Dungeon Robotics 132

ITS FRIDAY! YAY! With another week behind us, I hope everyone is staying healthy out there! 

I need my science-based readers to fact check this. I spent close to an hour trying to just get the basics right. LOL. Enjoy!

Regan

The artificial sun only took a bit to make work. I just had to create an environment that promoted pressured fusion. I went ahead and used some of my Adherent mana to make it a bit more self-sustaining. I wanted it to be here after Louella was finished transforming after all. 

Everything was going much like I anticipated. Louella made her way closer to the artificial sun quickly. In fact, I was worried it was a bit too fast. I had warned her not to push herself and the last thing I wanted was for her to throw herself into the artificial sun.

When there was another gravity wave, I saw that something wasn’t right. A moment later, Louella appeared to be pulled into the artificial sun. That definitely wasn’t part of the plan. I rushed over to the sun to see what the hell was going on. Worst case scenario, I would be making Louella a new body here in a minute.

I shoved my hand into the artificial sun to better get an idea of what was happening inside. Letting my senses spread throughout the sun, I found more than just Louella inside. There appeared to be a colony or gathering of some sort of entity that was flowing around her. When I tried to wrap my aura around her body to check her condition, the entities swarmed around the tendril and ate it! They absorbed the energy as if it was nothing.

The energy was sent back at me with enough force that I was almost blasted from the spot. I returned the favor and reabsorbed the energy. As I did so, I examined it to see if I could find out what was going on. My energy had been changed, but it wasn’t into anything I had seen before. If I had to label the change, I would say partially celestial, and partially elemental. 

I felt a hand on my back and saw Alara standing behind me looking worried. “We may have a problem.”

“Louella?” she asked, worry written on her expression. 

Looking back into the pulsing sun. It took a few seconds, but I did see her chest move. The fact she was breathing in an environment like this meant she had already ceased being mortal. Whether she would be the Louella that we knew when she emerged was still to be seen. I gave Alara a smile as I didn’t want her to worry. “She is still in one piece.”

The next twelve hours were interesting. Stressful, but interesting. I refused to remove my hand as I watched the events unfolding in front of me. One of the stressful parts, was I had to enlarge the room as the sun doubled in size. The level of energy at play inside was quite awe inspiring. Mainly for the fact that it was all produced solely by the sun and Louella rather than gathered from hundreds of thousands of people.

At the six-hour mark, Louella’s body vaporized. The heat inside the artificial sun had reached temperatures that worried me as my electromagnetic shielding wasn’t up to the job. I had already begun reinforcing it with mana and it was holding steady, but for how long I wasn’t sure. I would have pulled the plug had I not felt a connection to her still. I knew her mind was still at there in the midst of the sun.

I felt the sun start to expand again as the fusion taking place accelerated. If it wasn’t for the runoff energy I was getting, I might not have been able to contain the radiation and heat from the artificial sun. “Alara. It would be best if you leave. I’m not sure what is going to happen.”

“I will stay. This body isn’t an issue, and the mortal is more important,” she replied as placed her hand on my back. I nodded with a smile then turned back to the expanding sun. 

By this point, I had ruled out that the entities were a danger to Louella. In fact, I was sure they were trying to help her transform. My biggest question was their origin, and the relationship that will formed with Louella’s change. For the moment, I was focusing on making sure the artificial sun didn’t go supernova. That wouldn’t be good for, well, Murgin.

At the fifteen-hour mark, the sun pulsed differently then it had been. It had expanded to the roughly a kilometer in diameter. I’d had to completely alter my labs to handle the change. I braced for another period of expansion, but instead it pulsed again and started to condense. The yellow glow grew brighter until it was that a bright white light. 

I pulled away from the sun, as I knew whatever it was doing it was in the final stages. I had to make sure the rest of the dungeon, or rather the planet, didn’t suffer due to the change. I grabbed Alara around the waist and leapt back to the outer wall of the containment sphere. I amped up the shielding as much as I could, but it had already been close to the maximum from before. I could have to fundamentally change the laws of physics to make it stronger.

The artificial sun continued to condense until it was just a bit bigger than a person. In fact, I thought it might be a bit smaller than Louella had been. She was tall compared to women on Earth. It wasn’t long before the sphere morphed into the silhouette of a woman. I could feel my link to Louella from the being. 

The remaining light suddenly flooded around her and several other silhouettes formed around her. They were about the size of Ignea and Glint, but as they were still more light than anything, I couldn’t make out any details. I was still getting a sort of mixed vibe of elemental and celestial energy. Might Louella have skipped past go and gone straight to celestial?

The woman shaped light started to crack and soon Louella was visible, though her blue pale skin was changed. As light cocoon broke from around her, the pieces didn’t vanish. They stopped falling and started to levitate around her like moons. They soon took the form of small girls that were probably no bigger than a few centimeters each though they looked like full-fledged women that all seemed to echo Louella’s features.

Louella herself landed on the platform that slowly started to melt until I quickly reinforced it. She was breathing in deeply and I could feel the heat around her dying by the second. Her body which had a yellow-orange glow slowly faded until only a golden skin tone remained.

She took one finally large breath that even seemed to affect the gravity as everything was sort of pulled into herself before she opened her eyes. The normal red pupils that had often reminded me of my own were gone. In their place was a glow of a sun. That slowly faded as well as she blinked. Still, her pupils had turned to a ring of bright yellow. Her hair had turned to sort of plasma state.

“Louella? You in there?” I asked carefully. I could feel a connection, but it wasn’t a uncommon occurrence for someone to hijack bodies in this world.

Looking Louella over now that all the changes had settled, I was surprised to only find her High tier four. She was higher, on the tier scale this universe worked with, than me now but given how much mana and pure energy was raging inside the artificial sun, I would have assumed she’d gone much higher.

Louella blinked again before she looked at me. “Yes. That was… a trip.”

“I’d imagine. Do you have all your memories back?” I asked. That was the second worry was that this would all have been for not if she could recall her life. 

“Yes. These beings helped me,” she replied as the dozen tiny elementals, fairies, or spirits all crowded around her face and touched her cheek.

“Can explain what happened?” I asked my curiosity at the unknown getting the better of me.

“Well, to start, these girls are technically your children… our children?” Louella said. A part of me was still happy to see that she could still blush as she said it. The dozen or so beings turned to me with wide eyes before they rushed over and started doing the same thing they had been with her, touching my face and hair. I could sense immense curiosity and intelligence from them. 

I didn’t fail to notice the angry Alara right next to me. Rather anger wasn’t the right emotion, I think it was more jealousy then anger. I would definitely have to make it up to her later. For now, I filed away her ridiculously cute pout in a folder, which given the sort of being I was, I was actually able to do.

“Start from where you were pulled into the artificial sun,” I said wanting the full story.