Monster Integration

"Amazing view, isn't it?" said a bald man appearing beside me. "Yes," I replied, without looking away at the sun that had just come out.

I am on the top of the statue, the tallest point in the village. From it, I could see the far and wide.

I have been seeing it nearly every day for the past twenty days but didn't feel bored even for a moment. The view is too amazing.

"I still remember like it was yesterday when Prime Hamil started working on the statue,"

"That man took his time. It took over a decade, but when he finished, it had blown everyone away," he said with his eyes turning blurry for a moment.

"That was millennia ago, right?" I asked. "Nine hundred and twenty-seven years," he replied.

"He made a masterpiece; I would have loved to meet the man," I said to that; the bald man smiled and shook his head. "For all his talent, the man wasn't nice," he replied.

"Still, he was brave," he added a moment later. To that, I couldn't help but nod.

People had been trapped here for over a millennium and in that time, they tried to escape. All failed, and among them, many lost their lives.

Prime Hamil was one of them.

I had read about all the escape attempts; he was the most comprehensive. When I read about it, I was very impressed. It is so complex that even after weeks, I haven't fully understood all the nuances of the thing he used.

The man used centuries to perfect it, but it still failed.

Soon, the sun had fully come out, and I descended the stairs. I could easily fly, but I like walking.

I reached its base in a few minutes and walked into the restaurant for breakfast.

Click!

An hour after that, I walked into my cottage.

I do this daily: wake up, freshen up, climb the statue, have breakfast, and then return to the house and work till the afternoon before going to lunch.

Then work again before going out to eat dinner.

Today is different. Because now my body and soul are fully healed. There is not a slightest strain on it that has remained.

It means I could finally practice my methods, but the question is, will I be able to?

I am pretty sure that I will be able to practice Garsonath Transformation. It is a changing method, and the information I have been provided states that I could use it.

I had confirmed this with Prime Rava. She said that as long as the element of strengthening, I should be able to.

I am worried about Talaras.

It is not a strengthening method; it is a constitution method, but it has the element of strengthening, and I am afraid the energies might interfere.

That is why I created a few ways. To use some, I might need to get out of this place, but before I try them, I will try to practice the method conventionally.

I appeared in the practice room and activated the alertness to the highest.

There is an unwritten rule about not snooping. I have not found a single instance of it, but I need to be careful where the forbidden power is involved.

I should practice Garsonath first. It is the method I practice in the morning, but I am impatient to try talaras.

I appeared in the center, and all the clothes on my body disappeared before I sat down. A moment later, a powerful formation appeared with many resources on it.

I have all the resources, I need for my practice, but some of the resources are from this realm.

This realm is filled with resources.

These are the ones I bought and quite cheaply. I had exchanged the healing resources for them. Their value is not even a tenth of these.

I looked at everything one last time and began.

Immediately, I felt the suppression, and I could stop. There will be a backlash, but since I have just started, it will be manageable. I will recover within a few hours.

I didn't stop.

It had just been a suppression, not a restriction, which would have made me stop.

It might make things difficult, but I will push through it. I need to try it at least once to see the effects. If they do not meet my desires, I have other options.

I breathed in rhythm, and it was hard with the suppression, which seemed to slowly get stronger with each breath I took.

A few minutes passed, and I am kind of regretting, not stopping when I could.

The suppression had become very powerful.

So much that I am having difficulty breathing, and it is just the starting; the further I go, the more difficult it becomes.

I could stop, but the backlash would be powerful enough to keep me in bed for weeks. If I didn't stop and the suppression affected me later, then I could die.

It's quite a conundrum, and I had thought about it before deciding to continue with practice.

Since I chose this, I might as well go through with it. It was a decision that might have killed me, but I decided not to think about it further and focused on the method, which is going to be even more difficult soon.

Minutes passed, and it got difficult, far more than I had thought.

I needed to use all my willpower to breathe, and my breathing needed to be even and smooth. The slightest hiccup will stop the method and create a backlash that will kill me.

The sweat began to pour down my body like a river, but still, I continued.

I can not stop; my survival depends on it.

I took breath after breath; I thought nothing but rhythm, which I had to maintain till finally, I took the last breath and finished the session.

I closed my eyes and fell asleep instantly. I didn't even think about entering my core to see the results.

My eyes opened, and I realized I had slept for nearly two and a half hours.

Immediately, I closed my eyes and appeared in my core. In front of the meta-scan and other data.

"Fuck!" I cursed.

Something unexpected happened—something I had not expected.

I thought one of the unexpected results would be me merging with more forbidden power. It had happened a few times in a specific environment.

This time, the method took the same amount of forbidden energy and other resources it usually does.

The difference is that it pushed them deeper. It is deeper than what the method pushes and pushes very deeper, but now it has gone even deeper inside me.

Not just inside me but also in my constitution.

All my research and the books I read proved this. That the deeper the forbidden power, the greater the benefits one receives. However, the things also become dangerous.

Right, I do not care much about the danger, especially when I look at my stretched constitution.

Bringing forbidden power to its deepest will help me stabilize it. Which made me somewhat relieved, because method stretching has me really scared.

I pushed those thoughts away and studied the data when I noticed something.

I tapped on it and looked at other data when a smile appeared on my face.

"Interesting," I said.

It seemed like I might be able to increase the forbidden power in sessions of talaras. I am not fully sure, but what I noticed offers a window into it.