Bright and dazzling gold.
It is a stroke of coincidence to have a color bearing semblance to Amphoreus’ Romance Demigod.
One thing is certainly different:
Mine is the brightest.
It is not a test of resolve, nor it is a deeply seated determination to change the world. To remain unchanging despite the most turbulent tides…
That is what encompasses , Shi Tian.
I opened my eyes to a tide of mories. The pitch-black cosmos is mixed with a tinge of dark blue. Stars shone around. Nebulous clouds showcased their beauty in this expanse of nothingness.
Like a huge web woven in the sky, the space surrounding looked like shattered glass. Every ‘shard’ contained a mory—Amphoreus’ mories.
From Phainon’s battles against the Fla Reaver to his arrival to the Era Nova, a new cycle, everything is here. Only the mories regarding this ‘cycle’ aren't presented, conforming to its status as the forgotten cycle.
Its matter goes as far as Formlessness’ first activation. I attained the Karmic Severance Sword, seeing through the essence of my self, when I decided to follow the Blade Mantra’s urge to pierce through the temporal dinsion.
I ended up going to the “Past” shrouded by Fuli’s fog before having my divine mind drawn to Amphoreus. Fuli ‘robbed’ everyone else of the mories made in this 15,015,021st cycle.
Withholding these strange occurrences, the greatest opportunity so far is the Rembrance Path being anchored to my stigma space. It isn’t supposed to happen, granted the rules and conventions we theorized during the Sword Conference, yet it did.
Removing these things, there is still one thing present in my mind.
This is not my Dao Integration opportunity.
The future projection indicated an exaggerated, heaven-defying control over the aspect of ‘Creation’. It ans Amphoreus leads to my Dao Integration Realm breakthrough, or at least, fulfilling one of the four requirents for it.
Out of them all, raising the realm, comprehending the ‘Dao’, and the fusion could be excluded. The first one can be achieved by pure cultivation. The second is already with my ultimate grade spirit roots. The third one is sothing that must be done during the breakthrough itself.
The only requirent left is the fulfillnt of a ‘feat’. It is an ‘act’ that will ‘open up’ a Dao to oneself. Basically proving oneself to the Dao. It is the key to raise one’s “status”, becoming a higher-dinsional lifeform.
It is where my doubts lay.
No matter how strong Rembrance is, anchoring it to my stigma space is not a feat. At best, it is sothing that will lead to it.
I recalled the words left to by my projection:
“Shatter the false infinity and reach the Immortal Dao.”
“False infinity” refers to Amphoreus. Shattering it—freeing Amphoreus from its ti loop—pushes towards my opportunity. It has always been my line of thinking.
This begs the question:
What should I do to reach this conclusion?
Out of all the answers I thought of, reaching 80% of the Rembrance Path is the most viable. Taking in Amphoreus’ mory is a necessary move.
And so I did.
Every single cycle, every single character, every single event.
All of them are deeply embedded in my mind.
The most brilliant existence is undeniably Phainon. His entire life was laid bare in my eyes. To so extent, he possessed an unbreakable mind similar to mine. He was only limited by his mortal shell, unable to fully cope with the millions of Coreflas inside him.
His role in this ‘story’—Cyrene’s story—is irreplaceable. It will not hold without Phainon or Cyrene. Replace one of the two and it will run the risk of everything collapsing into Destruction.
Keyword…
Irreplaceable.
Soone just happened to replace Phainon in this endeavor.
The Trailblazer.
Sothing makes her special, so much so that she can perfectly replace Phainon’s importance in Amphoreus’ story. The Trailblazing Path is one of the most unique Paths in this starry sky.
As if triggering sothing, the mory shards around turned dull. My thoughts inadvertently touched sothing, causing Rembrance to beco chaotic. My 79% stake at this Path is put into good use… even if it caused a huge trouble to Amphoreus.
Countless new mory shards appeared. This ti, they weren’t limited to Amphoreus’ 15,015,021st cycles.
Everything, from the beginning until the 33,550,367th cycles, flashed inside the mory shards. Zandar’s act of detonating a Stellaron, up until the wide-scale cosmic battle against Irontomb, they are all here.
Past, Present, and Future lost their distinctions. At least inside Amphoreus where an eternal ti loop takes place, the boundaries between ti disappeared.
The opportunity I am seeking for…
I will see them here.
*****
The Black Sun posed zero changes to Amphoreus… or not. The mont it erged, the Dawn Device gradually stopped working. Okhema’s eternal day has returned to Amphoreus’ eternal night.
Along with the night’s advent was the descent of the Black Tide. It swept through all of Okhema’s streets, corrupting these places as well as its people one-by-one.
To the citizens’ horror, they saw pale white arms crawl out of these dark-red patches in the land. They carried a distinct black fluid that terrified their very souls.
“Teacher Tribbie.”
Aglaea stood at the highest point of the Marmoreal Palace. The holy place for bathing had turned into a frenzied warzone. Black Tide creatures and entities out of Nihility alike crawled all over Okhema. The latter posed a great threat to Aglaea, requiring her to ‘cut off’ the golden threads that co in contact with them.
“Snowy and Cinny are at the Vortex.”
“We need to buy them ti.”
Aglaea’s ‘eyes’ weren’t limited to her sight. Wherever her golden strings lay, she can see the situation. This perfectly woven network helped her a lot against the Elders’ sches and managing Okhema alike.
This ti, she managed to dispatch Okhema’s combat units to the right places. Most of the firepower was borne by the newly-ascended Strife Titan.
“Agy! W-we sent over people.”
Trinnon, who was usually calm, ran straight towards them. She didn’t even have to speak further as a tall and well-defined man followed from behind.
He did his usual formal gesture, bowing with his right hand on his chest.
“Greetings, Lady Aglaea. We are sent over by the Imperator to lead a final charge.”
“...I understand. Do as you may seem fit.”
“Yes!”
Aglaea did not prolong their reunion. Cerydra’s trusted millennial-old commander, Fortunado, left the room. The matters of his life extension and the likes are thrown at the back of their minds.
All that’s left is one thought.
‘We must reach the Era Nova.’
*****
A/N: I couldn't write due to irl stuff yesterday. This is the chapter that should have been yesterday's.
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