World Seed

Author’s Corner: Hey everyone! Say hello to my little friend, the chapter! Managed to write one out, so here it is.Shortly after I got off the call with my dad, I felt the ship stopping above the planet. “Alright, guys! Found some stuff, but we’ll need to be quick. I picked up large monster readings just below the surface. Not really sure what type, just that it is big and full of mana.” Celeste called out over the intercom before diving out of the airlock.A holographic screen appeared in the bridge showing her project, and next to it a sort of radar that marked her position, as well as a vague reading beneath the surface. As of now, the reading appeared to be several kilometers away, but it was moving in her direction. “Why is it that we didn’t get a bigger gun for this ship for when things like this happen..?”“Because I don’t have the materials to synthesize nano-wiring capable of passing large amounts of mana into a cannon. Otherwise, we could get a really nice cannon.” Celeste’s voice answered over the intercom as she landed on the planet. “The nano-wiring is actually an essential part of most of the higher-end ship features, but they also require a much more powerful generator than what we use. If I get the materials, it would be just a matter of time for me to upgrade the ship, or build a better one. Granted, maybe a lot of time, but still.”I watched as she landed in a small patch of flowers and began picking them carefully. The majority of them were bright red with three long petals, but there were also two that were green with black spots. Celeste picked one of each, before the mysterious monster signal started growing too close for comfort. “That’ll have to do…” She shook her head and started flying up, just as the thing beneath the sand revealed itself.With a giant three sided mouth, a worm nearly fifty meters thick began rising up from the surface. “Celeste… fly faster!” As I spoke, the ship’s two turrets lined up and began firing red beams of death. Though… as the lasers impacted, they proved far less deadly than I had hoped, not even knocking the worm back as it continued rising up. Ten meters, twenty meters… Its mouth was drawing uncomfortably close to our Deus Ex companion, and the turrets were doing nothing to stop it.I considered rushing out to help, but by the time that I got suited up and out the airlock, she’d either be back in the ship or be worm food. All I could do at this point was watch. Suddenly, the lights on the ship flickered, but at the same time Celeste’s speed drastically increased, leaving the worm behind as it tried to get a robotic snack. As soon as Celeste was back in the airlock, the lights returned to normal and the ship began moving away. This worm was nearly as thick as our ship, and likely at least a couple kilometers long. We did not need to have it take a bite out of us!“Celeste…” I had a strange sense that something was up, and wanted to ask her about it.“Yeah, yeah. I know. Splitting my processing to so many instances makes it harder to use any of them to their full potential. I was only built to handle a single companion bracelet, remember?”“So.. doesn’t that mean that the ship can’t be used properly?” Sharon looked up at the screen curiously as she asked.“No… well yes, but no. If I can get you two trained, either of you could take over the ship in emergency situations, or at least part of it to reduce the strain on my processing abilities. But for just casual usage, I can handle my own body and the ship fine. I doubt either of you want to be behind one of those consoles all the time to run the scanners and such.”I nodded my head at that. Only one of us would want to be behind a console that much, and that was Yo. Unfortunately, her reason for being at the console was not to learn how to fly the ship, but to play games. “Well, start teaching, then.” Celeste has a direct link to give me whatever information she sees fit, so might as well use it.“Huh?” Sharon looks over to me curiously, and it occurs to me that I never really told her just how much Celeste is able to do in my head. After I finished explaining, her eyes went wide. “Could you do that for me and Jeeves? I don’t want to take the bracelet down to the planet when we arrive, because it might get broken, or lost if I die.”I thought about it… and I didn’t really have a reason to refuse, as long as we did this right. “Okay.. but I’ll only do it on a clone body. That way, if something goes wrong, the damage won’t transfer over.” This would also give me the chance to begin experimenting with modifying the auras of others. Sharon nodded her head eagerly and immediately left to go to the medbay where the clone controllers had been set up.