It did not take long for the evolution to be completed.
Only five seconds in the outside world were required by [Codex of Creation] to evolve and become more suited for Ash’s current existence.
The golden glow surrounding Ash gradually receded back into his body, yet Kane still did not attack him, choosing to remain where he was as though waiting to see whether the previous phenomenon changed something in Ash.
Using that opportunity, Ash immediately shifted his attention toward the enormous number of notifications that had piled up before him.
Most of them were notifications related to Eva’s countless simulations, synthesis attempts, calculations, and analyses, while the rest were primarily descriptions and information regarding the newly created abilities.
There were simply too many.
As a result, Ash skipped all of them for now and directly opened the information he actually wanted to see.
The evolved [Codex of Creation].
The name of the Trait remained the same as before, but the moment Ash opened its information, he immediately noticed that its description and internal structure had changed beyond recognition.
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Trait Name: Codex Of Creation
Rank: Growth (Error!!!)
Description: A transcendent trait evolved to support an anomalous existence. The Codex adapts itself according to the user’s nature, developing new functions and discarding obsolete ones as the user continues walking their unique path. As long as the user changes, the Codex will change alongside them.
‣ Protective Override:
- If an evolution, awakening, synthesis, adaptation, or other transformative process threatens the user’s existence, the Codex may intervene and alter the process, guiding it toward the most advantageous outcome possible.
‣ Weapon Resonance:
-The user gains the ability to resonate one weapon of his choice with the runes, causing it to transform and gain passive abilities based on the Rune’s nature.
Resonating chances : 1/2
‣Concept Replication:
-Allows the creation of conceptual replicas of abilities, skills, bloodlines, traits, physiques and laws.
‣Concept Preservation:
When an ability, skill, bloodline, trait, physique and law is altered, evolved, or synthesized, the Codex records its conceptual blueprint.
Recorded blueprints may be analyzed, referenced, or reconstructed under suitable conditions.
Note: The Codex only develops new functions when the user accomplishes a feat that has never before been achieved within the dimension.
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The moment Ash finished reading the information regarding the evolved [Codex of Creation], a faint look of delight appeared on his face because the changes were far greater than he had anticipated, especially when he saw the modifications made to Protective Override.
The ability was no longer a broad safeguard but had instead become heavily focused on the path he currently walked, covering evolution, synthesis, assimilation, adaptation, and every other transformative process that could potentially threaten his existence.
For someone else, such a change might not have meant much.
For Ash, however, it was an absurd improvement.
After all, ever since obtaining Synthesis, Assimilation, and now Evolution, the possibility of something going catastrophically wrong was always present.
Earlier, Eva had to interfere just to make sure Ash body adapts and assimilates the Crimson Heavenly Lightning perfectly without anything going wrong.
But now the Codex now possessed the ability to actively interfere and guide those processes toward the most advantageous outcome possible.
[Weapon Resonance] had also changed.
Originally, the ability had only granted him a single opportunity, and that opportunity had long since been used on Eclipse.
Making the ability effectively useless for years, yet now the evolved Codex was displaying another available use, meaning he could once again resonate a weapon with his Runes and create something entirely new.
Even Ash couldn’t deny that the prospect was exciting.
Yet despite both of those improvements, neither of them were responsible for the grin slowly spreading across his face.
His eyes eventually landed on the final two abilities, Concept Replication and Concept Preservation, and the moment he finished reading their descriptions, everything suddenly clicked together.
The previous abilities occupying those positions had been Rune Combination and Rune Reformation.
One had become useless after a single use.
The other had gradually become meaningless because he no longer possessed any method of creating new skills using Runes.
As a result, both abilities had quietly lost their value over time.
But now they were gone.
And in their place stood something infinitely more valuable.
Ash knew why Eva had reached a dead end despite running countless simulations and calculations, because the greatest problem she had been facing wasn’t a lack of intelligence, a lack of computational power, or even a lack of abilities.
The problem was experimentation.
Every time an ability was synthesized, the original disappeared.
Every failed synthesis carried risk.
Every successful synthesis removed materials that could no longer be reused.
That single limitation had forced Eva to continuously hold herself back.
But now things were different.
Concept Preservation would record the blueprint.
