The golden pillar of solar-cosmic energy struck Ash, and the world simply ceased to exist.
There was no pain. There was no explosion. There was only an absolute, overwhelming influx of purity.
For the past twenty days, Ash had been cultivating using the academy's ambient energy. Compared to this, the ambient energy felt like a muddy, shallow puddle. It was thin, scattered, and full of elemental noise.
This was different. This was liquid starlight.
Sovereign Kael Thorne had literally reached into the sun, crushed the chaotic stellar plasma with the Law of Force, and stripped away the heat and radiation, leaving only the pure, fundamental cosmic energy. Sovereign Lyra Veyra had folded space to deliver it directly to him.
The energy didn't just flow into his body; it poured into him with the weight of a dying star.
Inside his mindscape, the Boundless Omni Art shifted.
