The geic sample was worse than shit. It was degraded by the ravages of time over many millennia and the parts that seemed to be just missing or 'cwed' out didn't help. I didn't gain much but the basic principles that went into designing it long ago were somewhat disible. Boosted growth, enhanced ans, strength and endurance were the simple oo find but I could feel fragments of others too but those parts were far too damaged to dis. Annoying but not much was lost, it would have been o have what I assume is Astartes genes but even from this fragment I could tell that the Lictor's physiology was parable if not superior to this. I was curious about the an they had to absorb knowledge through eating the flesh of their enemies but even that just so I could use my simir ability better. Most other capabilities ur space marines weren't too tempting for me, my current body could already do most things they could but better. Now that that's taken care of let's sider the elephant in the room, I don't think I push it much further. The . The chaos corrupted ream of the souls, the home of some of the most terrifying and dangerous beings in this universe. I sat down on the floor and crossed my legs, I'd like to have as muy focus on what I'm doing if I doing this. I closed my eyes and number my senses ected to my body, I could still feel it clearly in the bay mind but like this, my soul sense was much cleared. My soul as I call it looks like the humanoid form I'd structed instead of my inal body from before. Huh, that was iing, I raised my arm in this state and watched the weird energy it was made of. It was different from the other souls down there, they were dim and glowed in a whiteish colour while my soul looked more solid and instead of white it was closer to gold. The distin between myself and everyone else was rather clear bined with that my soul shone much brighter than any of the souls I could see through the dark o, no, the . When I was staring at my arm I suddenly realized that I had moved it, something that I couldn't do when I was floating listlessly 'up' there before transmigrating here...or was this reination? I recollected myself and quickly checked over my range of motion and I found that I could move my body just as easily as I could outside of here but now came the less certais. I willed myself to move, not with any part of my body I just told my soul with my force of will to move. It obeyed and with a feeling of detat I floated away, I pa first but I realized that I'd just removed my soul from my body, sort of like an astral proje. I left behind a tether to the body I'd left behind and I could still feel what my body went through with that but it was getting he further I went. I reattached myself to my body to check the other stuff I wanted, now came an iing one, could I use the powers of my new body as just a soul? If I could it would prove that I wasn't just a soul inhabiting the body but that it was my body and that it in turn was affeg my soul. From what I knew, in this universe, the soul should be the refle of the person in the immaterial universe but that was a dumbed-down description. After all, Tau were people and they barely had a soul, bnks had 'ive' souls because of their geid Nes didn't have souls despite beiient beings. Yes, I khey had once long ago but it was ripped away if it was just the refle of who they were then it should have reformed if they stayed the same people a had not, they were soulless beings inhabiting livial bodies and were steadily going insane oer the other. I didn't know what it told people about me as a person that they were my favourite fa but I liked my crazy sci-fi ons and the Nes had the most overpowered, bullshit ons imagihey stuffed stars into wrist-mounted unchers for fucks sake and their Silent King's dais owered by the broken fragment of one of their gods. I recollected myself after promising myself to get some toys from the Nes once I was fident enough to do so. I stared down at my arm and guided by the familiar instinct I forced it to morph and to my astonishment my soul obeyed. My regur human arm transformed into dozens of white tendrils glowing with the same golden light I was. Right, this was my soul, I should have full trol of it just like my body, it was so human to not even be able to trol your own body and I was beyond that now. This thought didn't disturb me in the slightest, I k should have, humans have a natural distaste for ge but I accepted it wholeheartedly. If being something more was my reward for struggling in this universe until the end of my who knows how long life then so be it. Now came the part I wasn't too sure about, the clear water that I kneure soul energy was coating my soul like a sed skin, it flowed in small streams along my skin like it had a mind of its own but the moment I thought about one particur stream going up between my breasts being annoying it shifted sifted in an instant, now going around it. I was astonished but with a few more tests I realized that it obeyed my thoughts, no that wasn't quite right, I didn't have to and it. I just had to express what I wanted and it rushed to please me as fast as it could which put a smile on my face. It was cute, like a cat I had before dying. When he was being hat little shit could be the most vicious ball of fur oh if he wanted. He died before me, having grown up alongside me he was getting very old by the time I turned 13 and he passed soon after that. I wasn't sure what to use this water for though, it was nid all but it was her a lot of energy nor did I know how to use psychic stuff. I wasn't sure I wao get more of it now, that wave of disgust that hit me before was disturbing and sidering how little of the stuff actually touched my soul, I'd rather die than take a dip in the endless o of the stuff. Little by little could work but for now the only way I knew how to do that was by abs chaos-tainted biomass. The geic tempte robably so messed up because I pulled the chaotiergy out of it as I absorbed it not that it would have been much better when whole. I o set goals for myself for the time when I got off this barren rock,I need someone who would be willing to teach me how to use Psychic stuff.I o learn how to get the memories of people I absorb in case 1. is a bust.Stock up on as muergy from biomass as I could, having a foreseeable expiry date on myself was rather disheartening.I want to get some Ne toys plus I might be able to incorporate neis into my body which would be cool. (optional)Get some other cyberics to see if I interface with it in case 4. is a bust.Maybe help out in pces so the gaxy doesn't go to shit. (optional)Yeah, that was a great list. I'd like to keep to it for the foreseeable future. For the st test, I tried extending the clear water towards the dark sea below me. Let's call it soul energy from now to stay less fusing, so the soul energy as eager as it was to fulfil my wishes extended down from my feet and reached halfway down towards the 's surfabsp;Well, I clearly miscalcuted how far down it was, the soul energy was unwilling to detach fully from me so I didn't force it too lest I lose it all and instead I morphed my leg to extend down like I was some poor Mr Fantastic imitation. Whehin thread of soul energy touched the surface of the I felt my blood run cold as for a single moment I felt like I sehe ey of the and the ey of it sensed me. The thread of clear water diluted and thied as it slurped up rge quantities of energy. I started to feel disgust setting in but I held on, keeping the thread now as thick as my thigh ected to the . I didn't eveo pull on the energy as it came at me like a torrent, I wasn't sure if it was eager to be purified or if it just wao corrupt me that much more for my ability to purify it. As it turns out my soul is much more resistant to human feelings such as disgust, I felt it just as heavily as I did before but it didn't stop me from fog oask at hand, colleg as much of this stuff as I could. I khat while I was ected I could sehrough the energy for a dista the things inside could also sense me. The revulsion threateo overwhelm even my soul but the energy was also getting purified along the way, it was far slower thae I ulling energy into me but it helped me pull more. I felt several of the things swimming in this disgusting o close in on me like they were sharks cirg a bleeding prey. I forced the e to snap but to my irritation, the still inated energy was ging stubbornly onto the e. As I felt the demoing closer and closer to the still holding bridge I was starting to panic a bit, I didn't know how to protect my soul from demons and I most certainly didn't want them chilling in my purified pond of soul energy. "Break!" I ordered with as muy will f the and to be as I could manage and blessedly with the bination of my purification weakening the energy the thing snapped. The mix of and soul energy coalesced around me like a protective bubble as the two fought for the right to be closer to me. Despite the energy being more vicious and its natural ability to corrupt the pure soul energy, with me purifying it at a much faster rate than that corruption it lost out. Slowly but surely the whole mass of energy got purified and now my soul floated in what could be a ke's worth of pure soul energy. I then noticed that my body was twitg on the ground with its eyes rolled bato its head, it seemed the experience was a bit much to it. I slipped bato it and with the full strength of my soul now behind my will I easily fought through the lingering waves of revulsion. Well, that was certainly an experience.