The Entrant brought out an unfamiliar reaction, a sharp spike of genuine excitement that rarely cracked his usual self.
Alarm for a new threat stayed absent. This was the raw anticipation of looking directly at a future iteration of his own existence and finding it entirely extraordinary.
The man burned with THE Primordial Source, matching the direct, unmediated presence THE Creature possessed, but the refinement went far beyond that ancient titan.
THE Creature had spent eons tearing himself apart and rebuilding through raw destruction to reach his current state. This one... had clearly followed a different path, arriving as a finished product that had been meticulously polished instead of brutally forged, making him considerably more powerful.
