Martial Glory, Chapter 39

You know... My plan was to just smash through the Baker's Estate to get the answers I needed. But the reality was not that simple.

I realized how really fucked up I was when my body calmed down. I had... Large quantities of hostile MOLD within my body as Eveline had went out of her way to infect me with as much of her MOLD as possible.

A lot of my blood vessels and more sensitive parts of my body were broken, bleeding internally, and otherwise in disrepair at how Eveline used her weird telekinetic bullshit to attempt to crush me as I powered towards her.

'Dammit.' I thought as I knew I wouldn't be in any good position if I had to fight any of the Bakers should they decide to come after me.

But I had no choice but to limp over to another room and then after pushing a large desk in front of the door just lean against the wall as I felt the Uroborus Virus fighting the MOLD within myself.

And it was the worst fucking feeling imaginable. Two super bioweapons, both with the ability to take in biomass and mutate it into monstrous forms to enhance the hosts body. But both did it very differently.

I felt a searing burning sensation on my face that made me hiss and as I felt my face I froze as it came back wet with blood and so I just hunkered down and began meditating. Focusing on my Ki and lifeforce to wrangle these fucking bioweapons under control.

But the moment I squeezed down my body to keep the bioweapons contained I felt something in my chest snap and I puked blood onto the hardwood floor in front of me.

It was like the Bioweapons were telling me. 'Mind your own fucking business and stay out of it.'

And I could feel the signature delirium of the Uroboros Virus rising up as my vision began taking on colors I didn't even know existed. 'Whelp... This sucks.' I thought as I held my hands on my knees to ground myself.

The MOLD despite being a super bioweapon wasn't nearly as aggressive as the Uroboros Virus, its strength lay in simple immortality via distributing and hosting memories, brain matter across the body and within the black mold itself.

Yes, it could mutate and make giant powerful monsters, but that wasn't its aim. It was a hive mind of countless trillions of fungal cells like the Armillaria solidipes mushrooms that could form massively connected ecosystems with their fungal roots attaching to other mushrooms seemingly infinite in scale.

While the Uroboros itself was a virus that forced its hosts to become the strongest it could become. Even if it violently mutated the host to the point of the host exploding and dying as a result.

Black veins of fungal MOLD spread under my skin making me shiver as I felt the Uroboros in response sinking into my muscles and bones and I could see my skin being discolored as parts of my skin turned bright yellow with the depth of the infection.

No, it was the Uroboros actually glowing under my skin as the heat hit me later as the MOLD and the Uroboros began fighting over my nerves.

"You fuckkking shititits!" I stuttered spitefully feeling my muscles lock up as my nerves went into haywire as the Uroboros and MOLD fought over territory and then my mind went dark like a switch getting flipped.

And the last thought I had... Was how I was going to dropkick Stelle and Mother Miranda in the tits for being responsible for this shit getting into my body.

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The black MOLD of the Baker's estate, and even the massive amounts of it inside the Bayou were being pulled from their host's bodies, the mud, the water, and even the very air itself with all the hosts dying as the Hive Mind of the MOLD flooded into the house at a speed that could only be called biblical in scale.

Its speed wasn't as fast as a car speeding down a highway or anything. But when a fungus, a plant grew tendrils of black oozing flesh at five meters every few seconds it was a most disturbing sight to behold.

The Black MOLD swirled around Jake's body like a cacoon, sealing him inside a swirling womb of tens of thousands of pounds of biomatter that was purely unfiltered MOLD as the Black MOLD no longer played around with the rival virus that was in best host it could have imagined encountering.

Not even Eveline, whose mind and body were engineered with the help of other bioweapons to make a perfect host that could act as the head vector of the MOLD was such a powerful match as Jake Barris was.

And this... Uroboros Virus, even with its scant amount of biomass within Jake's body was able to resist the MOLD's hostile takeover from the host's body which bewildered the MOLD's hive mind.

The Hive Mind didn't even know it could actually be bewildered in reality.

But then the Uroboros sent biological information packets, copies of Jake's brain matter that contained biological memories.

And the Hive Mind's neural synapsis overheated as the core of Jake's... What could only be described as Eldritch flesh as no human. Not even the memories of the scientists it had devoured who had studied the DNA of the Hanma could come close.

As within the enclosed memories was the reality that Jake had no physical limiters to his physical body. His body would continue to grow denser, his strength growing endlessly even without the Uroboros virus coasting along within the perfect host.

