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Yummy Monster
- "Fuckin ell that was one shitty day." -Geoffrey said while walking slowly to his home. He was working in black company dealing with technology.
- "Home sweet home, ugh why i didn't make an effort to get a girlfriend? At the very least I would have someone waiting for me." -Geoffrey was an introvert and liked to talk to himself, that was caused by his lack of friends. His house wasn't anything special 2 rooms well 3 if you count the bathroom. He went to the kitchen without bothering to take off shoes and looked for anything edible.
-"No, no, nah, shit that's it? I'm pretty sure i bought some groceries yesterday. Hahhh, fuck it I'll die young, pizza it is." -Geoffrey wasn't healthy he was slightly chubby but not overly obese, thanks to his strict parents he managed to stay in somewhat shape. This wasn't always the case when he was 20 years younger, about 14 years old he was very handsome, which made him arrogant and shitty with making good friends. Finally after 2 hours he heard the doorbell indicating that pizza arrived.
-"Who the fuck are you? Why are you eating my pizza, sleazebag? -Geoffrey wasn't amused when he found Lovecraft horror eating his pizza.
The monster didn't reply, instead he took out smartphone with his one tentacles and wrote on it a message "you bought horror pizza, you didn't buy protection from said horror and don't call me that". Geoffrey was fuming with rage.
-"Oh you said you are a horror, right? Then doesn't that mean you aren't human, right? Then human rights and morality doesn't apply, right? -Geoffrey said while doing an uppercut into something that looked like the heart of a monster. Surprisingly the monster dropped dead right after his uppercut crushed the heart of the horror.
-"I didn't kill him for nothing. This shite thinks he can eat the man's pizza in front of me?! Yeah you call yourself a horror? Then I will be your nightmare!" -Geoffrey said with a smug grin and took the corpse into his home and started chopping it into small pieces.
-"I've never eaten octopus, I wonder how it tastes like. On other thought I probably should clean the blood and put the corpse in the freezer for later annnd look for a recipe for yummy tentacles!" -Geoffrey was in a good mood, he could taste and do something new in his boring slave like life. He found the recipe and cleaned the blood with hydrogen peroxide. He filled half of a large pot with water and added 2 tablespoons of salt and some peppercorns. Then he bringed the pot to the cooking stove and turned it on so the contents of the pot will boil. Then he put the mass of small tentacles and gently hit them with a regular spoon. Then he dipped the tentacles in the boiling water 4 times for about 5 seconds then he dumped them all into the pot and reduced the heat and left it to slowly boil for 1 hour. Meanwhile he turned on the oven and switched it to grill mode and prepared the trays and other spices and some bread that hadn't too much mold on it. After 1 hour he drained the water from the pot and left the tentacles to cool off and release some steam. Then he put them on the tray and put them into the oven for 6 minutes.
-"Ah finally almost homemade and natural meal! It has been so long since I ate something like this. Oh my It's incredible god now i don't even feel guilty if i had a chance i would murder more of these monsters!" -Geoffrey was pleased with his hearty meal, he didn't even think about what he had done and how his life became cursed or blessed, who knows?
Shit i'm immortal?
Geoffrey went to bed after his monstrous meal.
{Peace with you murderer}
-"What the fuck? Did the monster meat have caused hallucinations? Another reason to keep eating it." -Geoffrey said amused with the whole situation.
{I'm not a hallucination you psychotic murderer, I'm here to grant you 3 wishes for your achievements, after that I'll go away and not bother you, deal?}
-"This is getting better, but wait what achievements?" -Geoffrey was surprised this was certainly his strangest high ever.
{Ugh i don't wanna to deal with you i'm going to give you a system as a bonus. This system will listen to your wishes and grant them, understood? Great, also wishes like "I want 1000 wishes" will work but those wishes will be very limited. Currently your 3 wishes are unlimited meaning you can wish for whatever you want. Bye!}
[Speak what do you want?]
-"Interesting, I may as well just play along. I wish for an ability called (Creator of Flesh) which will allow me to change body structure however i want, add more organs, modify them and increase my lifespan at will. Second I want to have interdimensional storage with a capacity of about 100 cubic meters which won't interfere with any other planes of existence and interdimensional void. Third, I want to have an ability called (blessed by god of knowledge) which will allow me to study, learn, refine and advance any information on any subject faster than the entire human civilization will in 100 years by 1000 times." -Geoffrey wasn't very greedy. Of course he could've asked for immortality and power to reign the universe but where is fun in that? He remembered that when someone gives you something that person/entity can take it back from you by asking for the ability to modify his flesh and increase in learning speed will allow him to advance faster than others but also he won't be tied to his wishes if someday his wishes will fade away he won't lose everything.
[Processing.....]
[Ability: (Creator of Flesh)
Allows user Geoffrey to modify organs, bones, muscles, veins, skin and every other part of his body or others at will.
User is able to create new organs and limbs or modify current ones in exchange for nutrients and suitable atmosfere (if organs will require it).
User is able to increase his lifespan indefinitely giving him the title (False Immortal).]
[Ability: (Inventory)
User have access to 100 cubic meters of storage which will be held in separate reality.
Storage is shielded from other realities, planes of existence, and void.]
[Ability: (Blessed by God of Knowledge)
User is able to learn faster than others.
User is able to refine his knowledge on any subject without advancing it faster.
User is able to advance any field or any specific subject faster.
+1000% in study learning speed (base learning speed similar to computer with 1tb/s speed of downloading).
