Another year has passed,
The Tier 8 spatial material had finally been exhausted.
After nearly three years of ceaseless refinement, the crystallized core recovered from Parasite X had at last been reduced to nothing. Its silver-gray essence had been unraveled thread by thread, every fragment of comprehension extracted and assimilated. Yet even after the material itself had vanished, the dark avatar had not stirred. It remained seated upon Star Beast Island, locked in the deepest meditative trance Emery had ever witnessed, silently digesting the immense accumulation of insight gathered over those long years.
Emery had left it undisturbed.
Then,several weeks later, something changed.
Seated in meditation beneath Neo Terra Palace, Emery suddenly felt it.
His inner domain trembled.
The dark avatar had finally reached its breakthrough.
