Achilles remained silent.
Mansa Nguna smacked her lips while looking at him up and down with lazy gold eyes that held the particular quality of soone encountering a specin that defied the categories they had spent eons constructing.
Her expression moved through several calculations simultaneously, professional assessnt mixing with the genuine curiosity of a scientist who found unexpected results.
"Bounded Lifeforms never cease to amaze ."
She shook her head slowly with sothing approaching fondness.
"Okay. Co here and let see what this integration is all about."
Achilles went forward, following the impulses and commands she sent through the Engineering she believed had taken hold within him, his movents carrying the precise quality of soone responding to direction rather than acting on independent will.
He felt her commands arrive like gentle pressure against his consciousness and followed each one with the compliance of a being whose autonomy had been successfully restructured.
She put her hand forward like royalty extending a privilege rather than making a request.
He knelt down and took her hand.
The golden rivers of Observable Force floating throughout the laboratory responded to his left hand as he commanded them with the authority his Inner Dominion had been generating since before he entered this facility. He made the Observable Force flow through his palm in currents he directed with the practiced ease of soone who had been working with this dium long enough to feel its movents as natural extensions of his own intention.
He directed those currents onto Mansa Nguna’s skin.
And then he said the word silently, within himself, without moving his lips or allowing any external signal to communicate what was happening beneath the performance of compliance.
Assimilate.
HUUM!
The Assimilation this ti was unique in ways that reflected how far his capability had traveled from its origins.
From Assimilating Evolutius Crystals into himself. From Assimilating a Plane of Existence. From moving beyond the requirent of physical contact to Assimilate things at range. To now being capable of Assimilating different aspects of things together, bringing them into relationship through himself as the dium of their connection.
That was how he considered this. Mansa Nguna was one thing, and the Observable Force was another, and he was simply bringing them together through him, using himself as the bridge through which two distinct entities would be integrated into deeper relationship with each other.
The critical ingredient that made this possible was what he had woven into the Observable Force before directing it onto her skin.
Invisible spores of his existence, threaded through the golden currents so completely that they were indistinguishable from the Observable Force itself to any perception that was not his own. He was literally placing himself inside Mansa Nguna’s existence in the form of specks of Observable Force, integrating this force into her as a vessel for his presence within her foundations.
At this mont, the results of that integration beca visible.
"Oh shit."
Mansa Nguna’s body began shining gold.
An instant later, seas of Observable Force from the surrounding laboratory converged above her and began gushing down in rivers that surged toward her form with the urgency of currents that had found a new and more powerful attractor than anything previously present in this space.
Her control over Observable Force was multiplying in real ti, her perception of its movents expanding beyond previous boundaries, her reserves deepening as the integration Achilles was facilitating rewrote her relationship with the foundational dium of structured reality.
Achilles focused on the ergence of these rivers with cold eyes that tracked everything.
The higher concentration of Observable Force flowing toward and through Mansa Nguna ant an exponentially larger volu for him to place his spores into, and he did so heavily now, seeding every current that passed through his directing hand with the invisible markers of his existence before those currents continued their journey into her foundations!
The Gilded One known as Mansa Nguna integrated more and more of the very quality of Observable Force as part of her existence with each passing mont, and each incrent of that integration carried more of him alongside it.
Her laughter erupted with the particular quality of soone experiencing sothing that exceeded their frawork for understanding their own power.
"I feel inseparable from Observable Existence itself, as if I myself am part of the Force that comprises it!"
The madness of genuine exhilaration colored her voice with sothing he had not heard from her before, the lazy scientist replaced montarily by sothing more revealing.
"If I can attain complete resonance and integration, would I not overco even a Silurian Paleozoic Scale Gilded One?"
Her gold eyes blazed with intensity that made the ambient light of the laboratory seem dim by comparison.
"Haha, more! More! Give MORE!"
BOOM!
Achilles’s eyes flashed coldly as he continued directing rivers of Observable Force toward her with every external appearance of willing compliance, asuring the integration progress with perception that tracked percentages rather than impressions.
Shockingly, he had integrated himself into more than fifty percent of her existence.
And as that threshold crossed, the feedback began.
Boundless power gushed back through the connection he had established, flowing from her existence into his through the channels his spores had created within her foundations. His Inner Dominion began expanding rapidly as Infinity and Observable Force poured down into his body with the force of a Gilded One’s reserves suddenly becoming partially accessible to his consumption. The authority traveled through him toward his hand bones and the extremities of all his limbs, seeking the skeletal and organic structures that had not yet undergone transformation and beginning the process that would create Proterozoic Bones and Proterozoic Organs throughout his entire physical existence.
His finger bones had been a demonstration.
What was coming now would be the complete restructuring!
His eyes remained cold and asuring behind the performance of compliance as the rivers continued flowing and his spores continued spreading through the remaining fifty percent of her existence that he had not yet reached, the gambit approaching its resolution with each passing mont.
He would soon know whether he would have complete control of a Gilded One.
And whether the most terrifying risk he had ever taken would pay off!
A Gilded One exceeded THE Second Scale as if he was successful...he would be able to have a puppet...at THE Third Scale of Existence!
Oh!
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