Returning to the first level Anakin has some unfinished business.
He cant just leave someone he is now connected to, to rot down here with the rest of these poor sods.
He is after all supposed to be stuck with her now.
Everyone one that was here backed away from Anakin because of his presence within the Force but not only because of this. Word travels fast when there really isn't all that much else going on down in Hell and when a new stranger appears out of nowhere and dives into the depths only to return unscathed, it certainly sets a precedent.
They feared him now and there was no going back to how they used to live.
Walking through this desolate place, the people here had constructed buildings seemingly out of the earth beneath them and even though it is really just a manifestation of the Force it is enough for everyone here to live.
There was a form of hierarchy among everyone here and not everyone had been completely able to dominate over the others as no matter how strong there would always be someone stronger. Eventually groups or factions had formed.
There are more then just one type of Sith and it was Darth Bane that had started the sect that continued the practice of one master, one apprentice. Zannah fully embraced Bane's teachings and continued to do the same thing as he had set up, the rule of two.
Anyone the political situation here was weird and there was no overarching leader of any sort but a collective of the strong who created the rules. Whatever they may be.
Of course there was also more than the Sith as there were some Dark Jedi and those who are simply affiliated with the dark side and dont associate with either Force related groups.
Going back to the topic of Zannah, Anakin thought over what would happen when he eventually left, which would be soon but he needed to investigate and find where Zannah had run off too. It would seem she was an isolated person here because rumors about her being unfit for a Sith master spread around.
And since people here rarely change their mindset because there is no reason to, they are inclined to believe this rumor.
Using his relatively new connection to her he manages to find her in the spot he had first met her at. "Hello there!" Anakin said out loud startling the woman.
"What are you doing here?" Zannah replied grumpily before realization settles in on her face. "Wait! How are you alive!" She rushes over to him and starts to inspect him very closely.
"What do you mean? Did you want me to die?" Anakin questioned her, ignoring her shock.
"What do you mean, what do you mean? You really must be stupid, just like the first time you came down here." Zannah said.
"I am leaving." Anakin stated to stop more of her nonsense.
"Oh-You are leaving already?" Zannah says before stopping herself and then overwriting her previous statement. "I mean hurry up and leave already."
"And you are coming with me." He continued.
"What are you even talking about, you are not making any sense and who said I was going anywhere with you?" Zannah was quite aggressive.
"Just because." Anakin smirked which only annoyed her further.
"Well, I for one dislike the idea of coming anywhere with you, so-" She was interrupted by Anakin forcefully grabbing hold of her through the Force and pulling her closer.
"Quiet now, you wont be able to have a body in the living word because I would need to create one for you." Anakin wanted to take her with him not because she was attractive but because of the Dyad and while he didn't harbor any romantic feelings as of this moment, that didn't matter because something may happen in the future.
The main reason is because he is unsure of whether or not he would be affected in some way as this bond was formed while she is technically dead. How a dyad works is only because two individuals are alive.
How would it work when he was still alive while she is dead?
"Let me go!" Zannah tried with all her might, but it was useless, pointless because he was just much more powerful now then he was before and he wasn't even gone for that long.
"Sorry, I have to ensure I will live." Anakin replies in a non-apologetic tone because he wises to live and he cant just give that up for a stranger.
Anakin summoned his new connection to this dimension that enabled him to step upwards and off he went leaving behind the wastelands of Hell, from its lava lakes to its icy tundra's. He was gone and so was Zannah.
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Back within the waking word Anakin awoke.
He had done it.
He was successful in fighting against his mortal fate and directly usurped control over his time of death, not really time but usurped the ability for time to reap his life. Now he could only die if someone has the capacity to do so.
His connection to the Force grew as well, not in the sense he had gained more midi-chlorians as that was only something that determined his raw potential, power and pull within the Force. No, he had gathered up an energy-field around himself that was the Force and was starting to make something of it.
A wound in the Force is not what he is.
He did not directly correspond with the way Nihilus did things but he was also not something that went along with the currents, he was something entirely new.
