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* TooMuchInformation: Kei could have lived without knowing that a lot of Alvin's information from the Oracle was gained in bed.
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* TheUnchosenOne:
** Lausanne is inspired by stories about heroes, and dedicates her life to becoming one -- with quite a bit of success, reaching impressively high levels at a young age and doing a lot of good for the world. She's a bit discouraged, however, when she meets the actual gods-chosen heroes, and watches them surpass her years of training in days or weeks. [=TreeTree=], who has taken a liking to her, is inclined to grumble at the unfairness of the heroes' divine blessings.
** Matt himself, despite being disqualified as a chosen hero during his reincarnation, is on track to bring more lasting change to the world than the heroes do.
** Lausanne is inspired by stories about heroes, and dedicates her life to becoming one -- with quite a bit of success, reaching impressively high levels at a young age and doing a lot of good for the world. She's a bit discouraged, however, when she meets the actual gods-chosen heroes, and watches them surpass her years of training in days or weeks. [=TreeTree=], who has taken a liking to her, is inclined to grumble at the unfairness of the heroes' divine blessings.
** Matt himself, despite being disqualified as a chosen hero during his reincarnation, is on track to bring more lasting change to the world than the heroes do.
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** Lausanne is inspired by stories about heroes, and dedicates her life to becoming one -- with quite a bit of success, reaching impressively high levels at a young age and doing a lot of good for the world. She's a bit discouraged, however, when she meets the actual gods-chosen heroes, and watches them surpass her years of training in days or weeks. [=TreeTree=], who has taken a liking to her, is inclined to grumble at the unfairness of the heroes' divine blessings.
** Matt himself, despite being disqualified as a chosen hero during his reincarnation, is on track to bring more lasting change to the world than the heroes do.
** Lausanne is inspired by stories about heroes, and dedicates her life to becoming one -- with quite a bit of success, reaching impressively high levels at a young age and doing a lot of good for the world. She's a bit discouraged, however, when she meets the actual gods-chosen heroes, and watches them surpass her years of training in days or weeks. [=TreeTree=], who has taken a liking to her, is inclined to grumble at the unfairness of the heroes' divine blessings.
** Matt himself, despite being disqualified as a chosen hero during his reincarnation, is on track to bring more lasting change to the world than the heroes do.
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* LitRPG:
** The System is woven into everyone's lives, granting XP for killing enemies and giving skills as people level up. [[spoiler:At level 250, Aeon learns that there are other systems, and is given the option to switch to the World Faith System used by most of the gods, but he prefers the standard one.]]
** It's taken a step further on one of the demonic worlds, where divine power has divided the world up into hexagonal territories and imposed game-like limits on movement and attack rates and stamina. There's even a clock in the sky. [[spoiler:Conveniently, level 150+ domain holders can resist the divine influence and ignore the rules.]]
** The System is woven into everyone's lives, granting XP for killing enemies and giving skills as people level up. [[spoiler:At level 250, Aeon learns that there are other systems, and is given the option to switch to the World Faith System used by most of the gods, but he prefers the standard one.]]
** It's taken a step further on one of the demonic worlds, where divine power has divided the world up into hexagonal territories and imposed game-like limits on movement and attack rates and stamina. There's even a clock in the sky. [[spoiler:Conveniently, level 150+ domain holders can resist the divine influence and ignore the rules.]]
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* GlassCannon: A fairly literal example, when Aeon's experiments with AntiMagic sand result in several glass weapons that shatter after a few uses, but are quite effective against magical creatures.
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* GlassCannon: A fairly literal example, when GlassWeapon: Aeon's experiments with AntiMagic sand result in several glass weapons that shatter after a few uses, but are quite effective against magical creatures.
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* QuantityVsQuality: At level 200, Lumoof has a choice between [[spoiler:extending Avatar mode to a group of up to twenty other people, or enhancing the Avatar to be a full copy of all Aeon's abilities]].
--> '''Lumoof:''' I think the choice is whether to go ''wide'' or to go ''tall''.
--> '''Lumoof:''' I think the choice is whether to go ''wide'' or to go ''tall''.
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* RapidAging: Classes can greatly slow down the rate of aging, but if the class is forcibly removed, the person's body might make up for lost time. [[spoiler:Chung is stripped of his hero class and rapidly changes from a young man to having only about five years left.]]
