BornAndTorn 32 Ants Adventure 3

" Sorry you forced me to chime in, otherwise you would probably end up being way too emotional once again. We do not have the time for you having another emotional meltdown and blaming yourself/the world/the Others or really any other stupid s.h.i.+t you could come up with, it certainly does not help your current situation.

"Looking at that dumbfounded expression of yours in order to not waste any more precious time, I decided to answer your questions in such a manner that you will not start to overa.n.a.lyze every single thing and start a spiral wherein the end you once again end up with another meltdown. I will make it so easy, that even you and your little monkey brain can understand it.

I am something whose existence was unknown for many aeons. Or do you think such a stupid ant is able to develop that level of intelligence just by using your body as a nest? It was thanks to me, improving its development over and over again, adapting each and every change. I am also the one responsible for the conversion of data into something suitable for the mess that you call your body. All that was only possible due to that ant using you as their nest, I was lying dormant inside of the ant and after linking with your body, I awoke for the first in a very long time."

- I am quite confused here, if you are speaking the truth that you were lying dormant in these ants, then why are you even in this man-made world in the first place, I doubt that the technological level on here is good enough to create something that is capable of a.n.a.lyzing and improving creatures, after all, you are something that inhabits creatures that are nearly incapable of using mana.

" What an interesting observation you did make there, you deducted correctly that I can only live in animals that are unable to use mana, yet most animals developed with the mana over time and that left me, a relic of the old times, stuck on those stupid ants. Then you came in, inside of you exists some sort of matter that I have not seen in all of the times I have been wide awake. Your body seems to have never been in contact with any magic before, I would go as far as to say, that part of you seems to have taken a much more different path, a path without any mana. And that strikes me as quite strange, even though most of your body, has next to no ability to wield mana, without any G.o.d opening your mana channels, the little part of you without any interference of mana is like the perfect fit for someone like me. That is why I am even talking to you in the first place, otherwise, I would not spend any more time with such an emotional moron."

- I am sooooo glad, to make your acquaintance Mr or Ms.freeloader. My life before knowing you were so devoid of any meaning and purpose but once you appeared in front of me, every doubt was cleared. You are my light, in my world full of darkness.

" I did not know you were so sophisticated and able to determine my merit after seeing me for the first time, at first I had my doubts whether a measly human was worth all the effort I put in and after talking to you I am finally sure. It was totally not worth it.

- The human kind developed for millions of years, conquering many hazardous places and making them suitable for living, driven to the brink of extinction multiple times, yet prevailed. They survived bigger and stronger predators, survived the change of times. They developed tools to fly out of their planet, developed tools to harvest energy nuclear energy and even created weaponry that threatens to change the landscape of the planet for millions of years, all that development and now I am busy here talking to a parasite.

" Though I did not understand half of what you just said, I still feel that its purpose was to insult me. But how does a mere monkey even dare to compare to a superior lifeform like me?

-Quick tell me, you call yourself a superior lifeform, but at the moment you are forced to rely on so-called lower lifeforms to even survive, does that not make you even lower then such a life form? Furthermore, if you based your feeling of superiority on the ability to change the nature of life, then is magic not way superior in general being able to freely s.h.i.+ft and change its nature for the specific purpose it is needed for?

" How dare you question my superiority, I have seen the cruellest most vicious creatures that ever graced this planet. Those creatures would kill every living thing today with ease. There is simply no way to question their superiority they achieved thanks to me.

- And yet the still went extinct, you did such a good job there, with or without you nearly everything out of that age either adapted or died. Face it, magic is vastly superior on its own, even if you can adapt the potential of a body to its best possible state, you will ultimately still fail to reach the same usefulness as magic. You will not be able to as versatile nor be able to be able to be used by everyone. While specialisation may be a good alternative path, in the end, the magic will have covered way more ground while you focus on just a single spot.

" Pathetic excuses, you are talking to a nearly omnipotent being, with its only limit being the shallow resources he can work with, why should I be in any way inferior to magic?"

- Easy for you to say, but waiting till the end of times to find that one little sample that makes you superior really does make you inferior in any other situation besides that special case. So you will always be inferior unless a miracle happens and judging by all the different samples you had over the years by now, the odds do not seem to go in your favour.

"What qualifications do you and your pitiful species even have to judge me? You are not even able to wield mana, do you want to fight them with your body alone, you whole species would be eradicated by 5-year-olds. Did anyone of your species live as long and saw as much as I did? Is anyone capable of changing and perfecting those creatures as much as I can? If I who spend all that time and effort surpa.s.sing magic have not found any viable solution, then what gives you filthy monkey the gall to judge me?

- Ignoring the level of ego behind that statement of yours, I want to unveil the misconception you are having till now. We, humans, are at the top of the food chain, but the times where we were relying on our body alone, where the times when we were not at the top. We are the product of a concept we call evolution. It is the idea, that only the adapted animal will procreate and any other creature will get eliminated due to several factors. We are still part of this process, but what makes us different is that we do not adapt to nature, we adapt nature to suit our needs. You need wind magic to fly, we use tools to create something that relies on natures principles to fly. You want to set something aflame, we simply generate heat in a simple fas.h.i.+on without mana.

