To Improve

Maddox repeated the process of changing the girl's personalities and gave them orders to collect the same materials as the first girl so that he could gain some more information from each of them. Once done though Maddox returned to the real world and looked at the time hoping to get an idea of how long everything had taken.

It looked like only a few hours had passed since Maddox had woken up about nine in the morning and seeing that it was 12:45 he had spent almost four hours getting all the girl's under his control.

The only thing that Maddox could do now is to go out and get something for the girls to eat for when they woke up and seeing as it was already lunch he was also feeling a bit hungry.

Like any true American wanting a quick meal for a decent price, he looks for the closest fast food place nearby to grab some greasy food to fill their stomachs.

Maddox decides to go within n out since that was one of the few places that his parent's bought fast food from and it was really good in his opinion at least.

Still knowing the place and time of day meant one thing and that was the long lines that would go out to the street of parking lots of people waiting in line to order a burger and fries to eat. Usually, a waiting time of around an hour to half an hour should be expected just to get up to the window.

In California, some employees would come out with tablets to the cars in lines to get their orders so that way they would not have to wait long to get their order leaving only just paying for the meal and just going, however, this was Nevada in the middle of the day so Maddox was unsure if that would happen meaning he might be out for a while.

So Maddox writes a few notes for the girls in case they wake up giving them first some directions to the toilets and also letting them know that he will be back soon with something for them to eat.

He did this so that they would not try to look around and stumble upon Dog as she is an infected creature and while their personalities might be overwritten he was not willing to risk them fighting and destroying the building he just bought.

'Now then let's see if I can drive now' Maddox thinks while leaving through the front door and getting blasted by the sheer heat of the afternoon sun bearing down on the Earth below

"HOLY SHIT!"

Maddox was caught off guard a bit since he had never really had to deal with the brunt of the Nevada heat before till now since every other time he went out it was bearable or not even there. Opening the door of the truck was a mistake as well since the heat had just been trapped within till now making it seem more like an oven than a truck as the black leather seating could burn a man at a slight touch.

With a sigh, Maddox opens a few more doors to let out some of the heat and looks to the rear of the truck to see that the horsebox trailer was still connected to the back of the truck so one quick youtube video later and some mutterings of the heat later it is detached with Maddox getting in the truck now.

The previous night Maddox had been viewing memories of the goblin from a free look view since he need to see how driving worked and that was pretty much all Maddox did since there was a surprisingly large amount of items when it comes to driving. Now the only problem was just a license but Maddox could easily create a fake one to overlay on a gift card so that way it could look like a real one.

As long as Maddox was not pulled over for any reason and that any officer that drives by does not look up his license number on their computers he will be fine.

As for the license plate, it was on the truck when he was 'given' it as a present and he just decided to keep it since he could not replace it with his plate.

Having the ability to drive was a necessary thing so for now it was placed as the most important thing for Maddox to learn right now so that is what he did all night with all the folders related to driving that he collected.

Now this folder collection process was pretty interesting as Maddox was able to find out that all the folders that were placed within his mind-space ended up in a new room that he could access.

This room would be considered an external archive as it held all the folders that Maddox had collected thus far and would continue to do so for the new ones that Maddox collected in the future.

This new room was a room because for the first time Maddox encountered something other than doors as furniture within the mind. The storage containers for the folders were filing cabinets since they were naturally the best place for them, he could even put names for types of folders he collected.

This in of itself was interesting since there were a lot of scientific questions that came from this new room that was created to act as an archive for all the folders he collects. The more prominent question that Maddox wanted to answer was, 'Could miasma transmit and retain memories?'.

This question pertained to the folders since they were all made with miasma then did that mean he could potentially create a being of miasma that could hold onto memories?

It was confusing for sure since Maddox seemed to have this goal of creating life but in doing so a lot of problems would be able to be solved with an extra pair of hands and a like-minded individual would be able to help him a lot.

Plus he was curious to see if he could plant spies within various infected nests by making infected-looking creatures out of pure miasma.

