"I have no idea if it will happen right now or if it will take so more ti, but if I'm right, the mont the obstructions are gone, my entire life force will beco stronger. Until this mont, the Warg aspect weighed down and halted my evolution.
"My Eldritch and Fylgja side can't develop further without crushing the Warg under their might, so fixing the Warg side will be enough to improve my life force as a whole."
The Suneater donned the Skull and the Maw of Bytra as he entered the madness and sealed its Adamant lid.
'Now watch.' He pushed the button that filled the gene-tank with nutrient liquid and switched to the mind link.
As soon as no air was left and he received a steady flow of world energy and vitality from his allies, Tezka began his work.
'As you can see, ti and experints have brought my Warg aspect above the re fla of a rank 1, but it's nowhere close to the size and power of the star of a rank 2. Moreover, the color and density of the Warg's fla change constantly due to its Fallen state.
'So far, the best it could do was to use the energy scattered by the elental stars to keep its shape and orbit stable, but that's it. This is where I'm going to start the procedure.'
The Suneater used his tier five Body Sculpting spell, Starsight, to observe his own life force while another spell, Life Well, to alter it. A strand of powerful mana enveloped the cot, forming several protective layers around it.
Life Well seed to double the cot's size, but it was just the spell reaching and surpassing the might of the Warg aspect. When that happened, Tezka pulled at Life Well and forced the cot to alter its course.
The Suneater brought the Warg aspect near the erald dwarf first, placing the cot in a stable orbit. The layer of Life Well opened on the dark side of the cot, so that the raw Spirit Magic coming from the front was blocked by the spell.
It allowed Tezka to control the flow of the Spirit elent that entered the Warg aspect and monitor the changes it underwent. As soon as the cot showed signs of instability, Tezka pulled it out of orbit and moved it to the light star.
Here, he repeated the procedure, opening an even smaller fissure in Life Well since the light elent released by the light star was several orders of magnitude greater. The cot stabilized, yet soon beca unstable again.
At that point, Tezka moved it into orbit around the next star, the fire elental star.
'You see, our monster life force is compatible with our original life forces, or we would have never co back to life.' Tezka explained as he moved the cot to the water star. 'Yet it's also Fallen and weak.
'Our other aspects are so much stronger that direct contact would end in the annihilation of our monster side. Yet the innate instability from its Fallen state prevents it from growing without external intervention.
'It's the reason our life forces repel each other instead of growing closer over ti.'
'He's right!' Bytra's eyes widened in understanding. 'Our original, Eldritch, and monster aspects want to survive, so they limit the interactions between them to remain stable. Yet if they don't interact, they can't adapt to each other. It's a paradox!'
'Correct, but only if you leave their condition as it is.' The Suneater inwardly nodded. 'What I'm doing is to expose my Warg aspect to controlled amounts of energy from my Fylgja aspect to stimulate its developnt.'
The cot had grown in size with each new temporary orbit, but Tezka just added more mana to Life Well to keep the Warg aspect's movents under his surgical control.
'Yet that's not enough.' He said, grunting in pain and effort. 'Without darkness, it's only a matter of ti before the unbridled vitality of a monster will turn against itself.
'Our Eldritch aspect is so strong that it keeps the monster aspect's rampant life force stable even from a great distance, yet close interaction is necessary if I want the Warg side to beco capable of harnessing the power of Chaos.'
Tezka kept the orbit of the cot around the black hole wide, and created an opening the size of a pinhole in Life Well. The Chaos felt the exposed prey and pounced on it rcilessly.
The contact provided the cot with the darkness elent it needed and restrained the ever-changing Warg life force, yet it also allowed the Chaos to spread. The Suneater raised wall after wall with his spell, buying the Warg aspect precious monts of respite.
During that ti, the cot fought back the invasion of Chaos until it was purged. Yet when that happened, Tezka let the barriers collapse so that more Chaos could seep in. The constant battle consud the vitality of the Warg aspect, but it also improved its strength.
Each ti the cot cleansed itself from the Chaos, it developed a bit more resistance to the Cursed Elent and could withstand a greater amount of it before Tezka had to seal the cot again.
After a few cycles of that, the Warg aspect's light dimd. The Suneater groaned in strain as he pulled the cot away from the black hole and back into the orbit of the erald dwarf.
This ti, the Warg aspect absorbed the Spirit elent and then the other five elents as a dry sponge absorbs water. It recovered all the vitality it had lost and gained so more.
The cot's fire was now more brilliant and stable. It still mutated from ti to ti, but the process had beco slower and less dramatic.
'Do you see now?' Tezka said, giving the Warg aspect a bit of ti to rest and recover before moving it to the black hole again. 'Growth is possible. Adaptation is possible. Yet you can't just sit there and hope for the best.
'You have to do it yourself.' The interaction with the Chaos lasted longer and was much more painful than the previous, but the Suneater soldiered on without making a sound.
He repeated the process until the Warg aspect had reached half the size of the erald dwarf, and he felt such a strain on his life force that he knew that progressing any further would have ant death.
'Behold!' The second last step of Tezka's procedure was to find a new stable orbit for the cot as it moved across the quasar.
He kept changing and adjusting the cot's trajectory until he found an orbit that passed close enough to the seven elental stars to allow the Warg aspect to exchange energy with them, but far away enough to limit the contact and keep it brief.
After two full cycles of the Warg, Eldritch, and Fylgja aspects freely interacting, Tezka's life force started to pulse with new strength. The erald dwarf grew in size, and so did all others, allowing the Suneater's Spirit Tail to grow several centiters as it received a constant yet weak flow of power.
The Eldritch-hybrids gave Tezka a loud round of applause, many of them exchanging hugs and handshakes despite the millennia of rivalry.
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