No matter which of the fifty soldiers I chose to combine, they all had similar problems. Their minds were not completely synchronized, causing their bodies to fall apart as soon as they began moving. My next test was to have three or more combine together, and have all of them listen to the commands of a single soldier. That worked sowhat, but had limitations of its own.
Whenever the soldiers all shared a common elent, they were capable of moving almost fluidly, only demonstrating slight synchronization issues. However, if one of them did not have an elent matching the controlling soldier, then there was a lag in its movent while it waited for the order to be passed along by another soldier. If one of them did not share an elent with any of the others, then it would not act at all.
I considered making a fifty-first soldier, one that was designed to be the leading component in the fusions. However, there was a problem with that, as Lex’s grove had not developed to the point where it could sustain any more than was currently present. So, I could only either alter one of the existing soldiers, or co up with a different thod. Looking through my character window, I contemplated to see whether or not I had any ans at my disposal to get the effect I wanted.
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John Hulett
Race
Wood Elf
Titles
Vengeful Heart, Amateur Brain Surgeon, Spider Slaughterer, Starship Captain, Creator of Baishiro
Fa
100,000
Level 207
98%
Class
Druid
Advanced Class
Xeno-Shifter
Deity
Malthan
Health
2000/2000
Health Regen
Mana
4500/4500
Mana Regen
124.2
Strength
100
Wisdom
300
Agility
69
Intelligence
450
Dexterity
70
Charisma
35
Vitality
200
Luck
25
Points Remaining
Earth 90%
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Fire 89%
Wind 89%
Water 89%
Lightning 88%
Light 89%
Dark 88%
Plant 88%
Void 88%
tal 88%
Magnetism 88%
Plasma 88%
Gravity 88%
Ti 60%
Animal 76%
Gem 69%
Gold 81%
Luck 26%
Order 23%
Bone 70%
As I looked through my list of affinities, one of them stuck out for . Order…
Honestly, I had never used Order successfully before, but I knew what it did. I had once tried to use it on an annoying Qu’Lopti, hoping that the order mana would make him listen to , or at least calm down and stop being so erratic. Instead, what happened was that he beca even worse, his control over his body and mind intensifying.
Since then, I had tried to use that elent on myself on multiple occasions, but each ti there was only a minimal effect. My brain had long since been modified with the aura implants to grant a better control over myself, so adding in the order mana did little else other than to distract . Here, however, it might just be what I needed.
Yet, how was I going to make it work? Unlike the elents that I made the soldiers out of, order has no form. It is not an energy, a solid, it can’t be defined physically. Besides that, Lex does not have the proper elent in his grove, so I couldn’t create a soldier with that elent whether I wanted to or not.
Then, do I use the order elent on them while they are combined? Doing so might work, but at the sa ti would require my constant attention, leaving exposed to enemy attacks. Then, what could be done…
Thinking about it, I only ca to one possible solution. Looking to the air, water, and darkness soldiers, I spoke to them. “rge with , let serve as the core. You will allow your abilities to be controlled by myself.”
This was a fairly heavy gamble, and the rging process could potentially rip my body apart if they tried to ld into in the sa way they did each other. That is why I started with the less solid soldiers, to reduce that risk. And, as I expected, I was soon bathed in water, shrouded in darkness, and lifted by the wind.
There was a small pulling sensation on my body at first, making think that they really were about to rip apart to try to follow my order, yet soon that subsided. When they seed to realize that my body did not co apart as easily as theirs did, they settled for wrapping around , rging into a strange mixture of elents with at the center. What I ended up as was rather unusual, to say the least.
With a body made almost entirely of water, hollow eyes of wind looked out to the surroundings. On the back of the body of water was a cape of flowing shadows. In my mind, I could feel each of the three trying to probe at through the elental mana, trying to give up the control that I asked of them. However, I was not sure how to accept that.
In order to not drown, I made myself quickly grow gills along my neck, that way I would not be in danger from the water body I found myself in. Next, I reached up my hand in front of , hoping that the soldiers would mimic this reaction. However, the water body remained motionless. Even when I poured out order mana to try to increase the degree of control, it would not match my movents.
What next… I thought to myself, before I brought myself back to the three connections trying to form with my mind. This ti, I decided to reach out to them as well, using the sa mana types that they called to with. Imdiately, a massive change erged within . My mind connected to the three elental soldiers, my sight passing through the hollow eyes of wind.
This suddenly felt like my own body, but at the sa ti not. After all, there was no sense of touch beyond what my body normally felt. Even though my new feet were standing atop the ground, I could only feel the water surrounding . With a thought, my right arm of water slowly raised up, though I could see it trembling slightly as it did.
