Not only that the dual gargantuan serpents were seamlessly realistic, they were able to be used as a means of intimidation and soul damage as the illusionary formation had been amplified with a huge amount of 'faith of death' by MF.
Each of those first generic disciples was still trying to process what was going on. Everything felt extremely surreal to them. Even Jojo, who was probably the most calm and experienced of them all, was opening his eyes widely to perceive this once in a lifetime beautiful scenery from the air.
Jaro grinned, thinking about what kind of new training session that he would experience in the future. Ragoni was excited because for the first time, she might be able to become a proper cultivator and ditched her struggling merchant life.
Carla was in brain maintenance because the information was too much for her to handle, leaving her mouth agape.
Guda slyly smirked, only she and Foel knew what was in her head.
The light was orchestrated with the ever ascending gargantuan dual serpents. As the sect's ground was protruding its glow to enhance the double helix Ouroboros symbols even more.
In the nick of time, MF's voice boomed into the sky where the sect was. Certainly, she used her angel form while hiding somewhere in the sky.
"All of you're down on an abandoned world, lacking an astounding view. Once a crowded coop, cluttered up by countless mortals, clucking around without a clue that they were nothing without a use.
"This whole world is a putting ground for a powerful few. Isn't it wonderful what uncontrolled power and prestige could do?"
The tanomobi was startled at first because she was the one who was supposed to give a speech for this moment. 'It seemed like Meshia's plan to lure and extract the information from the goddess was done faster than we speculated.'
Foel opened up a vial that contained the mutagen for 'Tunguska Blood' genetic. With precise motion, she dropped six droplets that landed on each six first generation disciples.
The droplet stretched and coated their entire skin, piercing deep into their nucleus as it wreaked havoc within them. MF didn't prepare the same kind of mutagen that she injected to Foel for them.
She felt like suffering to success was necessary for mental training. Presumably, they would bear an unbearable amount of pain for a couple of days before the mutagen finished reconstructing their genetics.
With a bright smile from the hidden pseudo-angel, MF continued her speech.
"Each of you will be granted with the 'Blood Of Tunguska'. Those droplets will remold your entire physique into those akin to the divine. Of course, great power comes with great pain, it's highly advised that the six of you need to bear the excruciating process for a few days.
"The three individuals that you saw watching all of you from above are the Elders of this sect. Perform well, and they might take you as their core disciples.
"As for now, all of you will be sent home. When you stepped your feet into this place for the second time, we will welcome the six of you with an open arm. Not a stranger, but the disciple of Lautus Tunguska."
Damascus placed each of them to a teleportation formation that sent the disciples to their own living territory within Ouranos Citadel.
"That's quick." Ki chuckled.
"Well, guess it's time to find out Tuli's whereabouts." Damascus loudly laughed, amused that the hellspawn didn't appear as planned.
"Wait, who is the messenger again?" Foel tilted her head.
"I think it was Toma." Damascus pointed out.
"Oh."
"Oh."
"What…?"
"Toma can't talk yet." Foel put her most monotone deadpan.
"No wonder I didn't see him…"
Meanwhile, at the front of the Ouroboros' Garden.
"Uhm, I think you're trying to say something really, really important, Toma." Tuli crouched, with her Catalis being unsheathed on the ground.
"Plup, plup." Toma tried his hardest to send the message, but the only voice that he could make was only the sound of popping bubbles.
"Toma, do you want some Bina fruit?" said Primis as she reached out her hand.
Unlike with his owner, Toma gently took the fruit and threw it in the air before chomping at it. Primis applauded with excitement in response.
"I feel like I'm missing something important."
"Tuli!" The bio-artifact started to move left and right. "Tuli! Tuli!"
"Hmm, I wonder if I can condense a liquify mana core to enhance your growth, Catalis, but I don't really know the anatomy of your body."
"Tuli!"
Just trying to imagine what kind of stupid conversation that Toma and Tuli had, Ki couldn't help but sneering like crazy.
Damascus fiddled with her fingers, with her face flustered that she misunderstood the intelligence of the playful Toma to be equal to the ability to do universal speech.