+2000% chance in refining/advancing any subject or field by 10 years.]
[Title gained: (False Immortal)
User is able to live till the end of time and longer but he is still able to die by any other means.]
Tinkering with the system
Geoffrey pointed his hand in the general direction of fridge and said:
-"Store in inventory, contents of the fridge" Jeff<*> got up from his bed and walked to the kitchen.
-"Well the fridge is still here and what's inside? hmm looks like nothing but I clearly remember putting the yummy monster there. Oh I know!"-The fridge was empty and clean, no rust, no mold, nothing. His abilities are very direct, he asked for the contents and everything that could be considered as contents vanished except parts of the fridge like shelfs. He cringed a little before he said:
-"Open inventory, create slightly transparent and luminescent ilusion in front of my eyes that lists every content of my inventory, this option can be opened by thinking about it or saying: [IL1]<**>"-He commanded out loud not sure if it'll work.
[Achievement Acquired!]
[you..
-"Dismiss all the notifications and give me a list of achievements and things they give me"-Jeff wasn't amused by the weebu system.
[Achievements:....]
[Achievement: (Psycho)
User killed a sentient being and had eaten it.
User won't be fazed as easily as before by surprising or very graphical things <***>].
[Achievement: (Monster Devourer)
User has eaten a monster that was killed by the user and was more powerful than the user.
+10% more respect when speaking with monsters
-10% respect from sentient beings that take beauty very seriously].
[Achievement: (Lunatic)
User have done things that only lunatic would do.
+10% first impressions with criminals, lunatics bad people
-10% first impressions with good people].
[Achievement: (Sergeant of System)
User has used his left over energy<****> to make the system more easier and comfortable to use.
User is able to modify some functions of the system to his preferences].
-"Hmm, okay System replace the achievement called (Sergeant of System) with an ability called (SGTs) which will do exactly the same thing. This ability will show leftover energy and name of every ability, skill and achievement without description in the form of the list similar to ability (IL1)."-Jeff started to get the hang of it, basically this system isn't simple program but and very complex one that can change itself and listen to complex orders.
[Processing...]
[Ability created: (SGTs)
User is able to slightly modify the system to his preferences.
When this ability is active the user will see energy, which can be used to create new abilities. All of the abilities, talents, proficiencies, skills and achievements will be listed on a holographic like pop-up window.
To activate the ability, the user needs to think about it or by saying (SGTs)].
-"Cool now how would i modify myself ohh i have an idea!"-Jeff said with a smirk.
-"SGTs"- Window opened with a list of everything he was capable of and what achievements he had. He disregarded all of this except (Creator of Flesh) ability.
-"When using (Creator of Flesh) ability open a window with an overlay of my whole body and systems in it, add a window where I can write and list commands. Add a counter which will be visible only for me and will show progress bar how many calories and other nutrients are needed for every modification or creation." This was very important for Jeff especially the list of commands and overlay with for example cardiovascular system or the nervous system.
[Ability modified: (Creator of Flesh)
User will be able to modify organs, bones, muscles, skin and every part of the body.
User is able to create new organs, limbs and new parts of his body in exchange for nutrients they will function properly if they are in the suitable atmosphere for them.
User is able to increase their lifespan indefinitely.
Additionally when this ability is activated a new holographic like window will show itself which will show where user can write the commands and list them. Also another window will appear which will show the body the user is currently working on with the option to filter out the muscles, skin, bones and other parts from the view].
Upgrades, people upgrades.
Jeff went to bed and tried to fall asleep. Sadly he have failed miserably, since that was the case he wrote a message that |he has a splitting headache and feels ill and won't be able to come to work tomorrow|.
Jeff wasn't an idiot so when he started typing commands into his [Creator of Flesh] ability. He started with the cardiovascular system then improved his respiratory system, nervous system, digestive system and last but not least was upgrades to his organs.
Someone would ask why he didn't upgrade his skin to impenetrable by anything or something? Simple Jeff needs to have at least basic understanding on how these changes would work and also his veins could pop if he scheduled massive overhaul of his body from "material exhaustion".<*>
Jeff knew how he could upgrade everything even an idiot would know this. Upgrade materials he commanded to make his arteries from a mix of iron, bonematter and normal material from which veins are made from, but with reinforced structure. <**>
Normal veins only had their structure reinforced.
Now some might ask how and why would you add iron and bones to the arteries? Bones could be added by shoving them near the other bones which will also reinforce the other ones, why iron? Even simpler it's just because our daily diet already has quite a big amount of iron in it, remember why your blood is red? Yeah same principle, Jeff would only need to eat a little more spinach.
Respiratory system was a little tricky so Jeff only deleted some unnecessary turns here and there and made the "air pipe" as short as possible while increasing his lung capacity by adding extra alveoli on already existing "branches" and improving air ways between said branches. Also he increased the number of these and perfected his nose and mouth a little. Not because he wanted them to look nice no, he only made them with the intention to make air flow easier through them without affecting ability to swallow food too much.
