Against The True Gods

The process Caine had wanted to follow was rather simple.

He would forge his Will core, stabilize it, then he'd root his royal traits within it along with his demonic and holy True Wills.

After that, he'd simply awaken his Will nature, and at that moment, he'd have completed his path of True Will.

A path that began almost six years ago.

But with the sudden changes his Velios Bloodline had birthed, he'd decided to change the process.

He would still, indeed, begin by forging his Will core, but now, he'd do it differently.

Caine, previously, had already harmonized his True Will and Gifts via the comprehension of the control and creation essences of Will, which had allowed him to solidify the five dragons around his Star.

Now, using these same dragons—the very essence and fabric of his Gifts—he would form his Will core. His Gifts would become the very core of his True Will.

But not only that, he would fuse Lady Gaia's rune into the fusion process, which would not only integrate the rune itself into the fabric of his core but also compress and infuse the horrifying power Lady Gaia had sealed within it.

It was to be remembered that Caine's Will, during his meeting with Laplace, had been tempered for so many countless years and eons that it had almost ruptured under its own weight, and that was before the countless advances he'd made during his Trial of Fate.

His Will was too potent, and by condensing this power into his very core, he'd be fixing part of the issue.

His Gifts, Lady Gaia's rune, and this sealed power would fuse to become one—his Will core.

And once this happened, using the clouds of pure essence his Velios Bloodline had created by burning everything in his Bond Space, he'd… make these cores grow and mature.

WHOOOOSH!

Across his two mirrored Dao Hearts, a smooth process unfolded, unhurried and natural. Explore more adventures at My Virtual Library Empire

His dragons slowly swam and coiled through the skies of his Dao Hearts' inner space, fading into streams of flesh and runes that converged and gathered.

As this happened, emerald runes joined, fusing into the forming cores.

It all fused and compressed without any fluctuation, explosion, or resistance.

In both his Dao Hearts, two Will cores formed—Demonic and Holy.

The former was dark, akin to a spherical void, etched with ancient cursive amethyst marks, while the latter was a bundle of silver radiance, carved with beautiful runes of gold.

In both his Dao Hearts, the two cores spun around one another, harmonizing, and as this happened, white and emerald runes erupted across their surfaces.

The power of Lady Gaia's rune fused into the fabric of his cores as the sealed force it contained rapidly compressed and infused into them.

Simultaneously, Caine's royal traits firmly took root as his True Demonic and Holy Wills nestled themselves into the cores.

His aura rose like a burning, all-consuming flame, silent yet all-encompassing, filling the space of the hall he sat in with his mere presence.

The clouds of pure essence in his Bond Space shook and flowed down into his two hearts, seeping into his four cores as they rapidly began to enter an endless cycle of expansion and compression.

The process began and ended just as fast.

Caine felt all these changes occur, one by one, and allowed the strange novelty of it all to wash over him.

His Will cores floated down, finding a place between his Twin Stars and linking to the entire ecosystem of his existence.

The feeling was strange.

Due to his bloodline, everything had doubled, mirrored across his two Dao Hearts, yet the effects felt both multiplicative and additive.

The power should have absolutely overwhelmed and ruptured his flesh, yet due to the structure of his cores, it all lay dormant, compressed—controlled and harnessed.

But above all, now that Caine truly had his stars, Wills, and everything else rooted in his Dao Heart… he realized just how much power had been kept away from him and just how beneficial the star fusion process had been.

'My bloodline was able to entirely duplicate my Bond Space two times and fuse it into my Dao Heart… essentially granting me two additional inner spaces…'

'All of this… without me being drained of energy or having to pay any price. How strange.'

Zao had once told Caine that, until he matured, his Velios bloodline would remain dormant, which was one of the main reasons he'd decided to go get beast bloodlines at the elemental fields, which later trickled into him forming his Chimera Bloodline.

If his Velios bloodline could do this now—grant him a Bond Space, an Innate Bond, but also perfectly replicate things free of cost—what would it be able to do when awakened?

'It seems to have a heavy reliance on—' Caine's thoughts suddenly paused. 'Why am I assuming this is an effect of my father's clan blood…?'

'What clan is she even from…?'

Just as this thought formed and solidified in his mind, Caine's Will cores stabilized and finished their establishment.

A ripple shot through his True Wills, his aspects trembling as a torrential wave of power flowed through him. His Dao Heart shone with a brilliant light, overflowing into his aura and thickening the echo of his presence.

His Gifts now suddenly felt like something much deeper than just a part of him. Though he couldn't find the words to describe it, he could definitely feel it.

If his Gifts before were stuck at the quasi-immeasurable grade, now, they would no doubt have broken past this barrier and reached beyond, firmly rooted at the peak immeasurable grade.

Warp, Control, Sense, Master, and Comprehend—these were the Gifts Caine had been born with. And now, they had become part of the very fabric of something much more fundamental than his existence itself—his Will.

Caine's Will expanded outward like a domain, and suddenly, everything within this domain seemed to fall under his perfect and unbreakable control.

He could observe and sense the hidden intricacies and details of all things around him, comprehending and peeling them apart with a mere probe of his Will.

Space and time, usually beyond the reach of mortals, fell under his Will's whims as the slightest shifts in their fabrics became evident to him.

And beyond all that… Caine somehow felt like his Will had gained a sort of sealing essence—just like Lady Gaia's rune.