The scene was a fantastical one.
Achilles looked down below at the destruction he had caused as he didn't even feel a sense of tiredness, feeling Rose's embrace behind him as this gave him a sense of calm and ease!
He could also see the many astonished Advanced Humans all around as he did not have the time to pay attention to every single one who had questions about him.
Instead, he looked within himself to see the newly added assimilation while also thinking of one last remaining threat!
The one where he could feel waves of vibrant Primordial Energy even from this distance.
Toward the Catacomb Entrance that Luna had told him an Empusa was growing her forces!
Only after he took care of this could he feel at ease as he touched Rose's fair hands embracing him from behind and spoke to her as if there were only the two of them in the whole world.
"There is one more Ancient One remaining, a Vampire at that. Shall we go wrap that one up? Then, we will have a moment of rest and we can plan for the future."
One thing had occurred after another as he had already taken care of two powerful Ancient Ones, and one more remained!
Rose hugged him even tighter in reply as she nodded.
"Mmm, and I think I'll stay behind you a little bit more. You're able to move with me hugging you ?"
She asked such a silly question as she seemed to be thinking about many things.
Maybe even thinking about how things would change now that he was doing the things he just did out in the open.
Now that many people had just seen him take down multiple Ancient Ones!
Maybe she was thinking about all of this, but he knew that regardless of what changed around them, he would remain the same!
He wanted to show her this more than anything else as after he used Ecological Empathy III to confirm once again not an ounce of Leucochloridium Worms remained, he turned towards the direction of Catacomb Entrance #3 where an Empusa was running rampant…and the purple and gold wings on his back flapped as he shot out in that direction.
It was only now that Overseer Jackson and others reacted to hold him back, but he continued shooting out into the distance as time was of the essence.
At the same time, he checked his body, which had seas of many flames he could pull from.
Many assimilations just for him.
He was looking for the multicolored flaming sea of the Leucochloridium Worms and their qualities as this gain also caused a great jump in power for him!
'The flame of the Leucochloridium…'
He passed the vast flaming seas of Primordial Energy and Evolutius Energy.
The flaming seas of Lunar Light and Sun Light.
His gaze went past all of them and their radiant stability as quickly, he honed in on the flaming sea that was budding since just a few minutes ago!
'Organic Platyhelminthes Dracaris…'
He called out its name as he was about to delve into this power and the qualities it held, but…
He blinked in confusion as his eyes were drawn towards another direction.
Towards the center of his being.
He had many seas of flames burning within him that represented assimilations as he had utilized all of them.
He could look inside himself and pinpoint every single quality he had obtained, and he could utilize it.
So right now…why was he looking at something he had not noticed before?
His gaze, which was looking at his very existence and what he was made up of currently, came towards what seemed to be the center of his existence.
All the seas of brilliance seemingly rotated around…a white flame.
Small in nature, and it felt calm alongside an unknown sense of purity and regality.
It was so small that it could be drowned out by something like the golden flaming sea of Primordial Energy, and yet the golden waves of Primordial Energy actually swirled around it with a sense of calmness and stability as if it were paying its respects!
He became entirely serious as he knew this was not any assimilation, and if it was a flame at the center of his existence, then this…represented himself?
His own existence, without any qualities of assimilations?!
He was shocked at such a thing as he had not seen it before- or was not able to be aware of it until…
Was it due to his most recent advancement in complexity?
When he became an Average Terrestrial Lifeform?
He kept such an idea in the back of his mind as he drew closer to that unshakable white flame.
What allowed him to do what he could do.
Would he find something if he focused and actively studied it?
He momentarily put behind the new assimilation as his consciousness delved fully into the white flame that should represent the core of his Existence!
His mind buzzed as in the skies he was flying across with Rose; everything started to become gray and frozen.
To the extent that in a second, he seemed to have frozen in space alongside everything else!
After that, his mind went blank.
He stopped seeing the skies and the distant Catacombs he was heading towards, and he faced waves of immense darkness surrounding him as in the depths of his being, something became brightly lit!
After the immense waves of darkness, unfathomably white waves of light cascaded out as gradually, his vision became clear again.
But he…was not in any place he knew.
He blinked and looked down to see his body alone, no Rose around him, and his surroundings…were unimaginably grand.
He found himself sitting…in the middle of a vast and endless white sea.
And yet this sea seemed to have massive stellar bodies sunk within it- all of them bound down by its waters as they floated grandly.
And on this sea…he was not alone.
He forced himself to raise his head opposite him as there, sitting with a beaming smile…was a figure that caused his heart to tremble as tears unconsciously began to flow out of his eyes!