Arriving at home, he went directly into the living room and laid down flat on the sofa.
Alexander was tired after all he went through.
Everything that happened was mentally taxing even for him who was a bundle of energy with near unlimited stamina.
But even that had its problems. Deep down, Alexander knew that he needed to change something about his defenses.
Just how did that slime enter his soul realm? He tried absorbing me when instead he was absorbed.
If any bad guy that tries some sort of absorption technique gets pulled into me, I will have a problem.
A barrier skill could wait. For now, all he wanted to do was to sleep.
Unconsciously, Alexander turned into his wolf form to get a better sleep.
Unbeknownst to him, his wolf firm, which was usually grey in color, was now in the same white gold color as his mana.
The divine spark influenced his forms to a degree where the changes showed on the outside.
When it fully matured, the changes would likely affect every form he would take.
Sleeping peacefully, Alexander drifted into a calm state where he could relax fully.
He needed that.
After many hours of sleep, Alexander awoke by a tickling feeling at his ears.
He rolled to the side and now had a better pillow than before.
His sister volunteered to be his pillow for the time being where he did not want to get up.
"H- Hey Alex, I know you are fluffy but why are you so heavy?"
Elly struggled to get away from him, but alexander not only used his head to rest, both legs stretched over Elly's belly and made it impossible for her to escape.
"Neck."
Elly was stunned. He did not answer her properly but gave a command where she had to scratch him.
The first time Alexander was cuddled by his sister and mother, he seemed to not like it very much.
The second time was different. It was more tolerable for him to be cuddled.
Now he was actively commanding to be cuddled.
Elly really liked this development.
She could now cuddle her cute little brother whenever she wanted.
His fluffiness was godly. Even without maintaining his fur, Alexander was silky smooth when it came to that department.
He smelled nice too. Elly could not make out what the smell was, but it was a soft and nice smell.
"My God, have you become even more fluffy now that you have turned white? You are so cute~~~~"
As she asked the question and ruffled his head, Alexander became confused.
Wasn't he normally grey in this form? When did that change?
Alexander conjured a plate of still water where he could see his reflection in.
Elly was right. His fur was completely white with a hint of gold in it.
Just why did his wolf form adapt to the color of his mana was a question he could not answer.
But that was a reasonable explanation why Elly found him fluffier.
His divine spark held the essence of purity within. His mana would adapt to that and incorporate purity into everything Alexander did.
"Soo my little brother. What did you do the last two days? Is your depressive episode over?"
Elly did not like to beat around the bush too much. Alexander loved that about his sister.
She was open for any conversational topic one could throw at her and talk with no restraints about everything.
"To keep it short, I entered heaven with a dying man I got to know a little while before his death, talked with two gods of our world, got a history lesson and after that I got stronger and killed a few pesky slimes in our world here."
Elly was overwhelmed with the information that Alexander was presenting.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down. There were a lot of crucial details that you missed there. Slow down a little bit."
Alexander used his sister belly as his personal pillow and continued talking.
What he did not realize because it was normal for him to be able to talk, Elle picked up on the fact that he could now talk unhindered in his wolf form.
Whatever change he did go through, it was something major.
Elly was especially interested by the history lesson that he received about the world.
She had made her own theories about why the mana did go away from the world after Alexander told her that the game they were playing had the goal to return mana to the world.
The entire time he talked, Elly caressed his head. Whenever she touched a good spot, Alexanders hind leg would show her.
His brother was easy to handle in this form.
"You had to witness so much in just two days… While the rest of us enjoys the casual atmosphere of the other word, you are constantly hit by the heavy topics."
Elly cuddled him a lot more after that and at some point, they decided that they were hungry and went to the kitchen.
While the both of them my not look like it. They could both cook delicious food.
A few years ago the entire family played in a game show where they won an award for cooking.
It filled their hearts with joy to just strife for the win. Even if it was a cooking competition.
They were making pasta for everyone when their parents decided to join them.
The room was filled with useless talk for a while, but these were the moments Alexander cherished the most. For his family, he has always been an angel. The fact that he was now something even better than an angel did not matter to much in this atmosphere.
This was the peace he wanted to protect.
Everyone should have people around them like those who really care about one another without any malicious intent in the background.
To just do something for other people without needed to be told so or without something to gain.
