SSS Class Infinite Regression: Ascension of the Mad Dragon Prince Chapter 257 257: Creating Cosmic-Level Cultivation Methods

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"Hm?!"

Louis was shocked as sothing new awakened within him. After nearly fully awakening as a dragon, a dormant bloodline stirred as he forged his new Physique.

"It can't be..."

Countless materials and treasures floated around him, the crystallized fragnts of the Venerable's power being the most prominent. They lded with his flesh and blood, enhancing his strength and consolidating his new physique.

The more he absorbed, the more he felt a new bloodline awakening, one that belonged not to his grandfather, but to his grandmother.

Jaw-like tattoos appeared across his bare skin as it constantly shifted through colors: white, dark gray, red, and now a clear blue that began to suppress the rest.

"Wait...!"

He had been trying to create a new Physique capable of devouring anything, just like the Venerable had, but he could not. The new bloodline was overwriting everything and awakening an imnse legacy sealed deep within his own veins.

"This is...?!"

His white skin suddenly turned a complete clear blue. His golden horns took on the sa hue, and Louis felt his entire body growing far more muscular and taller, overflowing with deep cold elental energy that froze his surroundings and created winter in seconds.

"I'm imnse?!"

Before, he had remained in the form of his original body, roughly two and a half ters tall. Now, Louis had changed dramatically, becoming gigantic.

He barely realized how it happened, but he now stood over five hundred ters tall, his humanoid form incredibly herculean.

Louis had always trained his body, yet he had never achieved anything like this. His genes had always seed to demand a slender build, even with densely packed muscle. This bloodline allowed him to beco truly huge and shredded.

"It has to be...! This is the Ice Giant Bloodline—no, Ice Giants are not this big... Ice Titan?!"

Louis knew that in Yggdrasil, dragons were not the only rulers. There were the three Ancient Titan Families, which had experienced a resurgence after nearly going extinct long ago.

Titans were the ancestors of Giants and the direct children of the Primordial Titan of Creation of Yggdrasil, Ymir, the brother of the Primordial Dragon Mother, Tiamat.

They had three families: the Ice Titans, the Fire Titans, and the Mountain Titans. Each had their own Primordial Fathers and Mother, direct children of Ymir who then created more Titans.

Giants, by comparison, were not divine beings but mortals who carried a small amount of Titan bloodline. Thus, they were tall, powerful, and favored by a single elent.

Divided into Ice Giants, Fire Giants, and Mountain Giants!

Louis's grandmother, Benladra's mother, had been born an Ice Giant and later developed into an Ice Titan after cultivating her powers and bloodline for a long ti.

Thus, his mother had inherited that power, and so had he. But it had never awakened until now.

"This is incredible in its own right... a Divine Ice Titan Bloodline! And it is imnsely powerful!"

Louis felt the power of the Ice Titan Bloodline fully awaken and blossom within him. His physical strength, vitality, and stamina skyrocketed above all else.

Feeling inspired, Louis quickly forged the new Cultivation thod and Physique by absorbing Ice Attribute materials this ti, as many as he could gather. Entire Spiritual Winter Mountains, Winter Tyrant Hearts, and many Ice-Attribute ores flew toward him, fusing into his giant body.

"Yes... yes!"

His hair grew longer and turned pure white. His appearance as a titan only amplified, granting him even more power and musculature.

Once he reached his limits, his body absorbed everything permanently and compressed it while he used the other Cultivation thods he was applying to shape the new Physique.

The result was...

FLUOSH!

"I did it."

His blue skin gained red fla-like tattoos that spread across his arms, followed by a second pair of arms, longer azure-gold horns, and more.

Sharp jaw-like dark blue tattoos spread around his neck, hands, arms, and face, making him look like a ravenous beast.

And last but not least, Five Divine Cosmic Spiritual Roots opened within the center of his chest. They spread and fused with the Eternal Frost of the Divine Ice Titan Bloodline, blooming into a beautiful lotus-like tattoo.

Thus, Louis nad this new thod...