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''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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* ShaggyDogStory: Snek [[spoiler:volunteered to leave his planet, which was besieged by demons, and throw himself into the void, seeking a Hero. After centuries of drifting and waiting, he manages to latch onto one, who agrees to let Snek use blood magic to extract his [hero] class. Snek is then discovered by Aeon, to his horror, but is accepted as a guest, and after a great deal of effort and exploration, Aeon tracks down Snek's world in the void sea and is able to deliver him back, carrying the precious [hero] class so they can make a champion to drive the demons out. Unfortunately, since it's been centuries, Snek's mission has been entirely forgotten, everyone involved in sending him is dead, and the survivors have become accustomed to the new status quo and don't want to disrupt it.]]
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* BargainWithHeaven: Aeon makes a deal with Hawa. [[spoiler:In return for Aeon taking on the job of protecting some of Hawa's worlds, which will free up some of Hawa's power, Hawa will forge a weapon capable of breaking through the demons' defences.]] Of course, Aeon is close to a peer...
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* {{Cap}}: Souls generally have a limit on how far they can grow, varying from person to person, but typically around level 80. There are exceptions, though, such as the heroes, and Matt himself (presumably because he's both TheAgeless and a reincarnator). [[spoiler:He's eventually able to create soul-strengthening seeds that let others break through the cap and keep growing, which is crucial to his plan to defeat the demon kings with home-grown heroes instead of summoned ones.]]
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* {{Cap}}: CapRaiser: Souls generally have a limit on how far they can grow, varying from person to person, but typically around level 80. There are exceptions, though, such as the heroes, and Matt himself (presumably because he's both TheAgeless and a reincarnator). [[spoiler:He's He's eventually able to create soul-strengthening seeds that let others break through the cap and keep growing, which is crucial to his plan to defeat the demon kings with home-grown heroes instead of summoned ones.]]ones. Too bad that the ingredients are [[PoweredByAForsakenChild fragments of the shredded souls of executed criminals]]...
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Hawa [[spoiler:sent his followers in a crusade against Aeon, with many casualties, because he's a long way away and couldn't spare the energy to scry on Aeon's world in detail and properly understand the situation. He merely became aware of an interloping power, assumed it was a demonic assault, and gave the order. He apologises to Aeon once he learns the truth. Aeon is slightly perturbed that an apology is all he gets, but realises that he's callous enough by now to probably have done the same.]]
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* RareCandy: Aeon has seeds that ''could'' give people many levels instantly, even up to level 60. However, they don't work at higher levels, and at lower levels you can never be sure that someone is mentally ready for power since they have no experience of it. So Aeon generally doesn't use the seeds, just stockpiles them.
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* RareCandy: Aeon has seeds that ''could'' give people many levels instantly, even up to level 60. However, they don't work at higher levels, and at lower levels you can never be sure that someone is mentally ready for power since they have no experience of it. So Aeon generally doesn't use the seeds, just stockpiles them. Lausanne also notes that using them doesn't quite result in the same level of power that would come from earning levels yourself.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Aeon remembers morality and does try, by and large, to respect life, but when he hasn't been human for centuries, it's easy for him to be very pragmatic. Killing a few to save many? Routine. Keeping someone alive against their will for political reasons? That can be arranged. His inner circle are aware that he tends to take a very long, very big-picture view of things.
--> What was done, was done.\\
Now, I deal with the consequences.
--> What was done, was done.\\
Now, I deal with the consequences.
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* TheExile: After [=TreeTree=] heals the princess of Baroosh, the wizard who brought her there returns with the promised payment -- and requests to stay, because he has been exiled from the kingdom as punishment for allowing her to come to harm in the first place. [=TreeTree=] doubts that it was really his fault, but "such are feudal societies".
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** After [=TreeTree=] heals the princess of Baroosh, the wizard who brought her there returns with the promised payment -- and requests to stay, because he has been exiled from the kingdom as punishment for allowing her to come to harm in the first place. [=TreeTree=] doubts that it was really his fault, but "such are feudalsocieties".societies".
** Aeon offers the option of exile to a number of leaders who have attempted to resist his rule. Exile to a world of demons and lava, that is.
** After [=TreeTree=] heals the princess of Baroosh, the wizard who brought her there returns with the promised payment -- and requests to stay, because he has been exiled from the kingdom as punishment for allowing her to come to harm in the first place. [=TreeTree=] doubts that it was really his fault, but "such are feudal
** Aeon offers the option of exile to a number of leaders who have attempted to resist his rule. Exile to a world of demons and lava, that is.