Concept Replication would recreate it.
Together, the two abilities effectively removed one of the greatest restrictions limiting Eva’s ability to experiment freely, allowing her to test possibilities that would have previously been considered far too dangerous.
And the moment he understood that, Ash suddenly laughed.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA-HAHAHAHA-HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!"
The sound echoed throughout the surrounding ocean, immediately attracting wary gazes from every direction as countless Ocean Species, Kane, and even the three Celestials looked toward him in seriousness.
But Ash didn’t care.
Because for the first time since this battle began, he could genuinely see a path forward.
The Codex believes that I can escape this situation with just these two abilities, then the solution lies within me as well.
We only have 10 seconds remaining, Eva. I will leave it to you now....
{Roger that.}
The response arrived almost instantly, and although Eva was still shocked by everything that had happened in such a short period of time, she no longer had the luxury of dwelling on it as her attention immediately returned to the countless calculations unfolding before her, this time armed with tools that completely changed the rules of the game.
{Activating Concept Preservation across all available abilities.}
{Creating conceptual records.}
{Process complete.}
{Beginning unrestricted synthesis.}
The endless collection of abilities contained within Ash immediately unfolded before her as countless combinations began forming one after another, causing new abilities to emerge at a rate that would have been completely impossible only moments ago.
[Forgotten Immortal] x [Indomitable Titan] = [Undying Sovereign]
[World Awareness] x [Akashic Mind] = [Absolute Awareness]
[Celestial Skeleton] x [Morph] = [Divine Vessel]
[Sanguine Emperor] x [Predation] = [Crimson Tyrant]
[Mind Sovereign] x [Akashic Archive] = [Cosmic Consciousness]
Each newly created ability was immediately preserved, replicated, analyzed, and then thrown back into the synthesis process once again, creating an endless cycle where abilities continuously produced more abilities, which in turn produced even more abilities.
At some point Eva completely stopped tracking individual results because the process had already grown beyond that stage, and instead began focusing entirely on growth, allowing the number of preserved blueprints to rise at an absurd rate as millions became billions and billions continued increasing without showing any signs of slowing down.
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 20224}
..
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 84,441}
..
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 184,434}
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 1,284,441}
..
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 9,284,441}
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 88,551,902}
{Recorded Ability Blueprints: 4,118,882,117}
The process only became more chaotic once Evolution was added into the equation because every powerful result immediately became a candidate for further growth, causing entirely new branches of possibilities to emerge from abilities that had only existed for fractions of a second.
[Undying Sovereign] → [Immortal Paragon]
[Absolute Awareness] → [Omniscient Perception]
[Divine Vessel] → [Origin Vessel]
[Cosmic Consciousness] → [Infinite Consciousness]
Soon, even the evolved abilities were being thrown into the cycle of endless synthesis with other abilities, producing creations that neither Ash nor Eva had ever imagined before, yet despite the absurdity of the process and despite the rapidly expanding arsenal accumulating within Concept Preservation, Eva still couldn’t find what she was looking for.
No...
This still isn’t enough...
These abilities are becoming stronger and stronger, but strength isn’t the problem we are trying to solve......most of them are too strong that Ash can’t even activate them right now, so it still doesn’t solve the problem.....
Then, she changed her approach.
Her attention shifted away from the endless sea of abilities and toward Ash’s memories themselves, rapidly moving through countless years of memories until she eventually reached memories from Earth, where an endless collection of novels, games, stories, myths, and fictional worlds existed.
At first she was merely searching for inspiration.
Then she found something that made her stop.
Wait...
Her eyes widened slightly.
Why am I limiting myself to abilities that already exist?
The question echoed throughout her consciousness as countless new possibilities instantly appeared within her mind..
Because if Concept Preservation could record concepts and Concept Replication could reproduce concepts, then theoretically there was nothing stopping her from attempting to create concepts that had never belonged to Ash in the first place.
She can try to use small parts of different abilities to create the ability that they needed.
The moment that thought appeared, Eva immediately began searching through Ash’s memories for the most absurd abilities she could find, rapidly discarding thousands of possibilities before eventually focusing on one particular power that had left a deep impression on him years ago.
A reality-altering ability.
An ability that ignored every rules directly.