Anakin quickly started to withdraw his presence as even though he had defeated alot of powerful figures within the dimension of Hell, and absorbed alot of energy as well, it didn't mean it would correlate well in the living world.
He could feel it. A certain balance had been achieved within himself, the physical and spiritual had been dealt with meaning he had created something very hard to achieve.
Just because he was successful doesn't mean he doesn't need to put in any effort to keep himself balanced because he still does. Remember, without strife there is no change. Without change there is no improvement and Anakin still believes he has a long way to go.
'Hey! What is going on here!?' A voice within his head spoke to him, this voice was actually the soul and consciousness of Zannah.
"Be quiet, you should rest yourself." Anakin then mentally shut her down where she would enter a temporary hibernation to rejuvenate the damage done to her soul and consciousness.
She had been through the ravages of Chaos and had to still have an imprint of Bane living within her subconscious before he took care of the problem. 'Sleep now.' Anakin sent a telepathic message as she went further into his subconscious, protected and healing before her reemergence.
Now thoroughly refreshed, withdrawn from the Force he still didn't allow himself to be open within the bonds he has, not just yet.
He still has one more thing to do.
Looking around the world, his perception was increased by a milestone as just like Nihilus he was able to sense people or even just those who have a connection to the Force on a now planetary scale.
He still hasn't absorbed as much Force energy as Nihilus did, even though there was alot within Hell the difference was the location and the state of being. Nihilus was already like what he was when he was alive as he was dead.
While Anakin wasn't even complete, not even at his full potential yet, and he still has a long way to go and the only reason he overpowered Nihilus was because his pull within the Force was just that much more powerful.
If Nihilus had the limiting value of 10 in the Force, then Anakin had a limiting factor of 100.
That is the difference in being conceived by the Force itself and then going through changes and rituals meant to enhance his actually Living Force connection. The Nightsisters magick ritual was meant to influence the physical dark side of his being.
The ritual on Ilum was meant to influence the physical light side of his being.
Finally his journey into Hell was meant to affirm his spiritual duality of the dark and light with which he had done through the Immortis Gland implant and midi-chlorian manipulation. Truly a daring concept because the Force itself took on some action itself due to him doing something it didn't like.
Not that it could have stopped him.
As soon as he was reborn into this universe he had made it his goal to become more powerful because as is this galaxy is a dangerous place. Going deep into Hell only confirmed to him that he should probably become even stronger than he is now.
'I guess I need to consider what Force Shmi also told me about godhood...' Anakin thought to himself. 'Or what she didn't tell me...'
Anakin was enlightened to the fact he could become even greater then he is now and that there is a path beyond just achieving balance.
He had the grand idea to create his own balance, when thinking back to his conception of the spiritual matrix, he didn't much about it at first. It would of course be pretty significant considering its capabilities but it wouldn't have been the end all be all.
Now he believes that the formation of such a dimension may play an important part of discovery to creating his own energy-field. 'Imagine instead of the Force, you refer to the Anakin....'
'Ok, that sounds stupid, but the idea still stands.' Anakin thought to himself.
He could start to generate his own Cosmic Force, with which would be an extension of himself and allow him to create an even deeper flow within his capabilities. He also has some wild theories that if he were to do this, his midi-chlorians may evolve as well.
'In fact, thats a great idea.'
It was a known fact that having more midi-chlorians in general meant you have more pushing and pulling power within the Force but it didn't mean it was all that.
So essentially, midi-chlorians and the Force became a numbers game with which your abilities within the Force and your sensitivity was determined by this, but what if he could create a qualitive difference as well.
An example of this idea would be the vague magic circuits quantity and quality idea from the Type-Moon-verse.
Midi-chlorian count per cell was the quantity and then the type of midi-chlorian you had determined the quality. This means that even if you only had the average amount of midi-chlorians, you could still be Force-sensitive if your midi-chlorians were of a higher quality level.
