Chapter 265: Newborn

In her soul realm the star exploded releasing a wave of ego that disintegrated the metal landscape around it. The plants that jutted out of the metal were instantly grinded to powder as the wave expanded past the confines of her soul realm. The cocoon ballooned as it resisted and halted the expansion of the ego wave.

The ego wave began to return back to its origin as the star core absorbed every part of the soul realm. The core formed what resembled a neutron star that increased in size as it absorbed more parts of the soul.

The neutron star spun at light rending speeds as it absorbed every part of the soul, bloating up as it reached its maximum size. Then the ego wave crashed into it from all sides causing it to collapse on itself.

The soul matter that made up the star condensed into a single point; Mira's soul became a singularity. The organizer watched this in fascination as he analyzed every detail about this event.

The black hole transcended the boundaries of reality and absorbed Mira's body and mind. The cocoon shrunk from its bloated state as its content reduced in size until it occupied only a single point.

The organizer thought 'it's like the Mandala principle of the mermaids: one's being is like a universe. But instead of creating a map that draws out a path in the universe, she has condensed everything into a single point. The cocoon though…'

The cocoon continued to shrink until it touched the singularity within it. Naturally the cocoon should have been absorbed and a black hole should have formed in the lab but a unique reaction occurred.

The singularity formed a relationship, a circuit, a spell, a mechanism, an ecosystem, a universe with the cocoon and released part of its content. The cocoon grew arms and legs and a head. It acquired organs and it soon acquired a mind that controlled it.

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Mira awoke from her sleep feeling like a stranger in her own body. She opened her now blue eyes to welcome a completely black humanoid body; everything was black including the whites of her eyes. The features she had gotten from mutating different monster genes were all gone now. Her size was back to when she was human too.

'Where am I?' Mira thought.

Her IP said [You have transcended the limits of race and have become a Unique Being]

[As a reward you have gotten one Advice Ticket]

[Your memories have been sealed temporarily to reduce the backlash from your natural sparking]

[They will be returned back to you as you get used to your current form]

An immense feeling of hollowness hit Mira. She felt as if she had been in a place filled with people only to be thrust in an eerily silent and empty room. Her body and soul remembered parts of her life but she couldn't bring those memories to her mind.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She held her head as she screamed. There was a vague sense of recognision from everything she sensed but she couldn't clearly remember. It was like she was doing an exam and remembering that she had done a particular type of question before. The timer was about to about to go off and she just couldn't remember that one constant or formula that would lead her to the answer, only this feeling seemed to last forever.

The lack of wholeness caused her to trash around and spasm as if contorting her muscles would help her fill the lack. Amnesia wasn't this severe but for someone with a stabilized soul, it was like feeling the pain of loss, when one's soul is attacked, constantly without end or breaks.

Mira's energy zone expanded from her head, the flow of the energy highlighted faint patterns on the black skin on the back of her palm that turned blue as the energy filled them. The patterns activated and Mira teleported.

She found herself falling from a height of about 20 feet. Unable to control her force field, she fell to the ground.

"BOOM!!!!!!!!"

She picked up noises coming from her front. She looked around at the trees around her in wonder. She was just in a white tiled box but now there were large sticks with green paper like things on them among other things.

The pain she experienced was mysteriously appeased by her curiosity. She picked herself up and began studying the tree closest to her. She got a bunch of sensations from her senses but she couldn't make sense of any of it; it thrilled her, putting a smile on her face.

As she studied the living creature, she realized that she was just as clueless about the tree as she was about herself. She thought 'Who am I?'

[Do you wish to use the Advice Ticket to get the answer?]

'Yes!' Mira thought to her IP although she didn't know what it was.

[Sending question…]

[Waiting for answer…]

[Answer could not be generated]

[Partial answer acquired]

[Partial answer withheld due to you being on memory probation]

[You have failed to use the Advice Ticket]

Disappointment filled Mira but she didn't know what to do so she could only move on.

The noise Mira heard at first intensified after a short while and slowly approached her. She turned towards it, her curiosity swallowing her disappointment as she saw a humanoid shaped moving object with yellow skin and black hair and eyes walk toward her.

Her senses frisked the being before her as he stared at her in confusion. A [Rank 3 Human] showed on the person's head. Mira understood what it meant but she didn't know what her reaction to such information should be so she didn't react, she just kept inspecting the humanoid.

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