Alexia

After waking up, I go ahead and decide on my next actions. Which mostly just involve me waiting for a couple days while training my energy manipulation before finally heading into the quantum realm to search for my core. Since that’s the only real thing I can do right now. What with me being at the level cap, and me having the duel with Damien in a month.

And if what the Architect said about me finding a Corruptor soon is true, then I might want to have my completed true form by then. Which means having my core.

So I spend three days focusing on my energy manipulation with the occasional guidance from the Architect. Raising it by around fifteen or so percent in the progression to the next level. Then I go ahead and notify everyone that needs to know about my departure. Which pretty much just means Astrid and Alara. Since no one else really matters.

Other than maybe Ethan. But I know Astrid will tell Ethan if he asks, so it’s fine.

After finishing with that, I go ahead and walk outside of my house into the clearing. Then I take a deep breath and enter my true form. Causing the usual commotion with the pillar and terrifying everyone nearby.

That’s not my problem though as I quickly tighten my grip on my scythe once it’s all done before slicing open a hole leading to the quantum realm in the sky above my clearing. And for the first time ever, I pass right through into the quantum realm.

The moment I make it to the other side, I feel… strange. Like all of the energy within the area responds directly to my presence and begins entering me. Filling up all of my energy reserves to the brim.

Likely due to Living Singularity.

I ignore all of the energy as I focus on the surroundings around the rift.

As I focus on the quantum realm itself.

For one, the very air here seems to glitch out every now and then. In fact, not just the air, but pretty much everything.

Almost like nothing is completely stabilized in reality here.

Other than that, everything has a slight purple tint to it. That or a blue tint.

Mostly purple, though.

But what catches my attention the most here, other than the strange creatures I see down on the even stranger glowing purple stone that makes up the ground, is the feeling I get from this place.

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It just feels nice. Comfortable.

Warm.

Like it’s home.

It’s like I belong here.

The slightest hint of a real smile stretches across my face at this sensation.

It’s nice.

“Of course it’s nice,” I suddenly hear the Quantum Ruler’s voice echoing in my head, making me look around for him. “This is your home.”

Well, no. To be perfectly accurate, I just came from my house to here.

“This is your home,” the Ruler repeats himself in a slightly sterner tone of voice. The man being just as stubborn as ever.

At least he isn’t trying to make me-

“And it’s Grandfather,” he adds as if as an afterthought. “Not Ruler.”

Never mind. He is still trying to make me call him that.

I open my mouth to say something, only to feel a strange sensation pulling me to look towards the right of where I’m currently standing. But all I find is a vast expanse of purple with the occasional strange vortex or storm of quantum energy in the air.

What is this…

“You’re feeling the pull of your core,” the Ruler says, his voice still echoing in my head and making me look around in confusion again. “I am not near you, little one.”

Oh. Probably somehow talking to me from far away.

Maybe he can sense the entire quantum realm.

“I can sense anything in the universe, but the quantum realm is easier,” the Ruler continues, still responding to my thoughts.

Could you please stop listening to my thoughts? It’s getting disturbing.

One person reading my mind is already bad enough. I don’t need two.

“Then tell your father to stop reading your thoughts,” the Ruler says rather simply, making my eyebrow twitch. “And call me Grandfather.”

Seriously…

I let out a sigh.

After a few seconds, I decide to just ignore the guy.

He isn’t here.

He isn’t reading my thoughts.

I nod my head once at that thought before glancing at the creatures down on the ground.

“They’re monsters formed from quantum energy, just like the monsters of the mortal universe who are formed from mana and neutral energy,” the person who is not here answers my unasked question before I can even think of it myself.

I watch the monsters for a bit. Because, unlike the monsters of the mortal universe, these creatures are all not recognizable by the System when I try to identify them. Their forms are also glitching out.

They have a single form, for the most part, but parts of them are constantly glitching around. Other than that, they’re also all purple and blue in color, with a lot of glowing lights coming from them. Generally in the form of glowing veins.

Or just the glitching itself being bright.

But even without the System or being able to identify them, I can tell I’m far stronger. Even if I wasn’t in my true form.

Also, the countdown for my true form itself seems to have vanished. Which is interesting.

“Quantum beings must be in their true form in the quantum realm,” he who I refuse to name answers again. “There are no restrictions on your true form here. This place is the realm of us quantum beings.”

Oh. Well that’s convenient.

I glance at my scythe before looking at the quantum monsters.

Then I go ahead and swing my scythe once at them, only for every last creature in the path of my swing even without my scythe touching them just splitting in two. Meanwhile all of them immediately begin glitching out more and more until they all just vanish.

Very convenient.

Well, onto my reason for being here.

I turn around and begin heading towards my core.

Time to complete my true form.