He could Assimilate Aspects of Existence!

The realization was a supernova within Achilles's consciousness.

The chains he had just perceived, the shackles binding him to the Null Scale… they weren't immutable laws. They were constructs. Aspects. And Aspects, like anything else that existed, could be understood, broken, and, for him, Assimilated.

Suddenly, the oppressive purple aura of Elara, the Level Zero Scale Nar'Thyss, felt different.

It was still immensely powerful, still capable of crushing his current Dream Body if he wasn't careful, but it was no longer the key. He no longer needed her power, her higher-scale authority, as the hammer to shatter his chains. He had tasted the nature of Limitation itself, assimilated a fragment of its essence.

Now, he could perceive the chains freely, understand their structure.

And more than perceive them… he could now break them himself!

HUUM!

His newfound understanding resonated with the nine shattered fragments he had already consumed. He felt an echo, a capacity. He could break… nine more. The same number as the fragments he held within him. It seemed there was a symmetry, a feedback loop between understanding and capability.

He gazed defiantly up at the world-sized butterfly-titans above, Elara's purple radiance still pressing down, Va'thos's blood-red aura simmering with impatience, Xylar's cerulean light pulsing with cold logic.

They thought him pinned, an insect awaiting judgment. They had no idea the revolution occurring within his very being.

Silently observing the shimmering, ethereal chains shackling his existence, visible only to his enhanced perception, he issued a command within the internal weavings of his soul.

Break!

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!

Nine more chains, identical to the first set, shattered. The release was less dramatic this time, more… practiced.

He felt another surge of exhilaration, another wave of lightness washing over his existence. The weight of the Null Scale lessened further.

And right after they shattered, before the fragments could dissipate, he bellowed in his mind…

Assimilate!

…!

The nine shimmering fragments flowed into his Dream Body, merging with the Aspect of Limitation already integrating within him.

Prompts bloomed, visible only to him, confirming the impossible progress.

|You have Assimilated additional Shattered Fragments of the Aspect of Existence: Limitation.|

|Your understanding of Existential Architecture deepens.|

|The Breadth of your Existence is rising steadily…|

|Conceptual framework for Aspect Assimilation strengthened.|

The cycle began again, faster this time. His understanding of Limitation had doubled. He could perceive the chains with greater clarity, identify points of weakness more easily. And now… he could break eighteen.

Break!

Eighteen chains snapped simultaneously, the sound a silent thunderclap within his soul.

Assimilate!

The fragments surged into him, feeding the growing Aspect within!

Oh!

|You have Assimilated additional Shattered Fragments of the Aspect of Existence: Limitation.|

|The Breadth of your Existence continues to increase steadily…|

|Resistance to Binding effects further enhanced.|

He could now break thirty-six.

Break! Assimilate!

Seventy-two.

Break! Assimilate!

One hundred and forty-four.

Break! Assimilate!

The process became a blur, an exponential cascade of liberation and consumption occurring in the space between nanoseconds. He was tearing down his prison and eating the bars, becoming stronger with every shackle he destroyed.

On and on it went, the number doubling each time, his internal reality a storm of shattering limitations and assimilated understanding.

While this shocking, silent revolution unfolded within Achilles, Elara's expression became extremely sour. Her oppressive aura, which should have been crushing him, felt… useless. The insect wasn't squirming.

It wasn't begging. It was just… staring defiantly, its resistance somehow increasing under her pressure, though she couldn't fathom how.

She felt the gazes of Va'thos and Xylar, felt their silent judgment, their impatience. Shame, an emotion she hadn't experienced in millennia, flickered within her narrative core.

Disrespect!

She roared, her voice tearing through the purple veil she had erected. "Okay! Since you wish to be a defiant insect, I will simply crush you! Can you even look up when I collapse your eyes into singularities? When I fold your head into a dimension that doesn't exist? Can you do anything when I collapse your very Existence?!"

She gathered her power, the authority of a Level Zero Scale entity focusing with lethal intent.

The purple light around her intensified, space itself beginning to groan under the strain. This was it. The pivotal moment. Just as Achilles was shattering the shackles that bound him, Elara truly wanted to act, to end this irritating anomaly!

At such a pivotal moment, Achilles looked at her calmly. The void-mist around him swirled, but his stance was unwavering.

