[Dr. Kerenski / Klint / Keps ]

I crawled along the vein, ignoring the thinner paths into which I could no longer fit.

The heart. My target was the heart. It was weak, barely pumping blood now.

A segmented wall unlocked before me. I crawled into the chamber of the heart and stayed there, letting my murder-shield decimate the monster's heart from within.

Silver blood, power bloomed all around me.

I noticed that my tentacles were growing paler, that I was becoming less myself... and more of something... OTHER.

Something that wanted to dominate and feast.

Argh!

I retracted my threads before they lost their emerald luster and let the Lymphagonal shield absorb the power of the heart, extracting only the experience gained.

The whale screeched horrifically as its heart was being cut up from within.

I ignored it, reinforced, tightened the dodecahedron shield around me, so that its cries would not bother me and let the Lymphagonal killers do their job of finishing off the heart.

As the heart of the beast slowly died under my ongoing assault, I stilled my soul and carved the memories that were Klint / Keps out of myself with [Sectus-Anima]. I didn't want them to completely dissolve into me as I grew, wanted to preserve my two reliable guides in this insane, new world.

I had missed some bits, but it didn't matter that much. So what if I was a bit more decisive and murderous now? It's not like I was a nice person. It's not like I didn't turn the vile scavengers that wanted to steal my blueprints of death from my laboratory into shadows and dust!

I fused whatever dead memories that I could define as the two Alanians into Legonnie.

There. You are safe my friends... Now you sleep.

I listened. No more thumps. No more cries. The heart was dead. The whale made no sound now.

I glanced at my experience.

Experience:

11'023/800

Was it time to level up? Was I safe behind my Sectus-shield now?

[Level up]

[Get out of the dead whale and seek a safe place]