Within the soul realm, in the center of the room, a white colored orb floated as it flickered again and again with a dim and soft white light. After flickering for a while, it slowly moved towards a man who was sitting on the floor on one of the walls of the room. When the young man touched it a voice sounded from it.
- its been a while since we last talked, don't you think?
The same sweet, welcoming voice he had expected echoed in his ears. The same entity for which Marco was in the situation he was.
- It's been 3 months since you contacted me.
- 3 months? Wow, time goes by so fast, how is life as an infant?
-it stinks, I have to urinate and defecate on myself, vomit for no apparent reason, any hit hurts much more despite being an insignificant wound; I am not able to do anything out of the sight of my parents, the list goes on.
- It's all part of being a baby, before you know it you will stop being a baby and you will miss the comfort of a mother.
A solemn silence manifested itself in the communication between the two. Marco knew that the deity contacted him to inform him of something or force him to do something possibly unpleasant from his own point of view, after all it was incongruous that a being of the status of a deity to contact him to have a simple talk. The silence continued for ten seconds before Marco decided to break it with a sentence.
- 3 months… I thought you said it would be a long time before you contact me, why talk to me now?
- Well, I have to make sure that you are still alive after all, besides that everything is fine with your body, by the way, how have you continued? no problem with assimilating your new life?
- There have been times where it seems that I disconnect from the sensations, my environment and the emotions I felt at the time.
- Well, it is normal for you to experience that at the beginning. How often and what situations do these events usually occur?
- Whenever I am about to experience situations of strong emotions. Lately I've gotten better at controlling it, but it always gives me trouble being around my mother Nira.
-That sounds like a problem to happen, but, we could turn it into a skill.
-Okay, how?
-well, after all, you have in your possession the most extensive library of spells and skills in this world in your hands, right?
-The table? But if all that comes is useless observations like the taxonomy of plants and animals, along with projects on science, history, law, and a host of other useless things like crop rotation or rudimentary water pumps.
-In that you are right, Vernas used to have the habit of writing the truth behind everything, it usually happens when you are named a deity of truth and justice. But it should be around there, after all it was part of his obligation to make a compendium of all the development of magic and the abilities that mortals developed in society.
- And how do you expect me to look for it? I tried the search function of the damn table and it always throws me, "search not found", I have to say that for an advanced society the software they use is quite obsolete, the programming is quite simple and basic compared to that of my world, maybe the update speed of the table is not bad but honestly if you were to compare it with the technology of my world the interface looks like something you would see on a computer from 100 years ago.
-Did you try the “search by aggregate terms” function? The tablet defaults to exact title search.
…
-Te-terms to-aggregates?
-Hmp-hmp-hmp-hmp
A faint covered laugh sounded from the orb. Causing Marco to feel a little embarrassed, certainly when searching his memories of what came in the initial usage information of the table, that specific term sprang to mind, but due to the inability to manifest the soul realm to will and the few times he had visited the place, made him quickly forget those terms and functions, for Marco whose life had changed drastically, the soul realm came as something that was actually more of a burden and annoyance than a benefit.
Marco's brief moment of awkwardness was quickly broken by the response of the contacting deity.
-Vernas certainly didn't do a good job of explaining the functions in the usage tutorial that he left behind, hahaha…after all there wasn't much reason for someone else to use his artifact.
- I thought it was you who made the tutorial!
-I never said that I was the one who did it, I said to “incorporated” it into the table…
-AAHH!... *sigh* very well I'll investigate that later, well could you tell me what you actually came for? to make fun of my ignorance?
-…
-HEY, DID YOU REALLY COME TO MAKE FUN OF ME!?
- But I really came to check your condition and progress status, it seems that in the end it was necessary~ after all I don't want the hero of the human world to die in such a tragic way against the first imp he meets during his journey, or do you prefer it that way? So now that I know your status, I guess I have to advise your growth a bit.
- Well, what am I supposed to do then?
- Since you present symptoms of mental dissociation and partial double personality-
- double personality?
- artificial, due to your very special bodily state, you could easily sleep one day and not wake up until several days later only to realize that in reality your body did many things without you being aware, do not interrupt me again.
