The body in the lab.

The body he had left in his domain was undoubtedly the safest choice, it was fully developed and well protected perfect to get his bearings before setting of again, it also should have gathered a decent amount of XP for him to absorb and last but not least his dungeon had an endless supply of monsters for him to satiate his need to eradicate monsters in contrast his other body had devolved into a seed meaning he would be essentially helpless until he managed to evolve but there was no guarantee he could since there was a possibility his accumulated XP was lost after what happened to him.

Despite knowing all that he still chose the body he had been using until recently, if he had to give a reason for this choice it would be that... It felt more familiar to his soul.

So he allowed himself to drift back, back to Citrinas laboratory...

Syd had no idea how much time it had passed from the time his soul repossessed his body and when his consciousness returned but he could somehow tell it wasn't immediate. What's more, calling his current state "having a consciousness" might be a stretch he could think and feel warmth around his body but nothing else, he couldn't see, hear, taste or feel any tremors.

With nothing better to do he opened his HUD but what greeted him surprised him... The text and numbers had been all jumbled up together creating an incomprehensible mess, it felt like he was looking at a corrupted file and it made his head(?) spin, he quickly closed his HuD in a panic before opening it again, but to his dismay, the corrupted text was still there, he tried to navigate to different pages but everything was just as screwed up, he could no longer check his stats and had lost access to his items and all his abilities...