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It is my duty to spill blood to honour the name of Lyssa as she did not get the honour to her name she always deserved and for the men fighting in her name, that died for those traitorous cowards. Each and every single one of their descendants has to offer up their own blood and life to atone for the sins of their fathers. It is my joyous task to spread the message and soon everyone will bear witness as I inflict more and more pain on their children, until they finally understand the true something behind all that madness.'

You have chosen something really interesting that fits quite well to my behaviour. In their eyes, I must look like something that crawled out of their nightmares and became reality. A living embodiment of their worst fears.I especially like the fact that she has been in oblivion for nearly everyone in this world.

Though she was probably nothing more than an explanation to cope with the sudden outbreak of rabies on those animals. After all, they had never seen those monsters in a frenzy like that.

Now I only need to develop some kind of crazy ritual and the rumours that will spread will suffice for making sure that no one will question me ever again.

” Sorry. but I did not hear what I just did in your monologue right? You want me, an entity as old as time itself to divulge all its secrets on an insignificant ant, that has not even grown hair down there. A creature that is so frail, that its own mortality can come at nearly any point in time.Something that does not know the vastness of the outside world wants to know all about it? You are facing something so scary, that even though I have always dreamed of surpassing it, I never would have claimed to be able to beat it and yet you are standing here so full of yourself. A fool full of knowledge remains a fool till the day of his demise.”

Yeah, I would like to know about all the things that you do know about this world.

” Did you fail to comprehend the message and the scorn behind my words. Let me be way more direct than, someone like you will never stand a chance against the mightiness of magic. I can give you all the knowledge in the world, in a confrontation, there is no need to know about the air that you breathe. You will find yourself dead, even before you have analyzed the situation. Right now my primal goal is to find a host, that has enough potential to surpass magic and you are an outlier, with a weak body who struggles even against the weakest magic I have seen in centuries. Something like you should not even dream about overcoming magic, even with all the help I can offer you.”

I find it quite intriguing, that you still do not trust my capabilities after everything I have shown so far. Do you think, that after a nearly endless amount of hosts you are someday going to find the right one all of the sudden? Always clinging to the faint hope of a miracle occurring, but even all this time you have failed to learn. Even a fool with an unlimited lifespan will remain a fool.I am something so mysterious that no one has ever seen something like me but even with that knowledge you still see no hope in me succeeding on our quest.

Have you not seen the creative ways I managed to outmanoeuvre my enemies, have you not seen my different tactics and approaches. Did you fail to realize what kind of change my worldview and all my knowledge could bring to this world? So far even as a powerless and poor baby, I have not lost a single fight.

” You even failed to realize now the meaning of my words. You did not beat magic itself you exploited the human using them. That is not the way I meant to surpass magic, because that fighting style can only get you so far. You struggled against kids, who have never fought a real battle. Even without all my wisdom I still could determine the outcome of any battle against stronger enemies.”

It is that thinking that hinders your success, even if I am a fool in your eyes, with that attitude you will lose the fight, before it even had begun and the cycle starts once again, with you none the wiser. Yet the fool remains stubborn looking ahead at the glorious future. You are just wasting all that knowledge you have accumulated.But something as almighty and knowledgeable as you do not care, because if someone like you knows nothing but failure a mere mortal is not even allowed to have that kind of dream.

” The only thing you have is a sharp tongue, but your foolish confidence is a road straight to disaster. Do you really think I did not consider different ways, different approaches to surpass magic? I have tried specializing in something, that did not work, I have tried to use a balanced approach that proved to be useless as well. I have tried transforming something by erasing all their flaws that still remained pointless. I have tried to go beyond the limits of their body, only to watch in sheer horror as magic ruined my hard work in mere seconds.

I have tried to change their spirit and ability to wield mana as well, but I am incapable of using them if mana is in their body. I have tried to deactivate their emotions and their intelligence to guide them directly myself but even with me in control magic still ended up being my downfall. I tried to control more creatures at a time but ended up making me weaker than ever before. I even thought of changing every body part and make the ultimate creature, that has the best parts of every monster I have ever encountered, yet even that effort was futile. You are nothing more than a new project and I will fail with you as I did with the others, all I can do is try and search for more effective ways, that's all I can do.”

You are not only a fool but a total moron as well. You are so focussed on finding the solution that you constrict your choices from the get-go. Magic is so versatile because it can take many forms. But you only try to change the body of your host. It is no wonder you never found a solution. The right approach would include to not only develop your body from the inside or outside but to change the outside world to suit your liking.

