"Hello..."
Baël: "Huh?! Who are you?!"
The same voice rang across my mind, but now it dropped the serious tone in place of a mocking one.
"Heeey! I'm here! I'm the voice inside your head!"
Baël: "Huh-Wha-"
"Ugh, seriously? And this idiot is supposed to be the one controlling the body?"
Baël: "Who are you calling an idiot, dumbass?!"
"Bah, it doesn't matter right now, let's make this quick. You, try to focus on seeing me, meditate if you have to, but just do it, according to the little I've seen of you, you're more than capable of doing that."
After that I could hear a whisper.
"I don't think you're so useless to the point of not being able to do that with so much practice..."
Baël: "Tsk"
I did as the voice told me, I sat down on the stone floor and started to concentrate on seeing the person talking in my head.
After meditating for a few minutes I could feel lighter and more relaxed, I felt a cold wind passing by and the feeling of blinking, even if I had my eyes closed.
When I opened my eyes everything was dark, someone very similar to me but with elegant clothes was looking at me with a sharp smile.
"Are you done?"
His pointy smile showed some signs of mockery that quickly disappeared.
"Excuse me, where are my manners? My name is Zak."
Baël: "So you were the bastard who insulted me?!"
Zak: "That's me, bitch."
Baël: "Oh you sack of-"
Zak: "Well, don't be offended you little prick, I'm here to help you after all."
I then tried to calm down and think before speaking.
Baël: "All right, how the hell are you going to help me?"
Zak: "Very simple really, let's say I've noticed some of your flaws, for example your lack of ability to create plans, and turns out I'm an expert at that.... You do have above average planning skills though, that is if we assume that you're a newborn."
Baël: "Ugh..."
Zak: "I can also help you during fights, while you focus on controlling the body, I can analyze all the information that you wouldn't usually notice in that situation, I'm sure this will be a great improvement in our battle performance."
Baël:"... And how can I trust you?"
Zak: "Because I'm you, you idiot! Looks like the Saiyan blood left you a little brain rotted!"
I looked at him infuriated, no one disrespects me, not even the prince of my own race, And this guy comes to expropriate my territory? I approached him to hit him.
I struck him with all my might, but my fist went through his chest.
Zak spoke with clear mockery and sarcasm.
Zak: "Ohh! Please.... Don't kill me! I have three kids and a wife to support!"
Zak spoke again, however this time his voice carried a clear disappointment, almost like that of a very unimpressed father.
Zak:"... You are the stupidest idiot I have ever seen in my life, and I was born 5 minutes ago — I didn't even expect anything from you and look how you disappoint me!"
My anger was increasing by the minute and if something was clear to me at this moment, it was that I couldn't stand this disrespect.
Baël: "Listen here you absolute filthy ball-sucking bitch! I swear I will destroy you and feed your remains to my friend's pet!"
My voice carried a great deal of anger, and I had no intention of hiding it.
Zak: "You don't seem to understand, do you? We are in a mental simulation, and these are our metaphysical forms, there is no physical harm here, and if you didn't get it I'll translate it into abnormal monkey language: YOU CAN'T HIT ME DUMBASS!"
Zak was speaking in a very elegant way as I pulled my fist out of his chest, he was completely intact.
Zak: "Anyway, I'll get to the point here, I am you, but in a more edgy version and with copyright free music in the background, I am the culmination of all your mental traumas and insecurities, and I will be the protector of all the knowledge in your brain, if any entity, being or whatever the hell tries to get into your head I will beat the cognitive shit out of it, you'll be immune to all kinds of concussions, and say goodbye to the incessant traffic of information, as I will administer it, there are 3 types of mental modes: battle mode, where the little morality you have will be eliminated, sentimentality will be reduced, and you will not take anything personal; the second is study mode, where I will take your brain capacity to the maximum level which will give you a photographic memory and a physical, chemical and spiritual understanding of all things — an injury will no longer be a problem for you, the disadvantage of this mode is that you will become insensitive to anything emotional, you'll be reduced to a blithering idiot while talking; and the normal mode, where you'll be a normal person, if you can be considered that anyway... Ah, yes... And I almost forgot, fapping is forbidden, it kills neurons."
Zak said the latter with a wink.
...
Twelve hours had passed, and I had healed my body completely, I was still sitting on the floor lost in my thoughts.
The stats screen was in front of me, but I wasn't paying attention to it.
A young woman appeared in my mind and spoke in what was probably the voice I was happiest to hear, as it always brought good news or warnings to stay alive, it was the system.
[Host, your Hp has fully regenerated, you asked me to warn you].
I stopped wandering in my thoughts and got up from the ground.
Baël: "Thank you system."
The woman smiled at the thank you, multiple thoughts popped into my mind at the sight of it, but I decided to dismiss them all and focus on what I had to do now.
I looked up at the ceiling and flew in a burst of speed towards it, in my other life I would've felt fear, but now, I wasn't even paying attention to it, my mind continuously alternated, tapping out and refocusing on reality.
I broke through the cave ceiling revealing the magma that had nearly killed me earlier.
I used [Physical Buff] and flew through the magma.
My Hp dropped again, but it was nothing compared to last time.
In less than 10 seconds I came out to the surface of the planet, the damage I took was barely noticeable.
I gained a great increase in power thanks to the damage I took until then, my speed had increased due to the increase in Dex, but it was also thanks to the fact that I had become even more accustomed to the gravity of this planet, apparently it was because of my Vit.
