In an unknown laboratory in the catacombs of the capital of an unknown country...
- We've been preparing for this for a thousand years... - muttered a strange old man with double pupils.
- And finally complete our project, boss! The creation of an artificial spirit beast... - Proudly answered a researcher nearby.
- Alright, enough talk, start the process! - Shouted the old man, and thousands of researchers activated their machines.
- Activate the spiritual energy harvesting systems!
After activation, everyone felt as if their soul was being sucked out of them.
- I still can't get used to that feeling... - muttered the old man.
- Bring the test subjects into the core!
The guards pushed several dozen desperately resisting teenagers into the core.
- Seal the core, activate the assembly array!
The runes that covered the core glowed a dark crimson color. The test subjects inside the core grabbed their heads one by one, screaming hysterically and falling unconscious, their bodies rapidly rotting and soon turning to dust.
- Insert the spirit beast crystal into the array!
The group of lab assistants inserted a strange, mind-suppressing stone into the central slot of the runic array and quickly moved away from it.
All the runes flashed bright purple and went out. The strange stone began to glow brightly with a purple light, like a precious ruby.
- Insert the crystal into the heart of the chosen test subject! - The chief scientist shouted with some excitement.
The crystal was taken out of the slot and inserted into the heart of the test subject, whose body was carved with a runic array.
The rune array glowed brightly upon touching the crystal and began to embed the crystal into the test subject's body, rebuilding it, hardening it, and collapsing it again to create a perfect receptacle for the crystal.
This process was extremely painful, so even the test subject, who had been knocked out beforehand, woke up and roared with extreme pain and resentment.
Soon his body no longer resembled a human body, but rather became a kind of "bun" of flesh and flesh. Also, it became translucent and might even have flown through matter, had it not been for the lab's completely rune-covered surface.Only pathetic fragments remained of the subject's consciousness, with which that distorted consciousness, obtained from dozens of young teenagers, merged.
- Activate the consciousness stabilization array!
The room in which the "bun" stood glowed a pale green color.
At the same time, the distorted consciousness inside slowly became stable and systematized.
- And finally... Administer the serum!
Mechanical hands covered in runes passed through the openings and began to inject the serum into the strange body of the "bun"
- So... this time everything will be successful, right, Snezhov? - asked the old man a young man with a cold-blooded look.
- Yes, Your Majesty," the old man with split pupils answered him.
- And you claim that after the success of your project we will be able to make the human body semi-spiritual, able to enter the spiritual world?
- That's what I said, Your Majesty. - ...the old man began to speak.
But at that moment the lights in the laboratory suddenly went out, then the alarm went off, the lights came back on, and everyone panicked.
At that time, a terrible, abnormal thunderstorm was raging outside.
Such a thunderstorm could kill even spiritual beings! And so, one of the lightning bolts struck an unremarkable piece of land. It seemed to be no big deal. But no, being a spiritual thunderstorm, its lightning could pass through almost any object directly without resistance and strike with its full power!
- {ALARM! THE RUNE ARRAY HAS BEEN BREACHED! ALARM!} - the alarm roared throughout the lab.
- ... WE'LL DISCUSS IT LATER! - The young prince of the empire glared furiously at the panicked old man before quickly evacuating with his guards.
-Impossible... - muttered the old man.
- I've been preparing this project alone for over a thousand years, subjecting my mortal soul to the influence of the abyss, and in the end everything will go to waste because of some spiritual storm!? - He thought in rage.
A spiritual lightning bolt crashed into the room with the "bun" in front of the old man's eyes.
- {WARNING! THE ARRAY OF THE STABILIZATION ROOM IS BROKEN! ALARM!} - The soulless alarm continued to roar.
- Spiritual lightning struck the object... It can no longer be saved...? - the old man thought with an expression of despair.
- No, there is one way, that's for sure! - the old man remembered the ancient manuscript he had found in an ancient tomb.
It said that any soul, even a distorted one, could be saved by the fusion of an advanced soul with it.
But usually no one used this method, because only legendary beasts and very, very rare people had advanced souls.
The old man, coincidentally, possessed just such a soul.
Having made his decision, the old man walked unobstructed into the uncluttered stabilization room and approached his creation.
- Hopefully, it would pay off. Though I will not live after the failure of the experiment anyway... - Said the old man, putting his hand on the "bun".
- (System call) (Initiate soul fusion) (Confirm)" the old man muttered, looking into the void.
Immediately afterwards his body inexplicably merged with the "bun" to form a humanoid creature.
[The merger of souls was successfully completed. The chance of success was 0.000001%. Congratulations]
[Lucky title obtained]
[Entities {Snezhnov Pavel Aleksandrovich, Man Infected by the Abyss} and {Eater Infected by the Sky} have been merged into {Eater of the Abyss and the Sky}]
[Current score: 10000 spirit points]
[Due to the merging of the two higher pedigrees, a low-ranking administrator's access code is obtained.]
[Due to the merger of two higher bloodlines obtained skills "Warping", "Devouring", "Flying".]
[Due to bodily transformations, the skill "Spirit Elemental" has been obtained.]
[Restore Consciousness]
[Successful]
[Current score: 89 spirit points]]
[New Entity, please state your name within twenty-four hours, otherwise you will be assigned a system number, you will be considered a fallen being during the merge and will be disconnected from the System].
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— ... (Volya)...
. . .
["Volya" accepted].
[Current level: 0]
[To pass beginner's training, call {Learning)]
[Until trained, movement and damage are blocked to avoid death and/or harm to others].