"Abyssal Frost Titan Galaxy Devourer Divine Physique!"

As the Physique was forged, a Primordial Decree manifested within his Inner Macrocosm. A shockwave of divine and cosmic energies spread everywhere. Thousands of stars turned into Azure Frost Stars, swirling within one third of his galaxy. This boosted his cultivation speed and finally allowed him to begin cultivating as a Galaxy Monarch.

His body, already towering over five hundred ters, grew once more. The blue skin deepened into a glacial sapphire hue that seed to drink in all light around it, reflecting only cold starlight. The red fla-like tattoos that once burned across his flesh now beca frozen crimson circuits, pulsing with restrained devouring power. A second pair of muscular arms fully manifested, each etched with jagged jaw-like runes that hungered for essence. His golden horns elongated and twisted into majestic azure spirals tipped with icy crystalline thorns.

His white hair cascaded like a frozen waterfall down his back, reaching past his waist. His eyes, once golden, now burned with a cold, star-filled violet that could freeze concepts themselves.

The Ice Titan Bloodline had fully awakened and rged with the remnants of the Venerable's devouring authority that Louis had stolen. What resulted was no longer a simple bloodline.

It was a Cosmic Bloodline.

A Divine Ice Titan Galaxy Devourer.

The new Cultivation thod completed itself in an instant. Runes of frost and cosmic spirals carved themselves across every cell, every ridian, and every fragnt of his soul.

[You have successfully created a brand-new Cultivation thod: [Abyssal Frost Titan Galaxy Devourer Physique]]

[Abyssal Frost Titan Galaxy Devourer Physique (Rank 8: Initial Stage)]

This thod fuses the dormant Ice Titan Bloodline of your maternal lineage with the stolen Devouring Authority of the Seat of Devouring Hunger, further refined through your Fantasy Galaxy Dantian and the Hollow Spiral of the Ashen Wyrm.

[Core Effects]:

[Divine Titan's Absolute Might]: All Physical Stats (Strength, Vitality, Dexterity) permanently increased by 1200% (scales with Cosmic Qi)

[Devourer]: Devouring Efficiency of any form of energy, essence, or concept increased by 700%

[Absolute Zero]: Absolute resistance to Cold, Ice, and Freezing effects. Can convert any incoming Ice/Cold attack into personal Cosmic Qi.

[Glacial Devour Aura]: Anything that remains in contact with your body for more than three seconds begins to be frozen and slowly devoured, converting matter and energy into Cosmic Qi and Fantasium. Can be deactivated at will.

[Titan's Eternal Winter Heart]: Your heart now functions as a miniature frozen galaxy. It can store and release catastrophic amounts of Cosmic Qi in the form of Absolute Zero Blizzards capable of freezing entire star systems.

[Divine Abyssal Frost Galaxy Core]: Your Inner Macrocosm now possesses a Divine Abyssal Frost Core at its center. Several Fantasy Stars within your galaxy are slowly being converted into Frozen Fantasy Stars, enhancing your Cultivation Progress as a Galaxy Monarch.

Louis exhaled, and the breath that left his lips turned into a miniature blizzard that froze a nearby solid cluster of stars before they shattered into sparkling cosmic dust.

"...This power..." he muttered. His voice was deeper and colder now, carrying the weight of ancient glaciers and devouring voids. "It feels like I was always ant to beco this."

Everyone who witnessed his evolution was shocked. For a mont, they thought it resembled what he had gone through when he evolved into a dragon.

"Louis, that is amazing...!" Niflheim said. "So you truly were attuned with the Ice Titan Bloodline!"

"Congrats, master!" Belladine said, celebrating by shooting lasers of light that exploded into small fireworks.

"Well done..." Handy said, shy yet happy.

"To be expected of our great master," the giant living armor spirit, Pendragon, spoke with a very proud voice.

"Amazing! So cool! And... big!" Pandora said with a cute smile.

"It is incredible, master..." a large phoenix spoke with flickering soul and nirvana flas around her blazing body. She was Phenix after her many evolutions and remained shy like Handy.

