Immediately after Adam said “We need to talk” one of the bigger eyes that were looking directly at him fired a beam of light through the Chaos at him. The eye had to be 1,000 miles across as the beam leaped toward him at the speed of light. He had expected dialogue. He’d expected to be able to talk to the creature, but he guessed asking for a little bit of intelligent discourse was out of the question this time.
Also, he could be quick, but he was less than 50,000 miles from the surface of the sphere when the creature attacked which gave him no time to dodge while his consciousness was separated as it was. Even if he’d activated his faster-than-light travel or teleportation he couldn’t have moved fast enough to get out of the way. If Adam had been fully integrated with his Thor Aspect he probably could have dodged the beam easily. Instead, he took it, he took it all.
Chaotic Abyssal Horror has attacked with Chaotic Eye Lance.
Chaotic Eye lance hits for 0 damage.
100% Immunity to all Chaotic Damage noted due to ability “Resistant”
Chaotic Eye Lance from Chaotic Abyssal Horror reduces all resistances to the effects of Chaos by 100%
100% Immunity to Chaos effects from soul Ability Chaos Forged negated
Temporal Sheer has opened.
Soul and Aspect have been recombined due to soul abilities Inviolate and Adaptable.
Temporal Sheer has closed.
Adam finished reviewing the combat prompts and integrated his Thor Aspect back into himself. As the light from the beam faded, his vision returned. He looked around and noted that the beam had completely destroyed the group of beings on the edge of the Astral Plane behind him. Well, most of them anyway. The Prismatic Dragon had seen better days. The barrier to the Astral Plane had ruptured allowing the Astral and Chaos to mingle. Adam watched as the Prismatic Dragon disappeared, most likely having teleported away. If he had a chance he’d need to go look up that Dragon, he might be able to have an intelligent conversation with something after all. As he became fully integrated again he noticed that something had changed, something significant, though he didn’t have time to figure it out right this second because the Chaotic Abyssal Horror was attacking him again.
Now that he was fully integrated, dodging became easier, and his movement less sluggish. he hadn’t noticed that problem before, though if he was being honest he hadn’t been in combat since his soul projection and soul had been separated by the actions of Trix.
Adam dodged the beams of light that were shot at him, as well as all the tentacle strikes the Chaotic Abyssal Horror was trying to land. As he dodged, he allowed his nanites to infiltrate and take over this horror. Adam dodged to and fro as he looked back at the border of the Astral and this realm of chaos and noted that tears had been ripped out of the Astral. Raw chaos was rushing into the void to fill what it could like a tidal surge rapidly flowing into an inlet during a high tide. The chaos was filling what it could but the Astral was also rushing in to fill the area that had been burned away. Where there were rips in the Astral he could see layers upon layers of energy, almost like ribbons or layers in a cake.
Adam took those images and examined them closely with part of his mentality and realized that he was seeing razor-thin physical representations of alternate universes layered upon each other. There were a lot of them. As he watched the Astral energies flowed back over the tears they sealed and faded away. This creature’s Chaotic Eye Lance had damaged the fundamental structure of this Cosmos, which was definitely not a good thing.
The lesser attacks didn’t seem to be doing that kind of damage, nor did they seem to have the kind of range that the main eye had produced. With his nanites spread throughout this area of chaos, he made his decision and accelerated toward the eye, he didn’t need it doing that kind of damage to the Cosmos ever again.
Adam accelerated to almost the speed of light as he entered one of the eyes and started flying back and forth in it. He felt, more than heard, the scream of pain as the mouths of this beast howled into the chaos that surrounded it. Chaos being Chaos, the screams were amplified and reduced randomly but the vibrations through the beast’s body were unaffected, and he could feel the vibrations from the mouths that were closest to the eye he was in.
As he flew back and forth he made sure to go along the inside membrane of the eye. As he neared that barrier he drew forth his Chaos Blade as he reviewed the message he’d received when his sword Ender had been converted into his soul-bound Chaos Blade.
A Chaos Blade may only be wielded by a creature of Chaos.
This weapon is drawn and sheathed at will from Chaos.
Damage is Variable
This weapon is indestructible.
This weapon is Soul-Bound to the Fundamental being Johnathan Bennard
This Note: may only be seen by creatures without “Fundamental” abilities. The Blade of Chaos ignores all barriers, spells, and armor that do not have the trait “Fundamental” as part of its makeup. They are treated as if they weren’t there. Any creature struck by this weapon will react as if touched by raw chaos. As Chaos by its very nature is undefinable, the effects of what will happen cannot be quantified. A targets Luck may or may not determine if the exposure to chaos is beneficial, neutral, or ruinous just as your luck did since you are ‘lucky’ enough to be holding this item and reading this note…Johnathan.
