《Bacterium》 Chapter 1 Prologue-The God of Gropers So this is my firs ever story that ill write(its a long test drive which i hope will turn out well and give me the experience to help me create my most epic story thats been brewing for years) so i hope you point out any typos and help me improve my writing style because hey,you gotta start somewhere. __________________________________________________________ So where do i begin in this whirl pool of time,where everything has started.Where my destiny was dragged around into a mess and it allowed me to view the world for what it is.Something that would make religions,countries and legends crumble. I will begin from the end............the end of my life. It all began in my apartment and me playing games on my laptop while eating,and while playing my favorite rpg. I swung at the bandit slashing across his chest blocked his next attack with my shield swapped my sword for an touch spell and dodged his strike only for him to spin his whole body mid-swing following me like a homing missile and smashing his hammer in my face. Anger made my vein to pop,remembering how i forgot to install a mod for the game to make it more realistic allowing me to actually dodge and in my anger i violently munched on some chips aaaaaaaaaaand i died.Quite stupid realy , but i had no regrets at least i was hoping my next life to be more something than this one,i mean the only thing i ever did was see everything gray, no black and no white. So when take a step back to view the bigger picture of life try not to trip. Now you might think "now that you are dead where does the story go" Well after the shocking and suffocating and feeling your body grow numb and cold and lights out (though i was playing at around 10pm) I felt at peace,for the fist time in my life truly at peace.And as i was starting to wonder whats going on here i felt a warm flow of.....of.....something and had the urge to follow it.As i got closer the flow got warmer and the feeling of familiarity took over like i was here before.Feeling like something was giving me a nice cold shower while riding along the warm stream and my mind slowly merging with it with every second my feeling of self was disparaging,i knew my ego was being reset ,my achievements erased(like i had any) and my memories vanished one by one,i relived my life in a moment.As i was becoming at peace with the end something grabbed me,something cold,well nothing evil thats for sure,the cold reminded me of bucket of cold for "good morning". And thats wasn''t the worst that surprised me the most was when the hand grabbed,I felt like a sphere.The next moment was just simple and unending darkness.Slowly my sense of individuality and memories returned bit by bit kind like i found something i had previously lost.The darkness began doting with lights one after the other,slowly it began looking more and more like the night sky.As i was enjoying the view i heard a light voice behind me. "Gretings Mr.Darwin"-Lorelion As i turned around i saw a creature with unique physique,slim arms and legs,tall with elongated head tree digits on each of its four limbs and a long tail with a spike at the end,covered by something dark and hard looking.Yet didnt seem influence its movement one bit it, as it walked in the the space infront of me.Its overall look screamed speed and stealth, a hunter.It had godlike aura that demanded respect and worship and radiated calmness. "I am the god of evolution Lorelion. Well in my world anyway"-Voice As i blinked(or the stars did)his looks changed into a behemoth of a monster.About twice the size of the previous one.Arms and legs as thick as trees,reddish skin with bulging muscles everywhere,a humanoid head without hair with two set of insectoid eyes,the second one was on the temple and horns coming out of its forehead and elbows.This beats looked bread for strength endurance and war.His aura grew with blood thirst and ferocity crushing the Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.calmness "I have brought you here to help with a certain task,befitting of your knowledge and talents"-Lorelion His appearance changed again to something like a black lightbulb with four insectoid legs,and yet it was glowing slightly.No idea what it represents, i sucked at art class due to my lack of skills,or so they say.I was a picaso with the pencil, i was also decent with photoshop and other visual editor tools in order to color my drawing on my pc but other that that and some basic sculpturing i was barely able to pass.This time it was like the rage of the aura was brought under control with pure will and control. "............."-Me "You will be partaking in a.......is there a problem Mr.Darwin?"-Lorelion "Do you want the good news or the bad ones first?"-Me "Ummm.....the good one?"-Lorelion "The good news is the bad news suck only for you.The bad news is i''m not Darwin"-Me "Mr.Darwin you must be confused, it happends every now and then,when someone is taken from the river of life a bit late.Part of their existence cannot be retrieved,happily the cleaning of the soul starts from your earliest recorded existence so at best only the first few years of your childhood will be missing,namely the ones that correspond to the name of oneself identity,in short the inability to connect the name in you posses to you self.But it still should be flowing somewhere in there "-Lorelion This time his figure became a dragon of some kind. Something between an European and Asian dragon,weird looking too complex to describe!As for the aura it was full of pride , dominance , grace and power. "......that explains why i cant remember my name.But thats not the reason why i said I''m not Darwin from what i recall, with you being the god of evolution and needing someone with talents for you to be of use,the Darwin i know was born in early XIX century and died at the end of it and during his lifetime and after it he was ridiculed about his theories of evolution.And that knowledge i got from class in school for the record"-Me "....................for real?"-Lorelion This time he didn''t change shape he just stood there frozen in place.Go figure why. "Damn it and to hell with it!!"-Lorelion As he cursed he changed shape in to a 10-year old boy with a white tunic and white linen..well shorts i think.He had white blond hair blue eyes and a round face.His shifting godlike power never to be seen.Replaced with the playful glow of a child.He started trowing what looked like a tantrum.The darkness shattered enveloping everything in a warm light. "What am i going to do everything failed,i will probably will be striped of my godhood and turned into a mortal but also made for a laughing stock for the whole world.I''m toast. I shouldn''t have left them to provoke me into participating and even betting my godhood.............."