Ramiris took me on a stroll on a reflective luminescent path. The path was stunning, it's reflective surface was flickering with radiant light from who knows where.
Eventually we reached a spiral staircase leading to a floating platform in a clearing, 'Damn, the architecture here is incredible!' I mentally screamed in awe.
"Now all you have to do is pray and a spirit might hear you. I would like to add that there's no guarantee one will respond."
"Awe, you won't pull strings for your favourite human?" I teased her.
"You're not my favourite and even if you were, the spirits have freewill and I refuse to force them to do anything they don't wanna."
I stopped teasing her, closed my eyes and began praying. The upside down looking lake above me began shimmering.
Out of nowhere came a shower of light particles that surrounded me, I opened my eyes to the beautiful lightshow converging towards me.
"Those are lesser spirits, beings without will or ego. They are no different than magicules that exist everywhere in the wild." Ramiris seemed to feel sorry for me, but when she saw me, she became confused with my smile.
" Oh dear Ramiris, you strongly underestimate me." I took out the funnel shaped device aptly named the spirit vacuum, " Watch and be amazed at my genius!" I said with extreme bravado.
Rimuru had created a technique that combines multiple lesser spirits into one greater spirit. He did so using a combination of great sage, degenerate and gluttony. Gluttony to absorb the lesser spirits, degenerate to combine the multitude of lesser spirits into one greater spirit and great sage to create a artificial personality.
With Visionary, I could use the processing power and coding ability of galvanized to create an artificial personality and Alchemy is basically a stronger version of degenerate.
The problem is Gluttony, I don't have any way to gather the spirits. That is why I created the spirit vacuum, to put the spirits in a space that I can freely manipulate.
Ramiris was puzzled at the device and wandered what it does until he turned it on, she watched as the lesser spirits were sucked into the device, "what are you doin- AHHH!" Ramiris stopped shouting when she realized that she was also being sucked in.
I immediately grabbed onto Ramiris before she can be pulled, "hold onto my cheek, until I turn it off!" I shouted at her as she latched onto me as if her life depended on it.
Only once all the lesser spirits were gone, did I turn the machine off. Ramiris was a mess, it looked like she had fallen unconscious.
I put her comatose body to rest on my head. I began focusing and inspecting on the lesser spirits in the spirit vacuums storage.
First I began combining the lesser's into a greater spirit.
…Or in this case, spirit's
Apparently, I had contracted to attributes, darkness and space which I had to combine into two different spirits. I wasn't worried about getting a light or darkness spirit, blasphemer gave me a natural affinity for darkness but my second affinity came from Visionary which was earth, so it's surprising that I attracted spirits of space.
I separated them into two colony's of lesser's and then merged them into their respective elemental spirits.
The spirit of space and darkness were formed, now I had to code the personality's. I didn't care what their personality's were, I just didn't want them to leave me and revoke their blessing. I visualised the code that would make up their personality.
I came back to reality and took the unconscious queen off my head and into my hands. I instead tried to communicate with my elementals.
I entered my inner mental world to look at them, and what I saw shocked me.
'Did I just create Zangetsu?' What stood before me was a long haired old man shrouded in a dark cloak and a mirror image of me with an inverted creepy colour palette.
"Well of course you did." Came the voice of my mirror image.
"Oh… did I say that out loud?" I asked awkwardly.
"No, this is your psyche, anything you think is said out loud here." The old man explained
"Well then I guess I should go on with what I came here for… since you're both gonna be here hopefully a long time, I wanted to name you both to make things easier for me. Are either of you opposed to that?"
Neither of them said anything, they just looked at each other, walked towards me and sat down on the non-existent ground.
I took their lack of refusal as acceptance, "ok then." I looked at the old man who was the greater spirit of space, "you'll be Orion…" I looked at my inverted counterpart who was the greater spirit of darkness, "…and you'll be Nox."
Immediately afterwards, power surged from those two, I could feel the spirits energy radiate from my own body.
" Are you two happy with those names?" Orion simply nodded, but Nox was adamant in saying he was happy, " of course we are, how could this possibly make us unhappy? Hi how about we spar?" Nox spoke ecstatically, 'I guess their personality reflects the source material.'
"I'm leaving for now, I will see you guys… most likely very often."
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I came out of myself… ok that's just sounds wrong.
When I came too, Ramiris had just came out her coma, " Are you ok little miss fairy?" I teased her.
" Shut up! You better explain to me what happened, you couldn't except that you couldn't get a greater spirit so you try to KILL ME!?" Ramiris screamed frantically.
" I don't know what you're talking about, I have two greater spirits now."
"…Huh? T-two?!"
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?!"
"I simply merged the lesser spirits into one of their respective elements to create greater spirits, and now I have the spirit of darkness and one of space."
"You really did cheat the system." Ramiris seemed deflated by everything, from almost dying to having the laws of nature treated like a joke. She was exhausted with this human.
" Fine then, I will give you my blessing."