Louis, deep down, found it a little hilarious how loyal these spirits were to him, even though they had been born from spirits he stole from an unfortunate man from Calot. Sothing he still did not regret at all, as it had helped him trendously.

He had already emptied the Calot Treasury years ago, using every single item to enhance and forge his soul as he cultivated his Qi as a Star Weaver. Everything had built toward this mont.

"Thank you, everyone, although this is far from enough," Louis spoke. "I must create two more Cultivation thods to align with the two other sectors of the Galaxy that I have not yet covered."

Indeed, one thod alone was not enough. He needed at least two more. Louis already had so ideas and began consolidating them from concepts into a flowing river of pure Draconic, Fantasium, and other elental energies in his heart.

"Heh, why not?"

He glanced at his Cultivation thods. Instead of simply drawing from them to create sothing new, he looked at the system.

"System, directly combine all Cultivation thods. Fuse them directly and create sothing new from all of them."

[Confird. Do you wish to fuse all Cultivation thods except the new Physique?]

[Warning: Once fused, they will disappear from the System's selection.]

[Yes] [No]

"That is absolutely fine. Combine all of them and fuse!"

Even though he had his own ideas, he decided to first create a new monstrous cultivation thod through the system to test its capabilities.

Later, he would create yet another one when he had no more references, freeing himself from the past to forge sothing truly new.

The system humd with unusual intensity, as if even it was slightly overwheld by the sheer volu of perfected techniques Louis had accumulated across five hundred brutal regressions.

[Processing…]

[Fusing 18 Cultivation thods at Grand Perfection and Peak Stage…]

[Integrating Draconic Legacy, Elental Roots, Sword and Spear Intents, Spirit Bonding, Yin-Yang Principles, Void ridians, Nirvana Flas, and stolen Devouring Authority fragnts…]

A storm of golden runes exploded inside Louis's Fantasy Galaxy. Every star trembled as rivers of knowledge—millions of years' worth of cultivation insight—crashed together like colliding galaxies.

Louis stood motionless in his titanic Ice Titan form, four arms crossed over his chest, letting the fusion happen without interference. His new violet eyes glowed brighter with every passing second.

Minutes that felt like centuries passed inside his accelerated soul-realm.

Then—

KABOOOOOM!

A cataclysmic shockwave of multicolored light erupted from his chest. The Divine Abyssal Frost Core at the center of his Inner Macrocosm suddenly split into three perfectly balanced sectors.

One sector remained pure glacial azure, swirling with frozen Fantasy Stars. Louis was amazed by what he saw.

A second sector ignited into blazing gold and crimson, roaring with draconic fury and star-forging heat. The heat of his own soul spread through this sector.

The third sector turned deep obsidian laced with silver spirals, devouring light itself and twisting space into elegant, deadly patterns of pure white and black void, leaving Louis speechless.

"Incredible... Maybe I should not have underestimated you, System."

And then he saw what had happened...

Ding!

[You have successfully fused all previous Cultivation thods into a single supre foundation!]

[Primordial Hollow Spiral Galaxy Sovereign Sutra (Rank 8: Initial Stage)]

This is a living, evolving Cultivation thod born from the fusion of every technique you have ever mastered. It no longer follows conventional paths. Instead, it revolves around your Hollow Spiral of the Ashen Wyrm as its core axis.

[Core Effects]:

[Threefold Galaxy Division]: Your Inner Macrocosm is permanently divided into Three Sovereign Sectors: The Frost Devourer Sector (Ice Titan Devouring), The Solar Dragonheart Sector (Draconic Star-forging), and The Void Eclipse Sector (Spiral Fate-twisting). Each sector can be cultivated independently or in harmony.

[Hollow Spiral Core]: All Cosmic Qi, Fantasium, Ti Essence, and Draconic Essence are automatically drawn into the Hollow Spiral at the center of your being, refined, and redistributed at 400% efficiency. The Spiral itself grows stronger the more you cultivate.

