A Sleepy Forest

Soul: Seedbed

Size: Massive

Monster Core(s): Erosarkic, Verdure

Package: Complete, All Add-ons

Monster Power: Timefruit Juice

Class: Sorcerer

Cheat: Hybridization

Oath: Respect Sacred Ground

Blessings: Warmth, God’s Eye

Divine Miracle: Pure Land

Perks

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Seeder: Guaranteed pregnancies, rapid gestation

Parallel Cores: Able to take Two actions at once

Carnation Conquest: Litters of Three to Nine, 10%/Hour Regen, 50% Stronger Magic, 300% Stronger Dark Element

Verdant Growth: 20%/Hour Regen, 200% Experience, -300% Fire/Ice Resistance

Timefruit Juice: Extra Action for Every Action

Templar: 50% Boost defending Consecrated Lands or followers of a god

To say I opened my eyes wouldn’t be accurate - it was more like I became aware of my surroundings. There were no birds, no animals, but there was life. A singular, constant hum of mana and life intertwined. At least, that’s what I think it is.

More importantly, it’s all me.

Between the Monster species, the oath to respect sacred ground, and the miracle of pure land… I am now a sentient forest. I tested moving different parts of me to find what moved and what didn’t. Underneath bark and a layer of dense wood was writhing flesh, and the knots and hollows in the trees seemed to be where I could move them through. There were also vines I could move, and some of the trees could even open up like a twisted maw. I couldn’t speak through the maws, or at all… problems I should have considered, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Those three deities though, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do what any of them were talking about - why take part in some stupid war against blatently overpowered beings completely out of my weight class? I’d rather just hang out here, make a harem of any unfortunate passersby to ‘Deface’ my ‘Sacred Ground’ despite the Warmth ability attracting them to my… well, to me, and just entertain myself in them.

Between my literal massive size and the timefruit juice thought, that might feel like a long time - but there was no way - No Way those two dark goddesses didn’t set up a group of followers to be in the area waiting for me right? Right?

… Okay based on the sun it’s been an hour; it has felt like four hours. There is no cult of darkness here to help me.

This was a mistake.

Still, I can't do nothing. I have to do something. I consult my second core and even if I'm talking to myself I'm talking to someone that talks back - which doesn't make me sound any saner considering it's only been an hour or four but who knows, maybe it'll work.

It has been a day. I started clumping the vines into various blocks of impassible overgrowth to just really hard to see through tangles that people can still pass through - so I can separate people as they move through the forest that is me. I should probably come up with a pseudonym for when things that talk with plants arrive. I also came to realize I have three cores, not two. I guess in a way of thinking, the first two cores represent my fleshier parts, the tentacles and stuff, while the third core forms the plant matter - meaning it's in charge of making all the chemical compounds me and my second core think up. It doesn't conversate much, kind of like a silent servant. I named it Erlen.

It’s been a week, and I’ve noticed that I’m growing - it’s slow, even by normal standards, but between my doubled experience and the passive pure land experience, I’m growing stronger and in the process of growing bigger. It helps that I’m absorbing every once of mana the pure lands produce is filtered into me as I am the Pure Lands in and of themselves at this point. I don’t know how much longer I can go without something to interact with though. Helped with the Pseudonym though, I’ve decided to call myself Oasis - and while it might not be healthy or original, I named my secondary core Echo. Echo approved of the name, even got all happy about it, I might be insane on an more official level.

I’m not sure how long it’s been anymore, I've been sleeping a lot. I’m nearly twice my size now - in total square inches, I counted each square yesterday. Somehow despite the inches being square I am very much a circle. Like, unnaturally circular, I’m a perfect circle of meaty flora in the middle of what was once desert. You’d think I’d at least discovered a bird, or an animal by now - nope, nada. Sometimes I feel like I'm growing faster but then I literally just... watch my own grass grow and realize no, no I've just woken from a very, very long nap. Echo and Erlen are working on making lakes throughout us, I think they intend to turn them into chemical vats as a way of trapping things when things finally show up. I decide I'd rather sleep to the day that happens.

A scream gets Echo to wake me up, and I try to extend my senses to get a glimpse of what there is - an eye forms inside of one of the tree hollows, within the meaty core, and stares out towards the horizon. The thing that screamed was much closer than I’d expected - I need more of these eyes, asap. Probably should have made a watch rotation too but... sleep. Much as I want to go back to it, there is something more interesting out there.