Arriving from History
Of course, because the fusion process was not a normal advancement process, this power was somewhat restless. However, perhaps because the ritual had been relatively successful, that restlessness was not strong; it fell within the normal tendency toward madness.
Moreover, this "advancement fusion" was not something that had happened recently. Possibly at least several hundred years ago, Dernothus had already advanced to B-rank in his slumber.
And that led to another problem: a B-rank transcendent had lain inside an Angel-class Transcendent Item that was suspected to belong to the same path or an adjacent one.
Normally speaking, according to the effects of the Coffin of Years, that would not have caused any problems.
If Dernothus woke normally, he would smoothly become a B-rank transcendent.
The problem was that the Coffin of Years had run into a little "minor issue."
An invisible force had sealed the Coffin of Years, even compressing its existence.
This compression did not occur purely on the physical level; it also took place at the underlying level of the world.
The result was that the Coffin of Years and Dernothus's body were forcibly squeezed together.
Two Talent Sequences that had already been close to each other began the process of "fusion."
But this fusion was by no means a pleasant process. He Ao could faintly sense a special stinging pain, one that scorched the soul.
However, his own soul was injured, so at first he had not paid it any attention. Only just now did he realize that this stinging pain did not come from himself, but from Dernothus.
There was not only the stinging pain from the soul, but also a twisted pressure brought about by the intrusion of a high-level item.
This fusion was forced and distorted. According to the normal progression,