-Lorelion Seeing how the mighty have fallen i began to think on my current situation and decided to anazlyze everything calmly. [A god has ripped me from the natural flow of time and I''m not the person he needs,so why is he panicking like there is no tomorrow? Aren''t gods supposed to be omnipotent or something?.....oh no please tell me its not what i think it is!!]-Me "Ok....so how about you put me back where you found me and search a bit over one century back on the time line you should find Darwin there."-Me He looked at me apologetically and said "I''m sorry but i can''t"-Lorelion Chapter 2-Pledge Here is chapter 2 i hope you enjoy ---------------------------------------------------------- "I''m sorry but i can''t. It is not that i will not , i just can''t.I lack the power to do so.">Lorelion I looked at him baffled by the answer.Well it was just as i guessed it would be but hearing it made something inside me prick with a bit of pain.I decided to keep calm and ask him "I thought so.Are you going to tell me why you lack the power to do so?">Me Looking at him he became fidgety and nervous before looking me in the eyes. "I am too inexperienced and weak among the gods.I lacked the knowledge for a summoning ritual. For a champion like the other gods so instead i tried to take the soul of the person who fits my requirements and make his body from scratch. I thought it would be easier but now i know why the other gods don''t use this method. Since your soul took most of my power and the same amount or even greater is needed in order to return you.So again i am sorry.">Lorelion "So i''m stuck here with you eh? Why cant you use your followers and need a Champion? i''m no champion,i sit around and do nothing productive the whole day.Cant you use one of your followers or all of them,i mean come on there got to be a few thousand of them right">Me He looked meek as he weakly responded "...i...t..haf..mn.y.f....sh">Lorelion I looked at him with a serious look and asked again "Right?">Me He became nervous and talked a bit louder with ashamed look on his face. "I don''t have many followers.">Lorelion With curiosity i asked. "How many?Gotta be at least a city"He shook his head in denial"A small town?"he shook it again and with a bit of uncertainty i asked "A village?"This time he was silent so took it as a heartbreaking no"Please tell me its at least a cult!!">Me He stood there silent and looked at the metaphorical floor(we are technically floating in a white space you know)and as he slowly opened his mount and said quietly "Two or tree dozen.But most of them are powerful wizards you know">Lorelion He said the second part with a bit of hope and pride.I felt a bit sorry for him,but i had to ask. "If you have 30 or so powerful wizards why should you need me?">Me With a bit of disappointment and grief he simply answered. "None of them know that they worship me.they do it indirectly through their research and pursuit of knowledge and most of them are hermits and shut ins i doubt they will help me even if i asked to.">Lorelion "Thats odd. Aren''t gods born from the need of something to believe in?Or at least thats the general idea from the books in my world. With so many followers how do you even exist?From what i understood you are from a world with magic,from the whole wizard thing so you lot should be interacting quite closely with your followers. People invent stuff in order to have more time to lazy around and with magic that puts science on the slow side so how come you were created in a world where evolution is something so abstract?">Me With my questions one after the other he seemed to calm down bit by bit and become more opened,i guess that will help with the questions i''m asking him.As he was about to answer a look of yearning and grief covered his face. "Because of my mother.She is the goddess of nature Irilia. As evolution is technically...was part of her domain it was dormant because nobody understood it.The moment sufficient belief was accumulated the part that was her understanding and knowledge became me. As i was born i also took some of her power,thats why i could take your soul from the river of life.">Lorelion "So what do you need a champion for i doubt you have to defend your followers , as they sound pretty hard to find and damn good at defending themselves?">Me "I needed some one to help me with the battle of the champions.Its basically a world wide tournament of the other gods champions to settle disputes and the like.But now everything failed and i''m stuck with you!">Lorelion Watching him pout made me feel guilty for some reason. "So you made a mistake and were both stuck with each other!! Huhggggg..............."I breathed out heavily while thinking "So this sounds a bit entertaining."I said a bit cheerfully,better make the best of a bad situation."Gods,magic and a world to explore i guess we better get started then">Me He looked at me with a bit of surprise and anger. "We?I told you i need Darwin to help me with it, because from what i can tell he is the person who first discovered evolution in your world besides i don''t know anything about you. And why would you help me anyway?">Lorelion The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. "Your slow for a god aren''t you?immature too,well you do look like a brat,cute kid but still a brat.Two reasons. First we are stuck with each other i can sit here and hope one day you gain enough power to send me back or i can do something about it. Second every person who graduated high school with two brain cells to rub together and a bit of creativity will fit you needs">Me "How does that fit my needs i need someone with the will to grow stronger and overcome great difficulties , someone brilliant who can spread the knowledge of evolution and someone with loyalty. From what i can see you are crude and rude">Lorelion "The way i see it you will become a nobody and will be stuck in this white abyss.And my intelligence was above average even without me training, cuz i had no reason to when my put my mind to something i''''m usually quite tenacious.And if you want an example i was able to score second place on the season tournament of my favorite strategy game with just a month of training and thats a lot considering it is almost a sport worldwide and an actual sport in some countries.And i''m quite good in the creative department!!">Me "And how do you plan on increasing my followers and what good it will do your creativity and what i understand as your strategic mind?"-Lorelion By this point we were arguing like little kids. "Thats why i said you are immature, you don''t even know how awesome the power of your domain is and you''r supposed to be a kid, yet you lack the basic imagination of a four year old, and my life was fucking boring and you piqued. So I WANT to help you and i never helped anyone before in a similar manner so are you going to let me help you or are going to go and cry in your mama''s lap before she kick you out of haven herself because thats what i would do in her place."