In truth, Alaric's promise to preserve Medusa's mystic eyes wasn't solely to fulfill her wishes, it also served his own interests.
For one, he couldn't bear the thought of losing the tall, striking Medusa to a transformation that would leave her as a petite mini version.
As he'd said, while she were delightful, one shouldn't overindulge… or rather, a world of only them wasn't enough.
Secondly, it was an opportunity to test a new technique.
The technique of multiple spiritual cores.
Having mastered the Third Magic, Alaric could materialize souls, transforming a person's physical body into a semi-spiritual state akin to that of spirits or gods, granting near-immortality.
This process also generated a near-intangible form of energy through soul materialization.
But the Third Magic was far from simple.
The foundation of a materialized soul's existence relied on the soul and its spiritual core.
The blueprint for the body created through soul materialization resided within this core.
In essence, the body, existing between matter and energy, was shaped and empowered by the design encoded in the spiritual core.
By altering this blueprint, Alaric could imbue the subject with abilities they didn't originally possess.
These abilities were akin to the inherent skills or class skills of Heroic Spirits.
In the Throne of Heroes, most Heroic Spirits were originally human souls elevated to a higher state. As human souls, they lacked inherent skills or classes.
When summoned as Servants, their class and abilities were granted by the spiritual foundation bestowed upon them in the material world.
While not identical to a spiritual core, this foundation modified the core's settings, assigning a class and granting class-specific and inherent skills.
To Alaric, gods, though superior to Heroic Spirits or spirits, shared a similar fundamental structure.
The key difference was that gods had a divine core, while Heroic Spirits and spirits relied on a spiritual core.
With his current abilities, Alaric couldn't modify a divine core, but he could make certain alterations to a spiritual core.
Now, he aimed to take it a step further by enabling a single body to house multiple cores, allowing it to switch between different states.
After all, whether for Heroic Spirits, spirits, or materialized humans, a materialized body granted exceptional power and resilience but still limited the individual's capabilities.
Even powerful Heroic Spirits could be countered based on their True Name or class.
Alaric's research into soul materialization and materialized lifeforms was driven by his goal to create powerful subordinates, akin to living weapons.
But weapons could be targeted.
His current research was built on this premise.
However, enabling a materialized lifeform to possess dual spiritual cores posed a significant challenge: a single soul couldn't reside in two cores simultaneously.
Medusa's unique condition provided a new spark of inspiration.
Cursed as both an "incomplete goddess" and an "unformed demon," her body housed both divine and demonic power.
Her existence was fascinating: an incomplete divine core maintained her semi-divine state, while her mystic eyes and demonic core drove her soul toward corruption.
Under normal circumstances, Medusa's soul resided within her incomplete divine core, keeping her in an elevated state.
But when she used her mystic eyes, her soul connected to the demonic core, initiating her descent.
Yet her soul remained independent.
Based on her unique state, Alaric decided to attempt an experiment: allowing her soul to exist independently of both her divine and demonic cores, switching control to alter her state of being.
If successful, this could enable him to create weapons capable of drastically shifting states, such as beings that could alternate between angel and demon.
If the experiment failed, the worst outcome would be dispelling Medusa's demonic core and purifying her mystic eyes.
Medusa herself would face no mortal danger.
When Alaric proposed the experiment, Medusa agreed without hesitation.
By now, she placed immense trust in him, rivaling the faith she had in her sisters.
To Medusa, Alaric was the only one, aside from her sisters, who had reached out to her in her darkest moments.
The experiment proceeded remarkably smoothly.
The key was maintaining the purity of the soul, the linchpin of the process.
To a mage like Alaric, divine cores, demonic cores, divine power, and demonic power were merely tools.
Soul materialization effectively shielded Medusa's soul from the corruption of her demonic power.
The rest of the process was straightforward.
Of course, this was only possible because Medusa's divine core was incomplete.
For a true goddess like her sisters, even with a low-grade divine core, Alaric's current abilities wouldn't suffice.
For now, the success of his modifications remained uncertain.
The results would only be clear once both Medusa's divine and demonic cores fully matured.
If all went well, she might become a unique being, both goddess and demon.
At the very least, Medusa no longer had to fear being consumed by her demonic nature from overusing her mystic eyes.
With the matter of the three sisters resolved, Alaric faced a new issue.
A request from Helios and Perse.
The island of Colchis, with its potent spiritual leylines, had been introduced to Alaric "
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introduced to Alaric and Hecate by Perse, the Oceanid goddess.
It could be said that both Alaric and Hecate owed her a significant favor.
After all, a territory with such powerful leylines was valuable to any deity.
Perse could have kept it for herself but chose to gift it to Alaric and Hecate.
While her own limited power and inability to develop the island played a role, as did her friendship with Aphrodite, a favor given was a favor owed.
When Helios, the former sun god, and his wife Perse visited, Alaric learned of their request.
The couple had recently given birth to a son and a daughter.
The boy was named Aeetes, and the girl was Circe.
As children of gods, though neither inherited their parents' divine cores, they were still divine offspring. Naturally, the couple hoped for a bright future for them.
Typically, the best path for a divine child was to become a ruler of a nation. However, Greece was largely under the dominion of the Olympian gods.
In the end, the couple turned their thoughts to Colchis.