"Panel-kun, if I accidentally lost this virus pellet and some lucky guy picked it up, would it set off some heaven-defying path to godhood?"
Jiu Ming lightly tossed the "virus pellet" in his hand. As the replication progressed, its form gradually became more complete—especially those faint "tentacles" drifting outward in all directions. They looked only three or four centimeters long, yet upon closer inspection, gave one the feeling that they stretched incredibly, impossibly far...
[If it remains only within that person's world... it is possible. But more likely, it would likewise give rise to Twisted Aberrations.]
"Forget that. How much potential does this thing have?"
[With sufficient source, it could fully develop into a second Mysterious Shop. I also discovered something within it similar to my own existence, but its consciousness dissipated within an extremely brief cycle.]
"Mm, probably because it lacks a 'fixed' state..." Although Panel-kun had judged it to have considerable potential, at this scale... it probably did not even qualify as a so-called fertilized egg. Wanted to grow? First it had to ask whether Panel-kun was willing!
Though Jiu Ming had replicated such a bizarre thing, he simply did not believe Panel-kun could remain indifferent while he did something like this.
"What else?"
[Its energy-storage capacity will increase as it grows. Under my complete control, aside from its scale, the rest can synchronize with the Mysterious Shop.]
"That's a bit redundant..."
Jiu Ming muttered. What he wanted was not something exactly identical to the Mysterious Shop, but something that could synchronize with the Mysterious Shop's ever-growing power system while retaining a certain capacity for growth. That way, it could be used to carry the purification mechanism on Hairball.
As for Panel-kun being able to control this thing, it was originally an identical object. How could it possibly