-Me At the end of my rant he was sitting crossleged with his head down and an eerie aura of silence around him "..............."-Lorelion Deciding to bread the silence i asked. "What?.. if you want to say something say it. I forgot my telepathy in my other soul"-Me As i was about to say something he asked meekly. "Do you promise?"-Lorelion A asked a bit stupefied by the sudden one-eithy of his mood "Wut?"-Me "Do you promise to help me?Even if you don''t know what it is about?"-Lorelion Following the mood i guessed where this is going and simply replied with heavy sarcasm. "I do.I promise to help you with the battle of the champions gods and whatnot.Its not like I''ll have to fight all the champions of all gods" He looked at me with a look filed with hope and asked a question. "So what was your name we never got to it"-Lorelion "Now that you mention it i don''t remember.Lets go with something creative and refreshing for a new start.How about Eziol"-Me He turned serious and the godly aura returned to him demanding respect and worship but somehow i couldn''t connect it to the little kid who so sincerely asked me for help.I know he is a god and probably older than me by at lest a century but to me he is still an immature brat and no godlike aura will make me view him differently. I guess taking care for my sister in my previous life rubbed on me in a good way. As i was thinking where to find a book "how to raise gods for dummies" he look at me and asked. "Eziol do you pledge to become my champion to fight for my honor and to fight my enemies,to spread my word to the world and to defend those who follow it?"-Lorelion A pledge huh? I guess i better be careful what i say or my free will will be bound but from what i sew he shouldn''t know that. I guess someone taught him.Magic and pledges don''t mix well for idiots.Think about all the stories about demons and their summoners the demons exploit every weakens of the contract , and if my gut feeling is right ill need as much freedom as possible in order to help this brat , and i don''t want him to stop me from doing things for his own good , you really gotta wonder what his parents teachers or whatever was in charge of the education of the gods was thinking.After thinking for a while i answered with as much pride and dignity as i could muster. "I Eziol do pledge to serve Lorelion the god of evolution as his champion to strike down those who i deem his enemies and sully your honor to spread your word in my own way and to defend those under you protection if need be!"-Eziol With a stern voice he said "Rise my champion"-Lorelion ---------------------------------------------------- the pledge will be under rewrite for the near future if any of you have a better idea about it write it down below and tnx beforehand PS. I will try to keep my chapters about 8k symbols but no promises for reference the minimum for a book to approved is to have 1k for the first chapter and this one was 9328(commas, fullstops and spaces are also included Chapter 3 Preparations I''m not perfect so any mistakes you feel like pointing out post them below ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rise my champion"-Lorelion As he said those words white particles gathered around me and formed a stream towards his right arm where it formed something like a tree without a crown Doing so made me feel connected to him somehow , it felt like a tiny thread. "That was felt funky"As i said that he looked me with a weird expression"So how about extra details about the tournament?">Eziol He asked looking at me with expectation "Wont you ask me what i just made you do?">Lorelion "Sorry to burst your bubble , but that was a magic pledge and i left it open ended on all fronts , don''t know who thought you that but they didn''t do a good job. The only part i din''t expect is the crest on your hand. I''m guessing ill have on to right? And please tell me i can use it to communicate with you when you send me to the planet , cuz that what i guess the fuzzy feeling is for.And how do i use it?">Eziol With a bit sadness and disappointment he answered "Mhhhhhn....How did you find out i hoped to amaze you with my godly power">Lorelion "Simple the moment you showed me your true form all those flashy transformations you used to hipe the moment evaporated. And most of the story books in my world had similar stuff.Not to mention that who in their right mind will make something useless? Especial you. As a god of evolution i guess you hate useless things, or am i wrong?.">Eziol "You are right..."He said with a low voice and continued apologetically"I am sorry for lacking the power to give you a body or a powerful blessing like that of the other champions.All i can give you is a normal body, and a simple blessing and since i am not strong like the major gods the blessing will not be better that the body.">Lorelion I answered with a mocking tone "I''m starting to think you aren''t the brightest god are you?.">Eziol "Hey why do you keep insulting my intelligence , for a just a soul you have a big mouth.">Lorelion "You still don''t get it do you?Let me give you a tip. YOU are the God of evolution your power is extreme adaptability for survival.So what has the biggest adaptability amongst all living things.">Eziol "Why is that important all the other gods summon or rebirth their champions in human bodies almost the same as they had in their previous life so why should i do it any different?">Lorelion "Huh... this is getting tiring"I said with a low voice"So before i answer how a bout you tell me can you modify or make new blessing and or modify my vessel how ever you wish?">Eziol "Why is that important?Are you saying that the vessel and blessing i made in the last ten years is for naught?">Lorelion "Ill take that as a yes and the answer is yes">Eziol He answered with irritating and anger. "Well lets hear if you can do a better job than a god?">Lorelion "Ok. I''m guessing the blessing allows the body to develop beyond the physical and biological limitations like growing an extra arm, better eyes, claws and basically everything that is deemed necessary"He nods in conformation with a bit of wonder in his eyes"So to answer my own question it the single celled organisms. They can live through hell and back without a drop of magic. Viruses are another option they can mutate very fast due to external stimuli like medicine in which case they become immune to it if low enough quantity of it was used.So how much power a sco(single celled organism) will cost you in term of power?">Eziol "Why didn''t i think of that"He whispered under his nose and answered"A lot less as the body is concerned , but the blessing still takes about 90% of my power so for the body i guess we have a about 10%.">Lorelion "Can you make the blessing to something like intelligent design?And for the body can you make it able to absorb DNA , essence,matrix of life or what ever you call It?">Eziol "That is......"He started thinking while doing air