World Parasite

» Item Name: World Parasite
» Item Type: Exclusive to Ruvik and his contracts.

» Used For: Offense, Defense, Support.

» Class: X̭̗̜̱̥̥͖̺̻̑͊̃̄ͫ̂́͢͟

» Item Description:
The World Parasite is the first of its kind and a powerful one to boot. Developed from Gaia, the advocate takes on similar properties, but an entirely new purpose and form all-together. At its inception, the creature begins as a set of six seeds, powerless on their own, but filled with immense revolting energy. These seeds have little power on their own, but evolve upon being planted.

When a seed is planted, it will start to drain energy from the world around it, even if the soil isn't fertile. Over the course of a post or two, the planted seed will burst forth from the ground as a towering tree, growing rapidly until it stands as tall as a skyscraper. It seems like a normal tree, for the most part, growing leaves and branches that outstretch for hundreds of meters and cast a blanket of shadow over everything around it. If placed well, it isn't uncommon for them to block out the majority of the sun over a cityscape as well. From that point on, it will begin to feed.

The bulk of the tree serves as the vessel for storing energy and is its most vulnerable point. The trunk, while durable enough to resist a good deal of punishment, will eventually break down under continuous assault or an exceedingly powerful attack. This is due to it acting as a container for life and energy, built to keep things inside, rather than out. However, it still has master level durability and is tough to seriously damage without exceptionally powerful techniques. The dangerous part of it rests in the roots, however.

The roots serve as the instrument to gather energy for the tree. They are large, moving through the underground and stretching for excessive distances. It isn't uncommon for them to stretch far enough to cover an entire large city if planted in the center of it. These roots, on top of being exceptionally durable, draw energy from everything they touch, Because of this, plant life and animals caught up in the midst of them will die very quickly, reducing the place it is planted into a desolate wasteland. Like normal plants, they also absorb water, sunlight, and even thermal and electric energy from the realm itself! But most potent of all, it rapidly draws in supernatural forces as well. From reishi to chaos energy, electricity, and flames. Everything is drawn in through these roots and harnessed into the center of the World Parasite tree.If they wrap around someone, they can even drain energy straight from their body at a rapid rate, able to drain weaker souls dry in moments if ensnared. Regardless of what it was, these absorbed forces are broken down into raw particles that serve as nutrients for the tree. This gathers energy for each parasite's final goal and can be suspended to allow damaged roots to regenerate. Unique toxins are filtered out during this process, purging parasitic and life-threatening materials and storing them in a damaged or dying root to keep them out of the main body.

The roots have roughly, master level strength, advanced speed, and advanced durability. Though they can be more resilient than that would entail since any form of attack against them will be partially absorbed. Quality is more effective than quantity, as a superior technique honing a lot of destructive power will do more than a barrage of average or weak blas6s. They are even effective at destroying barriers and defense systems by drawing power right out of defensive grids and any spiritual or scientific technology just by coming into contact with them. How long this takes depends on the quality of the barrier and defense in question, but they'll constantly have their energy drained, weakening them and fueling the parasite at the same time.

The World Parasite is also completely sentient and self-managed upon being planted. It doesn't need a controller like other advocates. Instead, it will act on its own, devouring mostly indiscriminately, even assaulting weaker allies to absorb them at times. However, it can tell between friend and foe through two factors. The first is Ruvik's essence, which will mark anyone carrying it as friendly. Whether using another advocate or being marked by a soul contract, people with even a shred of his energy will not be targeted. Secondly, it can tell when it is being attacked or defended and react accordingly, aiding defenders and assaulting attackers with its roots, as well as defend itself when the core is under fire.

World Parasite:

Though it can vary, after five posts on average, the Parasite's true power will start to manifest. High above in the large branches above special orange-like fruit will grow. One will form every five posts in average conditions, more or less depending on the amount of energy the tree can draw from. (So if it absorbed a large number of people directly. it might take three posts, or if an area is already drained or has little energy around, it could take 7 or 8). It can produce a max of six of these fruits and will be assumed to have done so if a thread ends without its destruction. After six fruits have formed, the World Parasites will rapidly decay, dying and shriveling into a carcass before fading away completely.

