Becoming an Oni in this land of illusion

Chapter 12: Meeting The Goddess

Hmm?

What's this...

This feeling is like I'm on the air floating yet at the same time I feel a semi-solid ground beneath me

I've remembered I am just sleeping like normal as usual

I take a look at my surroundings and I see vast flowers of many kinds sprouting healthily

Vast arrays of fruit-bearing trees that have fully ripened fruits

A clean pond that has flowering lilies and a stump that has beddings and a red-clothed girl sitting on it looking at me

The girl has red eyes and light orange hair and has a face akin to a galge villainess for some reason

The girl pouts seemingly offended by my thoughts...

Wait!

Kusa: yes I can read your thoughts

But-

Kusa: it's a breach of privacy? Nope, it's easier this way... Though I could only read your thoughts because you are in my domain though

Kusa: well my name is Gaia, the avatar of the world

Gaia... isn't she the sadistic goddess of the Fate series that tries to extinct humankind in more ways than one?!

Cause Alaya is the Protector of mankind while Gaia hates mankind

Kusa: Ahem!

Ah! She can read my thoughts!

Kusa: just a correction Gaia is the will of the Planet and Alaya is the will of humankind

Kusa: But don't worry I'm not the Gaia you've heard of

I'm a bit skeptical... So yeah I'll roll for it for now

Kusa: what's with this distrustful person...

It's called being cautious

Kusa: anyway I've called you here because I wanted to say that because of my habit of removing our conversations

Kusa: you have no idea what world you are in right now

I know it's a world of collective fables, folklore, and myths that exist

I can't go to the outside world because of the barrier made by the sages

And this world they used bullet battles as a means to solve their problems

Kusa:...

She stayed silent for a few minutes

Kusa: I'm shocked that I met a reincarnate that is so smart

Is that an insult?

Kusa: no not at all its a praise... Then I will tell you what is happening in your body

Oh...?

Kusa: though you don't remember it. I am the one that created your body...

How?

Kusa: I'm Gaia herself

Understandable

Kusa: you see... heroic spirits are strong if their masters have a vast mana pool

Kusa: but you are in the other world without a master so I made that body not needing a master by making you absorb the mana in the air

Kusa: though Mana is your life so if you exhaust it, you will die

Kusa: and your fire consumes mana so don't get riled up or you'll die because of anger

So basically I am a solar panel but if I consume too much energy compared to my produced energy I will be emptied and die