"What the fuck?"
Immediately after the parasinner grabbed the frozen Ravager Otter corpse, Zhen Liu felt the familiar feeling of energy being sapped from his body.
He didnât pass out from the sapping, so he could clearly sense that his internal [Chaos] was just forcefully channeled into the parasinner and out of her hands.
And from her hands, it went into the frozen otter corpse, which is when things started getting weird.
"What the fuck?"
=And that is why weâre hesitant at giving you materials to make her a body.=
<She does that.>
Before their very eyes, the Ravager Otter corpse in the parasinnerâs hands began to undergo some rather unusual changes.
At first, it wasnât anything too alarming, just as the texture of the Ravager Otterâs frozen body suddenly disappeared as it was replaced by a black and pink checkboard pattern.
âHold up.â
But the longer the parasinner held the [corpse], the stranger and more distorted it became.
âSomething ainât right...â
Like a piece of sentient taffy, the [corpse] started to squash and stretch in [un]natural ways, as if it always had this property.
Which made complete sense to Zhen Liu as it was common knowledge that [putty] could naturally bend and stretch in various ways that simple mortal minds could not-
"Wait a minute, what the fuck is going on with my thoughts? Iâm pretty certain that she was manhandling an otterâs corpse and not a...teddy bear made of putty...that is now T-posing, what the fuck is going on?"
The entire time Zhen Liu had been watching the parasinner hold, what he recalled was a Ravager Otter corpse, he had been developing a headache that just seemed to grow stronger and stronger by the second as the otter corpse became more and more distorted.
Logos and Pathos had looks on their faces that seemed to share the sentiment that they knew something like this was going to happen.
<And thereâs reason number two.>
=Please release the Ravager Otter corpse from your grasps.>
{Aww, you donât want me to make more of a show of it?}
=No thank you.=
{Fine...}
The parasinner dropped the [putty bear] to the ground like it was a broken toy, and the moment that she did, it went back to being a plain old Ravager Otter corpse. Albeit, it was no longer frozen and looked oddly...fresh.
The damn thing was still dead, but now looked like it was killed only recently as opposed to several days ago.
Once the body had hit the floor, Zhen Liuâs headache immediately disappeared as if it wasnât there in the first place.
"Ow. What the fuck?"
Granted, his head was still a touch sore after whatever the fuck that was.
=Just breathe milord. The residual pain should disappear now that the parasin is no longer...glitching?=
<Glitching.>
=Glitching reality.=
"Uh...okay..."
Zhen Liu took a few deep breaths as gathered up his thoughts on what the fuck just occurred, however, as he tried to recall on the events that had just happened literal moments ago, he could only do so with great difficulty. It was if the memories in his head were being deleted as he was trying to recall them.
âOkay, and now my memories are acting wonky, what the fuck?â
Normally, Zhen Liu would just roll with the weird shit that happened to him ,especially since he was technically an anomaly in a world of magic cultivation.
However, the fact that this parasinner thing was able to mess with his mind in an indirect manner was a stretch too far even for himself.
"Can you two explain what the fuck just happened?"
=As far as we can tell milord, the parasinner can do the same thing you do when you channel [Chaos] into objects that arenât kaijin-worthy or even proto-kaijin stable. Like I said earlier, itâs like she can forcefully inject data into something and fundamentally change what it is.=
<But itâs like...a thousand times more unstable. To the point that it messes with peopleâs perception of reality in the same way we can change how people perceive us. But unlike us, their warping seems to spread around to affect the things around them as well and people notice. If we may change our perception, but people never notice.>
{Iâm toxic, baby,} the parasinner interjected, {and I canât help but to spread my love around.}
"Okay, that wasnât an innuendo, so thatâs progress...hold up, if the parasinnerâs abilities are so...ubiquitous or all encompassing or whatever the term is, then why hasnât the entire cell sheâs standing in turn into a weird glitchy mess?"
The parasinner shrugged at Zhen Liuâs question, not knowing the answer, but Logos and Pathos did.
<=Thatâs because the Library exists in another plane of existence that doesnât abide by the rules that she is interfering with. As far as we can tell, sheâs only able to cause objects in your world to...glitch.=>
"Ah...that...makes sense...I think...," Zhen Liu muttered, "wait...you guys just said âobjectsâ...what about creatures?"
=That...we havenât tested out yet. Lack of subjects and well...
<Thereâs a non-zero chance that giving her access to a living, breathing body would cause some weird chain reaction that leads to the creation of a rampant abomination or just...wild kaijin. And frankly put, we do not take that risk knowing you have other things to deal with right now. We could wait till youâre back home to inflict more insanity upon you.>
"Well, thatâs...weirdly sweet of yâall," Zhen Liu admitted.
"Wait...what about using a zako?"
<=Wait, what?,=> Logos and Pathos asked simultaneously. Apparently the two of them didnât think to make use of the zakos for testing purposes, probably due to all of the weird shit that happened up until then.
{Oh I actually get someone that can move to play with for once?}
"I mean...yâall said that we canât use the kaijin because the parasinner could rewrite their very existence down to their cores, we canât use objects because she glitches them out of reality and we canât use living beings on the risk of them...ya know...suddenly escaping? So why not use the not-quite alive, not quite objects literal instant minions we have on hand?," Zhen Liu elaborated.
"Keep in mind that I have no idea whether or not the zakos are alive still and I still have questions on the ethics of using them as meat shields and disposable grunts and now...magical science apparently. But itâs better than leaving the parasinner locked up in here without knowing what they can do."
Zhen Liu took a breath before turning his face towards the parasinnerâs cell, staring directly into the subjectâs non-existence eyeballs.
"Besides, Iâm pretty sure I accidentally brought them to life into this world, might as well make sure I take responsibility for it."
{Awww, daddy...}
"Stop that."
{Never.}
Logos and Pathos looked at each other silence, communicating on a level inaudible to the kaijin lord, before finally nodding in tandem.
=Alright, milord. We shall do as you ask and test out subjecting some zakos to her abilities.=
<What kind of zakos we using though? The metalheads? The bonies?>
Zhen Liu reached into a pouch that he kept tied to his hip, the one containing all of the unsummoned zakos under his direct command, pulling out a particularly full one that seemed to have the texture of old bones.
"Well...she was originally part mechanical parasite...and that thing needed a body...makes sense to use one where they can fill in the lines themselves..."
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=Seriously though, how the fuck did the two of us not think of using the zakos for testing this thing? Itâs literally their whole purpose to be disposable fighters.=
<To be fair, we have been busy these past few days handling the kids, especially now that theyâre finally able to channel [Chaos] properly. That and I think weâre being affected by our lordâs generally merciful nature.>
=Right...did you figure out what formulas youâre going to provide them by the way? I have already picked out the ones that I believe are most suitable for young Jasper, but Janice is a mystery to me...=
<Oh donât that egghead of yours, I already got a bunch plan for her.>
=Excellent. It has been quite some time since we had some other [Chaos] cultivators in the library other than our lord...I do hope they like our choices.=
<Please, weâre like...the embodiment of knowledge! Of course we know how to pick formulas that kids will like...probably.>
=Great vote of confidence.=
<Thank you.>
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"So is there like a slot I put this sucker in, or..."
<Just toss it though the seal. It wonât let stuff out, but it will let stuff in.>
"Ah...neat."
With the instructions given, Zhen Liu proceeded to toss the skeleton type zakos marble through the seal formation and into the parasinnerâs cell.
He had planned to just summon the thing once it has landed inside...he didnât expect the parasinner to just catch it midair.
{Oooooh, I smell... compatibility!}