Chapter 55

Now the energy of Space is not only inside my body, but also outside, but because of this I had to increase the speed of "suction". It was a little hard to maintain such a state, although if I get used to it, then at least I can walk like this all day. We just need more training and time... time… Time! Precisely!

"It looks like this woman has imprisoned us in some kind of time loop," I realized when I remembered the possibilities of the Time stone, which the Grandmaster told me about, because these pebbles had been almost everywhere and some information, of course, was preserved— "which means this is the perfect moment to increase control over the energy of Space."

As I thought, everything returned to its place again, and the unknown reappeared not far from me. Huh, I should concentrate, because I'm going to have a very mentally exhausting battle…

"How did I get sick of all this...", I moaned in my thoughts, sending a wave of spatial energy into the opponent, which is already splitting into small particles for the umpteenth time.

It was fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-second attempt. Yes, I counted and, yes, it's exactly that number. At some point, it all became so monotonous for me that I had to count all her unsuccessful attempts to take my Space stone. However, before that I had to start over, because at some point I stopped counting.

Boredom took hold of me so much that I also began to develop my telepathy, and with it my mind. More precisely, I tried to create a second stream of consciousness so that it would suffer, and not my main one. Yes, it sounded crazy, but... it might work. Then I began to divide my actions. I just started with the easiest one, namely, at the same time I calculated some formulas and monitored the environment…

Time has flowed again, and I am so for ****xia that I managed to form a second consciousness and give him the command to count cyclical attempts for me. By the way, thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-third has already gone. I now treat the energy of Space simply filigreed. Therefore, at one point I came up with one "brilliant" idea. What's the idea? Just nothing — try to open the tesseract and pull out a pebble.

That's just for this it was necessary to study the structure of the artifact itself, which is extremely difficult to do during a battle ... if you don't have a second stream of consciousness, on which I hung all the boring and monotonous work, that is, shooting my opponent with blue rays — anyway, in the last ten thousand attempts I focus exclusively on my telepathy and that, in turn, works like a radar.

And he took up the analysis of the cube. After the first inspection, I realized that it was blue, yes. Also in the shape of a cube, yes. There are no buttons on it. Cracks too. Maybe it opens mentally? I tried it. The cube didn't listen to me and was still in the same condition as before. I poked where I could, and... nothing happened again.

"Okay, this is a lost cause, so when I get back to the base, I'll try to investigate it more thoroughly, but for now...", I didn't have time to think of the idea, because the lid of the tesseract suddenly opened. I looked at my hand, at the fingers that held the object, at the object itself— - "Hmm...", - lowered the thumb of my left hand a little lower, but did not tear it away from the artifact.

And, lo and behold (!), the lid closed. I returned my finger back — it opened. After examining the key place, I realized that the creator of the tesseract was smart, because I would never have thought in my life that in order for it to open, you just need to drive in a certain place. But these thoughts instantly flew out of my head when I took out a Space stone from an open cube. It was probably the stupidest and craziest thought.

Visible changes appeared immediately — the energy field around my body increased by an order of magnitude, I became larger in size and was now about three meters tall. There was a real storm of energy going on inside my body and it even seemed to me that time had slowed down inside my field. Most likely, it was, since the energy of the Time Stone was in a small amount, but it was present in my body.

The most interesting thing is that such a huge amount of pure Space energy was able to break through some kind of barrier, and the scale of progress finally shifted from fifty percent. I would be happy about it, but... it's hard to be happy and feel pain at the same time from the fact that your own body is being torn apart, of course, if you're not a masochist, and I wasn't.

It's good that in such a situation my regeneration copes and manages to restore the necessary parts in time, strengthening them and making them even better. Otherwise, I would have died here a long time ago, falling apart in pieces. And so at least the body gets used to the direct impact of the Space stone. Yeah, I'll have to somehow decrease later — I've already reached almost six meters.

While I was focused on absorbing and assimilating spatial energy, the unknown did not stand still and began to attack me with a vengeance. But all this was useless, since all her attacks were absorbed by my protective shell surrounding my body, but I was not completely passive, since my second consciousness continued to direct energy rays at her.

After about five minutes, all the unpleasant sensations stopped, the body reached a height of eight meters, and I no longer paid attention to the color. But the most important thing is the feeling of lightness. It was so easy for me to contain the energy inside me that I didn't even feel it. Then this appeared in front of me:

The carrier has reached the third limit. Body indicators are increased five times. The host's body has completely adjusted to the aspect of Space.

It is possible to integrate the Space Stone into the soul of the wearer. This will allow the carrier to draw the energy of Space from the Universe of this world itself. Choose: "Yes", "No". In case of a negative response, the carrier will be offered an alternative with a change in your mutational gene, adding one feature to it. You have thirty seconds to choose. If the carrier does not make a choice during this time, the choice will be made automatically and randomly...

"Yes," I choose mentally.

Bring the stone to your chest and attach it.

I perform this action and feel some kind of tickling inside me. At the same time, the stone seemed to fall inside me. To test, I tried to appeal to his energy to absorb more. And indeed, the recharge came from the inside, which meant that I no longer had to worry about the safety of the pebble. Good, very good! That's just how to shrink now…

As a result, I couldn't think of anything better than to compress my body with spatial energy, thereby increasing its density and strength. He regained his former height and even managed to give his skin a white hue, displacing all the energy of the Space stone from it, but only from it. The rest of my body was soaked in it.

After that, I became so p***y that I even gave my opponent a few words to say, because she can't even get close to me now, although I myself can't destroy her either, since the stones of Time and Space, one might say, balance each other and create a kind of balance in which none of us can harm the other in any way. Pat, so to speak.