"Wiggle butt! Where are you, you little fuzzball? I know you’re there," I called out playfully.
Activating my divine sight, I spotted her huddled against the living room wall. I started towards her, but before I could reach her, she pounced. It was like a blur – one moment she was pressed against the wall, the next she was a whirlwind in front of me. Just as her paw landed on my chest, we both teleported. We materialized fifty feet above the ground, smack dab in the backyard.
Then, with a flash, she sprouted the most breathtaking wings I'd ever seen. They resembled an angel's, with feathers a sultry black that matched her coat. They were immense, yet folded so tightly they appeared as a single, solid piece. The intricate design was mesmerizing, glowing blue mana coursing through what looked like a runic language embedded in each feather. With every powerful flap, a whirlwind whipped around my torso. Without my control over the environment, I would've been sent flying.
She grinned at me, her gaze intense. I felt a strange pressure on my mind, a push trying to take control. As I resisted, pushing back against the intrusion, a voice echoed in my head. It was still the same high-pitched, young girl's voice I remembered from when she first manifested her abilities, but it seemed even more hyperactive than before. It reminded me of how my mom said I was as a child. Sentences and thoughts all ran together. People sometimes had trouble following my rapid speech patterns.
"Aww, Daddy, that's not fair! I was gonna win!" she whined, her voice tinged with playful disappointment. "You're too strong!"
I teleported behind her and wrapped my arms around her, trying to enclose her massive wings. They were overwhelming, each feather so large. When pressed together, her scales felt like impenetrable armor. Silently, I sent a message to Sim, adding to Wiggs's skills. She could now control her size at will. Willing her skill to activate, I made her shrink to the size of a puppy and teleported us back inside.
She looked incredible. The black scales, the shape of her wings, her little nub tail, the design on her feathers – it was a symphony of perfection.
I gave her the biggest hug I could without crushing her little body.
"But Daddy, I was big! Why'd you make me small?"
"Because you're cuter this way," I said, giving her a kiss on the snout.
"Can I get big again? I wanna be big again."
“Of course you can. Just think about how big you want to be and it'll happen. Don't go overboard, though, remember we're inside.
In less than two seconds, she'd grown back to her normal, hundred-pound size. Her wings folded neatly against her body. At first, it seemed illogical – how could those comparatively gigantic wings fold so compactly? I decided to analyze her and see what exactly she'd been up to.
Analysis Failed
For the first time ever, my analysis skill didn’t work. Concentrating harder, a window popped up:
"The creature you are attempting to analyze has a master-level block enabled. Would you like to penetrate the block and analyze anyway? Be aware that there may be mental backlash on the recipient."
“Hey, Peaches, can you take off your block so I can see all the awesome stuff you’ve been up to?”
“It worked. I blocked you. Ha ha ha ha ha,” she said, her laugh coming out in a little jingle. While gloating, she made sure to include a little butt-wiggle dance. It was so cute I couldn’t help but laugh.
“You did. Good job! Can you unblock it for just a minute so I can see how much you’ve grown?”
“Okay, Daddy, I did it.”
I stared at her and activated my analysis skill again.
Peaches aka (Wiggle butt, Wiggs, Princess, Pretty girl, Big Booty Judy)
* Species: Rottweiler Chimera
* Age: 2
* Level: 26
* HP: 5,217
* MP: 3732 of 3,831
* Stamina 5910 of 6,108
* Morality: 7
*Individual attributes list available
Abilities: Flight, Run, Screech, Dodge, Pounce, Force Bite, Telepathy, Enhanced Learning, Mental block, Acrobatics, Mimicry, Advanced Meditation, Displacement Swimming, Water breathing, Steel stomach, Double Dig, & Astral Storage.
