The current homunculus is the culmination of all that I know, be it about homunculus making, souls, magic circles, runes, everything.
If this fails, that only means one thing, I'll have to scrap the books provided by the system, since they're false.
I've found mistakes before, that means some of what is written is false.
How did I find that out?
Some books contain contradictions, like one book says process A is better than process B, another says the same, but turns out process B is better, but only if I add a missing component that isn't mentioned anywhere.
After watching enough I went back to sleep, going to finish reading what I haven't finished.
By this point I've already reached the 'craftsmanship lv100' skill, but I don't feel as if I have attained lv100, I know gaps in my knowledge that I'm currently trying to fill.
If only the system prompt [Do you wish to leave? Y/N] would stop buzzing so loudly.
It seems that the system is slowly beginning me to bit by bit force me to leave.
But that's fine, I've held out so long, I can handle this even longer.
I also tried making defenses, but regardless of what I do, what kind of soul barriers I put up, the system can just bypass everything.
*Some time later in the middle of my experiment*
A homunculus with a red cap rushed in with a blaring alarm, which caused me to snap out, add a drop too much of a poison, causing an explosion which ended that homunculus, but his task has finished.
Now I know that the homunculus child has awakened.
I rushed to my main laboratory, where the homunculus was located and found it staring at me.
I found no reproductive organs on him, but I still smiled at it.
I pushed a few buttons and slowly the nutrition fluid, then the oxygen mask left its face and the pod opened as I gently caught it and cradled in my arms.
Its body was cold, yet when I observed him through my soul sight I knew it has a soul.
I looked at the homunculus again
"Hello"
The child looked back at me and then started to look at the surroundings.
This time I won't just dump knowledge into the brain by force, but let it learn on its own pace, even if it takes a while.
"Do you want to walk?"
The child looked back at me and I sighed. Right, it's a new born, how can it understand me, so I placed it on the ground and made some distance.
The child just lied there, though it tried moving.
Despite looking like an 8-year-old, he still has the knowledge of a newborn, guess it's time to learn another kind of patience.
And thus began my days with the child, I named it Blake, can't keep calling it 'child' all the time.
My goal was to teach him everything I can while also not growing attached to the homunculus, I want as little emotional ties to this place as possible, what I already have is already too much.
Thus as a way to keep my distance, regardless of how uncomfortable, I'll have to refer to Blake as it in my mind...*Sigh* I'm feel pathetic in these kind of cases.
Bit by bit the homunculus learned, but he learned fast, very fast, within the year he learned how to walk, run, climb around, talk, read.
I thought it all of what I knew, showed him everything I had, withholding nothing.
I didn't really trust the system's books, so I made my own books, as well as a back up in a database.
At some point a constant prompt, big enough to cover my eyes, was always buzzing
[Do you wish to leave? Y/N] it said, and I was always experiencing a headache, an extreme one, but I endured.
I know my stuff well enough to understand that this is a soul attack, guess the system really wants me gone.
But the child still hasn't reach an adequate stage, he hasn't reached the minimum skills I want him to learn.
But Blake will reach, it's a fast learner after all, way faster than me.
It's strong too, it can outrun the cheetahs and outlift my worker homunculi
The best thing is that it doesn't refer to me as 'dad', but as Javen, just as I asked. I always pet its head when it does that to keep up the good habit and it seems to like it too.
By this point the soul attack has gotten so bad that I usually stayed in bed and Blake tended to my needs, I still taught it and demonstrated if it couldn't understand.
I noticed that Blake learned about emotions from observing.
Blake learned to smile, frown, pout, raise an eyebrow, sulk, shout back, cry, his growth is extraordinary.
But the pain has gotten too much, so I called Blake over and he ran up
"I'll leave soon?"
"Where?"
"Where I should've been by now"
"Where is that?"
"An unreachable place to the current you."
"Can you come back after leaving?"
"No"
"But you're very smart"
"I don't even know where this place is too, nor where is the place where I should be."
Blake hugged me and started crying.
"Don't leave, please"
I hugged Blake back
"I raised you up for greatness, you have every tool you need to reach it and if you don't have it, you will make it"
"But what of it if you're not near?"
"Then find me"
"Can I make it my goal?"
"You are a free being"
"then pinkie promise when we reunite, the first thing we'll do is hug"
I smiled brief and petted Blake's head, even if Blake has grown to my height, he's still the baby that I raised.
Then I offered my pinkie
"Pinkie promise it is"
We linked our pinkies and I spoke my last words
"Remember to think, if it seems like there is no solution, it's only because you don't know enough, so experiment and reach the pinnacle you are destined for"
With that I pressed 'Y' and dissapeared from my bed…
And reappeared sitting before an entity in a blank white space.
"You're an unruly being, Javen Belgham"
"Who are you?"
"The system agent assigned to you only, as you're quite unique."