Chapter 6:
Evolution—Level 50
IT’S EVOLVIN’ TIME!
Preparing evolution…
Devotion: Stellura
Confirming past actions…
Confirming reputation among residents…
Confirming previous logs…
The goddess has ordered you to serve as “Manager of the Afterlife” and “Arbitrator of the Darklight Races and the Living World.” This will influence your evolution.
Please choose an evolution.
She Who Wavers and Pulses (Princess of the Medium)
She Who Travels the Liminal (Princess of the Medium)
She Who Wavers and Pulses
Structures, of which every birth comes an eventual death, go through the process of evolution at astonishingly rapid speeds.
They will their own flesh to pulse, transforming them into a structure even more robust.
While they possess excellent tenacity and regenerative abilities, they have lost some adaptability with magic.
Seeing no meaning in maintaining a distinct form, they simply continue to swell and expand.
Base Stats:
HP: SS
MP: A
Strength: A
Dexterity: D
Stamina: S
Agility: E/D (S)
Intelligence: C
Spirit: A
Resistance: SSS
Unique: SSS
Physique: Max
Avatar: Princess of the Medium
A human-shaped vessel you use when descending to the surface world.
You are a princess of the afterlife and a beloved child of the gods.
You remain the novice princess to those in the Medium and the afterlife.
Every day, you devote yourself to rising to their level.
Base Stats:
HP: SS
MP: A
Strength: A
Dexterity: D
Stamina: A
Agility: C/E (S)
Intelligence: C
Spirit: A
Resistance: SSS
Unique: SSS
Physique: Sma
She Who Travels the Liminal
Structures, of which every birth comes an eventual death, go through the process of evolution at astonishingly rapid speeds.
They will their own flesh to greedily absorb mana from their surroundings, transforming them into a structure even more adaptable.
While they possess excellent aptitude for magic and regenerative abilities, they have lost some adaptability against physical attacks.
Though their body once expanded and swelled endlessly, they have begun to take a meaningful form.
Base stats:
HP: SS
MP: A
Strength: A
Dexterity: D
Stamina: S
Agility: E/D (S)
Intelligence: C
Spirit: A
Resistance: SSS
Unique: SSS
Physique: Max
Avatar: Princess of the Medium
A human-shaped vessel you use when descending to the surface world.
You are a princess of the afterlife and a beloved child of the gods.
You remain the novice princess to those in the Medium and the afterlife.
Every day, you devote yourself to rising to their level.
Base stats:
HP: A
MP: SS
Strength: B
Dexterity: D
Stamina: A
Agility: D/C (S)
Intelligence: B
Spirit: A
Resistance: SSS
Unique: SSS
Physique: Sma
It seems that the evolutions branch off into a physical tree and a magic tree. I can pretty easily choose the latter without much thought. The avatars come from the roles Stellura has ordered me to carry out, which translates to a princess beloved by the gods. The avatars themselves are the same, but the only differences show up in the stats.
The physical tree buffs HP, strength, dexterity, and stamina, while the magic tree buffs MP, stamina, intelligence, and spirit. I wonder if my physique and the kind of being I am grant me a high amount of stamina in either tree.
The one problem might be those agility stats. The physical tree has upgraded agility on land, but my adaptability for flying skills is reduced. The magic tree keeps my land agility the same and buffs flight agility. It has an influence on my avatar’s stats too, but even if I do go with the magic tree, I don’t think this change will affect how I actually control my character.
Well, the limits on my base stats barely matter at these levels. It’s mostly just for flavor anyway.
It seems I’ll no longer be made of spheres if I pick the magic tree. My avatar changes from a monk to a princess too. I wonder if I’ll get to wear a dress again.
Considering I’m evolving into a new, balanced option, I don’t think I’ll get a chance to rebuild my character this time.
You have selected She Who Travels the Liminal. You will be unable to move during the evolution process. Begin evolution?
Let’s do this!
Evolving from The Drifting, Expanding One to She Who Travels the Liminal…
Updating race skills…
Soul Harvest has been upgraded.
Low Independent Race has been upgraded.
Acquiring race skills…
She Who Reigns…acquired.
Discipline: Vision is now complete. Confirming blessing…
By giving up your eyes as an offering, you will acquire a new ability. Give up eyes? Yes / No
Yes.
Cutesy Eyes…acquired.
Bringer of Madness has merged with Cutesy Eyes.
Darkness and Light Vision has merged with Space-Time Recognition Expansion.
You have been granted the works of the gods.
Scale of Judgment…acquired.
…Evolution complete.
Due to a low race level, you can not use all of your powers. You will be partially restricted.
Your equipment has been optimized.
“Title: Adrift in a Sea of Knowledge” has been upgraded to “Title: Lost in a Torrent of Knowledge.”
“About: Evil Eyes and Wicked Eyes” has been added to the help menu.
It’s the best time of all—time to check those new skills! Oh…hold on. The flavor text made it sound like I would stop being spheres. But I was wrong?
I think the most positive description of this body is an “angel.” Perhaps I’m an extremely blasphemous angel? I sort of have a human torso, a bunch of winglike tentacles, and that’s about it.
My new spheres have turned into the front side of a human torso, and countless tentacles have sprouted from my back like wings. I can see some of them are cut off in random places or emerging from the empty space around my body. There’s one thick tentacle where my head would be and one more where each of my arms would be. However, instead of legs, I have another mass of tentacles like on my back. The tentacles also seem to be blindfolding me where my eyes would be. The spheres, all of them different sizes and speeds, orbit me like satellites.
Yes, I’m a monster, and there’s just really no other way to put it. Not that this comes as a surprise to me. If I covered everything but my torso, I would still look a little bit human. Of course, the size of my torso is large too. It’s hard to compare with nothing around me, but surely I’m the size of a skyscraper, right?