Evolution Online: I Can Fuse With All Things-Chapter 53: Free Lesson

Lucien was thrown off by her strange reaction. Gayanna looked terrified by the box, as if she’d been intensely traumatized.

Even as he returned the box to his inventory, she still stared at him with trembling eyes.

He hesitated for a moment before averting his gaze and studying the egg instead.

Immediately, Lucien’s eyes saw differently. Before fusing with the Watcher’s Eyes, what he saw on the egg was just:

[Dragon Egg???]

But now, his eyes seemed to pierce into the very essence of the egg, and because of it, the information the system brought to him was different.

[Dragon Egg]

Name: Unnamed

Class: Obsidian

Level: ???

Rank: Sovereign

Condition: Unhatched (This Egg has survived ten thousand years; it requires a special method to hatch it)

Special Method: ???

Information: A New Obsidian Sovereign cannot rise until the old one is dead. After three thousand years of Tzalmavet’s terror through the world, he finally died and a new Sovereign was born.

Lucien grimaced.

’It requires a special method, but even the game doesn’t know the special method. Why does everything have to be unnecessarily hard?’

He sighed and dismissed the black egg, then focused on Gayanna, whose eyes were somewhat calmer now.

Lucien lingered for a bit then said to her in a calm and even tone:

"Are you ready to talk about your trauma?"

She looked at him, frowning.

"What trauma? You’re speaking like that because you don’t know that thing. How in the hell did you even find it?"

Lucien shrugged.

"Looks pretty much like a box to me."

’Perhaps I should check it out with my eyes later. Bringing it out right now would just freak her out again.’

He sighed.

"What was it?"

"It’s difficult to explain, but it’s definitely a relic—just that it doesn’t belong to a god. It belongs to the Others."

Lucien furrowed his brows slightly.

"The Others?"

Gayanna nodded.

"Yes, they were the first enemy of the gods. But they’ve been totally wiped out, though—like, before even the age of the new gods. Which is why I don’t understand how that thing is in your hands. To be with you, it has survived over hundreds of thousands of years. That shouldn’t be possible even for a divine fragment. Can we even call it a divine fragment?"

Lucien looked at her. This time, the light in her eyes was sincere and resolved. But it was beyond the light. It was as though the light itself was telling the truth to his eyes—as though he could see truth itself. Which was why he had no trouble believing her.

’I guess I’ll have to pause on fusing with it until I know what it is.’

He exhaled and leaned back, his hand resting on the stairs of the dais.

"And about the Watcher? You’re still not going to share more?"

Gayanna shrugged indifferently.

"It doesn’t matter. The Watcher, no matter how strong he was, is dead. Although there’s some shadiness with how he was killed, he’s dead—and your eye is proof of that."

Lucien sighed once again.

"Last thing..."

He lingered, his eyes falling to the ground for a moment before he asked:

"Have you been to the Ashen Hollows, behind the Ossyn Woods?"

’Wait... she doesn’t even know Ossyn Woods to begin with.’

Gayanna’s response came almost as fast as his thoughts.

"I don’t even know Ossyn Woods, nor have I ever heard of Ashen Hollows. However, if you’re talking about the depths beneath the northern plains, then I may have an idea. That place is filled with hideous things, and that’s because one of the new gods decided to make that place his laboratory. That was over ten thousand years ago, though."

Lucien didn’t reveal any special expression, but his eyes showed that he was intensely scrutinizing what she had just said.

He exhaled deeply.

"There’s a lot to this world, apparently."

He raised his head and stared at Gayanna.

’And she’s speaking from the perspective of ten thousand years ago. In that time, how much has changed for her? What exactly are the developers of this game thinking? How did they manage to create a storyline so immersive?’

He exhaled and finally stood up.

Gayanna looked up as he rose.

"So what now?"

Lucien raised a brow.

"What now?"

She responded as she stood.

"You said you had something to do in Hall of Columns, which was to get blind. Is that all?"

Lucien exhaled again.

"Alright." He opened his map.

And then checked the world section.

His map was quite scanty—there was just the Cradle World, and in the Cradle World, there was the Western Continent—Varnhym. In Varnhym, he could see the Kingdom of Rhamira alone, which was very far southwest of where he was right now.

Lucien sighed.

’How do I even begin this journey?’

Lucien stared at the map in silence.

