Chapter 86. Doing Photosynthesis While Cursing A Certain Incompetent God.
After cursing at Cedric several times, Elisa tries her best to calm down while contemplating her current state.
"First, I've truly got reincarnated. This means that god isn't exactly a fake, but he is definitely unreliable."
"Two, I actually possessed a tree and gained the ability to see with a 360-degree view with this big tree as the center… " Elisa paused midway because she found out she could actually use another nearby tree as the center of her 360-degree view.
With her center of sight moving to a different tree, Elisa also found out there was actually a female corpse with long ears nearby.
She can't see the corpse from the tree she first possessed because the corpse is hidden behind a bush when viewed from the first tree she possessed.
The corpse wore delicate robes made of a leaf with fur-like texture, and some blood stains on the robe. She wore some flowers as accessories made of beautiful flowers.
Although she is already dead, and some part of her body has rotted. It's undeniable that the elf should be incredibly beautiful when she's alive.
The corpse made Elisa recall Cedric's promise to make her reincarnate as an elf. "These sharp ears… is this an elf corpse? Does that mean the god has sent me to the wrong body? Or is this corpse just a coincidence and that self-proclaimed god has been planning to turn me into a tree?"
While Elisa's mind went active, she felt mentally exhausted and found her sight had returned to the tree she had first possessed. The one with a lightning bird's nest on its branch.
All the things she experienced kinda exhausted Elisa. So, she throws everything and focuses on one thing first - trying her best to move.
Although it's common knowledge that trees won't be able to move. But this is a magical world.
If a bird can even spew out electricity, what makes it impossible for a tree to move?
Elisa tried her best to move her 'leg' but it failed.
Actually, she can feel her leg, or roots, slightly moved inside the ground. But it seems to be restrained by other things and failed to break free from the earth.
Then she tried to move her 'waist' and 'torso'. This time, she succeeded and saw the tree she possessed move its branches and leaves as if being blown by winds.
At first, she thought it was indeed just a wind. But, she saw the surrounding trees and bushes hadn't rustled and knew it should be the result of her attempt.
Elisa kept on trying to move her body, trying to talk, cursing at Cedric every time she failed, and experimenting with her new body.
Sometimes, she recalled Cedric's promises to send her mom too, and tried to shout, "Mom, are you there?!"
But there's no reply. Actually, she failed to release any sound because her experiment to talk had failed.
After reincarnating as a tree for two whole days, Elisa found a way to smell and hear her surroundings before finally running out of things to do.
When she thought you'll go insane from boredom, Elisa found she could speed up her perception of time by going into a state similar to dozing off.
In this state, she felt her surroundings move in a fast-forwarded state. Even the sun and moon cycled so fast that it felt like a short-circuited light bulb.
Of course, there's a limit. After making the sun and moons rotate dozens of times within moments, Elisa could feel her head feeling a bit heavy.
'What's going on?' When she felt the heaviness in her head, Elisa woke up from that state and her surroundings returned to normal.
It seems forcibly speeding up her perception of time has put some burden on herself.
But it's not like there's no gain from this attempt to speed up her perception of time.
Except for the trick to change her perception of time, Elisa has felt some sort of energy moving within her body.
That energy comes from several directions. Some came from the surrounding soils and got absorbed into her tree body before circulating around her body. Some came from the air and entered her body through her leaves. There's also some energy that came from places Elisa can't exactly pinpoint.
After feeling the flow of energy and its sources, combined with her basic biology knowledge. Elisa guessed it might be her tree body's ability to photosynthesize.
After she sensed that energy from photosynthesis, Elisa tried to control the speed of photosynthesis and actually succeeded.
With her conscious effort, her tree body started the photosynthesis process at an even faster speed.
'This won't result in anything bad right?' Even though Elisa felt concerned, she didn't stop increasing her photosynthesis speed.
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First and foremost, doing nothing but staring blankly at the empty forest is boring as heck. Furthermore, she also wanted to check what would happen when she accelerated her photosynthesis process.
Of course, she will also focus on her tree body and will immediately stop accelerating the photosynthesis process when she finds something wrong.
After accelerating her photosynthesis process for more than a day, Elisa found nothing wrong had happened to the tree she possessed.
She also felt her spirit has recovered and the heaviness she felt from accelerating her perception of time has subsided. So, Elisa tried to doze off once more.
But this time, she does so while trying to maintain her accelerated photosynthesis speed.
As the sun and moon cycle several times within moments, Elisa sees her tree body slowly increase in height.
'Perhaps increasing my photosynthesis speed has accelerated the growth of my tree body?' Elisa thought so and soon felt her mind turn heavy and lethargic. At the same time, she instantly left the accelerated time perception state.
Feeling the aftertaste from accelerating her time perception, Elisa felt the heavy and lethargic feeling was kinda familiar.
'It feels like I slept for too long and became lethargic instead.' Elisa thought while gently rustling her branches.
Now that she'll probably need to wait for another day before she can continue to doze off and accelerate her perception of time, Elisa decided to do some tests with the body.
