POV Main

I worked with Huntress and Mercy. Our movement was growing slowly. People came to us mainly because of curiosity. They spent some time knowing our philosophy better. I worked on our philosophy and ideology, girls did a lot of things. Most effective was probably gradual change of Unlimited Devas Center into warm and cozy place. People wanted to stay longer there, so they got to know out principles. We were hated too, as War-Saw was most vegan friendly capital in Europe.

Our main conflict point, was that we were meat eaters. We believed in meat into meat loop. We expressly said, that we didn’t support cannibalism. As conscious beings are worth more, than meat, that creates them.

We got different types of individuals. There came people, who were lost. Others wanted to build newer, better world. Another were fascinated by our pseudo Hindu origin. Some watched us, because we put money into promotion. And some, because we were really mysterious.

We got few topics we needed to discuss. One of them was politics in Poland. Elections in Poland were closing. In few months, there would be election to parliament. There was lot of situations, where we were asked, who would we be supporting. There was no official campaign yet, but unofficial campaign was already in making.

First I need to tell you about inner circulations of people in Poland. It’s similar to most other countries. People, who respect traditions, stay and live, the way their parents or community did. They have different jobs than their ancestors, because world is changing, but they live in similar way. On the other hand, people who choose to abandon traditional way of leaving, run to big cities. As big cities are fetishes of progress. There are also people, that chose big cities due to job perspectives. But over time, in War-Saw especially, gathered people worshiping progress. Different kinds of progress. Often one kind of progress was opposite of another kind of progress. So politicians couldn’t rule them all under one slogan of progress. But there is distinct friction between big cities society and countryside. It shows in politics.

War-Saw was kind of leftist and progressive. When you counted in, that pressing for change were mainly young people, you could see picture of city. I would guess, sixty to seventy percent people over eighteen (which had vote rights) were anti traditional in War-Saw. And including, that mad men and activists, were more visible and louder, than normal people, we had to deal with lot of political pressure. To the point, that claiming neutrality was problematic.

Political parties weren’t appetizing either. I summarize, what we had in politics in Poland in 20xx. I start with main party in opposition to government. They were unlucky, and they were losers. Maybe one led to another, I wasn’t sociologist to answer that. They rule before. They were very servantly acting to Germany and Russia. Then, their main front man resigned from being prime minister before his term of office ended, because he got quite good place in European Committee. Then he forgot about Poland, till they got rid of him. After, he was claiming, that he had friends in Europe, so people should vote for him. He was trying to destroy any and every other party of opposition, more than attacked government. His overall politics of licking assess of Russia and Germany bankrupted after Russian attack on Ukraine. Still, his party got high support of people.

It was because parties, which formed government, one main big, and some very little ones, were very traditional and kind of boring. Main government party, Peace, got lucky few times. They stopped stealing from state by VAT invoices. They invested in social programs. They got political conflicts with Russia and Germany. And you must know, that in Poland Germany is seem as hidden supporter of Russia. Also, for us German and Nazi means same thing, only nowadays Germany uses economical violence against other countries. They even conquered Netherlands and Belgium, that way in Europe.

So any wars started by Russia and false support of Ukraine by Germany, were supporting Peace party narration. Our government supported very generously Ukraine partially, because it helped government to gain votes. It seemed, that government party would win elections, but it was open, if they would be able to form next government by themselves. It was unlikely.

If you would left international policies out, Peace and main opposition to government party, Poop, were similar. Just Peace was seen as lesser in thievery and Poop as more progressive and West Europe revering. This two parties were said to get about seventy percents of votes.

Others completed extremities, as economical extremes, social extremes, progressive extremes and boringness extreme too.

I had really hard nut to crack, who to support. At the end I choose anti Poop narration. I wasn’t supporting Peace that way. I thought, that after another failure in election, Poop would deteriorate. If Unlimited Devas wanted to grow, we shouldn’t steer to conflict with government. It meant, that we would be in conflict with Poop supporters, which were many in War-Saw, but it was good for us. We would attract neutral people, Peace supporters, who hidden their preferences living in War-Saw, also people with extreme views. We would deter Poop supporters, who already got psychosis knowing polls of political support.

I also thought about other choices, but they were inferior. Sticking to political losers was risky for us.

So, we were anti Poop officially. We lost many earlier train people, as they were for-Poop oriented. It was inevitable, that we would have loses, as choosing one option, was losing another.

Other than stating that, we didn’t go into politics. We were random people, who had some strange power. We didn’t know important people or had contacts with rich magnates. We were building by chance, by luck and by necessity.

POV Adam, Ahriman’s Order

I shared info from Tree, as I named my seed, that I would grow to another level soon. Diana provided more animal bodies for Tree to offset spurt of growth. I was second most important after Diana in Order, I thought. Maybe we would fight together and throw on their knees, people from Unlimited Devas. We would restore old glory to Ahriman’s Order. Sky would be the limit with me as rightful warrior.

Then my seed transformed. I went to talk with it. He told me, that he was growing by drawing his nerves in the same way as my was connected. He copied my mind. I was astonished. Tears were flowing from my eyes. I was chosen as matrix by godlike creature. I was worthy. Then he showed me my stats page.

