Within the giant hexagon, thousands of people knelt down and worshipped the statue of the Superior Mother.
Its excellent construction and pleasing aesthetics evoked a lot of appreciation. The special effects that Ves had employed such as shining a spotlight onto it and releasing some mysterious mist added to the illusion that they had pulled into a magical moment.
After listening to Ves' speech, everyone aligned their thoughts towards mothers.
Mothers were the carrier of life.
Mothers were the greatest sources of love.
Every woman had the potential to become a Superior Mother.
No matter if it was the 66,666 men, the 666 Penitent Sisters, the 66 Swordmaidens or even the guards stationed just outside the hexagon, every single person was of one mind!
All of this unity produced an atmosphere that Ves found very conducive to his work. As his thoughts aligned with the masses, he felt as if he opened a mysterious part of mind that resonated the excitement in the air.
Yet even as he started to merge together the spiritual shards of his broken ingredients, the life-attributed spiritual energy acted on its accord!
Having lain dormant all this time, now that the scattered energy came into contact with the other shards, it began to do something that Ves did not anticipate.
The life-attributed energy began to nurture the broken shards!
Whether the shards originated from Cynthia Larkinson, Qilanxo, the Golden Cat, or the original Idol of the Superior Mother, they all fed on the sustenance freely given by the life-attributed energy!
Ves temporarily halted his work in order to observe this completely new interaction.
As someone who was very interested in life, he had never witnessed such a marvelous process! Even in a lesser form, the energy derived from the life-prolonging treatment serum possessed the remarkable ability to rejuvenate spiritual shards!
"Maybe this is not the limit!"
Ves suspected that this interaction also worked on spiritual fragments or even complete spiritual entities. There was no reason to suspect that it wouldn't. The gentle energy appeared to be exceptionally compatible with several different recipients!
Even his own spiritual energy had become livier. Ves felt as if it had grown several times stronger even though he had just made surface contact with the life-attributed energy!
This caused Ves to make a very profound conclusion.
The life-attributed spiritual energy derived from the serum was able to nurture anything spiritual!
While Ves still wasn't able to say for sure whether it was compatible with anything, so far he felt confident in making this assumption!
Not a single spiritual shard exhibited any sign of rejection. This was something unthinkable to Ves. In nearly every case, an encounter between different attributes and origins always led to incompatibility.
If one tried to force itself upon the other, it would always be regarded as a hostile invasion! No castle would open its gates to let in foreign invaders. That would only threaten its existence!
This was what made this interaction all the more exceptional. It didn't matter what kind of castle he focused upon. Each and every single one of them opened their gates wide to let in the life-attributed energy.
And each of those castles were rewarded for their hospitality. Once the life-attributed energy got inside, it began to sacrifice itself in order to upgrade and empower the friendly hosts!
"Is this one the essential secrets to life-prolonging treatments?"
Ves suspected that the spiritual energy component of the serum may have been added in order to revitalize an old person's spirituality.
However.. he wasn't confident about this guess. The quantity of energy he extracted from a sample of the serum was relatively modest. Though the quality and potency of the energy was still exceptional, it only originated from a tiny droplet!
The serum that he still carried in his hidden pocket began to take on an even greater weight. It already held a lot of value due to its known use. Now that Ves learned that it was actually a reservoir of nurturing energy, its value in his perspective had skyrocketed even further!
Unlike its conventional use of prolonging old people's lives, its new use of strengthening and revitalizing other spiritual entities was even more important!
In fact, to someone whose specialty revolved around life and the manipulation of spiritual energy, the serum had become something priceless!
Ves didn't have to wait until he became 300 years old to make full use of the serum. He could start incorporating in his works right away!
As Ves gradually started to merge the shards back together again, he noted that his efficiency had substantially improved. With the strengthening from the life-attributed energy, it became a lot easier to merge the shards.
It didn't take long before he thought that it was time to pull in his partner.
"Gloriana." He said as he briefly split up his concentration. "Help me perfect the newborn entity."
"Oh. Okay."
"Get ready. Open your mind. Don't resist."
"I know what to expect."
This wasn't their first rodeo. Gloriana relaxed and opened her mind as best as possible. Eventually, she opened herself just enough for Ves to reach into her mental space and steal a portion of her spiritual energy!
This caused her design seed to boil! Her mind automatically formed a spiritual projection on its own accord in an attempt to take back what it lost.
Ves merrily dragged the stolen spiritual energy into the pool of merging shards.
Just as in previous instances, once Gloriana's projection entered the pool, it no longer chased after the thief. With all of the glaring imperfections on display, it couldn't stand the sight!
The out-of-control projection approached the flawed mergers and began to smooth them out, causing the integration of different shards to become more seamless.
All of this proceeded according to expectation. The fact that every spiritual element received a substantial boost from the life-attributed spiritual energy did not alter this process. Even Gloriana's spiritual projection had become supercharged!
Ves wasn't sure what all of this empowerment led towards. Would the newborn spiritual product start off at a greater power level? Would it develop a more sophisticated personality? Perhaps it might even acquire a powerful ability!
Whatever the case, he looked forward to seeing how much this investment paid off. Had he used too much serum? What if he added even more life-attributed energy during a creation process?
However, just as Ves expected to complete the process without any issue, another unexpected complication arose.
Ves had already noticed that while every spiritual shards integrated the life-attributed energy, some of them absorbed it faster than others.
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