For example, she tries to possess other trees to borrow their perspective for a moment or tries to control her branch more flexibly.
After a whole day passes, the heaviness in her mind has subsided. With a refreshed mind, Elisa entered a state of dazing off to accelerate her sense of time.
Being a tree is exhausting, especially since she hadn't found any way to sleep or closed her eye lids. So, she decided that dozing off and accelerating her perception of time was equal to her sleep. Otherwise, she fears she might break down mentally.
While Elisa is dozing off and doing photosynthesis just like before, a screen suddenly appears and breaks her dazed state.
The time around her quickly returned to normal as Elisa watched the screen that suddenly appeared in front of her.
[Basic System Screen successfully installed.]
[Installation complete. Please think of status panel to open the status window.]
Before she could follow what's written on the screen and think of 'status window', another screen appeared in front of her.
[Testing! Testing! Elisa, can you hear me?]
[Hello?! Are you still asleep? Should I talk with you after you wake up?]
When Elisa saw that message, she became anxious and crazily rustled her branch.
Although the screen she suspects to be that incompetent god is annoying, it's still the only company she can find after a few days. Furthermore, that guy also needs to explain her current situation.
Luckily, Elisa soon saw another message that made her feel relieved.
[Damn it, I forgot you're currently a tree and can't reply. Wait a moment, I am going to give you the ability to speak.]
A few seconds after that message arrived, Elisa felt something had been added to her body.
She also saw a new message.
[I've given you the ability to speak. For the voice, I used your original voice and slightly modified it to make it more beautiful. Count it as compensation for your inconvenience.]
Elisa tried to speak, "Hello?"
Instantly, she heard a familiar yet unfamiliar female voice. It's full of youth and is incredibly melodious.
'Is this my voice?' With that kind of voice, Elisa felt she could easily enter the top hundred song chart just by singing a simple lullaby.
While she was amazed by her new voice, a new screen appeared in front of her.
[Hello there, it seems you've successfully entered my world.]
"Are you that self-proclaimed god from another world?" Elisa asked.
[That word kinda hurts my feelings. But, I am indeed the god of the world you're in, and the one who sent you there.]
Elisa only kept her cool for an instant before she complained, "You said I'll be reincarnated as an elf, but this body is definitely a tree! Also, where is my mom? It's been days and I haven't seen her at all. What's worse, isn't there any other living being in this stupid forest you sent me to? For the last few days, I've only seen an elf corpse!"
[First of all, let me apologize. There was a small accident when I was sending you to my world.]
"Small accident your fucking ass!" Elisa snapped, "Being turned into a tree is driving me mad! All I can do is just rustle my branch, look around, and do photosynthesis!"
The screen fell silent for a moment before sending a new message.
[That's not photosynthesis. What you're doing is actually absorbing mana. These few days, you have been absorbing mana from the ground, air, and even to sun's heat to raise your life level. That's why you have gained some Exp. You can check the result of your hard work from your status panel.]
To be honest, Elisa still wanted to continue her complaints. She also knew that the messages she just received should've been that unreliable god's attempt at switching the topic. But, the information she just got kinda makes her curious.
'Damn it, count this your lucky day.' Elisa grumbled while shouting 'status panel' in her mind.
[Life Level: Lower Level 0
Exp: 73%
Potential: Upper Level 5]
The status panel is pretty plain. There aren't those fancy stats or skills she usually found in games. Soon, she saw another screen appear after she opened her status panel.
[Did you see the Life level and Exp section? As someone from Earth, a world without supernatural power, your Life Level should be at Lower Level 0, while your Exp should be at 0%. With your potential and talent, after gathering and absorbing mana, your exp should have increased by a lot.]
Elisa rustled her leaves, "What will happen when I collect 100% Exp and level up?"
[With 100% Exp, you should be able to level up to Mid Level 0. At this point, you'll stop being a mortal and will awaken a supernatural power.]
"Supernatural power?" Elisa mumbled while looking at the lightning bird perched on top of her tree body. At last, she asked Cedric another question, "You haven't answered where my mom is?"
[I haven't sent your mom to my world yet. I am still looking for a suitable body for her. Anyway, you don't have to worry, there won't be any mistake when I send your mother to my world.]
If she still had eyes, Elisa would've rolled her eyes. "You better do it correctly this time. Otherwise, you can forget about me helping the elves. Actually, I am not even sure I can do anything after being turned into a tree because of your 'small mistake'."
Elisa suddenly thought of something, "You can make me reincarnate into a tree. So, can't you change my body to an elf and fix your mistake? Being a tree is so boring."
Cedric, who heard Elisa's request, asked the System, "Hey, can I use the Portable Possession Magic Array on her once more and make her possess a different body?"
[You can. But, Alicia's soul has mutated and a normal body won't be able to contain all of her soul. Furthermore, you'll need a higher level Portable Possession Magic Array to make her possess a new body without adverse effects.]
Cedric sighed, 'Well, I guess that's a no then.'
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