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554. Beginning The Year With A Bang!

D7.

The shining Sector where only the wealthiest were allowed to live. Coin circulated through the streets like blood. Families and businesses with high purchasing power were considered kings amongst the less fortunate that shared the same cities.

It was a divisive Sector where walls divided the rich from the poor into various districts. The outskirts of the City of Diamonds rarely saw direct intervention from the hired arms of the Golden Index.

No. It would be more accurate...

MA: 22. Still Unmoved

The Still Unborn was only the prelude for the things to come. They were the abstract tip of the Corrupted iceburg. That is if they were Corrupted to begin with.

She encountered more of the Still Unborn further along. Armed with the knowledge of their harmless attacks, she kept her weapons tucked away and allowed them to hurl themselves at her.

Inconsolable wails ate at her mind as she desperately held back from eliminating them. Not a semblance of empathy crossed her for these bei...

553. Our Happiest Moment: The Proposal of Infinite Love (Arc 7 Pt.2 Finale)

One hour was more than enough time for Frost and Jury to enjoy themselves before the fireworks. Brigades of pyrotechnics wearing the uniforms of various Academies made final checks. The Academies and renowned figureheads outside of Inflow Direct were in charge of everything, which Frost figured was probably the reason why it felt so…

… free. Not a single person here was angry or sad. She had seen countless faces already and each one cherished these fleeting moments like it was their...

552. Frost and Jury

Frost burst into the hallway with bated breath. It was uncertain if they would even make it to the City of Clubs with only hours left on the clock.

Her skirt suddenly seized around her ankles. They were far too restrictive to allow long strides. She could have easily torn it apart with the smallest effort, so she did everything in her power to catch herself before she tripped.

A small yelp inadvertently left her as she shuffled clumsily. Like her body, her mind had lost all sembla...

551. Dress Her Up For The New Years!

Tonight was the night.

The Floor of Amalgamation fell into a cozy lull. Nearly all its denizens attended the festival within the Common Hub. It was comforting and oddly nostalgic. It hadn’t been that long since the Floor of Amalgamation was opened. Yet it felt like it had been years since it was this vacant.

A befuddled sigh left the lips of a certain Amalgam. Deep within the manor was a conflicted Frost who held two separate sets of articles in both hands. She hovered the beaut...

550. The 50th of the 10th, 350 PA

The Nexus bustled with activity as the end of the year neared. Stalls were set up within the Nexus for the first time since the Blessed were welcomed into its heights. With the approval of the Head and the endorsement of the Moons and Stars, the Blessed were allowed to celebrate the coming end of the year.

The open pillars and rings above the Reception were decorated with banners and paper lanterns to celebrate the final day of the Blooming Week. The five days since Frost’s outing wit...

Annotated Nexus Awakened Power Scale (CH 507 Spoilers)

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549. A Leg For An Arm

Frost’s arrival was met with the applause of Enoch in dark chamber. The Retrofitter that once called this place home had long been relocated into ImpusleWork’s Headquarters – M-A1.

“Amalgam! I’m honored – No, I’m completely enraptured that you’ve trusted me with something so unbelievably important!” Enoch’s neuroticism was amplified now that they were alone.

I should’ve brought someone along. Doesn’t matter. Enoch’s not that bad.

“Ahaha! ...

548. The Questionable Humanity of Galia and Enoch

Something unordinary strode with purpose. Deep within the recesses of H5 was a being dressed in a coat of black feathers. The dilapidated streets were devoid of all life after the recent evacuations.

The figure whose eyes carried the cosmos blended with the shadows as she approached an abandoned perimeter located within the heart of an urban complex. It was the resting site of H5’s Retrofitter, yet the security was nonexistent.

However, Galia knew this was far from the truth. Th...

547. The Spiritual Representative of Wrath

The next set of organs was where things went from good to incredible. Skin, hair, and even several organs were displayed before her. Gall bladders, intestines, stomachs, bladders, and other less important organs were able to be perfectly created.

< ACTIVE: (E) Gene Expression III >

< Machinery of life >

< EFFECT: Create intermediate organic items using your...

546. Dr. Ignis

I’ve heard nerves were transparent. Then again, I’ve never actually seen one in person.

“I’m starting. I think there’s a blockage somewhere. Were you injured before?” Ignis asked as her tentacles entered the femoral artery found in the woman’s inner thigh. Blood gushed for only a split second before it was completely sealed.

“My leg was messed up badly when I squared up with an Aspiring Moon. They didn’t mean it because it was my fault in the end. I got ...