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* TakeOverTheWorld: Aeon actually finds total planetary takeover to be an annoying distraction from his real work. Also, it inevitably involves a lot of preventable deaths. Still, for the sake of putting down threats and stabilising his realm, he can and will do it -- on multiple worlds. His beetle armies and domain-holders are beyond what regular nations can fight, and his ability to create prosperity means that a not insignificant number of people are willing to bend the knee peacefully.
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* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The gods are on a different system, gaining power from the faith and belief of their followers instead of from experience. As long as they have enough followers, they can't be entirely killed, but if they lose all their followers, they die regardless of other considerations, and if they drop too low, they will wither away. [[spoiler:Aeon is offered the chance to move to the [World Faith System] once he reaches level 250, but he already has most of its greatest benefits, like agelessness and the ability to reach other worlds, so he turns it down as an unnecessary liability.]]
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* ReincarnatedAsANonHuman: Matt reincarnating into a tree with a few surprising upsides is the main premise of the plot, Aeon's contracted souls can become other things as well such as [[SapientHouse sapient buildings]].
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: At level 250, [[spoiler:Aeon meets again with Mozart, and Mozart's supervisor Bach. They offer him a one-time chance to join the [World Faith System], where he would become a god, and he would stop levelling but gain different abilities based on people's faith and belief in him. He turns it down, because he has already gained several of the most important benefits, such as [[TheAgeless agelessness]] and the ability to travel to other worlds, and he doesn't like the fact that dropping under the required number of followers would kill him.]]
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* CryingWolf: Some of the crusaders have skills that warn them they're being LuredIntoATrap, but when those skills keep pinging for months at a time without anything happening, eventually they just shrug and ignore them. Too bad that the skills were perfectly correct, it's just a ''very slow'' trap.
--> It's funny that one of the ways to beat such 'alarm' skills, is to keep scaring them until they stop treating it seriously. Kinda like training one's body to ignore their daily morning alarm.
--> It's funny that one of the ways to beat such 'alarm' skills, is to keep scaring them until they stop treating it seriously. Kinda like training one's body to ignore their daily morning alarm.
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** Some of the crusaders have skills that warn them they're being LuredIntoATrap, but when those skills keep pinging for months at a time without anything happening, eventually they just shrug and ignore them. Too bad that the skills were perfectly correct, it's just a ''very slow'' trap.
--> ---> It's funny that one of the ways to beat such 'alarm' skills, is to keep scaring them until they stop treating it seriously. Kinda like training one's body to ignore their daily morning alarm.
** Demon King Multipus [[spoiler:can't find Aeon despite the Core's continual warnings of an intruder, because Aeon is masking himself with demonic mana. It eventually becomes desensitised to the warnings -- though not until after dealing heavy damage to its surroundings, making Aeon's job easier]].
** Some of the crusaders have skills that warn them they're being LuredIntoATrap, but when those skills keep pinging for months at a time without anything happening, eventually they just shrug and ignore them. Too bad that the skills were perfectly correct, it's just a ''very slow'' trap.
** Demon King Multipus [[spoiler:can't find Aeon despite the Core's continual warnings of an intruder, because Aeon is masking himself with demonic mana. It eventually becomes desensitised to the warnings -- though not until after dealing heavy damage to its surroundings, making Aeon's job easier]].
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* BringMyBrownPants: Aeon's level 200+ presence causes most of [[spoiler:the leaders of the nations, whom he has kidnapped,]] to lose bladder control. He's actually slightly impressed with the exceptions.
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* YouWouldntShootMe: Most of the world's leaders are sure that Aeon's threat to stop their war by kidnapping them all is a bluff.
--> Those older, and have seen the more violent era were wise enough to know I would, and they tried their best to persuade those sitting on the fences.
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* RareCandy: Aeon has seeds that ''could'' give people many levels instantly, even up to level 60. However, they don't work at higher levels, and at lower levels you can never be sure that someone is mentally ready for power since they have no experience of it. So Aeon generally doesn't use the seeds, just stockpiles them.
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* {{Psychopomp}}: As Matt gains levels, he evolves into a [Soul Tree], with the function of gathering the souls of the dead and preparing them for reincarnation (by stripping off the outer layers of the soul, containing their classes and skills, which he gets to harvest for his own use). It's mostly an automatic process, and he usually doesn't actually interact with the dead, but he's capable of speaking to the recently departed as they pass through, if he wants to, such as [[spoiler:his longstanding friend Jura]].
