Time moved quickly, The Watcher had sent out a drone to recover the KMBS-A05 and to bring it towards his research base while simultaneously creating and upgrading the Project NGSP pod getting it ready for its new occupant. The Watcher detected changes in life signs of the merge pod that indicated it was time for the baby to enter the world. The Watcher had planned for this and quickly enacted his plans, he instructed the new specifically designed drone to deliver the baby via c-section and implant it into its new pod.
It was going to plan, the baby was removed and placed into a new pod and the new life support systems were turned on and the calibration systems were started. Suddenly multiple different warning alarms started ringing from the pod. The baby's life signs were crashing and it wasn't going to make it.
The Watcher was currently panicking, this wasn't the plan. He had become heavily invested in this venture, it had to work. There hadn't been any new Angels since they transcended from their organic bodies more than 100 000 years ago. This condition did not sit well with The Watcher, they had spent millennia studying and experimenting on possible solutions to this stumbling block in their evolution. While this baby was not an Angel it had stirred up some long-forgotten parental instincts leftover from their pre-transcendence day.
The Watcher scanned the newborn infant again, while simultaneously researching all the medical material it could. It had identified the problem; The infant's brain had become severely distorted compared to standard. The exposure to the merge pod during gestation appeared to have significantly affected the baby's development. The baby had become dependent on inputs from the AI to survive.
Knowing the problem wasn't enough, it would be a challenge for The Watcher to find a solution. The merge interface that had connected the AI to the baby had been using the mother as the medium and this was no longer an option. The Watcher tried to implement multiple solutions starting with trying to directly connect the infant back to the merge pod, but it refused to accept the connection. It tried to connect it to the AI that was controlling the NGSS system but it could not identify a suitable host as the infant's brain had deviated too far from standard for the system to adjust.
As the minutes passed by the infant life signs continued to decline, The Watcher needed to find a solution and quickly, or the last 7 months would've been a waste. A medium was needed to help link the AI to the infant or to successfully integrate with the unique brain and allow it infant to survive.
In desperate need of a solution, the Watcher had a sudden epiphany and quickly went into action and moved both the merge pod and the NGSP to his research lab. For more than 3000 years The Watcher has toiled away at the same problem and that problem was how to produce more angels. Any of the paragons(first tier) could create a new sentient lifeform. Angels were not a first-tier race they were a third-tier race which meant that The Watcher was trying to jump the queue, but he could not stand by idly while the Angel race slowly drifted towards extinction. His experiments had always failed and sometimes with explosive consequences like the experiment that led to the mind-death of Lyn Anderson.
Angels don't age or grow; they might sometimes increase or decrease the density of their energy but it was for this reason that The Watcher always focus on creating fully functional Angels as it could not risk bringing life to a defective Angel that could live forever in a damaged state. This is where the epiphany came into play. The problem was that Angel was required to contain too much energy and the newly form life-forms had no experience in controlling so much energy that they would explode in the process of trying. What if Angel could grow and adapt then they could be created with a fraction of the energy.
The Watcher was quickly adapting its experiment to reduce the amount of energy it would release in the hopes of creating a small energy being that could be used as a temporary medium for connecting the baby to its AI. Normally it would take years to plan and test out new ideas, but The Watcher was out of options so fired up his machines and mentally pressed the button to create a new life-form.
Sentient life needed three ingredients. Life, mind, and soul. The first two were complex but not impossible for any race that had reached the 3rd tier of understanding of the universe but that last ingredient had an ineffable essence that made it impossible to create. The Watcher solution was to recycle, all sentient life-forms left a soul presence on the universe for those that knew where to look.
The Watcher solution to this was to create a spiritually greedy energy lifeform created from its energy. It had been programmed to identify anything that resembled thought patterns or a soul and to try and integrate them into its own AI Matrix. In theory, the new lifeform would then be able to recycle old souls to create a new sentient being. To do this The Watcher had to forcibly open a path to the location that contained past souls, and this would release a significant amount of psychic energy.
Before The Watcher could do this, an ancient artifact that was in his workshop started to glow and absorbed the newly created angel body. The Watcher had picked up the artifact from a long-dead world, he didn't even know what inspired him to keep it except it seems too advanced for the civilisation. He had never figured out what it was.
Pain, Confusion, and Fear were the first feeling that the infant had when its dormant conscience was awakened by the energy released by the artifact. Those feeling only last instant before it felt a sudden tug on its essence as if something was forcibly trying to remove it from his host. The newly awakened conscience Instinctively reacted defensively trying to break off the connection from the unknown contact yet failed in doing so. The new conscience was in a tug-of-war for its very existence. The war didn't last very long as the new conscience was easily able to overwhelm and absorb the contact from the artifact.
Inside the new conscience, a series of messages were being sent.
**Alterra Seed Host Detected**
**Fusion Material Detected**
**True Magic System Implanted**
The conscience was too new to understand what any of this meant.
The Watcher had all their sensors focused on the pod to monitor the latest experiment. The interference of the artifact had been unexpected and The Watcher couldn't make sense of the reading he was getting. Somehow the Angel lifeform had been merged with the infant in some form of symbiotic fashion. It had managed to stabilise the infant and save its life.
The new baby needed a name. The Watcher had analysed the data from the merge pod and had found the pilot profile and realised that the baby already had a name. You from now on shall be called Null.
The Watcher connected to Null conscience to tell him his name and once he did he inadvertently started the system.
** Welcome User to The Alterra True Magic System**
Name: Null
Str:0
Int:0
Dex:0
Energy: 5
Wis:0
Magical Affinity: None
Magical Control: F
Physical Combat Rate: F
Equipment: None
Skills: None
Unique Ability Detected: Voice of the Universe
Fusion Material: Energy Lifeform
Fusion Ability: Energy Vision
That is how in the early months of 2091, fate had delivered to the universe an incredible improbable birth that would change the future.