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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Souls have multiple layers, with the innermost being indestructible and immortal and used to reincarnate them, while the outer is more malleable and can be harvested for resources to make things like class seeds and subservient artificial minds. Part of Aeon's role as a soul tree is to gather up the souls of the departed, until they are ready to move on, which normally takes a few months. While they're hanging around, they're fully conscious and can communicate with him [[spoiler:such as Jura taking the chance to say goodbye]], and he's even able to make bodies for them to inhabit if he wants to (typically for those who have a soul contract binding them to his service).
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* WeaponOfXSlaying:
** His many hero fragments give Matt tremendous bonuses when attacking demons, but do nothing against other enemies (except boosted experience gain).
** He later helps some of the heroes to manufacture anti-demon weaponry, since their tremendous natural abilities don't always have specific bonuses against demons.
** His many hero fragments give Matt tremendous bonuses when attacking demons, but do nothing against other enemies (except boosted experience gain).
** He later helps some of the heroes to manufacture anti-demon weaponry, since their tremendous natural abilities don't always have specific bonuses against demons.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Gerrard speculates about ending the cycle of demon kings by sealing one away instead of killing it. [[spoiler:A later group of heroes attempts it, succeeding at the cost of their own lives, but the gods summon a fresh group of heroes and pressure them into finishing it off. Kei, among the second group, is furious when she realises what she was made to do.]]
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* TheAgeless: Very early in his new life, the system informs Matt that "Trees are eternal if they do not get killed." The years just slip by him, with friends and acquaintances coming and going.
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* TheAgeless: Very early in his new life, the system informs Matt that "Trees are eternal if they do not get killed." The years just slip by him, with friends and acquaintances coming and going. At one point, he's reflecting on his diplomatic options, and considers a 10-year alliance with another nation to be so short as to be a total waste of effort.
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* TheAssimilator: Several characters can convert another type of material or mana into their own.
** One of the demon kings sends out rods that can be embedded in powerful natural mana sources, converting them into demon factories.
** Aeon can flood his own mana into an object using the [Natural Mana Overwhelming] skill. Depending on the target, this may either convert it, or just kill it with mana poisoning. He even manages to convert a demon rod, turning it into a Forest Rod that lets him conquer a mana source for his own purposes.
** One of the demon kings sends out rods that can be embedded in powerful natural mana sources, converting them into demon factories.
** Aeon can flood his own mana into an object using the [Natural Mana Overwhelming] skill. Depending on the target, this may either convert it, or just kill it with mana poisoning. He even manages to convert a demon rod, turning it into a Forest Rod that lets him conquer a mana source for his own purposes.
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* MarkedToDie: Killing a hero is ordinarily quite lucrative in terms of experience, but when there is an active demon king, the gods discourage it by marking the killer as a target for other heroes.
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* NoSell: For years, Matt survives wandering demon attacks by simply being so resistant (thanks to his hero fragments) that they eventually get bored of hitting him, and move on.
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** There's a lesser effect when someone accepts a familiar from Matt; their soul isn't kept beyond the usual time, but is more thoroughly harvested of seeds and skills and experience when they die. This is how he first gains the ability to sense and communicate with the outside world, by harvesting skills from a druid.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: When someone contracts their soul to Aeon, the system will enforce it. (Normally this might qualify as a DealWithTheDevil, but since the term of service is temporary (a thousand years), and the work is not necessarily cruel or onerous, it's actually worked out fairly well for those who have taken it.)
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* YourSoulIsMine: Souls collected by a soul tree will ordinarily linger for just a few months, barring special circumstances, then go on to be reincarnated. However, it is also possible to make a contract, which will result in the soul lingering and being subservient for a thousand years.
** [[spoiler:Eriz]] is sentenced to a soul contract as a punishment for getting [=TreeTree=] involved a fight he didn't want. It's only once the sentence is actually carried out that she discovers it's not going to take her soul immediately, and she's free to live out her life.
** [[spoiler:Yvon]] makes a contract in exchange for her people receiving more economic assistance.
** [[spoiler:Alexis]] gets contracted by accident after her failed attempt at soul meddling.
** [[spoiler:Eriz]] is sentenced to a soul contract as a punishment for getting [=TreeTree=] involved a fight he didn't want. It's only once the sentence is actually carried out that she discovers it's not going to take her soul immediately, and she's free to live out her life.
