars out of a bulky man''s mouths. The people to his left and right charge forward through the forest, roaring with passion. A few miles ahead of the group, runs a little man, Although you would doubt so as he runs with his flowing hair and tears running down his highly feminine face. This was simply because man is one of the rare races of high elves. Hunted because of the mana eyes they possess and usually sold into slavery and turned into mana batteries for nobles. The reason this man in specific was being hunted by these bunch of dirty, evil bandits is because of his rare breed. His father was High elf while his mother was a Druid, a guardian of old residing inside of the many world trees. This as you can tell didnt go over well with either race as they are mortal enemys, something stupid about which is the rightful owner of the world trees. This in turn made the man be kicked out of both races'' homelands and his location sold to the highest bidder, which was by chance a bunch of bandits. Well they arent that stupid, they did track him down pretty easily and surrounded the forrest. But like they did know he was half druid and they let him into a forrest, how stupid can bandits be? Well anyway back to the dramatic chase, the man runs through the forest. He runs at top speed avoiding the creatures and traps but unlucky for him, the forest he was running through was the territory of the legendary Demonic Fire Bear. But he was a little slow thinking about what the weird lump of fleshy meat he stepped on was as he felt a burning object slam into his chest, throwing him across the forest floor into a nearby tree. Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. He just sat there, blood pouring out while looking at the giant red eyed bear in front of him, the bear staring back at him. The bear just sits there staring at him like a piece of steak, probably thinking about what the best way to eat him was. The man accepted death at the hands, no well paws of this beast and closed his eyes, only to reopen them as a surging pain came from his shoulder. He looked down, to see a arrow sticking out, even the bear seemed to realise something as it turned around. Only to receive an arrow to the leg, this pissed off the monster of a bear, it charged into the darkness. A darkness the man assumed was filled with his chasers. He let out a sigh, he knew he was going to die here. There was nothing he could do except become bear food or become some mages play thing. The man just sat against the tree, his body shutting down. A roar filled the forest, followed by screams of what the man assumed was his hunters. He simply smiled and looked at the tree behind him, then muttered something as he started glowed, the brightness grew as he was covered with light. His last thought was of his parents, friends, enemies of all those that betrayed him. He would not allow anyone to have his life. He would go out on his own terms, leaving nothing for these heathers. With that he died, and our hero was born. Curiosity
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The messages appaered in the beings concious, yet nothing happened. The being only just coming into realisation of its own existance, it did not understand what the thing it was being presented with. It did not understand self so how could it understand others?This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
Time passed, hours, days, months. The sentient tree never knowing what the things in its conscious were, ever wonderinhg if these things were linked to it coming into this world and why it was different to its kin that surrounded it. It often looked, well looking is a werid way to describe it, it had at some point gained sight through some means. It had a sort of a area wide view, it saw everything around its center. It often observered things crawling around its area, and the many even tinnier creatures crawling over the tree itself. It didnt mind the tiny thing, it often enjoyed what the tinny things did. One day, the tree was simply observing everything when it noticed some of the tiny things crawling over somethig on the ground. The tree focused on the area and noticed it was different to the rest of the ground, It took a while for the tree to realise that it wasnt simply ground, it was the remains of a even larger creature. Not much remained, a bit of aged meat coverign the bones and a weird thing covering it, it was not leafs nor was it ground. It thought about what it could be, looking at the rest of the tiny and big things. Nothing mathced the things covering the larger thing, the tree fell into deep thought about what it could be when another thing popped into into its mind.
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A tree of knowledge The tree looked at the new message, trying to understand what it means. It realised it was like the ones it first got when it was made? or born, the creature didnt know which. The creature focused on the message when it felt a new sensation, it opened its concious to its area again. It was shocked, well as shocked as a tree could be, at the very large creature like the one on the ground, touching it. When did it get there? the tree asked itself, it had only noticed it when it was touching the tree. The tree swayed its braches to deter the large creature, it had worked on the other things when they tried to damage the tree but the large thing just moved eating hole, or so the tree called it, open and closed. The tree was confused about what the large thing was doing, the large thing seemed to notice the tree and closed its eyes.
Hello creature, do you understand me ?
The tree just looked at the large thing and back at the thing in its mind.is it trying to tell me something? the tree thought, it did not understand.
Seems not, well I''m going to take a peek at your stats, wait you dont understand, oh well
The tree felt a small prick of, wait this was a new sensation, it wasnt bad just different but the tree kinda liked it. The being looked confused, it looked down at the large dead thing on the ground and back up at the tree.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.
Arent you a interesing fellow, I see the problem.
The large creature took its hand off the tree and clapped them together. Light started flowing in from around the large thing, more kept flowing, swirling around the large creature. The light turned into little tiny streams of light, so many the large creature was covered. The light streams started being faster and faster, the tree had to focus all its view onto them to see the light traveling from around the creatureand traveling into the tree.
