"Alexa, what are you?"

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Name: Project Takeover the System(Alexa)

Species: Allay

Power: Potential to be a God

Description: An artificial soul that hasn't passed into the afterlife and it's being used as an avatar but (Alexa) for human ?????? as a guide.

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I knew Alexa was something else, but it was a new experience to read it so clearly.

And Allays are lost souls?

Does that mean it used the soul of a scientist that was left behind?

I looked at the other tabs that had different information, from the size of the Allay to what changes I could make.

It also had an option to connect to another Crystal and do a lot more changes that require more power.

Maybe that's why the Ender Drango needs multiple Crystals to heal herself. She's too huge for one Crystal to work.

"How did you make this Allay?"

I'm very confused, but I guess it made an artificial soul or something similar?

That's very godlike power for a machine that's stuck at the bottom of the sea.

"Ok, so what's the limit of what I can do? Can I make my own body with this?"

"Is it because I have to make a body out of energy not out of meat from this world?"

I believe that I need to make this happen so that I won't lose control over my body when I'll go to the End.

Especially now that we know there's another mastermind in there.

I don't think I'll be able to get home so easily, even if I manage to get all the energy and coordinates.

If that person managed to drag me here, it means it also has a way to get me back.

But I can't confront it when it has the power to take over my body at any moment.

I looked at Violet who was sleeping peacefully on the ground and let out a sigh.

Looks like I won't be able to heal her quickly with the Crystal.

Well wait in here until she'll wake up, and in the meantime, I'll try to get used to the Crystal.

I have to be careful with it since I don't have a lot of those and I don't think I can craft them yet.

With the plan made in my mind, I got up and got to work

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I was in front of a sleeping pig trying to make his tail longer by gently pulling it.

In any other context, this would've looked stupid, but the more I did it, the longer it got until it reached one block long.

"Finally! I managed to change a part of his body without waking it up."

It's been 3 days since we got back from the Nether, and Violet was still asleep.

In the meantime, I explored the place and found out that I was in the Stone Kingdom close to the borders of the Coral Kingdom.

I don't know If I should call myself lucky or unlucky with how far we traveled.

There was a small village not too far away from the cave, but after getting all the information I wanted, I decided to stay close to Violet and be ready for anything.

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But she was sleeping for too long and I started to get worried that something was wrong with her, even after I scanned her myself.

The fact that she didn't wake up after the scan should be enough of a statement how heavily asleep she is.

What the scan showed me...gave me a lot to think about.

So for the past few days, I tried to track the movement of the General with the compass and study how to use the Crystal.

It was hard at first, but I'm starting to get the hang of it, and after a few more months of studying, I should be able to mold flesh at my will.

"Ugh...Human?"

That raspy voice made my hand freeze which resulted in me losing concentration and ripped the newly grown tails making the pig wake up and screen in pain.

But no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't move since he was tied up by its legs.

I've learned my lesson from the last few experiments.

But that didn't matter anymore.

I took out my sword and cut off his head in one swing making his death painless.

Then I got up and ran quickly towards the room I placed Violet.

It had a hay bed and a music box with suiting music.

I got the disk as a thank you from the villagers since I built them a wall around the village.

For the first time in 3 days, Violet was standing up and was looking confused on where she was.

But, once she saw me, a smile appeared on her face, and teleported I'm front of me to give me a big hug.

She didn't say anything, and I didn't intend on pushing her away since she worked pretty hard for this.

"Thank you, Violet, you saved me once again."

"Human....saved....me."

"Ha, I guess I did that as well, then we're even now."

I said that with a smile on my face, but she didn't let me go for another 10 minutes.

After that, I told her the situation we were in, then she told me what happened while I was asleep from her perspective.

At least I could guess what happened from the few words she spoke.

It was a lot of interpretations with nodding and shaking the head.

But the short version of it is that she was trying to kill the Brutes shooting at me, and couldn't do it because of their enchanted diamond armor.

Or at least she couldn't stay for too long in one place to kill one without the others shooting at her.