** [[spoiler:Yvon]] makes a contract in exchange for her people receiving more economic assistance.
** [[spoiler:Alexis]] gets contracted by accident after her failed attempt at soul meddling.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Demon kings often self-destruct in various fashions when they die, sometimes exploding and incinerating all the heroes fighting them, sometimes [[spoiler:corrupting large swathes of the continent into demonic territory that is hostile to all existing life.]]
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* {{RoyalHarem}}: It's reasonably common for heroes who survive the demon king to become monarchs and gather harems, due to their immense personal power. [[spoiler:Harris]] nearly loses track of how many children he has, after two dozen -- but they're all ambitious and impatient, causing his empire to fragment into civil war between his various wives and heirs once he's no longer holding it together.
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* {{RoyalHarem}}: RoyalHarem: It's reasonably common for heroes who survive the demon king to become monarchs and gather harems, a collection of wives, due to their immense personal power. [[spoiler:Harris]] nearly loses track of how many children he has, after two dozen -- but they're all ambitious and impatient, causing his empire to fragment into civil war between his various wives and heirs once he's no longer holding it together.
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* {{RoyalHarem}}: It's reasonably common for heroes who survive the demon king to become monarchs and gather harems, due to their immense personal power. [[spoiler:Harris]] nearly loses track of how many children he has, after two dozen -- but they're all ambitious and impatient, causing his empire to fragment into civil war between his various wives and heirs once he's no longer holding it together.
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* RPGMechanicsVerse: It's handled fairly loosely, but the world works on classes and levels and Skills, and the populace are aware of it. Matt starts off as just a Tree, but his class changes over time based on his levels and achievements, eg becoming a Soul Tree.
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-> ''I roll the wheel. There's not much of a choice. This guy isn't buying it.\\
And it stops at some random word that I did not understand… Wait. The word transformed.\\
"A trope."''
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* HeroicSacrifice: With so many heroes and demon kings around, it's not surprising that there are plenty of these.
** [[spoiler:Jura]] lands a finishing blow on Demon King Tigash, but can't escape its final self-destruct.
** [[spoiler:Gerard, Harris and Mirei]] pour their souls into kamikaze attacks that successfully take out a demon king.
** [[spoiler:Jura]] lands a finishing blow on Demon King Tigash, but can't escape its final self-destruct.
** [[spoiler:Gerard, Harris and Mirei]] pour their souls into kamikaze attacks that successfully take out a demon king.
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* AndIMustScream: For his first several decades, Matt has no ability to sense the world, he's just in a black void, punctuated by system messages every few years about heroes fighting the demon king. Good thing he has the [Hibernate] skill...
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* ReincarnateInAnotherWorld: This is the beginning of Matt's story, and also the origin of the summoned heroes. The heroes apparently get to return home once they die, but Matt hasn't been promised that.
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* WhenTreesAttack: Once he unlocks the "root strike" ability, Matt is able to attack out of the ground with no warning, anywhere within his roots' range. It has a limited number of uses per day, but that limit can grow quite high with enough levels, and the [[SneakAttack element of surprise]] means that each strike is likely to be a kill against soft targets. Plus, his roots gain the anti-demon effects of his hero fragments.
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--> It was beautiful. It resembled Total Annihilation when I let loose multiple long range cannons, or those old videos of battleships going all out. The valley was filled with the sound of all the cannons and artifacts unleashing fury on the demons and the demon king. The 50 or so demon champions were destroyed quickly.\\
After the volley, came the traps. The entire ground beneath the demon king glowed. Overcharged mana potatoes embedded in the ground, configured into a literal mana bomb, and the multiple explosive formations around them. Together, they would explode as one single massive bomb. The single explosion for the mana was so large it could be heard 100 miles away, the fortress braced for the shockwave of energy.
After the volley, came the traps. The entire ground beneath the demon king glowed. Overcharged mana potatoes embedded in the ground, configured into a literal mana bomb, and the multiple explosive formations around them. Together, they would explode as one single massive bomb. The single explosion for the mana was so large it could be heard 100 miles away, the fortress braced for the shockwave of energy.
