After hearing what it meant to be unwritten from Michael, Luke decided to take some time to be with his mother and father instead of planning on how to deal with the Krillitanes. The lingering dread from the explanation gave him a hard reality check and made him desire time with his family while also hoping that his fathers' souls from his previous life found peace in their new lives too. Despite him being unable to know if they too were given new lives by the Primal Powers or given a chance to rest, that did not prevent Luke from holding that hope close to his soul.
As both JJ and Lois got to spend quite a lot of time with their son, excluding the time that he was required to attend school, Luke thoroughly enjoyed the silly misadventures the family trio got up to. From family picnics in areas that Luke knew weren't in the path of aliens invasions to trips outside of the United Kingdom, the fond memories of family time seemed to be a soothing balm to a worn soul like himself. It even gave him a deeply profound sense of relief as if both his fathers from his previous life were always watching over their beloved son in this current life, which ended up letting some of the built up stress be purged from his aching soul.
Even now, as Luke knew this brief peace was slowly beginning to expire, there was a lingering thought in his mind. He noticed it when he was able to move somewhat fluidly during the fight against the leader of the Sycorax and now after being returned from Death's Garden. He noticed that he was able to move without much consequence despite how his physical form should be frail and barely able to move adequately due to the toxicity damage from the Abyssal Sea, yet during those moments, he had to ignore this strange discrepancy.
Now that he had time to properly think on it and wasn't in a high stress situation, Luke decided to ponder on what was actually happening. Before he was born into this new life, the System mentioned how his soul was stained by the Abyssal Sea's waters and enabled him to utilize far more darker and chaotic forms of magic. This was obviously meant to tell him that, as the Lord of Anima in this iteration, he could wield the power of Shadow Anima from the RuneScape universe along with other forms of Anima that hadn't been explored, yet this was not without cost. It decreased the chance of physical illnesses like cancer or parasitical infections significantly while making psychological illnesses more likely to occur.
Then, at two years old when he used the Observe skill on his physical form, it came with a small debuff of a fifty percent reduction in his physical skills at all times. He learned from Michael that, due to how his soul had been affected so strongly by the waters of the Abyssal Sea, all of his physical stats couldn't exceed 100 points and any further wasn't possible. At the time, this had upset him and Michael informed him about how adults usually had a strength value of ten anyway. While it made him happy at the time, now was different.
He decided to pull up the debuff notification to take a glance at it directly.
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Debuff: Soul-Body Gestalt Damage
Duration: Permanent (until Resolved)
Description: From touching something beyond the Rules of the Universe, meant to break down the structure of a living soul, this debuff makes the host's physical form suffer while granting little benefit. Unlike other typical debuffs, this effect persists beyond death of the physical form as it is tied to the host's soul directly.
Effect(s):
- All physical stats are 50% as effective as normal.
- Physical Stats cannot exceed 100 in any stat (ex: Strength 100, Agility 100)
- Physical forms will gain the trait: [Weakness III]
- Physical forms will degrade within ten years of creation.
- Chances of physical illnesses, infections, and infestations are significantly reduced.
- Chances of psychological illnesses are moderately increased.
Treatment(s):
While this is treatable, it requires a lengthy period of time supported by life-supporting elements (either through magical or technological means). The time required to treat and/or cure this debuff is at least 10 Years.\
- Note: No items that can affect time (ex: TARDIS or Voidship) can affect the temporal progression required to cure this effect, so ten years' time (Linear) is required.
- Note: Anima Mundi is considered a Life-supporting element, but cannot be used to treat you of this effect as it is intrinsic to your soul. You will need another form of life-supporting element to start treatment.
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"So that is why Michael said that," Luke thought to himself as he mulled over the debuff notification. "It was only two effects, but it really doesn't give me much to work with. I'm only frail in comparison to an adult human male, which is to be expected since I'm still a child, but considering that it is halving all my physical stats, it isn't impossible to still be at least five times as strong as a human male. What seems to be the most annoying thing about this debuff is that it will actively break my physical body down every ten years until it is cured."
Even after learning about all of this debuff's effects and ways to treat it, Luke was sure of one thing. He would need outside help, possibly The Doctor, to treat the damage to his soul unless he was able to find life-supporting elements on his own using his ship.
Before he could think more on this particular subject, a notification from the System he had never seen before showed up in his vision. This particular notification was different from all the others because it had a black background with crimson red text, which gave it a "I'm very dangerously important to the point it is life or death" vibe.
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[EMERGENCY SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
[Due to the actions of an external native force within a different Reality Iteration forcibly removing a transmigrated soul, an entropic force has been unleashed into other Reality Iterations. As you are among the few transmigrators affected by this entropic force, you have received this notification along with rewards to compensate you for unforeseen changes to your path in your new reality.]
[As this entropic force has been unleashed into your Iteration, rewards and skill evolutions have been issued.]
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"Wait, what?" Luke asked in a stunned manner as he finished reading the notification. He never heard about this strange {White Void} before and it was clearly not from the Whoniverse or from RuneScape.
Concerned that this new entropic force had done something irreparable to his stats, Luke immediately checked his [Profile]. He noted that some of the skills he had concerning world generation and the Anima Veil had been forcibly evolved due to its presence, seemingly forcing a stronger line of defense against entropic forces overall, but it didn't scare him as much as when he checked his boon about being the very essence of Anima Mundi. What he saw made him both surprised and afraid at the same time.
He noticed that beings who were created with Anima held a special resistance to the {White Void}'s effects and minor resistances to other forms of matter. This even included himself as his already very strong strange matter composition was made even stronger due to the {White Void}, yet that alone wasn't enough. Even now, the influence of the {White Void} reinforced his respawn mechanic and made it harder for someone to prevent him from respawning.
As for why it scares Luke?
It subtly destroys the image of humanity he projects even more and blurs the line between his humanity and divinity further. While he was, before the influence of the {White Void}, able to overpower the influences of the Pantheon using Anima, the influence of the {White Void} made it so he could permanently eliminate their domains. The Toymaker's domain of play couldn't even touch him, the Trickster's domain wouldn't dare interfere with his unless it wanted to be destroyed, and even Maestro's act of devouring music from humans wouldn't work on him or his creations. As for Sutekh's dust of death?
Well, now instead of just having Harold protect UNIT and the allies of the Doctor, Luke had other plans to protect them all.
"When is the events of the episode meant to begin?" Luke mentally inquired as he now had a small smile on his face.
"They should be starting soon," Michael replied quickly as he was both reviewing the Doctor's timeline and seeing the influence of the {White Void} working its way through everything. "You'll need to head to Deffry Vale School before the Doctor and Rose return. It is a requirement to be there before they come in so you can intervene with no problems."
Luke nodded slightly in return. He then began to plan out his next moves as time slowly ticked away...
==[DW:NG]==
Continued in: School Reunion I.
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