Reincarnated As A Plant Life

"You have been resting in the housing that the Lighted One's supreme servant has built," the shroom replied in its almost angelic little voice.

"Pagan built this? When? How long was I out?" Lucius asked, already walking towards the large double doors.

"4 days, Lighted One," the shroom replied.

"Four days?? No, no, no, that's too long," he whispered to himself, this would set him back way too much. ~I have a tournament to attend... four days lost is way too mu-~ his train of thought was lost once he got past those doors.

Three, 4-meter tall dome-like structures currently stood next to the structure that Lucius was just sleeping in.

The tree he had marked, had doubled in size over the days he was out, and seemed close to becoming one of the tallest in this section of the forest. However, what was most surprising, was the seemingly tangible solar energy that floated in the air.

He could feel his body constantly being rejuvenated as it automatically absorbed the surrounding energy.

"It's releasing excess energy?" he thought to himself as he realized that the solar energy was actually coming from the marked tree's leaves.

"Ah, Lighted One, you have awoken," Pagan said, a whole entourage of child shrooms following close behind him as he approached Lucius.

"You built all this?" Lucius asked, still in shock.

"It is so Lighted One. After you birthed this blessing, it became easier to use Elmando. I can almost infinitely cast solar cleanse," Pagan explained.

"Infinitely..." Lucius whispered to himself, it all still felt surreal.

"Ah, Lucius," another voice called out.

"Hannibal?" Lucius asked, turning to look at where the voice was coming from. ~I guess 4 days have passed, so their cruxes should be done installing by now,~ he realized.

"Where's Alpha?" he asked, realizing that Alpha was nowhere to be seen.

"He's training. Ever since he woke up it's all he has been doing," Pagan said, a hint of disgust in his voice.

"Training? You taught him how to use magic then?" Lucius asked.

"He's using the other one. The radiant index," Hannibal explained.

~Makes sense, I suppose,~ Lucius thought, before leaning against the mushroom tower.

"Run me through everything that happened while I was out, I'm still a bit out of it," he said after some thought.

Pagan began explaining things from the moment he apparently felt Lucius's presence all around him. Like the latter was watching every single corner of the camp.

Lucius quickly put two and two together, realizing that that had probably been when he was testing out the new mark.

Pagan then spoke about how he suddenly felt Lucius's presence disappear, and once he came to the camp found Lucius lying on the floor, and the 'Lighted One's tree' as he was calling it, standing behind him.

Apparently, he was convinced that Lucius was going through another evolution, and had all the shrooms go out to collect mushrooms to prepare a place for Lucius to stay while he was going through the process.

As they were collecting mushrooms, and Pagan was using solar cleanse to heal them of their fatigue, he realized that he wasn't running out of solar energy. He quickly figured that it was due to the Lighted One's blessing and used the 'blessing' to its full potential.

For two days, every second of each day, the shrooms were put to work. Each time they were about to collapse from exhaustion, Pagan healed them. The same went for Pagan as well, he worked himself till his mind couldn't handle it anymore. But he found that under the tree, even his mind recovered faster.

The four structures were completed on the third day, and that was when Alpha and Hannibal woke up.

They had both attempted to use the solar index, but Alpha found that the spells were too difficult for him to learn. While Hannibal, for his own reasons, decided that it wasn't for him either.

They both ended up using the radiant index and practiced the techniques that were already in there.

Pagan had collected the children like Lucius had asked him to. And after seeing the glow from the magical tree, most of the shrooms begged to have their child go train under the Lighted One. Apparently, after the tree had come up, everyone was asking permission to visit it, but of course Pagan did not allow this.

Hannibal and Alpha had gone on four hunting missions since they returned, apparently being supervised by Pagan. They had increased their stats by a good amount, and with Pagan's help had secured a bit more food.

Four more silos had been built in the first pillar to house the additional meat. And through repeated trial and error, as well as some help from Hannibal, Pagan had figured out how the suction doors operate.

"You're a natural, Pagan," Lucius said, patting Pagan on the shoulder. "Well done," he added.

"What about Ghost? Has she woken up yet?" he asked after.

"Not yet," Pagan answered.

"Hmm. Four days is a lot of missed helios, let's have a session," Lucius decided. There was a lot he had to do, and a session would help him gather his thoughts.

"Where is the arachnid?" Lucius asked. Just then remembered that there were still a few babies left in the cave, and they had gone unfed for four days. He hoped they were still alive.

"The First Beast? He is currently eating in that building," one of the kid shrooms replied, bowing before it spoke.

"Pagan, why do you have these ones following you around?" Lucius asked. He was certain that these were not all the kids, so what made these ones special?

"These ones have a soothing voice, I thought it would please the Lighted One," Pagan replied And he was right, their voices were rather nice, though having them around was sort of awkward.

"They are to act as messengers, Lighted One. So that time may not be wasted walking towards your subordinates," Pagan explained.

"I see..."