I grab the Hogyoku and teleport to our strongest training room. Not only is it the furthest one from the house but its bigger with thicker walls and many more runes carved onto its walls. I go to the middle of the room and sit down.
I place the Hogyoku in front of me and observe it. I can somehow feel sentience from it while also feeling as if it's alive. Though at the same time I know it's not but it still is.
Not bothering with that weird feeling any longer I try feeling its power and I realize I can't feel anything. I get confused but then remember that if a being surpasses you by such a large margin then you wouldn't be able to perceive them. They'd seem like a normal person to you.
Smiling I take my shirt off and make a knife out of ice. Just as I'm about to cut a hole in my chest I realize something. Getting dressed I teleport to my parents and tell them something important came up so I have to leave for a while. They asked how long to which I said I dint know. It could take months perhaps or I could be back before morning.
They seemed worried but ultimately said take care and be careful before telling me to get going. I smile and said I would be careful and that I'd be back as soon as I can and charged them with making sure our guests remain safe an in our territory. They reassure me and so I leave. I do the same with Ravel and despite being sad that u may be gone for a long time she says she understands. I play with her for about an hour before going to Issei and telling him. He looks concerned but wishes me luck and I remind him that the little girls are off-limits and that if he has the balls he can try talking it up with Tier though if he ends up with no balls it's his fault.
He cringes and promises me he wouldn't try and that he would take care of them while I'm gone. I smile and tell him ill be back soon and that he better take care of them.
Now finally back in the training room after getting that out of the way I sit back down remove my shirt and make a knife out of ice.
I proceed to cut a large vertical gash on the center of my chest. While restraining my regeneration I open the gash with my left hand while dissolving the ice knife and placing the Hogyoku within my chest with my right hand. Once inside of me I stop restraining my regeneration and the wound closes with the Hogyoku still inside of my chest.
A few minutes go by with nothing happening but then I start feeling my chest heating up. I look down and see that my chest is glowing purple. I don't know what will happen but hopefully nothing too bad. After a few minutes, the feeling changed from heat to a burning sensation quickly replaced with nothing but pain.
I fell sideways from the pain but held in my screams and waited there on the ground.
After who knows how long the pain subsided and instead I felt this weird feeling. The Hogyoku from what I could tell was moving to the left within my chest slowly. After a while, I could tell it was touching my heart. I then felt it entering my heart while at the same time not.
Sometime later the feeling stopped and I began feeling my heart only to see that my regular golden-red heart has been replaced with a purple heart with red, dark purple, bluish-white and black lines going all around it while a miniature version of the Hogyoku lay in the center of my heart.
While I was inspecting my new heart I realize that my veins and arteries turning a light purple and my blood began to have a tint of purple too. Just as I was marveling at the changes going on within myself I was hit with a tidal wave of pain.
This time though it wasn't just in my chest it was throughout my entire being. It took everything I had not to scream but that eventually proved impossible. I kept on screaming for a long time while the pain kept increasing.
After who knows how long and the pain began receding. Once the pain was gone I could feel the dryness of my throat form all my screaming. I observe my body and realize that all my veins and arteries are light purple with dark firey red lines going through them.
My blood is no longer red. Instead, it is purple with red, bluish-white, dark purple and black rings on the surface of each of my blood cells. I think it looks cool though if anyone ever saw my blood I can guarantee they would freak out or at least be confused.
I stayed laying down in preparation for another wave of pain to come but it didn't. instead, I took notice of how certain parts of my body felt hot. I moved my arm in front of me and saw lava-like lines on/moving along my arm. I jump up and look at my chest. I have the same lines there though it seems like they originate from my heart to the rest of my body.
I make a body size chunk of ice in front of me and look at my reflection. Just like I suspected they are all over my body. My head, arms feet back and just to make sure I checked something and sure enough there were some there too.
They all seem to branch out from where my heart is both from my front and back.
Now that I've seen the physical changes integrating with the Hogyoku brought me its time to see what it did to my power.
It would appear it has increased my mana capacity by an entire class bringing me from Super-class level 0 to EX-class level 0 in mana capacity. It seems to have increased mu control by half a class. My previous Super-class level 0 control is now Super-class level 5. It also seems to have reinforced my body greatly. Previously my body was only at the level of a High-class level 6 now it's at Super-class level 9 and I can tell it's on the brink of jumping into EX-class.
Feeling my aura I notice that it's at EX-class level 7 and just form realizing my aura the wall began to crack. Though something I did notice is that the difference between Super-class and EX-class form what I thought previously is all wrong. The difference isn't 10 but 1000.
So if we were to start from the beginning Low-class would be 1-10, Mid- class would be 11-100, High-class would be 101-1,000, Ultimate-class would be 1,001-10,000, and Super-class would be 10,001-100,000 which they are. Then if that pattern continues EX-class would be 100,001-1,000,000 but it's not.
Instead its 10,000,000-100,000,000. That's right it's millions. Now I know why people see those in the EX-class as gods. Even if you had an army of Super-class level 9's they would just be massacred if they fought even just an EX-class level 0.
With my current combat level, I would be around 70 million. I am amazed at the boosts I received from the Hogyoku has given me. Then I remember that Aizen didn't have this level of strength, not even close or I would be dead right now. The only conclusion I can reach is that his wasn't a completed integration which resulted in him only receiving a fraction of the power and that would explain why his physical appearance changed as it did while my change was not as extreme as his.
