At first glance, this kind of operation sounded extremely difficult.
But once Lucas's mental will had been tempered to a sufficient level, these actions became as natural as learning to walk, run, or eat when he was a child.
After repeatedly and meticulously scanning his mental world, he finally discovered the hidden consciousness lurking deep within his awareness.
At this moment, that presence was extraordinarily well concealed.
If Lucas had not conducted five consecutive inspections—and noticed the subtle anomaly within the fluctuations of his own mind—he truly would have been tricked by this old, cunning existence.
'Damn it… these beings that have lived for who knows how long really are vicious,' Lucas thought grimly.
'They actually pretended to be destroyed, only to hide inside my mind and parasitize it?'
A chill ran through him. If he had been even slightly careless, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Despite discovering the intruding consciousness, Lucas did not act immediately.
If he attacked rashly, who knew what hidden abilities the other side might still possess?
If something went wrong and the creature triggered some kind of mental detonation, polluting his mental world, there would be no turning back.
So Lucas began to continuously compress and refine his own will, over and over again.
At that moment, a strange energy suddenly entered his body.
"This is…?"
The instant Lucas sensed it, he realized its source—it came from the Tesseract in his pocket.
This energy was incomparably pure.
Apart from the portions that had already condensed into rules, it carried no complex attributes whatsoever.
When this energy entered Lucas's body and came into contact with his ki, the two instantly fused.
Ki was the purest form of life energy within the human body.
The moment these two energies merged, the resulting force surged straight toward his brain.
In an instant, an overwhelming torrent of information flooded Lucas's mind.
His mental world was like an ocean struck by a cataclysmic tsunami.
The hidden consciousness sensed the danger immediately and activated its escape instinct, attempting to flee.
But before this informational tsunami, it was nothing more than a fragile leaf on raging waves.
With a single surge, the tide slammed into it.
Like a watermelon smashed apart, the consciousness was instantly shattered into countless fragments of "mental pulp."
Even its remaining remnants were obliterated by the data flood, reduced to inert informational debris.
These fragments were then absorbed into Lucas's mental world along with the torrent itself.
Lucas felt as if his head were about to explode.
Fortunately, he was no ordinary human—otherwise, this alone would have completely destroyed his brain.
At this moment, time around him seemed to freeze.
Lucas could see the runes that made up the golden threads.
Each nanometer-scale rune was itself composed of even smaller, picometer-scale symbols.
Merely glancing at them deepened Lucas's understanding of certain truths, as if all things in the universe were bound to follow these principles.
Soon after, he perceived even more microscopic structures—femtometer-scale runes.
These symbols touched upon the very laws of the quantum realm.
Even Lucas felt dizzy after staring for too long.
The reason was simple—his brain was not yet capable of processing such information.
In other words, Lucas was not yet qualified to fully comprehend this knowledge.
"Ah—!"
Lucas felt as though his brain were being forced apart by massive jacks.
At the same time, the ki within his body was being consumed at a terrifying rate.
Very quickly, outside the golden passage, the energies drifting through the extradimensional space were suddenly seized by an invisible force.
Immediately afterward, enormous amounts of spatial energy were drawn together, forming a massive vortex.
This sudden anomaly instantly attracted the attention of the strange beings inhabiting that extradimensional realm.
However, upon sensing the nature of this power, they reacted with evident fear and withdrew their awareness at once.
One end of the vortex pulled vast quantities of extradimensional energy inward.
The other end connected directly to Lucas inside the golden passage—
—or, more precisely, to the Tesseract in his pocket.
After being converted by the Tesseract, the colossal energy surged into Lucas's body like a raging flood.
Even as it was consumed, it continued to saturate every part of him.
Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff had awakened their Chaos Magic and super speed through the Mind Stone's energy modification.
Now, as massive spatial energy poured into Lucas's body, his ki initially tried to defend itself—
—but it was instantly overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of that power.
Yet instead of harming him, the spatial energy began to reshape his body.
If nothing went wrong, Lucas's body would evolve into one capable of surviving in any environment—a true spatial lifeform.
However, when this energy encountered S-Cells, something unexpected occurred.
S-Cells were the key to a Saiyan's Super Saiyan transformation and the true foundation of Saiyan power.
Stimulated by the spatial energy, the S-Cells reacted violently.
They detonated like a chain of explosive charges, releasing an immense surge of ki that collided head-on with the spatial energy.
From that collision, an entirely new form of energy was born.
This new energy immediately began transforming Lucas's body—
His muscles, bones, and even internal organs were all reshaped under its influence.
Not merely changing—
—but evolving.
At this moment, the S-Cells functioned like a massive relay station.
All incoming spatial energy passed through them for conversion.
This process also triggered rapid S-Cell division and proliferation.
With energy flowing endlessly, there was no concern about depletion.
Lucas could clearly feel it—
His strength was entering a period of explosive growth.
His ki was undergoing a fundamental transformation.
Previously, his ki had been pure life energy.
Now, it carried a unique and unfamiliar attribute.
Lucas could not yet define this attribute, but one thing was certain:
It did not hinder his control over ki.
In fact, when he tested it, both the speed of circulation and the destructive power of his ki had increased dramatically.
It was as if a character in an online game had just completed a class advancement, gaining boosts across the board.
After several minutes, the absorption of spatial energy finally came to an end.
Only then did Lucas realize that the true source of that energy had been the Tesseract in his pocket.
At that moment, within the extradimensional space beyond the golden passage—
A colossal eye suddenly opened.
At the center of its pupil, countless stars churned, as if containing an entire cosmos.
In the next instant, its gaze locked directly onto the golden passage where Lucas stood.
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