“Get back here, young lady.” Celeste called out as she reached the bridge, and passed me the two flowers to put in my grove. “Strap in for FTL first. We don’t know how long this procedure will take.”A few moments later, I saw Sharon walking back into the bridge, sulking slightly as she sat down in her seat and strapped in. Celeste took her own seat, while Yo stood up and waited eagerly for what came next. Sure enough, once we went to subspace she was splashed all over the floor and wall again from the brief force.Shaking my head, I got up and followed Sharon to the medbay, where there were two clones sitting side by side. By now, we had each activated one, and made sure to put them in clothes this time. Sharon sat on the far side of the room, putting on her headset and activating her clone.When she sat up, Sharon’s clone body happily went over and laid down on the medical bed. Celeste moved over near us, but not enough to get in the way. “You’ll want to put her under first.”I nodded my head, and used my Alchemic Sleep spell, which I had not used in several weeks, to put Sharon out. I watched as her eyes grew heavy, and then finally closed with her head tilted slightly to the side. “Go call Yo in. Might as well take care of everything in one go.”Celeste nodded, and walked out of the medbay, while I placed my hands on either side of Sharon’s head and closed my eyes. I was rather counting on the boost from my Amateur Brain Surgeon title to help me out here as I began placing the aura for an AI interface around her brain. It’s amazing how much easier this is when I’m not feeling the pain of doing this to myself. Then again, I was injecting my own mana into her body, and making it adapt to hers so that it wasn’t rejected.Time passed slowly, minutes feeling like hours as I tried to get all of the proper connections. And this time, I made sure to get the runes just right, so that Jeeves would not have the same level of freedom over her body that Celeste had on mine. While it was handy in some situations, I would not want to make others go through it without express permission.This content has been misappropriated from NovelFire; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.I wasn’t sure how long I worked, but eventually I had the final connection in place. Next, I made the same connection between her brain and her wrist where the companion bracelet rested on her main body. That way, when she ‘logged out’, her AI would be able to upload itself to her new implant. I considered giving her a Cybernetic Adaptation like I had on myself, but figured that’d be better left for after I got permission.For fairness’ sake, I made another slight alteration to her aura to give her a psychic power. Although she couldn’t turn human like I could, her power should still be able to function, even if it is at a reduced strength. By now, Yo and Celeste were already back in the medbay and waiting for what was definitely the most awkward part of this.Letting out a long sigh, I looked to the slime girl, and beckoned her forward. “Yo… can you shrink your chest to the same size as Sharon’s?”“Uh… okay?” She shrugged her shoulders, not seeming to understand why I was asking, but did so anyways. I began examining her aura with my Mana Sense, focusing on the regions I had previously identified as being related to gender. I was a bit concerned that Yo would not technically have a gender, since she could switch to different forms whenever she wanted, but thankfully those aspects were still there.Once I identified the parts of her aura I needed, I began focusing more heavily on them, and compared them with what was in Sharon’s aura. Once I found one that was nearly identical to Sharon’s, I focused on that particular aspect. “Okay… Now expand your chest a bit, like you had it before, but slowly.”“Alright!” She responded more enthusiastically this time, and my face heated up because I realized just what it was I was doing. I felt as the change in Yo’s breasts corresponded to an alteration in the part of her aura I had been focusing on. I then repeated that alteration on Sharon’s aura. I watched as her chest slowly swelled, and she let out soft moans in her sleep that I had to do my best to ignore. I wasn’t sure how ‘big’ she was originally, so I stopped growing them just after what I assumed to be DD. If this was still too small for her… I wasn’t really sure my sanity could handle it.“Anything else, Papa?” Yo asked with a smile next to me, her chest back to its normal proportions. “No.. that’s all for now. You can go play some more.” After saying that, I watched as the slime girl ran off out the door. “Celeste, think you could scan her? I gave her the same psychic power procedure as I did for myself.”“Alright~.” While Celeste pulled out the scanner and got to work, I reviewed the window that had appeared while I was working.