Chapter 150
150 Revival
Cherry naturally couldn’t leave her body unattended in the face of such a danger and naturally split a trace of her soul and using her free computational power she sent the wisp into her original body and utilized this to remotely control her body. Her hazel eyes opened as she raised her head to gaze upon her surroundings, the area was in tatters the room where Nicholas was previously in was destroyed and naturally the inhabitants of the room along with it, only few scraps of smoking flesh were indication of their existence, the scientists who were previously with Cherry had also died their souls unable to bear the strong energy that exuded from whatever entity had possessed Nicholas, this naturally had no effect on her as her soul wasn’t here even now it was only a split, as soon as cherry first regained her consciousness on this body she could see that the manic energy source was coming from her friend Nicholas, he was motionless and his eyes were closed but Cherry could see that the energy was gradually becoming tame which meant whatever possessed him was becoming stable, despite seeing this cherry did not make a move, her calculations told her that stopping this process would only harm her friend and would not exact enough harm on the creature.
A frown crept on her face as she was undecided on the course of action to take but her indecision did not last long as ‘Nicholas’ opened his shut eyes, the pupils became a kaleidoscope of colors and looking at the gaze as if a pre run program was activated she naturally understood that the person in front of her was part of the plane will and he had cultivated Nicholas to become a body of his own when the time came as he wanted to escape the plane, cherry had no idea why she knew this information she guessed it was the influence of the angel body but she knew she had to stop this figure notwithstanding the fact that the figure was using her friends body there was also the problem that according to the information she had been collecting all over the plane every second this figure was alive the energy concentration, spatial solidity and vitality of the world was decreasing slowly, thankfully the information came with instructions, slowly raising up her palm the magnetic field of various metal items were affected, their atomic structure affected as their matter rearranged to form a peculiar looking pistol.
The plane will watched this scene with mockery in his eyes, since his descent onto this body its defensive power had risen exponentially, not even a deity could easily injure him not to mention the hastily constructed weapon in front of him. cherry naturally noticed the mockery in his gaze but was not fazed she instinctively understood the working principle of the weapon and was aware not just any defence could stop its blow, the mockery in ‘Nicholas’ gaze did not last long as the trigger of the weapon was activated and a short beam was emitted, the beam passed through Nicholas body defences like it didn’t exist, travelled through the quantum layer and acted solely on its target and observer which was the plane’s will instantly decomposing its existence.
Layton was watching these rapid change of events with an indifferent mood, using the time gap between spaces Lilith had completed her resurrection, advanced to legend and left the plane with Lilith, Layton staying behind was naturally not without a cost as he would have to pay with the plane source gathered for the extra time he stayed disregarding the plane withdrawal protocol of the dimensional eroder. He was currently in a peculiar state and had just woken up some time ago, the psionic surge created by ‘grant’ before his death had jumpstarted his soul and rune giving him back his consciousness, even though he was without a body he still possessed a soul and the rune was naturally imprinted on it.
During the star fall event after he used his body to create the psionic star, he came to the material plane with only his soul pinned on the ring gifted by Makarov, the cataclysmic environment created by the star fall was damaging to his fragile spirit that tried to perceive external information in that state, and somehow the presence of the ring had made the plane react and the ring was quickly forcefully assimilated, in order to protect his fragile soul Layton naturally sealed himself in the depth of the ring.
Luckily he had left behind a programme in case of emergencies the psionic star was naturally part of him and a copy of some of his memories personality and thoughts were naturally branded on it, the only flaw which was created intentionally by Layton was that it really had no feelings and could never gain them the only way to be complete was naturally to follow instinct and return back to Layton, it would automatically bind itself to the first person who connected with it and would only work towards Layton’s revival, this spirit or artificial intelligence was naturally bound by grant, the peculiarity of both existences allowed a part of the conspiracy and situation of the plane to be known.
Grant by himself naturally possessed a predictive talent based on astrology meaning he was naturally attuned to stellar bodies which was why he quickly connected to the psionic star when it first appeared the predictive talent coupled with Layton’s high inspiration which was inherited by the ai and the huge psionic energy they naturally peeped into a lot of secrets, the core of which was the existence of the necromancer who appeared to be only a legend but was actually much more, they had gained insights in to the situations of the surrounding planes due to a subtle connection the necromancer had, the necromancers body was not even on this plane but in what was like a junkyard of destroyed planes, numerous nearby planes that had been ravaged and destroyed by the necromancer were connected together forming a subtle structure that seemed to be created to form a cemetery but this structure was not stable as various auras such as decay, death and destruction were vividly displayed in the vision and this plane seemed to be next to complete the puzzle, although grant at the time did not possess knowledge to fathom what exactly that vision meant but ‘grant’ could easily infer that the cemetery was actually an exquisitely crafted domain which the necromancer had buried himself in, the necromancer seemed to be following a unique way using the lives of countless individuals and planes as nourishment to implement a sort of ritual, the feeling it had given ‘grant’ was too profound for him to fully understand but what he knew was that the simply killing the clone in the plane would do no good as there already existed a mysterious connection between the plane and the cemetery.
The existence of such a strong enemy naturally prompted both of them to join hands to work together as no one was sure of the amount of cards the clones held in their hands which caused a lot of changes in the situation but overall looking at the information sent by the ai before perishing it looked like it turned out well. From the information that appeared after the death of ‘grant’ Layton was able to have a complete view of all events public or secret that occurred in the plane after his silence, all major events that occurred after that naturally revolved around 3 things first was naturally Sandro, the next was the plane will, and last was the alliance between some select powerhouse of major forces, everyone else were merely chess pieces on the board.
The necromancer had been on the plane way earlier than previously expected and one could guess that the banning of the gods, divine beings and foreign travellers in the astral realm was somehow created by the necromancer, once the astral realm was locked from the rest of the plane the necromancer had somehow influenced and infected parts of the plane will making it the selfish existence it was today, judging from Sandro’s unhurried actions it was obvious that either he was not in a hurry to destroy the plane and wanted to take it step by step or the ceremony he was carrying out required the resistance of the plane will and its strength to be minimal.
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The necromancer’s actions in distorting the plane’s will was responsible for Layton’s silence, as a selfish and greedy existence the material of Layton’s ring held an incredible appeal to it, most unowned foreign matter in the plane was already partially analyzed and controlled by the plane will during the star fall creating various Alaya fragments but Layton’s ring being made by a paragon even if using ordinary materials could not easily be read, perceiving its preciousness it was naturally forcefully detained.
But something was wrong there was no mention of what the alliance used to ensure their position as masters on the chess board Layton did not believe merely the presence of powerful legends would allow the alliance to be confident in front of a monster like Sandro, if it was their technology that gave them confidence then what was the source, thinking up to here Layton naturally remembered the weapon that was used by the girl to defeat the plane will, such a weapon wasn’t something that could be created casually and what’s more it was made on the spot with materials gathered around, Layton’s intuition told him something was missing, he rechecked the information he had gotten but found nothing, he then proceeded to scan the psionic energy that had reanimated him and sure enough he found something, hidden the surges of the psionic was a message.