Prologue

So this is what the afterlife is like. It was not how I had imagined it, it was strange that my memory remained with me, but it was somehow one-sided, all the information was depersonalized, neither my name nor my loved ones, as if there was no such thing. I remember that I was a middle-aged man when, for some unknown reason, I came here. My whole life flashed before my eyes, but they no longer evoke the same emotions. I was in kindergarten, blowing bubbles with my nose, from memories of school there are only knowledge of subjects and abandoned sections of sports, also remained watched anime and read books. About the university and even less, the bare theory of major subjects for 4 years, relationships with girls, then work and the daily hustle and bustle. All of this flew by as if in a matter of seconds. Maybe it was for the best, I do not think that now would be able to think soberly, if I have all my memory is sprinkled with emotions.

I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. I could see just as well, though, as if I had eyes. Now it's clear why my thoughts flow so smoothly and there's no need for human needs. I feel unusual, but I don't feel any discomfort.

The terrain I am in is not much different from the ordinary world: the same trees, grass, earth, there is even a faint breeze that tosses the discarded leaves of the trees. It doesn't look much like heaven or hell.

Thoughts of being in a different world come to mind, too bright and contrasting colors compared to the memories I have, the analogy to the colors from the cartoons comes to mind. I think it's worth looking for the locals, if there are any.

I chose a direction at random and went, or already sailed, toward the forest. After a few hours I did not meet anyone. Already thought crept up that I was alone here, as I heard rustling in front.

A creature emerged from behind a tree, as if molded from the ground with leaves on its head. If I had been a man, then I would have been shocked, but my emotions were not so strong, I only had time to be surprised as the creature began to run around me and jump. I was surprised only when the creature started running around me and jumping.

[T/N: Photo of the little thing..]

- Prue-ryu-ryu," he hummed and kept jumping and exuding joy all around him.

It was unclear how, but I knew what he wanted. It was like a thought transmission through emotion. This guy wanted me to play with him, and his thoughts were some simple and impulsive, like a child who is not yet fully aware of himself. I began to try to also convey to him my questions about the world around him, about himself. And it even seemed to work, at least he stopped, tilted his head sideways, and began to stare at me with an incomprehensible look. The question marks above his head looked as if they could already be touched. He didn't even seem to be asking these questions, or he wasn't interested in them. After standing like that for a minute, he started running back and forth again.

I wanted to sigh heavily. I wasn't going to learn anything from this guy. There was hope that not everyone here was like him. Continuing on my way, now with a new companion, who didn't seem to want to go on his way. At least it wasn't so lonely.

The forest grew darker and more unfriendly as they went on, it even felt uncomfortable, as if something was physically pressing down on you. The spirit that had recently been cheerful began to pull me back and lament that I shouldn't go there. Becoming curious as to what was bothering him so much, I decided to go on alone after all. Nudging my new acquaintance back, I began to give him my message that I would go on. Seeing that I had already made up my mind, he started walking back every few steps, turning around as if to say, "Have you changed your mind?" After finally saying goodbye, I began to go deeper and deeper into the dark part of the forest.

A few hundred meters later I began to feel a shudder on the ground, it was like a rockfall. A little later it became clear why the ground was trembling, in the clearing two creatures had come together in a battle, changing the landscape of the forest just by walking. One of them looked like a cluster of anthropomorphic-shaped tree roots, and the other was a big man of stones.

[T/N: Photo of the tree creature]

I could feel their power at a distance from the battle; they would crush me without me noticing. The thirst for battle and rage poured out around them. But it was clear that the world was not only inhabited by friendly creatures; that would be too good to be true. It was worth listening to the spirit with the leaf after all, now the battle was beginning to shift from where I had come from. I would have to bypass them and move on. It is becoming more and more incomprehensible, I wish I could find someone who could explain everything and tell me everything.

When I walked some distance from the battle, I felt a cry of pain full of fear and despair. The source of it was a huge root that looked like an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, it looks like the winner and the loser have already decided, so I need to get out of here quickly, while they were fighting they did not pay much attention to me, but at the edge of my senses I knew that they have already been seen and as soon as possible will come after me.

At that moment the Ent began to disintegrate into multicolored particles, which quickly melted right into the air, but some of them managed to enter the stone giant. He was in the middle of a new phase, and he was in the middle of a new phase. Super, it seems to be the same as in the memories from the life of man, the strong devour the weak, but here it is in the literal sense.

[T/N: Photo of the stone creature]

I was not thinking anymore and started to swim as fast as I could, and after flying some distance I began to feel that I could no longer fly so fast, as if the reserve of stamina, which I had not felt before, began to make itself felt at a high-speed mode. It means that I also have some reserve of strength at the exhaustion of which I feel fatigue. I only stopped and noticed that I began to look duller, before I had time to be frightened I realized that the energy is replenished, little by little, but nevertheless.

I was in the middle of the phase, and the phase was in the middle of the phase, and the phase was in the middle of the phase. And it is true, after analyzing that fight, it became clear that the same energy was felt from those creatures, but with impurities, as strange as it sounded from the stone man, earth and stone, and from the other one, wood, water and earth. It seems that my old acquaintance is too weak since I did not feel anything from him or that I am too bad to feel such things, yet that battle was intense and the load that I felt close to them became similar to their energy spilled during the battle.

On the plus side, the neutrality of my energy was replenishing faster and faster. But I should wait somewhere until I was fully recovered before continuing on my way.

After wandering around a bit, I saw a large tree, hiding in its roots, decided to try to sleep, maybe so I will recover faster. After some time, I could not sleep, tossing and turning, thinking. I was able to feel the effects of the phase, but I was not able to feel the effects of the phase. The last thought was not to be killed during my first sleep in this world.