"It is complete!" Grey heaved a sigh of relief.
After a full day of meticulous work, his seventh-rank path was finally ready to be used and published for his pathstriders.
The people in the Azure Origin universe would also be able to use this, starting now. They should have already received it, in fact, since he had created the branch, and their means of progression was tied directly to accessing it.
Interestingly enough, he did not know precisely how much more powerful he would become after this.
Of course, there was only one way to find out.
That was by undergoing genetic ascension himself. He could directly step into the seventh rank right now, thanks to the boundless reserves of the Holy Corpse.
He was speedrunning the creation of the path, but the reality was that his flawless simulations condensed what would normally take countless eons into mere hours. There were no mistakes.
Just then, he felt something.
There was a strange fluctuation in the void.