-I'm sorry,
-hmpt, as I was saying, the first step would obviously be to increase your ability to understand information, this has nothing to do with intelligence but rather with storing information, it is a very fundamental step, since with this you will never forget anything in your life, essentially learning how to gain a perfect memory, as well as doubling as an increase in your ability to mentally project things, a critical process inherent to higher level spells and abilities be it magic or physical abilities.
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“I see, it would not only help learning but also in the projection of images for spells as I saw so much in the novels, instead of recreating a painting based on the final product, it would be as if you replicated it with a step-by-step video, which you can repeat indefinitely and in great detail, it certainly is something that could be called an aptitude for the highly gifted or millennial geniuses!”
Second, even if you have the ability to learn anything, that is certainly not exactly reflected in your aptitude for wanting to learn it, after all perfect memory is not the same as muscle memory, it has to be painfully etched through training... Therefore, the second ability that you have to develop will make you able to split your mind in two and program this second mind to your wishes, with this you should be able to modify your counterpart and be an incredibly focused person on training and only training, you can make it a being of almost infinite determination, but I warn you, you must be attentive to the state of your body and control it, otherwise your body will break and you will die due to overexertion.
"Basically, if I compare it to an engine, just because I can go full throttle doesn't mean I have to let the engine go full revs, huh, otherwise the engine blows up."
With all that explanation done, what I can say is: as long as you have those two abilities as your base, no matter which path you take, you will be the greatest in it, you can even take several paths at the same time and become the best in each of them.
Since your body already exhibits separation effects we can channel these characteristics and turn them into something good, I suggest we start with this ability instead of the first one, full memory control is not something quick or easy to obtain anyway. Any questions?
- Yes, how long will all this take?
- if we started with the first one it would take you from 3 to 5 years, but if we started with the second it would take you 1 year and a half maximum, maybe 2 if your talent is not up to the task, but it could also be faster.
-Another thing, assuming I need the Vernas tablet to learn all this, how am I supposed to learn it if I can't show up here of my own free will, I remember 3 months ago you told me I should visit this place for a few minutes every day, but I get inside almost randomly, I have no idea when is the next time I'm going to enter.
-Certainly, I did not teach you last time because I needed your assimilation to be higher, if you had had the ability to visit this place every day I can swear on my behalf that the one who would have control of the body would not be you. I would have classified you as a failed product and experimented on someone else.
“So she would have written me off and left me to rot? She dares to call herself a deity but this is one more reason why I shouldn't trust her so quickly."
- Well… are you going to teach me?
- Naturally, before sleeping just imagine that you are floating on top of a waveless ocean, the water is calm and refractive like a mirror, when you sleep you should wake up in your own realm of the soul.
-It's that easy?
- Well, you have a bonus for your special condition, besides the fact that since you are a baby your spirituality is much higher than that of an adult. Normally for an adult this process would take several months of hard and heavy training, just as I remind you before, no more than an hour a day.
-How is being a baby related to having a high spirituality?
-The time for explanations is over, if you have more things you want to know, look it up in the Vernas tablet, I have done what I had to do and therefore I am going to fold the connection.
-No, no, no, wait! How am I supposed to contact you!?
-Pray, pray for the name by which this world knows me. If I'm in the mood maybe I'll answer you, don't disappoint me Mark.
- Wait a minute, and by what name do they know you!?
The bright orb in front of Marco stops shining and goes back to being the usual white and monotonous ball, the feeling of frustration spread through his body, during the whole conversation he did nothing but listen and ask questions, for someone like Mark who liked having control over what was happening around him, these kinds of interactions made him feel like he had no power over anything, Mark hated feeling like someone else's subordinate.
- What a nuisance, I don't like being thrown around from one place to another. I need more power if I want to do something about it, I guess that's what she wants, for me to feel frustrated and lost, to look for the answers where she wants me to find them, even if I decide to get stronger to have more control over my life, that would be the same as doing what that thing tells me. After all, making me stronger is what it wants. Because only in that way can I be useful to you.
-I guess I'll start with the parallel will by looking for the appropriate book, what book did she say it was? Wait a minute… she didn't even tell me which books, It just told me how to find them more easily. What a fucking bitch...
*sigh*
With a wave of his hand Mark lifted Vernas's tablet from the floor of the room and floated it toward him.
-It's time to start looking.