Chapter 111 Power Play I

“You’ve piqued my interest. Now, answer my question. What are you?” Victor asked slowly, as he looked at Maggie who was lying on the floor.

Less than two seconds after Victor spoke, Maggie suddenly stood up from the ground and bowed towards Victor, with one knee on the ground. Though her face was not visible, she had returned to her usual calm and expressionless face. “Yes. Right now, I can’t say exactly what I am, only that I am a combination of different plant monsters, all in one body.” She answered, in a calm voice.

Victor was taken unawares to say the least. ‘What’s up with the sudden loyalty?’ He asked himself. HE could almost predict that she would attack the moment he let down his guard, so he did. Unexpectedly, the monster called Maggie still didn’t make a move and maintained her position.

“I see, but can you explain why you are bowing? I’m lost.” Victor said, as his eyes travelled across the room. He didn’t need to even scout the room to know how everyone else felt about this, or their reactions. They had all stopped whatever it is they were doing, and to say their faces showed surprise would be an understatement, nearing shock was more like it.

“Well, you killed the leader, so you have become the new leader. Also, you have furthered my evolution in a way I never thought possible, something I never could do myself…”

Hearing this, Victor couldn’t help but think where she was going with this. “…So, I beg you to become my master.” She completed her sentence, raising every brow that heard her except for Victor’s.

Werzelya for one couldn’t believe a sentence of what she just heard. She had nothing to even say about the matter. Surprises had been popping up one after the other so far in just a matter of days that she just might have run out of surprise. The thing she had in mind though, was perhaps the same thing every other person present had in mind also, and it was quite simple.

‘What is he going to do?’ She questioned herself. Victor did just kill the leader of the most secret and top organizations in the world, and defeated the second in command.

‘Well, I did plan to do this the moment that idiot began..’ Victor thought to himself.

“Then-“

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-Time Skip; Some hours later-

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“I don’t need to- actually, I will have the meeting with all the board members. Schedule one in two hours, and make sure to send the notification to everyone who is available and can come here before that time. You know what to do.” Victor said, as he and Maggie walked towards her lab, where she spends most of her time.

Werzelya went somewhere else, as she had gotten enough of Victor for the time being at least, and her job was already done the moment Victor met with the leader(who’s now dead by the way).

Victor accepted the position of the head of the organization, but he had another idea in mind. He also accepted Maggie as his personal subordinate, and not just one in the organization. Also, the name if the organization was Under Current. Such a normal name for the mightiest secret organization, Victor thought. It sounded like something some person made with his friends when they were young and stupid, only for it to turn out big as time went by, and then the name couldn’t be changed anymore.

Back at Maggie’s lab, Victor was really impressed with the things he saw. He was no scientist, and had absolutely no idea of whatever Maggie was doing there, or even what any of the expensive looking machines she had there were for. He did see in tubes the bodies of different plant monsters, and some other types of monsters were also there. There also were capsules that just like the tubes contained bodies, and there was even the body of human female in one of the capsules. When Victors aw the human body, he immediately noticed the resemblance between Maggie and the human. ‘Perhaps this is the one she got the specimen to make a human appearance from.’ Victor thought to himself.

After walking around the lab and looking at everything that was there, Maggie did some explanations about some things, and with that the tour was done. Victor was curious why Maggie became how she became, and even had enough intelligence to do what she was going, and all as some plant monster.

All the plant monster Victor had come in contact with, not like he had come in contact with many, but all of them didn’t show any sign of such level of intelligence.

Turned out that Maggie, just like Werzelya and the vampires, came from a different world, and after a dungeon outbreak somehow found herself(well, more like itself actually. I’m only using feminine pronouns because it currently looks like female) outside the dungeon.

To cut the long story short, after reading her own memories recently to see what she was like and to find more of her kind, Maggie found out that she was the one of her kind, as for what she could get from her memory.

She used to be a carnivorous plant monster, and with every creature she ate, she would become smarter and more intelligent, but she wouldn’t gain the physiological advantages or features of the creature. It went on like that till she ate the first plant monster, and this time though there was no advancement in brain power, there was a change in her body. From there, she went on evolving herself until she could move effectively around, and communicate to some extent.

At that point was when she was discovered by the previous leader of the organization, brought back to the organization after they had a fight and he won, and with the lab and uncountable number of experiment, she was able to get her current form and powers.

“I started looking for ways to integrate other creatures into myself to become stronger, but this is as far as I have gone.” Maggie said, while moving her hand from top to bottom pointing at herself. She had spotted different forms over the years, but this was her most comfortable. There was no use having the other ones, as there was no advantage in having another form apart from her plant one, since it didn’t grant any additional perk. It was just like a skin and nothing more.

Victor did need smart subordinates, and the thing would practically worship him later after one or two evolutions, but the thing was that he would have to kill it first.

‘I haven’t tried it with a plant monster, and I’m not even sure if they have a soul to revive. It’s mostly similar to AI with some emotions.’ Victor thought to himself. ‘It would be more useful alive than dead, so let it stay like this.’

“That’s quite the story and all. It’ll soon be two hours, let’s head towards the meeting area.” Victor said.

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(Bonus chapter for 100 powerstones coming)