Assimilating a very much alive organic Lifeform.
Something he tried for the first time as multiple purple crystal spears shot into the burnt and healing body of Bixi, its enraged roars coming out as at this moment…it felt its very lifeforce starting to be drained!
No, not just it's lifeforce.
Even its very identity and Existence.
Its eyes flashed with horror as just which type of Ancient One had it come across who could do this?!
Achilles looked at them as they reflected his figure.
He saw how he was gazing coldly at this Dragon Turtle, how his eyes seemed to carry the dominating qualities he held to almost make him seem like a different person.
But he knew he was still himself.
He was still just a young man who wanted to be safe and happy with the woman he adored.
But this same young man understood that to be able to do so, he had to eat up everything around him until absolutely nothing that could threaten him and the one he adored could rise up.
So this Dragon Turtle…was just the first!
It roared out with a tremendous sense of pain as Achilles felt waves of power coursing into him forcefully, Existence Corruption rising by a percentage per second as the body of Bixi visibly melted in real time and was devoured by the tendrils piercing into him!
As if his complexity of Existence was so much higher than Bixi's, and this was why he was able to forcefully assimilate this Dragon Turtle while it was still alive.
As for what made it different from previous assimilations?
Achilles quickly understood as in the back of his mind, flashes of…memories began to bloom.
Memories that weren't his.
Memories that caused his expression to change multiple times over!
They were disjointed, and they didn't come in any particular order!
But these memories…were like brief scenes that showed fantastic horrors.
A peak of a time way, way before he was even born.
A time when even this Bixi…was just a little Dragon Turtle that hid behind the name of his Father as he did not make too many waves!
Because in those times…utterly terrifying monstrosities walked this world.
Monstrosities that cool take a breath through their mouths and flatten hundreds of miles of the earth to absolutely nothing.
Entities who could fly across the skies while tearing it apart!
Fantastical beings who were the size of entire mountains.
Achilles merely took in these scattered memories as his figure trembled in the skies, his hands clenching.
Only the absolute weakest of them were waking up at this moment.
The strongest ones…were bound much heavier than them as they would come soon after!
The moment some began to awaken, others would follow.
Achilles closed his eyes as he accepted these scattered memories, the cries of a Dragon Turtle being ignored by him as it was pulled apart and assimilated piece by piece.
The scattered memories were frightening.
He saw monsters live like kings and Emperors, with Humans wading about like slaves tending to them.
He saw creatures with power that was so heavy that even Bixi in his prime…would be crushed by a mere tap of a finger.
Achilles had only fought this creature with 10% of its power woken up.
This being had already attained Apex Ethereal Physiology many years ago as it had been preparing to exceed this when the Change occurred.
When an Undeniable Dream came that began putting all beings into a slumber.
Even Apex Ethereal Physiology alone was a stage with a huge gulf in power, and yet Bixi had risen to its peak before it faced a terrifying slumber!
Achilles was lucky enough to capture such a being before he regained too much of his power, but the scattered memories he was obtaining showed him just…how hilariously outmatched he and all other Advanced Humans were about to be.
Unless there was a whole lot more about the Lunaris Colony Overseers and other Colony Overseers apart from them who protected other Colony Cities.
Unless monsters just like those in the scattered memories he found rose up on the side of Advanced Humans.
"Haha…" He couldn't help but laugh in his incredulity and shock as he had to admit…even he felt a sliver of fear and uncertainty.
The moment he felt this sliver of fear and uncertainty, he crushed it down as he shook his head!
There could be no uncertainty.
There would be no fear!
Yes, the scattered memories showed truly powerful beings that evoked fear.
But…so long as he became more powerful than them. More terrifying than them. After that…was there anything to fear?!
His body began to pulse with waves of incandescent power.
It was not just his qualities responding to his emotions.
It was because the assimilation of the Dragon Turtle, Bixi, was so intense that at this moment, his body finally and truly…felt full.
His 360 Meridians pulsed and resonated with each other as they began to cycle all of his different energies.
The Primordial Energy that the Ancient Ones he saw in scattered memories held in overabundance.
Evolutius Energy that rose after these Ancient Ones were chained!
He had both of these and more as…why should he fear what was coming?!
So long as he prepared for them, so long as he ate up everything he came across, could they still threaten him and his world? His Rose?
He uttered out in defiance for the terrifying fate that was coming for all Advanced Humans across the Colonies of Ethemia as in this single word of defiance…the space above his head nearly split apart as a terrifying light bloomed.
But this star…was unfathomably more brilliant than any he came across so far.
Than any he saw even in scattered memories!
He cried out again to squash the fear and uncertainty as above him…the star formed much more clearly as rivers of light flowed from his body to construct it!
A star…in the shape of a winged human could be seen.