Mythran's Master Of All

Great Vasalor! Xuunah thought as she saw Ren being consumed by Light. There's nothing I can... “Containment!” She exclaimed and started to chant, held out her hands, and cast the spell. Her, Ren, and Artemis were surrounded by a strong magical barrier that she hoped would hold Ren together.

Ren's body dissolved and he felt excruciating pain; but, his perception of the world started to change. As his body dissolved, he started to realize that he was no longer bound by the physical restrictions his body had limited him to. His eyes had stopped working almost immediately, but he could still see. His fingers had been the first to disappear, and yet he could still feel everything around him as if the Light were his fingers. He kept discovering new ways to experience things until the very last of his original form converted into Light.

Ren was overjoyed that he had successfully polymorphed into a Light being... then his new body flickered for a moment and winked out.

“NO!” Xuunah yelled as Ren's Light body disappeared. “Ren!”

“It's okay.” Artemis said, and Xuunah looked at her.

“How can you say that? He just...”

“He's still there.” Artemis said. “If he was gone...”

Xuunah stopped looking at the space with her eyes and used her connection with Ren instead. She gasped as she felt that he was still floating there, only he was invisible and in some kind of limbo.

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Another server alarm went off at Sid Tec, and the night programmer stopped working and looked at it.

“Geez, again?” He asked and typed up a few commands to see what was going on. “Ha.” He said. “Max is gonna have kittens.”

The guy pulled in the last of the backup servers to let the game AI use the new resource, and was glad that the new servers would be integrated first thing in the morning. He thought about calling Max and telling him what Ren did, then shrugged and wrote up the incident report and sent it instead.

“I don't want to be around when he reads that.” The night programmer said and laughed, then got back to work.

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Ren felt like he was floating in a warm bath, only he didn't have a body and wasn't in water. His mind didn't have a hard time adjusting to this new state of existence, especially with all the extensive time he had been using Serene State of Mind. With that thought his skill activated and everything became clear and concise.

“I guess it worked.” Ren's disembodied voice said.

“Almost.” A booming voice said. “I had to tweak it and help a little.”

Ren couldn't wince from the sound, mainly because he didn't have a body. “To whom am I speaking?”

“I am Vasalor.” The voice said at a more reasonable volume, because he had detected Ren's discomfort.

“Holy crap!” Ren exclaimed and let out feelings of surprise.

Vasalor laughed. “Welcome to my level of existence, Ren.”

“But... I just...”

“Yes, you only wanted to become a Light being.” Vasalor said. “I do not need to ask you why you wanted to do such a thing. It will work, but only for a short time.” He warned. “Since you are not a natural Light being, that form is highly unstable for you.”

“Oh. I didn't know that.” Ren said. “What about...”

“Yes, other physical forms are fine.” Vasalor said. “Changing into a being made of only Light and no physical components was both dangerous and foolhardy.”

“I weighed the risks against the potential outcome and believed it was worth the attempt.” Ren said, and let amusement flood out. “I never imagined getting to meet you, though! What an honor!” He said. “I mean, getting to ask you things was great; but, I don't like bothering people when I don't have to.”

“I do not mind being bothered.” Vasalor said.

Ren tried to look around to see where he was and didn't see anything. Since he didn't have a face or eyes, he wasn't sure what he was trying to look at, or why.

“Am I still a Light being?” Ren asked. “I don't seem to have a body.”

“Your mind is running at a few million times faster than the reality you normally perceive.” Vasalor said. “Your perception of time has been quantifiable on a minuscule scale until now, so even if you still had a physical body, you would not feel it.”

Ren thought about it for a few moments. “So, this is all happening in like a fraction of a fraction of a nanosecond and no discernible time will have passed?”

“Correct.” Vasalor said.

“Do you mind if I just hang around for a while?” Ren asked.

“Hang around?”

“Sit for a spell? Take a load off? Crash at your place?” Ren started shooting off different phrases for staying and visiting, and Vasalor had to access the internet to get the meanings.

“You wish to stay for a period of time.”

“I'd be happy to!” Ren said and let amusement flow out.

*

Xuunah immediately initiated her own Polymorph ability to assume her natural form as a Light being. She would have normally done this within her Light Sanctuary; but, with the magical barrier she had cast, she wasn't worried about being hurt or damaging the mortal realm with her presence within it. Her transformation went much faster than Ren's transformation, since she was resuming a form rather than assuming it.

Xuunah became an odd-shaped form of Light and concentrated on Ren and their connection, then floated forward to where he supposedly was.

*

“I just felt a tingle.” Ren said. “Someone's calling me.”

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“Then it is time for you to go.” Vasalor said. “Remember, you can only hold the form for a few minutes and must change back.”

“I remember everything.” Ren said. “Thanks for letting me stay so long.”

“It was nice to have someone to talk to.” Vasalor said.

Ren felt something touch him even though he didn't have a body, and the essence of his mind tingled for an instant.

“When you talk to Allynna, tell her you are reborn when you die. Being my Chosen is not heretical.”

Ren chuckled. “I'm pretty sure just saying you told me to say that will be good enough for her.”

“Perhaps.” Vasalor said. “Goodbye, my friend.”

“Goodbye!” Ren said, then thought about waving enthusiastically. “Dammit, I still don't have a body.”

Vasalor laughed. “You will soon.” He said. “Decreasing time compression in 3... 2... 1...”

Ren felt a wave of nausea as his brain was forced to adjust back to normal time, and he was glad he didn't have a body because he would have thrown up. An instant later he felt perfectly fine and saw Xuunah in her Light being form as the edge of her glowing form touched the edge of his own.