High Earth-Sovereign  

The core stopped, and with it stopped the absorption of the energy.

The essences and the energies had been absorbed.

Now, the most dangerous and painful part. The one, I had been dreading, seeing the changes it had brought to my body and soul.

'It will not affect my breakthrough, right?' I asked the question for an umptieth time.

Like always, there was no answer, which I took as affirmation. I mean, what other choice do I have, but not to take it as such?

I took a deep breath and waited.

I didn't have to wait for long as I felt the change in my body and soul.

The merging began and I braced myself for the soul-crushing pain, I felt every breakthrough.

Hun!

The pain came, but also a surprise, which deepened as the seconds passed.

I had expected pain, and the pain did come, but not the soul-crushing one. It is not even a tenth of the pain, I had felt in my last breakthrough.