Chapter 152: Metamorphosis
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Chapter 152: Metamorphosis
Floating with the darkness, Sage woke up. Still groggy it took him quite some time to realize that he was within his body. He wasnt viewing the world, he was only within his sea of consciousness. The usual sea and sky were nowhere to be found. Instead he was floating within a featureless darkness. After another unknown amount of time he realized he wasnt alone. That realization created a sudden light, illuminating another presence. It was another ghostly body just like his own consciousness, it had a serpentine lower body and a humanoid upper body.
My twin soul?
A moment later he realized he was wrong. The appearance was the same, but it was not under his control. A moment later, another light appeared along with another spirit. This one had a wide mouth and head, bulbous eyes with strange pupils and abnormally long legs. Another appeared with a horn on its forehead and armored plates on its body. The fourth one was hairless, wrinkly and bulbous with slim limbs and an enormous mouth. Sage quickly lost track, many lights flicking on at the same time, surrounding and disorienting him. When he recovered he found himself surrounded by eight different spirits, each of them a strange consciousness that appeared to be a mix of man and beast.
What happened? Whats going on?
As if to answer his question, the many spirits around him all started to cry out, each of them making different hissing, clicking, or croaking noises. The sound brought along with it a sense of power, one that dampened him. Sage felt squeezed, constricted, even drowsy. The questions in his mind fading, at least until another spirit manifested beside him. This one had large butterfly shaped wings on its back and little antennae on its forehead. It floated behind him and put its hands on his shoulder and the drowsiness flew away. He felt like a flame had been reignited within him, the sounds from the others were muted, little more than a droning in the background now. Suddenly, his memories returned to him.
If that was the only downside, it would have been manageable enough, but just like the Twin Ringed Soul Serpent, the Toad caused a change to his personality. That desire to be someone, to become influential, to grow powerful, to be rich it multiplied. His greed suddenly had no bounds. The only restricting factor was that he was living in the wilderness, many days away from any form of civilization. There was nothing to be worried about, for there was plenty for him to have right at his fingertips. He took out a Charming Lance Beetle and started a new merger.
Thats when the memories started to become hazy. After that third merger these memories Sage were viewing seemed like they were formed while under the influence. The hands on his shoulders gave a squeeze and things got clear again. Instead of reliving the memories, he was watching them from afar, like a movie shot through someone elses eyes. That new form had a horn and armor plating. It was a humanoid once again with two arms and legs, but it also had a large snake tail growing from its rear end and a face out of a nightmare. The combination of man, snake, toad and beetle.
Things only escalated from there, his mind growing more and more unstable, leading to his merging with even more creatures. Before long, hed combined with a Warp Worm, Chameleon Mantis, Steel Silk Centipede, Stonecutter Ant, and finally a Thorn Cloud Hornet. By about the fourth merger hed completely forgotten about the Human Seal and even about acting as a human. That was when The Beast started to kill everything it came across. He was able to keep enough of his faculties to hide from those stronger than himself. The memories he saw were disjointed and fractured, but he saw more than a few cultivators hunted down in cold blood and felt ashamed.
What did I do?
Somehow, his instincts led him back to his ancestral tomb, even that bestial mind knew there were great mysteries and power to be had within. The memory of him entering the tomb and being forced to merge with an egg was the last memory he saw. Thankfully the ancestor had done something to snap him out of whatever state he was in.
Wait, whats going on right now?
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Chapter 152: Metamorphosis
Floating with the darkness, Sage woke up. Still groggy it took him quite some time to realize that he was within his body. He wasnt viewing the world, he was only within his sea of consciousness. The usual sea and sky were nowhere to be found. Instead he was floating within a featureless darkness. After another unknown amount of time he realized he wasnt alone. That realization created a sudden light, illuminating another presence. It was another ghostly body just like his own consciousness, it had a serpentine lower body and a humanoid upper body.
My twin soul?
A moment later he realized he was wrong. The appearance was the same, but it was not under his control. A moment later, another light appeared along with another spirit. This one had a wide mouth and head, bulbous eyes with strange pupils and abnormally long legs. Another appeared with a horn on its forehead and armored plates on its body. The fourth one was hairless, wrinkly and bulbous with slim limbs and an enormous mouth. Sage quickly lost track, many lights flicking on at the same time, surrounding and disorienting him. When he recovered he found himself surrounded by eight different spirits, each of them a strange consciousness that appeared to be a mix of man and beast.
What happened? Whats going on?
As if to answer his question, the many spirits around him all started to cry out, each of them making different hissing, clicking, or croaking noises. The sound brought along with it a sense of power, one that dampened him. Sage felt squeezed, constricted, even drowsy. The questions in his mind fading, at least until another spirit manifested beside him. This one had large butterfly shaped wings on its back and little antennae on its forehead. It floated behind him and put its hands on his shoulder and the drowsiness flew away. He felt like a flame had been reignited within him, the sounds from the others were muted, little more than a droning in the background now. Suddenly, his memories returned to him.