Okay, now cos order. I decided, and began adding order mana into the connections that had been ford with the three soldiers. Quickly, the trembling stopped. My arm seed to beco almost solid, steady even as I swung it back and forth with a few experintal motions. With a thought, I saw the water of my hand beco ice, and then it ford into a spear.
Swinging my arm, I launched the spear of ice from my arm, ‘feeling’ it travel through the air to land on the ground a few ters away. Sohow, I could still clearly sense it as part of my body, even though it had been separated. And with another thought, it flew back to , lting to rejoin my body.
This is so weird… I did my best to get used to the situation, deciding to test out my control over the other two elental soldiers at my disposal. Focusing, I felt the shadow cape twist, wrapping around my body and causing to sink downwards. Soon, I had fallen completely beneath the surface of the pavent, much like what happened when I trapped people within a shadow prison. Yet, this ti I was able to clearly see up above, as if there was a window facing the sky above .
More surprisingly, there were similar windows scattered around . The landscape looked empty, only eerie darkness as far as I could see, with the only changes being the various windows facing upwards. As I walked through the empty space, I noticed that each window was a shadow. I also noticed that the window I originally started beneath vanished as soon as I began moving, likely indication that my own shadow disappeared once I decided not to surface through it.
Picking one of the larger shadows, I pulled myself up and back to the surface, and began performing a few more tests. I was able to easily create spears of shadows, blades of wind, or any other physical embodint of the three elents I was currently made of. The only thing I had to really worry about was that my true body was still visible, floating in the center of my chest. Unlike the elental soldiers, that was still a considerable weak point.
Nodding my head, I decided to continue exploring the possibilities of this. Pointing to the tal, light, and earth soldiers, I spoke up again. My voice sounded odd, cracking as if spoken through a fan. “You three, join as well.”
I couldn’t help but worry as I saw the stone and tal soldiers breaking apart, moving to rge with my water body. However, like the previous three they did not try to pull apart too strongly before giving up and simply forming an elental armor around . This ti, I actively tapped into the links that they sent, controlling them to reshape into a more fitting body.
What I looked like this ti was slightly strange. Instead of a body made primarily of water, stone was the main elent now. Though, the stones were cracked and broken into large chunks, with streams of water flowing between them. I still kept the cape of shadows, but the eyes this ti were brightly glowing lights.
As for the wind and tal soldiers, I relocated them to the chest of the large elental body. Using the tal soldier as a shell, I filled it with wind to create a breathable cocoon. Like this, my true body had a asure of defense, but that was not all. Scattered pieces of the wind soldier’s body flew around my larger form, shards of tal forming claws along my hands.
Again, I perford a few tests to make sure that I could control it, before I took a deep breath. My voice now was deeper and hollow, as if speaking through a pipe. “Okay… the rest of you, join in as well.” This was the ultimate test, and if it worked I would have a new trump card to use in my fights. One even more powerful than Celeste’s body armor form, yet having the requirent of needing a wide area to use.
Sure enough, I soon felt many more connections forming in my mind, causing to be stunned for several minutes. It was like listening to fifty people trying to talk at once, and trying to understand what each of them were saying. Needless to say, it was not an easy task to do normally.
Taking a deep, calming breath, I steadied myself and began sorting the connections by their elents. This way, rather than dealing with fifty voices, I only had to handle a handful. Then, I connected to those links in the sa way as I had before, though doing so caused a much higher consumption of mana. While I was able to draw out the small amounts of mana that the fifty soldiers naturally produced in order to make up for that part of the connection, I had no way to compensate for the order mana I was using, aside from my own reserves.
And, having to sustain such a large body, this caused my mana consumption to gradually overtake my recovery speed. Though, I could probably still maintain this form for quite a while if I wanted to, since manipulating the elents is done using the mana from the soldiers rather than myself. Taking a deep breath, I sent a bit of wind mana out to form elental eyes that let see what I looked like now.
My body was now fully ten ters high, looking like an avatar of battle. The only flesh that could be seen was my head, hidden beneath a massive helt. My eyes held within them a deep red light, shining like torches. My chest appeared to be covered in two layers of armor, one stone and one tal with a sleek, skintight look.
Each of my four limbs were made of stone, glowing red lines visible along them like hidden veins. Lightning danced across my body, while flas rose from my hands and feet. My back still held the flowing cape of shadows, but it was now much larger to match my new size. I could feel water pulsing through like blood. Finally, the plant soldiers had wrapped their bodies around my waist and wrists, becoming a belt and a pair of bracers made of vines.
My true body was curled up in a ball, hidden within a tal shell inside my chest. I knew that, with a single thought, I could control any of the elents within with an ease I had never felt before. It was like I had truly beco an elental. An elental capable of controlling ten different elents.
“Okay, now that’s cool.” I heard Celeste say in my mind, a voice of genuine surprise and excitent. I had to say, I did agree with her.
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