Chapter 36 (1/2)

Nine days of borrowed time left

I was finally on my way to the World Tree, in order to find a way to save my soul back on Earth

I had to wonder if there really was a way… No 01 had believed in the faint possibility, and he said as uarantee of salvation

…at least a bit of hope was better than nothing

According to the travel guide I read on the airshi+p, there were two possible paths from the Free City of Seis to the World Tree

I could continue south and pass through Cinqres Acadeo to the Holy City Ayune, then cross a bit more land and sea to reach the Central Island, where the World Tree was

The other path was sio by airshi+p from Seis to Ayune, and the rest would be the same

The Central Island was surrounded by a donut-shaped h the Holy City Ayune, which hy both paths required o there

And it was also theto the guidebook, Ayune was the country closest to the World Tree, and at the sa the Tree So itGod to this world It would be the erous place in the world for me… and I even heard rumors of 'Heroes' there, too

Besides, that mess with the beta players made it a lot more difficult for me to use public transportation in the first place If I entered a large town and got discovered, the resulting co a detour

So I decided to take the third path:by myself

I would head south toward the peninsula to the western end of Cinqres, cross the ocean bythe Central Island, and head directly to the World Tree

I should be able to h map I saw, at least

I dealt with the watcher drones tailingaround tohen necessary

Within territories that looked like they belonged to humans, I stayed inthe Free City, I could finally turn back toa body with substance The biggest disadvantage was that I had lost the ability to partially transform I could only either be completely mist or completely human

When dispersed, I became almost completely immune to physical attacks, and absorption would work a lot faster On the other hand, ht, and areof-effect spells could hurt me badly

When in hue position rapidly, whichspells relatively easier But physical attacks would hurt e would shrink by a bit, and the er use [Packer] when human I would have to take what I needed out of ained the ability to create mist while human, too, so there wasn't s in mist form or in hued, instantaneousdistance or going through wastelands

So once I left the lands of hued back into mist My speed was probably around the saht as well take the occasion to confire] [Greater Dees the northern seas A canny spiritual lifeforic Points: 4300/4300] 300↑ [Total Combat Power: 4730/4730] 330↑ [Unique Skill: <reroll> <cyber-manipulation> <materialization>] [Racial Skill: Fear] [Simple Identification] [Human Form (Wonderful)] [Specialist Packer]

With the acquisition of [Materialization], [Hu like a huained a real body, one that was practically the sarown-up

My voice was no longer si now, even if I was actually breathing , I could recover only ten percent of ic each hour With the combination of [Absorption] and [Materialization], that number had jumped to thirty percent

Yet all that did not excuse the use of (Wonderful) to describe reed, [Human Form] was really quite wonderful, but still!

So uishable fro… unsurprisingly Honestly, I was halfway to conation by now Weird, isn't it? My brain was supposed to be taking over the job of the Syste in the oddest ways

Maybe I should just eht as well find myself a bunny suit, in that case

Anyway, that was about it Froht with both forht situation

Three days after I went south froan to see traces of what looked like huain

Whenever I turn human, first, I needed to throw out my clothes and satchel from [Packer] inventory The moment they appear, I would slip e form Clothed human transformation, in effect

It took me half a day to learn how to do this… God, so much precious time lost But this was i clothes!

Personal dignity aside, once I started putting one foot after another on solid ground, Blobsy immediately jumped out froled in joy

Cute I took soan running My sprint was as fast as a cheetah's now

The Academy City of Cinqres was supposed to be nearby Apparently the country was gathering elite students and researchers fro

I only turned huet anywhere close to the country The people theremana research by orders of the corporation, so I expected heavy surveillance Whichmy mist form here I didn't want to allow for the possibility of the they already had an inkling of h… whoa!

The moment I exited the forest, I noticed a watcher drone I iers to freeze it

I could now expel e for the ability to partially transfor to my will, but it also had soic power

In the end, it ht not sound likehere was that if an attack hit the ical expense of the lost mist I wouldn't need to worry about the attack seriously hurting me

Well, my real body of h

Just as I thought, once I left the forest and got closer to the country, I began to see a lot more of those watcher drones

They hadn't foundso down in the saion within just a few days