It felt more like a sketch than a guide—empty lines, hollow landmarks, too many unknowns. Only Rhamira was marked in any real detail, a pinprick in the vastness of the continent.

He zoomed out. Still nothing.

The rest of the Cradle World was a fog of absence, a void waiting to be unveiled. Which meant everything ahead was going to be like this—opaque, uncertain, almost cruelly detached from logic.

Gayanna glanced at him.

"What’s wrong?"

Lucien glanced at her.

"Nothing. Aside from the fact that I have to figure out the way to go all the way to The Kingdom of Rhamira... that too with a shitty map with nothing on it at all!"

Gayanna looked at him with downturned lips.

"Looks like you have your work cut out for you. But it doesn’t have to be that difficult."

She closed her eyes and remained calm for a moment.

Lucien stood there, studying her with a doubting expression on his face.

"What are you doing?"

Gayanna responded without opening her eyes.

"There’s something called Mana Sensing. Then there’s something called Mana Resonance."

She opened her eyes, amber gold subtly illuminating.

"Mana Sense is the ability for your body to feel the existential energy of the world—that which nature possesses, the flames, the air, and even the beings that walk it, be they sentient or not. Monster or not. Everyone has this existential energy called mana. And everyone can sense it. But it’s not an easy process. If one manages to overcome this process, however, they move on to Mana Resonance. This goes beyond sensing but even drives down to... as the word implies, connecting."

Lucien carefully paid attention.

"Connecting with mana is, of course, a very difficult process. It’s very abstract, and you might feel like the most useless person in the world. And trust me, being able to sense mana doesn’t make it any easier. Anyway, when you’re able to do this, you can use the mana around you to detect things like movement, the shape of things, the smell—although that requires more practice and complication.

"For a Great Mage like me, however, it’s this..."

A golden hue began to trail around Gayanna’s frame.

"With Mana Resonance, I can connect with the existential energy of the entire world."

She closed her eyes again. Her brows furrowed. Then she opened them, hesitating a little.

"For now... let’s do this continent alone."

Her body continued to radiate light—the light had a sweet, warm, and welcoming feel. Something Lucien couldn’t put into accurate words. It felt very...

Alive.

It wasn’t just warmth—it was remembrance, familiarity, like a long-lost lullaby of the world itself humming inside his skin. The golden hue rippling around Gayanna wasn’t just light. It was mana made conscious, moving like breath across the contours of reality.

Lucien blinked, and then—

It touched him.

The resonance swept over his body like a pulse, slow and deep. Not painful, not sudden. But incredibly real. It bypassed his thoughts, his doubts, his sense of control, and went straight into his chest—his core.

[SYNC INITIATED: Mana Resonance Detected]

[CALIBRATING USER SIGNATURE... COMPLETE]

[WORLD MAP UPDATING...]

[REGION UNLOCKED: WESTERN CONTINENT – VARNHYM]

[Major Nodes Discovered: —Rhamira —Thorneveil —Akathel —Vale of Iron —Sildrun Peaks —The Broken Root —Ossyn Woods —Ashen Hollows —Tomb of Echoes —Crimson Vale]

Lucien stumbled slightly. freewebnσvel.cѳm

His eyes widened as he watched a sudden rush of images, names, and directions stream into his map interface, forming like a storm unraveling over a once-blank canvas. Roads twisted into view. Mountain chains arced across the north. Blackened scars in the land pulsed red, marked with caution sigils. Great forests stretched their green veins across the interface he was looking at.

Gayanna opened her eyes fully, the glow fading, and said softly:

"Now you’ve got a proper map. It won’t show you everything... for some reason I couldn’t connect with the entire world..."

A frown crossed her face as she uttered that.

Lucien blinked again. His body still buzzed. His mana felt stirred, like it was no longer just inside him, but part of a conversation with something bigger.

She looked at him.

"Oh, and you’re welcome. I just gave you a cheat code. You can achieve Mana Resonance without having to go through Mana Sensing, but only two people have ever done that. Even in this present continent, I didn’t sense anyone who could. So not that I expect you to be able to do it, but because your body was introduced to mana, in time your mana veins should open and your mana heart might begin to take form.

"But you have to take conscious control of the mana heart, or else your mana heart will form anyhow, which will be incredibly detrimental to your life as a Mage."

Lucien felt so... awed.

’Did I just get a Magic Training Session? That too for free? She’s awesome!’

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