gestures and counting something with his fingers.As he looked ate me he answered"Its quite doable and i even have a bit of power left over.But can you tell me what do you mean about intelligent design , from what i just checked i can make quite a few blessings that fall under that category.">Lorelion "I want to be able to build my body the way i want it to be.Also something like a memorization for when i become multi celled cuz it will be pain if i have to micromanage all my cells.">Eziol "Yeah that does not sound fun. So if you want to become multi celled why don''t you just start as one?">Lorelion "I''ll have more control over my biological and physiological processes and i will know how i tic from day one instead of having to learn how my body will work.">Eziol Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "I do not understand the difference but i see how everything else works better.Also what do i do with the unspent power?">Lorelion Well he still looks a bit sad that his effort have gone to waste.At least i can give him the ability to customize it a bit. "You know i have no idea about magic much less god like powers so ill leave it up to you.As long as i don''t look like pink vibrator with polka dots ill be fine.">Eziol "Thanks i have some good ideas for it.And whats a vibrator?">Lorelion His question got me frozen for a moment''Damn this kid is so innocent aren''t gods supposed to be all knowing about common sense and their Domain?'' "You will find out when you grow up to be a powerful god">Eziol "You know i am 132 years older that you right?">Lorelion "Hahah..."I chuckled slightly"Human years?Yes you will be But considering that the average god is several milenia old you are a brat physically and mentally.">Eziol He pouted again and his cheeks got red from embarrassment and a bit of anger.We stayed in silence for a while and i asked a question thats been bugging me. "So gonna tell me why you need a champion?">Eziol The silence continued for a while. With his head down he talked very quietly if i wasn''t a soul right now i probably wouldn''t have heard it. "I want to show them that i too can be a god.Some one my mother would be proud with. Someone she will....">Lorelion He didn''t finish his sentence only tears roled on his cheeks. ''Damn he might be a god but again and again i remind myself that he is still a child.And i realy hope the end to that sentence isn''t what i think it is or heads will roll one way or another''>Eziol As i said that my habit kicked in , when ever my sister cried i would pat her head to calm her down or give her a hug , as i tried he looked looked up in surprise "How did you do that?">Lorelion "Huh..it actual worked..">Eziol I continued to pat him until he calmed down and looked at me with a smile and started whipping his tears with his tunic "Thank you i''m okay now.">Lorelion "Sorry for asking such a question.Change of topic.You said you''ll tell me more after i agreed to be your champion so how about some on info on my title and what do i need to do in order to help you?">Eziol He looked at me with teary eyes and said "I want you to win the annual champion battle">Lorelion "A how about you start from square one and explain everything about the champion battle.">Eziol "Mhn"He noded energetically in agreement"Since the gods have too much power they used to destroy the mortal realm evry time the quarrel.Back then there we only the God of Time, the God of Space , God of Light , God of Darkness , God of the Abyss, and God of Creation.Well the culpits were usualy the God of Light and Darkness. And the others had to fix their mess every single time .So the God Time froze them for as long as he could after recreating time. The God of the Abyss cleaned the mess and the Gods of Space and Creation recreated the mortal realm with the addition of life.It grew in time , and as it started to need something to believe in new gods were born one after the other.When the god of Light and Darkness left their prison they noticed the newcomers,Ignoring them the tried to battle once more before the other gods stoped them and the Goddess of Wisdom proposed something more entertaining and less destructive.She proposed the champion battle.The two rivals found that quite entertaining so the acsepted and after the first came the second and third battle eventual the other gods fought the same way and even began to bet parts of their own power.This brought chaos to the mortal realm so the my mother ,and one of the children of the God of Creation, offered to make it into a single battle that can repeat evry millennium in order to let the mortal realm rest and heal and those who participate had to bet a small portion of their power in order to prevent petty sqables. And regardless of the number participants the winner will take all the power minus the power needed in order to restore that which can not the realm do so by itself.The only rule was that the gods cannot interfere directly with their champions by giving them additional power in any form including information about their enemies.That about covers it">Lorelion After his lengthy explanation he looked much better his eyes were a bit red though. "So can the champions use a nation to hunt the other ones?">Eziol "Yes but they must find them with their own power.">Lorelion "Sounds simple and good.How many will participate this time around?">Eziol He looked at me apologetically and simply said "All of them" Chapter 4 Huuuh kids..... For those of you who wonder why i don''t post so often the truth is very simple its not that i don''t have the story its just that need a bit of inspiration in order to actually write. Story wise i got plenty of ideas and depending on my patience i can maybe squeeze all of them. And for those who wonder where the story will go , well you just have to be patient with me after all i only got like 2 comments on my 3 chapters and from the same guy(probably a guy if not sorry) so you can see why i have little to no motivation to write.So not to keep you waiting here is a chapter from me to you.Enjoy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "All of them">Lorelion "Figures.So,when do we start?">Eziol "Well i have to admit something.The battle already started.I wanted to make sure i got most suitable champion for myself but as you know that did not work quite well. As such the other heroes will have a bit more time on you.">Lorelion said apologeticly I looked at him and answered with a stern voice "You little......ok lets just calm down.You know what i had big plans for this and you ..you....probably wont make it worse so how about you chose a schose a starting point and lets hope it won''t be my downfall.By the way are there re-spawn and such?">Eziol "Thanks for the vote of confidence(He said with slight annoyance).As for the answer its yes and no">Lorelion ''I don''t like the sound of that!!''