Eva’s attention immediately locked onto that single concept as countless streams of information surged through her mind, causing the billions of ongoing synthesis processes to shift direction almost instantly while an overwhelming amount of processing power was redirected toward a single objective.
The recreation of an ability that should not exist.
A power so absurd that even among the countless novels, stories, myths, and fictional worlds contained within Ash’s memories, it still stood near the very top in the field of saving one’s life.
{Beginning Conceptual Construction.}
{Gathering compatible foundations.}
{Building conceptual framework.}
{Beginning synthesis.}
...
...
[Failure.]
{Cause: Concept Instability.}
...
...
[Failure.]
{Cause: Insufficient conceptual support.}
...
...
[Failure.]
{Cause: Reality Rejection.}
Eva’s eyes narrowed slightly.
That result immediately caught her attention, because unlike the previous failures, this one had not collapsed due to instability or some other error.
That realization only caused Eva to push even harder.
...
{Attempt #18,441 Failed.}
...
{Attempt #884,111 Failed.}
...
{Attempt #11,944,002 Failed.}
...
{Attempt #228,881,441 Failed.}
...
{Attempt #1,118,224,781 Failed.}
The failures continued accumulating at a terrifying rate.
Every time the synthesis neared completion, the resulting structure collapsed before it could stabilize.
Every time a stable structure was formed, the concept itself rejected the process.
Every time the concept was accepted, reality rejected the result.
It was as though the reality itself refused to allow the ability to come into existence.
Yet Eva continued.
The process became so vast that even the billions of abilities she had accumulated began disappearing into the endless ocean of experimentation.
Yet the result never changed.
Every time the ability approached completion, something stopped it.
[Failure.]
[Failure.]
[Failure.]
Countless failures piled up one after another until even Eva began to realize something.
The concept she was attempting to create simply exceeded what should have been possible.
{Attempt #18,882,441,199 Failed.}
...
{Attempt #114,772,991,553 Failed.}
...
{Attempt #991,448,228,114 Failed.}
The number of failures eventually reached a level that even Eva stopped paying attention to.
Yet she still did not stop.
And now only 8 seconds remained before the barrier was completed and the other three Celestials swarmed Ash.
Then suddenly.
Something changed.
A synthesis that should have failed managed to persist for a fraction of a second longer than expected.
Then another.
Then another.
Eva immediately noticed it.
{Analyzing anomaly.}
The moment the analysis completed, her eyes widened.
Because she recognized the source.
[Limit Breaker]
The title was responding again.
Just as it had responded during the creation of Evolution.
Just as it had shattered the limits of Synthesis to fuse with Assimilation.
Now it was responding once more, but this time to the endless determination behind the process itself.
The refusal to give up.
The refusal to accept impossibility.
The refusal to acknowledge limits placed by the reality.
A series of notifications immediately appeared before Eva.
[The effects of ’Limit Breaker’ are responding to the continuous attempts to surpass Limits of Reality]
[The effects of ’Limit Breaker’ are responding to the Will to create the impossible.]
[Reality has rejected the result.]
[The effects of ’Limit Breaker’ refuse to acknowledge Reality’s verdict.]
For the first time since beginning the process, Eva froze.
The notifications continued appearing.
[Reality has rejected the result.]
[The effects of ’Limit Breaker’ continue attempting to surpass the impossible.]
[Reality has rejected the result.]
[The effects of ’Limit Breaker’ are forcibly challenging the established limits of existence.]
The two forces repeatedly collided.
One attempting to deny the creation.
The other attempting to force it into existence.
Then, after an incomprehensible number of failures...
Reality finally yielded.
[The concept of impossibility has been successfully challenged.]
[The boundary between possibility and impossibility has been broken.]
[Congratulations!!! An impossible outcome has been forcibly converted into reality.]
...
...
...
For a brief moment, the entire Soul Space fell silent.
Then a single line appeared before Eva.
[Creation Successful.]
And beneath it.
...
...
...
[Deus ex machina]
Eva stared at the words in complete silence as countless calculations abruptly came to a halt around her.
She had finally succeeded.
A smile slowly appeared on Eva’s face.
Found you.
{Activating ability : Deus ex machina}
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