His nervous system was probably the easiest since we feel pain and other things through little zaps to our brains from respective nerves. Jeff commanded them to be made from a little more exotic materials like gold, of course he knew he needed to upgrade his digestive system so it would be able to digest gold. Also he decreased the density of nerves in some areas and increased them in others. Why? Who didn't stub their toes on furniture of course we don't need that many ners in there. Fingers on the other hand could use more of them to make them more dexterous, of course it won't be substantial change for anything bigger Jeff would need to have any muscles in them. <***>
The digestive system was very simple, Jeff watched a video on youtube about stomach acid and how to make it more potent and he just commanded his stomach to make this kind of acid while making another compound that neutralises this acid to prevent his stomach from digesting itself. He also added an additional intestine that would collect and store hard to digest things and would over a long time be digested inside the new dead end intestine. Others already existing intestines were shortened to make place for a new one and shaped so that HDF<****> would fall into a new one easily. He also placed some beacons for bacteria that usually works on HDF.
Jeff was racking his brain so hard that he developed a splitting headache and had to stop improvements. He clicked the [Confirm] option under his commands and went straight to bed.
FEED ME
He woke up with the feeling of severe starvation, when Jeff went to the kitchen he caught a glimpse of his body which caused him to stare in horror at the figure in the mirror. Did you ever saw malnourished african kid, that basically was composed of skin and skeleton and nothing more?
Well Jeff managed to look even worse, how? Apparently his body consumed everything apart from essential muscles and skin, essential means that even looking like H.P Lovecraft wet fantasy he still could move normally with the almost the same strength and agility. If you still can't see it then imagine an malnourished kid with the size of an adult with a lot of flapping parts of skin and big growths in key areas near joints, these growths were muscles but looked so out of place that they could be described like so.
-"That's one hell of a morning"-Jeff was horrified and amused at the same time because in some parts his bones looked like they were unnaturally thick that was a sign of bone-arteries. Which meant that the whole yesterday situation wasn't hallucination or anything.
-"Since monster meat isn't hallucinogenic i can consume it in work or everywhere i want, but first [IL1] system take out 5 kg of monster tentacles and 3 kg of monster muscles that were originally located near its butt"-Jeff needed nutrition but also wanted his meal to be easy to eat so he picked muscles from the ass because normally they aren't that hard and it's quite hard to increase their hardness through normal life and light exercises.
Jeff disregarded veggies and took only spices from the counter, and began preparing a mix of two dishes oven grilled monster tentacles
In summary he wasted 2 kg of tentacles and about 1,6 kg of ass muscles. they were either too charred or undercooked or too soft, but these were trying times so he took out all of his veggies and chopped them as thinly as possible. The meat was run through an electric machine for making minced meat and the tentacles had their suction cups removed and were chopped like vegetables. Suction cups were put aside. Jeff threw everything else that he was preparing into the blender and turned it on to make himself a 'nice' smoothie. He added some strong spices to kill the horrible smell and taste of this drink.
-"Well, bottoms up! ugh i added t-to l-little. No, no don't barf this i-is only fuel."-Jeff was trying to make his stomach obey his will and don't throw up, this situation was dangerous because if he were to throw up he could dehydrate instantly and damaged his throat making it hard for him to eat anything. Finally after a solid 10 minutes of back and forth his stomach gave up and he swallowed only one eight of the smoothie. Jeff knew he needed to continue but his mind was screaming at him to don't do it.
-"System use the ability [Creator of Flesh] to move muscles in my entire body and force feed myself the smoothie and these dishes"-Jeff said while pointing at the smoothie and his delicious dishes.
[Processing... User will be put into come during system actions the whole process will take an hour]
-"System i Forbid you from leaving appartement and doing anything other than doing what i had commanded you"-Jeff was well aware that since he would be put into a coma the system could manipulate his body to do pretty much everything it wanted to.
[Understood....Executing]
-"Good night system"-Jeff felt that his consciousness was fading.
[....]
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1 hour later
-"Oh, god I can't feel my legs!"
Changes and more upgrades!
-"Ugh, what had happened to me? Looks like my stomach can't keep up with this amount of food"-Jeff's tummy was stretched out to its limits and the rest of his body looked a little more healthy, but still he looked like someone who managed to get rid of severe anorexia last week.
He did some stretches while doing so he noticed that it was 13 o'clock. Jeff used his flesh mending abilities again. He typed in several commands first to make his skin a little more thick with a more organised structure, which was similar to these arm guards that absorb kinetic energy.
Also he made it able to exchange more heat to surroundings easily <*>. He added a small brain near his heart which he programmed to enable the skin to give off more energy or to shut it down to limit most heat emissions from the skin. Why, simply when your skin gives off most of the heat your body generates you could die because of hypothermia in the middle of the Sahara desert, another thing is that when you are freezing to the death you generally try to keep the heat inside your body.
Second thing he did was to create a sorting organ and a second smaller stomach, sorting organ worked quite simply with the work of gravity and some detectors which made sure that only liquids went into the smaller stomach and only solids went into normal one. Why does Jeff needs 2 stomachs? He noticed that his current digesting abilities did improve but if he wanted more drastic changes this simply wasn't enough.
So he came up with sorting, he thought that bacteria which specializes in digesting liquids will work better if it was surrounded by other types of bacteria with the same goal. It lessens load immensely for them because they need to specialize in only one thing normally every bacteria needs to have some means to move, excrete and so on with liquids this isn't the case, they only need to attach themselves to the stomach and small intestine that is connected to it and that's it. Gravity will make sure that liquid will flow down with enough turns they will have enough time to break liquid into simple sugars.
Jeff added some muscles to his intestines so the food could be moved even without gravity and he added one more gland which produces stomach acid.
