Strawberry Devil in a Fantasy World - Chapter 87

I opened my eyes slowly as if awakening from a slumber.

I wriggled my fingers and got up from my bed.

“Hmm? I don’t remember wearing this before? And, my hair color, it’s changed back by itself? Eh… I guess evolution does that. I’m technically a divine being now, huh.” Without my input, my clothing was changed into a strawberry themed white gown with intricate emerald green embroideries on the sleeves and silver trims at the hems.

I felt disappointed with my lack of notable power increase, again. I was hoping I could bust out some awesome catch phrases like, “Power! So much power coursing through my veins! Arghhh! Haaa!” Unfortunately, life was like that.

It seemed I had adjusted to my newfound powers already.

“I guess I need a mirror. Hmm… I seem to have the resources for it.”

In merely seconds, light particles condensed into a full body mirror in front of me. In my subspace, it had always been like that but the sight of coalescing light particles just never ceased to fascinate me.

“I’ve grown taller. I guess I’m a late teen or youth now? How nice… Not?”

The already barely noticeable bumps on my chest had deflated during my evolution. The sight of was heartbreaking. Who didn’t want beautiful curves? Well, if I wished, I could always adjust my sizes with [creation] ability. The body now was the genderless state that could be considered appealing to both males and females or neither. Again, I would say it tended towards the feminine side probably because it was paired with flowing silky hair reaching my waist.

“My face is still pretty. No changes. I approve!” I smiled while striking a pose.

Behind my back were two pairs of magnificent silvery white wings of pure light. Their shapes were nearly identical to the pairs I had when I was tiny. Though, these two pairs were clearly much more majestic and showy.

Since these wings weren’t physical, they didn’t interfere with my daily lives. Moreover, they could dissipate and reappear whenever I wished.

“That’s what I get for evolving from a fairy I suppose!”

Looking at my eyes, the patterns were now more pronounced than before but otherwise showed nothing new, no strange glows or anything, unfortunately. Maybe after another evolution, it would shoot particle beams or something? The dream was there!

“I wonder what [celestial eyes] do? How do I activate it? Smoothie, I need you! Now that I don’t know how to teleport anymore, how am I supposed to reach you?”

[Supplementary information download? Yes/No.]

Oh how convenient, then yes. I want to know how to use my abilities and traits please!

[Initiating…]

[Processing…]

To help me absorb new information faster, I laid in bed once again with my eyes closed. Loads of data was quickly being transferred to me from the system. Much of this information seemed like common knowledge for beings like guardians and demons. Knowledge like mana origin, map of the world, and their respective trait such as |force|, |chaos|, and in my case, |void|, were all downloaded into my mind.

|Void| was quite a simple trait, not. First, it allowed me to use spatial transfers or teleports as long as I knew the coordinates. Second, it allowed me to neutralize barriers or simply bypass them. There were probably special barriers that this trait didn’t apply to but in general, I could pass through anything. Third, it acted as an energy generator, recycler and regulator or transformer. In other words, I didn’t need to keep siphoning mana from outside of myself. I became self sufficient! And lastly, it functioned similarly to |escapist| in which people couldn’t normally track or directly target me. I could also apply this trait to my barriers, abilities and such. All in all, this was an astounding trait that could be surmised as godly.

Next up was the [celestial eyes] ability. To activate it, I just had to flow mana into my eyes and intend them to work. Supposedly they would glow faintly or brilliantly like magical eyes depending on how much of its power I used. The ability seemed quite daunting if opponents couldn’t counter it. Seriously though, it worked like a scale, but for energy. Supposed I had half of my energy, and my opponent had full energy, I could completely reverse it, assuming my opponent couldn’t resist this power. The ability could also used in reverse to provide others with energy, again, to scale meaning logic was out of the window. Just like |void|, energy could just pop into existence and pop out into existence like nobody’s business. When |void| combined with [celestial eyes], reality just didn’t make sense any more. On a side note, different individual’s celestial eyes would have different abilities.