If that was the only downside, it would have been manageable enough, but just like the Twin Ringed Soul Serpent, the Toad caused a change to his personality. That desire to be someone, to become influential, to grow powerful, to be rich it multiplied. His greed suddenly had no bounds. The only restricting factor was that he was living in the wilderness, many days away from any form of civilization. There was nothing to be worried about, for there was plenty for him to have right at his fingertips. He took out a Charming Lance Beetle and started a new merger.
Thats when the memories started to become hazy. After that third merger these memories Sage were viewing seemed like they were formed while under the influence. The hands on his shoulders gave a squeeze and things got clear again. Instead of reliving the memories, he was watching them from afar, like a movie shot through someone elses eyes. That new form had a horn and armor plating. It was a humanoid once again with two arms and legs, but it also had a large snake tail growing from its rear end and a face out of a nightmare. The combination of man, snake, toad and beetle.
Things only escalated from there, his mind growing more and more unstable, leading to his merging with even more creatures. Before long, hed combined with a Warp Worm, Chameleon Mantis, Steel Silk Centipede, Stonecutter Ant, and finally a Thorn Cloud Hornet. By about the fourth merger hed completely forgotten about the Human Seal and even about acting as a human. That was when The Beast started to kill everything it came across. He was able to keep enough of his faculties to hide from those stronger than himself. The memories he saw were disjointed and fractured, but he saw more than a few cultivators hunted down in cold blood and felt ashamed.
What did I do?
Somehow, his instincts led him back to his ancestral tomb, even that bestial mind knew there were great mysteries and power to be had within. The memory of him entering the tomb and being forced to merge with an egg was the last memory he saw. Thankfully the ancestor had done something to snap him out of whatever state he was in.
Wait, whats going on right now?
Chapter 152: MetamorphosisFloating with the darkness, Sage woke up. Still groggy it took him quite some time to realize that he was within his body. He wasnt viewing the world, he was only within his sea of consciousness. The usual sea and sky were nowhere to be found. Instead he was floating within a featureless darkness. After another unknown amount of time he realized he wasnt alone. That realization created a sudden light, illuminating another presence. It was another ghostly body just like his own consciousness, it had a serpentine lower body and a humanoid upper body. My twin soul?A moment later he realized he was wrong. The appearance was the same, but it was not under his control. A moment later, another light appeared along with another spirit. This one had a wide mouth and head, bulbous eyes with strange pupils and abnormally long legs. Another appeared with a horn on its forehead and armored plates on its body. The fourth one was hairless, wrinkly and bulbous with slim limbs and an enormous mouth. Sage quickly lost track, many lights flicking on at the same time, surrounding and disorienting him. When he recovered he found himself surrounded by eight different spirits, each of them a strange consciousness that appeared to be a mix of man and beast. What happened? Whats going on?As if to answer his question, the many spirits around him all started to cry out, each of them making different hissing, clicking, or croaking noises. The sound brought along with it a sense of power, one that dampened him. Sage felt squeezed, constricted, even drowsy. The questions in his mind fading, at least until another spirit manifested beside him. This one had large butterfly shaped wings on its back and little antennae on its forehead. It floated behind him and put its hands on his shoulder and the drowsiness flew away. He felt like a flame had been reignited within him, the sounds from the others were muted, little more than a droning in the background now. Suddenly, his memories returned to him. If that was the only downside, it would have been manageable enough, but just like the Twin Ringed Soul Serpent, the Toad caused a change to his personality. That desire to be someone, to become influential, to grow powerful, to be rich it multiplied. His greed suddenly had no bounds. The only restricting factor was that he was living in the wilderness, many days away from any form of civilization. There was nothing to be worried about, for there was plenty for him to have right at his fingertips. He took out a Charming Lance Beetle and started a new merger. Thats when the memories started to become hazy. After that third merger these memories Sage were viewing seemed like they were formed while under the influence. The hands on his shoulders gave a squeeze and things got clear again. Instead of reliving the memories, he was watching them from afar, like a movie shot through someone elses eyes. That new form had a horn and armor plating. It was a humanoid once again with two arms and legs, but it also had a large snake tail growing from its rear end and a face out of a nightmare. The combination of man, snake, toad and beetle. Things only escalated from there, his mind growing more and more unstable, leading to his merging with even more creatures. Before long, hed combined with a Warp Worm, Chameleon Mantis, Steel Silk Centipede, Stonecutter Ant, and finally a Thorn Cloud Hornet. By about the fourth merger hed completely forgotten about the Human Seal and even about acting as a human. That was when The Beast started to kill everything it came across. He was able to keep enough of his faculties to hide from those stronger than himself. The memories he saw were disjointed and fractured, but he saw more than a few cultivators hunted down in cold blood and felt ashamed.What did I do?Somehow, his instincts led him back to his ancestral tomb, even that bestial mind knew there were great mysteries and power to be had within. The memory of him entering the tomb and being forced to merge with an egg was the last memory he saw. Thankfully the ancestor had done something to snap him out of whatever state he was in.Wait, whats going on right now?
