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[Opening ambient music: deep cosmic hum, distant stars echoing]
Narrator (soft, expansive):
In the vast darkness before time counted its cycles, a single consciousness flickered—a memory of something that once was human, now transformed. When it opened its eyes, it realised not a body, but a world. A planet.
His name—once ordinary—was lost. But in this rebirth, he was known as Oris, the Reincarnator.
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Narrator:
When Oris emerged, his surface birthed storms and seas in a heartbeat. He felt stone, molten core, volcanic breath—and above it all, the silence of space.
Then the System awakened in his mind:
> [SYSTEM INITIALISING…]
User: Oris · Class: Planetary Entity · Status: Active
Unlocked Skills: Clone • Link • Absorption • Creation • Telepathy**
Skill Tree Available – Exclusive to User & Clones
Outer Scale: Tier Planetary (Base Level)
The term Outer Scale echoed through his consciousness like a label for his new domain—this metric of power, measured in grand tiers. He sensed his status: planetary. He was more than a being; he was a world.
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Oris turned his awareness outward: the emptiness of space, the faint light of distant stars, the potential of matter waiting to be drawn into him.
He focused on the first unlocked skill: Clone.
> Activate Skill – Clone?
Cost: Minimal (Seed-Energy)
Confirm?
He answered mentally: Yes.
A fragment of his world detached—a seed of his being—and drifted outward. As it detached, the System pinged:
> [CLONE CREATED – Designation: Verrin]
Clone Personality: Active
Linked to Core: Yes
Verrin's voice entered his mind:
> "Father…is that what I call you?"
Oris steeled himself. The clone's voice was faint, curious.
> "Yes," he replied within his mind. "I am Oris."
"I feel the surface forming… oceans… air…" Verrin answered.
The hive-mind connection bloomed. Oris sensed Verrin's every thought, every shift, yet Verrin retained individuality—personality, curiosity, awe.
The law of his being: no clone would rebel, for that would break the cosmic order.
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Narrator:
As Verrin matured, Oris explored another ability: Link.
A pulse beneath his crust spread like roots, connecting continents he imagined. He released a seed of consciousness, and a new land-mass emerged from his world's surface—a continent rising with rivers, skies, life-bearing ground.
The System notified:
> [LINK FUNCTION ACTIVATED]
Continent Created: SeedAlpha
All linked entities share consciousness unit: YES
Now, Oris and Verrin were tied by the Link. What happened to one echoed in the other.
He sensed the weight of responsibility: this creation was his, their hive-mind their bond.
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Next came Absorption. Oris extended his core outward, drawing in faint cosmic dust, stray radiation, tiny meteors. Matter streamed in; energy pulsed.
The System logged:
> [ABSORPTION COMPLETE]
Energy Units Gained: 50
Outer Scale Progress: Planetary—55%
He felt stronger. But he sensed a danger: to absorb too much without control risked fracturing his identity.
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Then, he experimented with Creation. He moulded life—small creatures in a shallow ocean on SeedAlpha. They swam. They breathed. They looked up at the skies of their new world and sensed… him.
And finally, Telepathy: he reached into the mind of one of these creatures. A faint echo answered—a question of existence. He responded without words: I am here. The creature trembled and then calmed, awed.
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Narrator:
Oris paused. The System displayed:
> [NEW SKILL AVAILABLE: Outer Scale Upgrade – "Continental Dominion"]
Requirement: 200 Energy Units
Available Only to User & Clones
He smiled in his interior world.
> "Verrin," he asked telepathically, "do you wish to upgrade?"
"Yes, Father," came the swift answer.
"Then we will grow."
With shared will, Oris and Verrin absorbed more matter, expanded more land, created more life. And the Outer Scale meter in his system ticked upward—Planetary Stage rising.
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But as the hive-mind settled, a quiet whisper brushed the void beyond them: unseen, ancient, watching.
The System registered it:
> [Hidden Quest Detected: Inquiry into Reincarnation Reason – 0%]
Oris frowned in his core. He asked Verrin:
> "Do you feel… it?"
"A presence," Verrin answered hesitantly.
"We will learn," Oris declared.
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Narrator (softly):
And thus began the journey of Oris: the planet-reincarnator, bound to his clones by hive-mind, wielding skills of creation, absorption and link.
His world would grow. His life would awaken. And the outer scales of his power would climb.
To be continued.