Chapter 507 - A Real Body
Chapter 507 - A Real Body
The first thing he did was to connect his mind to the Purgatory to activate the Purgatory Dream Feature. In the blink of an eye, his entire Floating Island disappeared, replaced by a telluric world covered in dark ash and scarred by multiple rivers of lava pouring out of the earth's bowels like overflowing manhole covers. As for the sky, it was devoid of stars, in a sad and desolate blackness.
Jake quietly observed his surroundings and noticed that he was alone. The felines had not followed him inside. Thinking about it, he realized he hadn't willed it.
On Yotai Shien 3, the Purgatory was still a Fluid Artifact, and some settings had been set by Nylreg so that everyone nearby would be sent back inside if activated. Even after Jake stole the artifact, some of these settings persisted.
By the end of the Ordeal, what was once a custom Fluid Artifact had been converted to an Aether Artifact and reset to eliminate Nylreg's influence. The original features of Sigmar's Fluid Artifact had been retained, however.
Jake walked around his "territory" for a bit and was amazed at the seemingly omnipotent feeling he got from that place. If by default the Purgatory appeared to be a favorable environment for his organism, albeit nonsensical, he could change it with a thought.
Closing his eyes, he visualized a snow-covered mountain and a mountain identical to the one he imagined arose from the ground before his eyes. With another thought, the rivers of lava froze, then turned into melted chocolate. Tempted, Jake dipped his finger in the chocolate and carefully brought it under his nose, then licked a tiny drop with the tip of his tongue.
'It smells like chocolate, tastes like chocolate, but...'
Jake swallowed and did feel his stomach fill up, yet his Oracle Status failed to detect anything in his stomach other than a shapeless mass of Aether formed by multiple Runes. That chocolate taste was only in his head.
"Yet the food in Nylreg's Purgatory was real." He muttered with puzzlement.
He soon found out what the problem was, though. Chocolate was not present in the database contained in the artifact. He was too lazy to memorize the entire database, so he left the menial task to Xi, who was far more adept at procedural work than he.
After a while she popped up in front of him in her holographic form, a complicated expression on her face.
"The database is relatively complete." She summarized succinctly. "Almost every possible type of environment has been correctly recorded, which is to be expected from a well-traveled Fluid Grandmaster like Sigmar. I suspect, however, that the Grade 4 Aetherist Nytisus who modified it supplemented it with his own experiences. As for the flora and fauna, once again it is fairly complete but limited to that of the Seed World of your Third Ordeal. Nytisus has once again completed the list by referencing a wide variety of Digestors as well as the creatures and plants that have impressed him the most during his life. Food, weapons, clothing, materials etc... same story. This is once again limited to Sigmar's experience or Nytisus's. "
Why, do I get the feeling you're moved?" Jake raised an astonished eyebrow. He found it hard to understand why Xi was so affected by such an ordinary report.
Xi remained silent for a long minute before answering,
"Because here I could have my own body."
Jake gasped in disbelief at this shocking revelation. He hadn't considered this possibility, but if it were possible to bring his fantasy to life, Xi could indeed create a tangible illusion of her body inside the Purgatory.