Seria's two moons stood at slight opposite ends of each other: one blue and one white. They were always with a distance that was impossible for collision. For should the moons touch, the Seria would suffer immeasurably.

“Almost like my two lives.” Veronika sighed as she watched the streaked orange and dark sky wane into night over hills and mountains of tech waste on arid sand and ice lands.

A new worry circulated through her mind as she recalled on Small Cap's words on how she was an Eye of Shift for the cosmic changes in two galaxies. An uneasy feeling swirled about her heart and mind. She had already faced a vast impact to a universe fate as Wu Chen. Lives had been forever lost, changed or generations destroyed because of his actions as a Grandmaster for the Light Sword.

“Power is a consequence maker to shatter foundations. How many generations are impacted by the actions of a powerful one?” She soberly said aloud as she watched the sky transition to a black canopy with twinkling dots of stars that held unexplored life.

“Will my actions affect them too? The Eye of Shift, huh.” She looked down to a gloved hand where some of the finger seams were frayed to show a disorganized mess of small threads. And a matted and stained leather that was cracked to form weak fissures in the material.

“My armor has seen better days. I guess I need to change my gear.”

Change. If it was any better time to be a name than a number rank, it was now.

She leaped off the roof of a two-story starship ruin, which looked like a huge black steel pile of scrap with some angled shapes of its former image and glory.

[Veronika. I detect a strange magic] System chimed into her mind.

“Oh, right. The Virtual Path scroll.” Veronika found a clean and quiet spot on a metal slab within a ruined office pod that had a mangled table and chair melted into the walls that were heavily rusted with mold patches.

She sat down in a mediation pose and began to draw upon her spirit energy to slip into her spiritual sea. The surroundings were painted over with an image of a vast still blue lake with a backdrop of lush green meadows on the horizon, which was her spiritual seal landscape.

She recalled the form of a silver scroll covered with cosmic sigils. Her arms moved in a snake like motion to form an image of Nehebkau, which activated the sigils' energy and granted them power. Columns of the sigils' silver light impressions encircled her being.

She waved her arms in motions that rearranged the columns into a logical order. One particular column glowed brightly before her.

“I am light.” Her voice and words rebounded around her consciousness to activate her soul power.

Lines of gold magic streamed at the sigil column and was absorbed into it. The symbols formed understandable words as she continued to meditate on the meaning.

Time passed around her as she continued to understand a line of the Virtual Path's power, which was the first chapter of the Law of Wisdom.

“Virtual Path: Unity.”

The sigil column transitioned into a glowing round pill of silver-gold, which she crushed in one hand to release the understanding as a form of pure light. She absorbed it into her being. Melodic wind chimes drew in crisp and clear vision of her new power, which could rebuild her Light Sword foundations. She rose and moved in a martial arts dance to change the state of her lake into a crystal blue sea that rose like a tidal wave to crash against the lush green hills and change their structure into snow-capped mountains and pine forests. Her immortal cultivation foundation had started.

“Spirit Sword Core: Level 1” Wu Chen's voice echoed around the space.

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She lifted her arms in a sword motion with her legs following her form: lift the sword to seek the blessings of heaven, carve down along the crescent moon path and wield a straight of truth to free light trapped by darkness. Silver-gold magic light empowered her spirit sword core with the Virtual Path understanding of Unity. A magic that granted others with the power to reveal truth from darkness. It would ensure her companions could see what was hidden and be free from illusion for as long as she was able to uphold the Unity spell. For herself, she held a greater connection to her surroundings where she could see what was hidden at a localized level.

With her understanding reached, she swept aside the remaining chapter that she could learn upon another time. Her physical body was already reaching a limit. As she slipped out of her meditation, she screamed when the entire junk pile surrounding her sparked with radioactivity.

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“You don't say.” She coughed as she stepped back from the smoking, green, clouds lazily making their way toward her.

She glanced about and hauled herself over the pod's eaves to land on the roof, where she hopped from roof to junk piles to escape the toxic clouds. After some haphazard running, she landed on clear ground at a safe distance of the danger and faced Creed who greeted her with his usual cranky rudeness.

“Drats. You didn't get killed by some beast or chemical.” He stood arrogantly before her with his three eyes narrowed with a mild threat.

Perfect, she thought with a cheeky grin as she straightened up and cockily stepped toward him.

“And how exactly will you see me killed?”

“Pfft. Chuck you in with the hungry wolves. Fodder only good as fodder.”

“Oh?” She cocked one eyebrow as she unsheathed her rusty sword and came at him with an attack.

Creed cursed as he dodged and did an evade roll to grab at a bent pipe that he could use as his sword. The crazy clone was attacking an unarmed man!

“Stupid clone. Die!” He countered her blow with his lead pipe to cause their metal weapons to spark between them.

His arm was shaking from the fierce and determined impact she was dishing out with her sword. "What the hell?"

Every time she saw her legs about to crumple and arm drop, she twisted her body around to avoid a blow and readjusted her position for a better power stance.

"More. Need more." She huffed as she felt her body breaking out in a cold sweat and being pushed past a limit. It helped that Creed was pushing her harder with a determination to harm her. She needed this to test her new power.

Creed cursed as he continuously found himself being pushed by her despite showing to be the better and stronger fighter. Every time she fell back and looked about to give up, she struggled to her feet and demanded for him to come at her again. Provoke a response from him. She was clearly trying to test something.

Fine. He would give her the satisfaction and him the benefit of beating her into a pulp. He had to admit that fighting her was giving him a fighting rush.

"Let's go Fodder-Peak!" He swung his pipe hard and fast, landing blows and being countered by her swordplay.

Every time her sword sparked as it countered an attack, her new power was being consciously activated and gradually taking shape. Eventually, she saw the sigil of a snake over a crescent moon shatter and a silver magic flow, crash as waves over her to be absorbed into her being.

"VIRTUAL PATH: UNITY!"

Her voice rebounded around their surroundings like a gong.

Creed yelped and staggered backward, dropping his lead pipe as he cupped his head with attempts to hold back the momentary stabbing to his head. Soon the pain cleared, and he saw an inversion of the world around him, right down to the fine details that wouldn't be possible to see by the naked eye.

"What is this?!" He gasped unsure of what he was seeing and frightened the mad clone had poisoned him.

Veronika took an amount to recover her breath and body. "Unity spell that is similar to a terrain wireframe scan, but the extra benefit is that you can see also the spiritual state of objects and beings."

She closed down the power in her mind to switch it off. Creed gulped when his vision returned to normal.

"What benefit is that? A system scan would do the same thing."

"You'll see when the time is right." She sheathed her sword and bowed to him. "Thank you for your help in unlocking this power."

Creed scratched his head, confused on what had just happened. But she walked away without looking back and receded from his view.