The miscellaneous hundred wills kept swimming around like minnows in the spirit memory ocean. When wills got tired they would swim back to the master will, absorbed some of his spirit power and head back out to explore.
Eventually the master will ran out of spirit power to lend. At this point the returning empty wills would merge back into the master will, sharing their findings.
A couple wills on the way back to the master will noticed one will still actively swimming around and sorting through memories. They paused to watch it for a moment.
'How come this brother is still moving so fast,' asked one miscellaneous will.
'How come this brother looks so fat,' asked another miscellaneous will.
It gets real noisy as fifty nine mini Orfal wills start to speculate and question how this anomaly happened. It finally quiets down when they all notice the single larger will finished sorting through memories and began to swim off. However this big will wasn't returning to the master will but swam towards the outer membrane of Orfal's spirit body.
The rest of the puzzeled wills stop debating and followed after the larger sixtieth brother.
The sixtieth brother swims around part of the outer perimeter until it finds an area with two spiritually denser tone circles. Once it finds the circles it rams full speed into one of them and starts shaking as if it was electrocuted. Then his body grows a bit larger as it is recharged with a large supply of spirit power.
After the sixeth will gets his fill of spirit power he then turns around and notices that fifty nine of his brothers are watching him.
'Hi brothers! Sorry to hold up the line, help yourselves,' says the cheerful will as he swims off.
The other wills with minds blown all watch the now fatter brother swim off to sort more memories. Eventually the fifty nine wills each turn back to stare at the two denser spots. At once they all rush into the outer membrane and slam it so hard a ripple is made.
...
Time moves forward as Orfal's master will is still asleep. His minnow sized wills have now grown to the size of adult tune fish. Its been about a million spirit power recharges into their familiar routine when finally there is a consequence for their actions.
The denser spots happend to be the connected end of the dark chains that pulled Orfal out of his physical body. The being on the other side of those chains has finally noticed the slow siphon of its soul power and became furious. It starts to yank on the chain to send waves of spirit pain to assualt Orfals entire spirit body.
'Aaaaaaaaaaah!' shouts Orfal's master will as it awakes from the paim.
Orfal spreads out his perception to find out what is going on. The sixty wills that just recharged are found anxiously swimming away from the chain end and merging back into the master will.
'Hey what did you little guys do and when did you get so big,' Orfal says to the little panicked wills.
The wills remained silent and kept swiftly merging back to the master will. Orfal starts to get motion sickness as multiple past events flash through his mind at lightning speed. His mind at first lacks the spirit power to handle the rate of new knowledge being absorbed, but each tuna sized will brought with it a vast amount of spirit power.
Meanwhile the chain received another yank and causes more pain to surge into Orfal. Fortunately for Orfal the pain intensity dampens in proportion to the spirit power levels between the two chain linked entinities.
After absorbing the powered up wills Orfal's head splitting pain is now more like a slap in the face.
'What is going on here!?'
Orfal's fear of the pain that woke him up is now subsiding but he is thoroughly confused. The last of the returning wills finally gets absorbed and a relaxing sensation settles over Orfal's confusion. Orfal then starts processing three thoughts in parallel from his gathered knowledge.
-'Looks like my little wills found the dark chain...'
-'My life memories are pathetic, i'm trash...'
-'My puddle body grew in size and I feel a change coming...'
While Orfal is busy thinking, part of the changing master will seperates into a new will. This time however it took on the familar shape of Orfals physical body.
'I have hands, and a beard again,' exclaims the new will towards the master will.
-'They appear to have robbed it of power, that must be why it's so pissed.'
-'No longer will I be waste, I vow to acheive greatness!'
-'I can feel my awarness reaching past my outer barrier, its different out there.'
'Hey dummy! Pay attention to me,' yells the new will towards the master will again.
-'Maybe I can shake the chain back...'
-'Where should my greatness start. Maybe a new beard braid. Wait, didn't my beard burn off in the essence waste room?'
-'It feels cold and dark out there. Not that I can see any light inside me but why is it so...'
The Orfal shaped will just gives up trying to get the master will's attention and merges back into him. Surprise interrupts Orfal's parallel thoughts.
-'WHAT?!'
-'My beards back!'
-'WHAT?!'
If Orfal had a mouth he'd be smiling. His latest will showed him it's possible to leave his puddle form.
