CHAPTER 365: SPACE! II

The Organic Universal Regulation- Space had been born!

It bloomed within him, quiet and glorious, as though it had always belonged. The pulse of it radiated across his limbs, his breath, his very bones.

Achilles stood adrift above the maelstrom of Evolutius and Primordial Energy, suspended near the veil of the planar barrier, his entire being gently humming.

Inside him, his Adrastia Lineage stirred violently. The moment was far from over.

|The Organic Spatial Regulation- Time, will be combined into a new budding Assimilation. |

...!

His eyes pulsed!

Around him, the purple brilliance of Time sparked into being- threads and ribbons lacing across his skin, entering his flesh, coiling around his heart and spine. The moment slowed, and then surged.

It was beautiful.

And then...!

It hurt.

Existence Corruption flared like wildfire.

His veins burned as though trying to carry time and starlight all at once.

His eyes narrowed. He focused.

More information unraveled into his consciousness!

|Time is an extremely important product weaving across all of Space, and disdains taking a back seat. The budding assimilation of Organic Universal Regulation- Space will now be changed into Organic Universal Regulation- Space-Time. Any further assimilation of Time or Space-related components will contribute to the rise of this singular Assimilation. |

He blinked at the sight of such glory!

The truth of it landed like a crashing wave. A merger. A unified dominion of Space and Time!

Something not even many Empyrean Star Nexus Transcendents could imagine!

But as such wonders bloomed...

| Existence Corruption Value has exceeded 40%. |

| Existence Corruption Value has exceeded 45%. |

| Existence Corruption Value has exceeded 49%. |

So did the limitations.

BOOM!

The energy shattered around him like broken stained glass. He was forced to halt the assimilation instantly, his consciousness tugged violently back from the precipice.

The corruption of his existence could not breach 50%. It never had before!

His entire form convulsed once, then steadied.

Light- stellar purple and imperial blue, washed over him. It clung to his skin like silk woven from the void itself, glinting with obsidian cracks of burning radiance.

He floated there, a silhouette of purple golden hair streaked in fire, clothed in a robe of glory!

He was...otherworldly.

And before him, the final message crystallized.

|The Assimilation of Organic Universal Regulation – Space-Time has been created. |

Echelon I – 3%

Qualities:

1. Continuum Vision I – Grants you the evolved form of Time Vision. You can now perceive a stretch of up to 5 Months into the most likely future and 2.5 Months into the strongest variant pasts. Cooldown: 1 hour.

2. Temporal Fracture I – You can send a compressed shard of time forward, breaking temporal stability in a 550-meter cone. Targets struck by the fracture suffer 90% slowed actions for 9 seconds, with 90% chance of local time inversion, causing their next action to be delayed and duplicated on a 5-second delay. Damage dealt during this fracture is recorded and repeated once.

3. Obsidian Pulse I – Unleashes a burst of distorted electromagnetic space-time energy in a 720-meter radius, dealing heavy internal damage (scaling with your current Assimilation percentage) and disrupting life.

4. Stellar Decay Field I – Surrounds your body in a decaying gravitational aura that deteriorates all incoming projectiles and energy attacks by 90% within a 100-meter radius. Slows enemy movement by 75% and applies stacking space-time corrosion on contact, reducing their energy regeneration by 88% per second for 9 seconds.

5. Personal Space-Time I – Allows you to accelerate or decelerate your own temporal flow up to 5x relative to normal time. You may choose to condense 5 hours of personal time into 1 hour of real-time, or stretch 1 hour of your actions over 5 real hours. Grants 25% cooldown reduction on all abilities used during temporal acceleration.

6. Portal Manipulation I – Opens spatial-rip portals between any two locations within 10 Million Miles. Portals can remain open indefinitely.

7. Space-Time Aura I – Passively radiates a dimensional aura that increases your evasion rate by 70%, grants immunity to slow effects, and causes a 40% time-lag in enemy perception and reaction to your movements. Allies within 15 meters experience a 100% increase in casting and movement speed.

8. Chrono-Spatial Physiology I – Your body passively adapts to the shifting Regulations of both time and space. You are immune to time stop and forced displacement effects, and may phase partially through matter or energy up to once every 30 seconds. Your internal durability scales with temporal compression, giving you 80% enhanced resistance when accelerating time.

9. Dimensional Rend I – Slashes through layered space with your weapon or bare hands, creating a rift that deals physical and temporal damage simultaneously. This attack bypasses 90% of armor and shields, and causes a 10-second stutter effect on struck targets, interrupting active skills and causing recoil across time.

10. Entropic Chronobarrier I – Generates a defensive dome of condensed spacetime 195 meters wide that lasts for 10 seconds. All incoming damage is reduced by 95%, and the first fatal attack is paused in a localized time loop for 9 seconds, allowing you to counter or evade it. Cooldown: 90 seconds.

...!

Interminable glory was what bloomed.

He hovered for a heartbeat, absorbing the magnitude of what had just occurred.

Then his eyes- one golden, one purple, lifted again toward the translucent veil.

No more resistance.

With a slow breath, Achilles activated the ability that now made his body one with space-time.

He did not fly.

He simply was.

His form shimmered...and slipped through.

BOOM!

A ripple echoed across the universe.

He emerged beyond the barrier.

Into... true outer space.

The stars here were not metaphors. They were endless, glittering lives burning across a sea of vacuum. Cold. Infinite. Silent. And yet... teeming with purpose.

Before him, the Plane of Existence he had just left floated silently.

But it was not a sphere.

Not from this view.

It looked like a massive meteor- dark, gnarled, scarred with ancient inscriptions and veined with light. One among many meteors, all drifting through the stellar field, veiling their true natures behind natural camouflage.

But his eyes... saw through them.

Further ahead, glimmers of starlight painted the void. Planetary rings gleamed faintly. Stars pulsed. Comets traced long, quiet arcs.

It was...breathless.

Gorgeous.

Beautiful!

He turned slowly, his hand extended as if trying to touch the canvas of the Star Seas itself.

Then...

HUUM!

His lineage flared.

Another resonance bloomed in his mind.

| The Adrastia Emperor King Lineage has returned to its natural habitat. |

| Progression rate has increased by 100x. |

| Existence Corruption Value accumulation rate has been reduced by 100x. |

| The Adrastia Emperor King has returned to the Star Seas!|

...!

No sound echoed.

Yet power burst from him, silent and unseen- an invisible surge rippling out like a tide, stretching across the vacuum, brushing past meteors, lacing into the distant stars.

It stated simply!

The Emperor King had returned to where he belonged!