Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What?-Chapter 1554: Unexpected Permutations

<Alright, I think your theory about our current lord has a lot more merit than i had previously thought. >

=You think?!=

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After the moment of parasitic manifestation had passed, Logos and Pathos immediately instructed Zhen Liu to do that again.

Unfortunately, that was an impossible request...but not for lack of trying.

It was simply due to the simple fact that he was out of the specific ether he needed to pull off a trick like that again.

"And before either of you ask me to load up on more possibly cannibalistic tendencies, I’m still digesting a fuckton of conflicting aether inside of my stomach. Maybe wait until after I...wait...I can just use the other types of energy in my belly."

<= That works too. =>

What followed after this affirmation was a solid hour of him empowering his kaijin with a multitude of weird aether that was bubbling and boiling in the confines of his stomach.

The results were, as expected, weird as fuck.

A lot of the materials that Zhen Liu had eaten weren’t purely one type of aether or the other, but rather, a mix of aether in varying concentrations.

For example, one of the things Zhen Liu had eaten during his rampage was a dummy made of a material called Swirling White Storm Citrine, a type of stone that had rich concentrations of thunder- and snow-type aether.

Naturally, he directed the aether gathered from this stone towards Hurricroak since the thunder-type aether was richer than the snow-type.

The result was that, aside from her aether power level spiking, her skin had gone from neon blue to ice-white. Not only that, but her arms and legs had involuntarily spawned arctic fox and polar bear fur.

Evidently, Hurricroak was less than pleased about her sudden change in appearance.

[Okay, I don’t mind the furs, but white is not my color. I look like one of those rejected monster girl doll designs for a knock-off yeti or something,] Hurricroak complained.

[I think it would be more accurate to say you’re more like one of those Wolverine Frogs like the ones from the animal picture book section of the library,] Porcelain Doll observed. [Although, I don’t think they live anywhere cold...]

[Frogs are cold-blooded, that tracks,] Hurricroak noted.

Another example was a piece of wood that was called a Geyser Redwood Log. Like the name implied, it was a mix of Ignarii and Aquarii aether wrapped in wood-aligned aether. Zhen Liu and his kaijin had acquired this bundle of weird wood ages ago when they raided the mansion of the late Marquis de Howlite, may the gods damn his soul for all eternity, but Zhen Liu never had gotten around to using the stuff for any kaijin creation in particular. Mostly because he couldn’t figure out what the fuck kind of desire worked with that particular aether distribution.

Out of curiosity, and because he had an abundance of this particular aether concentration anyways, Zhen Liu distributed it to both Blazejudicator and Nepherage in equal measure.

The results were even weirder than what happened with Hurricroak.

[Bleh... why do i feel like I’m about to vomit?] Nepherage complained. [I haven’t attempted to eat anybody today.]

[My feet suddenly feel—whoa!]

[BY THE POWERS OF CHAOS! YOU HAVE FACES!] Razorstella screamed in shock over the radical transformations of her fellow kaijin. [Pretty faces too!]

Instead of a simple power and palette swap, both Nepherage and Hurricroak underwent radical physical changes that made them look like entirely different kaijin.

Nepherage’s horns had somehow shrunk to look less demonic and become more elegant, while her usually mottled black and red coloring added in splashes of blue and green. Not only that, but the mouth covering that made her look like a demonic, faceless warrior had somehow transformed into a wooden face mask that made it appear as if she had a noblewoman’s face instead. Combined with the fact that she now had visible veins of water showing on her skin, Nepherage had gone from a demonic jade warrior woman to looking like a nature spirit. She was...ambivalent about her new look.

[Having a mouth feels...weird.] Nepherage complained. [How do you deal with this?]

[Lip balm and stain, baby girl.] Hurricroak joked. [That’s a temporary form so you probably don’t need it.]

[Hmmm.]

[I have a physical body and I hate it,] Blazejudicator mumbled. [why did this even happen?!]

Blazejudicator, on the other hand, underwent a significantly more dramatic transformation.

