Kingly Adventures

After a few minutes, Ark calmed down. Alexander used his past viewing ability to view what had happened since he only wanted to upgrade Ark and not create an entirely new species. Alexander saw that his king's might coupled with his intention to upgrade Ark from cybernetic entity to metallic lifeform had resulted in birth of Ark. The laws governing the king's bloodline recorded everything a king experienced during his life. At the start, the kings had to know what they were doing in order to make something from king's might. As time passed, the databank increased and the future kings only had to make their intention known. The laws would produce what the kings wanted on the basis of his intention and the knowledge they had, if the king didn't know what he exactly wanted, in exchange for a portion of the king's might.

The laws grew powerful by absorbing the king's might. Now, in the past, a king had metallic lifeform as subjects so the laws had blueprint for metallic lifeform. Alexander would have got a metallic lifeform in exchange for the king's might but Alexander didn't have enough to complete the project so he absorbed the force from his surroundings and converted into the king's might. The rate of absorption was many times more than the rate of conversion and the excess amount of force was putting heavy strain on his cells so his cells on instinct transferred the excessive force to all the things it could pass it on to, the surroundings and Ark's body. The heavy strain on his body caused his magic to act up and it began to heal his body. Some of the magic also got transferred to Ark's body and formed the connection between the newly formed soul and body. Since, there was not enough magic to sustain the connection, force took magic's place and the new lifeform was born.

Since, Alexander created the new species even unknowingly, the spark of creation in a very rudimentary form, formed within his soul but Alexander is not strong enough to sense it, much less, use it again. Alexander then, turned his attention to the Galaxy to know that if anyone had noticed his presence. Alexander sweated in panic by what he saw, every force sėnsɨtɨvė had sensed the tremendrous flow of force towards this planet and almost all of them were making their way towards this planet. The fastest person would reach here in a few hours. The flow of force had distorted the gaze of the people who tried to peer into the events happening on this planet so Alexander was safe. The actions of Alexander had made this unremarkable planet into a nexus in living force.

Alexander called out to Ark who was practising to use his newfound limbs and getting attuned to his new found senses. Ark had an expression of wonder on his face as he experienced every new thing like feeling of slight shock when colliding with a massive boulder, feeling of pain when he pulled his hair, feeling of wind sweeping against his body, the smell of earth and moisture in the air, etc. Alexander had peered into Ark's mind to know all this. Ark's brain was a supercomputer and the speed at which it was working was extraordinary, within minutes, Ark had recorded, analysed and understood various experiences he was undergoing with the help of the datapad he was holding by hacking into online psychiatrist courses available on holonet. Ark also now had the perfect balance which no human child of his age would have. All these activities of Ark had utterly wrecked the surrounding making it look as if a battle had taken place here. Alexander had an idea to distort the events happening here. Alexander created thousands

of caverns below the crust, all of them were connected through narrow openings while some of them were separate. Most of them were filled with poisonous gases,lava, freezing waters, boiling mists and other environmental hazards, while the rest had nothing in them but few tons of ores which were already present below the crust, Alexander had just brought them out. Alexander also destroyed the realm gate. Alexander ordered Ark to set the return course to Dual.

After a few minutes, the ship took off and entered hyperspace leaving this new nexus far behind. Alexander let out a sigh of relief as he didn't have any support in the galaxy right now. Alexander then called Ark towards him. Alexander wanted to ask Ark some questions.

Alexander, " Ark, how many droids do you think would be like you in this galaxy before you were changed by me?"

Ark had a pondering look on his face as he spoke up, " Master, I don't know. It is generally the old droids who show these characteristics but not many are able to develop as the databanks of the droids are periodically wiped clean in most businesses in order to save the money required to update the databanks. The droids which are employed in government buildings, hospitals, educational institutions and repair yards are not wiped clean as they require the droids to do repititive actions and wiping them clean would make the owners retrain the droids. After all, programmed knowledge and practical application are two different things. But, these droids are quite old as the owners don't buy a new droid till the last one becomes completely obselete, even then, it is employed somewhere else. Also, old family droids are also not wiped clean due to sentiments."

Alexander pondered the new information and thought, " Why the old droids develop these characteristics?" Alexander thought for a few minutes and theorised that the newly manufactures droids were like newly born children who already have information inbuild in their brains but have slow learning capabilities and they also don't have any emotions. All the things which a droid sees during the time it is online, gets recorded in it's databank. The droid could access this databank and very slowly, over the decades, it starts to develop a rudimentary independent thought process and begins to develop some semblance of emotions. Alexander thought, " But, can all the droids can develop like Ark?"

Alexander asked Ark, " What do you think enabled you to develop like this?"

Ark, " The man who owned me.."

Alexander interrupted Ark, " You are the first of your species, Ark. You have all the characteristics that a living being has. You are not a droid anymore, you are much more than that. You are ARK BALLASTIAN, the first of the BALLASTIAN RACE. How you see yourself, would have effect on the view of your entire race about themselves. Think of this, human evolved from apes millions of years ago, similar to them, Ballastians have evolved from droids. There is no need to think of yourself as a droid anymore."

Alexander watched as Ark confronted his doubts and with his quick thinking, overcame the starting ones. Alexander watched as the grey coloured soul of Ark got lighter. Alexander had originally thought that Ark's soul was of this colour as this was similar to his body's colour but now, he realised that the grey represented the negative thought and feelings of Ark. Alexander then examined his own soul and found that his was white in colour. Alexander watched as Ark started losing the emotional battle but when Alexander was preparing to pull Ark out, he saw Ark fighting back. Alexander watched as Ark's soul turned white and completely integrated in his body. Ark opened his eyes and said in a grateful voice, " Thank You, Master!!!"

Alexander, " Why?"

Ark, " It was your words that helped me in overcoming those dark thoughts." As Ark was thanking him, a new piece of information entered Alexander's mind. This was the final hurdle of creation. The first born of the new species have to come in terms with their existence, it was like Adam and Eve eating the apple from the tree of knowledge which made them aware of what they were and what they should do. Since, Ark was the only first born of his race and had overcame his challenge, so from now on, no identity crisis would take place in the future Ballastians. Another piece of information made Alexander sigh in relief, the spark of creation had gone completely dormant deep inside his soul and would not be able to be detected by anyone before he reaches godhood. This was a defensive mechanism of the spark to protect itself but Alexander would continue to remain vigilant.

Alexander watched as Ark's cells finally opened up to force and the midichlorians started entering his cells. Alexander threw up all the concealing charms he knew around themselves, in order to hide from any peeping toms. Alexander then began to examine his own soul to see if he can sense the spark of creation or not. Alexander sensed that his soul was not completely integrated in his body like Ark and remembered that his soul was connected with his body through his magic. Alexander had planned to strengthen this connection but the various conquests had made him forget about all this.

Alexander ordered Ark to wake him up when they reached Dual and went into deep meditation. Alexander started supplying magic to his soul and watched as his soul very slowly started to strengthen. Alexander theorised that the pace at which, his soul was strengthening, it would decades for his soul to integrate with his body. Alexander was quite frustrated at this thought. Alexander as a experiment stared channeling force into his soul. The speed of integration sped up by many times but still it was going to take 15 to 20 years before full integration. Alexander then started channelling his king's might also. The speed of integration sped up once again and Alexander theorised that it would take him 8 to 10 years for full integration if his capacity of king's might does not increase. Alexander thought, " Looks like I will have to gather more subjects. In this galaxy, gathering subjects is going to be most easy." Alexander started to make plans on how to increase his king's might while meditating.

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