Skills:
* Teleport (Level 21 - Tier 3)
* Analysis (Level 18 - Tier 2)
* Mind Intrusion (Level 9 - Tier 1)
* Tail Whip (Level 14 - Tier 2)
* Invisibility (Level 99 - Tier *Divine*)
* Time Dilation (Level 7 - Tier 1)
* Consume (Level 8 - Tier 1)
* Mana Steal (Level 3 - Tier 1)
* Mana enhancement (Level 2 - Tier 1)
* Physical Acquisition (Level 18 - Tier 2)
* Phase shift (Level 3 - Tier 1)
* Shape Shifting (Level 1 - Tier 1)
Spells:
* Dragon breath (Level 3)
* Heal (Level 9)
Bondable: Yes (*Soul bond initiated, Waiting on acceptance)
Description:
(Once just a beloved pet Rottweiler, Peaches was sent to explore and grow in the wilds. Her ability to learn and absorb knowledge at an extraordinary rate accelerated her growth and her mana channels beyond expectation. This ability and evolution transformed her into a Rottweiler Chimera, allowing her to choose and integrate new features. Currently on her path to becoming a Divine Chimera (the ultimate form with no known limitations), She possesses a remarkable arsenal of skills and abilities. Due to being linked with the admin, normal limitations on growth have been removed.)
After reading through her stats, I sat there dumbfounded. My playful little girl was now the most fearsome and capable predator on the planet. Her entire life, I had explained why we did things a certain way, just like she was my actual child. I knew she couldn’t understand me, but it always made sense to talk through everything with her. It looked like at least some of it was absorbed. Her morality stat was a 7, and that’s based on my version of morality. She could feel remorse and sympathy and chose to be good.
I sent a quick thought to Sim. “Is that soul bond waiting for me to accept?”
“Yes,” Sim replied. “If you look at the top right of your vision, you will see a little asterisk. I was going to make it flash, I know that’s how you would prefer to have your notifications show up, but I didn’t want to distract you from your reunion, so I just used the asterisk.”
I accepted the soul bond notification without reading it and minimized it again. As soon as I did, I heard a little giggle and felt a heat radiate from both of our mana pathways. She didn’t say anything about it, so I didn’t bring it up yet. I would read the full notification once things had calmed down a little bit.
“I am so proud of you, Wiggle Butt. Look at how far you've come. Did you have fun?”
“Oh, oh, I made friends with a bear! His name is George. Well, he tried to eat me first, but after I roared at him, he stopped. Then I talked in his head, so we became friends. Then I saw a bunny and I got hungry, so I ate it. I killed it fast like you taught me. It didn’t even see me until I was about to bite its head.”
Looking confused, I said, “Wait, I thought you were invisible. How did anything see or hear you?”
“Oh, I got bored. Sim turned it off after like a week. No one knew I was there, and that’s too boring. It was really cool after I turned visible again. I could turn it on and off. Sim said I was growing so fast that I could do it by myself now. So I did it like 100 times in a row.”
Sim quickly put a thought in my head. “She activated and deactivated the skill 1,356 times. She earned divine tier.”
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“It felt really funny. Sim said that leveled it up so much that now it doesn’t feel funny anymore. It just does it whenever I think I should be invisible. But it stopped working when I tried to jump on you. You saw me. Did you break it?”
“That’s just because I have special eyes. I can see through everything,” I told her.
“Well, that’s dumb. What if I wanna play gotcha again?”
I looked at her with a big smile and chuckled. “Go ahead and try as long as we’re not busy.”
“Okay, but I’m gonna getcha next time! Oh yeah, George showed me a bunch of cool places. There was a bunch of water, and he caught a fish, but he wasn’t very good at it. He only got one. When I swam under the water, Sim said I could breathe underwater, so I did. It was weird at first, but then it felt normal. I caught so many fishies. I ate like ten and George ate the rest. George is my friend. Did I tell you he’s a bear? Well, he is.
Then, one night, I got cold, so I told Sim I needed a fire. I know what fire is now. It’s hot. Don’t touch it. You’ll get burned. Sim told me to breathe on something. Did you know I can breathe fire? It’s awesome. Here, watch…”
“No!” I said as quickly as I could before I started chuckling. “We’re still inside.”
She looked at me with an excited look. “Follow me, I'll show you.”
“Let’s wait a little bit for that. I want to hear the rest of what you've been up to.”
“Oh, well, one day I saw a fox. It was playing with a little mouse. I really liked its tail. It was pretty. I wanted a tail like his. So I stared at my tail and it turned into one like his. It’s so pretty. Look…”
She turned her head, and a beautiful long black tail shaped like a fox’s appeared where her nub normally was. It had the same shimmer as her wings, with inlaid runes glowing blue and miniature scales that seemed to impossibly bend with her movement.