[Threefold Sector Harmony]: Every ti you fully cultivate one Sector to the next minor realm, the other two Sectors receive 50% of the progress automatically. Complete harmony between all three will trigger a Major Realm Breakthrough.

[Threefold Sector Empowernt]: Any Martial Art, Skill, or Ability you use is automatically enhanced by the corresponding Sector (Frost for defense and devouring, Solar for raw destructive power, Void for conceptual manipulation and fate defiance).

[Primordial Hollow Sovereign Cosmic Sword-Spear Intent]: An almighty Intent that can shape like both a Sword and a Spear, carrying the Cultivation thods of both weapons and enhancing them to their absolute limit. This Intent can be materialized and shaped into countless formations, skills, techniques, and more, and requires no weapon at all. Perfect for both defense and offense. Its total power is based on all stats combined 1000%.

[Limitless Growth Potential]: This Sutra has no theoretical upper limit. It will continue evolving alongside your Spiral of Fate and your Crown of Eternal Regret.

Louis's body shuddered with pure ecstasy as the new Sutra rooted itself into every fiber of his existence. The three sectors of his galaxy spun faster, feeding one another in an endless, perfect cycle.

He laughed in disbelief at what he saw. It seed this new Cultivation thod had completely rewritten his Galaxy and even allowed him to occupy all three sectors at once!

Did he even need the third thod now?!

"Hahaha...! System, you are incredible! Thank you. This is perfect for ," Louis smiled with pleasure. "Now, let us create the third thod anyway. Even though the second can cover the entire Galaxy, it alone cannot sustain itself. It requires another Pillar."

Louis thought about his third Cosmic Cultivation thod for a mont. He imdiately began forging the new thod he had envisioned, this ti without relying on the system at all. He used only his own enlightennt, the mories of five hundred regressions, and the fresh perspective granted by his Ice Titan awakening.

At the end, his crown resonated. He realized the best thod would be one that could further rge him with the crown and enhance its power. He rapidly manipulated the concepts he had learned and combined them with everything he had gathered so far.

The Tiline Fragnts composing the crown resonated with him as he began manipulating the elental energies within with incredible mastery.

A large "scripture" appeared within his own body. Then it eclipsed as Yin and Yang, Purgatory and Heaven, Life and Death, and all contrasting elents within him rotated together with it.

However, he felt it was not enough.

Then he closed his eyes and channeled the power of one of his new spirits, the silent fairy Oberon, who flew toward him.

"You are a spirit born from his legacy, his child," he said. "That stone he left beca the pillar of my fast growth so far. Now join and beco this new thod, so we may honor your father together."

"...Yes, master. Thank you," the fairy spirit nodded, lding with Louis's Cultivation thod.

FLAAASH!

The ethereal crown circle he created rotated rapidly, gaining the primordial and divine spiritual power of Oberon. His legacy, a fragnted Cultivation thod he had left for Louis, his reincarnation, quickly erged and evolved with the new thod.

Thus, he nad it.

"Primordial Eclipsing Avalonian Spirit Crown Scripture."

This thod focused not on raw power or cultivation speed, but on turning every fragnt of regret, every lost tiline, and every death he had suffered into tangible strength and spiritual, primordial divinity. It allowed him to manifest temporary "Divine Primordial Regret Incarnation Spirits," perfect copies of himself from previous regressions. Each one carried a fragnt of his original strength, but they were spirits and sowhat frail. As he began to manifest the scripture's power, Louis felt they could rge even better than Echoes, surging like a sea of Incarnation Spirits, an endless Sea of Self.

"Just what have I made?" He was shocked. Even after creating it himself, the incredible synergies it provoked were utterly ridiculous, especially as he felt almost every one of his skills and Spiral Abilities resonating with it.

After testing it for a while, he discovered these Incarnations could fight independently, sacrifice themselves to fuel his main body, or even rge back into him to grant instant stat boosts and new insights. When the Scripture finished forming, Louis felt the Crown of Eternal Regret tremble with delight. Its Level 7 aura flared as it greedily absorbed the new thod and, sohow...

Tiline Fragnts: 527/880 → 541/880

"Huh?!"

