TRANSMIGRATED AS A GHOST

Sitting upright from her relaxed positioned, Jaela prepared to tell her fellow transfers from Earth about her life on Mirrion.

Though unlike Marcus who had spent far less time, and Lyra who had only spent a slightly more time on Mirrion than Earth, Jaela had already lived nearly three average human lifetimes here on Mirrion.

“To start I can assume that you realized that like Lyra I chose to reincarnate as a new person rather than be brought here with my original form from Earth.” Jaela said to start.

She then looked at Lyra who had experienced something similar to her, and said, “Just like you did, I woke up suddenly feeling a sort of pressure on me and then pop, I got my first sight of light as I was born. It was quite the surreal experience that I imagine only those that went through a similar thing can understand.”

At this Lyra nodded her head in agreement, while Marcus and Boreas just looked at each other awkwardly not really wanting to think about remembering the experience of being born.

Going on Jaela told about how she was given over to her mother after the birth and that was when she was shocked to see that those around her were not human.

“As I am sure you can gather, I did not come back in my second life as a human but a wood elf. At first it was certainly very difficult to deal with my long and sensitive ears that did not work exactly like the ones I had as a human, but eventually I got used to them.”_.

Her story then went on much like Lyra’s had with her slowly learning about the world and building up her levels and skills.

Though unlike Lyra her family did not meet some horrible end and her parents were still very muc alive.

“Along with them I still have all four of my grand parents as well as two siblings. It has been a while since I last saw them, but I do get the occasional message every couple of years.” She said with a far-off look.

Naturally she was thinking about her family who she had left in the home of her tribe of forest elves that lived far away from here on another continent.

“Being a long-lived race, I am actually considered barely an adult even at two hundred years of age, but I snuck out of the village when I was forty-two so that I could go an explore the world. Back then I was still pretty much a child, and I did encounter plenty of hardships, but I grew because of them.”

After telling them about her early life in the forest elf village she began telling of her first trip outside the forest and into the wide-open world.

The first city she came across was a vibrant place full of many races, a bit like the capital of Borealia, but with far more diversity and no dominate population like humans.

Unfortunately, even though it was such a diverse city, forest elves were not really seen there often, and certainly not any young girls like her, as even at forty-two she looked like a ten-year-old human at best.

This led to her being targeted by slave traders who wanted to make big money off of her, but as someone with experience form a past life as well as plenty from her current life, she turned the tables on them and ended up taking them for all they were worth.

“I mean even though I physically matured a lot slower as an elf, I had still been diligently leveling up and spent my skill points on powerful skills. By that point I was already level thirty-six even with having lived a fairly leisurely life in my village.” Jaela said with a proud expression as she regaled them with the tale of her first adventurer.

She continued on about how she was constantly targeted by kidnappers since a lone young forest elf was an incredible rarity, but no one actually strong came after her, and since what these people were technically doing was illegal, she took all their stuff and offered up those with bounties to the authorities.

“I really started to make a name for myself after a few months, and people started assuming that I was actually a bounty hunter using some skill to disguise myself as a young defenseless child in order to entice my targets to come after me.” She said while giggling as she recalled her time taking down criminals.

“During that time, I also worked on learning more about the world and that is when I came across the discover of dungeons.” She said with a sparkle in her eyes.

“It felt like I could live out my favorite game in real life, so I set out to the nearest known dungeon in the part of the world I found myself in. Unfortunately, they did not just let anyone into this dungeon, as in most places they are considered like government owned mines that resources can be collected from, and a great training ground for knights and the like. But while the nation I found myself in was not connected with the adventurers guild, there were mercenary companies throughout it, and I joined one that often went into a dungeon called the Unending Mire.”

Jaela went on and talked about her struggles starting out in the mercenary company. They basically treated her like a goffer, and some of them members tried to get her to quit by giving her heavily physically demanding jobs.

Though even though she was still a child by her race’s standard, she was similar to how Lilia is right now, being young but having a high level that put most people to shame.

This allowed her to do more heavy lifting then some of the seasoned warriors in the group, and her abnormal strength quickly got the attention of the higher ups.

Eventually the leader of the group himself called her in and asked her why she had joined.

Naturally she told him she wanted to enter a dungeon and he laughed incredibly hard. Though not because he was disparaging her, but because of how simple and unusual the reason was.

“He then told me word for word, ‘Fine if you want to enter a dungeon, I will be taking you on our next expedition and you can show everyone what you are really made of. Just do not hold us back or we will leave you behind.’ And that is how I got permission to enter my first and far from last dungeon.”

After that she talked about how she was led into the dungeon that resided within a bog and went deep underground.

Once they had actually entered just like its name suggested the dungeon was just and endless swamp that seemed to go on forever.

“It was certainly something to see, as even when I rose up above the trees on a thick vine to look out all I could see before me was swampland extending for miles and miles. Though doing so got me berated by the leader as he told me not to raise myself into the air or I would make myself an easy target.” Jaela said with a nostalgic smile.

“At first I wondered what might come after me, but then I saw two giant mosquitoes coming right for me, having spotted me in the air.”

“Luckily they were not really high level and I managed to take them down with a tier three spell, but it did teach me that I needed to take heed of what the leaders said before acting and getting myself into danger.”

Jaela then went on to tell the highlights of her first time exploring a dungeon and working within a mercenary group.

Naturally it had actually turned out pretty difficult for her since the terrain was difficult to traverse and it was her first time participating as a member of a large group.

Nevertheless, she kept at it and enjoyed her first delve into a dungeon.

And with her impressive magical skills she gained more ground in the mercenary company and quickly rose her way up within it. They cared less about her age and appearance and more about her talent that was bringing them greater fortune.

“I only stuck around with them for around five years though, after we had pretty much conquered the dungeon and I had seen all I wanted to in the area. Though at this point even if I wanted to go back, all the guys I know have long since died. Either from battle or just old age. I even attended my former leader’s funeral, and some of the remaining members who knew me asked me to join back up and take over, but I obviously refused since at that point I was already much higher level than they were and had my own goals.”

She then went back to right after she left the mercenary company, where she spent the next few decades just wandering around while gaining experience in multiple cultures and trades that interested her.

“At one point I even became a scholar for a small kingdom, trying my hand at teaching in their highest-ranking academy. It was kind of fun to have been a professor for around two decades and I learned a lot while there. When I went to leave, they even offered to make me the headmaster of the academy since I was pretty high level and had become quite knowledgeable in the subject of alchemy. Though like pretty much everything I had been doing up to this point, I just kept moving on, going to new places and learning more about the world.”