He hadn’t pulled out his Chaos blade because he honestly viewed it as a WUD, a Weapon of Utter Destruction. While there was a small chance that whatever he hit with it would be converted into something truly powerful it was more likely that it would be reduced to raw chaos. It was a little too dangerous to be pulling out willy-nilly. Adam hadn’t forgotten about the sword though and this seemed like the perfect environment to test it in. The sword easily pierced the membrane, and he started zipping around the inside of this huge eyeball leaving an open wound that blood started to ooze blood. As he’d thought, this creature was unaffected by the chaos effect of the blade, but it was still affected by the damage. As he flew along the inside dragging the sword below and behind him, with his right hand, it kind of felt like he was plowing a field.
Adam released the Chaos Blade back into his soul storage and exited the eyeball. Flying around inside it had been somewhat disgusting. It felt like he was flying through cottage cheese. he’d kept his mouth firmly closed and used his nanites to seal off his nasal cavities. he was grateful that he could neither smell nor taste the fluid he’d traveled through. As he left the eye at high velocity a geyser of the fluid followed him out and was immediately absorbed and converted into chaos by the raw chaos it came into contact with.
Adam headed off laterally then altered his course so it would take him behind the horror. The horror didn’t turn but it did move in his direction and began to follow him. Adam guessed he’d hit a nerve, pun intended. While he was flying he decided to review the information he’d gleaned from the blue man in The Divide. After he’d gone through his memories he learned that it was a sorter for basic souls. At the end of The Divide, souls would be further sorted into the pantheons and gods they’d followed. Those that didn’t believe in an afterlife were recycled back into the mortal realm while those that did believe in an afterlife were turned into servants. The Gods of this realm were preparing the recently deceased to join their armies in their next life
So Textrix had subverted this Cosmos to generate souls for an army she’d need. What would one of the Aspects need an army for, unless she was trying to take power from one of the other main Aspects of reality? Could they gain even more power than they had? Why would anything or anyone need that level of power? Sure, he’d take that power just to keep it out of someone else’s hands. Why? Because existence would become boring if there were no struggles or if nothing could struggle against you. While he reviewed the knowledge he’d uncovered, he kept an eye on the Chaotic Abyssal Horror and the propagation of his nanites through it. Every time it would speed up, so would he.
Next, he reviewed his Personal Information:
Name: Adamantadine
Identity: Adam
Age: 35
Weight: 170
Birthday, July 16th, 2001
Soul Projection: Ahrem Bianci
Identity: Ahrem
Age: 15
Weight: 135
Birthday, September 19th, 1985
Abilities: None Chosen
Soul Type: Advanced
Soul Level: Absolute, 99.99%
Soul Projection Level: 104,879,885 Ascendant Human
Soul Rank Disparity: 1.0E+8
Soul Abilities (Note: Soul Abilities are Always Active in your Soul Space and your Primary Aspect. Soul abilities remain through every tribulation that a soul is put through. Be it death, rebirth, trauma, magical modification, technological modification, etc.)
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WARNING Changes have been made to your Soul Abilities during a cosmic occurrence. Normally this is only possible between such events. Something that occurred in this Cosmos has affected you in a significant way and modified these core abilities. Modifications received are based on your Karmic Luck and Luck and the catalyst that affected you. Changes may be beneficial or detrimental accordingly. After this warning, further changes will be italicized for easy recognition the first time you view this information.
Soul Abilities
“Perfect Memory” - Like Photographic Memory except for all five senses with an automatic recall of desired information.
“Pansophical” – Skills that are known to you or known by you are performed as if you have achieved the level category of “Rare” as defined in whatever Reality, Cosmos, Universe, or Dimension you find yourself in.
“Temporally Inviolate” – Your soul is sacrosanct. Your soul cannot be destroyed. As you have learned Energy cannot be destroyed only converted. Any action taken to affect you through time manipulation has no effect on you. When the timeline of your current local stabilizes your soul will remain in its current local, from which you can reform and continue along in the timeline you are in. This process is almost instantaneous. You are not subject to Grand Father Paradoxes or harmful magic that utilized the manipulation of time. Additionally, you may now place items into your Soul Storage or Soul Space from your Primary Soul Projection and pull them out if your Soul space and Primary Soul Projection become temporally separated. This is a unique ability due to your ability to create copies of yourself with your nanites. Normally in such occurrences, the Soul Projection will eventually catch up to the Soul Space when it dies or vice versa.
