Phyris

## Summary

Phyris is the Main Character in *Divide and Consume*.

Phyris starts of in the 1st Realm as a unique soul that is a cluster of an uncountable number of souls of a specific Soul Type.

She later develops as a Protocell in the 2nd Realm and lives through history. When she reaches a certain point, she is moved up the Realm tree and her real journey begins.

## Plot Summary

* **Spoilers** (Obviously)

Phyris begins her journey in the 2nd Realm after she was moved from the 1st Realm. She creates almost all life on Earth and hesitates to the last second to save humanity during the Great War. (aka: World War 3)

Humanity was both content, yet angry that she had only now stepped in from just being an observer. Though, they were also partly skeptical since she did not give proof besides appearing in many places at the same time.

Phyris saved Jane from being a Blood Slave of Vampires, only to have Jane be angry at her. Phyris gives her time to think it out and eventually makes a deal with Jane to help free other entrapped humans from the cruel rule of the Vampires.

## Personality

Phyris' personality begins as an inward introvert but quickly develops in the opposite direction for her to fit in with society.

During the point in which she discovers humanity, she studies their culture until a million years later she integrates into the modern human society. After several years, she develops the observative personality once again until she is finally whisked away to the 3rd Realm.

## Techniques

Valyiska has to develop her own Dao and techniques due to her special soul, spirits, and bodies. She may take in the techniques of other cultivators but they are only as useful as toothpick.

* **Artificial Dantian Technique** - Her body originally only supported numerous Micro-Dantians; however, she needs one large dantian so that she can create and cultivate complicated Daos.

## Soul

It is unknown what specific quality this soul type originated from however, it at least had the quality that made new souls of the same type gravitate towards it. When they intersected, they developed bonds that were stronger almost as strong as Grandmist, interlinking a soul web of ludicrous proportions.

She has over a ***quintillion*** souls or more. Her soul type counts for a soul type in the entire Multiverse that gathered together, which is a lot of souls. However, before she developed and after she developed, new souls of her type had been grown, so she is not the sole proprietor of that soul type.

Phyris is technically a Hivemind of bound souls. Each soul in her hivemind could technically gain individuality but this doesn't happen in the story.

Her soul itself is located in a Pocket Dimension by the creator and every soul link to each cell is connected to this dimension. She has a pre-configured Sea of Memories in her soul realm.

## Spirit

Her spirit is special in that it forms at each Soul access point. Meaning that when she develops a temporary body, she technically has over a trillion Spirit Manifestations.

Her Magic only requires Mana to be useful, unlike Qi which requires her to cultivate an Artificial Dantian. This means that as long as she has enough Cells that have strong spirits close together, she can cast any size of magic.
Soul Attacks are meant to attack the core soul of a creature to break up the link between the Spirit and Body's Spirit Chains. They also attack the Spirit Nodes and any structures in the spirit, like the Sea of Memories. However, her Spirit is spread out to trillions of Spirits. When the typical Soul Attack that is aimed at her head as a single strike, she would only lose the connection and spirits of a few cells instead of her life.
Psions are the only cultivators that can really sense her weirdness. They can delve deep into a Spirit and study the spirit structures, so it is not a far leap for them to see that her Spirit is not singular.

## Cell Cultivation

This means that she must cultivate every cell individually with Spirit, Mind, and Body cultivation.
When she begins to cultivate Qi, each cell in her body has a Dantian. She is effectively dual-cultivating both her Body and Essence. The energy she takes in is not limited to a certain point like the Dantian of human cultivators. Her Qi energy requirements are monumental since every cell requires energy to form a mist, lake, and eventually a golden core. Although the cultivation itself is easy since it doesn't require an arm and a leg for the Micro-dantian like a normal cultivator,
Daos are different for her since she is not limited to a single-to-three Dantians like the vast majority of cultivators in the multiverse. However, each cell can only hold a select few Dao Runes since her micro-dantians are too tiny in a single protocell. Instead, she has to create a technique between multiple cells to emulate a dantian to hold more complicated techniques. Later, when she is more powerful, she can write in smaller Dao Runes for each micro-dantian.
Spirit Cultivation for each individual Cell is not easy as she must develop the multitude of Spirit Nodes, Spirit Defenses, etc. She does not need to develop a Sea of Memories or other structures for each individual cell as those are located in her soul realm. (However, technically she could but that would be dangerous as her memories would become open books to Psions)
When she loses a Cell due to an attack, she must re-cultivate a new one to take its place. This may get annoying as having to re-cultivate billions of cells individually would take time. This was why she developed her own separate Artificial Dantian Technique to deal with this problem.

## Cell-Bodies

As a Protocell, she does not have any DNA. However, she does have micro-tubules, mitochondria and a central center that could be considered a 'Nucleus' where her soul tunnels are located at.

The independent Cell Bodies gives her the advantage that makes her both undying and immortal as long as a True God doesn't go out of his way to find and kill every cell.
Since her Soul is located in a Pocket Dimension and linked to every single independent cell, her 'body' can technically span the multiverse in any dimension or location with real-time updates and memories between cells.

## Progenitor

Phyris was the progenitor of life on Earth. When she developed the use of DNA, she released several cells to the wild and they ran their course to create myriad species.

## Body

Her body can be of any form or shape, even emulating a rock.

When she eventually develops a human-like body, she is neither male or female. However, she does appear and identify as female to gain information and integrate into humanity. Given enough food or Vitality, she can be reborn from a single cell.
However, she still needs at least one large body to develop and cultivate advanced techniques using an Artificial Dantian which requires a large mass of cells to protect it. She is still undying and can afford to lose this body, but until she becomes strong enough that she can write incredibly small Dao Runes, she has to have at least one body to cultivate advanced techniques. (This does not limit her on Magic)