"Hahahaha."
CRACK!
"Hahahahahaha!"
CRAAAACK!
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
CRACK CRACK CRACK!
Ves had beaten the game!
He opened his arms and welcomed the bolt of lightning raining down from the skies.
The bolt struck his cyborg cat first and immediately lost much of its strength.
Then it passed through Blinky's intangible body. Despite his immaterial nature, the cat managed to swallow and digest much of the weakened lightning bolt.
Whatever was left after passing through these two cat-shaped filters struck Ves' body with the force of a heavy wind.
Though his body could definitely feel the shocks coursing through his mind, body and Spirituality, the destructive energy trying to inflict ruination on him failed in their purpose.
His strongest parts of himself bore the brunt of the assault with nary an injury. This forced the destruction energy to put its focus on his weak points. More and more of it pooled towards his brain, his internal organs and all of the other delicate and fragile bits of himself.
The attacks were incessantly cunning and impossible to evade. An extremely powerful source provided automatic guidance to the lightning bolt attacks so that they always tried to seek out the path of least resistance.
As Ves endured repeated lightning strikes, he figured out more and more of its rules and properties.
The strength of the attacks that filtered through his defensive lines no longer fried his brain cells to an unacceptable degree.
He was able to retain his full faculties under the current load.
In fact, the constant injection of creation energy and the integration of the galactic energies from the Milky Way and the Red Ocean upgraded his cognitive functions with each passing minute!
He could maintain more parallel trains of thought. He could memorize a lot more data points than before. He could accelerate his thinking speed with effort. He could make more observations whenever he looked at something.
His ability to think and process information was constantly moving further and further away from the human baseline. It was rather scary how comprehensively he was improving.
Not just his brain, but even his modified Archimedes Rubal bioimplant was undergoing a qualitative transformation after getting injected with creation energy!
Ves became increasingly more fascinated with the existence and the wondrous properties of creation energy.
He had a feeling that calling it 'creation energy' was a disservice to its true nature. Ves simply did not have the theory and the observation ability to analyze it on a deeper level.
He could only behold its surface appearance and deduce its workings by looking at all of the changes it had brought in its wake.
"It's so familiar, though."
It was definitely related to the spiritual energy attributes he was familiar with. It displayed a lot of familiar characteristics that Ves was accustomed to when he manipulated his own life-attributed spiritual energy.
At the same time, it also showcased characteristics that Ves associated with universal life energy.
This became most evident when he looked at how the creation energy handled his self-inflicted injuries.
As his open wound on his chest started to course with unnatural lightning and other energies, the power of creation not only mended what was broken, but conjured matter without repurposing it from the other parts of his body!
Ves could see how it only took a relatively small quantity of creation energy to produce brand-new organic cells.
His injured and diminished Jutland organ slowly became whole as organic tissue slowly grew out of the injured side.
Not only did this regeneration restore what was missing, but also strengthen a vulnerability that allowed the injury to happen in the first place!
Evolution was taking place in real-time as guidance from either an unconscious part of himself or the entity responsible for the lightning storm caused his Jutland organ to develop numerous new mutations.
One of those biological changes entailed the formation of a thin but hard bone covering that enveloped the entire Jutland organ!
No longer would a powerful stab from a sharp weapon be able to nick the Jutland organ without impunity!
Ves became both horrified and fascinated by these changes. Though he accepted these modifications because they were helpful to his own survival, he was put off by how little control he had over the entire process.
The creation energy did not ask for his explicit approval.
The creation energy did not listen to his input.
The creation energy did not give him a chance to supply his own designs or specifications.
Instead, it acted like a rogue human augmentation surgeon. Just like Dr. Jutland, the creation energy or its guiding intelligence implemented far-reaching operations that radically changed his body as well as the more intangible parts of himself!
The only reason he didn't freak out and try to resist the intrusive changes with all of his might was because he recognized that this was ultimately a benign process.
"An upgrade is an upgrade. Whether it comes from me or another developer is not too important at the moment."
Ideally, he would like to exert precise control over every augmentation of himself. He was tired of letting others change him against his will.
The current circumstances left him with no other choice, though. If the creation energy did not do its job, then his body, mind and Spirituality wouldn't be able to grow strong enough to keep pace with the gradually improving strength of the ongoing lightning punishment.
"How come you are still ramping up after all of this time?! Aren't you tired of raining down so many lightning bolts? How much energy are you willing to waste on poor little me?!" Ves asked the dark and stormy clouds.
CRAAAACK!
"Can you communicate in a way that is different from striking me with your energy?!"
CRAAAAAAAACK!
"Urgh!"
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