The White Ascender, Arthur, felt like he was watching reality itself unravel in front of him.
He had lived for an extremely long time- a period stretching across eons before he was killed by the Crimson Ruinborn. He knew firsthand how brutally hard it was for any Gem Master to ascend through the realms.
And yet, at this very moment, he was forced to watch someone who had taken over his legacy do things that shattered everything he thought he understood.
This successor used a single Luminarch Cache of the Cosmos and broke through it within a single day. The moment it happened, he assimilated the entirety of the Primordial Cosmic Tao.
Then, he utilized a second Luminarch Cache. This one shattered in just half a day. And when his existence awakened again, after receiving the ten percent boon from the Cache, he had already assimilated over a dozen Grand Taos and hundreds of thousands of Universes were forming in his Origin.
