Pleiades looks at the unconscious Crusch, who, most likely at the moment, was receiving her "mental gospel" from his student Beatrice. Thus far, she has been sitting unconsciously on his throne for about two hours now. At that time, what Pleiades was doing was something rather unorthodox; why do you ask? Well, it was simple.
In his shadow garden, he was creating two separate things to implant in Crusch's body. He had anticipated that she would be out for no more than eight hours, so he had plenty of time on his side to complete these lesser augmentations. But in reality, the clock was far smaller than he would have desired. Given the fact that he only had a year to refine Crusch and transform her into his ultimate super weapon.
You might be wondering why Pleiades was so fascinated with turning Crusch into a super weapon. The reason is simple. There are many problems out there he cannot solve with his power alone, and some problems he cannot overcome on his own either. There exist things beyond his own solar system and beyond his cosmos that he himself would not dare jump into without years of preparation time. Now here was something new. Pleiades is powerful, but his adversary is Og Laguna. Od Laguna curses Pleiades with a curse that will last as long as the idea of the sword saint remains.
What kind of curse is it? It's not a malevolent curse, but it was designed by Od Laguna just to stop Pleiades. Yes! Od Laguna saw Pleiades as such a menace to its law of balance that it would do anything to stop Pleiades from reaching one location in this entire world. And that place was the great waterfall at the edge of the world. It's also the most guarded place in the world itself.
A location that was truly anomalous in all its magnificence, a place so priceless that if Pleiades could just get his hands on a single vile of water from it, he would be a truly unstoppable force. He was convinced he could find a way to bypass the mana conditions required to open a dimensional rift and travel to other universes if he could just get to that place.
Od Laguna, you see, was not the first thing to be born in the universe. How did Pleiades find out? It was actually quite straightforward. He discovered and translated some old manuscripts a couple of thousand years ago, and he discovered that Od Laguna was created only fifteen thousand years ago. Od Laguna, on the other hand, represents the universe finally gaining collective consciousness of all life after such a long time. In some ways, the universe is like a child who hasn't even spread its wings.
But an exceptionally bright child—maybe not as bright as him, but bright nonetheless. And Od Laguna acknowledged it. This man's knowledge was exceedingly harmful, as was its concern for allowing Pleiades to enter its metaphysical world to take its power. So Od Laguna began to alter the universe in order to counter Pleiades at all costs.
The first alteration was that instead of making one sword saint stronger than the other, it made each sword saint that passed, and the next one in line for the title, one hundred times stronger and more talented than the previous sword saint. And all the powers that a prior sword saint possessed were passed on to the current. Who had their own unique powers as well?
So you could more or less understand why Pleiades could never truly win against a sword saint, as each generation was stronger than him in terms of ability and skills; however he had better defensive hax, knowledge, and best of all prep time, equipment: Nexus-3 being his most powerful weapon as the system nigh Omniscience on his side caused the playing fields to be even out. In a way, Od Laguna and Pleiades were evenly matched as both of them were canceling each other in an eternal battle.
Pleiades has the knowledge and drive in order to reach Od Laguna, and Od Laguna has the power and resources to stop Pleiades from reaching it at all costs.
All-knowing vs All-encompassing
Man Vs God
The Ideal of Freedom Vs The Equilibrium That Surrounds It
Chaos Vs Order
Authorities Vs Divine Protections
In the end, neither could get ahead of the other, and Od Laguna was unable to predict Pleiades' next move. And Pleiades lacked the might required to defeat the armies Od Laguna had built particularly to oppose him at the Edge of the World.
Yes, at the border of the planet, there existed an army of powerful metaphysical entities Pleiades dubbed "As Ancient Memories" capable of overcoming his authority to some extent. Ancient memory is a system that will call upon old heroes of the past by manifesting the memories of said hero or historical entity to deal with Pleiades is what makes the legions of divine entities so difficult to deal with. He recalls fighting Reid Astrea at the planet's edge for several days with eight other strangers. He unfortunately lost that battle because Od Laguna was constantly charging them up, giving them more power as the fight progressed.
This was Od Laguna's way of guarding the huge cascade that linked all worlds together. As thus, it could never, ever fall into the hands of Pleiades. However, Od Laguna was grossly underestimating Pleiades, knowing he had little chance against "Ancient memories." That's why he was assembling his own army, that's why he resurrected the three great Mabeas. All in all, Preparation time was what Pleiades excelled at.
Originally, if Pleiades could obtain the waterfall's ability to freely cross universes without the requirement for a power supply. Pleiades would not have targeted the Od and would have simply been a God in a universe without one; yet, Od Laguna denied him even that, as such he could not live in harmony with Od Laguna. And because of that, he pledged to himself, that he would relish such a being's collapse under his feet as he consumes that power for himself via the assistance of Nexus Beatrice, slowly enjoying its loss.
