I Can Assimilate Everything - Chapter 558
Chapter 558: Anomaly! III
Achilles absorbed the options with appreciation for the flexibility they provided for what would essentially be his armies.
He could already form armies of creatures made from the Void, so…would he be able to transform them to become Prime Living Necrocratic Lives?
The possibilities were ridiculously endless as he continued to read the coming prompts.
|— Authority of Absolute Regeneration: You can heal any injury or restore any collapsed existence by cycling them through death and rebirth simultaneously. What is damaged is dissolved and immediately reconstructed according to perfected template, making conventional concepts of permanent injury meaningless when applied to you or those under your protection.|
|— Authority of Entropy Acceleration: You can dramatically increase the rate at which things decay, age, or collapse by channeling concentrated death principles while simultaneously preventing your own degradation through life principles. This creates asymmetric advantage where opponents face accelerated endings while you remain unaffected.|
|— Authority of Vitality Extraction: You can drain life force from living beings while simultaneously infusing yourself or allies with extracted energy.|
|— Authority of Shadowborn Legions: You can create shadow constructs that embody both life and death simultaneously. These beings are not simple undead or animated corpses but rather entities that exist in permanent twilight state between the two poles. They possess intelligence, adaptability, and loyalty that conventional necromancy cannot achieve, and they can operate in environments that would destroy normal living beings or conventional undead.|
|— Authority of Curse Weaving: You can impose afflictions that combine life’s persistence with death’s corruption, creating curses that cannot be cleansed by either pure life or pure death principles. These afflictions adapt to resist removal attempts and grow stronger over time rather than fading, making them effectively permanent unless you choose to lift them.|
|— Authority of Civilization Genesis: You can establish formal Civilization structure around your Way of Necrocratic Life, providing framework for others to follow your principles without requiring direct transformation. This allows your influence to spread, and it establishes you as potential rival to existing Primordial Civilizations rather than merely elevated member of their hierarchies.|
…!
Fucking hell.
Each ability felt more disastrous and obscene than the last!
Achilles felt the terrifying capabilities settling into his existence as the prompts completed their comprehensive detailing of what he’d become. The power was intoxicating in its scope and implications.
He looked inward to assess his current capabilities more precisely, trying to quantify exactly how much his power had increased through this unprecedented integration.
The sensation was difficult to articulate using conventional measurements, but he felt like he’d jumped to approximately seventy-five percent of Mycelle’s formidable capability despite having been at less than twenty-five percent before the synthesis occurred.
And even though he said he was 75% of Mycelle’s power, if he faced a being like that, then with all his capabilities…he coulr easily take them down!
But he couldn’t fully gauge his power using complexity and purity alone as those measurements were designed for beings who followed established Ways.
His strength came from a more ridiculous aspect.
He needed new metrics, new ways of quantifying himself that acknowledged the unprecedented nature of what he’d become!
Before he could pursue this analytical thread further, Mycelle reappeared at the hall’s entrance. She floated forward with several corpses suspended in verdant energy behind her, the remains of Living Necrocracies that had been eliminated during earlier confrontations.
Her expression was professionally neutral, but Achilles could sense the curiosity burning beneath her controlled exterior about what had occurred while she was absent.
Achilles looked at her with eyes that held depths she couldn’t fully comprehend, seeing her not just as powerful ally but as first candidate for a transformation that would test his new capabilities.
His consciousness had already made the decision while processing the prompts, recognizing that Mycelle represented ideal subject for demonstrating what Necrocratic Life could accomplish.
“Come.”
The command was delivered with absolute certainty that permitted no refusal or hesitation, and Mycelle immediately complied despite not understanding what he intended.
She knelt before him with posture that acknowledged his elevated status, and her verdant wings folded respectfully against her back as she awaited whatever he planned to do.
Achilles extended his hand toward her with movement that appeared almost gentle, and he placed his fingers against her forehead with contact that established connection between their existences.
He felt the Pure Living Existential Authority of Life flowing through her being, centuries of cultivation and advancement that had elevated her to position as Sanctuary Overseer.
He decided to change her into his first Prime Living Necrocratic Life, and as he made this choice he simultaneously selected Aligned Control as appropriate tier for someone of her capability and experience.
She deserved autonomy befitting her strength, and absolute fanaticism would waste her uniqueness.
“Transform.”
The Prime Living Existential Authority of Necrocratic Life flowed from his core through the connection their physical contact established, and Mycelle gasped as she felt unique weavings of…death being woven into her fundamental structure alongside the life authority she’d cultivated throughout her existence.
There was no sense of rejection as her existence almost felt euphoric, and the designation of Aligned Control applied as she felt nothing wrong regarding the allure of death!
The process was not violent or corrupting but rather revelatory, showing her truths about existence.
Her verdant coloration began shifting as obsidian undertones mixed with the brilliant green, creating color that was neither pure life nor pure death but rather elegant synthesis of both!
Her wings transformed as shadows wove through the feathers without diminishing their radiance, and her eyes took on depth of immense power as the weight of her existence rapidly doubled!
The transformation completed rapidly as the Prime Authority integrated itself into her being, and Mycelle stood with an expression that combined shock with profound understanding.
She felt the power flooding through her existence, felt capabilities emerging that transcended what either pure Life or pure Death could have provided separately!
Twice as powerful as before, and it seemed like it was only getting started!
“I… understand,” she whispered, and her voice carried awe and a sense of reverencee.
“This is what existence actually is. The cycle complete rather than fragmentary expression…”
Achilles smiled brilliantly as he observed his successful transformation, and his thoughts turned toward Rose while Mycelle processed her new nature.
His queen had been working tirelessly in the Sanctuary he’d established within The Void, and during his absence she had perfected the power of her lineage as a Genome Empress.
She had completely extracted and integrated the capabilities of the Lineage of Adrastia through methods only someone of her unique lineage could accomplish, and that advancement came with her gaining the capability to Assimilate just as he did.
And Achilles…now had a great deal of authorities for her to Assimilate as he prepared for what was coming.
The Legions of Necrocracy would arrive eventually to purge this Sanctuary, but instead of fleeing or preparing desperate defenses, he would transform this entire domain into weapon that would grind down their forces and convert enemy strength into fuel for his emerging Civilization.
‘Let them come’, he thought with cold anticipation.
Every attacker would become either corpse to assimilate or convert to transform!
Oh!