That is why she decided to cause chaos while being invisible only to get herself tired and not notice the Mad Prince throwing a sleep potion at her.

She was asleep for a while, and only woke up because she felt the uncomfortable process of scanning which made her angry at Alexa.

But after she saw me fighting the Brutes she almost jumped in to help me, only to be stopped by Alexa and told the full plan.

Then they teleported to the room I prepared and broke the Perl, only to see me sleeping like I was in a coma.

They tried to wake me up in multiple ways but to no luck, and after Alexa realized the block In her hand was a tracker they were on the run constantly.

Violet was strong enough at the beginning to fight them off.

No one was a match for her except maybe the Mad Prince.

He seemed to have a sixth sense for invisible beings, so sneaking up on him didn't work that well.

Not only that, but he had a sword that once cut her flesh, made wounds glow.

Days passed and she was getting more tired from the constant teleportation with me.

It's a good thing that I woke up then, otherwise she would most likely get captured or killed since she wasn't willing to abandon me.

Now we were in the present, and we had to decide what to do.

"We still have to find the Piligers before they'll go to Alexa. I hope we're not too late."

If we continued to search for the General in the Overworld instead of the Nether, I think we would've reached them by now.

But now 10 days have passed, and we can't use the Nether with the tracker in Violet's hand.

"I recently found out about the true purpose of the Crystal. It can change the shape of the body for anyone I want, so we can take out the tracker that way. Unfortunately, I'm not that good yet, but we could ask Alexa to do it."

She crossed her arms and turned her head in displeasure.

"Human yes...Alexa no."

Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.

She's clearly mad that Alexa scanned her while she was unconscious, even though it did it under my order.

"Violet, I have to come clean. I scanned your body with the Crystal as well."

Violet turned her head towards me with a raised eyebrow, like asking 'What's the problem?'

"Human....ok....Fake....no."

So this was favoritism.

She wasn't angry at me, only at Alexa for some reason.

Is she still mad that Alexa fought with me through the guardians?

Or maybe there's another reason.

"Then I guess we'll have to leave as soon as possible. I'll buy a horse from the nearby village and give it a speed potion to get there faster."

In the end, the method we use to travel all the time it's the best method.

I started to take everything that I left in the cave and unfortunately destroyed the Crystal since I couldn't take it back.

Then I woke up Alexa from a corner of the room and went back to the village.

The villagers were more than happy to see me and gave plenty of food, even with my weird-looking armor.

After I stayed in there for an hour talking with the locals, I was finally able to buy a horse from them that was not afraid of me.

Once we got out of the village, I gave the horse a speed potion and our journey became way faster.

After 2 days of galloping, I arrived at a settlement in the Coral Kingdom.

It wasn't as small as a village but neither as big as a town, it was somewhere in the middle.

But once I passed the walls, I saw the streets mostly empty and a tense atmosphere in the air.

"What happened here?"

Because of my armor, nobody seemed to want to talk to me no matter how much I tried.

I had to visit a bar since all the other shops didn't let me inside or didn't talk to me.

At least here I wasn't kicked out as soon as the barman found my presence.

"Hey barman. I'm a traveler that just got here, why is everyone so tense?"

I said that while putting an iron ingot on the counter.

The barman was about to kick me out, but once he saw my bribe he smiled and told me what happened.

"The nations army was able to block a few Piliger attacks and mess up their plan which greatly encouraged us. But that changed when the Shadow Lord from the Sandstone Kingdom came and started to terorize the small towns as well. He doesn't destroy them, he only attacks in the middle of the night, kills a few people and steals a few precious items like some kind of thieve. Nobody hears when he's in town and you only find out about his existence once you wake up next to a corpses."

The barman tried to sound neutral while telling this story, but I could hear the hatread at the end showing how displeased he was as well.

"I'm sorry to hear that, thank you for the info."

Then I got out and begun to think about what I just hear.

There's a high chance the Prince meet with the General, and they made a deal to ravage a few towns at the borders of the Nation so the army would be more split up.

This wasn't good to hear, since now the worst case scenario just happened.

I'm afraid ill have to do something drastic to stop their advancement.