Few days have passed since the cave became my home. Few things were of some importance so i'll start with the most obvious one.... Black is weak, he is just like an ordinary rabbit maybe even weaker.... a small baby snake sneaked into my base while i was out hunting and once i came back i could see black being strangled by the reptile. I had to intervene as it seemed black's death would be inevitable at this rate. Weird right? How can something so freaking weak kill a griffon and have such a scary pressure? Well aside the pressure which is a complete mystery i have few ideas on how the griffon got killed:
Heart attack.
Suffocation.
Something stronger just killed it and didn't bother to eat it.
Yes the mystery wasn't so mysterious anymore. Seeing as Black kept eating only the griffon, i just let him do his thing as he doesn't really bother me unless he wants to be petted. How sweet! * cough *
Anyways i slowly accumulated the souls inside me by catching live prey and feasting on their souls. Yummy. While i was hunting an idea struck me, if i can move my soul to eat other soul, maybe i can divide it. So my experiments started, i took few human skeletons from the cave's entrance and put them inside. Let me tell you that was very tiring as i had to find the bones that were scattered around and in the end i had assembled 6 complete skeletons from the piles outside.
In my first experiment i tried to pour my mana directly into the skeleton. At first i had trouble but i was slowly able to encompass the whole skeleton in my mana. The result was not very promising. I had to manually control the skeleton while the mana was slowly disappearing from the skeleton, and upon the end, the skeleton simply flopped onto the ground.
“what am i doing wrong? -.- “ i was agonizing over this fact as i tried to do something different, i poured as much mana as i could into the skeleton, the result was much worse, the bones couldn't take such an increase in mana and shattered into dust.
“DAMN IT!” i shouted as one of my precious skeletons vanished.
“No, i can still do something i still have 5 of them, yes.... i can still try some more.” i made an evil grin, of course in my imagination as a skeleton can't make any facial expressions. What, you think skeletons are capable of making expressions? Are you all stupid? Bones stay in one place you cannot bend them or they break! Sigh what do i have to do with you people....
Anyways onto my 2nd specimen. In my first experiment i added only mana, this time i tried to put a tiny piece of my soul into the skeleton before pouring mana inside. The results were much better, satisfactory in fact but not perfect. What i created was a semi sentient being that followed my every order. Unfortunately the mana in their bodies was still disappearing in a slow constant rate.
So i told it to hunt some monsters and bring their bones while eating the flesh. You wanna know why? That's because during my hunts i also realized that inside the flesh of the beast there are trace amounts of mana and soul of the being lingering in it, although the mana to soul percentage is something like 100:1, therefore it is unwise to increase your soul this way.
So now you all might be wondering how is he able to eat meat. Well that question is well thought out. Since bones can't do what stomach can and digest the meat. Well it does not look pretty, in fact it looked stupid as i asked that skeleton to do it in front of me. He literary put the meat into his mouth and let it fall down.... yup, my only explanation for now is that he puts mana from his skull into the mouth and grabs the mana and soul bits and makes them his own. Yes i can't tell you much, you might be disappointed but i can't tell you what i don't know.
After my first sucessful experiment, i created 2 more of those semi intelligent skeletons and gave them obvious orders such as.
Eat when hungry
guard the cave
eliminate the intruders
bring back the bones
This was my grand plan for now, to make few more skeleton monsters and gain power, gradually, silently, without anyone noticing the changes in power, so that they won't come to eliminate me early on. I am such a genius!!! * cough * anyways for the last two, i wanted to do something different, something spectacular, i wanted to create a minion that would be able to think for itself, give orders to others, and challenge my thoughts if needed. I needed an adviser and it seemed the best way to get one.... is to make one.
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So i took the second last skeleton and this time instead of a small piece, i took a rather large chunk and put it inside. Immediately inside the skeleton's eye sockets two bright red glowing eyes could be seen, and slowly the skeleton stood up and looked upon shade.
“who are you?” asked the obviously confused skeleton.
“i am shade” i answered feeling rather superior that my experiment succeeded! *inner giggle like a little girl * then i took a look at the skeleton he was.... an exact copy of me.
“you are shade? No i am shade!” the skeleton exclaimed while waiving his bony hands in the air as if making his statement more grand.
“Uhhh, no i am shade and i made you just a second ago.” i said rather taken aback by a creation that tries to impersonate me. Sure i wanted an adviser but not me....
“No i am shade, and i made you!” the skeleton exclaimed, and then he lunged at me throwning me onto the ground.
He then attempted to take my soul! Hell, what is wrong with this one! Thankfully i didn't use more than half of my remaining soul, so i was able to eat him instead of him eating me.
“that was scary! What the hell was wrong with him.” i look upon the now lifelessly resting skeleton on the ground. My next step was simple. I stomped the hell out of that one until only dust remained. Like hell i will leave something so dangerous with a chance to come back to life!
I was sceptical with my last specimen. I didn't wanna fight with my creation again, but at the same time i wanted someone to talk to.... * ahem * fine you win. Fuck the adviser, i am just lonely and need someone to talk to! * tear up *
So before i ruin another set of bones, i started to play around with my soul. Attaching and taking it apart, while playing i had an idea, is wiping the memory of the soul possible? If so that may be the key to getting a friend.
So i take a small piece of my soul and separate it from the rest. I still kept it in my body but left it in my pinky. Then i asked it to wipe itself. * lol * and to my surprise my black soul become slight greyish.
'interesting' i think and then merge that piece with my own, the funny part was that although it was my soul it didn't wanna merge so i had to devour it like any other being. The base of that soul was me but at the same time it wasn't me.
So with a new found idea i take exactly the same amount as i did with my impersonator, and will it to move into the skeleton, but before it had the chance to merge with the skeleton completely i ordered it to wipe itself. The soul became greyish just like before and then in it's sockets something started glowing.
' i have a bad feeling about this...' i think to myself as i recount what happened to the last one that had glowing eyes. But to my surprise this time the eyes instead of my crimson red were sapphire blue. The skeleton came to understand that it started to exist and slowly looked up to lock with my eyes. We stared for a while but he did not say anything nor has he done anything else besides looking at me, so i started the conversation.
“hello?” i said rather confused not knowing what to expect.
The skeleton twitched upon hearing my voice, but he kept staring and then he said something rather scary....
“Father?” this unfamiliar voice came from that skeleton as he kept his gaze on me.
“......”
“......”
“Say what again!?!??!”.........................................
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Life here, so how did you like it? Any questions or comments are always welcome! Btw i wasn't gonna make shade able to raise undead but seeing as some wanted it to happen while others didn't voice any complaints about that sort of power, and i saw that i could work with that material made this~! So i hope you enjoyed yes another weird development.
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