‘Where am I?’

  It was a hazy dream. Aleph’s body experienced a sensation akin to floating atop the o’s waves. The feeling of weightlessness felt extremely strao him, too.

  During all this time, he did not know what was happening. He could vaguely see blurry images appear on his sight.

  Moments ter, any ‘descriptions’ of these blurry images were wiped in an instant.

  ‘Why am I here?’

  A cold feeling assaulted his entire body. A trace of crity returo his mind. The world cleared up in his eyes.

  ‘This is…’

  A vast bck curtain dotted with numerous stars. It was the sea of stars humanity had dreamt of cruising.

  It did not take long before his sight was filled with colorful lights.

  It h’s body.

  Before he could further prehend what was happening, his mind sank into darkness.

  *****

  ‘Colorful soul… I thought it was a metaphor. Albion ointing things as they were..!’

  Cold beads of sweat crawled on Aleph’s forehead. It was his first time experieng something that made him this uneasy.

  ‘If things weren’t simple… then there’s a deeper reason why I am here.’

  Aleph experienced death oime. The hot temperature that burned his body to ders was still stu his mind.

  ‘Am I afraid of death..?’

  The answer was a resounding denial. Aleph long lost the fear of death. What he feared, even way back then, was to die without being able to do anything—just like his previous life.

  It was enough to leave his name in the long traces of time.

  However…

  ‘I ’t die… just like that.’

  Aleph’s purpose was no lohe same. There are extra reasons why he wao ge that dead end.

  There were people;

  People who fought alongside him;

  People who loved him dearly.

  ‘I o find the sixth Herrscher soon.’

  *****

  The Evolution Cube’s duration depended on the person using it. Aleph took five days due to how difficult it was to ‘optimize’ and ‘adapt’ semi-ceptual ICHOR into his body.

  Sakura took a total of three days. Her strength, mainly her speed, increased to an exaggerated degree. There were also other unexplored abilities that are waiting to be uncovered.

  Aleph left her and headed to the pce.

  Swoosh-!

  Sou-!

  A bck figure streaked through the clouds.

  Aleph no longer needed his specialized suits. With the iion from Albion’s body, flying became an ‘instinct’. It was something that appeared to him out of nowhere.

  ‘It’s romagitrol nor the likes.’

  Great Sage finished analyzing this ability si appeared.

  Apparently, it was a standalone ‘rule’ on its own. Why it works remains unknown, though one could still learn how it affects the surroundings

  Albion’s flying skill teracted gravity, geing force out of o navigate throughout the entire flight. It was akin to an invisible eached to Aleph.

  Zoom-!

  His speed far surpassed his suit’s top speed. It went beyond Mach 20 and is still increasing now.

  Aleph swiftly arrived at his destination.

  “Still no traces…”

  It was her than the pce where the sixth Herrscher escaped. The traces of the Sea of Quanta were no longer present.

  “Hm..?”

  Just then, Aleph discovered something.

  It was a small detail. A small bit of white paint on a white vas. He wasn’t able to discover it before, but with his higher standpoint, he was able to use his elemental sight better than before.

  Aleph felt that even the sense of distahat he struggled on slowly disappeared. It was, iruest sense, breaking away from the fines of humanity.

  “That was…”

  ‘Honkai.’

  The thought appeared in his mind before blood came out of his eyes. Bck scales subsciously came out of his arms. Aleph ushed to the brink of his Meta-Morph state.

  Fp-!

  Rumble-!

  Crack-!

  The sheer pressure emitted by his body created long streaks of cracks on the ground.

  ‘The Honkai Will… or rather, the Co of Finality. How..?’

  Aleph was stunned by his discovery. The ‘white paint’ he saw beloo the power of the Co.

  It was extremely strange. He immediately knew what it was with a look.

  Worse…

  ‘It did something.’

  Aleph wiped the tears of blood in his eyes. The bit of Finality’s power left him with a scar.

  Pale white light crept up from his feet. His half-baked authority as a Semi-Spirit began w overtime.

  Soon, his injuries recovered. The surroundings maintaiheir serenity.

  Only the sound of Aleph’s bck wings fpping remained.

  “Why…”

  A huge trail preseself in his eyes. Questions arose in his mind, though many of them were also answered.

  For ohe presence of Finality in this pce firmed that the world had pletely derailed as to what Aleph previously knew.

  Sed, it was assisting the sixth Herrscher escape from his eyes.

  Thus…

  “Why did it turn out like that..?”

  One huge question remained in Aleph’s mind.

  *****

  There was a saying of “Sometimes, the safest pce is the most dangerous pce.”

  Ling proved this saying with her own as.

  “How was it?”

  “I-I have gathered a quarter of the cilors on my side.”

  Unlike before, the cilor who was chosen by her no longer had his previous posure. He acted like an ho servant, bowing to her the moment she arrived.

  After all, such a rea was to be expected when one sees several humans turned into dust in an instant.

  “Doctor Aleph’s whereabouts are publicly disclosed to be in the fifth institute. He was staying there more often pared to the third institute. One of his colleagues, Doobius, must have hidden varyis.”

  Without directly looking at her, the cilor let out a bit of specution and facts.

  ‘It’s best if they fight each other.’ He thought secretly. ‘Herrschers capable of human thoughts are sidered humans, aren't they?’

  After a round of fooling himself, he went back to his ‘servant’ role.

  “Halt your foolish thoughts at once. I would not stoop as low as you scums.”

  A strong chill went through the cilor’s spine.

  “A prht is what I seek. Let them be or else… it won’t matter if you die by my hands or the others.”

  “Y-yes.”

  Moments ter, the sound of footsteps went farther and farther.

  *****

  A/N: Welp, the bonus chapter will have to be moved tomorrow. I didn't expect that writing lemons (in the advance chapters) would take up this much time. It's lohaandard chapters, though (It's at 2k words).

  Anyways, the rest of the promised chapters will be uploaded tomorrow. Uni really bur with this schedule (as an engineering student). The third and final bonus chapter should be uploaded in the 2~3 days.