All of a sudden, it split into three. She looked just like a Kitsune from Japanese legends.
“Oh yeah, I got three instead of one. That made me really happy. It’s cool. Look, they can spin in a circle.”
As she spun the tails, I could see a faint glow of what looked like mana charging. I’d have to remember to ask Sim about turning it into a skill.
“I wanted to play too, so I tried to jump on the fox like it was doing to the mouse. But it went into a hole before I could play with him, so I had to dig.
Did you know I could dig really fast now? I was trying to get the fox, but I dug so far I hit water. I didn’t know there was water in the ground. Did you know that? I got really wet.
Well, I went to jump out of the hole and I saw a mean old bird had grabbed my fox friend. So I tried to jump up to save him, but I couldn’t get high enough. So I got sad. Why did he get wings but I didn’t? So I thought about growing wings. I thought it would be so cool if I had wings too. Then they came out. They started glowing blue, which was weird, but I flew up and started thinking to that mean bird that he better put my friend down.
He didn’t listen, so I got a little mad. And I yelled at him in my head. After that, he did what I told him to. I think he got super scared because I didn’t even really have to tell him what I wanted him to do anymore. He just did what I wanted without me telling him. After he put my friend down, I told him to go away. But when I turned around, my friend was gone too. Stupid bird scared him and he ran away.
Later, I remembered you said to stay away from cars, but I smelled something really bad. There was a fire in the mountains and then I saw it was two cars on fire making the smell. I think they didn’t listen to their dad because they were not supposed to be on the same side of the road. When I flew down, the people were bleeding. They seemed like they had a lot of owies, so I told Sim to let me help. So I just thought about making their owies go away and then they did. They didn’t see me, but they were so happy that I got happy. So I stayed invisible and went around making everyone I could find with owies better. It was fun.
Daddy, I’m glad I’m back. I like having fun but I missed you. You're my best friend.”
I gave her another big hug. “I missed you too. We’re gonna go on a bunch of adventures together now that you’re such a big girl.”
“Yay… oh yeah, then, after fixing owies for a long time, Sim told me she wanted me to help fix stuff. So I went where she said and I saw a bunch of bubbles in some water. They were blue bubbles. I thought they were really pretty. She told me to pull the bubbles into my belly. That was stupid. You can’t just pull bubbles into your belly. So I tried to eat 'em. You can’t eat bubbles either. They keep popping and they tasted funny. Then Sim said to just think about pulling all the bubbles into something in my belly and they would go. I thought that was dumb too. It felt really funny, but it worked. All the bubbles floated out of the water and into my belly. The water wasn’t blue anymore, and I had to sleep for like ten years after that, but now I feel stronger.”
Sim’s voice echoed in my head, “I identified a mana spout that had reached the surface and was at risk of either altering the environment or causing issues to the wildlife or humans in the area. I gave her a mana steal skill to capture all the mana. When she absorbed the mana, I used it to expand her channels and level her up. This accounted for 63% of her attribute increases. Once she has become even more accustomed to her abilities, she currently has 369 available points to allocate.”
Peaches got an excited look on her face as she remembered another part of her trip. “Oh yeah, did you know I can move really fast? Everyone else goes super slow. Even if I stop, they just keep going slow. It’s weird. I tried to race another bird, but he was so slow it was boring.”
“What was it you were doing that made you not want to come back earlier?” I asked. “Sim told me you wanted another week. Did you do something cool that week?”
Her eyes opened wide and she said, “Oh yeah, this is the best part.”
The next second we were both standing in front of a gigantic hole in the ground. It had to be at least 10 acres wide and 10,000 feet deep. I asked Sim really quickly where we were.
“You are in the middle of the Grand Teton National Park. This exact location is projected to be a major ejection point for one of the larger mana spouts. It’s possible that this location will have the highest output of mana throughout the world. Peaches has dug this hole so we can utilize this as a mana funnel for creation. I approximate that this location alone will output enough mana to create 22 SS-ranked sub-cores. If we set up a facility with specific equipment, you will also be able to advance at least 50 people’s mana channels to accommodate master-tier abilities prior to system integration. This will effectively create a hero class that can be excelled to become protectors in the event of another universe's incursion.”