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Name

Adam

Daevo

Equilibrium indicator

Efficiency status

Compared worth

Muscle

95%

95%

16 (16)

Body integrity

95%

95%

16 (18)

Nervous system

85%

85%

16 (17)

Metabolism / Stamina

94%

97%

12 (14)

Will resonance

--- offence

16%

20%

15 (15)

--- defense

10%

10%

08 (08)

Flow bending

14%

16%

He said, that I was underdeveloped for level three host. In body and especially in [Will resonance] defense. My dreams of becoming strong warrior from the get go were shattered. I didn’t give up. I knew, I could work myself into shape. Tree had mixtures for that.

Then he said, that will defense stat looks, as somebody was continuously using mixture decreasing that stat. Or other means to decrease it. Who done this to me, I couldn’t understand. Were we infiltrated by Unlimited Devas already? Tree commented, that this decreasing influence could only be done here, in headquarters, as other places I visited were visited by chance. More, Diana could see my simplified stat page, so she probably knew about my physical weakness. I almost cried. Three could show me simplified stats pages of others. Without extrasensory stats.

Last info was most depressing. Tree felt pressure from Diana, as she was seed itself. This kind of pressure could be endured by some time, few hours at most, then it would be shared by host. I sobbed.

That wasn’t really last info. Tree waited, till unbearable pressure was fixed, to tell me, that he needs about two human bodies weekly as feed, to grow properly.

POV Diana, Ahriman’s voice

I felt pressure from lately advanced seed. It gave me headache, but not very strong. I could manage. I waited some time, convinced, that Adam would come to me. I went for him myself. He was sobbing by his seed. I took him up. He was broken.

He told me all. That he was weak, which I knew. That influence on [Will resonance] defense showed on his stats page. That his seed couldn’t stand long in my presence. He was sure, that he failed Order. We moved seed to basement, which helped a little. I knew, that Adam was loyal. That only meant, that Unlimited Devas knew and waited for us to get to this growth level. They were right, I constated bitterly. We couldn’t develop cult the way, we were trying to do. I would lose control over some of them soon.

Unlimited Devas somehow managed this crisis. I sent back Adam and called Nameless.

-= Hello Diana. – I hated to hear him talking calmly.

-= Hello Nameless.

He didn’t respond. He waited for me to talk probably.

-= You were right. – I was so hard to say that. I almost couldn’t. – Ahriman’s Order must change because of effects of latest seed growth.

-= Oh. Someone hit level three. Should I congratulate or express my condolences.

-= You have many, level three people as you said. How are you dealing with seeds internal struggles? – I asked.

He sighed.

-= I can provide you with information, but you are lately only taking and not giving. It will be last time, I help you for free. – I waited patiently. His taunts wasn’t important, I told myself in my mind. – It’s about distance. You can move bio-stone far enough and effect will disappear.

-= How far?

-= It should be little behind fences around your headquarters.

-= And you will come and steal seed. – I interrupted him. – You think, I gonna listen to you!

He sighed again.

-= Yes, you will. There is no other option. And we won’t take him, because, you know why…

I reminded silent.

-= So you don’t know yet. – He continued. He laughed. I almost exploded for such impertinence. – Just build shed and put some kind of your sign on it. Unlimited Devas won’t trespass there. And if you have some troublesome level two, we could take one.

-= You said Unlimited Devas, won’t trespass. What about Associated Devas? Will they?

-= Maybe they will, maybe not. How could I know? I can’t see any reason to trespass for now. But maybe, just maybe, someone will try to exact some kind of revenge.

-= Associated Devas are under yours jurisdiction. If they attack us, you will be responsible too.

-= Ha ha ha. Don’t try to threaten me or Unlimited Devas. You’re in deep shit and you don’t even know it. Learn to cooperate for once. – He breathed and calmed himself down. – That’s all I wanted to say. You want more, pay for it.

He waited for a moment, if I had something to say. I didn’t. He disconnected.

I believed Nameless, that there was more trouble to come. I closed eyes and asked it, the thing inside me, but it didn’t know. Lately my trust for it crumbled a little. Just a little.

I tried to endure pressure, just to show to myself and Nameless, that he was wrong. I could endure, it wasn’t so bad. Then Adam came, to tell, that he was on the edge, cause he couldn’t endure. That weakling. I told him to move seed to place by the fence with longest distance to headquarter. It appeared to be enough distance, to calm pressure. So, Nameless was mistaken. Not a lot, but mistaken.

POV Paladin

I heard that Unlimited Devas stopped Diana, and defended one that ran from her. I was impressed, but not glad. I would be glad, if they would kill each other. To tell you truth, I didn’t care as much as before.

I got my story.

We got this assault. It was almost successful. We stole valuables. It was in the late night, when security patrol found out. We were running to van, when they checked mansion and reported break-in. We heard them calling for reinforcements. During our run, one older guy twisted ankle or worse. We wanted to help him, but he insisted with staying. I killed him with screw driver. Then carried body to van on my back. When we were separating, I took body with me.

My criminal bosses were enamored with me. I got proposal to become assassin. I agreed under condition, that I would be used against criminals, till I would hoard enough money to leave country in case of troubles.

I got, what I wanted. Ability to kill criminals and they even paid me for my services. I got perfect way to dispose bodies too. And as a bonus I became level three quite fast.