(Alex Pov)
Alex as he's reading the book realizes something.' So the hercules method is basically just unifying the mind, body and spirit. To achieve mastery over the body'
Alex stops for a second and taps his chin.'Huh So I just need to align my body with my mind and soul by making it so the representation of this body Includes my physical body instead of just the mind and soul'
Alex stands up and starts pacing around in the library. 'No that wouldn't work Sure, the body would represent it, but it wouldn't achieve the alignment. I want ah I should think of them as strings slowly but surely tightening together and eventually merging into a unified whole.'
Alex stops pacing and focuses, imagining that there are three strings representing his mind, body and soul, and that these strings are aligning themselves with each other.
Slowly tightening together making sure that they complement each other perfectly and reinforce each other as Alex does this he feels something click in place.
Noticing it he focuses on it and is transported into a darkened snowy village landscape where the moon is pitch black and is dripping black liquid.
Alex looks around some more, noticing that there are multiple black spires that seem to come from the ground and pierce the sky , forming another one of those black moons alongside black twisted trees and then he takes in the castle.
He immediately notices that all of the spires seem to be connected together and follow the same path all connecting to one source.
Alex, then starts to walk to the source. ' I'm pretty sure I'm in the realm of the megamycete, the Realm of Consciousness. The biological hive mind that absorbs, stores, and preserves the genetic code and consciousnesses of those killed by or connected to the Mold.'
A wide grin appears on Alex's face as he continues walking to the source. 'This is going to be a goldmine of information that I can use to improve myself and to find out more about this world that is not covered in the games'.
As Alex gets closer ,he sees statues made of black mold and Shadowy silhouettes that still move of Animals,people Lycan, Vârcolac,Samcă, Soldat, Sturm and Moroaicǎ.
' So the statues represent people people who are dead , but were recorded and the Shadowy silhouettes represent people and things that are still alive.'
And as he continues walking, Alex feels someone's gaze on him. ' I'm pretty sure that's mother miranda watching me'
Alex's grin only gets wider as he realizes it and continues walking forward undeterred by the feeling.
' I wonder if she'll act if she does. I think it will be pretty funny to see the look on her face when she realizes none of her manipulation tricks will work on me.'
'Also , does she realize that I'm slowly pulling this realm under my control? With every step I take I'm using my memory partitions and my self supremacy to take control of it. It is , after all, connected to me now.'
'And from what I can tell , I seem to have a genetic connection with her as well. Why is that? I wonder, let's check real quick.'
' Oh , so the mold that was holding together my genomes before I fixed them. Wasn't mold at all?It was mother ,Miranda's genetics , it's just because of her years of exposure to the mold , it's basically fully ingrained itself into her genetics.'
'Becoming almost one and the same If you don't look close enough at it'
The realization makes Alex stop and laugh. 'Wait so technically , She could be said to be one of my parents. That's funny but it does make sense.'
'Considering her goal of making the perfect vessel for eve it makes sense,'
'I must look completely insane to her right now. Laughing for absolutely no reason from her perspective as she watches me right now.'
Alex then feels the gaze intensity as he continues walking following the black mold to its source now, seeing thousands of Statues. That seem to be melted on to one other slowly becoming a single black mass of mold that rises into the sky.
' Huh? So that's how those spires are created But what exactly does that represent them all becoming one like this? Because now that I look closer , there are also some shadowy silhouettes as well. Does that represent them losing their mind and slowly becoming one with the hive mind.'
'While still alive I guess that can explain the madness most enemies have in the village as imagine getting hit with the instincts and memories of multiple minds at once that would just fracture the mind into pieces when it comes to regular people that I guess don't have high genetic compatibility with the megamycete or codou or they just don't have strong enough of minds to withstand it.'
'Or is this similar to how the molded are created as that could explain their appearance, Being a mold monster and all as well as their instinctive reactions to things.'
'It's most likely a mix of both. Which is likely the case or I could be completely wrong because the spires could be some type of signal booster for the megamycete/mold made from melding mind's together instead.'
Alex then notices that the statues are starting to move toward him.' I guess Miranda's noticed what I'm doing'
Alex continues, walking forward undeterred and when the Statue of a Lycan got in his way he put his hand forward And morphed it into a Black and crimson red beast head that had jagged teeth
That then expanded and swallowed the statue of the Lycan. It then swelled got larger and expanded Swallowing all the statues of the Lycans,Vârcolacs,Moroaicǎ Sturm,Soldat, and Samcă that were in front of him.
The mouth then starts munching on the statues, breaking them down completely.
Alex then morphs his arm back to normal and continues , walking forward on the cleared path.
Alex's eyes glow slightly as he processes the the excess information and energy before it immediately settle down as he uses his Partition's to handle the information putting it into the library and for the energy it was redirecting to his mind, body and soul for further growth.
Alex then smirks , as he realizes' When I fully take control over this place I'll be able to basically revive anybody who's infected with it by just manipulating the megamycete itself , like I'm doing with everything that is a part of me.'
'And I will have an afterlife basically after manipulating the megamycete, so that it doesn't just hold the consciousness , genetic information but also holds the soul itself'
'And souls , from what I can tell passively leak out a small amount of energy that does not beat what soul's passively regenerates over time , at least that's what I can tell from observing the people around my tube and their soul's'
'Although that could be because they still have a physical body.Maybe the degradation gets worse overtime and also having a physical body might affect it. I need to get more information to fully verify that,though.'
' But still , if my plan works out , I'll have a constant source of energy huh, I'm basically doing what the life stream from final fantasy does.Just on a much smaller scale after all , i'm not covering the whole planet right now.'
'And with the people I truly dislike pedophiles, rapists and more I will fully experiment on them in order to understand the mind and soul to a better level.'
'Though that's really far away right now so let's get through this first and I can test some things while i'm doing it I'm so many ideas from manga and anime and some really great cultivation novels'
Alex then feels the ground rumbling beneath him as multiple black roots shoot out of the ground at him.
He smiles as they get closer.'This is getting fun fast.'
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I hope you'll like the chapter.
I'm trying a new style of writing so give me your opinions on how the chapter is compared to the previous ones.
I think it's an improvement honestly.
And Alex is fucking crazy if you haven't noticed by now.
I hope you all have a great day.
And give me your power stones.