I opened my talent panel to have a look.
[Talent]
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Talent Name: Generator Prime
Level: 4
Activation Command: Power Up!
Recharge Sources: Any form of energy
Upgrade Requirement : Level 5
Function 1 : Essence Generation
– Generates Essence from absorbed energy
– Essence : 1200 / 1200(+700) units
– Level-Up Requirement: 24,000 Essence units generated
– Progress: 23,999/24,000
Function 2 : Null Heart
– Generates Soul Threads from generated Essence
– Combines Soul Threads into a Soul Shackle
– Null Heart Charge: 700 / 700 Essence (1 Soul Shackle = 700 units of Essence)
– Soul Shackle : 7
– Anchored Soul : 6
– Soul Shackle Limit: 7
Function 3 : Awaken Dawn Core [Complete]
– Core quality : High
– Generates Energy from law conflicts
– Laws : 12
– Energy : Gold
Abilities:
– Essence Transfer : Can transfer stored Essence to an attribute. After use, 75% of the transferred Essence unit remains as a permanent boost
- Essence Infusion: Can transfer stored Essence to an attribute of another being. After use, 25% of the transferred Essence unit remains as a permanent boost
– Sovereign’s Imprint : Essence generated or altered by you no longer only bends to your will in the moment. It carries a lasting authority imprint that persists after separation.
– Soul Shackle: Anchors a corrupted Bonded Soul into the Null Heart, allowing control and shared evolution.
– Sovereign Absorption: Generates a violet vortex that devours energy and channels it directly into the generator core, bypassing the engraved channels. Scales with Talent Level and Psynapse strength.
– Verdant Extraction: Extract life force and distribute it throughout the body. Cannot be stored.
– [Star of Origin (Dormant)]: A lifeless celestial seed formed within the Dawn Core. Stores and condenses Origin Source gathered from external forces. Awakens gradually as more Origin Source is absorbed.
– [Abyssal Extraction Authority]: A stabilized black-hole construct within the Dawn Core. Devours law fragments, refines them, and converts them into new law volcanoes or strengthens existing ones.
– [Sovereign Link]: You gain a continuous, low-level awareness of your summons and can focus to experience their perception directly. A soul link exists between you and your summons, allowing you to transfer your awareness into them.
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Everything was ready.
One thing I noticed again was that despite merging the laws, the system still counted them as twelve. Even inside the Dawn World, the volcanoes had not merged. They still stood separately, each representing its original law.
I didn’t dwell on it. As long as I could use the upgraded forms, the structure behind it didn’t matter.
My focus shifted back to the panel in front of me. I went through each function once more. Truthfully, I had no clear idea what direction this upgrade would take. Too much had changed since the last one. I had a galaxy core under control, my laws had evolved, and on top of that... I was standing right at the threshold of Saint.
This upgrade could go anywhere. I took a deep breath and pushed the final portion of Essence into the Generator.
The moment it settled I received notifications.
[Talent Level Up!]
[Level 4 → Level 5]
[Upgrade requirement met]
A heavy thump echoed from within my chest. The Generator Core thrummed.
At the same time, a second, deeper sound reverberated outward, as if something far larger had responded to that beat. A ripple spread through my body, expanding outward into space.
I expected an Essence storm. It didn’t come.
Instead my perception shifted.
In the next instant, I found myself inside the Dawn World. It has grown far too big and was a world shaped by laws, yet still devoid of life.
Before I could observe further, my perspective began to rise. My projection lifted, moving upward until the entire Dawn World came into view beneath me.
To my right, suspended in the void, burned the Star of Origin.
To my left, the Abyssal black hole turned slowly, its pull constant and absolute.
My perspective moved again, faster this time. In the next instant, I was inside the Star of Origin.
It burned quietly.
Deathmist flowed through it like a dark flame, while the green essence I had absorbed over time swirled within, dense and unrefined. The two did not clash. They coexisted, held together in a strange balance.
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then something began to form.
At the very center of the Star, the swirling essence started to gather, pulling inward as if responding to an unseen command. Lines appeared within it, faint at first, then sharper.
Runes.
They carved themselves into existence, each one carrying the same pattern I was deeply familiar with.
The pattern of the Generator Core. The same design that was etched into my chest.
The runes expanded, spreading outward and stabilizing into a solid form. A platform took shape, forged directly from those markings, its surface layered with interlocking symbols that glowed faintly with violet color.
It wasn’t small. It took nearly ten percent of the Star’s entire size, sitting firmly at its center as if it had always belonged there and just now awakened.
The moment it stabilized, a new change began to take shape.
From the Generator Core within my chest, a faint connection extended outward, thin at first, like a cord being drawn between it and the platform. It stretched steadily, growing clearer and more defined as it anchored itself firmly to the runic surface.
At the same time, the platform responded.
Channels began to spread from it, branching outward in all directions, carving through the Star of Origin. They embedded themselves into its structure, reaching deeper and wider until they touched every part of it.
Within moments, the entire Star was covered. The runic network finished, pulsing softly as everything aligned.
And I could feel it clearly, a complete connection.
The Generator Core, the Star of Origin, and the runic platform... all linked as one system.
I floated at the center of the Star of Origin, watching the runic platform beneath me. It no longer felt like something foreign to me.
Then, without any command from me, the platform began to react.
The runes across its surface lit up one by one. Lines of energy moved through them, flowing inward toward the center. At the same time, the Star itself responded. The green essence that had been swirling quietly began to shift, drawn toward the platform. Alongside it, the black deathmist followed as well.
Both forces gathered above the platform and began a dance of their own, merging with each other without clashing.
I watched closely as the two began to take shape. At first, it was nothing more than a faint outline but with each passing moment, it became clearer. The runes vibrated beneath, guiding the process, holding everything in place as the structure formed.
A lotus.
Petal by petal, it came into existence.
One half of it carried the soft, flowing green of condensed essence, smooth and radiant, almost alive with energy. The other half was formed from deathmist, darker, denser, its surface carrying a faint, shifting depth that seemed to absorb light rather than reflect it.
Despite their differences, the two halves did not oppose or devour each other. They completed each other. The lotus stabilized fully, resting on the platform.
But what surprised me was that this wasn’t a projection or illusion.
It existed in reality.