“Who did this?!” The magus shouted when the carriage got away. He was holding his shoulder; the robes covering it were now turning black from blood.
Not given the order to raise their heads, the kid and the old man kept them lowered.
Silence stretched, with no one daring to answer the inquiry of the magus.
“Sir, let me look at that,” A man wearing white robes approached the magus.
The magus eyed everyone, snorted, then let the white-robbed man look at his injury.
The white-robed man cut the cloth surrounding the injury, then he spilt a blue, shining liquid on the injury from a capsule strapped to his belt. A green glow started to shine from the white-robed man’s palms, and the injury could be seen mending with the naked eye.
What is this blue liquid?
It took the man a while to heal the wound. After he was done, the magus walked along the column of chained elderly and children. He paced, going out of my spherical vision a few times.
He then came back to where the boy was.
“Soldiers! Kill all the elderly!”
The soldiers didn’t hesitate, drawing their weapons, they slashed, and heads fell. One of the heads belonged to the elderly man who had taken care of the boy. His hot blood colored the boy’s face red. Eyes went wide, heartbeat raced, emotions intangled, but…
Anger. Rage dominated. It urged the child to take action.
Something broke. I knew what it was: survival instincts.
Clenching his fists, the boy shouted before rushing the soldier who had killed his new friend.
He’ll kill himself!
The guard smiled—sinisterly. A step, the sword impaled the boy through the gut. He retched, coughing blood.
Nooo!
***
The boy was left to bleed on the side of the road, not even given the mercy of a quick death.
As he stared at the sky, I felt it; the boy’s brain activity quickened—memories. I saw some—peaceful times.
More and more memories passed, and at the end, a wish, a will, and a…
Call?
The boy’s soul appeared in my soul space, taking me by surprise. He extended a hand, and…
Would you like to heed Somani’s call and achieve a perfect unity with his body?
Perfect unity?
I hesitated. Accepting the system’s or the boy’s offer might lead to an undesirable path, but could I replicate this again?
It might be a rare opportunity. He seems to be offering me his body instead of me killing his soul to take it, but what will happen to his soul?
In the end, I decided to accept. The system would usually give me a warning if there was any danger.
Yes.
This time, I didn’t black out. I felt it—the integration process.
My soul, elongated and twisted. It took the same outline as the boy’s soul, but inside, my spherical soul resided where the human brain was.
Mana flew at me from all over the boy’s body. After reaching me, it coalesced inside my soul, then shot out, hitting every cell’s Metacondria.
Finally, the boy… hugged me.
His memories, instincts, and soul merged with mine. We swam together inside my Mana film, bending and twisting. Where my soul formed a hollow, his filled it, and mine did the same, until…
We were one.
I was Somani, and Somani was the Manima Monoform.
I awoke, but this time it was different from the cat; it didn’t feel like I took a foreign body, more like I returned to my body.
Status.
Species: Manima Monoform.
Species-specific skills:
-Mana manipulation Lv. 7
-Soul manipulation Lv. 5
-Rudis Subtilis Biomancy Lv. 6 {Tier 1} (Unique)
-Soul mind Lv. 9
-Manima senses Lv. 6 (Unique)
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Manima Monoform—1
Manima Monoform—Somani
General skills (1/10):
Species-specific skill:
-Forced Mana Regeneration Lv. 7 (Unique)
-Adaptation Lv. 1
-Fast Learning Lv. 1
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General skills (2/10):
-Identify Lv. 4
-Forced Mana Regeneration Lv. 3