Second thing he made another heart and another pair of lungs that are connected to spot near his shoulders between spine and neck the opening was made from 2 layers of skin that are placed near each other to create an illusion of normal skin he also added muscles to this opening so in emergencies he could open it at will.
Why two hearts? One will need to work on overtime to sustain that many organs and having two also works as insurance, that he won't die after one shot from a tank or AP rounds. Two pairs of lungs for more oxygen in blood so the muscles could exert more strength when needed and they add more endurance allowing him to run for longer time even without exercising.
He made some additional muscles throughout his body and removed some of the constraints on joints allowing him to move his limbs in an unnatural way the muscles were acting as constraints for joints and as a other muscle to move limbs when other ones are destroyed.
Jeff made a new organ near that was spread out in his entire body thinly. It's a new brain that optimizes and translates nerve signals that would usually cause headaches into an almost robotic voice that tells the main brain what is happening to the body using nerve signals that ears usually make.
He also made minor overhaul in his muscles, he made them look like small twisted ropes by doing so he could fit more of them into the same space and they took less space than normal and they were more durable in this form.
-"Okay I'm done. I need to go to the grocery store quickly for all of the veggies and meats I can get."-Jeff left after he got dressed. He wore flared pants that were popular in America in the 70's. and three long sleeved shirts and a hoodie to cover his skeletal figure.
Grocery shenanigans
Jeff speed walked to the grocery while doing some light stretches to make the illusion that he was doing a workout and wants to properly stretch his muscles, extra clothes could be explained that he wants to lose a few pounds quickly.
When he arrived at the local "Froggo '' shop it looked just like your old post communist mart even people looked like they were dead inside just like regular citizens who overwork themselves to death in the glory of red block. While filling his shopping tray Jeff got into heated discussion with local grandpa about politics. Basically the discussion was about which politician was worse, how the country sucks and about bleak future, old man Bradley was hellbent on saying that country could get up from it's knees with good management.
Jeff on the other hand was saying that even with the greatest leader ever born that was exceptional in every field, the huge debt the country had, combined with high taxes wouldn't be able to do anything, because either people would rebel if he raised taxes even for a moment or other countries that have given loans to our "great" nation. Jeff felt invigorated because of geezer Brad rant, sadly their discussion was rudely interrupted by some space cadet <*> who managed to get his filthy hands on some old makarov.
The assailant who is actively robbing the place looked like the son of someone wealthy, which was quite strange since usually rich people try to heal their junkie sons and daughters. That means the robber was either thrown away or he managed to hide drugs from wealthy parents, either way it would be unwise to interfere. Doing John Wick shit to the burnout would be like dancing with death since one can never be sure if the addict has backing or not.
-"Brad? I think it's time to leave. The robber looks like he's from a rich family, you know what that means, right?"-Jeff whispered to the geezer, while carefully observing the whole situation unfold.
-"Yeah, follow me I know where the backdoor is."-Geezer replied even more quietly and slowly walked while leaning a little more than usual.
-"Hey! Where the fuck you thnik you are going! Shithead!"-Junkie said after noticing our slow and quiet departure.
-"Ah, fuck i'm getting to old for this, well jail it is at least i did some thing good in my life."-Bradley said before throwing with full force can of soup at the head of junkie. Not many people knew that this geezer was a professional thrower in baseball. The space cadet's face caved in a little and he lost consciousness immediately after.
After 1 hour the police and ambulance arrived.
Thankfully the cop was still young and wasn't corrupt like his older counterparts so the whole thing ended with Brad getting a caution from the officer and junkie going into hospital. Surprisingly the cashier allowed Jeff to pick four bags of food and pay for only one, as a sign of gratitude.
Jeff went slowly to home physical changes allowed him to walk comfortably with about 30kg in each hand. When he arrived he decided to clean his house just in case of emergency the medics or firefighters would have an easier time rescuing him also he needed to work his stress away, which he had gotten from the whole robbery situation. After a solid 3 hours of work his house looked good enough to actually invite another person. Jeff, satisfied with his work, sat on the couch and began thinking about future plans for his body and career, he can't be an accountant in a small office slaving away his life forever.
Plans and Slaughter
The first thing Jeff had to think about was what is he going for with his body build. Second was about whether or not to create a new species. Third was about his sustenance also known as a career.
First thing, Jeff needs:
Escape ability.
Escape ability could be anything from having wings or having an ability that lets you transfer your consciousness into other being without losing memories and unique abilities.
Greatly enhanced bodily functions (overall strength, agility, endurance...<*>).
Greatly enhanced bodily functions is what Jeff was focusing on lately, basically the ideal would be strength, agility, endurance and perception comparable to 2 primarch's combined. Charisma is unimportant, for the intelligence there are currently 2 options: create USB port from flesh to connect to computer and use it's processing power for development of new tech or create overmind which will do the same thing.
Armour that could withstand extreme environments such as vacuum of space or venus/ titan atmosphere.
Armour should be made from mixture of bones and flesh, Because this will make it very easy to repair and could also serve as power armor and comfortable and replaceable nigh indestructible clothing <**>. Additionally the armour should have an extra pair of hands that may or may not be part of the original body, their purpose would be to manipulate and move easier in a zero gravity environment.
Second thing, creating a new species would elevate Jeff's current status and he would be able to create the best species in the solar system if not in the universe. However there are things that need to be taken care of to even begin like: ways to reproduce efficiently, gathering of genetic material and where species could exist peacefully.