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* AlphaStrike: The fastest demon king fight to date is against Demon King Tigash, who arrives in the world in Aeon's territory, and promptly encounters a prepared ambush: massive synchronised bombs, artillery, elite empowered soldiers, and a sympathetic hero. [[spoiler:It's still a costly battle, but the demon king goes down on its first day, and "bomb it to pieces" becomes the new gold standard for demon king strategy.]]
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* HistoryRepeats: Matt gets to watch this happen with the heroes fighting the demon king, over and over. The demon king arrives, a batch of heroes is summoned, they kill the demon king with high casualties, they infight and kill each other, and then another demon king arrives ten years later. Repeat. There are minor variations; sometimes it's a complete mutual kill, sometimes the heroes all die first and a second batch gets summoned, and occasionally they'll even survive to fight a second demon king. But one way or another, the cycle continues. Due to the destruction that it wreaks on the world, Matt really wants to break the cycle and end the demon threat for good.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler:Ken]] really isn't happy about being a summoned hero, finds the whole thing deeply suspicious, and walks away instead of helping to fight the demon king. [[spoiler:His peers eventually learn that he's on the right track; they're basically cosmic mercenaries whom the gods will use and then throw away.]]
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* GodEmperor: Demigod, at least; full godhood will require more levels yet. Aeon is working on it, though...in the meantime, he has his own priesthood, and rules as a fair but strict tyrant with essentially absolute power within his roots' territory.
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* AGodAmI: As his power and influence steadily grows, Aeon sets himself up as a [[GodEmperor divine ruler]]. He doesn't really hide the fact that he's only a demigod thus far, rather than fully ascended, but he creates his own religion nonetheless. [[spoiler:Ken, a hero who refused to fight,]] is stunned to realise that the resulting [[TheTheocracy religious-military state]] isn't being run by the priests, but actually has a divine figure at its heart.
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* ElementalRockPaperScissors: [=TreeTree=]'s many hero soul fragments make him extraordinarily good at killing demons. However, he struggles, naturally enough, against magma golems.
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* SoulEating: The role of a soul tree is to gather the souls of the dead in preparation for them to be reincarnated. As part of that process, the trees harvest "class seeds" and "skill seeds" from the outer layers of the souls, giving Aeon a stockpile to empower his favoured servants.
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* SoulEating: SoulEating:
** The role of a soul tree is to gather the souls of the dead in preparation for them to be reincarnated. As part of that process, the trees harvest "class seeds" and "skill seeds" from the outer layers of the souls, giving Aeon a stockpile to empower his favouredservants.servants.
** As a reincarnator, Matt also receives a soul fragment each time a hero is killed, granting him offensive and defensive bonuses against demons, and faster experience gain. Of course, as TheAgeless, he's able to watch cycle after cycle of heroes come and go, meaning that he accumulates quite a lot of these fragments...
** The role of a soul tree is to gather the souls of the dead in preparation for them to be reincarnated. As part of that process, the trees harvest "class seeds" and "skill seeds" from the outer layers of the souls, giving Aeon a stockpile to empower his favoured
** As a reincarnator, Matt also receives a soul fragment each time a hero is killed, granting him offensive and defensive bonuses against demons, and faster experience gain. Of course, as TheAgeless, he's able to watch cycle after cycle of heroes come and go, meaning that he accumulates quite a lot of these fragments...
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Aeon's rise to prominence alarms [[spoiler:the four gods]], who spread misinformation and turn a great deal of the world against him, calling his home the Cursed Continent.
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* PoliceState: A relatively mild example, but an example nonetheless. Aeon is fair, generally honest, civic-minded, and chooses not to stop people from privately disagreeing or disliking him. However, he always knows, with his network of trees giving him the ability to observe everywhere in his realm at once. And capital punishment is euphemistically referred to as being "subject to Aeon's mercy" -- which in practice means death via becoming an experimental test subject. Crime is, unsurprisingly, quite low, and rebellion is not permitted.
* SoulEating: The role of a soul tree is to gather the souls of the dead in preparation for them to be reincarnated. As part of that process, the trees harvest "class seeds" and "skill seeds" from the outer layers of the souls, giving Aeon a stockpile to empower his favoured servants.
