Time passed as Ash spent his time going through Eric’s notes. What looked like chaos at first slowly began to show structure.
Diagrams connected to other diagrams. Calculations supported layered designs. Even the scattered papers had a certain order once he followed the flow of thought behind them.
Though, it still took him a few days just to roughly see everything. Not understand it completely, not master it, but simply grasp the outline of what Eric had built over the past 3000+ years.
To go into deeper details, he would leave all that for Eric to explain to him personally once he woke up.
After all, he could not expect to absorb in a few days what Eric had spent millennia constructing piece by piece.
There were shortcuts in knowledge, but not in experience.
It was better to let Eric walk him through the structure himself rather than misunderstand something critical.
During the small gaps when his mind felt heavy from reading formulas and structural drafts, Ash’s thoughts drifted back to himself.
His body.
Or more accurately, his existence.
He had not checked his status window even once since awakening. He had deliberately avoided it. But now that things were momentarily stable, curiosity quietly surfaced.
Curious to see how much progress had been made during those long years of Rune comprehension, Ash finally decided to open it.
The moment he did, he was not surprised to see countless notifications appearing one after another, flooding his vision like spring blossoms after a long winter. Lines of text stacked over each other, shimmering faintly in front of him.
He did not rush.
Taking a slow breath, he steadied his thoughts and began with the first notification.
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[Heart formation has concluded]
[You have gained a new trait ’Cosmic Heart’.]
[Error!!!]
[First Light of Creation has caused an unknown mutation.]
[Trait ’Cosmic Heart’ has evolved into ’Eternal Heart’.]
[Error!!!]
[Error!!!]
[First Light of Creation has caused an unknown mutation.]
[First Light of Creation has caused an unknown mutation.]
[Trait ’Eternal Heart’ has evolved into ’Omnificence’.]
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[Congratulations!! You have gained a new trait ’Omnificence’.]
[Your heart is boundless and Eternal, with no set limits like a ever expanding universe. It holds the potential of Infinite Creation.]
[You have gained a new skill ’Energy Devour’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Synthesis’.]
[You have gained a new skill ’Assimilation’.]
[These skills comes under the trait ’Omnificence’.]
[New skill may or may not get unlocked at later period of Body Formation.]
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[Skeleton formation initiating.....]
[Error!! Error!!!]
[Protective Override activated.]
[Protective Override activated.]
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[Redirecting to the formation of blood...]
[Blood formation starting.....]
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[As the carrier of a embryonic form of universe and due to the fusion of pre-existing bloodlines along with the new bloodlines, the blood of the user has gained the property of Immortality.]
[You have gained a new Trait ’Ichor of Singularity’.]
[Error!!!]
[Error!!!]
[First Light of Creation has caused an unknown mutation.]
[Trait ’Ichor of Singularity’ has evolved into ’Ichor of Runes’.]
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[Congratulations!! You have gained a new Trait ’Ichor of Runes’.]
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[According to the records, transition from 0 to 1 is hard, but from 1 to 100 or even infinite is not hard.]
[’Ichor of Runes’ is generating first drop of True Blood.]
[Energy density within blood increasing exponentially.]
[First drop of True Blood successfully formed.]
[True Blood has become the template for all future blood.]
[With the formation of the True Blood, Blood formation has increased.]
[Replication speed increased.]
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[’Ichor of Runes’ is transforming and fusing various kinds of blood into Divine Blood.]
[Blood Transitions to Ichor : 1%]
[Blood Transitions to Ichor : 5%]
[Blood Transitions to Ichor : 19%]
[Blood Transitions to Ichor : 67%]
[Blood Transitions to Ichor : 100%]
[Blood has been transformed into Ichor.]
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[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Clone’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Rebirth’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Magic’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Absorption’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Memory’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Heal’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Domination’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Blood Synthesis’]
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[Skill ’Blood Synthesis’ falls under the category of the Higher ranked skill ’Assimilation’.]
