The boundary arrived without announcement.
He had been expecting an announcement because the Lower Domain's development had operated through announcements. The level-up notification, the skill core absorption confirmation, the attribute increase registration. Every threshold in the Lower Domain had produced a system output that marked the crossing.
The boundary between foundational comprehension and the next stage did not produce a system output.
He simply found himself on the other side of it.
One cycle the Law of Slaughter was at foundational depth, the chamber's resonance working toward the boundary from the approaching side. The next cycle the Law was not at foundational depth. It was somewhere past it, the settling that the chamber had been producing having crossed into new territory without the crossing being announced.
He sat with this for a long time.