* SoulEating: The role of a soul tree is to gather the souls of the dead in preparation for them to be reincarnated. As part of that process, the trees harvest "class seeds" and "skill seeds" from the outer layers of the souls, giving Aeon a stockpile to empower his favoured servants.
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* PoliceState: A relatively mild example, but an example nonetheless. Aeon is fair, generally honest, civic-minded, and chooses not to stop people from privately disagreeing or disliking him. However, he always knows, with his network of trees giving him the ability to observe everywhere in his realm at once. And capital punishment is euphemistically referred to as being handed over to Aeon's mercy -- which in practice means death via becoming an experimental test subject. Crime is, unsurprisingly, quite low, and rebellion is not permitted.
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-> "Trees are not that bad, actually."\\
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Indie game developer Matt is killed in a bus crash, along with a crowd of cheerful and optimistic teenagers whom the gods summon into another world as heroes, to defeat the demon king.
The teenagers are heroes, that is. Matt didn't qualify. Instead, he rolls fate's dice and gets reborn as a tree.
As his {{psychopomp}} promised, though, being a tree is not so bad. In fact, as the years roll by, Matt/[=TreeTree=]/Aeon begins to find that being [[TheAgeless ageless]], [[StoneWall highly resilient]], and capable of [[SoulEating harvesting power from the cycle of life and death]], may be just what he needs to truly fix the world...
''Tree of Aeons'' is an isekai story posted on [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/20568/tree-of-aeons-an-isekai-story Royal Road]] by Spaizzzer.
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!! This story contains examples of:
* TheAgeless: Very early in his new life, the system informs Matt that "Trees are eternal if they do not get killed." The years just slip by him, with friends and acquaintances coming and going.
* StoneWall: As a tree, Matt is immobile unless someone digs him up and replants him (and the bigger he grows, the more unlikely that is). However, he is extremely hard to kill, and only grows more resilient as he collects more hero soul fragments. He eventually works around his immobility by recruiting minions.
* PoliceState: A relatively mild example, but an example nonetheless. Aeon is fair, generally honest, civic-minded, and chooses not to stop people from privately disagreeing or disliking him. However, he always knows, with his network of trees giving him the ability to observe everywhere in his realm at once. And capital punishment is euphemistically referred to as being handed over to Aeon's mercy -- which in practice means death via becoming an experimental test subject. Crime is, unsurprisingly, quite low, and rebellion is not permitted.
[[caption-width-right:350:TREETREE!]]
-> "Trees are not that bad, actually."\\
- Mozart
Indie game developer Matt is killed in a bus crash, along with a crowd of cheerful and optimistic teenagers whom the gods summon into another world as heroes, to defeat the demon king.
The teenagers are heroes, that is. Matt didn't qualify. Instead, he rolls fate's dice and gets reborn as a tree.
As his {{psychopomp}} promised, though, being a tree is not so bad. In fact, as the years roll by, Matt/[=TreeTree=]/Aeon begins to find that being [[TheAgeless ageless]], [[StoneWall highly resilient]], and capable of [[SoulEating harvesting power from the cycle of life and death]], may be just what he needs to truly fix the world...
''Tree of Aeons'' is an isekai story posted on [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/20568/tree-of-aeons-an-isekai-story Royal Road]] by Spaizzzer.
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!! This story contains examples of:
* TheAgeless: Very early in his new life, the system informs Matt that "Trees are eternal if they do not get killed." The years just slip by him, with friends and acquaintances coming and going.
* StoneWall: As a tree, Matt is immobile unless someone digs him up and replants him (and the bigger he grows, the more unlikely that is). However, he is extremely hard to kill, and only grows more resilient as he collects more hero soul fragments. He eventually works around his immobility by recruiting minions.
* PoliceState: A relatively mild example, but an example nonetheless. Aeon is fair, generally honest, civic-minded, and chooses not to stop people from privately disagreeing or disliking him. However, he always knows, with his network of trees giving him the ability to observe everywhere in his realm at once. And capital punishment is euphemistically referred to as being handed over to Aeon's mercy -- which in practice means death via becoming an experimental test subject. Crime is, unsurprisingly, quite low, and rebellion is not permitted.
