Chapter 8 - One year without doing anything OR I’m finally dead hooray
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There you go! It's been a year! An entire year to search for a solution!
And after numerous tries, I think I found one.
The only problem I have is that I only have 13 days left to put it into practice. And I need subjects to experiment on before I can be sure I mastered the solution. After all, it implies my death and is hence very dangerous. I am sure that my theory is right, but the problem is that it needs great precision and that I'm not sure to be able to do it on my first try…
It's problematic…
I have to find subjects!
-Hmm…
I need them to be at least of rank 4…
A place where nobody would be mad at me if I take many mages of high rank as guinea pigs…
Or people that wouldn't be madder at me than they already are…
-Hmm…
Ah!
-I know! The Empire! Let's go capture people from the Empire!
[…]
I'm on my way to the Empire, and I'm taking an interest in what happened while I was in seclusion, while I'm at it.
The god Laav joined the side of Nyggloth, nobody knows what Merlin promised to him to make him change side. In any case, it is strange that he leaves his twin-brother Vaal on the other side. He even attacked different cities of the Empire before leaving!
And also…
-Ha ha ha!
I laugh a lot!
-So just after my departure the Empire tried to do a sneak attack on Nyggloth?
What is making me laugh isn't the attack, it's the way they did it!
They are so backward that after they stole a technology, they directly crafted it without trying to understand the plans!
It was just what Merlin wanted to give them! They crafted mechas without thinking and not just ten or something, they used all their resources and made a mecha per person for a gigantic army of 75 million soldiers!
And nobody was able to fight! The mechas have an auto-destruction system!
-Ha ha ha!
I don't know for you, but I find it funny as f**k, personally!
In any case, it was worth a shot to live until now only for that!
I would have preferred them to die, but the emperor and a handful of soldiers survived…
But anyway it made the headlines, and there are even some people who want to make it a National Day!
This story is funny, but it also marked the start of the second great war.
These are excellent news for me: though, as The Empire lost its biggest army.
[…]
Well, I have good news and bad news…
The good one is that I have guinea pigs.
The bad one is that I have a God on my heels.
When I say a God, I'm not talking about a lesser god, I'm talking about one of the originals, one of the children of Moth…
It's not Vit, the goddess of beauty, she's too much of a snob to chase anyone…
It's not Prat either, are you able to imagine the god of strategy chasing anyone without a strategy? Not me…
It's Vaal, even if he's affected by the betrayal of his brother, he's still true to himself and is facing the hardness of life with courage, a bit too much for me by the way, I would have preferred that him staying closed up crying in his room or something…
Anyway, with Tul, the mother of Merlin, who's nowhere to be seen, and Laav who betrayed them, there are only 3 gods left of the original pantheon in the Empire.
After Laav's betrayal, his city still exists but has been renamed from Vindi Laav (Laav the divine) to Nartrash Laav (Laav the traitor).
Getting back to my current situation, while I was still thinking, Vaal wasn't motionless.
And just now as I get out of my thoughts, I notice a shadow above me…
This is the shadow of the God chasing me himself!
I dash on the right while using my sword as a shield just in case!
He punches the floor where I was standing a second ago.
Right when he punches the floor, I'm already about fifty meters from him. High-rank fights are fast, but even faster is the burning sensation that's going through my body, as his aura was sufficient to burn all the skin on all the left part of my body, despite the protection of my magic!
I realize with a shiver that I underestimated the gods!
Just me getting a bit stronger does not mean I'm any stronger compared to a god. Vaal is someone very straightforward and honest which makes him not use power much above mine, but if he used his full power, wouldn't I just be instant killed?
Even after 1 year of reinforcing my body until rank 4, which is insufficient to save my body from its deterioration, but sufficient to make it able to touch lava without being damaged, he was able to burn me severely just by releasing his control on his aura! If my body was a rank below, as last year, I would be dead at the time! Though I guess with how fair play he is, he would hold back his power even more...
I turn my head in his direction, and I know he'll attack me, my muscles are petrifying and I only have one thought left in my brain!
I know I'll die, my brain is functioning but my body is too weakened by his aura, and I only have one thing left! I need to do THAT!
I use what is remaining of my mental strength to move my body in a way to be killed without losing my soul.
Fortunately, Vaal is someone you can trust, when he charges, he continues straight ahead, so I can deduct from his position where he will strike to kill me. I had the good luck of running into the most straightforward God of all!
He is indeed moving very quickly, before I had time to see him moving, his hand gets through my body, literally.
I am still in pain, but I smile. My plan worked! His hand ejected what I called the Moar point: a place where all your magic, your memory, your personality, what is making your soul, is in a way stored starting from rank 4. While this isn't physical, it is linked to your physical body through some structures, and by breaking the structure before killing the body, it can be detached.
And this is that point that was ejected by Vaal. But that, he didn't notice.
He also couldn't see my smile. It's not a physical smile, as my body is officially dead, but my point is not dead at the same time! It has been separated from the body its death of it! Being not affected anymore by the body, the point, now independent, is free from any shackles.
This is part one of the execution of my theory. I planned to do tests on some people before that, but I was so unlucky as to encounter Vaal. If I have to die, I might as well die according to my plan!
But this form is the source of two problems: as a fan of Chinese web novels, I first and foremost want immortality, and physical or not, this body too has a limited life span.
Furthermore, I'm invisible, not that it's not practical sometimes… Ow! Don't hit me, we all have perverse thoughts!
So, where was I already, oh yeah, I'm invisible. So I can't interact with people that aren't mages, because I can only interact with the world by magic, which is not practical at all!
This is when part two of my plan enters into play: I researched a way to reincarnate myself!
I won't use any spell, as it would be too complex and would consume too much magic, and I don't have any artifacts with me… So let's forget flashy things, I have a method that is working well:
Taking the place of the soul of a baby before his birth!
And I intend to put my plan into operation!
I like Nyggloth, but they have advanced ways to detect and stop contamination of the soul, they might think I am a disease of some sort and eliminate me before I could finish possessing the body, so I have to be born in the Empire, and in the wealthier family I can!
And I heard that one of the women of the harem of the emperor is pregnant!
Let's go!
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