POV Lynx

Sith’s bio-stone was first to reach next growth phase. I contacted Sith. Few hours later my bio-stone was starting to change. Then later that day Lily’s and Coal’s was ready too.

After reaching level three Sith’s bio-stone was carried to another space. Sith went there to check what changed. Two hours later he came back looking as haunted. I asked him, what was going on, but he said, that I would see.

And I saw, when I talked with Xi, as I called enchanted in stone consciousness. He was becoming me. He also said, that this link between us, let him absorb my emotions and that his weak emotions were also absorbed by me. I was influencing him and in feedback, was influenced by him. The loop was getting stronger after each growth.

I was afraid. Afraid of being dominated. Luckily there was option to choose [Will resonance] enhancing mixture. It was nice gift, that part of this mixture was building my mind defense. I hoped, that nobody would chose mixture for degrading mind defense. That kind of person would be very stupid or would have devilish plans.

Xi talked with me about his goals. He knew, that there will be chance in future to create body for him. If I promised him my help, then he would promise me, that he would try to minimally influence me. I agreed.

There was also info, that presence of level three bio-stones near each other was becoming unbearable very quickly. It was impossible to go back to arrangement, where all stones were staying in the same big room and feeding.

He also told me, that he saw consciousness in different way than humans. We could have long, philosophical discussion about that. I agreed, but on different date. I needed to solve problem, what to do with four, five if counting En’s stone, bio-stones that were in need of distance from each other.

For now, I was creating shelters on corners of farm. It manifested as doable in terms of distance, but flawed, when I evaluated safety and easiness of feeding. Still, it was solution of that problem.

The same evening we had meeting with all Unlimited Devas, that grew their bio-stones to third level. Lily and Coal didn’t have much time to converse with their entities, but En was pushing. We met in farmhouse. All workers were informed to disturb us, only if there was safety breach.

POV Sith

Only five of us were in farmhouse. We sat around table. En distributed pens and paper shits. Asked why, he said, that we needed to be on the same page.

There was quiz at the beginning. Like in school.

-= What are your stones? – Asked En, and we wrote down our answers.

Me, my clone, reflection of my mind, copycat.

-= Good. Did you get info about consciousness?

Yes, had no time, wasn’t interested, just few words.

-= Not much, next. What is your bio-stone aim?

To grow, build a body, don’t know, feeding.

-= Which mixture did you choose?

Will enhancement times four.

-= How much influence from your stone do you feel?

A little, only some, I talk with her a lot, much when I cross limits.

-= Who is your stone to you?

Dark benefactor, some kind of friend, close entity, ambiguous altar.

-= Thank you. – Said En. – These were questions I developed to check, if you are under great stone influence or if you are unhinged.

-= So, what are results saying.

-= They’re ok. I can tell you, what would be not ok to me. – We wanted to hear it. – If first answer had any different sense, for example god, demon, deceased grandpa, it would be bad. For the second, it’s more about blow one gets from new info, isn’t it Sith?

-= Yes. It hurt me. Almost destroyed my sith lore.

-= Third is obvious. Answer about world domination would be bad. Next, will enhancement is good, will destroyer is sinister. For fifth, if one does not feel any influence at all or is overwhelmed, that’s bad. And last is control question, to check if your answers were consistent.

-= So, we pass?

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

-= Yes, you pass. Now I can talk about bitter truth. Your stones, enchanted souls, entities, astral twins, however you call them, lie to you sometimes. They mostly lie to protect you against painful truth, sometimes to take advantage of circumstances, but mainly to protect themselves. It’s survival instinct for them and they only have partial control over it. It’s not so different from acts of any other living being. They’re just different, so they use different means.

-= They’re our enemies?

-= Is horseman enemy of his horse? No. But hungry horseman will eat his horse. Real problem is, that even they themselves, don’t know what are they here for. They are counting, that with growth, they will get this info eventually. That is possible, if mature form of bio-stone exists. If there is stage, at which, they will stop growing and feeding relentlessly.

-= And if not?

-= Then we will be doomed, as there is not enough biomass on Earth to sustain logarithmic growth.

Nobody said obvious, that maybe we should try to destroy bio-stones.

-= But you think, that’s not the case? – Lily asked.

-= I don’t know. For now, addition of one or two human bodies weekly in food is enough for Dee to grow. I was also thinking about buying animal brains instead of using humans bodies, but that would mean lots of dead animals somewhere. Effects of Sith’s poison also gave me hope, that there may be solution somewhere. – Said En.

-= But you didn’t find solution? – I asked.

-= No, I didn’t.

-= So, what’s your idea? What should we do?