You have aquired the interest of a administrator Title aquired : The Noticed A administrator has granted you skill bestowal Skill aquired: Universal langauge understanding lvl 10 SKill aquired: Basic knowlegde lvl 20 Skill aquired: ManaManipulaion lvl 3 Skill aquired: Trees observation lvl 10 (1 metre per level)
Vast amounts of knowledge enetered the trees mind, overflowing. The tree understood what it was and what the large creature was, it was a administrator. "hello" A voice entered the trees mind. It undertsood now, it didnt know how it knew but it did. The tree focused on what it was what the voice said and tried to recreate It, The thought blared "hello" in its mind, theadministrator seemed to notice as its eyes widened. The being just smiled, wait it was a smile, the tree understood what things were. "Well this is going to be fun" A grin covered the administrator face. #4 Silence filled the air, the wind only filling the noise. ¡°So, do you have any questions? I think i gave you all the necessary information¡± The tree thought, did it need anything else? It understood quite a bit more than it had, enough to keep existing for a while but what if it needed information later? But what the tree is most curious of was, how did the being hear it before? The tree tried to copy what he did before, ¡°How, am i speaking?¡± ¡°Oh right, That would you be your Universal language understanding skill, I can understand your thoughts. Like how you just spoke, you may not even notice it¡± (Admin) The admin looked up at he tree with a confused? face, ye probably a confused face. ¡°It¡¯s a bit hard to explain, just look at the skill. Oh right if you wanna look at your skills or stats, just think of the words in your mind¡± (Admin) The tree focused on the words, skills¡­ Skills: Trees observation lvl 10 (1 metre for each lvl) If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Universal language understanding lvl 10 Basic knowledge lvl 20 Mana manipulation lvl 3 Information flowed into the trees conscious. ¡°Mana?¡± It thought out. ¡°Ah yes, mana, I forgot you summoned creatures have that as a natural talent. Mana is something like air, is always around us and within us. It can be used to make spells and to also strengthen the body, honestly theres a near limitless amount of things you can do with it. You get more with certain skills or level ups¡± ¡°level up?¡± ¡°Ah, I swear i added this into the basic knowledge. Ok, levels are a sort of ranking system, it allows a being to see its power displayed as numbers, its the same with stats. Oh and if you want to level up, you either need to kill other beings to absorb a percentage of their level or theres the more simple but time consuming way, and that is mana absorption. Simply put, you absorb the mana from the surrounding and condense it within yourself, eventually, the amount of mana your able to store will increase and your stats and level will go up.¡± ¡°Absorb?¡± The administrator let out a sigh ¡°ok ill show you this once than i need to go, I''m a very busy man¡± the admin sits down on the ground. Within seconds, the lights from before appeared and began to flow towards it again. oh this must be mana? the tree thought, the lights Kept increasing until the man was shinning. A sudden flash, and the mana was gone ¡°ok so thats how you do it, just will the mana to yourself and condense it within yourself. To see how much mana you have just think really hard about it and it should appear in your mind at some point, i cant say what it would look like, its different for everyone¡± and with a click of a finger, the admin was gone. 5 The Light of day Turned dark, as the sun retreats. The only noise in the forest was the wind and the many animals, either hunting or being hunted. Yet Unknowingly to all those creatures, In one of the most densely packs area of the forrest, there was a special tree. The tree had memorised the process the admin showed him and tried to recreate it, only to feel a weird sensation. It hated this new sensation. The tree kept trying, pushing against this new sensation. It getting more and more Intense by the second. The mana light started appearing, the ground, the air. Mana poured in form every direction, filling the air. The animals and the bugs just lay there Do they not see it? the tree thought looking at the bugs intently. The mana got denser and denser. The tree than started pulling the mana closer, covering its bark. Layers piled up, the admin didn''t tell the tree what to do now. It looked quite odd, a tree covered in glowing lights, making it look like it was on fire.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. It thought to itself, the admin did say to pull it into itself.