World Fruit:

These fruits have two purposes. The first is to reproduce, as each fruit will contain one seed for another World Parasite. But the ultimate payoff comes when someone devours it. The fruit will give anyone that consumes it immense power for a moderate period of time. Their body will surge with strength, reaction time improving, mind processing things faster and a shroud of dense spiritual power flooding their system. Anyone that devours the fruit will see an enormous boon in power and ability, increasing not just their tier, but all of their skills by a full level! A 1-1 would become 0-5, an advanced strength user could match masters, and any skill already at a master or GM level will still see a substantially large increase in comparison to normal. Lastly, the user's powers and techniques overall will see a substantial improvement, becoming fifty percent more powerful. These changes last roughly ten posts but can be refreshed by consuming another fruit.

There are downsides to this, however. While the World Parasite doesn't need a user and thus most of its X-class drawbacks can be avoided, the fruit has similar properties. Anyone without a grandmaster in willpower will find themselves consumed by a state of madness and highly destructive tendencies. Their obsessions, negative emotions and bloodlust forced to the surface. Any filter on their actions is removed, allowing their new power to flourish fully. When ten posts are up and the fruit's power starts to die down, the user will actually go down a tier compared to their normal level for the rest of the thread. This can be negated by eating another fruit, but those come in short supply. Lastly, the fruits won't be as strong consecutively. Each time a fruit is used, the duration of the next one is reduced by one post, permanently. So the second time a person ever uses one, it will only have a duration of nine posts, then eight and so on. It can not go back up.

There is one very useful benefit to them that goes beyond its temporal bonus. In addition to the temporary strength, a person will gain a moderate permanent boost to their power and ability. While not increasing skills directly, it does give a large boost to support applying for tier or skill upgrades, as well as new techniques and abilities. While the short-term benefit becomes weaker over time, a person can become exceptionally powerful constantly if they were to consume enough fruit and stack this bonus consecutively. But if they do so, they'll often be warped and twisted into a darker person overall, their negative characteristics and aggression becoming stronger with each fruit consumed.

Unlike other Advocates, Ruvik can directly interact with both these fruits and the tree itself. As the tree isn't controlled by anyone and drawing in the energy of the fruit will provide the same effect, it'll apply to him the same as anyone else, defying the usual downside where advocate interaction draws them into his body instead.

Effects of eating the fruit:

» Obtained From:
The World Parasite is the evolved form of Gaia's leech seen here. https://www.platinumhearts.net/t14826-advocates-of-corruption-set-1 Info on the advocates in general can also be found there as well as the normal X-class consequences.

The leech evolved from absorbing half the population of Chaya nation here https://www.platinumhearts.net/t18325-extinguishing-hope-chaya-nation-invasion-ruvik-inami-ask-to-join . This served as the bulk of what it needed to progress, absorbing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of souls to breed it into what it is now.

But that isn't all. To ensure it became something truly horrific, Ruvik took things two steps further. The first secondary power source of Gaia's evolution to the world Parasite is from the Devil wall. https://www.platinumhearts.net/t18378-opeartaion-devil-wall-nenton-guatemala Using his contract with Demonica, Ruvik siphoned power from the explosive battle between Demonica and the Captain commandeer to feed it further.

In addition, a raid was conducted against the Soul Society, hundreds of Hollows gathering souls from northern Rukon while the Soul Society is divided in two by the devil wall war. Using this final push, it allowed the advocate to be the first of its kind to fully evolve to a legendary X-class siege weapon. https://www.platinumhearts.net/t18521-northern-raid-assault-of-the-hollows

» Yen Price: Though its created through events and Ruvik's personal powers, I can pay whatever large sum is suggested if yen is still necessary or advised.

» Notes: If approved, Gaia's leech will be deleted since this is the advocate's evolved form. Also. there will be no fruits at the start All world Fruits must be obtained IC by successfully planting a World Parasite and protecting it until it can bloom in a thread. The World Parasite is an event only item. However, the World Fruit can be used in any thread once they have been successfully created and secured.