Bab 322: 318: A Plague of Phantoms: A League of Their Own II
Chase
<Star Boss! This is madness!> Grimm-Guard chittered angrily inside my head.
To anyone looking at me from the outside it looked like I was sitting in the middle of the floor, cross-legged and meditating. On the inside however I was standing in the crossroads of my farm crystal; which had taken on a new appearance. Before it looked more like a station of sorts with portals leading to each of my evo's biomes but now the crossroads looked more like a giant tree with thick arching branches that encompassed the portals of each of my evo's biomes.
All of my evos stood in front of their portals looking down towards me who stood in the center of the tree trunk. I eyed each of my evos who all looked a little agitated.
<I second this Star Shaper! You could fracture your own mind while trying to repair that…creature's own.> Alpa'nagia chimed in.
<You have no obligation to do such a thing my lord!> Empress added.
With Empress words came a cacophony of objections from the rest of my evos. Each giving clear and honestly valid reasons to why I shouldn't attempt to heal the subject. The only ones that didn't were Bone-lasher and Mzazzi. Just when I thought their objections were getting too loud Bone-lasher silenced everyone with a thundering roar.
<The Boss didn't have a obligation to save any of you. He had no reason to waste time or energy to take in or heal any of you. But he did! Boss chose to accept all of us and heal whatever wounds or scars we had regardless of what it cost him! This matter with the new-blood is nothing different.> Bone-lasher growled.
I looked to Bone-lasher who had lightning sparking off his bracers, turning his head to the look at each individual evo. He then huffed and pointed to Alpa'nagia.
<If anyone should support the boss when it comes to help the weak and broken its you sparky-scale. How messed up were you before the boss fixed your head?> Bone-lasher asked. Alpa'nagia hissed at Bone-lasher's insult however his eyes looked contemplative.
<But this could destroy the Star Boss mind! Surely his safety is more important than!> Grimm-Guard chittered excitedly at Bone-lasher. Bone-lasher snarled at Grimm-Guard and stomped his foot down.
<Is that how little faith you have in the boss? He's not weak prey to be protected!> Bone-lasher growled. All my evos went silent for several moments, hanging their heads. Whether in shame or contemplation I couldn't tell.
<As much as I loathe to admit it…sparkle-fang is right. The Pretender is not weak prey. He is apex of Alphas.> Fours spoke up. Bone-lasher growled at the sparkle-fang insult, which Fours ignored.
<I certainly wasn't worthy of the Savior's grace.> Bellial spoke up, grabbing everyone's attention. <But there is a difference between all of us and that…poor soul locked inside his domain. We saw reason. We saw the power and majesty of the Star Shaper and humbly accepted his aid. That creature has not, and probably cannot…to try and save it would put all of us and most importantly the Star Shaper at risk. My life I would gladly give for my Savior's but I cannot abide losing him and risk living on with him.>
<So you vote for selfishness then?> Fours asked. Bellial looked at Fours with a sad look.
<Is it selfish to want to protect your master?> Bellial asked, then cocked his head to the side and shook it slowly. <I should know better than to ask you. Your real master is dead. The Savior is merely a Pretender to you. It doesn't matter to you if he dies.>
Fours let out a billowing hiss that echoed throughout the endless bounds of my mental mindscape and slammed a fist down on the root below him cracking it.
<I WOULD NEVER WISH HIM DEAD!> Four roared.
<But you don't see him as your master. Your true loyalty lies with a corpse.> Bellial jeered. Fours barred his teeth at the Bellial, saliva dripping from the curves of his fangs. Bellial returned Fours snarl with one of his own.
<HE IS THE CLOSEST TO A TRUE MASTER I'VE SEEN IN NEARLY A CENTRY! MY LIFE IS HIS, MY DEATH FOR HIS SAKE!> Fours bellowed.
<Closest is not same as actually. That why you reject the Savior's grace?> Bellial asked.
<BELLIAL!> I snapped, stopping the argument between the two evos. Bellial's ears flattened back against his head and he crouched down low. <I don't question Fours loyalty to me or our group. So none of you have any reason to question it!>
<Sorry Star Shaper…> Bellial apologized. I shook my head then looked at each of my evos.