Just like that, the crown had grown again simply by witnessing the birth of a thod designed around its own nature. It even obtained Tiline Fragnts that Louis must have been unable to gather before due to his lack of understanding.

This thod further combined with his Crown, allowing it to work more effectively than ever before. Even though it did not increase its total level, it could increase its "EXP" through obtaining Tiline Fragnts more efficiently.

But what were Tiline Fragnts? For lack of a better term, they were fragnts of Lost Ti from Tilines Louis had left behind. Whenever he died in one and moved to the next, one fragnt would always stick with him by default.

There could be hundreds per tiline, and now he had finally learned a thod that could help him collect them more effectively. The best part was that he did not need to die to obtain more Tiline Fragnts for the ti being. rely using this Cultivation thod allowed him to gather those he could not before.

The system, like before, greeted him with a new notification and the information of his new Cultivation thod, now assimilated into his Status.

Ding!

[You have successfully created a powerful Cosmic Cultivation thod, complenting your Galaxy Monarch Cultivation!]

[Primordial Eclipsing Avalonian Spirit Crown Scripture (Rank 8: Initial Stage)]

A powerful and almighty scripture forged from the combination of the Last Legacy of Oberon, the King of Fairies from Yggdrasil, and the power of the Grand Incarnation, the Crown of Eternal Regret. This new Cultivation thod has been directly designed to manipulate, absorb, and spiritualize Tiline Fragnts, improving the speed and growth of your Cultivation and of the Crown of Eternal Regret.

[Core Effects]:

[Divine Primordial Regret Incarnation Spirits]: Grants the ability to summon perfect copies of yourself from previous regressions, each one carrying a fragnt of the original strength. Because they are Spiritualized, they are not the toughest, but they can combine with the user's aura or attacks, enhancing their power even more.

[Sea of Self]: By summoning Divine Primordial Regret Incarnation Spirits, you can combine them with your own Aura, Spirit, and Soul, expanding your own "Self" like a sea that washes over everything with imnse power. When fused into your Sea of Self, the stats of each spirit are added on top of your own temporarily.

[Tiline Fragnt Magnetism]: Attracts forgotten Tiline Fragnts from Tilines you have left behind passively, absorbing them to enhance the growth speed of the Crown.

[Divine Crown of Avalon]: Contains the fragnted conceptual powers of Oberon within, capable of summoning his Divine Primordial Authority to an extent. It exerts imnse power capable of summoning an endless Divine Spirit Forest and the World Tree into battle, unleashing the complete wrath of Nature... among many other abilities.

[Spirit Sacrifice]: Your Summoned Spirits can sacrifice their lives to grant you temporary boosts in power and Soul Abilities, especially useful when using the Divine Primordial Regret Incarnation Spirits, as their sacrifices grant substantial boosts to their master's growth and speed.

[Spiritual Forest Heart Essence Fusion]: Gather Energies within the crown and fuse them together. They can be compressed into larger and stronger power and refined directly into Cosmic Energy.

"It is done... With this, I have sufficient Cultivation thods."

Louis sighed in relief, feeling their power coursing through every inch of his body right now. With this complete, his Inner Macrocosm and the Galaxy inside had finally settled and expanded even more.

"Now..."

He looked at his status again. The big Level 400 displayed there told him it was about ti he evolved. But could he really evolve here?

If it had taken him over a week to evolve before, how long would it take him now?

The Venerable's "outer shell" was dead, but what about the true body? Should they ambush him while evolving and completely ruin everything?

"I could leave a divided self again, but what if it dies again? I cannot be bothered. I will kill him first, then evolve."

Louis was decided. He quickly gazed into the Limbo before him as his eyes grew sharper and his aura surged, his power skyrocketing.

He held Gungnir with his hands, infusing her with his Cosmic Qi and other energies, making her grow rapidly into her biggest form.

At the sa ti, Louis began tracking where the Venerable could have gone.

He did so by using Soul Extraction at the place where he had died, managing to extract a large leftover soul he could not get before.