“Chaos Forged” - Your soul had been inundated with Chaos and forged your soul to withstand all forms of chaos. During this process, your will has held your core identity together and permanently changed your soul. You may enter and exit any environment flooded with Chaos 100% resistant to any further changes. Additionally, the chaotic nature of your soul allows you to designate and change your normal abilities as you desire. These abilities are fixed and may not be modified. You may add, remove or change out your normal abilities as you desired. Doing so has a cost in Karmic Luck, which is locked away while those abilities are chosen. Release your current abilities to regain the tied-up Karmic Luck and chose new abilities as you desire. What abilities are available and usable in any specific local are determined within that local. Abilities that are locked out are automatically removed and the Karmic Luck cost is replaced. Maximum number of normal abilities within a specific local: 2
“Chaos Tempered – In addition to being Chaos Forged your Soul Space has been tempered and quenched by Primal Chaos. Your Soul has been scoured clean of artificial limitations imposed by The System. This grants no additional access to the various interfaces that are available below the System level but does erase any requirements for Soul Progression based on Cosmic Occurrence. Continued exposure to Primal Chaos may produce additional soul Abilities.
“Adaptable” - Chaos has modified your body so that you may adapt to any environment. From Absolute Zero to the Gravity well of a Singularity your body can and will adapt to all environmental conditions. This includes the ability to survive in those environments. Example: the ability to breathe underwater if necessary. This Adaptability is limited to your soul only. Projections or duplicates that you control also gain this adaptability.
“Willed-Movement” - As a being of Chaos, you have the ability to move through Chaos as you desire at any rate you desire. As Chaos is present in all aspects of reality, your will allows you to move as you desire. This is a sub-ability of the Fundamental Ability “Adaptable” and is available to all projections and copies.
“Incessant”- Should your physical body be destroyed your soul remains and will reform your body immediately. This is a by-product of your chaotic and nanitic composition as well as a benefit of your Karmic Luck. You are immortal
“Resistant” No Change - You are 50% resistant to all Primal Magic and natural manifestations of those magics. Additionally, you are 100% resistant to all magic from the following spheres of power; "Chaos, Time, Space, and Gravity, and 50% resistant to Holy and Demonic Magic
“Open to new Ideas”- The changes to your body have severed any clerical link to the divine you had. Reality is vast, there might come a time in the future when aligning yourself to the divine or joining their ranks and becoming subservient to one or more may be required. The limitation of never serving a divine has been removed.
“Convergence” - The very nature of your Soul draws Chaotic Energy and converts it as you desire. In any Reality, you have access to and can utilize any magical energy normally. Additionally, your Mana Regeneration is increased by Willpower + Endurance per minute. From Eternity and the Place between Places you may start a Cosmic Occurrence, you may choose to be Born, Cross Over, or Manifest. Being born requires that you follow the rules of the Cosmos you are entering with your Soul Space in tow for a normal birth as if reincarnated. Soul Abilities may, or may not, be in effect depending on the laws of that Cosmos. To Cross Over means to bring your Soul with your Primary Soul Projection and any copies you desire. All Soul Abilities are in full effect. Finally, you may Manifest within a Cosmos. Manifesting into a Cosmos leaves your Soul behind but allows you to spend Karmic Luck to create copies of yourself in a Cosmos. This copy will have your mind and memories but the amount of Karmic Luck spent determines the power level that the manifestation will have up to your current power level at the time of the manifestation. While in a Cosmos a Manifestation cannot contact your soul. Such Manifestations are a fragment of yourself and return to you upon their death. This is instantaneous and all memories, experiences, and karmic luck are gained, unless the fragment is destroyed when it returns to you. (NOTE: The Soul Ability Chaos Tempered allows you to Cross Over or Manifest into any Cosmos which would normally not allow this type of entry. You may still not be Born in a Cosmos that does not allow reincarnation for souls above the basic level.
“Spellweaver” - You neither memorize nor permanently add spells using spell slots. Instead, you may weave magic into any form of your desire so long as you have the skill and mana to do so.
“Soul Storage” – The area inside your soul space is as small or large as you desire and follows any rules you wish to impose. You no longer have a storage limit and can summon any item out of your Soul Storage as you desire to the current projection of yourself. Items placed into or taken out of the space appear or disappear to the hand touching them. This space can be represented by slots if you prefer. Changes to your Soul require this clarification, you may only place items into your soul storage from copies of yourself in the same cosmos as your soul or from your Primary Soul Projection. Manifestations may be created with soul storage but upon the manifestation’s destruction, all items in the manifestation’s soul storage are deposited into the chaos level of that Cosmos.