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Words appeared in the trees mind, it caused the tree to be excited, maybe if it pulled all the mana in, something interesting could happen. The mana started pullingtowards it, the sensation from before pushing even harder into its conciseness. It was bad, it felt like thousand of those tiny bugs digging into its body. The mana pushed in, till all of it was forced inside the bark. Suddenly, a flash of light exploded from the tree. The small animals ran away in a panic and the bugs scuttled back into their homes. The nights sky lit up, it was beautiful. Of course the tree would have loved to see this, but it unfortunately it had passed out. __________________________________________________________________________ In a non specific town, in a quiet back alley bar, three figures sit around a table. ¡°Did you hear?¡± the first figure whispers to the table ¡°The thing about the druid hunt?¡± the second figure chimes in. ¡°No, about the hero¡± ¡°Hero?¡± ¡°That guy who killed the demon lords in he east singe handidly?¡± ¡°Oh that guy, what about him?¡± the first figure leans in toward the other two figure ¡°Apparently he is in this town, Im looking for him to get my sword signed¡± The second figure has a surprised look on his face while the third figure takes a sip of the tea. ¡°do you often ask men to sign your sword?¡± They all share a look, and burst into laughter. #6- Time passes. Soon winter comes. Everything becomes silent, only the smallest rodents travel for long anymore. Heat is becoming scare, only those lucky enough to live near forests can live for long in the eternally white hell. Although the winters are most beneficial to the humans as even the most savage monsters now sleep in there homes.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. The tree was in a state of sleep, often regarded as mana shock.
¡°Daaaaaaad, why must I do this?¡± Nagged a young man, putting on his wolf fur coat. ¡°Because you are lazy and everyone must work if they want to eat, just stop complaining. You only have to carry the wood, ok?¡± ¡°fine, just fine¡± The young man and his father leave the house to hunt for fire wood in the white world outside. * (You have taken blunt damage -12hp) ¡­.. (You have taken blunt damage -13hp) (You have taken blunt damage -12hp) notifications echoed through the tress mind. It had been asleep for a while, not sure how long though. It opened its mind to observe its domain, it surprised the tree, its vision since last time had increase almost double. ¡®Ah, what do we have here¡¯ the tree thought to itself. It becoming even more shocked at the speed and degree of its thoughts. It could actually create a whole self aware thought, it even understood what a thought was. ¡®This is awesome¡¯ The first ever self aware tree thought. #7 The tree was in a particularly bad situation right now. A man shielding his son from a wolf, well a near death wolf. It had all happened too quickly for the tree to realise, one second he was trying to communicate to the man and than a wolf appeared in its domain. It took the tree by surprise, it had never seen such a large and scary beast, it was nothing like the bugs, or even the man. The wolf is large, almost as big as the man, silver fur covered in dirt and now blood. It had swiped at the grown mans back in surprise, ¡®how evil¡¯ the tree thought. The wolfs claws tour through the mans clothes and into his flesh, blood gushed out of the three new wounds. Although the tree seemed surprised by the lack of resistance. The tree watched as the young man being guarded grabbed a fallen branch off the guard and lunged it towards the wolf. It was a hit, the branch stabbed into he wolfs legs and stuck, although not enough to stop the wolf from gashing a large chunk of the boys arm. ¡®how brave¡¯ The tree congratulated the boy, well only in its head though. ¡®wait, don¡¯t I¡¯ with the trees increased brain power, it was coming up with a idea to save the child? I think, or kill them all? Either one works out. ¡®Skills¡¯ Trees observation lvl 17 (1 metre for each lvl) Throughout the ages, Trees have been the symbol of wisdom and immortality. Ground is your domain and sky is your target. As a tree you have control over your area, and a perfect view of all within it. Skill grows with lvl and use of Skill.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. Universal language understanding lvl 10 As a being of wisdom, you understand most forms of communication. Skill allows for communication between species and learning of languages depending on the means of learning material. Your skill grows as your vocabulary does, growth depends on the intricacy of the language learned. !!! As a added benefit of being a race without any vocal means, mana can be substituted to send thoughts to other willing races and etc. !!! Basic knowledge lvl 20 Knowledge is often gained through the lives and struggles of sentience races, but certain beings that have been summoned/contracted or etc, do not have this knowledge. That¡¯s where this skill comes in, Powerful people are able to grant knowledge to such beings. Skill grows with added knowledge. Mana manipulation lvl 11 Beings of summons or contracted origin have a natural talent toward the ether and mana in the world. As a Tree of old, a wisdom of mana usage allows for improved skill usage and leveling. Mana can be used in many ways, Destructing and Creating, Strengthening and Weakening. Skill levels with use and knowledge of mana gained. The tree looked at the skills in front of it, was there a way for it to do anything? It looked through its skills, not noticing anything that could help it. It looked within itself, from the tips of its leafs to the bottom of its roots it couldn¡¯t find anything. ¡®WAIT, roots?