After the group of clones enters the Temporary Instance Dungeon a small part of Tako's consciousness finds themselves in a dark void. As they try to look around a small blue screen appears in front of them.
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Blessing of Kiro The god of reincarnation detected:
Extra Reincarnation instance wish Granted:
State Reincarnation wish
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Tako finds itself taken aback for a moment as they let their mind process the words on the screen. At first they take a few deep breaths and think things through. "So it looks like I've been given a chance to reincarnate again but I already got my main wish. Now I don't really know what to do now that I have been given this chance. Guess I should live out one of my fantasies."
"I wish to be reincarnated as a newly born Slime and Horde hybrid In the world of Supreme Magus world. I want to be reborn in a fringe that contains a garden, a mountain of Gold veined marble, The remains of an Yggdrasill tree and an ecosystem of most of the plants and non intelligent animals. I want a library too full of knowledge, languages, magic, runes, the knowledge of how to make a mage tower or at least close to that knowledge. I would like to be able to read and write Tyris' universal language and to be reincarnated at the same time as Lith but I want the entrance to my fringe to be on the Zima continent."
Kiro's voice can be heard in the void. "Hohohohohohoho You always make such specific wishes don't you Tako However I don't have jurisdiction over any of mogar. You will have to Speak to Mogar herself and repeat your wish yourself. Would you like to do so?"
Tako smiles at the disembodied sound of Kiro's Voice. "Yes I would like to do so."
Suddenly Tako find's Itself in a newly white void in the body they had on earth. A almost 30 year old average man almost 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, long hair and a bushy beard. as they look around Tako notices their mother, or at least someone with the appearance of their mother. A homely 50+ year old woman with Reddish brown hair standing at about 5 ft 4. The main difference Between Tako's real mother and this one is the rainbow streaks in her hair.
"Hello Mogar, I'm Tako, Although you probably already know that." Tako says with a smile on It's Face.
The Mogar mother smiles. "You're Right I do. I also know why you are here. So tell me why should I grant you're wish."
Tako smiles, despite this being out of the blue it was prepared for this question. "So you can have someone to talk to. That is my main goal, to talk to you. That is why I want to be in a fringe I can talk to you about whatever, as long as you don't ruin the story for me with your predictions I will happily talk to you on a regular basis. Even just small talk. One day I would like to meet lith Maybe Become friends not that I think Derek will take kindly to someone who knows who they are and didn't do anything to help them, But for the first 22 years I plan to spend learning and working inside the fringe."
The Mogar Mother lets out a Chuckle. "I guess I can agree to those conditions, But break them and I will Banish your from my surface agreed? Also you will have to awaken yourself, I can make you a slime fungus hybrid but becoming a doppelganger horde will be up to you."
Tako smiles a big stupid grin. " I can agree to that. Now that that is out of the way, How are you doing Mogar?" Tako makes two chairs and a Tea set appear and takes a seat pouring out some tea and setting some cookies on a plate.
Mogar laughs and sits down and takes a cookie and some tea. "I guess I'm doing alright, I recently acquired an interesting companion. How interesting they are remains to be seen. I also just started the reincarnation of someone you are interested in as well."
"Now let me tell you about Myself, I go by many names but you know me as Mogar and may call me as such. I have many many children and love to watch them figure out life for themselves....."
The small talk carries on for about fifteen minutes until Mogar sets down her Teacup. "Well it's about time." She stands up and tako looks up at her, noticing that the edges of the white void are fading. "I expect another visit from you soon and look forward to seeing what you do with your time inside the fringe. Welcome to yet another life."
Tako find's themselves in darkness again, an odd sensation in their body, everything feels like it's sloshing around. "Oh right" Tako thinks to themselves. "I'm a fungus slime now." Tako slides along a smooth surface feeling coldness surrounding them and slowly getting a sense of where they are. "well I guess this will make it slightly easier to awaken won't it?"
Tako takes an odd deep breath as they slowly get used to their body and to the odd sensation that replaces their regular sight. Tako can sense the moisture and temperature levels around it. they can sense edible bits in the soil and nearby puddles of moisture and a fruit nearby. Tako slowly slides over to the fruit and slowly wraps their body around it. "Now how do I eat this?" Tako thinks and figures it out after a few moments. Or more like Tako's body figures it out for them and slowly starts digesting the random fruit which serves to help with their hunger due to being a reincarnated abomination in a fungal slime body.
after about an hour the fruit is no more and Tako has a better grip on how to move their body and do things slightly better. "now in order to Awaken I need to figure out how to sense the world energy as well as sense my own mana core. How do I go about doing that? I need magic but I should have thought of that before I requested to be Reincarnated inside a fringe by myself with non intelligent animals. I really didn't think this through did I?"
"I don't even have a voice or limbs so what good is it that I know Ekidu and Vinire Lakhat? I can see why Doppelgangers and Hordes don't awaken very often. I bet most hordes awaken either by accident or were created like the Doppelgangers. Wait Everything has a way in the books mogar specifically states that she gives all of her children an opportunity but it's up to the individual whether they take it or not."
"Let's focus on what we can for now, there must be a way to sense the world energy for me. Lets breathe and feel around without moving." Tako begins doing their 4 squared breathing method and trying to feel everything they can feel.
An hour later Tako hasn't made any progress but feels hungry again and slides over to another fruit and slowly digests it before resuming their process of figuring out their awakening. Unfortunately for tako this will take a while. Another Hour of breathing another hour of eating another hour of breathing another hour of eating. Rinse and repeat.
Tako rinses and repeats this for about 60 times elsewhere on Mogar, Lith is experiencing his first few days of his 3rd life. Finally Tako begins to sense something new. a warmth, coming from a sort of flame. Tako has started to sense the world energy.
"Okay one step down one to go." Tako says as they slide over a rotten fruit nutrients are nutrients and tako is part fungus it's all nutrients in the end.
After Digesting their latest meal Tako resumes feeling the world energy trying to pull energy from it. "Wait first I need to find my mana core. I probably will start out with a red one like everyone and everything else. So lets get back to sensing myself."
Another 38 sessions of breathing and eating later Tako finally senses their own mana core and feels happy. They eagerly start their breathing and trying to pull energy from the world energy and make their mana core pulse in sequence with the world energy. Another 5 eating breaks later they finally succeed.