Alexander was glad that he had people around himself that were like that.
While Alexander found the resolve to thing about the relationship he had with his parents. a pulse of energy that originated at the center of Alexanders soul core shook him around.
At first, Alex did not react to the pulse. Only after the third pulse when the intensity grew, he stopped doing anything else and had a serious face all of a sudden.
Alexanders entire being felt like it was being ripped apart.
The pulses reached every tiny corner of his soul and when they reached a border they reflected back to his core.
The first few pulsed did not do much damage and were unnoticeable because alone, they could not do much.
After the fourth or fifth pulse however, the first few came back and created an interference pattern in his soul.
This was the painful thing Alexander felt all of a sudden.
His core most likely underwent a breakthrough at the moment.
If somehow his family was harmed by him breaking through, he would never forgive himself.
"Need to go right now. See you lat-"
Before even finishing his own sentence, Alexander flew in his ethereal form towards the sky even fast than he was before.
His intent however was not to enter heaven.
Not knowing what he went through at the moment, Alexander went out of the boundaries of earth and entered space.
He was a soul that did not need any air to survive. The empty space was ideal for a breakthrough.
At least here he could deal little to no damage to his surroundings.
The interference patterns filled Alexanders soul entirely by the time he entered space.
They even went outside of his soul and had a destructive force behind them.
Just what did cause the sudden change? Was it his spark reaching maturity or something different?
Was there some kind of trigger?
He was only together with his family doing dumb stuff and having fun with them. He did not do anything special. Even his feelings were all pure at that moment.
"Wait… Pure thoughts and feelings…"
To hold onto a law, one must only hold the knowledge regarding the law itself.
The law of fire for example worked even if one was not always on edge and burning to do something.
But to fuse with a law like alexander was doing would be different.
Not only must Alexander accept the law. He needed to be compatible with the law itself.
To make light use of the purity law, nothing much was needed. Most people had some degree of purity in them.
To act on those feelings was something different in itself.
Pure thoughts and actions were important for the law to firmly root itself in the host.
This was the last percent Alexanders divine spark needed. One he could absorb an entire planet worth of mana for and still not being able to achieve the last percent kind of thing.
It was the last fail-save for the law of purity to now get used by an impure person.
Inside Alexander soul realm. These interference patterns overlapped more and more until they were something akin to a rough wave of energy.
He was cleansed by this energy. Everything he was made of, underwent a qualitative change in an instant.
His mana was now a little bit more golden than white.
But to balance it out, he wanted a good 50/50 split between white and gold.
These rough waves did not seem to calm down on their own at all.
So Alexander did, what he had done before to mitigate the waves. His core started spinning and the mana around the core created a vortex that sucked the waves in.
That seemed to work wonders. The pain Alexander felt was relieved after five minutes of trapping the waves around his own core.
If this whole ordeal is over, this would be a good way to protect his own soul he believed.
Alexander did not create the vortex outside of his soul, therefore he did not create a black hole, but in his soul realm, everything was sucked towards the core.
The rest of the soul felt so empty all of a sudden when all pulse waves were trapped around his core.
He continued trapping the pulse waves around his core for a solid hour before he could not even tell anymore that they were waves at all.
A thick membrane was created around his own core.
If one strengthened his own imagination like when looking into the clouds for objects, the core would look like a cocoon of energy.
Alexander could feel the change happening in the cocoon. It was slow, but he clearly felt that his core was absorbing the pulse waves again.
They originated from the core and were now ready to be taken in again.
Slowly but surely, the thick membrane around his core shrunk down.
He was in space for five hours by the point the last pulse waves were absorbed back into the core.
Nothing really happened besides his core that was made out of pure essence became enriched in the law of purity.
That was the reason why Alexander felt so much pain. His core underwent a major change and that mean he himself felt the remodeling of the core.
At first, he thought that fusing with his own core was a great idea.
Now came the second guessing of what that actually meant.
Every tiny bit of damage to his core would be detrimental to his own health.
Each breakthrough would put him on deaths door in terms of pain.
Even if he had fused with a divine law. That did not mean that he was suddenly stronger.
In fact he used so much of his own energy reserves that he needed to at least absorb another two forests to obtain similar quantities of the energy he lost.
Now that he was done breaking through, Alexander looked around for the first time after he entered space.
He had a beautiful view of his home planet.