While I'm thinking all this I hear my stomach rumble. Hearing my stomach I realize that I'm starving a begin to wish I had a burger but I have more pressing matters to do so ill have to wait. Or so I thought but the next moment a cheeseburger began forming out of thin air. I observe it in shock and for 5 minutes I just look at the burger in my hand.
When I snap out of it I try to come up with a logical reason for this and I feel that my mana has gone down by about 3%. Having a hunch I wish for a burger to appear in front of me again and just like before another burger materializes in my hand and my mana is reduced by another 3% of my maximum.
I grow ecstatic at the concept that I can convert the mana in my body into anything I wish. While on adrenaline from this awesome realization I begin creating things at random. I make a wooden chair which takes about 5%, then a soccer ball for 3%, then a bunch of other miscellaneous items.
After calming down I realize another thing, the rate at which my mana replenishes has increased dramatically. I check and realize that an extra stream of mana is coming from my heart. It appears that my heart can now produce mana though I don't know-how. Questions for later. Coming back to my senses I eat the burgers then create a water bottle before drinking it and then burn it out of existence along with the other items I made except for the chair.
Now that I've cleaned up the area I sit down in front of the ice mirror and start trying to get the lines to reside. While doing so I discovered another thing though I guess this is what allows me to make things out of mana. I now have the space element. That's when I remembered that one of the abilities of the Hogyoku is to manifest their partner's dreams so I guess having control over space which then grants control over matter is a must.
It took a while but I manage to get them to reside. I realize that I felt weaker after they were gone but at the same time, I still felt the same. After some studying, I realize that my level is still at EX-class level 7 and that the lines give me a power boosts. It's like using the Kaioken x2.
Letting out a large smile I begin testing my strength so I don't accidentally destroy things or worse accidentally kill someone. After 3 or so hours I got used to my new power and am no longer an accidental accident waiting to happen.
I decide that its time to go back so I dissolve the mirror and disintegrate the chair and after getting dressed I teleport back home.
Once in my room, I change clothes and head downstairs. I hear laughter coming from the back terrace so I head over there and I find everyone there. I open the door to go out there and everyone turns to me. I smile and wave at them and before I knew it I'm tackled to the ground by Ravel who's now hugging me.
I hug her back while standing up with her in my arms. I say hi to everyone and go to my parents after placing ravel down by telling her I needed to talk to our parents about something important.
I motion them to follow me and we head to my father's study.
"How long was I gone," I ask them in a serious tone
"What do you mean." Asks my mother in a worried tone while my father had his eyes widen.
"How many days was I gone," I ask back though with a softer voice.
"You were gone for 5 days."
Hearing her I sigh in relief. I had thought I'd be gone for weeks or worst months but it turns out It was just a few days.
My mother, however, asks me why I don't know how long I was gone in a worried tone and my father asks me if something happened and what I was doing.
"I didn't know how long I was gone because I was unconscious until a few hours ago.
I did something questionable that could have resulted in my death.
As for what I was doing, I was getting stronger."
I answered on at a time and just as I expected I was slapped right in the face by my mother who then proceeded to cry out loud and asking me why. My father says in a serious almost threatening voice to explain what I meant.
I wait for my mother to calm down which took about 20 minutes and tell them that they must at all cost keep what I'm about to say a secret. Hearing the seriousness in my voice they become even more serious while nodding their head.
I tell them about Aizen and how he got most of his strength through the purple orb that was withing his chest. Then I tell them that after he was burned into ashes the orb remained and how I had quickly teleported it to a certain box which contains my research ideas and progress. They keep nodding in understanding until this part.
I tell them how I cut my chest open and then shoved the orb known as the Hogyoku into my chest. Then I told them all I felt throughout the merging process. once again I was slapped by my mother and punched by my father but they both immediately hugged me while crying telling me, no demanding me not to do anything so stupid ever again. I promise them and after 5 minutes my father separates from me but my mother cries for a total of 30 minutes before separating from me.
Now that they're calm and seated I tell them what I gained from merging with the Hogyoku. To say their shocked would have been a huge understatement. They were shellshocked. Just the concept of an EX-class being is already mind-boggling enough but now that they know the real difference between ranks and that their son isn't just a level 0 or 1 or 2 but level 7 in that rank in of itself is mind-boggling. Giving them a while to calm down I tell them about the changes it had on my body. Then I show them the lava-like lines and their effect and that I now have the space elements curtesy of the Hogyoku and that thanks to it I can now create practically anything as long as I have sufficient mana in my body to fuel it and that I also now produce mana from my heart.
My father put his head against his desk trying to process all of this while my mother covered her mouth that was hanging open. 20 minutes later they both recover and give me another hug. They say that the gains are amazing, godlike even but that I shouldn't have taken that risk. They kiss me on the cheek each and tell me to go play with everyone else.
I smile and once more promise I won't do something that dangerous again while focusing on the warm feeling I got when they hugged me the third time. I was an orphan in my previous life for as long as I can remember and never knew the love of a parent. I did have people I considered sisters but still always yearned for a real sister.
I guess that now that I have a sister I neglected the love a parent can give. Swearing that I would do my utmost to make them live happy and long lives I head out to where the others are with another goal.