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: The heroes' star mana reacts explosively when it comes in contact with the void mana of the demonic rift gates, so they can't counter-invade and stop a demon king before it arrives. [[spoiler:However, Aeon's forces don't rely on star mana, and they eventually succeed in killing a demon king before it can launch its assault -- which results in the demons pulling back their forces to regroup and escalate.]]
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* RipVanWinkle: When the situation calls for it, Matt can hibernate for years at a time, waking up to find the world changed.
** When he's first reborn, he has no way to interact with the world, and spends over fifty years hibernating, interspersed with occasional system messages.
** He spends another twenty years mostly asleep after [[spoiler:being critically injured by Demon King Sabnoc's final TakingYouWithMe corruption wave]]. People he knew have grown up and/or died, politics have shifted, and things he built have disappeared.
** When he's first reborn, he has no way to interact with the world, and spends over fifty years hibernating, interspersed with occasional system messages.
** He spends another twenty years mostly asleep after [[spoiler:being critically injured by Demon King Sabnoc's final TakingYouWithMe corruption wave]]. People he knew have grown up and/or died, politics have shifted, and things he built have disappeared.
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** When the situation calls for it, Matt can hibernate for years at a time, waking up to find the world changed.
** *** When he's first reborn, he has no way to interact with the world, and spends over fifty years hibernating, interspersed with occasional system messages.
** *** He spends another twenty years mostly asleep after [[spoiler:being critically injured by Demon King Sabnoc's final TakingYouWithMe corruption wave]]. People he knew have grown up and/or died, politics have shifted, and things he built have disappeared.disappeared.
** [[spoiler:Sawabesarulars]] returns to his homeworld after what turns out to be approximately three centuries, finding that everyone he knew is gone and almost entirely forgotten, and his plans and hopes need to be adjusted for an entirely different situation from what he expected.
** When the situation calls for it, Matt can hibernate for years at a time, waking up to find the world changed.
** [[spoiler:Sawabesarulars]] returns to his homeworld after what turns out to be approximately three centuries, finding that everyone he knew is gone and almost entirely forgotten, and his plans and hopes need to be adjusted for an entirely different situation from what he expected.
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* MagikarpPower: Stella arrives in Treeworld with no particular skills, and without much mental resilience either. She gets a class, but mostly just drifts around trying different things and feeling rather sorry for herself. However, when she was reincarnated, she was given a [Late Bloomer] blessing. [[spoiler:She eventually latches on to the one thing that really interests her, void magic, and goes through the harrowing and dangerous process of attuning herself to it, becoming Aeon's first void magic user -- a [Void Archmage], in fact. Her skills become a crucial part of his expansion, allowing her to open portals to other worlds and even make use of the demonic rift gates.]]
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* FailureToSaveMurder: [[spoiler:Alvin]] blames Aeon for not preventing [[spoiler:Kei's death]] -- apparently not considering how his own inaction and absence contributed to stacking the odds against her.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: The highest punishment in Aeon's territory is "Aeon's Mercy". Which is to say, the criminal is handed over to Aeon to do whatever he pleases, which in practice means death via destructive medical experimentation in his soul forge. Even hardened criminals are known to descend into terrified pleading when faced with the sentence (but it doesn't help).
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* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Aeon would really prefer to leave the rest of the world to sort itself out. He has bigger problems to deal with, like responding to demonic invasions. Even if the rest of the world is at war, that's okay; conflict means gaining levels, which means more people who might be useful in a fight against a demon king. But after enough peacetime, the nations around him start trying to steal his resources and distribute propaganda suggesting that he's really out to brainwash the world's leaders and take over, escalating to the point where a crusade against him is imminent and he decides he'll have to intervene. And since he controls the vast majority of the world's level 100+ individuals, including several domain holders, it would not be anything like an even fight.
--> '''Matreearch Hoyia:''' Aeon wants to know whether, if he were to order the capture of all the kings, rulers, merchant kings, priests, lords and generals, and essentially force everyone to sit down and talk, would it stop the nonsense and prevent it from escalating to a total war?
--> '''Matreearch Hoyia:''' Aeon wants to know whether, if he were to order the capture of all the kings, rulers, merchant kings, priests, lords and generals, and essentially force everyone to sit down and talk, would it stop the nonsense and prevent it from escalating to a total war?
