章節 42: Fuxi
As the soul and flesh combine a boy appears. He seems to be around six years old with a skinny build. He has sky blue hair and his eyes have the same color.
Right as the Tower finishes the creation I summon him. "Fuxi, protector of your lord from the dark, appear here before me as I command!"
I thought of his name before, as I planned for him to become my follower I decided to give him a name with two syllables. But he still needs to prove himself, we can see how far he can go from there.
In a flash of light Fuxi appears before us, he sits on his knees, his arms staying tight to the side of his body and his forehead on the ground. "Fuxi greets master Gosamu!" his high pitched childs voice holds more discipline than I expected to be possible.
"You've proven your dedication to me, and the Tower approves of you too. But remember, I will know the moment your dedication wavers, and when that happens you will be hanged with shackles on the Tower. Stand up Fuxi, you now are one of us!"
Fuxi stands up in a weird way, his upper body rises without the use of his hands, and then he almost roles on his feet. He looks me right in the eyes, it is as if I'm looking into a deep well. "I will remember these words. But worry not, I resolved myself even before the scythe's blade touched my neck." He bows once more.
"Everyone, tonight you can rest. Fuxi, I will explain your role to you. Sit with me." I sit down on the soft grass and pat the place next to me, Fuxi sits down.
What I tell him is that I want him to be my guard and my shadow, I want him to follow me, grow strong enough to protect me, and learn from me. I also want him to learn things that aren't suitable for me.
We talk about small things, like this I learn that he lived for about 6 years, which might be a coincidence as he looks just as old. He keeps touching things too, like the grass, ground, tree leaves and other things that lay around. After asking why he tells me that he was never able to really feel, smell or taste anything. That's why he wanted a body.
He tells me about the tiger too, and he just drowned it like I thought he did. But that still means that he was really powerful as long as he was in the water. I'm really happy about this, as I got two body blueprints, they're called 'Elemental snakes' this means I can make them any element!
The sad part is that they're both rank 7, and even the snakes soul was only rank 6. I do want to give this body the soul they deserve, if I have the opportunity I'd even want to give them a soul of a rank higher.
I'll think of what I'll make the bodies of when the time arrives.
Together with Goba and Fuxi we think of a background story for Fuxi, we decide to go with that I found him on the edge of the stream, that he lost his memories and that he decided to follow me because I saved his life.
After sorting everything out I remember why we actually did all this trouble to get the snake to join us! "Bo, let's go and get your prize."
Bo jumps up in excitement "Thanks Gosamu!"
We move back to the stream where we first sensed Fuxi "Master, why are we going back here?"
"Well, we first came here because Bo sensed something that resonated with him. But as we wanted to get it we sensed you, and not a happy you."
Fuxi moved his hand to his chin as if thinking "I remember! It's really nice to sleep here, but I never knew there was something buried here. If it was a water treasure I'd have grabbed it for myself already."
Bo moves into the water after looking at me for permission, and I gave him a nod. For a moment nothing happens after he enters the water, but after a while the middle of the stream starts churning.
The water starts stirring more and more, the color of the water gets darker. From the clear in the beginning, to mud brown. It also looks thicker and thicker as the color turns dark.
A few minutes later the water turned from muddy brown to a color close to black, the smell is terrible too. The consistency also became very thick, it looks like a black swamp.
The strange thing is that both upstream and downstream the water looks as clear as before and happily continues flowing. As if it's just an illusion.
5 more minutes later there's just a black mud that smells terrible. Then suddenly, it all disappears. Now there's just clear flowing water.
From the depths of the stream a close to black but still brown ball of mud rises to the shore. The ball falls down reveling Bo. Bo is now a full black, he has grown to the size of a head. His eyes that stand on top of his head are golden and almost seem to be shining in contrast to the wrinkly black skin.
"I've got some gains master." he lowers his head in a bow. His voice got deeper then it was before. "I'm closer to the earth now, and also something more, something dark and cold. It even feels older than even the earth itself."
Now Goba speaks up "It sounds like you really had some great gains, it sounds like the breath of death that flows through the earth settled in you. It's similar to the breath of life in Fi. It's an ancient force flowing through the earth, life grows from the earth, but also returns to it after death."
"That sounds great Bo, I'm glad you had such gains after this. I shall return to the city now, you stay here with Goba, Fi and An and train your new powers. I'd say talk to Fi about it, her powers have similar roots, maybe both of you can have some gains."
I turn around and start walking back to the house. "Fuxi, follow me back, you remember what we discussed right?"
Fuxi bows his head "Of course master." he sounds disciplined and calm, as a calm lake on a windless day.
Fuxi and I jog back, nothing happens along the way and, just that my speed is slower than normal as Fuxi still needs to get used to his body and train it.
We arrive around dawn, Fuxi already saw my hair turn golden before when he was a snake.
Standing in front of the house I call out "Astonax! Come out and see, we got another mouth to feed!"
"What did you say!?" Astonax's voice resounds from the house.
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