The three of them slowly descended, reuniting on the sect's ground
"Ah, I can't feel Meshia here anymore, it seemed like she had gone to her divine domain again." Foel's ears twitched.
Damascus shook her fluster with a closed-eye smile. "Lord Ouroboros has been using her divine power to coat her presence for too much lately, I wonder how you're able to detect her, Madam Foel."
Ki hid her hands by connecting both of her long sleeves like a wise old man. "If you haven't known it, Miss Damascus, the Ouroboros said that Madam Foel gave her the densest streamline of faith. It's the power of love! I'll tell you!"
"Power of love, huh. Not to mention, Madam Foel must have been doing 'that' many times with Lord Ouroboros."
Both Ki and Damascus gazed at Foel suspiciously with a slight blush.
"I know what both of you're thinking." Foel slightly tilted her head with a rather creepy smile. "Instead of prying on my relationship, why not both of you try to reflect on your actions of sending Toma as the messenger and letting Toma as the messenger in one of the most important events of our sect?"
Shuddered in fear, Foel's killing instinct had devoured half of the platform space. Ki and Damascus held each other's hands as they shivered uncontrollably.
""Yes! Madam!""
As Foel was giving her friendly punishing session. MF had been rather comfy on going inside the Occult Kaleidoscope again.
"Tatara~ Meshia, don't you think that you're going to overwhelm the Occult Seed with that recipe of Fragments?"
Cyanotype was rather reluctant to see her master trying to squeeze five strong fragments at once. At the last moment where MF almost touched the singular codex tile of the day, the Occult Beast managed to let her feelings be perceived by stopping her master.
MF was trying to concoct an Occult Seed for her beloved wife as of now, the Fragments that had been chosen was as follow:
[ Kaleidoscope Codex 1876382667197# Subject: Occult Seed Fragment
Occult Template: Ozymandias
Divinity Soulbond: King of Kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.
Affiliated Occult Seed: Ra | Nefertari
Occult Phantasm Affinity: Unrecorded ]
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[ Kaleidoscope Codex 2878997# Subject: Occult Seed Fragment
Occult Template: Gilgamesh
Divinity Soulbond: King of Heroes;
Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands.
Affiliated Occult Seed: Enkidu | Aga | Ishtar | +
Occult Phantasm Affinity: Unrecorded ]
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[ Kaleidoscope Codex 197026561# Subject: Occult Seed Fragment
Occult Template: Penthesilea
Divinity Soulbond: Amazoness Queen;
Strength is limitless, there is no end to strength. The only attribute that is matched to her dignity as queen. Berserker of El Dorado is what she is called.
[ Kaleidoscope Codex 298019# Subject: Occult Seed Fragment
Occult Template: Yama
Divinity Soulbond: One of the Ten Kings of Hell;
He is the fifth judge in the court of the old hell and passes judgment on all the dead. Bullhead and Horseface, the fearsome guardians of hell, bring the newly dead, one by one, before Yanluo for judgement. Men or women with merit will be rewarded good future lives, or even revival in their previous life. Men or women who committed misdeeds will be sentenced to torture and or miserable future lives
Affiliated Occult Seed: {Can't be accessed}
Occult Phantasm Affinity: Unrecorded ]
"Any reason why you're stopping me, Cyanotype?"
"This might be unknown to master but-" Cyanotype put on a reluctant smile. "An Occult Seed made of five powerful fragments will only make the core unstable. Even to someone like you, a full five godlike Fragments would create turmoil. Slowly, it would usurp their owner's body."
"So you're saying that, when I got forced to choose the Redcap Fragment, it's actually the right thing to do??"
"Tatara~"
At first, she thought that Cyanotype was lying and plotting something, but seeing the eldritch horror's worried face and her emotion was more than enough to see what was the truth. A goosebumps ran through her skin. Cold to the bone, MF didn't realize that she was close to death back then because of the lack of information.
"Thank you for telling me." MF took a deep breath.. "It seems like we need to find a matching lesser Fragment to be the equalizer."