The consciousness integration began at sunset, as the boundary between day and night created optimal conditions for Ancient awareness patterns to interface with contemporary magical frameworks. The laboratory had been cleared of all non-essential personnel, leaving only Paul, Dr. Thorne, Master Valdris, and Jin to monitor the process that would either create something unprecedented or result in spectacular failure.
I settled into the enhanced meditation chamber surrounded by monitoring equipment that tracked consciousness patterns across dimensions I couldn't even perceive. The three prepared components had been arranged in precise geometric alignment around me—the enhanced nine-star Void Beast essence core directly ahead, the modified eight-star Storm Titan crystal matrices to my right, and the awakened nine-star Abyssal Emperor bone fragments to my left.
