Suddenly, another notification jumped.
[Divinity Detected]
[The Empire of Heavens has accumulated Divinity across countless generations]
[Imperial Authority Holder recognized]
[Would the host like to distribute Divinity across the Empire?]
[Alternative Option Available:]
[Absorb Divinity Into Self]
I could feel it already.
Sowhere deep within the empire an enormous amount of accumulated power had been sitting dormant for generations, waiting for soone capable of claiming it.
And now it belonged to .
I selected the second option. The reaction ca instantly.
The sky split apart above us.
A massive golden beam descended from the heavens without warning and crashed directly onto my body, swallowing everything around in blinding light as the accumulated divinity of the empire flooded into all at once.
The pressure was beyond anything I had experienced before.
It didn't feel like energy and more like fortune or combination of fate and laws itself. My body disappeared beneath the light.
Then suddenly everything vanished. I found myself standing in complete darkness. Just an endless black void stretching infinitely in every direction.
And there sothing enormous floated before .
I froze.
It was my soul.
The gigantic figure drifted silently within the void, over 333 feet tall, its eyes closed while imnse pressure radiated from it even in complete stillness. It looked exactly like and yet nothing like at the sa ti, a presence so vast it made my current existence feel insignificant beside it.
Then I noticed the restraints. Three crimson runes.
One floating above the soul.
One beneath it.
One directly in front of its chest.
Each of them pulsed slowly with deep crimson light, chains of energy extending from them into the soul itself, locking it down while only a tiny thread stretched outward from the massive figure toward .
Toward the small fragnt of consciousness I currently existed as.
I understood it instantly.
The Crimson Authorities.
When they reincarnated into this world, they didn't just send here. They sealed .
Limited .
Restricted almost everything.
The divinity flooding into from the empire surged harder at that realization, pouring endlessly into the void around like golden flas, and without hesitation I reached toward the nearest rune.
The mont I touched it, resistance exploded outward. The crimson symbol pulsed violently as if trying to reject the divinity itself, but I pushed harder, forcing the golden energy into it while cracks slowly spread across the surface.
The void trembled. The giant soul remained motionless behind it, eyes still closed.
I kept pushing.
More divinity surged into the rune. The cracks spread wider.
Then it shattered.
The mont the first rune broke, the entire void shook violently as a pulse erupted from the giant soul behind it, the pressure increasing so suddenly that space itself seed to bend around the figure.
I moved imdiately toward the second rune.
This one resisted harder. The crimson light intensified as if aware of what was happening, chains tightening around the soul while the divinity pouring into began burning through my body from the inside.
But I didn't stop.
I forced everything into the rune.
Golden light collided against crimson again and again until finally the second restraint cracked apart and exploded into fragnts.
The effect was imdiate. The giant soul stirred.
Its fingers twitched slightly for the first ti. The pressure flooding through the void multiplied several tis over, enough that even standing beca difficult as waves of ancient comprehension began leaking outward from the soul itself.
Laws.
Fragnts of understanding.
Space.
Lightning.
Force.
Existence itself.
mories I had forgotten flooded through my mind in broken pieces. Then my eyes locked onto the final rune. The one floating directly in front of the soul.
This one felt important and different.
The core restraint.
I gathered every remaining trace of divinity and slamd it into the rune. The entire void erupted. Crimson and gold collided violently while cracks spread across the final seal inch by inch, the resistance so intense that even the surrounding darkness fractured apart under the pressure.
Then it broke.
The final rune shattered and with it the chains vanished instantly.
The giant soul opened its eyes. White flooded everything in my vision. For a mont there was nothing else.
Then my vision snapped back. Reality returned violently. I was standing in the real world again beneath the fractured sky, but the mont consciousness fully returned, an enormous ripple exploded outward from my body.
The air shattered. Space itself cracked around in jagged fractures as pressure erupted outward in every direction, throwing Knight and Lyrate away instantly while the ground beneath collapsed into an enormous crater.
Mountains in the distance trembled. Clouds vanished from the sky.
The empire itself shook.
And inside my mind everything returned. Comprehension of my laws flooded back endlessly. Understanding far beyond what this world should have allowed to hold all at once. The sheer amount of information crashed through my consciousness like a tidal wave as pieces of myself that had been sealed away began reconnecting again.
I stood at the center of the crater breathing slowly while cracks continued spreading through the air around .
I looked down at my hands for a few monts, expecting to feel so overwhelming increase in raw strength after everything that had just happened, but there wasn't one. My level hadn't changed. My stats remained exactly where they had been monts ago. Yet sothing fundantal had shifted so deeply that comparing it to simple strength felt aningless.
It felt like the rules themselves had changed.
I took a slow step forward and stopped resisting my perception for the first ti since arriving in this world.
The effect was imdiate.
My awareness exploded outward from in a massive wave, crossing mountains, oceans, forests, cities, and continents within seconds as the entire world of Oriel unfolded inside my mind with terrifying clarity. Every movent of energy, every safe zone, every living presence, every distortion in space itself beca visible all at once, the sheer scale of it so familiar that for a brief mont it almost felt like I had returned to the Pri Universe again.
A faint smile ford on my face.
"Now that's more like it."
The sensation was intoxicating.
Not because it was new.
Because it was mine.
"What else…" I muttered quietly to myself.
I raised a finger and tapped lightly against the empty air in front of .
Space rippled instantly.
Then tore open.
A crack spread outward from the point of contact before splitting completely apart, revealing the dark void hidden beneath reality itself. Cold blackness stared back from within the fracture while unstable currents twisted along its edges.
Knight's eyes widened slightly sowhere in the distance.
I waved my hand casually and the space sealed itself shut again as though nothing had happened.
Then I took another step.
The world blurred.
One mont I stood at the center of the crater.
The next I appeared directly beside Knight and Lyrate without crossing the distance between us at all.
Both of them imdiately stiffened.
Lyrate narrowed her eyes at carefully while Knight instinctively took half a step backward.
"Sothing changed," Lyrate said slowly. "I can feel it."
The pressure leaking from my body had beco different now, less violent than before but infinitely heavier, like standing near sothing that no longer belonged entirely within the sa world.
"What happened?" she asked.
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