Reborn as a Demonic Tree: An Isekai LitRPG Adventure

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Bring My Brown Pants: Aeon's level 200+ presence causes most of the leaders of the nations, whom he has kidnapped, to lose bladder control. He's actually slightly impressed with the exceptions. He recalled how ineffective his spatial Qi-coated vines had been against the Voidmind Elder's void flames. The knowledge that he now commanded such a formidable power gave him hope for his continued survival in the years to come. You Have Researched Breathing: TreeTree is bemused when he reaches level 123 and receives the [Reinforce defensive structures] skill, which doesn't seem to him like a suitable skill for such a high level.

The story was also one of the fastest growing web serials in RoyalRoad history, getting 11,000 followers in its first month and 19,000 in a single year! An Arm and a Leg: Jura survives the burning of Freeka and the few escapees travelling to the elven kingdom, but he loses his left arm. Even crippled, though, he's still a more effective warrior than Laufen and the children. Much later, Aeon manages to repair his soul and restore the limb. Take Over the World: Aeon actually finds total planetary takeover to be an annoying distraction from his real work. Also, it inevitably involves a lot of preventable deaths. Still, for the sake of putting down threats and stabilising his realm, he can and will do it — on multiple worlds. His beetle armies and domain-holders are beyond what regular nations can fight, and his ability to create prosperity means that a not insignificant number of people are willing to bend the knee peacefully. He later helps some of the heroes to manufacture anti-demon weaponry, since their tremendous natural abilities don't always have specific bonuses against demons.

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He eventually learns that the whole cycle has repeated itself on many other worlds, each of which is regularly invaded by demons and has heroes summoned by the gods to stop them. Until the gods are too far away to reach a world anymore, and it falls to the demons. It eventually turns out that the way to safely access it is by repeatedly suffering the corruptive effects of exposure, and getting healed, until one's entire mana pool has been converted to void mana. Not something to be undertaken lightly, nor something that most people have the resources (nor inclination) to try.

Those older, and have seen the more violent era were wise enough to know I would, and they tried their best to persuade those sitting on the fences. There Are No Therapists: The mental influences built into the [hero] class assist the heroes in being numb to the violence and gore and dismemberment and incineration that they wade through, in their quest to slay the demon king. After the fact, however, if they survive, they're pretty much cast adrift, frequently turning to alcoholism, promiscuity, self-destructive infighting, and other ways of failing to cope with the trauma they've experienced. For Aeon's people, it's quite justified, since any with familiars will be able to create fruits and weapons from mana, and he doesn't tend to project force very far from his root network. The [Hero] class grants explosively fast levelling, allowing heroes to reach level 100 within a year or two so that they can fight the demon king. Lausanne, who has worked much longer and seen more modest gains (though still impressive by regular standards) is disheartened to see the heroes surpass her efforts in mere weeks. Then Let Me Be Evil: Since Aeon gets treated as an evil cult leader, he decides to do it properly and firmly establish his religious organisation, standardise teaching and training, etc.Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid: Matt reincarnating into a tree with a few surprising upsides is the main premise of the plot, Aeon's contracted souls can become other things as well such as sapient buildings. Sapient House: Several of Aeon's contracted souls are incarnated into buildings, including a hotel, a combat training facility, and a research lab, resulting in mutable and partially mobile structures. Whether they can leave the building depends on the exact terms of their service; Meela has a separate wooden body and can wander around at will, but Yvon can only go about ten paces outside the tree. Good Is Not Nice: Aeon is fair-minded, wants to make the world better, and has people he cares about. However, he's quite self-interested, and his justice is tempered with very little mercy. If you want his help, you'd better be prepared to pay, and if you cross him, he will have no qualms about executing you out of hand. Conscription: The elven village of Freeka receives a demand from the king to send a number of soldiers to enlist in his army, but their tree spirit has warned them that the demon king has just arrived, leaving them torn about whether they can afford to leave their village underdefended. They eventually decide not to respond — and after the demon king is defeated, the king sends an army to slaughter them all in punishment.

Your Soul Is Mine!: Souls collected by a soul tree will ordinarily linger for just a few months, barring special circumstances, then go on to be reincarnated. However, it is also possible to make a contract, which will result in the soul lingering and being subservient for a thousand years. When he learns that subsidiary trees must be placed within range of his root network, but that they also extend that network, he thinks, "I should have pylons." Later, Dimitree sees him looking at the steep upgrade costs for his subordinate minds, especially the gems required, and tells him, " You require more minerals." Easy Evangelism: Sort of. The triumvirs of the church of Aiva perform a ritual to let their god manifest in the world and talk with Aeon — during which conversation, they are stunned to hear Aiva declare that he will soon be too far away to properly look after the people of the world, and that Aeon, as a native god, should take all his followers. They personally accept the commandment, but they're aware that the majority of believers, if told this news, would assume that the triumvirs had been suborned or mind-controlled, and would thus reject it, so Aeon opts for a more gradual improvement of relations.

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Aeon: This is no true peace, Lady Yvon. It is a peace built on fear. A fear of our power. And if you know better, this peace is maintained by power. If that were possible, {Deep Roots} might overshadow {Eye of the Tree God}, but it was difficult to discern. Scanning the skill list, he managed to eliminate {Hibernate} as it was just a C-grade skill, and he couldn't see how void affinity could improve it much. Falklay the ranger has a number of potent stealth skills, such as [hidden amongst trees]. However, that skill does nothing to protect him against observation by the trees themselves, allowing Matt to reliably observe him. Maybe now he could keep control of a corpse for a lot longer... Alas, the requirement for a corpse to be always available made the skill cumbersome to use, so it was also discarded. RPG Mechanics 'Verse: It's handled fairly loosely, but the world works on classes and levels and Skills, and the populace are aware of it. Matt starts off as just a Tree, but his class changes over time based on his levels and achievements, eg becoming a Soul Tree.