Jack noticed his voice was uncannily feminine or high pitched. Although a slight masculinity could be heard, it was definitely the sound that a girl would make.
The partially artificial human put an unamused stern face after looking at every angle possible to the surroundings.
"Sephiroth, did you just seriously, artificially reincarnate me by an egg, and on a bloody desert!?"
[I have no Reality Fragments or any kind of fuel to transport your soul from this area without perishing both of us.]
The genderless child made himself comfy on the bottoms part of his sticky eggshell's inside, knowing that stepping on the searing sands was the same as courting the act of self torture.
"So it's mostly our luck, huh." Jack leaned his head, caressing his soft chin as he showed a grin of distraught. "Strangely enough, my voice is more girly than my daughter's in her fourteen. Do you have anything to let me see my own appearance?"
[Emulating mirror to host's convenience_
[Now feast on your own genetic abomination, Jack.]
A holographic reverse cylinder mirror appeared in front of him. He then tried to balance himself as he stood, letting his shoulder-length jet-black hair get caressed by the windy breeze. Just like what had the system forebode, his crotch was smooth.
Apparently, there was no hole in-between his buttcheeks either.
"... Sephiroth, did you know human anatomy at all?"
[I mutated your digestive system to fully process everything within your body, corresponding to their material. There won't be any excess, even the liquid_
[Your stomach is now a black hole, Jack.]
Jack crossed his arms. "That is definitely the mutation that led you to remove my 'precious'."
[I extracted your memories and most of them had corroded with time. My main processor can't replicate the exact genetic version of the original without a clear schematic.]
"Hooo, so you also don't have any service then?"
[I'm not connected to the Mother Roots anymore, hence why I need a natural gathered data to even do something.]
"The rice had become porridge by a drunk thing that is so-called fate. Can't fret every spoiled egg, aren't we?"
[We'll be able to make more omelets soon. I have enough Reality Fragments to create an improvised 'Roots Feature' if you say the word. Although it's permanent and can't be changed, so choose wisely]
Basically, Sephiroth was a featureless system with no distinctive service. Jack listened to the problem but he got distracted by his own new vessel.
"Hey, Sephiroth. Is this just me but I have a rather wide shoulder and male proportions, as if I'm a healthy boy, but my face is that of a princess. Care to explain?"
[It's your genetic, Jack.]
"Definitely not! My face is manlier than a lion back in my day!"
[From the data gathered, it seems like your whole body below your neck is that of a male, and the opposite to the top.]
Jack then sat on the platform of the giant egg, not minding the sticky liquid as he had experienced something worse. With his brain working, he continued to caress his chin, tilting his head, and closed his striking red eyes to heighten his imagination.
"This is probably what would happen if my body is indecisive. Then again, there is no meaning if I don't have anything down there. Seems like some exercise to get in shape is needed for this body."
Jack snickered to himself. "Although, thanks to the almighty wonder of fate, that it's not the opposite. Ahahah! It would be really awkward if I had mountains with the face of a man. That would've been silly.
"Don't mind me, just some rambling from this old man. In any case, you say that I need to choose my own 'Roots Feature' to get the most of your services. Give me the sitrep."
[Just like any Digilites, or System in your human tongue, we mainly implant ourselves with one or more Roots Feature to establish our theme of service to our host. As of now, I have all of my 5 Roots Features stripped from me after a dimensional collision_
[I have enough Reality Fragments to accommodate myself with a single Roots Feature, in which I'll give you the privilege to choose the object or things that I can extract to form my service mainframe.]
"Yeah." Jack amusedly sneered. "We definitely need something to get me out of this place. I'm on my way to reach 'well done' in terms of doneness with this searing heat."
He then stared at the sands and eventually to the surrounding. Jack felt an enlightenment run through his brain as the dopamine coursing in and out.
"Sephiroth, can you extract the sands, or wind, or the sun itself?"
[The Reality Fragments available isn't enough to extract the whole sun. The light from it is plausible.]