>Eziol "The simple answer is yes there are many ways to do so but most of them require a lot of power mortal or devine and the process itself can only be preformed by a god...so sorry">Lorelion "Chill Lor i was just curios and didn''t plan on dying any time soon.Besides from what you just told me it''s not possible for me,for now">Eziol "Lor?Whats that for?"?Lorelion "Well we have to call our names while talking to each other.No?So i figure something less of a mouthful?">Eziol After hearing my explanation he answered with a big mile "So then I''ll call you Ez!!">Lorelion "Why not, Eziol sounds too stuffy and official anyways">Eziol He looked happy and satisfied "Hehe...">Lorelion I didn''t want to burst his bubble but we need to get started a war doesn''t win by itself "Ok. So time to start and i hope the surprises aren''t bad cuz it will make my job a mess at least. No pressure or anything">Eziol "Ez no need to be so mean all the time">Lorelion "I know but we are wasting time just sitting here and chatting.I know i said we are wasting time but its been bugging me where is here??">Eziol "Hehe you will find out soon enough so lets get started.It will get dark and sting a bit.But don''t worry you will be fine">Lorelion As he said that everything seemed to dim all the way to pitch black.I don''t know how much time it passed but soon a painful feeling came across my body it felt like someone was ripping me apart straight down the middle and all my organs were spit two ways.I tried to scream but there was not a peep as it was nearing its end i felt a searing pain inside my head,but it felt uniform precise and intentional it started with a single line then it split in two sideways and after a while it changed direction like the first one.As the did so the two lines split again and repeated that several times.As the pain was subduing i tried the wounds it cased.It felt like a tree without a corona and the roots were straight with a ninety degree angle every time it changed direction.It felt like what i saw on Lars hand. It reminded me of something familiar,But somehow the answer eluded me and i didn''t know why. I felt odd,misshaped a bit oval? It was a strange , i could feel both outside and inside my body but just that, i couldn''t see nor hear nor any of my other senses were there. Well almost i could feel like i was floating i gues that counts.As i was joking about my predicament i was regaining my mind bit by bit.Soon i remembered what was happening and calmed down ''Well its official it sucks being something so...so...simple.I better get a check list for myself something to focus my goals to''.As i was making small plans for the future i heard the voice of a young boy in my head. "So how are you feeling">Lorelion I tried to answer cheerfully "Other than oval,blind,crippled and floaty. I''m quite peachy!">Eziol "Sorry about the pain i didn''t think it will hurt that much.As for your senses you''ll have to get used to it for now.">Lorelion "Apology accepted. Hey where are you anyway?">Eziol He filled his voice with smug and pride and answered "In my personal realm where we last saw each other">Lorelion "How are we talking then?">Eziol "The mark of the champion, it should be somewhere on your body.">Lorelion "Ah you mean the weird tree thingy?">Eziol Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. "I thought you already knew what it was?">Lorelion "I think i''m supposed to.But i can''t just put my finger on it."As i said that that i heard a guilty oh..oh from the link"Lorelion...."I said with a low voice "What did you do?">Eziol His voice sounded full of guilt "Well since you were always a bit mean to me and insulting my intelligence i decided to take a peak at you memories to see why are you so smug.As i was looking i decided to copy some of your knowledge for myself when i saw how you have a much better idea of what you are actually doing.The first time i tried with an old memory from your school when you learned what a tree of evolution is.I messed up and the memory got kinda deleted .......permanently">Lorelion I was pissed how dare he.Those were my memories what if he deleted something more important and precious to me?And the worst part i wont even know it "What the hello were you thinking.You could have lobotomized me. Don''t do something so stupid again got it.Also do other gods do that to their champion as well i mean you were just curious i get it you are just kid but this...this...tampering with someones personality is f..well twisted.">Eziol He said with a voice full of guilt "No,its actually forbidden to interferer directly with the mortal realm souls included">Lorelion "Ok....calm down breathe in, breathe out.Now tell me there rent more bad news.">Eziol "Ummm.i kinda messed up making your body.">Lorelion "You what.."My voice filled with rage"for the love of....And how do you plan on fixing this one or is is permanent..again">Eziol Hearing how pissed i was he began explaining "When you said i could do what i want with the left over energy i got excited and i didn''t keep count of it and before i even noticed i ran out so you are missing a few features">Lorelion "Like..."''I think i could feel him fidget across the link, curious''>Eziol "Well i tried to replace all of your basic cellular structures with a custom made one.And i couldn''t finish it">Lorelion "Spit it out already">Eziol "Well you...um...can not synthesizes any proteins.And sense i had to cram everything in a makeshift core the size of a normal Nucleus all functions are lower than basic.">Lorelion "Oh just that well it isn''t that mu..........WHAAAAAT!!!Are serious.You IDIOT how am i supposed to make something with noting i cant even process any food let alone make any offensive enzymes in order to kill for food">Eziol "Sorry"He said with a bit of sadness in his voice"But i wanted you to have more room for things, i even managed to fuse the mitochondrion and a chloroplast so you can focus on evolving rather than hunting but i couldn''t finish implementing them so your core only produces just a bit more than your minimal needs.At leas the function from integrating the golgi complex works.But you can make just two or tree more vacuoles depending on their size.">Lorelion "Huh"I breathe out with a tired sound"How do you expect me to survive like thi....wait did you say core?Like a magic one?">Eziol "Sorry i didn''t mean to turn you into a monster but i thought it would be easier for you to learn magic with it.Please don''t be mad">Lorelion He pleaded with sadness "Chill.....i think i got way out of this but..can i absorb parts from other cells other than their DNA?">Eziol I didn''t worry about the blessing cuz i figured thing couldn''t get worse. "Really your not mad?">Lorelion I really wanted to bully him a bit....just a bit is okay "I am f***ing pissed of about it but being angry wont get me anywhere so lets forgive and forget and put this one under the idiot god lack of experience with everything pile">Eziol He sounded like he was sobbing and about to cry i hope