¡¯ The tree thought as it focused its conscious on the roots in the ground bellow. It tried to move them, pushing them, pulling them, but to no avail. The tree never had a reason to move so how would it know how to? the tree tried, straining its mind to do anything. ¡®please just work¡¯ The tree pleaded with itself, and something happened. A ball of light travelled through the trees interior and into the roots, which started to shake violently with the will of the tree. The earth in front of the tree shook violently and spilt apart only to revel a pack of sharp roots pouring out. < you have killed a LvL 16 Silver wolf> { Awarding 25 xp } The messages appeared in the trees mind, it had yet to fully understand what they do. [Roots have come in contact with blood] [Absorb? Y/N] [Y] ¡®I¡¯m so tired¡¯ the tree thought as its consciousness went into a deep slumber #8 Three figures sit around a campfire, the surrounding woods full of howls. The first figure places a small piece of wood on the fire, staring at his fellow traveling companions. Each has a drink of some kind. The second one has a wine cup full of wine smelling similar to the far eastern elf kingdoms specialty. The third figure drinks a mixture of dwarvin beer with a touch of wyvern blood, which is known for its strong taste. But the most important is the first figure. The drink of choice that this figure had, was the newest in a mana fruit juices. The figure swirled its cup with watching the purplish read liquid spinning around his cup. ¡°Have you heard the news on the creation of this juice?¡± One figure looked at the other. The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Isn¡¯t it made by some family in the east?¡± The first figure nodded at the answer ¡°west, but yeah, This juice appeared on the market and has been getting more lucrative per day. Its said even the royal family has taken interest in the creation process.¡± Than the figure leaned in closer to the other two ¡°Thing is, no one and I mean no one knows how its made. It was traced to a family of farmers in the west but there¡¯s no sign of the magical fruits.¡± *** ¡®Little one?¡¯ ¡®little one, you must wake up at once¡¯ A gentle voice entered the slumbering trees mind, a small yet clear voice. Yet the tree could only be on the brisk of being awake and asleep. Noticing the voice, the tree just blamed its imagination. Oh right, the tree had developed a imagination and had also started dreaming in the middle of its great slumber. The tree liked these dreams, it liked one dream in particular. The tree just stays and watches its domain, a layer of snow cover the floor. The quite fills the domain, bugs, wolves, everything was at calm. Only for the sound of snow being crunched as a person entered, her hair blue, fluffy ears flicking around whenever a falling snow touched. ¡®LITTLE ONE¡¯ Yet someone had decided to pester the tree ¡®You must help¡¯ WHEN IT WAS TRYING TO DREAM ¡®WHAT DO YOU WANT¡¯ The tree screamed in its head. ¡®¡­.¡¯ It was silent for a minute or so ¡®Please help me¡¯ #9 A angry tree looks at its surrounding, as was requested by the mysterious annoying voice that work it up. It was different than what the tree remembers, there wasn¡¯t layers of snow anymore, just small puddles with little clumps of snow scattered the trees domain. This of course wasn¡¯t the biggest surprise to the tree, the roots that the tree had moved to attack the wolf had moved themselves to a defensive position. The roots probably more than he had controlled had pocked out of the ground face towards the sky and outward from the tree. As if to announce that any who come near to take the treasure shall perish. Although soon the tree learned of what this treasure was. While surveying the new looking domain, the tree looked at itself in detail and noticed something new hanging from its branches. A gourd shaped fruit with a slight reddish tinge, but the strange thing was that the tree could feel the fruit. As in it was like a branch to the tree, every sensation that effected the fruit the tree felt. This interested the tree greatly, sleep can wait. ¡®What is this?¡¯ A question was posed by the tree to the voiceA case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡®It¡¯s a magi fruit, A result of a substance and mana being mixed and exerted from, well, a tree¡¯ The voice muttered at the end, maybe it was trying not to offend the tree. ¡®I have long acknowledge I am a tree, was this thing you needed help with?¡¯ ¡®Well yes, and no¡¯ A moment of silence ¡®Let me introduce myself. I am Nina, a forest fae. The problem with those fruits being produced, is that humanity has started to emerge in the forest more and more.¡¯ ¡®Why would a simple fruit make them come to the forest?¡¯ ¡®Because those fruits can offer humanity many benefits when they consume it¡¯ ¡®So they will come and harvest them, what is it to me to help you?¡¯ ¡®Well¡¯ Nina paused ¡® Look at the ground around your roots¡¯ So the tree did, Domain view quickly expanded in the trees mind and it focused on the ground near the roots. A small white object lay still, A root move down and pick of the object. The tree inspected it closer and realised it to be skull of a wolf. The tree looked around more, only to find dozens more skulls laying half in the mud. Nina spoke softly and tiredly, as if she was almost to the point of breaking ¡®While you were sleeping little one, the humans have used the blood of creatures of Gaia to make blood fruits¡¯ The tree paused in thought, It did not care about the fruits nor the animals. It cared that something dared to do something to make the tree wake up. In the trees mind it was simple, If Nina was keeping it awake to save to the animals and the animals were dying to make blood fruits for the humans, isnt it simple. The best solution would to be kill Nina, but the tree see no material body. so plan B, Stop making the blood fruit.