However, although I was happy about my increased power, something was troubling me greatly.
I began to train on this planet just like before the Igneous Elemental Bodies appeared.
Hours passed, however, my stats did not increase in the slightest, a voice sounded in my mind.
Zak: "How long do you intend to keep this up, haven't you noticed what's going on yet?"
I wasn't looking at him at the moment, but I didn't need to know that a shit-eating grin was on his face.
Baël: "Oh, and do you know what's going on? If so tell me, oh great all-knowing Zak"
I tried to lock him myself this time.
Zak let out a long sigh and then spoke.
Zak: "Do I really have to do this...? Alright then..."
Zak let out another sigh.
Zak: "Don't you realize that you no longer have S-cells to activate your Zenkai? Or shall I explain it to you with little dolls?"
I stopped training when Zak finished speaking.
Baël: "Yeah yeah.... Sure."
I started to think about what Zak said....
What am I supposed to do now!? I couldn't increase my power directly, so I can only think about improving my skills.... But that's not enough...
Zak: "Well my dear retarded friend, did you know that not everything in this world is based on power?"
I concentrated on Zak's voice until I could see him in my mind, I looked at him waiting for him to explain himself.
Zak: "You see... Don't you find it better to be able to control everything? To have the whole world in the palm of your hand and be able to control it like a puppeteer controls his puppets?"
Zak spoke coldly, I could almost swear the temperature was dropping all around.
Baël:"... And how are you supposed to do something like that?.... It's not like it's easy to control a universe you know...?"
Zak: "100%ing Sekiro is not easy either, many things are not easy... But they are not impossible. Besides, when did I say it would be only one universe? How could I say that when there are 11 more waiting? An entire multiverse under our control."
Zak might not have a physical body, but for every word that came out of his mouth I felt a non-existent pressure and coldness penetrating my being....
Zak: "And I have already planned how we will start.... The beginning will be by saving a race that is being destroyed by Frieza's army."
Baël:"... Hey, I can't go against Frieza's army just like that, they'd finish me off instantly!"
Zak: "By save the race I meant economically, make them believe that you are their savior and manipulate them to manufacture technology for you, manipulate everyone around you, promote positions within Frieza's army, this way you'll be taking you will gain, information and power, and with it, you will bring down the army from within."
I was speechless, he didn't give any details on how to do anything, but looking at him, I could feel that he already had thousands of ideas in mind.
Zak: "Good, now leave this volcanic planet and look for one full of vegetation and nature."
What he said confused me.
Baël: "What for?"
Zak: "Ugh, and you're supposed to have thought about this for years...? It's to collect the Ki of living beings, plants, animals, everything, so you will increase the regeneration of your S cells, and you can improve your body".
Baël: "Improve my body? I've already learned how to do that, look at [Physical Buff]".
Zak: "Not so retarded then... With the Ki flowing through your body, it will slowly improve by nourishing itself with this energy, improving little by little, this process is done naturally, but by meditating you can accelerate the process, this improvement is permanent, not like that skill. Didn't you find it strange that people have no apparent power limit? This is why. Did it not seem strange that they don't get sick at all? This is the reason, this way you improve at the cellular level"
I nodded at what he said trying to ignore the fact that he indirectly called me a retard.
I rose into the air and flew in one direction, a while later the mountain my spaceship was on came into my view, I quickly entered and got into the spaceship without a second glance.
Inside the single person spacecraft, I checked the tracker to make sure I still had no army missions assigned.
Leaving the tracker in the same place it was, I pulled out a small laptop, tapped a few buttons and a 3D map of the universe appeared before me, I quickly started searching for planets in the database that were similar to what Zak said.
Zak: "Well... It must have high oxygen levels, be small and made out of low density materials so that the gravity is not too high, the star system star must be yellow, if possible a star system with only one star, obviously, it must be full of vegetation and life."
I followed Zak's data and a few planets appeared marked on the map, some had no name and only had a serial number, I added one more filter eliminating planets that were conquered by organizations, this eliminated most planets with names.
One option quickly caught my attention, a planet in the northern galaxies, specifically the Milky Way, in a star system that had no name, but I already knew what it was, this planet was the Earth of the Solar System.
After thinking about it for a moment I decided to ignore it, that familiar planet had too many things, it was better not to go now.... Besides, if I went now Freezer's Army would know its coordinates, it is a great planet in terms of beauty, it would be easily bought, so it would take little time for them to conquer it. Besides, I wasn't sure about the amount of fuel being enough to go there and back, I would have to do some calculations beforehand...
After closing the search circle even more because of the distance, I found a good planet, it was "called" KJUB-768367001.... It's a serial number, no one had bothered to name it yet....
Without further delay I dialed its coordinates and the journey began, the spaceship began to hover and moved forward leaving the cave, when the atmosphere became slightly brighter I knew I was on the outside, the dark ash filled sky was a very familiar image to me after all this time, however the ship only ascended through it, when it ceased to have obstacles as it left the planet its speed shot up, increasing to many more times the speed of light.
Seeing this speed I stared at it intently, I wanted to know how I could make my own spaceship, and in fact, I had already started to study it, I thought of where I could go, but unfortunately I haven't had time to investigate enough....
I wonder ... Could Zak know how to build a spaceship?.... He has knowledge many things.... Well... I'm running out of time... I guess I'll enjoy this strange break, after all I almost died....
My eyes closed with the ship's hibernation function, my consciousness leaving as exhaustion washed over me.
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