<Bone-lasher, Alpa'nagia, Grimm-Guard, Fours, Empress, Jiggles, Bellial, and Mzazzi. Regardless of your thoughts or opinions on the what I should or shouldn't do, I am going to attempt to correct the subject's genetic structure. I don't really have a choice.> I announced, allowing mana and authority to creep into my words. <The subject is no different than any of you…no different than me. A discarded experiment that was thrown away once it was no longer deemed useful. I already accepted the evo into my farm crystal, I'm not going to discard it just because it's being a little difficult. Does that sound like me?>
<No it doesn't Boss.> Bone-lasher replied immediately.
<It's not…> Empress spoke up.
<So…it's already one of us in your eyes. One of your chosen?> Alpa'nagia asked.
<Yes, in everything but a name.> I replied.
Silence fell over all my evos as they thought about my words. One by one I saw a look of determination burn in the eyes of each of my evos, even Mzazzi who had only been with me for a little under a hour had the same fire.
<What's the plan Boss? We're with you!> Bone-lasher exclaimed. Roars and screeches from each of my evos followed Bone-lasher's declaration.
<The plan: restrain it so I can get close enough to dive into its brain. Half of you will need to physically restrain it's core while the other half deals with those shark fragments.> I said.
The tree that I was standing suddenly started to quake and rumble. Looking down towards the source of the shaking I saw the portal of the subject's biome. It was sealed temporarily with the roots of the tree but those roots were shaking and cracking.
<Looks like we'll need to hurry…> I said then closed my eyes.
***
I opened my eyes, no longer in the mental manifesting of my farm crystal's crossroads. I was back inside the King's Glaive's control car. I wasn't alone either, Astrid, Iris, Madilyn, Alberto, Damon, and Bo were standing around the room waiting for me.
"You're back…" Alberto said, drawing everyone's attention back to me. I nodded then looked at everyone in the room.
Alberto was standing with Bo and Madilyn looking over the stolen lysdale script for the subject. Astrid, Iris and Damon were looking at the navigation column and all the new information the King's Glaive's sensors was supplying it.
"All your evos on board with the plan?" Iris asked.
"Yes, though we might need to hurry. The subject is getting a little rowdy and trying to break out of his biome more aggressively." I replied.
"Figures…the subject has never had a master before so it probably hates being confined in such a way." Madilyn said. She walked over and stood over me, placing a hand on her hip. "That being said have you any idea on how you're going to alter the Subject's genetic structure?"
"I do. It's why I really need Bo and Alberto." I said while looking over at my two protégés. "You two will act as genetic buffers, cycling mana through my body to destabilize it's genetic structure and make it more susceptible to my changes. This will also destabilize it's mental state further making it's mental defenses weaker. With help from my evos I should be able to repair it's genetic structure and then it's mind."
"That's the plan…then why did we need to memorize the lysdale script for the subject?" Bo asked.
"In order to properly act as mana buffers you'll need to visualize the lysdale scripts in sequence to keep any deviations from appearing and throwing the whole structure in disarray. You'll both have to do that in unison as well." I explained.
"Oh really?! Why don't you ask for the moon as well?!" Alberto asked.
"Why the hell would I need the moon?" I asked. Alberto groaned and looked down at Bo.
"Can you do all that?" Alberto asked Bo. Bo huffed and looked up at Alberto with a glare.
"Of course! I haven't been studying and learning from Chase and auntie Basset for all this time for nothing!" Bo exclaimed.
A slight smirk tugged at my lips at Bo's declaration. I looked to Astrid, Iris and Damon, the three of them muttering amongst themselves. I frowned at this and had a bad feeling.
"What are you three talking about?" I asked. Iris looked at me and crossed her arms.
"I was preparing them on what to expect when you start draining their mana. We'll all get pulled into your mental landscape and have to quickly learn how to parallel process what our minds inside your landscape is doing and the mana inside our bodies are doing. It's a little confusing." Iris explained.
"It's not that hard." I said casually.
"That's cause you're a freak of nature!" Alberto, Bo, Damon, Iris, and Astrid snapped.
I rolled my eyes at them then motioned to Madilyn. She quickly handed me a piece of paper and a pen which I took and wrote the lysdale script for the repairs and modifications to the subject that I had planned then handed the script back to Madilyn. She looked it over for a few seconds then her eyes widened.
"Are you serious? Is something like this even possible?" Madilyn asked.
"We're going to find out pretty soon aren't we?" I replied.
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