What is fire magic in the ocean? What is earth magic in the sky?What is light magic in total darkness? If you change the battlefield to your needs, you can overcome many hardships. Preparation is the key.

Who would win in a fist fight between 2 peasants?

The stronger one

But if you give the weaker one magic.

The weaker one would win because he now has a strong method to suppress his previous foe.

But if that, for now, knows of his weakness he will use a different approach and catch the weaker peasant off-guard.

But if that peasant knew about the plan of his foe, he would always pay attention and not fall for any obvious feint or trap.

This play always sees one side reacting and adapting and the other side trying to surpass the chosen method of defence.

But if I just gave you a tool, that every peasant can use efficiently and does not require any faith to utilize, then we can see that the former balance shatters easily, as the other side can not adapt to something that is not man or monster. There is no rhyme or reason to such a tool, it does not have emotions, it does not care about the motives of its use.

Of course, such a concept may look like an idiotic thought of a total lost cause, but let me show you something out of my former world. It is a weapon called pistol, it is one of the weaker weapons we have. Now watch this memory of a gun in usage.

After watching the video you will know what I mean.

- A loud an obnoxious laugh appeared in my head after he had seen the memory of the weapon in action and the devastating wound it can deal.

” You really are something special, I would have called surpassing magic as a fools dream but you even want to enslave it and use it to create such a weapon. I will share some of my knowledge with you, let me bear witness how far you can go against magic with your tools.”

' Following your dialogue a self-aware AI seems to be the least special case right here.An entity with a foolish dream, something from another world and an Artifical Programm, what kind of outcome can we achieve if we mix all those together I can not wait to find out.'

” So let me tell you a story of a foolish dreamer of the old times...

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In the meantime, somewhere in a hidden location, there was a young woman currently twisting all around her bed she had been confined to. Her whole body was shivering, as her breathing was heavy and full of pain.

With a scream full of terror she awakened and her bloodshot eyes were staring at a familiar ceiling. She could feel that her body, was currently heavily weakened and she could not even muster the strength move any of her limbs.

After the screams resounded, calm and steady steps could be heard approaching her.

The person coming closer was a fierce man clothed in full armour. Looking at his eyes, a normal person would fall on the knees and beg for forgiveness on the spot. His black hair and dark brown eyes were looking at Laura with no emotions at all.

A weak ” Father” escaped Laura's lips but before she even could speak another word a loud smack could be heard.

He had raised his fist and slapped his daughter with his open palm.

” How dare you speak with me. You are a disappointment through and through, just like your filthy mother. Dieing while giving birth to such a disappointment, trash remains trash. How did you even manage to lose to a weak creature in that simulation? The outside world sees you as a talent that only appears in millennia, but right now you just look like one of those filthy inhabitants you find in the scum.

Was your intention to sully my name and tarnish my reputation, by failing so horribly? Do you want to drag the whole household down with you, are you that selfish? Such a disgrace.

And to lose so horribly that your whole body suffers, just because you die in a simulation. Your mentality is too weak, you will have to endure much harder hardships on the battlefield. In your current form, you are not cut out for your role. I already notified your master, be prepared to be interrogated and questioned to see whether you are still fit.

During his whole speech, Laura had not made a single noise and just stared at the ground.

Her father clicked his teeth in annoyance and turned around leaving her without looking back at her.

A soft chuckle left her lips as she looked at the back of her father. Those with strength are always the same, they only look down after they have forgotten the weakness they themselves once held. The hope of the weak that they proclaim to carry is nothing but useless baggage for them.

Why was I chosen and not someone else, someone who is strong and noble? But even as I get stronger and stronger I still find myself losing to such an insignificant creature. How could I even lose to such a mad creature in the first place, I have copied the strongest magician of my generation and yet it still felt like he saw right through me.

I have never witnessed creatures and monsters alike use such a variety of tactics and even his general bearing was not something I have seen in any other person. I would not expect someone who has lost his mind to come with a plan and to beat me, with ease while I use everything in my arsenal.

My ploy had been seen through and yet he did not kill me on the spot, he still talked to me as if nothing was wrong. I do not understand him at all, while he spoke with me he always seemed to be in thought, taking in everything I had said. The workout he had shown me did not look like something an envoy of a God would do.

He did not even use magic during our whole fight, not even once. Was I not worthy enough for it or was he not capable of using it?The mere thought me getting beaten by a being without any magic is preposterous. I will have to let my master view my memories and let her be the judge.

I will have to recover for quite some time, so it would be best If should relieve the memory and see where I did go wrong.

As her eyes closed a deep grin became visible on her face. Thank you, Samatha, life with you around certainly has become much more interesting.