Negotiating terms?
To the Seaborn consciousness, where individuals completely obeyed the whole, this concept was unfamiliar and strange.
At this point, Ishar-mla also realized that the other party was not one of her kin, but an outsider.
She should have erased him immediately, but there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity in his consciousness, so Ishar-mla chose to observe him first.
Ishar-mla isolated Vane from The We Many and spoke with him alone.
Feeling that she had not immediately kicked him out of the group chat, Vane breathed a small sigh of relief.
[Abnormal individual, explain your purpose.]
Vane did not dare delay and immediately packaged his intentions into a condensed stream of information before sending it over.
Ishar-mla examined it in silence.
She was not worried that the information stream itself might be dangerous—trying that trick before the consciousness of The We Many, which could assimilate all things?
That would be courting death.
The information stream smoothly merged into Ishar-mla's perception.
In an instant, a series of images unfolded within it:
Using blood replacement to partially alter Seaborn forms and establish mental links, even preliminarily attempting to share energy across different bodies...
The earlier content was novel to Ishar-mla, but still within her understanding.
Assimilation was an instinct engraved into the Seaborn genes.
Until the core concept of "absorbing damage and converting it into energy" was clearly explained.
Bzzzt—!!!
In the depths of the deathly still sea abyss, the steady currents of energy around that mountain-range-sized body suddenly lit up.
The tranquil undercurrents were stirred by an invisible force, releasing a low rumble.
Ishar-mla's will underwent a violent fluctuation unlike any she had experienced since her birth.
Like a tsunami, that fluctuation instantly swept through the entire consciousness network of The We Many!
At the same time, every Seaborn