Third thing, is to decide between 3 ways of gathering money to sustain himself:
Way of stock market, it has the highest risks for meager reward. Sure you can get like 50 million dollars from it but you will also gather attention from big companies which usually don't appreciate new rivals and from criminal syndicates.
Way of solitude, it has no risk but also is the slowest to accomplish. It means faking Jeff's death and changing body to the point where living in the ocean or deep beneath the surface would be comfortable.
Way of crime, it has meager risks and meager rewards. It requires a bit of prep work and it usually garners attention from the public eyes. Which isn't good if you want to create new species or if you don't look like an average human.
Some would try to add way of being a good person or something, but all those people need to think about Jeff's education and current work. It doesn't hold any reward and has risks, because since he can't die from old age how could he explain his old age?
Jeff made his choice: he will try to become a creator of a new race and will go with the way of solitude with parts from way of crime.
-"[IL1] take all of food in my tenement with their current containers except fridges, also store some tap water and unload enough to fill lungs of every person except me in this tenement after those people die store their knives then unload them above the bodies to sever the limbs. Then store the bodies and their blood."-Jeff said a complicated list of commands into the air while hoping it would work. He didn't need to wait long; he soon heard loud noises of suffocation.
After a solid 30 minutes all of the bodies were in his inventory.
[Achievement gained!
Title gained!]
[Achievement: Cold blooded
User have killed more than 40 people without batting an eye
-60% to be frightened/stunned by carnage]
[Title: Carnage bringer
User has ruthlessly killed several people while by torturing them to death
-30% to feel guilt/remorse by killing/torturing people]
The great adventure begins!
Jeff wasn't satisfied, at all the human bodies are a source of nutrients which will help kick start subterranean colony and a source of genetic material.
-"System create an ability called [Murderous inventory], it will store water/harmful chemicals and automatically unload it in the lungs/heart/brain of every humanoid except myself, after the target is dead store the body inside along with the blood. The ability will be passive, but I will have an option to turn it off and it will have a normal range of 100 meters that could be extended to 10km."-If the system abides this command then Jeff will get an aura which will kill anything within 100 meters.
Why did Jeff decided to make it 100 meters not 100 km or 1000 km? Simple his storage has limited capacity and killing big amounts of people quickly would attract attention of big organizations and other supernatural groups. Jeff wasn't an idiot if he has powers then does others don't have them? It is possible so he will avoid too much attention.
[New Ability: Murderous Inventory (MI)
User have an aura in which people will die by suffocation, multi-organ failure or by brain death.
Range of ability: from 0,1km to 1km.
Default targets: Humanoids.
Ability type: Passive.]
-"System create ability called [Excavator inventory] which will store 2,5 cubic meters and unload the excavated dirt/rocks/stone/everything except ore into the walls making them reinforced by creating compacted stone walls/floors and ceiling. the ability will be passive and I would be able to turn it off, the excess material will be taken outside the inventory and placed in big quantities into the shape of average bricks used in modern buildings, then stored back."-Jeff needed an ability to create rooms and furniture but for now he needs only a place where he could begin his colony.
[New Ability: Excavator Inventory (EI)
User's inventory will automatically excavate and reinforce walls/floors/ceilings/ with excavated material.
User is able to create rooms and corridors using this ability.
Excess material will be made into dense bricks which will be stacked efficiently in the inventory.
Average excavated material: 2,5 cubic meters.
Default target: Earth
Ability type: Passive]
-"System imagine a line that is in direction of current biggest gravity well, I mean Earth's core. Then draw another line that starts here and ends 1,5km below the surface and it is at an angle of 15 degrees in comparison with the previous line. Start excavating second line using EI. Then build a room inside my storage with bricks made by EI and fill it with as much oxygen and nitrogen it can fit there."-Jeff wasn't sure how high pressure air would impact bodies and food inside his storage so he made a separate room inside it. After the system acknowledged his command he simply waited for the said room to get built and filled up.
While waiting he observed the police trying to figure out what had happened to the place. And why does everyone who gets even near just drops dead and vanishes from sight.
It was quite funny looking at their horrified and surprised faces, but alas feds came together with the army and they set up the perimeter. Soon an squad of scientists in hazmat suits with literal tonnes of research equipment scrambling and trying to make any sense of what's exactly happening.
Finnaly room was filled to the brim and the tunnel was half excavated, Jeff was thinking should he take a massive hit to his sanity by reeducating and reintegrating them, into the fucking soil <*>. He decided against it so he walked slowly to the hole said "Arivederci <**>" and let himself slide to the bottom.
Caves of Misery
Jeff found himself in a dim, hot place. He thought at first that he accidentally broke into Satan's backyard, But he soon remembered what he had done.
-"Okay then it's time to work on my glorious race!"-He shouted and tore off his arm, he didn't even budge because he disabled nerves in his arm before doing so. After this graphic scene he used his [Creator of Flesh] ability on the dismembered arm.
He started by adding a set of normal human organs and enlarging the whole thing into a cocoon-like shape that was almost as high as him, he made this creature's insides fill up with fluids that normally are around a baby inside a pregnant woman.
-"System save this creature as blueprint and name it [Incubation Spawning Cocoon], the goal of this creature is to mix genes provided to it by dropping inside genetic material and nutrients, the [ISC] will use the nutrients to sustain itself and create copy of myself with traces from other genes that were provided, the copy for first 3 months have the personality of the child after that it will live for the maximum of 300 years, throughout this whole time it will have body of adult."-This was very important by skipping outbursts of hormones the individual will be more stable and since it will have adult body it will require more nutrients to create but less to sustain itself after 'birth'.