It wriggled in agony before he quickly seized it with his claws and inspected it with his sharp eyes.

"Let us follow your trail."

Using Heart of Ti through Inverse Pandora, Louis activated a completely new skill.

"Heart of Dinsions."

TRUUUM!!!

While Heart of Ti amplified all of his Ti Abilities and Ti Magic and made him even stronger with the power of ti, its inversed form, Heart of Dinsions, did the sa for the manipulation of space and dinsions themselves.

In that mont, Louis was able to rapidly manipulate, detect, and destroy dinsional walls and mbranes as long as they were not too large. Dinsional Essence and Space Energy also beca easy to control, wield, and transform.

It expended a lot of Draconic Energy and Fantasium... but he had plenty of it.

"Heart of Dinsions – Soul-Chasing Dinsional Bridge."

In that mont, Louis created a proper Space Attribute Spell, bending space and shattering the dinsional walls before him.

Crack, crack...!

CRASH!

"...?!"

As the dinsional walls shattered, he was greeted by an endless ocean of red and black energies. At the center, a smaller, fleshy figure rested, exhausted and weakened.

"Y-You?!"

A familiar voice echoed from within as Louis stepped into the dinsion. The void's mbrane quickly regenerated behind him.

"What are you doing here?! How...! HOW DID YOU FIND ?!"

It was the Venerable himself. Having narrowly escaped death, he was now too exhausted to continue and rested in this dinsion of his own creation.

Though there was a problem.

He was supposed to be incredibly far away from where Louis had just landed, but he had never imagined Louis would obtain the power to chase him down no matter what.

"You...! W-Why?! Leave alone...! I have already been defeated...! YOU WANT TO TORTURE ?!"

"Can it."

Louis swung his leg, kicking the aberration away and making it crash into a wall.

"H-HOW...! HOW DARE YOU!!!"

The aberration roared, expanding his body through his Dinsional Realm and fusing with it.

RUMBLE!

Suddenly, Louis found himself surrounded by hundreds of jaws and eyes everywhere.

"LEAVE NOW... OR PERISH!"

The Venerable's voice rang out. Louis stayed alert as giant jaws rushed down, attempting to bite his body at the sa ti as red eyes fired curses powerful enough to...

The jaws appeared through every molecule, surrounding Louis and attempting to devour him once more.

And yet...

CLANK!

CLANK!

CLANK!

The only one who was hurt was the Venerable as his fangs shattered the mont they touched Louis. Even in his small humanoid form, he was so incredibly tough it felt surreal.

"G-GEUGH?! W-WHAT...!"

"Your ti has co."

Louis spoke like a ghost, appearing in front of the Dinsional mbranes and holding their body with his dozens of claws as he infused Soul Shapeshifting into his new form, becoming even more monstrous than before.

"Soul Extraction."

"NNNGGHHHH?! AAAAHHHHHHH!"

The Venerable scread in agony. His entire body revealed its true form just as it had with the other Venerable. The dinsional body shattered, and deep down there was a humanoid figure.

Why though?

Why were they both humanoids even though they were so strong?

There was certainly sothing bizarre about the Venerables. They were made by Oblivion too. They were technically not beings that had risen from nothing to where they were now.

They were artificial gods, moderators of the entire world, ga masters themselves, fit to slowly destroy and recreate the universe in Oblivion's image.

But why were they human-like?

"Master... will not stop until you are dealt with... remnant! Never forget that...!"

Louis held the Venerable's true body with his claws, crushing him into blood and paste before completely destroying his existence as he froze and devoured it through his Physique.

He was not playing around, nor was he going to waste any more ti trying to speak with such a deranged being.

They were born, lived, and died for their master. It was utterly pointless to reason with such entities, and Louis had more than enough already.

"Prey Devourer."

Using Gungnir, Louis absorbed the corpse of the Venerable and what remained of his true body, while slowly learning a little more about him after obtaining additional mory fragnts.

The first ti they fought, he had completely incapacitated him by entering his dreamscape and exposing his past, helping him learn more about him.

But it was only now that he learned one of the truths behind the Venerables.

