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Execution Streak — 699.
The number floated in the corner of his awareness like sothing that had stopped being real so ti ago and was now simply a fact he was moving through rather than processing. Without him noticing the climb — without any single mont where the count had felt significant enough to pause for — the DeathWill aura bonus had pushed to nearly seven hundred percent.
Seven hundred percent.
If that number had arrived before the evolution began, before his body had started its brutal, forced restructuring, the outco would have been simple and final. The bonus would have had nowhere to go. The body it was trying to empower would have folded inward under the pressure and turned itself into sothing that wasn’t a body anymore.
But that body no longer existed.
What Xavier was operating in now was sothing that was still becoming — still mid-transition, still raw at the edges — but already fundantally different from what it had been an hour ago. And the DeathWill bonus, rather than destroying it, was feeding it.
The thick purple aura had stopped radiating outward in the loose, atmospheric way it usually did. It had drawn inward, pressing close against his skin, layering itself around his fra in dense, overlapping sheets that had begun to take on a solidity that light bent around rather than passed through. It looked less like an aura and more like armor that hadn’t quite finished deciding what shape it wanted to be.
Xavier moved through the remaining goblins like sothing that had graduated past the concept of opposition.
It was not a fight. It was not even a slaughter in any dramatic sense of the word. It was simply the thodical removal of obstacles from a path — each goblin encountered, each goblin eliminated, the motion between them barely interrupted by the contacts themselves. Whatever the goblins attempted — whatever instinct or desperation drove them to raise weapons, to charge, to cluster together — none of it produced any result that mattered. His advance did not slow. It did not waver. It simply continued.
From the edges of the field, nobody spoke.
Elves and humans alike stood in the stillness of people watching sothing that the available vocabulary was not quite equipped to describe. The battlefield that had been soaked in despair only minutes ago — the sa ground where hope had been quietly shutting its doors one by one — had been transford by a single figure moving through it at a speed that made the transformation feel almost insulting in how quickly it had happened.
Surnark rubbed his eyes. Then rubbed them again.
Several others did the sa thing, independently, as if the gesture might produce a different image on the second attempt.
Xavier noticed none of it. His attention was turned entirely inward, tracking the changes moving through his body with the focused, clinical detachnt of soone monitoring a process they cannot stop but can at least attempt to understand.
The DeathWill bonus climbed past eight hundred percent.
And sothing shifted.
The deterioration that had been running parallel to his every movent — the ongoing cascade of ruptures, the vessels splitting under the pressure of mana too potent for the architecture carrying it — began to slow. Then to stop. The cells that had been tearing apart faster than they could be replaced reversed their direction, the healing catching up and then surpassing the damage for the first ti since the evolution began. Arteries and veins that had been failing expanded instead — walls thickening, structural integrity rebuilding not to the original specification but to sothing considerably beyond it, shaped now to carry sothing vastly more demanding than the blood they had been built for.
His heart underwent the final reinforcent.
Badum. Badum.
Each beat was heavier than the last — not labored, not struggling, but deliberately powerful, the rhythm of an engine that had just had its fundantal components replaced with sothing superior. With every pulse, the thick, viscous mana was pushed through an expanding network that was learning, in real ti, how to carry it without losing a single drop of its potency.
Xavier raised one arm and held it in front of his face.
He clenched his fist. Then opened it. Then clenched it again.
The simple motion compressed the air in his palm with enough force to produce an audible detonation — a sharp, clean crack that rolled outward through the clearing like a miniature thunderclap.
He stared at his hand for a mont.
Terrifying.
He didn’t know the exact numbers. The precise asurent of what he had beco in the last however many minutes was not sothing he could calculate from the inside. But the shape of the change was clear enough. If he were to encounter the Second Sequence Lich King again — the creature that had required every available edge, every uncertain variable, every fraction of luck he could scrape together just to survive — he would not be approaching that encounter the sa way.
Luck would not be the deciding factor.
Not anymore.
Around him, not a single elf moved closer.
Even the ones who had been fighting beside him, who had watched him tear the siege apart from the beginning — even they held their distance now, giving him a radius of empty space that had been established by instinct rather than decision. Nobody had discussed it. Nobody had suggested it. They had simply, collectively, stopped approaching.