After all of this programming he modified himself again, by enhancing his eyesight <*> and making his skin slightly luminescent to see better. He took out a lot of blood from inventory and sprayed it on every wall he could the nhe modified it to take energy from heat, moisture from air, nutrients from the ground and glow slightly according to the area. The places with [ISC] will glow with red light, and every other will glow with either blue or white light.
Next he took out all of the hearts, brains and lungs from his inventory and used it all together to form some sort of overmind which will use the glowing blood as a connection to every member of this colony so they could exchange knowledge easily and use the glowing blood as a source of nutrients. He also programmed it to work as an AI for the colony fine tuning every creature he created, additionally he gave it a fraction of his [Creator of Flesh] ability to actually remove disadvantages he accidentally added. Also he placed a lot of restrictions on this ability making it almost unusable if the target isn't willing to change, and with his own he made the overmind absolutely loyal to him.
After all of this he commanded his inventory to block off the entrance and extend the [MI] to engulf the entire town he left before.
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1 year after
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Jeff couldn't be considered human anymore. Currently Jeff has 4 arms 1 head and ant-ish body but with only six limbs. His upper torso isn't as big as it would be in centaur it's more streamlined and is very flexible. His entire torso is covered with chitin like carapace with incrinate glowing markings all over it showing the short history of the new race. His new joints allowed him to move his limbs in every direction possible freely, He was surrounded by 3 members of the same species, together with him and overmind were governing a colony which spanned now almost all Eurasia times two because of multiple floors.
For the last 6 months they were working on a biological ship which will allow them to leave this wretched place named appropriately "Caves of Misery". The place got the name from the fact that it was very hard to live here, sure there were abundant supplies and energy sources but scorching heat and many earthquakes made this place unbearable, additionally this place also born other than sadness it was a religion.
Now about infrastructure every building, road and other structures were made from biomass, sometimes it's just glowing blood sometimes entire creatures which sensed earthquakes or sudden magma eruptions and notified citizens and sometimes even moved alongside with them. Which made rebuilding easier because most of the buildings with enough nutrients repair themselves.
Citizens similar to ants were divided to several castes, we will only explain some of the main ones:
Soldier,
This unit isn't big, contrary to human beliefs they weren't bigger than normal citizens, because hulking creatures can't protect smaller creatures. They have 3 arms, one less than most citizens, 2 arms were located in place where humans have them the third was located on the back, main purpose was for it to help reload the guns or block the attacks from behind. Soldiers also have wings which allow them to glide and slow their descent. Their carapace is thicker and they have more developed brains and nervous system which enhances their reaction speed.
Worker,
This unit has access to modified [Creator of Flesh] ability. They work mainly on building stuff and creating blueprints for buildings and roads.
Provider,
This unit has a thick lower pair of arms and straight carapace on the back with small holes which could be used to hang smaller supplies. They mainly work moving supplies directly to building sites.
Farmer,
This unit specializes in caring and expanding fields of special glowing blood, which grows dark fruits with hard shells that prevent fruits from getting damaged by falling rocks and scorching heat. They generally have beet red carapace that has one of the greatest fire resistances among other carapaces. That's because special glowing blood only grows where there are abundant ore veins coincidentally these areas also have high seismic activity which also means that magma likes to suddenly erupt there.
Another Irregular
My name is John Swift but everyone calls me douchebag, I'm working in a newly established paranormal division that was created after the Al'Karak incident. I was there when it happened and this is mainly the reason why i'm part of this Central Bureau of Control CBC for short.
I remember what happened on this faithfull day, I was a police officer at the time. We were called because people in one of the tenements suddenly started suffocating after they dropped dead some strange gravitational anomaly picked knives and dismembered the bodies. This wasn't sadly the end; the bodies then vanished, not even a speck of blood of hair remained just like the person was erased from reality.
Some of my colleagues tried approaching but after 2 failed attempts we gave up and called higher ups. to deal with their super weapon themselves, that's what i believed at a time. I'm sure no one would believe that this wasn't a super advanced weapon that went apeshit. How wrong we were....
Anyway back to the story, after the feds, local garrisons and the rest of the army came. Together with a bucket load of useless scientists who only confirmed our reports. Well that's all went to shit I guess when paranormal becomes real people panic. So to avoid panic in the streets and potential casualties if this "death zone" decided to expand. All civilians were evacuated along with most civilian forces like police. Some tried to argue but when the soldiers who escorted us suddenly started struggling to breathe, these idiots who watched how our late friends died. Tried to help, yeah they also started suffocating. I was fine because I was a couple of steps ahead, outside of the boundaries of the town.
One peculiar thing that I noticed is that the body of my workmate is twice as heavy as it should. How do I know this? Simple we figured it out even before the scientists came that it's possible to take out body out of the death zone by simply dragging it out with a branch or other inanimate object like in my case a lasso that my son gave me as a lucky charm just before he passed away.
I called higher ups from other voivodeships immediately after. The Al'Karak was designated as a no entry death zone. The Bureau of Containment was established along with thick walls and quite high tech research equipment which surprisingly could notice small changes in the death zone. The machine which detected it was originally used as a prototype machine to try to observe/contain strange matter <*>.
