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[Shapeshifter] Revised Chapter's 1 - 5

From the feedback provided in the last post, I rewrote the first few chapters of Shapeshifter, which can be seen below. There will be more chapters posted slowly over the coming months before it hits RoyalRoad.

Can also be read here. 

=Chapter 1: Devour=

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[Tree] Chapter 262: Soul Damage

Ashlock surged his power through the mountain to create a portal before Stella.

She had been focusing on axing the shadowy humanoid floating before Nox's tree, so the sudden portal's appearance caught her off guard, and she let out a yelp as she tumbled through face first and ate the dirt nearby.

"Ugh," Stella groaned as the axe she had got from god knows where went flying. Such a dramatic redirect had not been his intention, and if Stella had been focusing, she could hav...

[Tree] Chapter 261: Shadow Tree

Nox had never liked the sun. She had kept to the shadows for centuries, drawing on the darkness to fuel her power and expand her Soul Core. She had felt exposed in the sunlight, like a fish out of water. Not only because her powers were heavily restricted and weakened under the intense light Qi, but also because people had sought her out. She may have put that 30,000 Yinxi Coins bounty to the back of her mind, but it had still hung over her head like death itself for many years.

The Cel...

[Tree] Chapter 260: World Tree's Daughter

Stella's Mother was the World Tree? How the fuck was that even possible?

Ashlock had... questions. Many questions. Even with his system's vast powers, he wasn't yet capable of making a human-looking child and doubted he ever would.

The image of Stella's Father turned to a treehugger in his mind, and he felt his bark shudder at the thought—what horrible, unspeakable acts had occurred for this to happen?

Ashlock's mind was freed from its spiraling thoughts as he hea...

[Tree] Chapter 259: Ancient Bloodline

Ashlock had seen Stella distraught, scared, and angry in recent years, but she had almost only ever cried when she feared his demise. She was usually quite a strong girl when it came to her own problems, so something drastic must have occurred for her to go from battle maniac to crying within seconds.

"I wonder what happened?" Ashlock used the tip of his ethereal root to wipe away the tears streaking down Stella's sleeping face. She had passed out and fallen into a deep sleep within a s...

[Tree] Chapter 258: A Cosmic Truth

Despite Ashlock's protests in her mind, Stella refused to let the duel end.

She knew it had deviated from its original purpose—Diana had become consumed by her bloodline and entered a berserk state where all she saw was red—but Stella felt like she was on the cusp of something. Now wasn't the time to pull back but rather push against her limits.

It was hard to describe, but down to her bones, she knew something more was locked away inside. Some untapped potential she had yet t...

[Tree] Chapter 257: I am a Monster

Diana crept through the dense demonic mist, flexing her wings and fingers in anticipation. Having taken on her demonic form and surrendered to her bloodline, she had a primal urge to charge at Stella, who stood on the other side of the mountain peak with an annoyingly unfazed look despite the encroaching demonic mist.

But then she would lose without a doubt. Stella, despite her flaws and young age, was talented. It was like she had been born for combat and fought life-and-death battles ...

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[Tree] Chapter 256: Duel

Ashlock inspected Kaida and discovered the reason for his explosive growth in size.

"My summons and monsters generally don't follow the same cultivation system as humans, but if I had to guess, Kaida has gone up around three stages in the Star Core Realm," Ashlock muttered with a hint of surprise. Just how much ink Qi had this greedy snake absorbed, "If he experiences this much growth in the next Mystic Realm visit, he might be closing in on his evolution to A grade."

Since Kaida'...

[Tree] Chapter 255: Divine Ash

Ashlock looked down the short list of options, and as with Kaida's evolution, there was a very obvious one at the top that glowed with a sense of grandeur and divinity.

But he skipped it to check out the others to satisfy his curiosity, as this was the first ever S-grade evolution that would put Larry firmly into the Nascent Soul Realm power level. So what would the system have offered Larry if he hadn't eaten the eggs of a Midnight Inkwing?