"Summoned... humans?!"

Louis was completely speechless after learning that both Venerables he had killed were once ordinary human beings from a parallel Earth.

"What in the world is this?!"

He saw images of the Venerable he had just killed, how he had lived an ordinary life as a salaryman, always wishing his life could be more.

Then, one night, he died from overwork, eting Oblivion in a completely white space. Oblivion then promised him a better life.

This man was then reincarnated in another world, a Fantasy World nad Terran, which Louis had heard was a cut Fantasy World that was in developnt but never made it to the final ga.

There, he lived as a hero, reincarnating with a "Unique Skill" that held the Authority of "Devouring Everything" called "Absolute Gluttony."

Oblivion slowly shaped this man, influencing him, manipulating him, and more. He was originally a hero, but slowly was shaped into a monster, killing his own family, destroying his kingdom, and ultimately sacrificing all life in Terran.

After he sacrificed all life in Terran, he ascended through Fantasy Apotheosis, which was ultimately a twisted ritual to warp him into a powerful, aberrant Grievance. Since then, he had fused with Oblivion, making him stronger.

And this was not just a singular case. Oblivion had been doing this for a while, reincarnating souls with powerful new Unique Skills, raising them, and then fusing with each to expand his power.

At so point he had attempted to do the sa with a certain Dragon, Drake, Louis's own grandfather! However, he ultimately failed, as Drake rejected the Apotheosis and beca Oblivion's enemy, deciding to remain in Yggdrasil rather than ascending further.

"His eyes were not from Earth, no, they ca from that Cultivation World, that Murim..." Louis muttered to himself. "He beca his eyes... and this one, his mouth... the other three, what are they? Are they also extensions of himself he had spread through the universe? What an insane bastard..."

He could not learn more about his past or what they ant by calling him a remnant. He wanted to find out why there was an "original" and what had happened to him. From what he had heard, there was once a great battle between the "original" and Oblivion, which triggered this series of events afterward.

But from what he could connect, Oblivion had won that war and his "original" had likely died long ago, yet had managed to steal Oblivion's most precious treasure, the Heart of Ti, which for so reason had fallen into Louis's soul after over eleven thousand tilines.

Still, this was just his own theory of how things had gone. He would have to dig for more information once he finally had a fair battle against Lisette and Minato.

"Do you think we can fight them now?" Louis wondered.

"You killed the Venerable that granted them their power. Are you really still afraid?" Niflheim wondered.

"No..." Louis said. "It is different with them... They are after all Tier 0, and were receiving power from this thing on top of that. I wonder... would they finally be weaker? I am still only Tier 3... should I evolve? Would that make stronger?"

"Only one way to find out, but it should definitely make you much stronger," Gungnir nodded. "However, that depends if you want to spend so more ti here or you want to go back and finally win."

"...I must be cautious," Louis had learned this the hard way. "Let us evolve one more ti."

He decided to evolve. Entering his Inner Macrocosm, he found a large, empty planet covered with Fantasium Crystals and Seas of Spiritual Energy.

There, he sat down and quickly decided to see his evolution options.

And, to his surprise...

There was no option.

[Do you wish to begin your Evolution?]

[Yes] [No]

It seed that without more than one option, he could not even see what he would evolve into. He had to rely accept it.

It was forced after all. There was no other path ahead anymore.

"This is what I choose."

Louis closed his eyes and nodded, pressing [Yes].

And then he was engulfed in endless light. The entire planet trembled as Fantasium and Spiritual Energies, plentiful in this world, flew toward him in massive waves.

FLUOSH!

Slowly, a giant white cocoon was created, encompassing the entire planet, as if the planet itself had beco Louis's cocoon, an egg where he would be reborn.

His entire body imdiately lted alongside his soul. His skills, abilities, everything started lting and lding together into a single form.

Gungnir did not remain separate. As she was with him through the process, she also lted away and fused with him as they evolved together.

The spirits within her also underwent the sa change. All of them were connected as one "legion" of souls.

And so, ten years passed.

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