The Astral Phantom creature continued to circle my tree, bumping into the barrier created by the Astral Engine obelisk with its jaggedly, clawed, semi-transparent tentacles. Thankfully, it was a rather stupid beast and so it simply repeated the same attacks, grabbing the shield in the same place over and over.I woke up fully, paused [Chrysalis] and peered at the ghostly creature with my Astral eye-stalks that have grown on my Astral tree. The world was no longer a warped 360 degree view. Thanks to these eye-stalks I could now observe perspective properly. The Phantom was about 30 times my size.I needed to get stronger faster, I needed to level up. I checked my Soul-Song chart and discovered that I had gained exactly 10 experience points from sitting on my ass and being an Astral Tree.

Kopusha's memories told me that the Soul-Song skill provided detailed information about skills. I dove back into my menu, ignoring the Astral Phantom clawing at the shield near me.[Expand skills!] I declared mentally.The menu suddenly updated itself.

Skills:

[Soul-Song LV 0] [ON] [Raising Spell efficiency by 0.1%][Providing detailed Soul-Stats] [Translating the Soul-Song's Language]

[Chrysalis LV 0] [PAUSED] [Forming Astral tree 69% complete] [Forging Avatar] [32% complete]

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