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Within the dimension where Earth was, a strange stream of dimensional essence began to merge with cosmic essence and then divine essence, all merging together into spiraling threads of energy which flew towards a certain direction.

The other dimensions connected to it noticed this happening, as the entities within them glanced at the scene with awe. Only beings of enough power were capable of perceiving such a spectacle, but it seemed utterly strange, as they had never seen such a huge convergence of energies before.

But all of this energy was flowing towards Gustav. After fusing all the Skills related to his body and soul, and even of his Cores, what was emerging from it was not a simple Skill, it was something completely different and strange. It was as if he was reforming his body and soul rather than just creating a new Skill.

All of such energies gathered and merged together into his new body and soul…

For Gustav, this felt like an eternity, but for those noticing this, it only felt more like something gradual, it continued going monetarily!

However, Gustav's mind blacked out after he perceived several years going on. His mind became dizzy and he lost a perspective of time.

As time within this bubble where he found himself as continued, the energies finally gathered completely within him, and finished their transmutation into his body and soul.

But why? Why did such a thing happened to him? What was behind this mystery? And why? Why did he went through this strange event?magic

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in front of the skill fusion crystal as if nothing had happened.But he felt that he was born anew.

"Ah…"

He almost fell but kept himself up by holding into the crystal.

He felt like he was hallucinating and at the same time he wasn't.

He saw things through many perspectives at the same time, which made him dizzy.

He decided to sit in the floor cross-legged and relax.

Ding!

[Through the Fusion of Skills, the [Divine Heaven Devouring Physique and Psyche (Transcendental)] Skill has been made!]

"What the heck? How? I imagined something big would come out, but not this much! This is already way too much for me to handle… Gaia, can you tell me something regarding this?" asked Gustav, feeling utterly dumbfounded.

"I-I think I am just as surprised, guardian. I believe this might had been the cause of your powerup in stats, which had gone through the roof as well… Your level has been kept the same, but you… You have definitely changed. This new Physique and Psyche is defying the very logic of everything I had seen before… Could it be that the combination of so many psyches and physique skills formed this anomaly? The convergence of such powerful skills seemed already impossible to do, yet the system can make it possible… perhaps the fusion of so many powers made it unstable, but the system itself absorbed the energies from the dimension itself to sustain such a power, and as a result… it materialized and formed into an even greater physique and psyche than it could had been originally intended…" said Gaia.

Gustav felt confused by her explanation, so she had to explain it slowly once more, until he understood better, but even then, he could barely believe such a thing.

He then remembered something, as he looked up to his Fortune Cloud.

It was pitch black!"Ugh…"

He had used all of his fortune to generate such a fortuitous event, and now his Fortune was actually on a negative value, making it black and even skull-shaped…

What were the odds, honestly? Quite low, but using his Fortune Cloud, he ended managing and achieving something near impossible.

But now he was out of luck! He needed to slowly gather more fortune by stealing it from the many inhabitants of his divine realm, which he had been doing passively and little by little everyday to not affect them completely.

"It might take weeks for my Fortune to get out of the negative value it is now though…" he sighed.

"But even with bad fortune… what you've achieved, guardian… it is something wondrously amazing!" said Gaia.

Gustav could clearly feel it on his own body and soul, he was glowing with heavenly and divine transcendental energies across his entire body, and his very presence released gigantic streams of essence which bathed the entire divine realm as well, making its quality richer and making the complete land mass grow larger too, as a result.

By merely waving his hands he released sparkles of white light everywhere, and his sole presence generated ripples in space itself, which he had to learn how to control and manipulate his powers so they wouldn't go out of their way…

He had also realized his very existence had changed, although his race was still there, he had also changed his race, he had completely gained a new race in fact…

This was because his body was completely remade from zero, he was no longer a human turned superhuman, his body was remade into the shape of a being of transcendental power.

Despite this, his Existence Realm wasn't at Transcendental Levels yet, nonetheless, now that he had such physique and psyche, he had the potential to reach such stage in an even faster manner than before, as if previous stated things were not enough…

The power flowing through his entire body felt like warm, white-colored rivers across his veins, his entire presence exuding it. Gustav's appearance, however, was the same as before, he had not suddenly turned angelic or something, nor he had become a super handsome man for no reason at all.

This new body he acquired was shaped and forged to his previous one image, it was made to give it such an appearance… the Skill he had acquired, however, the [Divine Heaven Devouring Physique and Psyche (Transcendental)] Skill, was at a rarity which Gustav had not seen before.

Transcendental.

Perhaps this was why he got so much out of this; it was of a rarity way higher than anything he had ever acquired…

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