But because Od Laguna chooses to deny him, he will also choose to deny it. God, the Sword Saint, and all prior heroes. It didn't matter, because he'd crush them all. With a smirk on his face, he would wage war against the balance of order, and embrace the great collapse. There will be no more walls, no more ball and chain, and, most importantly, no additional off-putting ends.
Of course, he will remember and love the event for the rest of his life, as he enjoys new experiences. And what higher sensation or sense of joy is there than dominating the very spirit of the cosmos itself, taking its power for his own as it watches the havoc he will instigate with it for the purpose of even greater experiences?
No one will reject his greed, no one will deprive him, and no one will oppose his marvelous goal. As such, what he was going to do to Crusch was brutal and unfair...inhumane even, but it was a win for him nonetheless, and that was all that truly mattered to Pleiades. He knew Crusch Karsten was too nice to take on some of the monstrous tasks assigned to them by Nexus-3. As a result, that mentality was a hindrance, and that personality would have to depart or, alternatively, be gradually rebuilt in his image.
Given the conditions, how will Pleiades utilize Crusch? It was simple; the poor lion fell for his trap and is now forever imprisoned in his cage. Crusch was now solely his property. Yes, he said she could have 50/50 and that her comments mattered; Pleiades must follow that. But do you really believe Pleiades was stupid to jump in without contingencies at hand because, in that brief contact, he built an immediate contingency to deal with Crusch in order to secure her entire loyalty to him? How was he going to control Crusch when they had an agreement that gave Crusch equal power and voice in whatever he did or said?
Well, how could Crusch oppose what he was going to do if she wasn't conscious? The contract says they must agree on something if something is said, but it doesn't say if they have to tell each other what they are going to do, or if they don't have equal rights to another body. Crusch can do whatever she wants with Pleiades' body as long as they both consent. However, that is only if they are aware of what is about to happen; Crusch had no idea what Pleiades was going to do to her body, and since she is not awake to disagree with his opinions, this is valid.
That was the backdoor to the contract at hand, therefore he didn't feel guilty about flooding her mind with memories of infinite incarnations of Crusch by tricking her into eating a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Nor did he not feel guilty about using Beatrice's authority to divide her consciousness into two parts, one for all the Crusches to remain and one for him to accomplish what he was going to do.
So, what was Pleiades up to? Well, it is simple, Pleiades is developing a chip, or two chips to be exact, basically twin chips, utilizing the esoteric material of invincible providence to keep it hidden from everyone but him, and these chips will be attached to her limbic system and Hippocampus, respectively.
And just to be sure, he was going to make these chips as small as an atom, given that he could adjust the size of his invisible hands, as he could with whatever he manufactured from this unique substance that he had learned to use in some bizarre ways.
Crusch was essentially a doll and Pleiades was the puppet master pulling the strings to his liking.
So he painstakingly built the dual chips; it took him approximately three hours to complete, but it was done anyway. They were as small as a nickel at first, but Pleiades quickly positioned them where they belonged on her skull, using his authority like an x-ray to get the places correct. And once they were in the correct area, the chips sank and fazed right through her skin and skull, implanting cleanly on the desired location before striking to the size of an atom. It was already difficult to see, but now it was nearly impossible to see even if they were not invisible.
So the next question was, "What was the next item Pleiades made?" Well, he didn't make it. This was more of an improvement on an already existing item. His monocle already functioned as a visor, thus the improvements were not as difficult to implement as the chips. Only this time, the monocle was linked to the Nexus branch, and the "Mind Chips" that were implanted within Crusch, were connected to The newly improved Nexus Monocle, or NM-V1.
After that, Pleiades activated it by reciting the mental code, which was.
'Mayonnaise.'
When he stated that, Pleiades saw a giant blue screen with many text, numbers, charts, and a photo of a naked Crusch swirling around with both arms wide out. The screen explains everything about Crusch, essentially a medical chart that shows her body statistics to him in real-time, and it can also identify when she is afflicted by magic or any other methodology known or unknown to him. As a result, he could figure out how to nullify the impacts if such an issue ever arose.
But the main use of this equipment was as follows: he could control many settings with simple mental commands, such settings were as follows.
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[Crusch Karsten Cerebrum Settings]
[Link way: (1) >> Limbic system].
-- Current State: Unconcious, R.E.M --
-- Emotional Settings --
. Anger: [0,1,2,3,4,5,(6),7,8,9,10]
. Fear: [0,1,2,3,(4),5,6,7,8,9,10]
. Pain: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
. Joy: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,(8),9,10]
. Passion: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
. Love: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
. Shame: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,(7),8,9,10]
. Guilt: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
. Loneliness: [0,1,2,(3),4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
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[Link way:(2) >> Hippocampus]
. Read Subconscious thoughts
. Manipulate Memories
. Sleep Mode
. Hormone settings
. Activate Alter Ego
. Enter Subliminal thoughts
. Download information
. Copy information
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At this sight, Pleiades couldn't help but think to himself when the device triggered.
"I can't lie; this does bring a smile to my face."
"Hahahah... So, now that's done, let's establish a plan for what to do next while I wait for her to wake up."