[Under the effect of the skill ’Assimilation’, the skill ’Blood Synthesis’ has evolved into ’Blood Assimilation’.]
[’Blood Assimilation’ allows devouring and inheriting foreign blood without rejection.]
[All the above basic skills comes under the trait ’Ichor of Runes’.]
[New blood related skills may or may not get unlocked at later period of Body Formation.]
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[Energy Veins formation has begun.]
[From the Core organ of the Body, Energy veins have started to grow.]
[Like the filaments of space, the energy veins have are thicker and stronger than any known energy veins in the Cosmos.]
[The output threshold for the Energy Veins Increased.]
[The output threshold for the Energy Veins Increased.]
[...Increased.]
[...Increased.]
[...Increased.]
[...Increased.]
[The output threshold for the Energy Veins has reached the Maximum Threshold allowed.]
[The output threshold for the Energy Veins has reached the Maximum Threshold allowed.]
[Error!!!]
[Error!!!]
[Error!!!]
[First Light of Creation has caused an unknown mutation.]
[Maximum limit Breached.]
[Rewriting the definition of "Maximum".]
[Strengthening the Energy Veins at the structural level.]
[Strengthening the Energy Veins at the conceptual level.]
[Strengthening the Energy Veins at the existential level.]
[Energy Veins have surpassed all known limitations.]
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[Congratulations!! You have gained a new title ’Limit Breaker’]
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[The output threshold for the Energy Veins has reached the Existential limit.]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Blood’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Aether’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Fire’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Water’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Void’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Ice’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Darkness’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Shadow’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Light’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Corruption’]
[Congratulations!! You have gained a new affinity ’Curse’]
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[Congratulations!! You have gained a new Trait ’Omnipotence’]
[Energy Veins falls under the trait ’Omnipotence’.]
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[You have gained a new skill ’Fire Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Ice Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Darkness Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Shadow Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Light Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Aether Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Water Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Earth Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Space Manipulation’]
[You have gained a new skill ’Lightning Manipulation’]
[New energy related skills may or may not get unlocked at later period of Body Formation.]
At this point, Ash stopped and sucked in a deep breath, trying to steady the storm that had begun rising inside him.
His body was trembling with excitement as he looked at all the above notifications, each line still glowing faintly in his vision as if refusing to fade away. It was not simple happiness or pride. It was the overwhelming realization of what those words truly meant.
Traits that had mutated beyond limits, skills that had evolved past their original forms, blood that had transformed into something no longer ordinary. Even without fully testing any of it, he understood that nothing about him was the same anymore.
Although he could not see his body being created outside, he could guess what might be happening.
Energy veins that had breached their limits would not form quietly. Blood that had completed its transition into Ichor would not remain passive.
A heart that had evolved into Omnificence would not beat like an ordinary heart. If a body was taking shape beyond this space, it was not simply forming. It was being reforged at a level that ignored common boundaries.
He slowly exhaled, forcing his breathing to remain steady despite the excitement that continued to rise within him. Whatever was happening outside was no longer a normal process of growth. It was a reconstruction driven by laws far beyond the ordinary, and every notification he had just witnessed was proof of that.
"And this new Title...."
Limit Breaker.
Ash was surprised, but not too much. After all, the notifications had clearly shown that the maximum threshold of his Energy Veins had been reached and then forcibly breached.
Just like he had mentioned in the description. After all he did not ever want to feel his energy veins getting erased. It was better to just make it too strong to withstand the Harmony of Runic energies.
But even so, getting his first Title ever was a nice feeling.
He focused on it, and the details unfolded.
**
[Title: Limit Breaker]
[Description: The greater the resistance faced, the higher the probability of breaking through bottlenecks and advancing beyond the current stage.]
**
Seeing this, Ash fell silent.
His eyes lingered on the words, carefully reading them once, then again, making sure he had not misunderstood anything. The description was simple, almost understated, yet the implication behind it was far from ordinary.
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