Everything hurt.
Runar's first thought after the collision was simple: Am I dead?
He tried to move. Nothing happened. Tried to open his eyes. No eyes to open. His body was gone—completely gone. And his soul... his soul felt wrong. Fragmented. Like someone had taken his consciousness and shattered it into a million pieces.
What the hell happened?
Memories came back slowly. The 3,333 orbital spheres. All of them accelerating to light speed at once. The collision. The explosion.
Oh. Right. I smashed everything into my dantian to create a Universal Seed.
Guess it worked. Sort of.
His awareness was scattered. He could perceive things, but from a million different angles at once. It was disorienting as hell. Most of what he saw was just chaos—swirling white space, torrents of qi flowing everywhere, crackling energy.
But one thing stood out clearly.