And that's the only thing fancy in the BoC. So, after authorities came I was hospitalized for possible PTSD and possible changes in my body which could have occured during my longest exposure to the death zone at a time. Some time after when no changes were found, and disinsection of the body i fished out of big heads established a theory how the death zone is killing.
Basically it uses anything liquid but mostly water to kill anyone inside the zone, by just dumping a whole lot of it in lungs and heart and if the person isn't dead within 3 seconds the surrounding liquids are then dumped into the brain crushing it in the process. How do we know the exact time? Well, some of the death row prisoners were used to conduct research, people who were used agreed to it so when journalists accused the government of human experimentation. The senate and the president revealed that these people agreed for the researchers to use their bodies in research.
The populace was outraged so the prime minister resigned and was sentenced to home arrest for a couple of years which for some reason managed to calm the citizens. I didn't pry into it, because I really like being able to, you know, live.
I've never enjoyed as a kid to watch shit unfold but now it was very interesting to see a giant explosion in the middle of the death zone. I knew this wasn't a normal thing so I went to my boss hoping I won't have to deal with a bunch of scrubs who are trigger happy and are poorly trained.
Surface at last
The ship was ready, Jeff didn't want to use his [EI] because it could collapse the buildings onto the ship or frighten the leaders who might panic and use nukes.
Even if the ship could survive the heat and shockwave it made diplomacy difficult. Sure Jeff could order soldiers to destroy humanity but that isn't how grandkids should treat their grandparents. It's one of the few remaining human things in Jeff.
He didn't need to do anything really for now because the ship is living and additionally is manned by the whole race. Jeff will be traveling to Jupiter's moon Titan. Why there? Simple low gravity, cyanide for air and methane rivers, a perfect place to refine interstellar race. The second reason is Jupiter's atmosphere which is composed of mainly hydrogen which could be used to make energy generators or create new weapons.
The ship is currently in a huge cave that was mined for the last 3 months along with the ship's construction. The dirt at the top was softened as much as possible without risking any accidents. The area was in the shape of an egg, ships design was based on an alien ship from Arrival, and a tripod creature mentioned in the book called Proxima, made by Stephen Baxter.
The vessel had the ability to move in space and on land, additionally the exterior of the ship is made out of a mix of titanium and chitin-bone armor. The interior on the other hand was solid, this means that "passengers'' and "crew" cannot move away from their stations. You see corridors are just a big hazard and a hassle. Especially for a race that can move their consciousness into new bodies at will. This simply put that Jeff's species has achieved immortality but unlike like him the species will stay immortal as long as the hive exists <*>.
The ship started moving, front armour hardened and the thruster section roared loudly and exploded with unseen force. In the first 100 meters the vessel achieved mach 3. The journey to the surface took about 30 minutes, Jeff ordered the ship to wait at the surface for a while to repair whatever broke and see what the UN would do.
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John's perspective.
In a majestic explosion of pyroclastic materials and concrete the giant 3 legged thing revealed itself, seemingly unaffected by the death zone. I didn't know what to think about it. The BoC reported changes in the zone, simply put patrols noticed birds inside the death zone.
-"Well shit, what do we do, boss? Nukes, diplomacy or ignore it?''-John wasn't wasting time, he also asked his assistant to bring his gear so he could put it on while talking with the director of his division.
-"Swift go with the squad to check it out bring scientists and boys from BoC."-Director didn't even wait for a decision from the president, he knew he needed to assess what was happening so the chicken in seat of power won't anger something terrible.
John called everyone to assemble in the garage area. After a long 30 minutes the newbies came still in their casual clothes. Swift almost exploded with rage seeing these cretins, who aren't able to read the situation.
-"Good thing that you are in the gear, we will be departing in 5 minutes I will tell everything I know during the trip to BoC."-John said to them sarcastically and entered the armored van.
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5 minutes later
The squad was more or less equipped, some didn't have their boots on, some dumbasses didn't even manage to put their vests on. He sighed and ordered to depart.
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2 painfully slow hours later
John was looking at the monolithic creature thing before him. They were able to go inside the death zone without any problems. It seems that the zone was deactivated by the creature or something else that wants them to meet it.
Suddenly the airlock like thing made out of flesh opened, it was completely closed off, there was nothing inside. Some veins and pipes detached themselves from the walls inside and created a thin cocoon, soon the insides and a whole humanoid were created before them.
Creature was similar to the ant with 6 limbs and chitin armor, it had 3 toes and long heels, lower pair of arms were slimmer and had more fingers which looked like they were developed to operate with great precision. The second pair of arms were thick with 4 fingers on each hand. Creature had wings, but they seemed too thin to allow the creature to fly. The head was similar to the human's but the entity hadn't any nose to breathe or mouth to eat.
It's armor started glowing soon showing hylogryphics that described a simple story. Soon it moved and teared it's cocoon after absorbing liquid inside the membrane. The thing fallen and landed gracefully before us. It then started making strange sounds shortly after it speaked in mix of egyptian and norse languages. After repeating same thing for like 30 minutes it fell silent.
John sensed another even bigger headache coming, and silently cried inside himself for not being able to live comfortably.
Crushed dreams
-"Hey Boffin's what is this thing saying, i recognise some norse dialect and some arabish words."-John said with a confused look. The scientists were desperately working on translation they've managed to translate the first part of the sentence.
it said "Greetings pathetic creatures, The under @!#%! greets you send your #%&*! to negotiate".
-"Well I can make an educated guess that the first incoherible part is some name of government and second is probably their version of either enoy or leader."-Swift said after being told the translation. He called his boss to report and to ONZ burreau to calm the cretins before they do something stupid.