Bloodmancer Thalia stood among them, her crimson eyes fixed on Xavier’s figure with an expression that had shed every layer of its usual arrogance without the loss appearing to register with her. She was a First Sequence being herself — she had spent years building toward and inhabiting that threshold — and she could hear it. Not taphorically. The circulation of mana through Xavier’s body produced a presence that her own senses, calibrated as they were to that register, could detect with uncomfortable clarity.
What she heard was not comparable to her own.
It was multiple tis greater. Multiple tis denser. Moving through him with a pressure and a volu that suggested a container several categories larger than the one she had built for herself across her entire cultivated existence.
Her jaw was tight.
Her eyes stayed on him.
It feels as though I am looking at a Second Sequence creature.
The thought ford slowly, resisting its own conclusion.
Or a Third.
She heard the words in her own internal voice and almost rejected them. Almost. But the evidence was pressing against her from every direction and she was not, regardless of her many considerable flaws, a fool.
Xavier had evolved to the First Sequence. That much was clear and undeniable.
But this was not what the First Sequence was supposed to look like.
She could only stand there, looking up at what he had beco, and let the distant, uncomfortable hope take root that so day — through enough ti, enough effort, enough sacrifice — she might understand from the inside what she was currently only permitted to witness from the outside.
anwhile, Xavier remained entirely unaware of the reactions around him.
He wasn’t pretending not to care. He simply didn’t care. The battlefield, the stunned elves, the awed gazes, the shifting silence behind him — all of it had already been pushed outside the narrow tunnel of his attention. He sat down cross-legged on the blood-soaked ground without a trace of hesitation, allowing his body to settle and adapt to the changes still rippling through him from within.
He had done the dangerous part. Now ca the quieter, more violent one — the part where the body either accepted the transformation or broke under it.
From the shadows, Zerin erged.
Her presence slid out from the darker edges of the battlefield like a thought given form, silent and controlled. She did not approach Xavier directly, but took up position nearby, scanning the surrounding people with the cool, unblinking focus of soone carrying out a command rather than making a choice. Even though the imdiate threat had passed, she still obeyed the order he had given her.
No one would get close to him while she was here.
That much was obvious to everyone present.
A kind of pressured stillness settled over the area. Not one of the elves dared to move forward. Not one of the humans dared to test the boundary her presence created. Zerin stood there like a drawn blade hidden in darkness, and the simple fact that she was watching was enough to turn curiosity into caution.
Ti continued to pass.
A few minutes later, the silence was broken by the faint movent of approaching footsteps.
From the distance, led by Aria, a group of girls erged along the trail that wound toward Laplace Village. They were the sa girls Xavier had left behind near the portal — the ones who had been forced to find their own way after everything had scattered. Under Aria’s guidance, they had followed the path all the way here, finally arriving at the village after a long and likely exhausting journey.
The mont they stepped into view, their pace faltered.
Aria and the others took in the scene before them — the battlefield laid bare, the goblin corpses scattered in broken, mutilated pieces across the ground, the air still heavy with the remnants of violence. A chill ran visibly through them. Their faces changed at once, going pale in a way that made their exhaustion look suddenly young and fragile.
Then their gazes shifted.
They found the center of it all.
There, sitting in the middle of the slaughter with an aloof expression and his eyes closed, was a figure that none of them could mistake.
It is him...
Aria muttered the words unconsciously, the shock in her voice too strong to hide. Her eyes widened as she stared at Xavier, at the way he sat so calmly amid the aftermath of a battle that had clearly been fought to the end.
For a mont, none of the girls spoke.
The sight itself was too overwhelming.
Ti passed again.
Xavier remained unmoving, eyes still closed, letting the final phase of the transformation run its course. The pain and pressure inside him had not vanished, but they had begun to thin, no longer surging in violent waves. Instead, the changes within his body slowed gradually, like a storm losing strength after exhausting itself against the shore.
Finally, an hour later, he felt it.
The turbulence inside him eased. The raging changes that had been tearing through his body began to settle, one by one, until what remained was no longer upheaval but stability. The transformation was completing.
He was just about to call up his status windows and inspect the result when a series of blue windows flashed across his vision all at once.
[Congratulations for ranking first within all of humanity.]
[For this glorious achievent you have been awarded the title: Emperor of Humanity.]
[From now on, you will have a reasonable say in deciding Earth’s future.]
Xavier’s eyes opened slightly...
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