Walking away from the explosion of blood and gore Adrian stretched his now stiff body while yawning.
When Sakura saw this she quickly reprimanded, ~Stop trying to look cool.~
"Who said I was trying to act cool." Adrian quipped
Hearing this Sakura's voice broke in embarrassment as she tried to rebuttal before falling silent.
"So, … I just need to find three more of these and spend another year here?" he said while holding a bizarre crystal that constantly pulsed with many colors
~Something like that.~ Sakura sharply responded while pouting
With pep in his step, Adrian asked, "When will Dee be healthy again?"
Conflicted, Sakura tried to decide whether, to tell the truth, or say what Adrian would want to hear.
Making up her mind Sakura sheepishly said, ~...somewhere in the range of a few months to 2028 years… without supplements…~
"Of course… I forgot your people are scammers… sigh." Adrian said in a depressed tone
Sakura pouted while saying, ~First off, did you just say 'sigh?' Second, that number is incredibly low considering how much damage Dee's soul sustained.~
~And you can speed up the process… but since we are scammers I won't tell you how.~ Adrian could clearly hear the disapproval in Sakura's voice
"..." Adrian at that moment realized what he had said
"Sakura… I didn't mean that. I-... just want to see Dee again."
After being ignored for a few awkward minutes of silence, Adrian accepted what he had said had upset her, so gave Sakura some time.
After the return of his complete soul, Adrian decided to start his life in this new land the same way he did under the crimson skies of the apocalypse, and to a lesser extent the forest, with extreme, excessive training.
Adrian began his training with basic stretches and yoga until he felt he could move as he wanted.
Shortly after Adrian began to practice basic exercises, completing 3 reps of 1 thousand squats, push-ups, sit-ups, and lunges, finishing with a thousand-kilometer sprint.
Feeling satisfied with his basic body workouts Adrian decided to switch to more advanced weapon arts, pulling out his spear he started to slowly practice the basic movements that made up all weapon arts, grips, stances, maneuvers, cuts, chops, slashes, blocks, parries, and thrusts.
As he started to heat up Adrian started to practice them faster and faster, until he had created a small vacuum around him, only then did he attempt to chain his movements, shattering the remaining air around him.
In the process, his clothes were torn apart allowing a body full of densely packed muscles covered in a layer of fat to be seen.
As the movements started to flow like the ocean unending yet stagnated, calm yet raging, Adrian started to incorporate throwing his weapon in various directions to perform a flurry of different martial arts only to catch his spear moments before it hit the ground.
As he became more and more comfortable with his form and movements Adrian tried to connect his mind, body, and soul with his emotions as a catalyst so he could once again train in his self-made weapon art, Nine Emotions, Infinite Weapon Art.
The Nine Emotions, Infinite Weapon Art was a special art made to compete with an ever-changing body composed of the amalgamation of all known weapons and martial arts. This weapon art was created using nine stances as a base to emulate an infinite number of variations, allowing one to become an ever-changing enigma unable to be seen through.
Each stance emulated an emotion causing his body to react in many different ways, with the nine emotions that made up his stances being Anger, Madness/Insanity, Pain, Joy, Love, Shame, Guilt, Loneliness, and Curiosity.
With each stance, a different aura radiated from the depths of Adrian's soul causing different veils of mist to condense around his body as the earth beneath his feet moved in response.
As the mist gathered three cores appeared around his body one above his abdomen, one opposite to his heart, and the final one appeared between his eyes, each gathering different energies around each.
Only when the three cores synced did an infinite number of incorporeal clones appear behind Adrian each with different weapons, temperaments, and techniques.
Suddenly, three new energies resonated with the cores surrounding Adrian's body causing him to gain a deeper understanding of the new energies.
Under their effects, Adrian had the insane idea to incorporate them into his technique and as he did so his body was reshaped and refined by his 'Heavenly Demonic Cultivated Mana Talent,' 'Draconic Yin-Yang Immortal Root,' and 'Masochistic King's grimoire of poisons' allowing him to experience his first evolution without the guidance of the chip.
With his newfound understanding of the three new energies, Adrian guided each throughout his body, forcing it to undergo great changes to accommodate the energies.
The first energy to wash over Adrian's body was his 'Heavenly Demonic Cultivated Mana Talent.' Like an undying flame, it washed over his body one hundred times, incinerating each cell before replacing it with another that had a slightly different genetic makeup.