But the Uroboros rather than being a retrovirus that took over the host, was being a symbiotic virus that at the cost of increased caloric content was helping Jake heal, and provide needed adaptations that simple strength wouldn't realize.

[Symbiosis?] The Uroboros sent in another date packet of DNA.

The swirling womb of literal tons of MOLD considered it with its logical Hive Mind. First was that Jake couldn't be fully and overtly mutated due to how humanity would attack it with extreme weapons that it couldn't survive.

And secondly, Jake even if he wasn't the complete host of the MOLD would still act as a control vector to control its growth as the Hive Mind was fully aware that it logically wasn't a sentient being and needed to piggy back off a host's ingenuity.

The Black MOLD then sent its own DNA-encoded message to the Uroboros Virus. [Symbiosis] It replied and then the Uroboros relaxed letting the MOLD into Jake's body and after quick genetic exchange discussion with the Uroboros the two bioweapons drew up plans for Jake's physical state as his body couldn't take all the biomass of the MOLD.

Pearly white spots of pearl grew on the back and bottom of Jake's wrists as the MOLD recalled Jake's ability to cut off Jake Baker's arm with his bare hands and decided to improve his body in allow him to spew MOLD from the top of his wrist to form diamond hard blades that would harden at meeting the air.

Then as the MOLD read Jake's memories of the other biological feats it came across the series known as Spiderman in another world... Sure it also found in Jake's DNA the power to become a star but even the Hive Mind couldn't imagine such power.

No, it was focused on the here and now as the Uroboros was busy building new sensory organs on the Hosts face along with two weapons on his back that the virus could control to protect its host that it couldn't be bothered to understand with how busy itself was.

As it was well aware... Jake was going to be rather upset with any changes to his body even if it was for the best, both for his survival and spreading his own genetics due to his superior strength and abilities compared to the obscenely inferior majority of his race.

So it began working to create highly pressurized fluid sacks on the bottom of Jake's wrists that could shoot webbing of non-active MOLD that when impacting a non-MOLD substance would flash harden and stick to the substance with strength greater than steel.

And then as it worked to enhance Jake's senses and allow Jake's mind to subconsciously synch up to the inactive MOLD his body would shed like odor cells to emulate Spiderman's 'spider senses' the MOLD came across another memory of Jake's stores of fictional genetic knowledge.

The genetic knowledge that the Hive Mind believed that Jake wouldn't mind nearly as much due to the familiarity with his body changing.

[Kagune?] The MOLD sent to the Uroboros and after reviewing Jake's memories there was a pause before the Uroboros replied almost dismissively.

[Impure-Purity-Imperative] The Uroboros sent meaning that it would distract Jake's pure evolution upwards and the MOLD countered with.

[Impurity?-Power-Host-Learning-New] Meaning that in giving Jake controlled mutations like the sensory organs it was already forming on Jake's face following another genetic memory he had. We might as well make him stronger anyway so he is more used to genetic adaptations that he can control at his will.

There was a long pause before the Uroboros seemingly snarked back which made the MOLD bewildered. [Breeding-Negative-Affirmative] This meant, that the pursuit of making Jake strong merely so he could spread his genes before his ascension was a waste of time and resources. But the Uroboros wouldn't contest the MOLD's actions as it was to Jake's benefit for now.

For one thing there would be no eating of human flesh to fuel the weapon organs use, merely a while of rest and large consumption of high caloric compounds and other substances that Jake could consume with his altered digestive tract. First was the 'Ukaku' organ on the base of Jake's shoulders.

Though for the MOLD there was a slight hiccup in engineering the wings of MOLD that would form from his back due to Jake's irregular 'Demon Back' that he had inherited from the Hanma bloodline. And then around the base of Jake's spine, the MOLD created a 'Rinkaku' organ around his waist.

With the back MOLD compressing as much of its biomass into as thick as possible before it integrated itself into Jake's body forming a fist-sized organ inside Jake's chest with his entire body having grown an additional three inches in height with all the adaptions done to his body leaving it a good deal of space to create an organ solely devoted to produce MOLD.

And with those adaptions, both Bioweapons settled down in Jake's body as they soothed over the inevitable slight damage to their host's strained cells with the MOLD breaking down some of its biomass cacoon that was surrounding Jake to nourish his body.