Achilles felt his consciousness expand as the words settled into understanding.
Ethemia wasn't just a hidden refuge, wasn't simply a plane of existence that happened to shelter his family.
It was one of the fundamental architects of reality itself, the last surviving Cosmic Singularity from the nine that had birthed the Star Seas.
At this very moment, it burned within the plane at the heart of his expanding Sea of Thalassara…ancient beyond measurement, weakened yet still carrying within itself the potential for forces that had once shaped galaxies!
The implications were beautiful and terrifying in their scope.
He turned his gaze toward Sun, this being who served as representative of such a wonder, and felt a profound shift in how he understood their relationship. This wasn't just the enthusiastic Monkey King who had become his friend and ally. Not…anymore.