-= We should try, as long as we can, to exist without conflict with humanity. And if conflict will be inevitable, we should run and preserve all perks we got in meantime.

-= Did you tell about this strategy to Dee, your stone? You know, that he can read your memories?

-= Yes, I did. He is aware, how I would act in that situation.

-= Really. – I attacked. – It’s rather impossible to be that open.

-= I can only trust, that Dee isn’t some evil entity. And I did.

I felt that he didn’t tell as all. He was hiding some info. But why? Was it because bio-stones started dividing, marking areas only for themselves. Were we on road to conflict, so we couldn’t be trusted completely.

-= If that’s true, what you said about feeding process, - Said Lynx. – then we don’t have enough food for new level three. You said, that you have only enough for Dee, as I understand.

Huston, we have problem, I thought. Will we buy all crematories in Poland?

POV Bear

I was going through security data. It seemed, that Sith created similar alliance with Lynx, as I had with Huntress. Nameless was moving in strange pattern, that suggested that he worked on something new, and didn’t tell us about it.

I decided to slowly take control over Unlimited Devas. It shouldn’t be so hard. Huntress was already supporting me. Sith was unreliable person, what could be seen by all of them, I was sure about it. Now I got something, that had to be something evil, on Nameless. I could blackmail him or could show others, that he was untrustworthy. I needed support from three out of six, beside me, to win. Should I pressure Coal, that old junkie, or should I try to convince Lily somehow.

I would enjoy march for power, I was sure about it.

POV Beria, Ahriman’s Order middle tier cultist

Things went wrong way. Diana was starving our seeds. Seeds were pressuring us mentally. We took more and more risks during night hunts. Even then, only those who provided, get enough. Diana threatened, that if anyone would betray Order, he would be next food. Sy, entity from my seed, confirmed, that she could hurt owner of seed. She couldn’t kill one. But cutting legs out was allowed.

I had plan to ride another LGBT location, but I needed Stephan’s help. Stephan, unfortunately, was still in clutches of madness. There was chance, that he would never get better. It was third week already and no signs of alleviation of symptoms.

I, very rarely, wrote some messages to Sith, as we were in Vivaldi’s group at the beginning. But for almost a week I didn’t hunt successfully anybody and pressure from Sy was starting to break my mental balance. I almost wrote message for help to Sith.

Then, Asmo run from us. Our seeds were provided with flesh. Voice of Ahriman called crusade, and we all needed to be in top form. I felt as newborn, ready to fight.

POV Asmo

I had enough. I contacted Coal. He confirmed my stone level and organized runaway. I only took my id and seed, and disappeared during one of my walks.

Some driver, normal human, as far as I could tell, took me to this farm. It was farm, but it also looked as property of cartel boss, with barbed wire on fences and headlights. Coal was waiting for me by entrance. He was without seed, but I felt level three aura from him. It was astonishing. I felt two level two seeds in the middle of farm.

-= Hi, let’s put your bio-stone with others. – He started. – Then we can talk.

There were some farmers and livestock on farm. If not for cameras and some blockade systems, it would be ordinary farm. It was kind of strange, when farmers were using key cards to get inside barn.

-= You need to be patient. – Coal described. – We installed very safe system for bio-stones, but it slowed all movement and communication. We’re almost there.

-= I can be patient, if you feed my seed.

And they fed it in some underground shelter. Coal then took me to main farm house. I got room there. I ate dinner and refreshed myself. Coal said, that I would be cooperating mainly with him for now. I would be put into Associated Devas group, but first they needed to take care of my safety. He asked me to write down all I know, about Ahriman’s Order and Diana. Especially things, that could be used against them. I asked, if I was prisoner?

-= No. But you are pawn in the midst of power struggle between Unlimited Devas and Ahriman’s Order. Most likely it will end peacefully, but it’s better for you to stay here for a while.

-= You’re level three, you can stop Diana yourself. If you have more strong fighters, you will win.

-= It’s not exactly like that. – He said. – We can stop anybody except Diana.

-= Is she real Ahriman’s voice then?

-= No. You will know, when you get to next level. – He looked pitifully. – But don’t hurry there, it doesn’t lead to heaven.

I laughed bitterly. It all outgrown me. I just wanted to run from bad place and live. Why was that so complicated? I calmed myself. At least Deus, my seed entity, wasn’t hungry anymore.

I was writing, but also thinking. I was cultist before. I did all I could to have more power, to let Deus grow. I even helped with killing people. My past cult had most advanced, dark ceremonies. We stop at anything. And here I saw level three acting, as it was nothing special being level three, when there was no other level three in Order except for Diana.

Two days later, these two stones, went into growth spurt and achieved level three almost simultaneously. They were taken away after that. I felt like prisoner since that moment.