-"God i hate thiese politicians every one of them is either dumb or is the incarnation of the sin of Pride, Gluttony and Greed. Like how on earth do you even think about destroying these aliens and stealing their tech when their carapaces look like they are able to deflect AP bullets and possibly shield them from most conventional weapons."-John couldn't even fathom the stupidity of these people, outraged he hung up and ordered the team to pack up and leave the cretins to their own devices.
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In the outer edge of Proxima Centauri
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-'' Thank the Emperor but i can see the stars again, receiving strange signals currently no translation available. Our maps don't cover this area, additionally it seems like we are in a completely new galaxy. According to the time steps, Admiral the year…. is 999 and 41 we've been lost in the warp for over a millenia. Warp engines are currently malfunctioning. Receiving a message from Admiral Spire…"- Navigator Ezekiel reported after leaving accursed space of warp after so long, the message they have received from Spire was worrying and inspiring yet they were unable to join the battle.
-"Tech Priest Ashkan can we repair our engines? Does the system we are in hold any materials that could be used to repair our ship?"- Admiral Lectus he was an Solar Admiral assigned to a negligible system when chaos manifested. Currently he was trying very hard not to shout angered that he isn't able to fight this accursed khornate warriors. Ashkan after a quick scan of the system said that the engines could be repaired but they won't be able to use them to go back to imperium at most they could use them to move to a nearby system located 4 light years away.
Solar Admiral was furious and a little sad that their ship Lord Apheios isn't able to go back to the imperium or any of the forge worlds of these almost heretical Adeptus Mechanicus. Yet this was now the least of his worries after exposure to massive amounts of chaos his mind and body was actively getting corrupted, of course after such a long time in the warp every member of the crew have undergone an operation that placed a bomb near their hearts and brains to eliminate them before they could attack and evolve into chaotic entities.
Even after massive amounts of augmentations that really tested knowledge of their tech priest his mind was still weak, even in the naval academy he was often shamed for such a weak mind. Originally he was deemed unfit for the role of an Admiral of any rank yet after acing his tests and pulling some favours he managed to become it. He fulfilled his dream yet he wasn't rejoicing he felt that the words of teachers were true because he felt the bombs inside his body arming detecting a corruption of chaos.
Murderous Takeoff
Jeff thought to himself, "Why do i even attempt diplomacy with these pathetic creatures, sure I once was one of them but ever since i got this powers i'm not"
-"Retract diplomacy link and start the engines, hive mind will operate the ship, our goal is Mercury and then use the sun as a slingshot to save the fuel and give as high initial speed for the next maneuvers."-Jeff ordered while working on subspecies of his race. The newly created creatures would be the smaller versions of the original species. While some might think that these creatures might be useless there is a simple answer why he made them smaller.
While big creatures like humans need big amounts of oxygen and food to sustain themselves the smaller ones do not additionally Geofrey fused them with glowing blood allowing them to take nutrients directly from the ground and gave them 2 more ways of reproduction.
Option nr 1
Creation of unisex Queen which can move and forage but mainly is used as a mobile incubator and factory, this enteti can also make crude tools and armour out off biomass. It has 8 legs to support 3 giant cocoons on the back, this thing does not possess any hole where waste can go out because it's internal structure is designed to use every single speck of food that is swallowed by 3 mouths. One of them is located on the front but is mainly used as a means of self defence, second one is on the back near the cocoons and the last is located under the creature, so it can just jump on a pile of food and start the process of reproduction.
Option nr 2
Every creature is provided with an external gland that produces fluid with genetic sequence at will, additionally they possess an ability to modify their armour that is created with them at birth. These creatures can of course create a new armour but for some time they will be exposed to many dangers. To reproduce through this method the creatures need to get out of their armor and modify it into a shape of cocoon size doesn't matter because the initial larvae can later after getting out, just consume the excess nutrients and quickly become full sized. After the cocoon is formed the creator or any other member of the subspecies just needs to unload the genetic sequence with the nutrients into the cocoon. While these guys were programmed to do this process themselves it isn't actually necessary for them to be anywhere near the cocoons; it's just a failsafe so they won't fail to defend the reproduction facilities.
Jeff had a dilemma on how to name this new subspecies, so he simply proceeded to name them "mion-néarón an chonaic '' which stands for mini-neuron of consciousness. So in short these demonlings shall be called MNaC-es<*>.
Jeff made a thousand of every type and created groups of ten per major country/continent and gave them very specific order:
-"Consume everything alive that doesn't belong to our race, drain every resource from this planet and pack it on ships and join us on our journey."- These were the final words Jeff had said before to them before the ship shot them like projectiles into the atmosphere, these 100 projectiles were the final nail in the coffin. For the earth's population of basically every living creature.
Jeff willed himself out of his comfortable seating in the center of the ship to the side of the ship to be exposed to the void. His former planet looked beautiful but soon it will look even prettier even more vibrant with the depression that he himself was feeling. His brain was working actively on manipulating one of many tentacles that the ship possessed to grab an satelite his intentions were to absorb every bit of knowledge the earth had. So he did just that after the tentacle made contact with the satellite and walked on it and remade one of his fingers to hack and access the ethernet.
His rarely used blessing finally came to play, after a solid 10 hours of scouring, reviewing and downloading he had the useful knowledge ironically this information didn't even weigh more than 2 tb.