It had once witnessed a complete loss of control.
"Devouring Giant Mouth" Karasong, an Apostle older than Nari.
Due to the inability to maintain a rational balance for a long time, ultimately lost control completely.
That once cunning existence turned into a live catastrophe only knowing to consume.
It devoured the territory it had painstakingly managed for thousands of years, along with all its subordinates and collections.
Eventually, it ended in self-devouring, leaving only a huge void behind.
To avoid such a fate, Apostles must find ways to maintain their rationality.
The most effective way is to cultivate subordinates:
By planting their power seeds into other organisms, establishing a special spiritual connection.
This connection not only transmits power, but the growth process of subordinates generates a special feedback energy.
This feedback, similar to the "Favor" mechanism in Wizard World, is more direct and rough.
When an Awakened’s strength increases, their mental structure produces order fluctuations.
These fluctuations are transmitted back to the Apostle’s body through the power seed, stabilizing those chaotic consciousnesses.
However, this process is far more difficult than imagined.
The Awakened converted by Wizards, though more rational, grow slowly in power.
Moreover, they often retain a considerable degree of independent consciousness, making complete control hard.
More critically, Wizards’ spiritual protections are often quite comprehensive, making forced conversion very unlikely to succeed.
Abyssal variants, though faster in growth, are more chaotic in nature.
During cultivation, unexpected mutations frequently occur, even possibly rebounding against their owner.
For Nari, an Innate Apostle, although its intelligence surpasses ordinary abyssal variants, its chaos is even deeper.
This contradiction places it in an almost unsolvable dilemma when cultivating subordinates.
Power infusion requires precise control, but its nature rejects any form of order;
It also longs for understanding and communication, yet its thought process completely mismatches other creatures.
As a temporary alternative, Apostles can influence the surrounding environment through energy radiation.
They actively release their power, inducing mutation and evolution in surrounding Abyssal Creatures.
These enhanced creatures produce weak feedback in a short time, barely maintaining the Apostle’s rational stability.
But this unconscious influence is negligible.
For an existence like Nari, on the brink of losing control, it’s like a drop in the bucket.
It needs active, substantial, stable feedback, not this dispensable residue.
Nari painfully lifted its head, choosing to contact its sole superior.
"Chai Ye, my lord..." It murmured this name in its heart, both in reverence and deep fear.
......
In the depths of the magma sea on the Abyss Ninth Layer, "Dragon-headed Demon" Chai Ye was conducting his daily exercises.
This Supreme Apostle’s appearance had long departed from any known creature’s category.
Three faces circled around a central giant eye, each face expressing different emotions and personalities.
When four pairs of blood-red giant wings spread, they could shield the entire sky, and the lower half of his giant serpent tail was covered with razor-sharp scales.
At this moment, Chai Ye was enduring the extreme pressure of the deepest part of the magma ocean.
This special magma sea not only had a temperature countless times higher than ordinary magma outside but also exerted intense gravitational pressure.
Yet for Chai Ye, this environment was perfect for honing his body.
By enduring pain, he strengthened his essence; pain, pressure, and the struggle on the brink of death, all served as catalysts for growth.
When Nari’s timid plea signal arrived, Chai Ye’s three faces simultaneously displayed extreme disgust.
"It’s that useless one again..." his voice boomed like a furnace:
"Unable to solve even such a basic problem, why did I ever think it was something useful?"
Chai Ye clearly remembered his first encounter with Nari.
At that time, it had just emerged from the will of the Primordial Abyss and emitted a suffocatingly powerful aura.
Chai Ye excitedly thought he had found a treasure.
Innate Apostle-level existences are extremely rare, usually possessing astonishing potential.
However, the more he interacted with Nari, the more disappointed Chai Ye became.
This so-called Innate Apostle was indeed strong, but as dumb as an ox.
More critically, during interactions, Nari’s chaotic thought mode even affected the stability of Chai Ye’s consciousness.
After each conversation, Chai Ye needed days to cleanse the polluted mental fragments.
For such basic skills as cultivating subordinates, Nari knew nothing.
No matter how patiently Chai Ye guided, it always made the same mistakes.
Either the power was too strong, killing the target directly, or control was lacking, leading to uncontrolled mutations.
What angry Chai Ye most was, Nari seemed never to learn from failures, repeating the same mistakes in the same naive way each time.
"Chai Ye, my lord..." Nari’s consciousness fluctuation was filled with grievance and despair:
"I... I really don’t know what to do... Every time I fail... Every time..."
"Shut up!" Chai Ye angrily swung his wings, stirring up a massive magma tsunami:
"I’m not your father nor your mother; for such an extremely stupid useless thing as you, I’m too lazy to bother with you anymore!"
He stopped his training, his massive body slowly rising, with three pairs of eyes simultaneously flashing a dangerous red light:
"I am currently busy preparing for the upcoming succession battle!