His voice echoed out, still carrying that infuriating blend of amusement and defiance.

"…Are you sure about that?"

Elara paused, her power momentarily held in check by the sheer audacity of the question.

Achilles continued, his voice smooth, almost conversational, yet laced with something that made the Level Zero Nar'Thyss hesitate. "Because if I die… this Dream Body, this fragment of my consciousness… my existence and my memory die with me. And you will never know about the force that sent me. The force that will send countless others, entities even more powerful than I, to continue hunting down your people. A force preparing Armadas to sweep across all the Star Seas that you control."

..!

Here it was.

Pure, unadulterated bullshit, delivered with the absolute confidence of someone holding a royal flush when they were actually bluffing with a pair of twos.

He was buying time, throwing out a narrative hook so enticing, so perfectly tailored to their paranoia about unknown variables, that they had to bite.

And bite they did.

In the next moment, the crushing auras of Va'thos and Xylar, the blood-red and cerulean blue Nar'Thyss, slammed down onto Achilles alongside Elara's purple pressure. The combined weight was exponential, a tripling of Level Zero Scale authority that should have instantly annihilated anything within the Null Scale.

"What force?!" Va'thos roared, his voice the sound of dying stars.

"Identify your origin!" Xylar demanded, its voice a cascade of emotionless data streams seeking input.

Achilles felt the impact like three universes colliding with his soul. But instead of breaking, he directed it.

He channeled all of this terrifying, overwhelming force inward, focusing it like a lens onto the remaining shackles binding his core existence. The rate of breaking didn't just increase; it exploded. Tens of thousands of chains shattered per nanosecond under the combined assault!

And in the very next moment…

BOOM!

A glorious and baleful aura erupted from his existence. It wasn't purple, red, or blue. It was platinum.

Pure, incandescent platinum light shot upwards from his position, forming a massive cylindrical pillar that pierced through Elara's purple veil as if it were tissue paper.

He stood at the center of this pillar, his shadowy form dissolving, revealing the true essence beneath. His eyes, now visible, turned mad and crazed, burning with the light of newly unbound potential! The breadth of his power began to shoot upward at an impossible rate!

The existences above, the three world-sized Nar'Thyss, now looked down with utter incredulity and dawning surprise. The insect was… changing? Ascending?!

Achilles roared, his voice no longer just defiance but pure, untamed power.

"DO YOU TRULY WANT TO KNOW WHO IS BEHIND ME?!"

As he roared, the immensity and power surrounding him reached glorious, unprecedented levels.

Prompts bloomed within his consciousness, visible only to him, confirming the impossible.

|You have Assimilated sufficient fragments of the Aspect of Existence: Limitation.|

|All Conceptual Shackles binding you to the Null Scale of Existence have been severed!|

|The Breadth of your Being has Elevated! You have forcefully propelled your Existence towards the next Scale!|

|Welcome to Level Zero, Tier 1: Pre-Civilizational Existence!|

…!

Oh!

He felt it. The brightness. The freedom. His existence felt… vast. Unbound. The rules felt different now, thinner, more… negotiable. He felt like he could continue Assimilating the particles of Quantum, Spatial Tension, and Inevitable Entropy in ridiculous volumes, pushing them straight to the Ninth Echelon and beyond, without raising even a single decimal percentage of corruption!

He felt he could do the same for The Void, for Fables!

'More!' His internal monologue screamed, a raw cry of infinite hunger. 'Assimilate! Assimilate absolutely everything!'

The command wasn't just mental; it was existential. It resonated outwards, touching his main body in the distant narrative space, touching the Dream Body with Rose, touching the Nar'Thyss form observing Vel'Khari'Zan.

Across all his manifestations, across all realities he touched… the order was given.

ASSIMILATE! ASSIMILATE ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!

…!

BOOM!

After Assimilating the Aspect of Limitation, the very concept of Limitation… it was like Achilles had been a ridiculously efficient machine, calculating, precise, bound by its design.

And now, this machine had been given wings. Cosmic, reality-defying wings. And it was going utterly, ferociously, beautifully mad with the sheer potential of flight.

The Level Zero Scale of Existence had opened its doors. And perhaps, feeling the sheer audacity radiating from him, it had spread its legs before him too!

A platinum pillar of light grew as his aura…began to surge upwards!

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