39 A Simple Surgery (1/2)

”Are... you my... brother?”

The sentence froze Ferron, he looked at the strange lizard with wide eyes.

”B-brother?! What makes you say that?”

”Well... your obviously you're not old enough to be my mom.” The so-called 'dragon' started to lick its scales. ”And you don't look like the same species as me, so even if you're not related to me, you still took care of me. Brother is a good enough way of addressing you.”

Ferron was left speechless. This little lizard was just born and could speak like an adult. Ferron glanced towards Uriel who was standing on the other side of the glass.

”It's ok, just get on its good side and fix the network.” Uriel's voice brought some closure to Ferron as he eyed down the lizard in front of him, who was still cleaning itself.

Ferron walked up to it. ”Hey, I need to check your body, would that be ok?” He softly called out to it while crouching down.

”That sounds a little suspicious, and kind of perverted. As long as you don't touch my sensitive spots I won't bite you.” The little lizard crawled closer to Ferron who peered into it. His eyes reflected stars and darkness. Everything came into view. Veins, capillaries, muscles, organs. Nothing stood hidden in front of Ferron.

Everything was working on the surface, now it was time to go deeper. Ferron enhanced his vision and pierced deeper, Uriel's lesson repeating in the back of his mind.

”Everything created has five levels, the first is visible to the naked eyes, your outer body. Second is inside the body, it contains your organs and blood, also visible to the eye. But the third level cannot be perceived to normal humans, not even the most advanced machinery can sense it.

The third level is where Gods programming takes place, the pathways of light energy and chaos energy, the next level is where the soul resides, you can see the outer layer but to see a person's true self you must peer into the fifth level.”

For now, Ferron could only see until the fourth level but for this experiment, he only needed to go into the third. Ferron saw a huge amount of white and red threads weaving everywhere. Only a large spot was void of any pathways but it was where they were all starting from. The soul was not visible to Ferron but anyone could tell that was where the soul was.

Ferron searched for any anomalies, he traced through the complicated pathways first. The brain was in good condition, but Ferron noticed a problem when he saw the connections to the soul. He would need to look at the fourth level to see where the problem was.

Once again his eyes grew deeper, as the little lizard looked up to Ferron it studied his eyes. Feeling lost it reluctantly pulled its gaze away from Ferron and put its head down, waiting for Ferron to finish his examination.

Meanwhile, Ferron found the problem. Connected to the soul were two interlocked threads, it was basically mixing light and chaos energy together. In a normal being, it would cause major problems. A mix of the two energies would cause destructive damage to the soul, especially when it's so close to the soul in this case.

To fix this he would need to forcibly erase the two intwining pathways and make new ones that connect properly. A drop of sweat rolled down the back of his neck. This was no easy task as Ferron was directly changing the law of a being. Even the smallest change could affect its personality, the worst outcome could be the partial destruction of the soul.

Massively decreasing this creature's lifespan and eliminating the chance of 'reincarnating'. This delicate operation would have to be swift as the slightest hesitation would possibly increase the possibility of damaging the soul.