By default, Blazejudicator’s body was actually mostly made of spiritual fire that was wreathed by strange metallic embellishments that more or less defined their form.

The moment the aether extracted from the Geyser Redwood was infused to his being, Blazejudicator had suddenly developed a wooden mannequin body that appeared within his regular flaming one and incorporated the robes and metal accessories that would normally define his form.

Needless to say, the normally wispy kaijin didn’t enjoy the sudden development of having a physical body, even a temporary one.

[I mean...do you at least feel more powerful?] Springerdermain asked.

[Kind of?] Blazejudicator hesitantly answered. [I feel like my usual fire techniques are weaker than usual, but it also feels like I can do even weirder tricks with some of the flames.]

[Like what?]

Instead of explaining, Blazejudicator pointed a finger towards one of the training dummies that hadn’t been devoured by Zhen Liu’s rampage and fired off a large seed that was wrapped in the dark green flames of [Patience]. The moment the seed made contact, the seed exploded before transforming into a massive tree that wrapped around the dummy like a giant anaconda.

[Huh...impressive,] Screamira praised. [It looks sturdy.]

[Yeah, that tree is actually easily breakable from the inside, but the target is instilled with so much Patience that their perception of time is distorted by a terrible degree,] Blazejudicator explained. [A task that would take seconds, ends up causing them to pause for about...a hundred years.]

[That’s horrific.]

[Terribly so.]

Eventually, after cycling through empowering all of the present kaijin and seeing what strange transformations had occurred as a result of [Cipactli’s Feast], Zhen Liu had managed to extract all of the conflicting aether from the confines of his stomach.

Well, most of it.

There were some that he didn’t want to risk exposing the kaijin to quite yet, so he ended up reabsorbing them into himself and strengthening the foundations of his cultivation in weird ways once again.

He wasn’t entirely sure what would happen once the light- and darkness-attributed aether fully settled into his formula, but he was going to find out later.

Regardless, once he had finished practicing his new technique, Zhen Liu was more or less pooped.

"There’s a non-zero chance I’m going to have to use that technique on another person, isn’t there?" Zhen Liu griped.

<=Most likely, but do try to avoid those situations if you can,=> Logos and Pathos answered while pouring over the new data they acquired. <= We care little for human morality, but you seem to care a lot about it. =>

"Aye..."

Once Zhen Liu caught his breath, he sat back up, recalled the kaijin, and began to make plans in his head on how to spend the rest of the evening. Before that, though, he did a quick check with Logos and Pathos about some developments he had just been made aware of.

Namely, what was going on in the Bronze Bell Kingdom.

"So...if Alain and Buzza are getting involved in that ticking bomb, do you guys think I should have evacuation plans in mind for Zhen Yue and her groom-to-be?" Zhen Liu asked. "I mean, I don’t want their upcoming nuptials to get fucked up because of it, but I’d rather them be alive and mad at me for ruining their wedding than them dead because of an unforeseen incident."

Zhen Liu had wanted to send some kaijin power their way, but he didn’t exactly have anyone available at the moment to do so. He had thought to make one at a moment’s notice to serve the role, but he felt it was kind of fucked to make such a one-note kaijin.

Nobody wants to know that they were only created for a singular, temporary purpose after all.

<We are actually way ahead of you on that,> Pathos assured Zhen Liu. <We made sure to send over zakos the moment Arachnidame and Lacerage received that first letter about how one of Santiago’s cousins sent them a cursed statue like a bastard. Those zakos should be arriving soon.>

"Oh good...wait, what was that about a cursed statute?"

=Besides that, your cousin has actually started to show some incredible aptitude with [Chaos] as a whole. I wouldn’t be surprised if she somehow created her own kaijin as well. Well, I suppose the term in this case would be "majin," since they’re more of an extension of her...=

"Okay, that’s enough ominous implications for today," Zhen Liu eventually settled as he got up to his feet and began to walk back into the greater library. "My vacation begins...now!"