Each time the process was completed there was a brief moment of reprieve before the excruciating process began anew.
After the first few washes where it covered every inch of his body the energy started to find new routes creating a new set of veins that would carry it throughout the body before settling in two locations which soon formed into two new organs, one located opposite his heart while the other formed along his brain stem.
[Linking Human sub-genome to Demonic and Spirit sub-genomes…]
After the last of its energy flowed into his body Adrian guided the 'Draconic Yin-Yang Immortal Root' to enter his body as energy. This energy was like a smooth-flowing current as it slowly and calmly washed over his body.
As it changed cells it felt as if time itself was causing the changes in his body as they were almost unnoticeable.
Following the same principle as the last energy, this energy washed over his entire body the first few times before finding a path it preferred to travel. The path it chose was intertwined with his nervous system creating root-like nerves that culminated within the brain before forming a small pearl that was slightly visible on Adrian's forehead.
[Linking sub-genomes Human, Draconic, and Eldritch…]
As the last energy to wash over Adrian's body 'Masochistic King's grimoire of poisons' flowed through each of his pores like a liquid melting every blockage that impeded its entry.
This time his cells were melted before reforming with a new hollow chloroplast-like structure that absorbed nearby energy to create poisonous substances that would cause different reactions in his body depending on the effect of the substance.
[Linking sub-genomes Human and Kulatin*…]
[Creating new evolutionary pathways…]
[Unlocking genomes Abyssal, Kulatin, and Plant.]
[Current Evolution Tier 2+ existence Lesser Okutiar* Humanoid]
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The entire process took a little over 30 days.
During the entire process, Adrian's technique evolved with the changes to his body to better fit each change. During the process Adrian was disconnected from his senses and emotions otherwise he most likely wouldn't have even been able to complete the process in one go as he would have had to break from his training and slowly adjust to each change before starting the next process.
[Achievement: Evolution without the guide]
[Removing prerequisite from Absolute System]
In a few minutes after the process was complete and all three energies settled Adrian's emotions slightly fell out of sync causing his weapon art to fail and further causing each of the infinite energy projection clones to be absorbed back into his body.
Once the weapon art failed a wave of lethargy washed over Adrian causing him to collapse into a pool of toxins, excrement, and useless matter that escaped from his body as it was reformed.
~What... were those movements? What happened to his body? I'll have to ask when he wakes up.~ Sakura said with a deep sigh
******
At Nexus Interface's Entertainment facility.
"Someone tell me, what the FUCK just happened?!" OS demanded
"Well, you got your ass kicked by the Demi-System. OH, and Adrian just combined three separated divinities into one body." The Cursed Writer answered as he laughed his ass off
With the simple exchange between two of the [energies] every other existence in the room cowered in fear of the repercussions.
OS charged at Cursed Writer, troughing every slur they could think of in hundreds of indistinct languages only for Cursed Writer to stick out his hand and catch OS by the face before picking them up and setting OS back in its chair.
"Kueh Kueh… Let's watch another view since Adrian passed out. Sorry new readers, it's too soon to watch this view." As Cursed Writer said this he snapped causing the view to crumble
******
In this new view, the sky above was illuminated by an infinite expanse of fleeting universes. Below this indescribable spectacle was an infinite expanse of battlefield housing a singular town.
In the middle of this town was a small lake that reflected Adrian's experience on the island.
Two figures were imitating the training they had just seen in the lake with little effect, those two figures being Seal and Demon.
"What happened to this Adrian before he ended up manifesting on the Island?" Seal asked Demon in an oddly inquisitive tone before muttering, "I didn't even learn that..."
"Honestly I don't know. According to everyone this Adrian didn't exist in the lake until he got to the island. The only thing we have is a small scroll (refer to chapter1) that washed up from the pond when he showed up here." Demon replied as he still clumsily tried to perform Adrian's movements, "I mean the mystery is why I looked into him in the first place."
"Seal, haven't you been here the longest? How do you not know?" Demon quickly added
"Just because I was here from the start doesn't mean I watch this place constantly. Hell, most of them fail before they even get here." Seal said in an annoyed tone
Suddenly a deep alluring feminine voice said, "You should pay more attention; you let uninvited guests watch."
As the voice met the ears of the Nexus party a crack appeared and broke the view…