Chapter 274: Dawn IV

    The tower pulsed with quiet tension.

    Achilles’ Primordial Avatar stood at the heart of it all, silent as the sea he had raised.

    Around him, th newly-armed beings clutched their Living Cataclysmic Star Weapons as they continued to marvel at their capability.

    Then, he moved.

    The vines beneath his feet, those glorious luminous strands of purple-gold light, breathed to life. They unfurled slowly, with an elegance that none could mimic.

    They slithered across the same colored crystal and stone of the Primal Neon Tower’s summit and found the hands of each Overseers or Throne.

    One by one, they wrapped around their wrists, gently without asking for permission.

    No one flinched.

    None resisted.

    Then...a pulse.

    BOOM!

    Waves of golden and violet brilliance surged from Achilles’ core, flowing through the vines like blood made from starlight and memory.

    They entered the wielders of his Living Cataclysmic Armory like a tide- soft at first, warm and glorious. Then came the crashing waves, deep and relentless. Bones crackled beneath skin. Veins ignited. Nerves bloomed like solar flares.

    The ones who had stood proud as Dharma Kings or Apex Ethereal Physiology Masters cried out- not from pain, but from sheer incredulity as their power advanced rapidly!

    Even Aliya and Thorndike, the only Luminblood Stage Astral Core Ascension powerhouses among them, staggered back slightly, chests heaving as the waves surged through their already-star lit physiologies. Their eyes glowed brighter than ever as they looked at each other in shock.

    Achilles didn’t falter. Not once.

    This was just Biological Nurturing VI.

    Just!

    His gaze remained calm, unshaken, like he was merely breathing.

    Inside him, however, the storm churned.

    He activated Limited Assimilation.

    He chose not to draw from the land beneath, or the skies above.

    No, his command over Organic Crystal and Primordial Energy Source meant he was the source of these Assimilation. Dense, bottomless oceans of both substances lived within him now, swirling through his being like lightning as he pulled on them. They seemed nigh endless!

    And so he gave.

    Power flowed outward like rivers of aurora-fire. Not one blade of grass was touched. Not one stone was broken. He needed no sacrifice or offerign. He was doing everything.

    The air cracked as brilliant gold and purple shone all around, and it did not take long before a [Sky] was completed, Dr. Shaw being the first as soon after, a small river of star light, barely observable in the morning skies, descended on him as he began to take star light into his blood!

    And in that moment, when the skies shimmered with light and ascension, when the aura of a terrifying empowerment thundered out like a second sunrise...he arrived.

    A brilliant blue-gold blur split the clouds above the Primal Neon Tower.

    Lancelot.

    Cloaked in crystalline ice, draped in royal frostlight, the Throne of Glacivane landed with practiced stillness, his cape of frozen plumes billowing behind him. Two other Astral Core Ascension Overseers trailed in his wake, but none dared speak as their boots touched the sacred platform.

    Their eyes widened at the ridiculous scene they arrived to as seeing someone become a Luminblood Stage Astral Core Ascension entity right before their eyes almost caused them to ask...

    ‘What the fuck?!’

    —

    In another area away from the ground undergoing advancements.

    The morning light filtered through the canopies of the living forest atop the Primal Neon Tower, soft and golden, shimmering against the evolving threads of Evolutius and Primordial Living Scripts that danced in the air like breath.

    Beneath it all, Achilles held her.

    Rose.

    Floating beside him, her eyes were bright as her body glimmered with the stellar armor he gave her.

    After their night of intimacy, he had of course nurtured her through Biological Nurturing VI, and also guiding the flow of Organic and Inorganic Terrestrial Assimilation until it had risen to Echelon III.

    She was no longer merely radiant.

    She was a genuine Luminblood Stage Astral Core Ascension entity!

    Her blood shimmered with starlight, her body pulsed with energy wrought from the core of this world.

    Achilles observed her with a smile as white flanes danced around them.

    Wrapped together in a cocoon of his White Flames of Nirvana of the Sun and Moon, their forms vanished from the area, dissolving into light. They reappeared beneath the Adrastia Continent, in the abyss where sunlight faded.

    Above them, the Titanwall Dome glowed in resplendent purple and gold, humming with sealed might. The pressure was thick enough to make a Luminblood Stage Astral Core Ascension entity kneel. Yet Rose stood tall beside him.

    She blinked, her voice soft and curious.

    “What are you doing now?”

    Achilles didn’t answer immediately. He took in the patterns of the dome, the interplay of glorious inscriptions, the layered tectonic brilliance that marked it not as a defense, but a cradle.

    Finally, his gaze met hers as he replied with a smile.

    “I’m forging the vessel to take us to the Triarcan Keep.”

    ...!

    At his words, the world stirred.

    A thunderclap echoed beneath the Continent of Adrastia.

    Then...

    HUUM!

    A landmass broke off from the underbelly of the Adrastia Continent.

    One mile wide.

    It floated downward in silent defiance of gravity, still connected to Achilles’ will. The Titanwall Dome encased it in shimmering violet-gold, pulsing like the heartbeat of a Titan.

    And then, with a mere flick of his fingers, he sculpted it.

    Forest Generation flowed from his palm, and in seconds, lush crystalline trees erupted from the land, their leaves reflecting constellations, their roots embedding in the floating terrain like veins of memory.

    With another motion, Spring Generation.

    Rivers of golden light cut through the landscape, cascading down in tranquil falls, coalescing into pools that shimmered with primordial radiance. The landmass became a verdant ark- a mobile throne.

    Rose took a step forward, her hand brushing a low-hanging leaf made of glass-light as he deacended onto this vessel of land first.

    He gazed at her carefree figure, hesitation flickering as he asked her lightly.

    “Are you sure?” he asked gently, his voice lower now, a whisper carved from concern.

    “About coming to the Triarcan Keep. There are too many unknowns with this meeting. Ancient Ones. Humans. Mythological Creatures. Nothing is guaranteed, not even my control.”

    Out of an overabundance of caution, he asked her as she turned to him while he continued.

    “I just want you to be safe.”

    Silence lingered between them, gilded and fragile, as golden light played on her skin.

    Rose smiled, slow and unshaken, her eyes rising to meet his.

    “Then let’s make sure we go and come back... together.”

    ...!

    Her eyes were decisive as he nodded firmly when he received her answer, preparing to meet the major players of the world he lived in that still seemed infinitely large even now!

    One chap today, we resume tomorrow!