At first, I got excited. We could make a hero class. This is exactly what we needed to help protect everyone. Then I realized what it meant. I had to pick 50 people to grant crazy strong power to. What if I picked wrong? What if they ended up not wanting to be heroes?
The next thing I heard was Peaches’s voice in my head.
“DADDY!! You weren’t listening to me.”
“I’m sorry, Peaches. I just zoned out because of how awesome your hole is. You did this all by yourself? This is the best hole anyone has ever dug in the history of the entire world.”
Her eyes beamed and she put on her big goofy smile. “I know. I’m awesome. I’m gonna bury my bones in here and no one will ever find them.”
“Go ahead and get one and I’ll wait here,” I told her.
The next thing I knew, she had disappeared.
“Hey Sim, what kind of facility do we need to make?”
“The design for the enhancement is very complicated,” Sim replied. “I utilized knowledge of a runic language that was included in my initial information. It allows physical properties to use mana in controllable ways. Normally, a convergence event would need to take place for such large channels, and I would merge those channels with the environment itself. This procedure, however, allows for larger pathways to be created and a kind of melding to take place. For us to be able to create 50 different forms of larger pathways without merging them directly, the runes allow us to force master-tier energy levels. I would need to put them each in their own time dilation chamber and start the process in advance to achieve a 100% success rate. As soon as the shield is down and mana is spouted directly into the facility, I can complete all upgrades at once. This will still allow me to integrate them into the system and they can begin their selection of race, gender, and species. The professions do not matter as the pathways will already be capable of extremely high mana utilization.”
During Sim’s explanation, I grew more and more worried until the end. “So we aren’t really forcing anything on someone. I’ve read books that force people to be heroes and almost every time they hated it and tried to fight against it.”
“No,” Sim replied. “You will still need to pick the candidates and I will need at least one month to prepare their bodies prior to integration.”
“Okay, I can handle that. We may end up with a herbalist or a nanny with hero capabilities, but at least we will have someone capable if needed. You can try to guide them with quests but no forcing anyone to do anything.”
“Understood,” Sim replied.
Just as we finished, I looked at the bottom of the hole. I kept seeing a little black dot appear and disappear. When I looked closer, I noticed it was Peaches. She had been teleporting to the bottom of the hole and then out again. Each time she appeared, she dropped another bone and then disappeared again. I busted out laughing. She probably had 50 or 60 bones in the hole and didn’t seem to be slowing down. I couldn’t help myself. I teleported down, took one, and hurried back up to the top before she returned. I was hiding it behind my back when she popped her head up.
“Daddy!” she yelled in my head. “Did you see someone take a bone? I’m missing a bone. I bet it was that stupid bird. Daddy! Did you see a bird steal my bone? He’s mad because I made him put my friend down. Never mind! I’ll find him.”
She took off into the air. In a burst of power, her form stretched and reshaped, fur rippling like obsidian waves. Massive black wings erupted from her back, each feather edged with razor-sharp midnight black scales that glittered like a thousand menacing eyes. As she flew up higher and higher, I couldn't help but stare in awe. The contrast between the powerful wings and her Rottweiler form was breathtaking. Three thick, black fox tails swished behind her, leaving a trail of dark smoke in their wake. The sight was both magnificent and terrifying, a creature straight out of a myth. Was she going to be a part of people’s nightmares or dreams? Only time would tell.
“Sim, I like the smoke, but it might make her more noticeable.”
Sim’s reply shocked me a little. “I didn’t add that. She appears to be altering her abilities by herself.”
I heard her mumbling as she disappeared into the distance. “I know it was you, you stupid bird. Where are you? GIVE ME MY BONE BACK!”
“Hey Sim, I thought you already bonded us. Why did I need to accept a soul bond?”
“I created a companion bond for the system. It was just a superficial bond linking you within the system. It didn’t actually change anything between you two. You’re already linked more than I originally thought possible.” She responded
“Oh, okay, just checking”