Orfal stops everything going on in his head and immediately begins to try to transform. He follows the steps that the little Orfal shaped will performed and concentrated on expanding his center mass outward. Slowly his master will starts to expand and vacum in the cloudy memory liquid.
Memory clouds kept passed through Orfal's master will and he again experience all those memories flashing through his mind. One moment he felt nostalgia of his childhood. He felt like a kid again blowing double bubbles with his favorite candy gum, except in this situation he was the double bubble. Another moment he was getting flogged after caught stealing lingerie as a dare from Dunrid. The memories all stopped as the master will reached the outer membrane and stopped expanding.
This was the moment when Orfal's master will should take on the shape of his physical body and he would appear like an Orfal shaped water balloon. But Orfal's unique situation put his spirit strength and abilities way above the level that an orthodox spirit cultivator's first transformation would be.
Orfal performed two actions that orthodox cultivators would never do.
First he spent the entire time inside his spirit body split up as many wills exploring his spirit memories. Cultivators deem this a wasteful use of spirit power and should instead stay as a single center mass using their spirit power to perform cultivation techniques.
Second he slowly siphon off spirit power from a stronger entitiy while continuously using up his spirit power. This resulted in Orfal cultivating of his spirit power to an enormous level. However never would this situation willingly be allowed by a stronger spirit entity since it eliminates their own spirit cultivation. Orfal unintentially created his own unorthidox cultivation technique this way and was brought to the spirit power level of a master.
Orfal had plenty of spirit power after the first part of his transformation so his instincts directed him to an advanced level step next.
Orfal felt the need to feed spirit power into his internal memory clouds and outer membrane so he did. The powered up outer membrane started turning into skin and hair around his spirit body while the poweres up memory clouds started turning into parts from his physcial body. Muscles and bones came together to form a dwarven skeletal system. Organs, blood vessels and fat fill up the rest of space inside. Ligaments then appeared and connect it all together to complete the second step in Orfal's transformation.
Orfal still had over half of his spirit power remaining so his insticts continued to press on, leading Orfal into a third advanced transformation step.
The third step involved creating the brain and nerve system of Orfal's spirit body. This part of the transformation is the only part that doesn't come innate to Orfal but his instincts believed he could figure it out.
All that Orfal understood from his instincts was that he can't relay on his physical body systems as a reference. He needed to form a brain and nerve system that supported features of a physical body but functioned like his spirit's master will.
'Lets start by exploring my new body'.
Orfal did what came natural to him and split up his master will into countless number of smaller wills. He expected them to start flowing through his body parts to explore but instead the numerous amount of wills were absorbed by his transformed body.
'Huh where did those little guys go, I guess i will just send out more.'
Orfal kept filling his spirit body up with wills to counter the lost ones absorbed by the his new spirit body. He got carried away though with seperating his master will. Eventually it was completely split apart and replaced with trillions of tiny cell sized wills, trapped inside the transformed spirit body.
Each one of the cell sized wills had it's own piece of the master will but none of them held enough to be in charge. Being scattered throughout Orfal's spirit body and disorganized on how to proceed there was a chaos that developed in the wills during a crucial step in Orfal's transformation.
After all the initial chaos settled down eventually some wills started to establish some systematic structure. It happened when one will had the idea to alter the process of how wills were first created. The single cell sized will pushed out some spirit power from itself but instead of seperating the power it connected it to another will and created a spirit bridge.
This break through led to an exponential growth of spirit bridges popping up inside of Orfal's spirit body. Soon the spirit nerve system was born and all that was left to create was the spirit brain.
The trillions of Orfal cell wills spent some time going through all the possible ways to recreate the master will. Merging themselves back together felt counter productive at this point since they merged into the spirit body.
Success was finally born when over a million cell wills channelled spirit power into a single will, giving it enough power to clone itself without any loss to the original cell sized will. This cloned will then moved up into the spirit body's head cavity and waited.
More clone wills became born through this process and met up inside of Orfal's head. Each new arrival merged with the previous clones and a new master will was born, cloned from all the trillion cell sized wills.
It took a while for Orfal's reborn master will to process the new features of his transformed spirit body but immediately he discovered the return of his five physical senses. They now coexisted with his sixth sense of spiritual perception.
"I am back!" Shouts Orfal's transformed spirit body.