i can defuse the situation "Come on don''t go crying , aren''t you supposed to be the older one?">Eziol He started crying and between the hiccups he said "You said..hic....you wouldn''t..hic..be...hic...angry...and then you wear mean to me....whaa">Lorelion Draping crcaket..it always happens.I meet a kid we play we laugh we become buddies and in the end i get over my head and he cries....huuuuuh i better try and fix it and don''t make it worse...Oh i got an idea lets hope it works "Come on don''t cry....you know i was just angry at what you did not at you.We all make mistakes sooner or later.So how about you calm a bit okay?">Eziol He asked through his sobbing "Hic..realy..hic..">Lorelion "I still have my emotions,thank god for that, so of course ill be angry its just me being me and i''m sorry for making you cry.Besides you can''t tell me you think you don''t lack the knowledge and wisdom to put your talents to use.You tried to make something nice for me but you lacked experience and you made a big ass , pardon the language, mess.So how about we first fix the situation and then we will see.Ok?">Eziol He stooped crying and started sniffing with his nose "Ok">Lorelion Chapter 5 Here comes the Wizza He said with a sniffing tone "Ok">Lorelion "So can you answer my previous question?">Eziol "I''m sorry i don''t remember..">Lorelion I asked with a calm and relaxed voice "It''s ok. What i asked is whether i can absorb organelles from other cells">Eziol "Mhn"He said and an image of agreed nodding flowed trough my head"It is easier if the cell is dead otherwise you have to poke it open and drag the oranels out">Lorelion ''Thought so''I said in my head"Thanks.So can you teach me magic?">Eziol "Why do you need magic now?Later maybe but now wont it be kinda useless?">Lorelion "Let me worry about that">Eziol "Okay.Try to focus on the presence of the world around you you should at some point find something akin to a flow of water or a dust particle or something along those lines its different for everyone.">Lorelion "Putting aside that everything around me feels like water ill give it a go"-''i guess i''m underwater or something gotta ask him later''>Eziol As i tried to close my current senses and focus on feeling something different, something off an idea came to me. He made me a core so from all the stories i read and from his reactions they are at least similar.So in what i read,the core can store mana, blue juice,sub atomic particle or whatever you want to call it all go with mana. So i focused my minds eye to myself,my core and started to feel and prod around it with my senses. As time went by i started to feel something muddy and heavy it was a bit disturbing to say the least.As i slowly started to drift back to reality i heard some mumbling at the back of my head as i focused on it It was Lor with his pleading voice "Ez...Ez do you have to ignore me.What did i do again">Lorelion "Uh.oh sorry i got too focused.I found what you told me to look for buuut it was muddy and heavy.">Eziol "Thats wrong.Where did you sense it?">Lorelion "In my core.">Eziol He answered with a panicked voice "Uhhhhh...please don''t be mad but i think i messed up the part of your core with the ability to uhm purify mana.">Lorelion "Is it that bad? Can i at least use it for spells?">Eziol "Well i don''t know what i messed up so for now it will be stuck as it is.As for your mana it makes you feel sluggish because it is corrupted. This is an extremely unstable form of mana. So it is very dangerous to use and you can''t cast spells with it due to its instability which results in random effect mainly it goes boom.I know only one person able to use it properly and he wont help">Lorelion "Can new spells be made?">Eziol "You need to be a very powerful wizard in order to make spells and even then they rarely work as intended and if you try with corrupted mana it will end up even worse">Lorelion "Don''t worry too much about it what i want to do is pretty simple.So let me worry about the consequences">Eziol "You realy have no idea how to use magic and you want your first spell to be made by yourself with corrupted mana. Are you mad do you want to die after you promised to help me">Lorelion "I got this , how hard can it be.Besides i rarely make promises and try to keep them so believe in me a little, if i succeed i will solve one major problem.">Eziol He said with fear in his voice and i swear his worried face with a hint of regret just popped in my mind "Ok ill tell you.You need to will the mana in the way you want and then engrave it in your soul.Most people have to learn them and use chants to activate the spell.Once i spell has been made the god of magic will judge its usefulness and if he finds it so he records it the words mana flow so that everyone who learns the chant can use it.If some one knows how the spell works he can use it without a chant and cast it instantaneously.">Lorelion "Well thanks for the lecture on mana basics 101.Now let''s do some magic">Eziol I delved in my mind again to find the tar pit thats my mana and found it quite easily then i tried to take a tiny bit of it but it was very hard to do so.The mana resisted, it pulled and pushed it didn''t obey any of commands and if i tried any harder it started to shake. Figuring it won''t work that way i tried to follow the natural movement of mana. It was quite chaotic and random.''I think i have seen something similar,what was it again? Ah right it was the gordian knot. Weird mana. Maybe if i...'' As my thoughts flowed i decided to take a third approach. I treated the mana as a puzzle. Damn i always hated those but this time it''s a must so i hawked on a part of mana that felt like a blob and began observations.The mana moved up and down left and right and my mind went blank. ''I got nothing. Hmmmm...maybe i need view the bigger picture here?''So my final approach was similar to my previous one i followed the a different blob of my mana this time i watched as it interacted with others like it.It was pure chaos.You know that sport where people drive junk cars and try to bash each other into scrap well thats what im seeing now.The mana is uniform to a point then it gets mainly aggressive when it interacts with other blobs.Sometimes when two blobs connect the don''t react violently instead they just orbit each other for a bit and them separate. I came to one conclusion this mana is crazy complex as a f***.With a satisfactory answer a tried again.This time i took very little manna even less than before just about the size of a blob as i dragged it out of the core.It hovered just outside of it i guess thats step one. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "huaaaa...be careful"Lor sounded very worried"careful don''t move it too much">Lorelion "You are worried over nothing.By the way how much time did it take me?">Eziol "A day or two?I didn''t pay time much attention i was more worried">Lorelion "So any tips on making it into a spell?">Eziol "You need to give it commands and then memorize them sense it is a spell you just made and it will be recorded in your soul to cat it you just need to think of its name or purpose. As for magnitude you just need to increase the mana output but i''m not so sure for corrupt mana">Lorelion "Ok here goes nothing">Eziol Slowly willing the mana to move in a direction proved difficult. The blob didn''t have a uniform form and it only moved in the direction of its longest part , kinda like a dart always flies with the tip forward. I guess since it isn''t inside my mana pit(you like it huh,its a tar pit so mana pit.Pool is for mana thats, well not corrupted) it cant keep a relative form, so with that in mind i returned the blob an took another one, more stable(as stable as it can be).This time i dragged it very slowly and tried to input commands.Something simple like ''Go straight.If hit return.Report distance'' I''m not sure about the last one but i hope the first two will be fine.As the blob left the core it shot straight as an arrow and impacted my membrane,as it did it rapidly collapsed on itself and exploded. The would be explosion was sent towards my core and instead of a radial one it''s supposed to it shot in a straight line like a laser.The beam did''t do any damage to my core instead on the place it hit glowed for a moment and the part thats on the inside secreted a blob of corupt mana. "That was frigging dangerous good thing it worked.What do you think">Eziol "......"I didn''t get an answer instead it felt like he was trembling for some reason"That was...AWESOME. You just made a corrupt spell in less than 3 days">Lorelion I guess i realy get absorbed in anything i find interesting so time sure does fly.Any way whats with his 180 mood swings..gotta be a god thing.I guess it will be something along the lines of immortals do not need to sob for centuries or something "So how do i memorize it.And can i change it after that">Eziol "Just think of putting it deep within yourself.And yes you should be able to.Just think of wanting to change the spell while doing some other variation of it and it will be saved and if you think of just saving the variation with another name you would make entirely new spell">Lorelion "Ok time to get back to work">Eziol Focusing again i repeated the spell and memorized it under the name "Radar".Now i relaxed and used the spell by just thinking of it.As the blob detonated i could feel its impact point with quite a bit of precision and a question popped up.''Is the mana intelligent? Obviously the spell should have exploded when it collided and instead it just collapsed on itself and used the energy from the collapse to relay the exact position of the explosion in minimal time .Weird , well i wont look a gift nuke in the mouth''.Now it came time to finish the spell for now it was equivalent to a laser pointer and don''t have any missiles....yet.So i repeated the spell manually but this time i made a lot of blobs leave the surface and gave them the command to intertwine with each other betting on the would be intellect of mana. To my delight it did just as i hoped it started to dance on the surface of my core.Two blobs intertwine for a bit the separate and intertwine with another two.When you put most of the blobs together it makes quite the view.A monster core protected by a layer of corrupted mana .Ha that would be akin to reactive armor if we don''t take in the fact that if something hit my core not only would it be blown to bits(at least from what Lorelion told me that will happen and i don''t have any wish to find out)but also my core.Now that the mana is stable i decided to try another gamble i input the commands:go out of the core,intertwine,separate,ignore master,if hit return,else return before losing cohesion,report distance.I memorized it just in case it works overriding the "Radar" spell.Then i activated it and prayed.Once the spell activated i observed what the mana will do. Every blob shook violently and imploded releasing streams of mana so fast i couldn''t even follow them once.As i expected i got the pings and unexpectedly blacked out. Chapter 6 The Kamikaze Bomber As i slowly regained consciousness i heard a familiar sob "sob...please Ez don''t die..sob...you promised">Lorelion With a pained groan i responded "Haaah my head...core...damn it my brain hurts">Eziol Grief and happiness could be heard "I''m so glad your alive i thought you were dead...sob...">Lorelion "I''m fine if i had a normal brain id probably be in a coma,i think." "What happend?">Lorelion said with a sob "Information overload.A lot of information i guess i black out dude to it.Note to self make more micro test before doing a macro spell">Eziol "What do you mean?">Eziol "In layman terms:The spell i made was too strong for me to use so i blacked out.">Eziol "So you realy are ok?">Lorelion "I''ll be fine i just need to adjust it a bit.It''s supposed to be a location spell based on the bats sonar but damn does my head hurt.So any recommendations about its range?And how big am i?">Eziol "I don''t know much from magic and from what i learned from your memories you should be about 10 micrometers(um) long and about 4 wide with an oval shape">Lorelion "So now i know how to modify the spell.Lets see......*mumbling*...about..that should do it!">Eziol "What did you do?">Lorelion "I set the range of the spell to 10000 um and put a command not to return empty pings. Basically it will only tell me only if it intercepted something">Eziol "Good thing the spell is simple or you could have died">Lorelion ".....uuhm then it''s better not to tell you my next plan or you will faint">Eziol "Pleas tell me you aren''t planing something stupid">Lorelion "Stupid. No. Reckless and dangerous. Hell yeah.">Eziol As he watched my preparations he started to worry and get very nervous "No don''t do that its dangerous......no don''t twist it will beak.....don''t you will hurt your self....">Lorelion *************** Somewhere underwater... An Euglena was swimming left and right up and down and was feeling the sun on it''s body. It used it''s green bits to make food out of sunlight and minerals wich it absorbed from the water around itself. As it was enjoying itself peacfully it saw the light darken as the only thing it could use for navigation was it''s eye which could only diferintiate btween light and dark. As light got dimmer it felt the vibrations in the water. Something was coming something small. After all if it could brag it would have said that it was the biggest fish in the pond .The euglena was massive even amongs it own kind it was so big that nothing tried to eat it. Well for an euglena,150um was humungus. Even though it was was so big the small object came straight at it it didnt understand why something so small whould come for it, something thats barely 30 times smaller than it. Yet it didn''t stop it kept going faster than enything it ever felt. It''s tiny instincts