545. A Black Wing In The Emergency Room

Two months ago, Ignis received the power to create organic material. Since then, Frost had used her spare time to teach her everything she knew of the human body to facilitate her knowledge.

While Skills could not be increased by knowledge alone and had to progress through practical experience – it was wisdom that increased one’s breadth of flexibility. Frost was a living example of this, as she had unique ways to combine her Skills together to create unexpected combinations.

...

544. Time Heals All Wounds

Arrangements for 351 PA were now in order. With less than five days left the Nexus entered a state of hidden pandemonium. The Sacral Appraisers of Justica Arms worked grueling hours tending to the crystals that grew within the expansive Middle Sanctums.

The Moons of the Nexus were guided by Stars to become familiar with the interior of the Nexus. While in one hand it was their home, in the other it was a fortress. Since the War in Heaven meant that people could enter the Nexus uninvited...

543. Hope is What We Believe In

They eventually left the dilapidated orphanage and were greeted with the sight of an artificial star – a golden building constructed in the center of a slum in the far distance.

But that still did not shine as brightly as Magus himself did, nor did the invisible star he kept staring at in the sky.

“You understand why I brought you here. It is of a resonance I felt. A ripple that swept the sands of this desolate place. While hope has enough flavors for us to remain here for the...

542. A Magician's Confessions

“Far from what I was expecting.” Frost returned his greeting, the sands sifting underneath her feet as she moved towards him. “No stars huh. This must be the old world. I’m starting to think that all of the pre-Awakened Floors are going to be like this. Starting from the past until it becomes the present.”

“With the sole exception of yours.” Magus heartily laughed, twirling his top hat around a finger. “Let’s not forget that the Floor of Judgement also begs to differ. ...

541. The Floor of Hope Opens

“The eighth Floor. Just after the Floor of Despair and before the Floor of Ego.” Frost soliloquized in the vacant halls of the Nexus.

The clopping of her leather soles was the only sound that echoed here. Even the patters of the Star Child and the Sleepy Frost were silenced as if they were incapable of making noise.

The Star Child was still in her white, robe-like dress. Nothing about her seemed to have changed despite having Archived the Lull-A-Goodbye. However, the darkness ...

540. Vitamin J for...?

Frost returned to the Nexus the following day. She was finally going to enter yet another Floor of the Nexus. But before that, she briefly immersed herself in the Common Hub.

Countless new faces swarmed the streets. The number of Blessed still hadn’t exceeded the amount she saw when she first arrived in this world, but it was a relieving sight, nevertheless. People confessed their experiences to the Receptionsts at the overcrowded Reception. A small team of Hora Therapeutic members an...

539. The Power of The Forbidden Serums

The Vermillion Moons possessed eight Serums. R – Red Riding, T – Traumatic, U – Ultimo and V – Vacuity was kept in the smaller tubes anchored into their lower backs. W – Wishcatcher, X – Xpulsion, Y – Ylem and finally, Z – Zenith filled the half-meter long tubes along their upper backs.

They first needed a suitable test subject to showcase their newfound might. And who else fit the criteria better than a Red Giant? Exactly three Red Giants were kept in captivity. They we...

538. Paradise Found

“That’s when you realize that becoming a Moon isn’t all that exciting.”

A Moon admitted, bringing Frost back.

“I’m proud to be one but being lost in the misery is the norm in this twisted profession. What can you do other than try to overcome it? We’re too dumb to think hard like this. We’ve been sculpted to just nod our heads and throw ourselves into conflict. Lash out to make ourselves feel better. We’re assholes. Nothing’s going to change that, because we’...

537. Heart to Heart With The Vermillion Moons

What entered the Derma Layer were no more than the pillars that would allow Caldera Industries to claim it as their foothold. They were like the instruments used for the Root-Pillar Complex, only these prevented Spatial Distortions from occurring in the immediate vicinity.

However, it had a debilitating side effect. A low enough Soul Rank meant being spaghettified by their immense gravitational force, hence why they were never installed in the Epiderma Layer. The Subderma Root-Pillar Co...

MA: 21. The Origins of the Still Unborn

Hatchling Red felt memories unbelonging to her invade her mind. The thoughts of many hijacked her senses as she battled over control of her consciousness, eventually entering a labored fit as sweat drenched her coat.

And soon, the blurbs of the Still Unborn’s Origins were revealed to her in what felt like a fairytale.

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Still Unborn

< Persistence is not a reason for existence; we who have been born in...