Date: Unspecified
Ti: Unspecified
Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Central Region, Central Academic City, Morningstar University District, Morningstar University Campus, Garden of Beginning, Ti Vestige, Morningstar University 2nd Campus
No longer dwelling on the steep price of my Ti-Rule resistance, I stepped into the ti-expansion chamber—just in ti to witness the three new bodies of Lucine rising from their pots. They weren’t alone. A withered corpse erged from the fourth pot as well. To my surprise, Lucine’s incarnation that had been trapped in her original body had survived the treatnt and her Ti-Rule dentia... as an undead. It seed she had gained far more from this procedure than I expected her to.
I watched as the three new bodies of Lucine turned to face the withered, undead Lucine—now their Incarnation—and for so reason, the entire chamber fell into an eerie, suffocating silence. They stood frozen in place, staring at their original body, now their incarnation.
Soon, they broke their standoff, and just as I was about to let out a breath of relief, they moved—swiftly landing around and circling in perfect unison. The three Lucine spoke at once, their voices overlapping perfectly, "Wyatt, you were right. You really did cure my Ti-Rule dentia."
Ignoring their spooky speech, I activated my Soul Pupils to verify that everything had gone as planned—only to discover that all four of Lucine’s bodies brimd with imnse temporal energy. The three new bodies of Lucine had no sign of ti-rule dentia, while the withered-old body did.
I noticed imdiately that this undead incarnation was unlike any other I had ever seen. All of its soul pathways and energies were completely still—frozen, as if ti in it or in contact with it would beco still. There wasn’t a flicker of change anywhere in its entire body. I also realized it wasn’t moving on its own; every step it took was guided by the intent of Lucine’s other bodies.
Still, the results were as I expected and more.
I couldn’t help but feel genuinely impressed by what she had accomplished. It made feel that swearing an oath to steady her nerves—to take such an active role in the entire treatnt—had been completely worth it.
"Don’t tell the obvious. Tell how you’re feeling—how well did the procedure go," I eagerly said, urging all four of Lucine to share every detail of their treatnt, especially anything they had obtained through it. They, too, appeared more than eager to share their experience with .
But before they could begin, all four of Lucine’s bodies suddenly converged, rging into a single form. I almost shouted in shock. After everything we had done to free her from Ti-Rule dentia, she had just reabsorbed the incarnation that was now suffering from the punishnt of breaking ti taboo in her stead.
Sensing my rising panic, Lucine offered a gentle smile. "Relax, I know what I’m doing," she said softly. "As I told you earlier, your treatnt truly cured my Ti-Rule dentia. My undead incarnation can suppress the remnants of it using the fourth Ti-Rule aning I pushed to ultimate comprehension—Eternal Stillness. As the na implies, it represents the point where ti is still, losing all its aning."
Hearing the words Eternal Stillness, my mind instantly jumped to the Big Freeze theory from Earth—where the universe ends not in an explosion, but in a slow collapse of thermal dynamism. In that scenario, entropy reaches its maximum, energy becos evenly distributed, and all physical processes gradually cease as the universe approaches absolute zero. It’s the ultimate stillness, the point where ti itself loses aning.
Imagining the implications and possibilities of Lucine’s Fourth Ti Rule aning my mind when blank. No wonder she dared to take her undead incarnation carrying the ti-rule dentia back into her. In the big freeze, ti technically still exists, but its passage becos effectively aningless. If ti itself was aningless, what use was the punishnt for breaking ti taboo, it too was aningless.
Wait a minute—if her undead incarnation was the embodint of the Eternal Stillness Ti-Rule aning, then everything I had noticed suddenly made sense. Of course its body showed no change; of course every pathway and stream of energy was frozen solid. No wonder it needed help just to move.
In its current state, it was essentially a temporal at shield, a vessel built to absorb the punishnt for breaking ti taboos. But even that had limits. If Lucine pushed it too far, her undead incarnation would be erased into nothingness like any other undead being.
Still, the fact remained: with this incarnation, Lucine could break certain ti taboos without having to fear the consequences—at least to a considerable extent.
"You did well," I said, genuinely impressed. Lucine hadn’t just completed her assignnt—she had gone above and beyond, tackling the extra credit on her own. The ergence of Lucine Past, Present, and Future fell neatly within my calculations. But the birth of Lucine End—that, I had never anticipated.
Inside the ti-expansion chamber, Lucine had followed my treatnt plan thoroughly, but she had also gone far beyond it. Using the excess ti surrounding her—sothing she had in overwhelming abundance in there—she not only fused her three Ti-Rule anings and condensed her Ti-Rule River, but, together with her incarnation, she comprehended a fourth Ti-Rule aning... and pushed it all the way to ultimate comprehension.
While Lucine focused on channeling her first three Ti-Rule anings into refining the three Viltronian vine root bodies, her incarnation used their newly comprehended fourth aning to refine Lucine’s original body—preparing it to take over once Lucine shifted into her new vessels.
When Lucine transferred her divinity into the three refined bodies and transford them into Lucine Past, Present, and Future, her incarnation simultaneously completed the refinent of the original body, reforging its divinity through their fourth Ti-Rule aning, Eternal Stillness.
From that process, Lucine End was born—Lucine’s undead incarnation, the embodint of the Eternal Stillness aning of ti rule. Since she had already forged her Ti-Rule stream, she could now fuse her three bodies—and even her incarnation—back into herself with effortless ease.
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