screamed danger but it was already too late. The tiny cell went pasted it. The euglena felt relief too soon as something it didn''t notice ripped through its membrane leaving a large hole. If it could it would have cried out in pain, but alas it could not. The little cell arked around and came flying(swimming?) straight trough the hole. Feling it''s iminent fate the euglena tried to wigle as the cell dug deepr and deepet towards it''s centriole, the moment it reached it a strong presure was feld that shaked the euglena. Its centriole was destroyed and without it it couldn''t keep it''s shape let alone stugle. Now that the little cell was in it it could feel it. It was weird the moment it entered it felt it getting smaller and smaller not by much but enoughf for it to notice as it destroyed the centriole it slowly started to grow bit by bit, like it was feeding off of it (you dont say?). After that the cell pointed itself towards the Nucleus it created a bit of presure in front of itself and a small object was lauched from it. The moment it touched the Nucleus it exploded opening a hole in it. The odd cell released preasghure again thins time from behind and slowly shrunk while propeling foward, and it ate anything along the way, mainly alot of vacuols and ribosomes. As it dug into the heart of the Nucleus the euglena gelt it''s smal spark of life slowly vanishing into the abyss *************** Preparation phase: As i started my preparations i could feel the increasing worry of Lor well i cant blame him after all i am stripping my core for usefull materials. I used the only proteins that were not in use in oreder to make 3 vacuols 1 medium and 2 small. For the record i can manipulate evry part of my body freely, well sort of. I can control my core and all of its functions by will alone and evrything else i had to use my centrioles(plural) wich are usualy a conected to the centriol(singular) and are used to support the cell kinda like a skeleton but with stick. now the neat part is that the ones i use are atached to my core and the ones i''m not using for support i can use as tenticles neat right? I gues the aplaus goes to Lorelion for this one.Now after i made the vacuols i made some modifications on them first i made a tiny buble inside and shaped them like pointy ovals. I put the little bubble at the top and filled it with enzyme mix wich i took form my core. This enzymes are used to disolve the the high energy connections between the hydrogen atoms in Adenosine TriPhosphate or ATP for short. Now you might be wondering "Why the hell do you need 3 enzymes for just do it with one." Well my young paduwan ATP has 3 high energy hudrogen connections one enzyme for each the reason being that if all 3 were to be dissolved at the same time well....i thing you know waht hapends when a nuclear reactor goes critical. As for the rest of the main part of the vacuols i filled them with ATP now i have some missiles well i gues they clasify as rockets probably(rocket-ungided:missiles-guided thats my basis). With my weapons ready it was time to satisfy my need for speed as such i had to restructure my hole membrane in the end i made an ass of myself...litelarly. At my back or at least what i considered as such i folded my membrane inwards creating pocleck and reducing my overal size buy whole 2um and increasing my internal presure which was bad but i livable.Next i did the same with 8 other places for manucarbillity, 4 at the front and 4 at the back.Now i need propelant and i had the perfect thing ATP with enzimes yay for biology. But i had a problem i couldnt insert the ATP mix to the front 4 would be jets so i folded the front just like the back but only enought to touch the fron 4 bubbles, the ones on the bakc were touching the core. Now it was time to hunt. Though my size was now reduced to 7um and my internal presure was even higher that before my centrioles were strained the moment i was done with the modifications and filled all the jet bubles with enzimes and the front storige buble with ATP i used my back jet to suck water in and spew it under preshure for movement and wigleling around for changing directions. Though slow it was very cost eficiant at the moment any other cell would not be able to do it but i could fold my membrane thanks to two things my mind and my extreeemly flexible centrioles.As i was teaveling i used ping to find something to absorb and eat. As i pinged i found alot of life around me,how i survived until now was probaly due to it being mainly plantlife though i can''t be sure, you know the whole im blind thing. So i set my course to the nearest and bigest known life form a humungous euglena, im pretty shure euglenas look like that. As i set course. Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. *************** Plantal combaaaaat As got within 500um i turned my pinger to passive, a new mode i made for combat the long range one gives too much info and i cant focus on anything else so i made it able to use short range constant version, and due to the blobs returning in the form of beams i lose very little mana though i don''t know how to regenerate it i got plenty to spare for now. As i got within my range i opened my back bubble and filled it with cytoplasm currently i had too much and i can lose some weight both physically and off my centrioles as i release the pressure i shot forward faster than i thought and i was heading towards the back of the euglena. That''s the place where the photo-receptors are and the tail connects so it would be a bad idea if i smack into it, in fact i don''t think int is a good idea to smash at all. So i filled two of my jets with bit of ATP which released a lot of energy and shot the cytoplasm with a bang. I managed to change my course just enough to barely dodge as i got closer i prepared the smaller missile and released it like a bomber all i could feel was the pressure wave. As i prepared to do a tight maneuver i closed my maneuver jets a bit and used them to make a loop and point myself at it.Activating my main jet like the others i felt like a bullet and flew straight into the wound.Once inside i actively pinged around to find the centriole and headed straight for it,destroying it with my second small missile.Without even the slightest hesitation i pointed my tip towards the Nucleus and fired the big missile after it detonated i shot in a curved line taking any vacuoles and ribosomes on the way. As i entered the wounded Nucleus i began synthesizing enzymes to dissolve its defenses and proteins to repair myself. As i broke through i began to devour its DNA like a hungry Italian in a pasta restaurant. ----------------------- Even though i complained i made 3 whole chapters with average of 9000 symbols in one go so rejoice and im sleepy so i will edit this tomorow if im not busy so save your complains for saturday PS I did some quick edits in the beginning and end i will fix the middle when i got the time