Re: Timeless Apocalypse-Chapter 87: Sublime Evolution

For the G and F Ranks, he would focus on setting his foundation, and that would start with his body.

More specifically, his G Rank would be focused on what his path called the Physical Pillar, while his F Rank would be focused on what it named the Bodily Aspect.

And he already knew what he wanted to aim for with those.

WHOOOSH!

He flipped a palm over, and from his abode mark, dozens of prepared crystal gems appeared, contained within the pill bag given to him through his pack.

Uriel picked the bag up and looked at it with pride.

When he’d woken up after his class evolution, he’d had all the time in the world to consider his path and truly analyse its depths.

The ability to craft beasts tailored to his tastes and turn them into legendary creatures of old was almost overwhelming.

There was so much he could do, but there was also so little he knew.

In a lot of cases, he asked himself if creating them from scratch even had any benefit. He wasn’t a well-versed adventurer in beasts and their diversity, nor was he a god able to create perfect lifeforms.

Most of what he tried to create from his imagination always ended up incredibly flawed and twisted, inhuman horrors that would turn him into a chimeric mess of rotten flesh and blood.

So, eventually, after buying a beast encyclopaedia, he ended up deciding to modify and tweak already existing beasts to his needs and desires instead of crafting new ones.

Maybe in the future he’d have the ability to truly create new beasts and lifeforms.

But for now, he was more than satisfied.

Uriel opened the bag and picked up the larger gem within the lot, a large and jagged dark silver crystal, containing what seemed to be a world of sky-blue runes.

He closed the bag and set it aside.

He didn’t waste any more time and threw the crystal into his mouth, chewing, then swallowing.

BOOOM!

[You have ingested a {Twilight Sky Terracrule Sovereign} Crystal Gem!]

[Major Evolution is beginning!]

A loud boom echoed from Uriel’s stomach, and instantly, a wave of pain pierced through his mind.

His skin rippled, then burnt to ash, leaving him as nothing but a sack of flesh, bloody and naked.

But the pain was nothing in the face of the euphoria.

Aether flooded every single filament and fibre of his flesh, strengthening it and overflowing it with vitality, his bones becoming as solid as diamond yet as elastic as rubber.

His organs fortified, and all impurities within him were burnt to nothing.

His core, a ridiculously large construct, suddenly compressed again and again, becoming smaller and smaller until it was no larger than a grain of sand.

Like a singularity pressing upon the fabric of space, it pressed on the atmospheric aether around him, his presence becoming impossibly heavy.

Rust seemed to flake off his core, and the aether within thickened and purified, reaching an entirely new strata of might.

KAH!

A click echoed, and from his core, strange black and white aether surged, flooding the room.

[Evolution Successful!]

[You have achieved a Sublime Evolution!]

His core, as tiny as a grain of sand, began to drink in oceans of aether, growing and growing, the weight it applied only increasing and the quality of aether within only rising.

[You gained a Lineal Spark Talent!]

Across his core, runes emerged, directly etched into the very layers of his class, path, frames, and spark.

Knowledge of his talent flooded his mind.

[You have gained a Spark Characteristic!]

The aether flooding the room suddenly froze.

Then, it gathered and condensed, wrapping and crystallising around Uriel as his skin reformed, a shell of pure and perfect ivory. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

His hair returned just as white and spotless as his crystal skin now was.

[You have gained a Uniqueness!]

Uriel’s eyes rolled back, and he had a vision.

...

Uriel found himself standing in the skies as a spectral figure of white flames.

He looked down at an expansive world, filled with towering trees and behemoths of all kinds, from dragons that ruled and warred in the skies to phoenixes tearing through clouds and kirins streaking across the earth.

Titanic giants walked across the land, battling against mountain-sized plant lifeforms, standing on fields of moving maggots and butterflies, a strange composite living entity.

It was chaos, the chaos of nature.

But suddenly, darkness swallowed it all.

Uriel’s eyes widened.

He had expected a mountain to stand, a creature to emerge from the shadows, or to fall from the skies.

’Oh my god.’

But... he didn’t expect the entire world to move.

The entire world—sky and earth, heaven and hell—collapsed and caved in on itself.

A roar tore across the air, or rather, the void.

The world seemed to zoom out for Uriel, and the scenery got smaller and smaller until he realised—

’A scale!’

All of it had been happening on a single scale.

And the more he zoomed out, the more scales he saw, until he was left facing a behemoth that felt as large as the universe.

Every scale held a world, its environments different and endless, the variety of life never-ending and the chaos eternal.

A reptilian head, closer to a dragon than a turtle, stared at him, his body smaller than a grain of sand before the cosmos when compared to it.

"Father."

The young and juvenile voice was a shocking contrast to the creature’s size, so much so that Uriel was stunned into silence.

The creature suddenly shifted, its gigantic head lowering until it was mere inches away from him. The pressure and residual momentum should’ve killed him, but it didn’t.

Uriel, almost on instinct, reached out and caressed its head, gently.

He smiled.

"Hello."

...

WHOOOSH!

The vision ended.

Uriel returned to his body just as his second evolution ended and his dormant sparks bound the prime gem.

Deep within him, within his heart realm, he could almost instinctively feel the presence of the creature, slumbering in his depths.

...

Silence reigned for long moments.

Uriel looked at his hand. It wasn’t "like" crystal—it truly was crystal white ivory that wrapped around his body as skin.

Yet when he pressed his fingers, it was soft and bent like flesh. But when he tapped against the floor, resonant clings echoed.

He grinned.