The expansion of the micro-world hit a critical threshold, and Orion realized it was time. If he didn't act now, he would become a disembodied cosmic entity—a shapeless god of creation, omnipotent but intangible.
He needed a vessel.
It was a paradoxical genesis.
Orion's body wasn't being formed inside the new world, nor was it birthed from the World Tree. Instead, his physical form was coalescing in the Primordial Void itself, outside the World Tree. He was wrapping his body around the new world, becoming its living shield and container.
This process was excruciating.
To forge a body in the Primordial Void was an act of supreme hubris. Under normal circumstances, this level of bodily reconstruction was reserved for entities at the Sixth Stage of Demigodhood—patrons as esteemed as Commander Thresh.
But Orion was an anomaly. He wasn't a Sixth Stage powerhouse. He wasn't even Fifth Stage. He was a Demigod neophyte attempting to build a god-tier chassis from scratch.
