Monster Integration



'From today, I will begin,' I said to myself as I stared at the ceiling.

I had just woken up from ten and a half hours' sleep, feeling completely refreshed. I am fine physically and mentally, with zero sign of the curse in my body.

I stayed in bed for a few minutes before he went to the bathroom. An hour later, after light breakfast, I entered the practice room with a big smile on my face.

For the next four days, my schedule is squeezed to the minute. My clone had planned everything, from when I start to what I do and how long each treatment would take.

Before I make a breakthrough, I will take part in over a hundred treatments. 

Some would feel amazing, some would be like boiling in burning oil. Few might even be more painful than that. All of it would cost me immense resources, and I am ready to spend them.

With that thought, I waved my hand, and the formation appeared on the ground. I looked at it before making it a real thing appeared.

Song of Sar.

It is extremely risky to bring it, but it is the only option I have. If I use the normal tub, its effects wouldn't be as great as using the song of Sar.

So, I will take the risk and hope that the formation covering the tub and the changes I had made to it will look like any normal tub to even Earth Sovereign scanning it casually.

The tub is not alone. There is dense liquid inside it, divided into seven layers, covering seven types of formation.

I flew up before gently flying down into the tub, submerging fully inside the thick liquid, feeling seven kinds of different sensations. What I am feeling is a faint teaser from the real thing, which I will feel after the formations are activated.

Buzz!

Seven formations activated at once and the seven liquids begin to give a different sensation as their energies seeped inside my body.

From comfortable to boiling, I am feeling everything. One moment, I felt like I should moan in pleasure to next moment scream in pain. 

It is extremely uncomfortable, and I wish, either I feel pain or pleasure, but not seven different types of feeling at once. It is making me disorient, as they are not only affecting my body but also my soul.

Since I am completely submerged, I could even take a deep breath to calm myself.

I wish I could bring my head out or create artificial air with my power, but I could do neither. I need to stay in my spot and not use even speak of energy or I will defeat the whole purpose of this treatment.

Not to mention, I will lose the massive number of resources used in crafting this treatment.

At least I have my connection with my clones and through them, I could read books or work. It will be a little strange to do it, while not present in the library, but I will manage since my clones are with me.

I worked with my clones, while the seven Aurora waves treatment do its magic.

What I am trying to do is simple; I am trying to merge rule-bending power into every cell of me. It is already present, but I want more. I want to take it at least 1.5 times, that I currently have.

2 times, if possible.

It is an ambitious target, and I haven't really done it untill now, because it is extremely dangerous when you started pushing.

The more forbidden power will make my breakthrough into the Sovereign stage even more difficult, but there is another way through which I will make a breakthrough.

With it, if I succeed, I will be a Sovereign and if I failed, only death will wait for me.

I did not think too much about the consequence. There is no other choice for me because of the choices I have made. The forbidden power is present in every part of me.

From the strand of hair to the speck of my soul. 

Even if I had got rid of the forbidden power, it would not work. As my very core is made of it. 

If I had a fire elemental core or healing elemental or even a curse, I would have chosen to purge the forbidden power out of me in a slow, excruciating way. The way would have been painful, but safer.

I do not have that choice now with the core of forbidden power.

So, I am pouring more forbidden power into me and choosing a completely different way to make a breakthrough that only mad people like me, who do not have any other choice, do.

Every second more and more energy comes inside me like waves, and the thing is, less than 0.4% remaining inside, before washing out.

They go inside me again and again.

It is going to take hours and till then, I will have to keep holding my breath. It is not easy, but possible physically. I need my body in that condition, where it is forced to such a degree.

It will increase the effectiveness of the method. Not only to the body, but also to the soul and energy.

The question is whether I will be able to do it. Even I am not too confident of that.

Three hours passed, and now I really want to breathe. My body is struggling, it is twitching and turning. It would all go away. If I just brought my head up and took that sweet sweet breath.

I am fighting to take a breath, but I am holding back and the only thing that is helping me is seeing the result.

As my body reaches this state, it begins to take the energy more desperately, with it going deeper than before.

Still, despite the benefits, I wanted to stop and take a large breath and end all the struggle.

I wouldn't have been struggling if I had been in my native world. There, I would have been fine for weeks without taking a single breath. My body was capable of that, here it is not.

It is hard to control one's instincts, but I will do it. My survival is dependent on it.

As Sovereign is just a stepping stone for me. I want to be strong enough to find a marina and my future child, and I already have an idea of where they could be, or know where they will be. 

But to even reach that place, I need to be powerful, and Sovereign powerful is not enough.

So, I controlled my instinct itself as I count the seconds for the hours.

An hour passed and then another and now, twitching and turning, become intense. My body is hungry for air, but I am not getting any. It is already absorbed, what little I had in my body and now hungering for more.

It had become extremely hard to hold back, but I continued to do that. 

My body had yet to reach the limit where I will need to take a breath or I will die and till it happens, I continue to hold back.

Thirty-seven minutes passed, and my body reached its limit.

I immediately moved my head out of the solution and took a breath. Not a fast breath, but a tiny, very slow breath, which is a great struggle itself.