"Time didn't wait for a feeble existence like us. Patient in finding something unique won't help me being not-so cooked into a half fried egg."
[Are you sure? There won't be turning back because the current mainframe of my Roots Feature Socket can only hold one. By deciding, you will be stuck with the same kind of 'System' until we find a natural source of Reality Fragments_
[This world is filled with anomalies and unrecorded phenomenas. Preserving you has given me the time to know that everything here is as absurd as your normal comprehension. It's better if we choose a more powerful object to extract into a Roots Feature.]
"Hmm." Jack glanced to the sky, imagining a flock of dragons from the one within his corroded memory. "Can you extract a monster part?"
[That action is plausible. You want to hunt something in that state?]
Jack shrugged. "Just asking, not like we would meet a giant worm monster in this suspiciously calm sea of sands."
A giant worm monster rumbled the earth before peeking its head 150 meters to the sky right behind Jack around hundreds of meters away from him, showing its countless serrated teeth.
Unrelated to his rooted system, a foreign digital screen with green text and edge appeared in front of his eyes.
<<Level 1500 Oo'zakha has entered the battlefield>>
[If there were an Achievement-type Roots Feature, I would've given you the title of {The King of Jinxing}, Jack.]
"You buffoon! This is not the time for the showcasing of your tasteless humor!"
Jack immediately stepped away from his sticky egg-nest and ran with full force in the opposite direction from the protruding parasite of this world's surface. Disregarding the painful heat of the sands with each step, had never panicked in his former life.
He would be calm, if not for the fact that the giant worm monster was facing in his direction.
"O-oy! Sephiroth!" Jack huffed and puffed as he went full throttle with his weak legs, uncaring the physical trauma. "C-can you check this desert if there is any other monster in the area!?"
[There were three other massive entities within this vast desert. Located in the north, around 200 meters away from here.]
"Which one is the north!?"
[The one you're heading, Jack.]
"Shesh! No wonder—that the gigantic worm is approaching me at an alarming speed!"
The gigantic worm monster was approaching in his direction at an alarming speed. The size was so enormous that it had travelled fifty meters in a matter of just a second.
Jack didn't plan to die right after he got freed from that disgusting egg. Using all of his remaining sanity and premature stamina, he led his own heartbeat to pump faster than a machine gun, making some of his veins go visibly red.
Eventually, at the very last second, he managed to get out of the Oo'zakha's path. The wind made by the giant then propelled him into the air.
"Ahahah, this won't end well, isn't it?"
[Embrace for impact, Jack]
The poor child suffered a painful impact with the hills of sands. Jack forced his body to immediately move and kept running into a safer distance because his experience tells him that he is going to see a grand firework after this.
After threading more fifty meters to the west, away from the giant worm as he could see the enormous body sunk in and out of the sands.
Gaze maintained to the surfing giant worm while trying to squeeze as much air at the same time, Jack decided to sit down. The searing heat from his rear won't stop him from being a temporary sloth.
[How did you know that the beast is not aiming at you?]
"Hahaha, it's simple! A giant predator would mostly get aggroed by something with half the size or more of their size. There is a notification that we're basically within a battlefield, meaning that they are going for a clash. Heh."
[I can't imagine that someone like you is so bad at playing chess.]
"Do you think I can out-math a calculator? I'm a perfectly normal human being. Thank you very much."
Not long after, part of the sky on the north became dark. Numerous tendrils of tentacles were descending from the darkness, bringing a giant Octopus-like monster with some gnarly armor on its body part.
The giant worm stopped right in front of the octopus monster. The worm then began condensing a huge amount of energy before unleashing it like a spraying beam of destruction.
Most of them didn't pierce the carapace of the octopus, it then began conjuring a dark spear from its tendrils.
The battle of giants, something that only appeared within a fantasy or folklore that someone wrote from their head. Jack was feasting on the view, showing his nervous smile throughout the firework of cataclysm.
"... I'm too old for this."