The night passed in silence, but the world within Arthur's Inner Realm was preparing for a storm.
As dawn's first light crept into the room, Nyx stirred, its voice resonating inside Arthur's mind with an ethereal calm.
Nyx: "Arthur, the Scroll Embryo Foundation has reached Perfection. You are now ready to awaken your first Divine Ability. Understand this: the ability will remain dormant until actively triggered. Its purpose is foundational."
Arthur sat cross-legged on the bed, feeling the stable energy pulsing from his throne—an ethereal construct of obsidian and starlight suspended in his inner realm. But as Nyx initiated the awakening, the throne began to shift.
Cracks of golden radiance crawled across its base. Runes in unknown languages lit up on its backrest. The air in the Inner Realm trembled as the throne transformed—restructured to receive the power of his first Divine Ability.
Then a blinding light erupted from the throne's center, extending into Arthur's soul. He gasped.
Arthur: "What's happening...?"
Nyx: "I'm concealing the transformation from the World Will. It must not sense what is being born."
The moment lasted only seconds in the material world, but within Arthur's Inner Realm, eternity seemed to pass. The throne pulsed with a cosmic rhythm. At the core of the throne, a lotus of divine fire emerged, cradling a new power.
Divine Ability Unlocked: Celestial Blood Selection
Nyx: "This is the origin of your bloodline. A foundational seed. With this, you can select a race as your root bloodline. It will grow with you and evolve each time your throne realm evolves. When the thirteenth throne is filled, the bloodline will attain Higher Dimensional perfection."
Arthur was awestruck.
Arthur: "Show me... all of them."
Nyx activated the Divine Ability. Arthur's soul was drawn out into a higher-dimensional vision. He hovered outside the material universe, gazing into the infinite ocean of realms.
Before him, countless Realms floated like islands in the sea of void:
Celestial Realm – Home of the Skyborne Races, filled with immortal phoenixes, thunder dragons, and floating palaces. They practiced Qi Condensation and Law Weaving.
Voidfire Realms – A realm of chaos and rebirth. Its inhabitants practiced Void Fire Dao and cultivated using Phoenix Nirvana Sutras.
Titanbone Abyss – Dominated by giant, semi-divine beings, the Titans. Their cultivation focused on Body Law Tempering and Eternal Bone Scripture.
Abyssal Underdeep – A dark, bottomless realm filled with soul eaters and cursed cultivators who practiced Sin Core Refinement and Shadow Devouring Laws.
Spiritglass Plains – Inhabited by Nature Spirits and Ancient Elves, cultivating Essence Pulse Arts and Wood-Wind Harmonization Laws.
Solarflare Dominion – Realm of Fire Devas and Sun Lions, practicing Sun Origin Sutras and Blazing Path Laws.
Desert of Wills – Populated by practitioners of the Egyptian God Paths, worshipping Ra, Anubis, and Sekhmet, who follow Soul Judgment Cultivation.
Brahmanic Cosmos – Where the Indian Pantheon—Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva—hold influence. Practitioners here followed Karmic Thread Arts and Vital Force Rebirth.
Celestial Bureaucracy Realm – Of the Chinese Immortal System, full of Heaven Officials, cultivators followed Celestial Dao Mandates and Immortal Merit Law.
Olympus Heights – Realm of the Greek Gods, where demigods trained in Divine Might Flow and Heroic Lawlines.
Then his gaze was forcefully drawn to a dark-burning battlefield on the edge of the known universe.
There, a battle shook galaxies. Two majestic beings clashed—one of radiance, the other of shadow.
A 12-winged Angel, wrapped in holy flames, wielding the Law of Purity, faced off against a 12-winged Fallen Angel, drowning worlds in the Law of Corruption. Their blows shattered planets, extinguished stars.
Arthur gasped.
Arthur: "They're at the 12th Stage..."
Nyx: "Correct. Both are close to touching the 13th Stage—Perfect Timed Beings."
As the battle raged, Arthur's heart was drawn to the celestial elegance and sheer might of the Angel Race.
Arthur: "I choose the Angel Bloodline."
But the scroll remained silent for a moment. Then it spoke.
Nyx: "This bloodline is fragmented in this sealed universe. Incomplete. The true, perfect angel should possess balance—white wings of creation and dark wings of annihilation. I will repair it."
A surge of devouring power wrapped Arthur, pulling the broken Angel bloodline from the universe and refining it through Nyx's mysterious source. A divine construct formed in Arthur's core—two ethereal wings, one white, the other dark.
Perfect Dual-Winged Angel Bloodline Acquired.
Passive Effects:
One White Wing (Holy Attribute): Enhances light, life, healing.
One Dark Wing (Corruption Attribute): Enhances shadow, decay, illusion.
Perfect balance in elemental control.
Flight speed dramatically increased.
Innate Divine Abilities (First Stage):
[Radiant Soul Mend] – Heal internal injuries and energy meridians.
[Oblivion Veil] – Cloak user in shadows, temporarily immune to detection.
Just as Arthur began exploring his new state, a pressure crushed down upon the higher-dimensional viewing realm.
A figure emerged amidst the Brahmanic Cosmos—
A being cloaked in flame and serenity.
Lord Shiva, the Destroyer, in a meditative pose atop a swirling trinity of time, space, and death.
His third eye slowly opened.
Arthur froze as the cosmic eye looked in his direction. He felt it pierce through fate and concept.
Arthur: "He... he sees me!"
Nyx: "Stay calm. Concealing your presence now. This is a being at the edge of Higher Dimension. A 13th Stage Perfection Timed Being."
The scroll erupted with countless runes, wrapping Arthur's divine sight in cloaks of paradox and folding space.
Lord Shiva blinked, and the gaze passed.
Arthur: "What... was that..."
Nyx: "That was divinity. True transcendence. You are not ready. But one day, if you fill all thirteen thrones and conquer your final realm, you may walk among them."
Arthur awoke in his body, cold sweat beading his brow. But a new pulse echoed from within his soul—his wings folded silently behind him.
He now carried the seed of divine evolution. A perfect bloodline. A silent war had begun, hidden beneath the universe's gaze.
He would not just grow strong. He would ascent.