In addition to the holy sword, Rene also discovered that a massive magic array existed on the land of Fontaine.
The pattern formed by the magic array was the Covenant of the Compact Seal that he had found in the Remuria ruins in his early years.
The Covenant of the Compact Seal was the magic array used by Remuria to seal the Primordial Sea water.
Its highest point was the "Origin."
It might be the Fortress of Meropide. This was a breach of the Primordial Sea.
Next, as long as he found any one of the sealing locations, he could calculate the positions of the four elements and the center of the circle based on the computations.
The center was an extremely important part.
This was another breach and an indispensable component of Rene's plan.
The Primordial Sea water from the Origin all flowed toward the center.
In this way, when the sea rose and all the people of Fontaine dissolved into the Primordial Sea water,
Rene could stand at the center and receive the consciousnesses that flowed over along with the Primordial Sea water.
Finding the sealing location was a very simple matter.
The density of the Primordial Sea water was higher than that of ordinary seawater.
He only needed to send members of the society to several possible locations to investigate.
They just had to check whether there were water sources with higher density or traces of water channels.
The process of the plan went very smoothly.
Rene even mocked in his notes that the secret the Remurians had desperately protected was nothing more than this.
He quickly located the position of the other breach and built a tall tower here.
He named this tower the Gestalt — also called the Tower of the Self and Itself.
This was a concept from the ancient Fontaine Remuria kingdom.
It was used to describe the powerful self that ruled the world, maintained the world, and destroyed the world.
The tower was designed by the Narzissenkreuz Ordo and embodied the evolution of the human soul and the infinite mysteries of the world.
Such a tower would inevitably consume enormous manpower and financial resources.
This was not something Rene worried about.
At that time, the power of the Narzissenkreuz Ordo was already very vast.
Many people in the society held great influence in Fontaine.
Raising funds was not difficult.
During this period, Rene found several more stone tablets.
They were perhaps the stone tablets representing the Fontaine prophecy.
Their contents corroborated the results of his world formula calculations.
However, the current Rene no longer worried about the apocalypse.
Because of the completion of the Gestalt, Rene soon brought Director Lyris to the Gestalt.
The modification of the four quadrants was also nearing completion.
He had even obtained the holy sword in his hands.
Everything was ready.
[All of us Fontaine people will achieve world-level transcendence through this method, breaking free from the shackles of form and separation. It will be able to prevent the arrival of the apocalypse…]
This was Rene's declaration.
At this point, he finally reached the most important and critical step.
To receive and unify the consciousnesses of the Fontaine people flowing toward the center,
Rene needed to dissolve himself into the sea. It was under the director's assistance that he severed his own personality.
Because only in this way could he avoid being captured by the fate of Teyvat.
[Severing the self does not mean death, but dying before death. Therefore, there is no life to end. Through this method, one attains eternity.]
[This action is extremely important and can prevent accidentally obtaining a Vision. Obtaining a Vision is selling oneself to the fate of the world, which would make it impossible to walk the correct path…]
[No way, bro, are you peeking at the script?]
[Damn, I know less than the locals of Teyvat]
[I'm already dead, so I don't need to die?]
[So Visions are bad things?]
[This storyline is too amazing. They've already started preparing to resist fate]
[Indeed, the main story keeps discussing how fate will inevitably happen, but is it really so?]
Rene removed the pocket watch that Alain had given him.
From beginning to end, he had regarded it as a treasure and kept it on him even after the two had broken off their relationship.
Afterward, he extracted Carter's consciousness.
After doing all this, he dissolved.
[Goodbye. I will come to know myself again through water, and through water, be born once more.]
Rene failed.
[Ah?]
[As expected, something unexpected was bound to happen]
[Exactly. The one we saw didn't succeed according to the plan either]
He failed to complete his own sublimation and merely turned himself into something indescribable.
He even lost his self.
Fortunately, Rene did not jump directly into the Primordial Sea water.
There was still a chance for remediation.
Jakob "collected" him and preserved him.
He began thinking about how to restore him.
The urgent task now was to ensure the Gestalt could be put into use
and to ensure the society did not collapse.
If news of Rene's failure spread, the entire Narzissenkreuz Ordo would inevitably fall apart.
After all, no one wanted to be the next one to suddenly die.
Jakob came up with a reason, though he didn't know how long he could keep it from everyone.
But during this period, he had to handle the affairs of the society while figuring out a way to restore Rene's body.
He could only rely on himself now.
He flipped through various notes.
According to the research of the two, if further decomposed and purified,
he could incidentally cure Carter as well.
The closest incident to exposure during this period was when An came to the door.
To conceal Rene's matter, Jakob could only lose his temper and drive An away.
[It's hard to imagine the little crybaby in the team getting angry]
His research plan also progressed smoothly. At the very least, he had re-extracted part of Rene's personality.
Carrying enormous pressure alone also made Jakob increasingly mature and confident.
The members of the society did not have the slightest suspicion.
Over these years, the Narzissenkreuz Ordo had basically been under Rene's overall control.
So one point that was easy to overlook was —
Jakob himself was a person capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with the two geniuses Alain and Rene.
However, the subsequent research ran into trouble.
The risk of the experiment was too high, and Jakob lacked test subjects.
At this moment, some discordant voices appeared within the society, naturally concerning Rene, who had not appeared for a long time.
Thus, Jakob found his test subjects…
[Just treat it as contributing to our research. You are loyal to Rene. This knowledge will be useful in helping Rene…]
[??? What happened]
[What's going on? From Rene's perspective in the story, you treated them as great benefactors]
[It really is!]
Jakob's failure allowed those test subjects to obtain humanoid forms.
But this was definitely not enough.
Rene, who was supposed to become a transcendent, should not be such a half-baked product.
Thus, Jakob turned his attention to Carter's remnants.
Using Carter's remnants, Jakob used Alain's pocket watch as the cornerstone to construct Rene's form
and implanted Rene's memories into it.
He also carefully removed the memories of the two failures.
Because memories of failure were very likely to become stumbling blocks to Rene's transcendence.
Just like the failure of Carter's experiment before, which had hindered Rene's progress.
Rene should become the ideal Narzissenkreuz in everyone's hearts.
He would take steps once again and walk far ahead of everyone.
Jakob succeeded.
He named this newly reborn Rene — Narzissenkreuz.