Noah listened to RUIN/EDEN, and a deep, resonant laugh bubbled up from his chest!
It was the laugh of a king who had just been handed the keys to a kingdom he didn't even know he was building.
He waved his hand, and the blue, holographic display of his Existential Command Interface bloomed before him, a testament to his new, ordered reality.
The swirling, crimson-blue Heart Globe pulsed with a steady, powerful rhythm. His name and distinctions shone with a light that was both a history and a prophecy.
And below them, the numbers… the numbers that defined his new place in Existence.
He dismissed the interface with a thought, his gaze sweeping across the endless blue sea of his own existence.
He had been rebooted, reforged, reborn. The darkness of the Lodestone's corruption had been a terrifying, near-fatal ordeal. But The Cheating Architect had done what it was designed to do.
It had used his own death to cheat him into a new, more glorious life.