Anakin could also take inspiration from the eastern culture from his previous life, where one could cultivate mystical energy to transform oneself into an immortal being. Generally this would be done by forming a core to store your energy and all of the other mystical stuff that comes along with it.
Not that Anakin needed to gain eternal youth anymore but it was an option to explore, one that if he did form a core of some kind it would generate his own energy-field that completely belonged and was apart of him.
'Anyway, I think it is time to inject myself with the 24th chromosome serum.' Anakin had been passed out on the medical bed within the hidden outpost he had set up on Andooweel just for this occasion.
He didn't know how long he had been gone for but he decided not to check and just get on with the next process because there was no time like the present.
Decisively he injected the serum right into himself, restricting his Nanosuit from interfering and breaking the syringe. In doing so he would go through an even more intense physical and mental pain.
It came as no surprise to him that it did exactly just that.
His body was morphing around the fact something else was not retroactively rewriting his genetic code and upgrading everything that was apart of the normal Human systems. Then the extra chromosome started to touch the implants and increased the efficiency and effectiveness of everything.
From his two hearts, to his three lungs ravaging right throughout his being.
It made him stronger and faster then he was before and in combination with everything else that had been done, it was basically overkill at this point but Anakin was not one for crying over spilled milk.
He wanted to be prepared for anything and this would essentially turn him fully biologically immortal, similar to Hydras. A genus of the Cnidaria phylum from his previous word that he couldn't discover in his new universe.
All cnidarians can regenerate, allowing them to recover from injury. Hydras were simple, freshwater animals possessing radial symmetry and contain post-mitotic cells (cells that will never divide again) only in the extremities.
All hydra cells continually divide. It has been suggested that hydras do not undergo senescence, and, as such, are biologically immortal.
But his was unlike these because when a body part is to be cut off, it wouldn't create another him, it would just disintegrate after a period of time because it wasn't connected to him anymore.
Of course research on this micro-organism was limited and no one could truly tell if it was biologically immortal but it was the closest thing he could equate himself to at this moment.
Results from his Nanosuit would read that his cellular and genetic makeup had officially changed and has become apart of him completely. He had not grown in height or anything but instead everything within him increased its limits to the extreme.
In fact he had gotten shorter as a result. He was no longer 2.15 meters tall but instead he was 1.9 meters in height now.
Without the Force, if Anakin could crush skulls easily before, now he could easily bend metal and probably even destroy metal by forcefully condensing it within his hand by applying enough pressure.
He can apply the full force of his weight plus the strength within his muscles to achieve something like this. If he was to measure his speed without the Force, he could probably run about 100km/h, but this was just his average speed and if he pushed it too the limits, again without the Force, he could probably reach speeds nearing 400km/h.
His stamina would probably enable him the ability to go at 100km/h for about 5 days straight before he gets tired, which after a 20 minute rest he would be one at 100%. At 400km/h he could probably go on for a little over 24 hours.
If he did a test of his actual physical strength levels, without the use of his constructed power armor and the aid of the Force he could probably on average lift about 11 tons which is the equivalent of nearly 10000 kilograms. An estimation of his carry capacity would be around 5000kg's while his pushing force would probably be around 20000kg's.
If really pushed his limits he could probably double all of those estimations, again without the Force or power armor.
This is alot, Anakin would say he has unlimited power but that is getting arrogant now.
"Ani!" A voice was heard from outside and then another. "Ani!" And another "Ani is here!"
Three faces appear before him and he shouldn't be surprised as he had foreseen that they would have at least tried to look for him.
"What were you doing!?" Aayla first approached him before hugging him and begins to tear up. "We thought you were in trouble."
Barriss also followed after and hugged Anakin but Shaak was still quite embarrassed by their strange ambiguous relationship, so she was the last to hug him. They all had some mental and emotional relief at knowing he was ok.
This just made he feel a little bad, not that he wouldn't do it again but it still meant they had all taken some place within his heart. "This is my fault, I should have told you guys I was doing something." Anakin said as the day came to an end.