" And you make fun about my level of ego, claiming to be the one bending the nature to suit your needs is something so ridiculous that it seems like a badly fabricated lie to every sane person. Even I know that this world we live in is created by the G.o.ds. Mana is in everyone and everything, even in a little nagant, though the amount is so pitiful that I can still survive in it. The G.o.ds gave us the mana after the humans here proved themselves worthy. You tell me, you as a human are able to bend and design nature to suit your own business. This world that was a creation of the almighty glorious G.o.ds.

Do not forget we are just data, the only difference is that we both developed some sort of self-awareness and listening to your useless argumentation I get the feeling that you were just programmed to think that the human race developed that way, to give even such a useless creature like you a feeling of pride"

- Big talk, for such a superior being, that is just data like me. But you are ignoring one significant circ.u.mstance, why is there something inside of me, that seems to be foreign even for you? That raises the question in a world made by the G.o.ds, something that shares no interaction with mana seems to be impossible to exist and yet here I am. That leaves only one conclusion open even though you might have never thought about such an idea even being an option. To be fair, magic was just a fantasy for me as well but here I am.

" Such a nice but yet stupid claim to make. Claiming to be a manmade invention that consists out materials that were not created by G.o.ds. I am afraid that if you talk any more of such blasphemous words, the anger of the G.o.ds will smite you."

- Now I know why you are incapable of beating mana, if your imagination is really that limited and even after telling you so many details of concepts that must seem foreign to you, lead to such a conclusion, then the war is lost before it even began. Have you considered, that this might not be the only place, where G.o.ds are active? Have you considered that those G.o.ds could have created worlds just like the one you are living on but on that planet, everything is totally different? Now imagine this with an unlimited amount of created worlds. And to destroy your worldview, even more, imagine there is a world that was created without any influence of your so-called G.o.ds. That was my birthplace. Glad to make your acquaintance. In this world, you may call me Moirai.

A long silence was the response. It was the first time in its history, that it truly felt unable to find the right words. It was a concept so absurd, that the idea alone, would be enough to declare someone insane on the spot. It was an understatement that the impact of this explanation being true would destroy everything he deemed worthwhile. After enough time had pa.s.sed and it had returned to a state that was as calm and objective as possible given the circ.u.mstances it began anew.

" Even though the time we can spend here is limited and I wanted to tell you something very different, I am forced to admit that I had expected many things but not something like this. I am currently linked to every normal part of your body and able to influence and shape it the way I want it. The problem is even after trying to connect with your "otherworld" matter, I still fail to do so. It seems to me that as long as you do not want me to connect to it, I will not be able to make the best out of you. So would you please let me in, I promise I will not do anything harmful to you.

- What do you take me for? right now I am a treasure trove for you, if I gave in and let you into my consciousness you would just as well take it over and extract any kind of knowledge I have.

" You are not wrong, but I wanted to earn your trust at first, to learn a bit more about your body.

-At least you are brutally honest, I can respect that about you, but the answer is a big fat no. Right now you are just a little Child that found a new toy, that will be discarded once you found a new s.h.i.+ny toy. You saved my life, therefore I owe you something, but that does not imply that I have to give up my whole self just to satisfy that craving of yours. For the time being work with and with my knowledge and tools and your ability to change my body, we will surpa.s.s magic. We are even after we have accomplished that, do we have a deal?

"It is not like I have very much other options to choose from. So why bother presenting me the illusion of choice then. We have a deal, as time is almost over now, let me tell you one thing, the magic you have seen till now just barely scratches the surface, the road ahead of you will end in your death without a doubt, are you still willing to undertake it, if not just hand over your body, I will make something glorious out of you.

-Fearmongering, in the end, you ran out of options to get me to hand over my body and resounded to such a tactic? How pitiful. If I will ever find you again, I hope you got used to your situation, because right now I am the only hope for you to achieve your goal. So I am not the one who needs you, you are the one who needs me for his sake. Get used to this state, otherwise, you will have a tough time here with me.

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As the image of the little monster faded, a moment pa.s.sed until suddenly the silhouette of a little ant appeared, it was the queen ant.

*He is quite an interesting fellow, even though I still struggle whether to call him a whiny b.i.t.c.h or a m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.tic brute. Sorry, but I am in doubt that he bought your excuse of surpa.s.sing magic as your motivation. As taking over his body does not look achievable now, what should we do?*

" At first let us just observe what he is planning, you will act as a way to communicate between the two of us. Secondly, take note of what this human is doing, there must be quite some things that he did not tell me about. Last but not least I have to admit, it sucks to know that right now we are just data and are stuck with this fate. My main purpose was to take over a body and to be able to go into the real world that way, yet the only suitable subject we found is an irregularity just like us. Seems like this encounter truly was fateful. Even if that means that we will be stuck in this world till the End of times. "

"Well then there is only one thing left to do, make the most out of it and I have a funny feeling, that the madness we created by now is only the prelude"