Creating a fully conscious creature of miasma would bring about a lot of amazing advantages since Maddox would be able to create an army of thin air if he so desired.

Still to reach that point would be difficult and all these signs that Maddox had been viewing from the traits and properties of miasma showed that it may be a possibility and all that Maddox needed was more practice in miasma usage and finding the missing keys to the creation process.

He had to work on that of course with developing offensive uses of his miasma since he had only one and he was sure that it would not be effective at all on anyone who was aware of it or would not be killed by miasma that made its way into their body.

That was why Maddox was looking forward to learning more from the memories that the girls provided them so that he could learn some more while also sparring with them so that way he could gain experience in the real world.

Sure talent and power are good but experience can be the defining factor in fights which was why Maddox wanted to spar with the girls since each one of them had different purities of essence within them and were at different levels with the girl he was going to designate as leader only having around 60 essence orbs in her mind space.

For now, though Maddox had to learn from their memories about their essence wielding techniques, the various uses of miasma, and the infected that use them.

With that in mind though Maddox orders several double-double burgers and fries from the In n Out with all the toppings and fixings since he does not know, nor really care that much about the topping choices, of the girl's burgers.

After finishing the order Maddox drives through to the window with his adult illusion in the driver seat smiling at the guy working the drive-through who handles the payment and distribution of the food for everyone.

Soon Maddox is driving back to his building and begins pulling on up back to the front gate which he left open since he knew he was only going to be gone for a bit and that anyone who broke in would probably meet a swift end at the jaws of Dog.

Once in and the truck parked Maddox closes and locks the gate before he makes a few trips from the truck and into the building seeing that the girls were not up yet Maddox determines waking them up forcefully would be the better solution.

At first, light shaking of the shoulders to wake them up proves ineffective so Maddox does the only thing left that he can do which was to pour some water on them to wake them.

Dragging the girls a bit together so that he can get them all up at the same time Maddox decides to make a personal sacrifice of his water and use it to splash all the girls in the face at the same time by dumping around half of it on them all.

As the cascading water from Maddox's cup falls to the girls below before splashing down on them what ensues next is best described as pure pandemonium as all of them wake up while jolting up in shock as their faces had just been assaulted by some sort of liquid.

Immediately they all instinctively reach for their weapons only to grab for air since all their belongings had long since been removed from their possession leaving them with nothing remaining.

Thankfully Maddox was standing a bit away from the group of girls since he expected them to react to water being dumped on them so as they began to register their surroundings was when Maddox spoke.

"There are only two bathrooms here so if any of you have to go badly now would be the chance before someone snatches the toilet from you"

Maddox's words confuse the girls at first as he simply points to one of the doors to the bathrooms and the other room right next door that has the secondary bathroom. As his words settle in though that is when a sort of mad dash occurs as all of them realize that they had to use the bathroom, badly.

Soon a person is waiting outside both the bathroom doors as the girls struggle to hold in the urge to piss that was threatening them.

Maddox just started eating his burger now since he knew that there was nothing else he could do until the girls were done with their business.

However, after his first bite, Maddox realizes that dog needs to eat something too since she was probably also hungry as well.

Making another noble sacrifice Maddox gives Dog his burger instead since he felt that Dog needed it more, plus he was not a big lettuce guy for his burger so he decided to resign himself to the fries to eat for his lunch.

Other than that though Maddox simply waited as the girls finished up using the bathroom with the ones who were done now just starting to eat the food that Maddox had bought them since the smell of fast food is more often than not deadly.

A bit more waiting and now all the girls had finished doing their business within the bathroom and eating their burgers, fries, and drinks.

"Alright then," Maddox starts almost like he was trying to get their attention even though they were looking him up and down

"So now then I am pretty sure that you already know who I am but you can just call me Maddox or anything else that suits you alright"

All the girls just nod their heads before Maddox ponders on what to say to them since he was unsure what the next step would be.

"Alright then, you know me but I don't know you how about introductions?"