Chapter 636 - Good News (1/2)
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Nik huffed softly and only cleaned the bedroom off their scents and fluids. The outside world was devolving into a rather complicated trouble but all of it was suppressed, even the soft breathing of Anna and Cindy tickling his skin. ”Nik!” Lola's chime rang, ”I found it! We can fuse your real body with the spirit bones at 91% success rate! And,” she continued in one breath, ”We just need a cosmic trigger to achieve the same state of mutation you wanted me to enforce.” she stated while referring to Susan's, Benjamin's, and Reed Richards mutation.
On the television interviews, however, Nik knew that Susan's brother had also gone through a mutation, allowing him to become a being of fire and Nik was very much interested in that particular mutation. With his quasi-grandmaster realm in elements, he reckoned that once he gained the secret to flame body mutation, he might even try and trigger other elemental mutation. This was also why Benjamin's rocky mutation appealed to certain thoughts within Nik.
”The mutations are easy but to actually make the spirit bones your own, i.e, making them lose their beastly origin and gain, you know, your origin, we need to start converting them with a part of your bloodline and flesh. Ordinarily, it would have cost you an arm and a leg but...” Lola trailed her words and for the first time, smiled. Her smile even more roguish then Nik and her eyes mischievous as if her methods were riling her up. Surprising her spiritual roommates and the landlord himself, she continued, ”Pickle. I ran a test on that silver symbiote and while the latest one has embedded itself with a form of an organic mineral, quite reflective in nature, I can assure that tiny pieces of Pickle over the three spirit bones will start converting them.”
”The best part,” she cut off any potential questions or complaints, ”is that instead of the original attributes of the spiritual bone, all the supposed abilities that one usually receives from such encounters will mutate. Say, the sword bone of the silver dragon may actually affect your crotch instead of your hands.”
Her words instantly made Nik furrow. Mutations were fine and he was more than adventurous to at least sport a c.o.c.k formed of a dragon's swords once in his life. But the matter was...
”The spiritual bone is supposed to be absorbed by any one of my hands. How will it affect any other parts?”
”For that, you will have to work hard,” with am impish smirk, surprising the witnesses, the blue-skinned platinum-haired artificial beauty suggested a wild approach, even in Sky's book.
”That fusion pot of yours. You'll have to put your body, the converted spiritual bones, and Pickle, if you want to make her happy by fusing with her.” Lola's words made Nik feel a burst of warmth and he knew it was Pickle. While a L.u.s.t Apostle, the very nature of Pickle made her very... platonic in her interests. More than l.u.s.t, which her master's bloodline dictated, Pickle only squirmed to hold her master's affection and fusing with him held such an appeal to the variant symbiote that she forgot about her indignance to be cut off slightly and convert the spirit bones.
”It won't work,” Nik shook his head, ”That will only turn me and Pickle into something new. The fusion pot... is a strange and unreliable object. Not only does it fuse the physical matter, but it also fuses the other metaphysical factors of one's existence, by how much, that I don't know.”
”That's why you'll have to find a way. The use of fusion pot is the best way to utterly consume the effects of the spirit bones without an ounce of waste. Either way, it shall be your choice once the spirit bones are ready.”
With that, Lola went silent, making Nik inquire with a sigh.
”What about that walking lizard mutation?”
”Still working on it,” came a detached reply. It seemed like it was the achievement of figuring out a way to handle the spirit bones that made Lola act out of her character or... she was simply repressing her true self.
With the apparent good news, Nik stood up and Pickle once again turned into a casual outfit to keep undesired gazes away from his— what she loved to call— bodacious visage. Nik could never correct her and well... who wouldn't love to be called bodacious once in a while? Ready and more than satisfied, Nik began waking the girls up. He had been careful with their clothes. Cindy's outfit would always cover most of her body since she now wears her hero costume underneath every single day. In fact, if it wasn't for Nik simply teleporting Cindy out of her clothes, the clothing covering her nethers would have been torn and tarnished already.
With soft groans, both of them slowly woke up and after looking around curiously, still reeling from their earlier 'mischief', they began dressing up with Nik holding no bars in commenting about their bodies.
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”There they are!” Within moments a few guards found the idling trio and brought them to the throne room and the first thing to greet their eyes was a somber environment. A dark expression flickered on everybody's face and when they entered, everybody's gaze focused on Nik. Of course, everybody in the room knew that he could move around without letting others know, and given the mystical nature of escape, they all held Nik as the orchestrator.
However, before T'Challa could speak up, Albert stood up, a little out of character for him as he thundered, in the presence of a king no less. ”Where were you?!” his inquiry instantly pressed Cindy into the corner and while she sought out help from Nik and Anna, all she got in return was twitching lips and eyelids. Her enhanced perception when it came to Nik did allow her to understand that the youth himself was somehow enjoying her current predicament and if that wasn't evident, Anna accidentally squeaked a giggle extremely softly.
”Ugh, um, I was at... that place where Nik took us. Nik, tell my dad where you took us,” Cindy showed a surprising bout of shamelessness.
Whispering a 'touche' Nik looked at everyone present and inquired, ”Did you guys check the...”