"Tell me the truth. Everything."
"I..."
"I already know enough. That you knew me."
"The thing is...even I don't know-"
"Stop, you know. I have insight." Each and every word spat out with such force it felt unnatural to have come from me. "What did you do to me?"
A moment later the system began speaking.
"...the illness you had in your previous was caused by a lack of consciousness...it was caused by me"
...
The system stammered, "It had to be you. You were the only awakened person I could find. If it were someone without being able to replenish their consciousness, they would've died! I'm sorry."
The words were laced with panic and emotions I could never care to understand.
So this was it. I suffered and died because of this thing.
I wanted to cry. How much did my family suffer because of this thing?
"You pig, you parasite."
A voice spoke from behind, "You're a pig too."
Behind me the familiar sight of a white veil greeted me. Below the shadow of the veil was a smile, but her stare felt coldly.
The stars in the sky didn't move while the air pressed against my skin thick and suffocating without a shred of wind as if the world had quieted down the moment she arrived.
"Leeching off your own family. If you really loved them you should've died."
"…"
The smile disappeared and suddenly in a surprisingly gentle voice she spoke. "Your parents they really did love you. They and your brother would've died for you."
The shift was jarring.
Before I could think, I spoke, "You don't have the right to say that."
"Give me my memories."
"How absurd it is to offend me for a memory."
I know.
My throat burned. I stepped forward.
"Why did you reincarnate me?"
Under the veil the burden of her cold eyes became stronger.
A sigh finally escaped from the still lips, "Why I reincarnated you, you'll find out eventually. But if you seek your memories, then I'll offer you a choice."
"Climb and kill everyone in this dungeon."
That's...
"Too easy for you?"
Yes
The god turned away with a calm expression. But there was a hidden contempt in them.
"Wait"
There's still something I need to say. "Take back your system. I don't need it."
She glanced back then disappeared leaving the empty sky.
"Hahaa"
Scream, just scream into the abyss. Then there will be nothing left.
I had to push through till the end of it all.
***
37th floor.
7 suns shone in the sky. So bright.
In forest under the sky a human shaped plant with two legs stood tall. Small chimera children that were shaped mostly like a monkey looked curiously at the weird tree that hadn't been there yesterday.
Suddenly the tree moved and the chimeras scattered.
The tree blurred and jumped towards a direction. It appeared in front of a cliff just when a portal made of light appeared there. The human shaped tree quickly went inside the portal before it disappeared.
It appeared at completely different place on top of a tall tower where even the ground couldn't be seen. If the time at the forest had been mid day, the location this time was set at sunset.
Several more tall towers glistened at the end of the horizon.
Soft clouds raced across the sky when a glistening light pierced from within them. The tree stood leisurely as the twinkling light became larger and larger with passing seconds. She was engulfed by the light blast.
However, in the next instance the light disappeared as if nothing happened.
The dragon pondered slowly as it observed the tree from the farthest tower. Its body wrapped the tower and the pure white scales had a tinge of pink reflecting the sky.
The tree began moving, it flew across the sky using wind magic approaching the dragon's location.
But moments before the tree could reach the column the dragon disappeared. It wasn't anywhere near the column it had once been at.
The tree looked back and found that the dragon had now seated itself atop the column that it had appeared first on.
A vine extended forward, a sphere of red and black appeared and flew towards the dragon. However, just before it reached its target the dragon flashed and evaded the sphere before descending and lying down again.
A sense of foreboding rose in the tree's mind.
The distance between each column was at least a 500 meters with there being 7 of them. The tree stood on the 7th column and thought for a while.
The dragon watched it in interest.
Before long the tree flew in direction towards the first column where the dragon now sat. The scene from before repeated and this time the dragon sat down on the 3rd column.
The tree reached the first column before flying towards the dragon again. The process repeated 2 more times before the dragon sat back down on the first column.
But this time the moment the dragon the touched the column its scales turned black.
Poison?
However despite the plan being clever it wasn't enough, light engulfed the blackened spots and disintegrated the black spots.
The dragon took flight into the sunset.
The tree hesitated before a flower appeared from its shoulder and spread spores. The tree chased after the dragon.
Every single of magical attack the tree fired were evaded by the dragon with a flash. A bloom of lights shot at normal speed towards the dragon but even they were evaded. They flew to a point where the columns were left far behind and could no longer be seen.
3 hours passed when the dragon suddenly flashed and disappeared. The tree stopped in its tracks and looked around the horizon. In the direction it had just come from a small light like a twinkling star disappeared below the horizon.
The tree quickly flashed its consciousness to one of the spores left behind and waited there for few minutes. The star like light in the horizon appeared again. It grew bigger and bigger before the dragon's silhouette could be seen.
Before even coming closer, a flash of light engulfed the surrounding. The spore couldn't be connected anymore.
After realizing that all the spores there had been destroyed the tree began flying back.
The tree spoke to its mind space, "Is it done?"