[Creator] and |creation| hadn’t received as much upgrade as I had hoped. Some of my accesses had be unblocked which meant I could do more neat things! Though, most of those so called neat things could only be done in my subspace. For example, if I wanted to eat crepe, I could create one out of thin air, but its essence could never leave the subspace because it technically didn’t exist. Furthermore, if a guest ate something I created using the special creation function, again, they could eat it but its essence would disappear the moment they left my subspace. Basically, it was as if my subspace was a dream. Stuff from dreams couldn’t be transferred into reality. The only exception was that if the essence originally came from the outside world then it was allowed to leave.

Truly, I’m living the dream…

[Hypnosis] was a fairly simple ability, seriously. It was an upgrade from [charm] but [charm] was a weak ability to begin with. The upgraded version allowed me to alter people’s subconscious when certain conditions were met. Since my status was visible for everyone to see, I doubted I could ever meet those conditions. Though, regular folks probably rarely checked each others’ status, but for me, who wouldn’t be curious enough to check my status?

The blessings, or maybe curses, they seemed like a bad comedy duo. [Enchanted fate] boosted my <luck> and provided me unexpected remedy to any unfavorable situation I encountered. As for the other one, [forced destiny], it forcefully adjusted major choices I made, probably for the worse. The two were like in cahoots with one another. One was basically like I was being slapped with one hand and head-patted with the other. It was just wrong in every way.

I just wanted a happy and peaceful life with little to no events.

I should just rethink life.

Anyway, as for how or when I received those two blessings, only god knew.

Speaking of which, things certainly had settled down after I adjusted the time flow around here. I wonder who invaded?

Hmm… Should I test my new powers? No? Maybe? I don’t know. I don’t want to fail epically. Battles now are on a different scale than before. One screw up could easily end my life for better or worse.

“Guhh… I need a tea break.”

I strolled to the kitchen and prepared a pot of hot tea, brewed with strawberry leaves, no surprise there. If I had time, I would have imported some tea plants into my subspace.

While sipping tea, I thought about what I should do aside from entering that battle just on the other side of my private subspace.

“I wonder, maybe I should create a kingdom here? I could partition the storage subspace into a habitable area for people to live. They’ll have my protection since this is my subspace. Eventually, as I grow stronger, the subspace will expand. And, I’ll be like the god of this world, right? Right. My dream will finally come true!”

There weren’t many candidates I could select to become my citizens. Kidnapping folks wasn’t a godly thing to do either.

I couldn’t pick fey beings because I couldn’t control how they were born. The conditions had to be specific. That kind of made me wonder who or what Smoothie was. Sure, she was my kid, biologically, but she likely came from elsewhere. That begged the question, why did she incarnate as a strawberry fey plant? And, if I remembered correctly, that ability of hers was absolutely abnormal. She couldn’t have been just any random incarnate.

“Smoothie, who are you? Who really are you?”

I sighed at the prospect that Smoothie might be an acquaintance from my past life, “Mm… Regardless, I hope you’re doing okay though. You have some of the best bodyguards with you. Even if I’m not around, you should be safe once you evolve.”

Now that my clones were all gone, I had no backup bodies.

The contract, is it still there? I wonder. Let’s just double check.

I closed my eyes to search for any link to it. It should have been destroyed or isolated but one couldn’t be careless.

Show yourself…

After scanning my entire body and soul, I couldn’t find a trace of it. My memories of it was still there but the link had vanished without a trace.

As for the pieces of my soul that were contaminated with |devious|, I was able to locate traces of them on the edge of my personal subspace. The ability to see soul energy came with the territory.

It seemed that Vorte wasn’t able to fully erase them or quarantine them. Thus, I used |void| to recycle them and reintegrate into myself.

“Good, all the loose threads are tidied up and I have safely evolved. Time to celebrate! Finally! Woohoo!” I laughed cheerfully.