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Chapter 4 - Bright Welcome

[I'll clarify Host. During the end of the Genesis Core Assimilation, I could make out my own virtual structure and narrative. It was made up of qualities, memories, emotions, dreams and more from your side.

On the other hand, the qualities from the Birth Pod was mostly used in integrating with your current body, making the external structure or 'hardware' connecting everything in your body.

With the data extracted from the essence of the Birth Pod and your own Data, A 'System' was designed for your use, it can filter out and edit unfamiliar 'concepts' into legible words from the Host's data.]

So... you're just me, giving cringe names and descriptions to things that I or- you may or may not even understand?

[Most of the nomenclature is indeed exaggerated to stimulate an interest in you, Host. But the Central Multi-Processor can grasp the content from the Birth Pod to a significant extent.

The displayed information have been carefully selected so as to be as relevant as possible to the features and traits they describe.]

...

So, during that Assimilation, let's call it 'Fusion' from now, that thing I ate actually integrated with me and triggered an 'evolution' in me, and not just of any kind but a 'mutation'.

Hupp(Jump)

I decidenot waste time further, and get ready to get out of this 'stinky' hole. The possibility of someone suddenly arriveing out of nowhere here makes me uneasy.

Can the Dark energy be felt by anyone else and do you know where has it disappeared?

[Too little information to make an accurate statement.

Host, I only have data from you and the Birth Pod, where it's date of origin is still undisclosed.

But since the Primordial Aether is predicted to be an extremely ancient and faint force, the chances of someone other than you or your pre-evolved state, a complete Primordial Aether-born, sensing it is extremely low.]

I land on the surface of a wall, before using my hand to grip on a crevice. Then I start climbing by creating crevices on walls with each grip upward.

Even as a completely Aether-made, it took me a little time and close proximity to sense it back then, but...its not impossible that someone else could not.

Then what about Primordial Aether, you said that I have become some sort a 'producer' of it?

Stretching my leg forward and pushing it to the wall, I try to make an upward sprint by blasting of using the wall as a base.

Boom!

[Data available.

The Primordial Aether is a 'resource' of unknown origin. Excluding you, no method of capturing, manipulating or producing it can be made out.]

I close around 50 meters of height in a fraction of a second, maybe it's due to my reduced body weight, but I think I can keep flying forward like this for a while.

[The Central Multi-Processor can make changes in your body and give abilities by using the Primordial Aether as Aether Points or AP]

I feel the light, heat and humidity rise as I reach the end of the ceiling, just a 100 meters away.

Fresh air...I can breathe I seem to have really reverted to my human form. Or is it the Primordial Demon's traits, can it take any biological form?

[The Primordial Demon Physique is completely unique to your current post-evolution features, but it can be changed using the system, as well as in the next Evolution]

So what are these 'Aether points'? Where do they come in all this?

I ask that but I already have an idea, it's like a typical system trope through and through, did I really create it?

As the system generates sparkling texts like words formed in sparking ripples of a lake, I reach the ceiling and knock on it.

[The Aether Points can be accessed in the system interface. They contain the essence of the Primordial Aether produced and stored inside.]

The vibrations felt are far more clear and almost tangible, as if anything that comes inside my body, becomes a part of me, something I can manipulate.

[The Aether points were made in mind with the minimum Primordial Aether that can be used individually without reacting with itself.]

What does that mean?

I ask as I feel out the area from the sensation I am experiencing. I don't know how I got so skilled at this, since this is my first time using a 'skill' like this.

[Yes, Host.

It's designed to a support a more Stable evolution.]

Nothing. As far as my senses tell me, I am safe, but I'll take extra precautions, and go as far as way form the Pod's spot radially.

Only then can I rest easy that I will not encounter some sudden event.

[Aether is a very illusionary force, it has no shape or substance, it's like a fundamental law of the universe.

Like an intangible force, it can't be controlled or contained outside of you.]

It's like the System is trying to console me, that there are no monsters in my closet and I can just go my way without any problems.

But this feeling...

[As a result, it is imperative to contain them before they come in contact with the 'outside' or even themselves beyond a stable amount]

Shaking away these thoughts, I punch my forward to the ceiling.

Crash!

Like a mole I easily move around between celing's crevices as I expand them with my body, swimming my way through this layer up towards the surface.

[...If left to their own devices, without containment, or in separation like the Central Multi-Processor, they dissipate, and their whereabouts become unknown.]

My entire existence shivers upon reading that.

What is going on with me? No what the heck is even happening? Why am I panicking?

[But after the 'Fusion', the Aether Points, could be created. They can refine and nourish the Host's body.

Something akin to a small Evolution.]

Without my awareness, I have reached the last layer before the surface.

I try to clam myself down.

Huuh..

Gripping the rocky layer surrounding me, I get ready to 'dive out' of this layer...

[- you are related to the Restored Main Path of Power, Endless Evolution.]

I only see the last half of the screen, as the first is already covered with a blinding light, immediately after, it engulfes me whole along with this entire underground site.

BOOM!!

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