[Ashen Emperor]

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[Tree] Chapter 254: Ethereal Roots (Start of Book 4)

Ashlock had never been a morning person. Even when he had been a human back on Earth, the morning sunlight filled him with more dread and sleepiness. Rather than waking up to the constant chirping of birds, he would roll over, bury his head deeper in his pillow, and pray for a few more minutes of rest.

Ever since becoming a demonic tree, his slothful nature had only worsened. It was partially the fault of his personality that had followed him through death to this new world, but it was ...

[Tree] Chapter 253: Inner World (End of book 3)

Through all the chaos of the fight, Ashlock had kept one thing in the back of his mind: To make sure that Nox's infant soul didn't manage to escape. He wasn't sure how it worked with Nascent Souls and what this infant soul would look like, so he kept his demonic eye peeled, which he had re-opened when Diana came in and took Nox to the skies.

While everyone else was hurt and angry, he ignored the pain in his trunk from being almost chopped in half and tried to keep calm as he glared at N...

[Tree] Chapter 252: Turning over a new leaf

Nox looked into Stella's tranquil eyes and had more questions than answers.

The curse had been an enigma from the start. Its immunity to the void aside, it was unrecorded in the Eternal Pursuit Pavilion's archives. Therefore, her only lead to a cure had been Stella. The one who had cursed her in the first place. Yet the girl who went by different names had seemingly vanished a week ago from this peak and was nowhere to be found.

It wasn't until the demonic tree which lorded over t...

[Tree] Chapter 251: Soul Devouring Tree

"Did Stella go anywhere else?" Dante asked Nox as the wind rushed past them.

"No idea," Nox said as the flying sword shot toward the mountain peak, "My technique can only track the lingering shadow Qi left behind for a week. After that, it becomes too weak to accurately track."

"Still a handy skill."

"Indeed," Nox agreed, "Though it only works at night, so we are lucky the sun has only just started rising, and it's stupidly Qi intensive. Or at least it was when I was in the ...

[Tree] Chapter 250: (Interlude) Rising Sun

Dante tasted iron as blood splashed on his face and clothes from across the room.

It seems Father finally lost it after a week of no answers.

"They didn't have to die, Dante."

And you didn't have to kill them. Dante rolled his head to the side and took in the scene. His Father loomed over a headless body with a stoic expression. Blood dripped from his hand and decorated his black robes, but his dear Father seemed unfazed. Even in death, the body that had be...

[Tree] Chapter 249: Unleash the Mudcloaks

As the dust settled and the world stopped shaking, Ashlock found himself facing sideways and at the bottom of a crater.

"Ugh," he groaned, and he shared Willow's pain. Cracks leaking soul fire were running down Willow's trunk from the impact, and despite the spatial shield Ashlock had summoned at the last second, preventing the Bastion from being smashed into smithereens, the damage was still extensive.

The bow of the Bastion had split off. Willow's roots that had run throughout t...

[Tree] Chapter 248: Titan Tortoise

Ashlock watched the chaos descend upon Ashfallen City.

People rushed and pushed to get what they felt would be prime real estate, and he could hardly blame them. For those who had lived in the slums of Slymere at the base of the mountain, this was a chance at a new life. If they just ran a little faster and pushed enough people out of the way, they could secure a house near the center of commerce, which everyone knew would revolve around the main road.

"I wonder what type of peopl...

[Tree] Chapter 247: Starting Over

"I am surprised that worked," Ashlock mused as he felt heaven establish a connection between himself and Julian. It felt similar to when the Redclaws swore an oath to the Ashfallen Sect. "Since anything to do with Ashfallen is linked to me, they will be oath-bound to me even if they didn't know of my existence through these divine ink contracts."

Ashlock watched Julian spend the next minute expressing his immense gratitude to Elder Brent and the Ashfallen Trading Company for his new pos...

[Tree] Chapter 246: Heavenly Contract

Ashlock saw no reason to deny Douglas's request. If the Mudcloaks advanced their cultivation in the Mystic Realm, future construction projects would be completed even faster.

"I have no issues with that, but can I ask why?" Ashlock was curious why Douglas wanted to care for a thousand Mudcloaks as he couldn't imagine their presence would make cultivation easy. It was on par with trying to meditate and relax while taking your kids to Disneyland.

"They have told...