Monster Integration

Both Icy Crystal and Kindle shone brightly as I touched them before they melted and disappeared from my Inheritance Space.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…

I scremed out loud the very next second as an immeasurable amount of Ice and Fire energy spread into every part of my body and started to tear me apart. They are not only tearing my body apart but also my soul.

The less than 0.1% of Cosmic Energy is immense, so immense that I would explode in less than five seconds.

It looks like even after overestimating Cosmic Energy, I still ended up underestimating it. The Cosmic Energies that came at twins came with the intention of transforming them completely. It had changed them so thoroughly that they could not be called humans anymore.

While the cosmic energy I have is much lesser than them, it is still capable of bringing huge change; the unfortunate thing is that my body and soul are incapable of digesting it all.

Two more seconds have passed, and the inhuman pain had increased further; the energy had to my body to the breaking point that it had started to affect the structure of Honeycomb, seeing that my expression couldn't help but worsen.

The Honeycomb should not get damaged; not only will it be impossible to create something like it while I am in Emperor Stage, and once it collapses, it will take my body and soul with it as it is irrevocably connected to it.

Buzz Buzz Buzz…

I was just freaking out at the throught of dying within the next three seconds when suddenly I felt my body buzzed from all.

As that happened, I felt the cosmic energies in me at an incredible begin to lessen at an incredible rate; the five sources are sucking the energy at a very fast speed, relieving me of my doom.

What is the fifth?

Suddenly, a question came into my mind when I noticed an unknown source sucking my energy. The four sources I am very familiar with it, it is my Inheritance Runes, the Egg/Nero, Ashlyn, and Hidden Being, while the fifth is I am completely unfamiliar with.

Feeling slightly confused and fearful of the fifth source, I followed the direction in which the energy was going. Soon, I found my answer.

The Shield!

It is the shield which is the shield between me and the cursed sea. 

Seeing it as the shield that is taking the energy, a small smile couldn't help but appear on my pain-filled face. If anything in me deserves these Cosmic Energies more, then it would be the shield.

It had been acting as the defensive wall between Curse and me; its role had especially increased ever since the Curse had nearly destroyed the runic net confining the Curse.

With the five sources taking the cosmic energy, the burden on me lessened hugely. Though I am still feeling very full and in hell-like pain, I am not in life-threatening danger and would not be unless the balance between the two sources disrupts and they explode.

The twin element cosmic energy filled my body and soul, merging with it slowly. I could see how part of my body is taking this energy and not only growing stronger but also upgrading from deep within.

The Honeycomb is also absorbing the energy, not to fill its hexagonal cells but to strengthen its structure. I could feel how the synchronization between it and body&soul is getting stronger by a minute.

Still, it is nothing compared to the change that is happening to the two places. My runes are rapidly shrinking; they are getting even smaller than they already are, and their color also becoming even more prominent.

The second change is more shocking.

I begin shedding like a snake; my skin begins to shed, and in its place, new skin begins to appear, and a few seconds later, that skin would also shed, and new skin would appear, which would be far more vibrant than previous.

It is not just my skin where the change is happening; my hair also begins to grow like crazy; they already reached the ground and growing, and it is not only the hair on my head that growing, the hairs on the other places, too are growing madly.

The new hair on my head seemed to be quite shiny and seemed to have a luxurious feel to them. If I could move my hands, I would have definitely loved to feel them.

These changes have shocked me greatly; I know how great Cosmic Energy is but still did not expect it would bring such great changes to me. This is really beyond what I had expected. If I had feeling inhuman pain, I would have enjoyed these changes at greater pleasure.

The pain is really great; the twin element Cosmic Energy is drilling into my body and soul as it merged with and upgrade it from the deep. I bore this pain as I take pleasure in the great changes it is bringing to me.

Time passed by, and soon an hour had passed, but there is still a huge amount of cosmic energies remained in my body.

In the past hour, the shrinkage of my runes had stopped after they shrunk by five times; they have become really small that to see them, a regular person would have to use the telescope. 

Though they have shrunk, it is without a doubt they have become powerful, they have gained considerable power-consuming comic energy, and their power is still increasing as they have finished consuming all the comic energy they have absorbed; there is a large amount that had remained.

While my runes have stopped their shrinkage, my skin is still shedding. I have already shed hundreds of times and still continue to shed even more; I don't know when this process will end.

Another one and a half hour had passed, and the last bit of twin element cosmic energy finally merged with me, ending the process.

The cosmic energies have given me far greater benefits than I had imagined. Seeing the changes it brought to me, it could be said I had been reborn; the changes are too great for me to not say that.