The Grand eGress – (Chapter 02) – Scout & Treant

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The Grand eGress – Chapter 02 – Scout & Treant

“WELCOME TO eGRESS!” said the Treant.

Jeremy started, he was surprised and relieved. He didn’t know what to expect from this game but so far it had been so bizarre as to be traumatizing. Just seeing this friendly face in front of him was enough to ease some of his stress. In front of him stood a a pale green creature with the top half of a human and the bottom half of some kind of plant. She had long rough looking hair and was wearing a shirt made out of thin bark.

“Oh! Don’t stare at me like that, its embarrassing.” The shadowy treant in front of Jeremy had a bit of color on her cheeks. “In the future I hope you don’t scan girls with your HUD so easily. Nobody wants their privacy violated, but girls are more sensitive.” The treant raised her arms and spun around releasing a ruffled sound. “Of course I’m your soul carrier maybe I shouldn’t be so shy.”

Jeremy realized he could now speak.

“What are you? Whats a Soul Carrier do exactly?” Jeremy’s voice came out in a rough cough.

“ A soul carrier is the one closest to you at all times” The treant smiled. “ We live on in your Aura growing strong with your soul as its guardian. Without us you would be defenseless to magical attacks against the soul. When we are strong enough we may materialize and defend your physical body too. This process takes a lot of hard work. You must find a way to cultivate your power, find some way of refining energy to increase our strength.”

Jeremy understood, this treant was like a summons or a pet. Only certain requirements must be met in order to fully utilize it. He supposed that if he gained enough levels he would be able to bring this girl out to fight for him.

“That’s good but what is this HUD thing. Those spheres? The green aura?” Jeremy was curious and he knew that information was power, especially in new games like this.

The treant twirled again.

“Once your soul and body align for the first time it will undergo a dramatic change. The universe at large will connect to you granting you a pathway and a soul carrier. At this time you are called a scout. Only by following a pathway to its end may one merge with its soul carrier and become immortal. Each path way has branches offering different skills and knowledge, if one follows a good branch the path will continue but a bad path leads to a dead end.” As she talked the treants hairs waved around as if wind blown, but there was no wind in the void space.

From this Jeremy understood that this game had skill trees. It would be important in the future to learn what these branches were and how to make sure he didn’t end up on a dead end. He didn’t need to ask to know that dead end meant DEAD end.

“As to the green aura sphere, you were very wise to make that choice then.”

“Oh?” Jeremy was surprised. Did he get lucky? After all his choice was a complete accident.

“Yes! You chose one of the only auras able to utilize all 4 of the grand pathways. The green aura is the aura of balance and harmony.”

“Grand pathways?”

“Right all the pathways and all the branches those encompass require certain affinities to traverse. The grand pathways are those that will make the most powerful immortals. Only those whose pathways are of vibration, life, space and force can be called the strongest. Only the green and red aura have affinity with all 4.”

“ So I’m wise for choosing green aura? Is this also why I was given a plant?” Jeremy smiled.

“ A plant!” yelled the treant.

“ I’ll have you know that of the possible soul carriers you could have summoned I of the treants am atleast in the top 3 of all the green and at least in the top 10 of all soul carriers. Hmph! We treants are legendary and rare, the only plant life in the universe to become soul carriers after our extinction and before we were the first to gain sentience. We were called the, Vital Tree People.” The treant turned to the side and hugged herself.

“ Sorry I didn’t realize. You said. ‘treants’ so there was more than one of you. If so what do I call you? I can’t very well call you Treant now can I?” Jeremy laughed again but it was a bit half hearted.

Her species was extinct? So all soul carriers use to be alive?

“ I thought you would never ask!” the treant said while turning back to face Jeremy. “You the scout who reached the universe and summoned their soul carrier must name them and himself before they can leave the void.”

“Name myself and You?” Jeremy thought for a moment and realized this must be where he chooses his in game name. Though he had little time to play games before he still had managed it. Never before in a game did he get a pet first thing. So he usually had an idea of what his pet should be and what to name it when the situation called for it. Now though he still wasn’t sure what this game was about or how it would play out.

Jeremy only knew that the ultimate goal was to be at the immortal, ‘level’ if you could call it that. SO far there had been no mention of , ‘levels’. He assumed the refining and cultivation would take the place of the grinding and farming aspect of the other games. In his left eye words came into focus.

Jeremy thought for a moment, His aura was green and his soul carrier was a talking tree girl. He was thinking about names like Apple, Seed, Stem, Leaf etc. Then he remembered that this game was being beta tested in the FED. To not stand out too much he needed an eastern sounding name. Then he thought about it and couldn’t force himself to just conform. He would utilize his training and chose one of the dead languages he was trained in.

“ You will be Palma it can mean branch and also victory. I will be Ambro, short for ambroscius an immortal.” His left eye blinked twice and information scrolled down.

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← Treant Identified

“Palma Palma Palma. Thank you Ambro I love this name and your name sounds good too. Now I think you are ready to reenter the world. Remember only you can see me while scanning until we get stronger. Also you should know, its best not to let strangers know what your soul carrier is until you can trust them. Just refer to me as Palma. I will always be there protecting your soul.”

Two flashes and Palma’s form blurred and she swiftly turned into a green sphere.

Two flashes and the sphere flew into his left eye.

Jeremy felt his body grow hot but it wasn’t painful. It was warm and soothing. He could feel something moving from his eye to his head and then felt a small chill as it settled in his chest on top of his heart. Whatever it was felt at home there so he did not panic.

The void around him started to brighten. When Palma had returned to his body she had taken all the surrounding light with her. He was once more floating alone in this , ‘Void Space’ in darkness. Now thou the darkness was very quickly disappearing. As if the sun was rising everywhere at once. All too soon he was in a white void that kept growing brighter and brighter until he was forced to close his eyes.

The light was so intense it bled through his eye lids but instead of the red he was expecting a bright green appeared. The light formed words he couldn’t shut out.

BRIEFING INITIATED

UPLOADING AMBRO

UPLOADING PALMA