Runar opened his eyes.
The void around him felt different. Not because the space itself had changed, but because he had. The golden light surrounding his body was denser now, more restrained, yet far heavier than before. What had once been an early Beginner-stage Multiversal foundation carrying a little over a thousand universes had transformed. Approximately four hundred million universes now existed within him, fully integrated and stable. He had stepped firmly into the mid-Advanced stage of the Multiversal realm.
He sat motionless for a long moment, simply feeling the new baseline of his existence.