“Affluent” - As needed you may produce or create any type of physical money in any reality you visit. In realities where you have integrated yourself into the global markets, digital currency is always available to you.
“Allegiance” – You are now a power in the Inter-multi-universal arena. As such other beings can submit to your will. Allegiance is shown by paying a tithe of 10% of your Karmic Luck after each Cosmic Occurrence. Karmic Luck is Hard locked after each Occurrence. If an Allegiance is declared the tithe only counts for that specific Cosmic Occurrence. Previously earned Karmic luck is not counted.
Allegiance allows those that have dedicated themselves to you to request assistance or boons from you. Also, Allegiance allows those that have allied with you to choose abilities known or possessed by you or any others that have joined your pantheon.
Converted from the True Prophet ability to the Soul Ability: Prophet – The mysteries of life and death are not mysteries to you. You know there is something after death and something even beyond that. You will always be able to remember your previous life and speak of it to others. Death is no longer something to be feared but a doorway you may walk through knowing that you will be able to make your way back
Abilities: None
Attributes
Strength 8.08E+11
Agility 8.08E+11
Dexterity 8.08E+11
Endurance 8.08E+11
Constitution 8.08E+11
Intelligence 8.08E+11
Wisdom 8.08E+11
Willpower 8.08E+11
Perception 8.08E+11
Charisma 8.08E+11
Luck 8.08E+11
Primary Stats
Carrying Capacity 7.27E+12
Hit Points: 3.59E+22
Base Health Regeneration
4.84E+27 per second
Stamina 8.98E+23
Base Stamina Regeneration
8.98E+21 per second
Mana: 1.80E+24
Base Mana Regeneration
1.20E+22 per second
Movement
Normal Running Speed: 1.62E+10 mph, 2.37E+10 fps
Standing high Jump: 1.35E+10 Feet.
Note. Falling Damage is not mitigated by maximum jumping Distance.
Base Attack
Unarmed Base Attack: 1.80E+22
Max Damage: 7.18E+22
Critical Damage Maximum Damage x2
Skills: See Soul Ability “Pansophical” above
Adam double-checked everything while he kept an eye on the Chaotic Abyssal Horror behind him and realized that the changes to the soul ability Adaptable implied that he hadn’t been using that ability to move. He thought about it for a moment, reviewed his memories, and realized that he had been utilizing mana to move. His regeneration was so high that he hadn’t realized that his Thor aspect had designated some of his mentality to utilize his Spellweaver ability as needed to utilize his abilities Adaptable and Willed-Movement. But then how did his body survive its encounters with high gravity, faster-than-light travel, and such? Sure there were spells that would allow that. It must have been his Incessant nature and his high attributes. They were so high and his regeneration rates were so fast that his body didn’t die until they hit him with an orbital strike through a portal after they had suppressed him. That had to have been what “The Agency” had used.
Adam checked the nanite infiltration of the Chaotic Abyssal Horror behind him and realized it had been at 100% for a little bit now. Adam sent the command back to his nanites to freeze it in place. It came to a stop and he turned to face it. His True Sight, which was still active, showed him that its aura was angry, malevolent level angry. Yeah, not an issue. he copied its neural structure into his memory. As he suspected the memories it contained were a jumble of eating and devouring. The last few memories had been a feeling of satisfaction in how it had tricked the beings in the realm of lacking, its name for the Astral, into bringing food to it. It couldn’t enter that area because it couldn’t swim through it and any part of itself that entered started to come apart. That was good to know. This Chaos creature that was infused with Chaos required an environment of Chaos to exist. Adam wondered how long it would take for it to fade away if it were teleported into a Universe. Probably longer than it would take to wreck whatever was near it. Better not to find out.
Once he was done copying its neural structure he downloaded the data his nanites had acquired into the storage he’d created in his Soul Space then converted the whole creature into nanites and stored them in his soul space as well. One second it was there, the next it had evaporated and was flowing toward him as a multicolored swarm of chaotic nanites that disappeared as they touched him. He was sure that he’d find a use for all those nanites later.
Adam had a little time to kill and a few things to check out before he headed back to the station orbiting North America where Katja and the Director were. Then part of his personal information registered, “Soul Level: Absolute 99.99%”