Just two months earlier, Angel absorbed the second Apocalypse potion and its Sequence 1 characteristic, so she was no stranger to the feeling of accommodating an additional characteristic within the same Sequence.
Yet compared to that previous approach of directly absorbing the Beyonder characteristic and auxiliary materials, this time Angel chose to brew the potion in advance. She consumed it in the lingering aftermath of killing the Chained God Tolzna, which delivered an apocalyptic end to a King of Angels on the verge of being a true god. Doing so would align to the maximum extent with the concepts of roleplay and digestion, raising her success rate.
Liquid as searing as magma yet as delicate as skin flowed into her stomach, and that aloof spirit looking down on all things in the world appeared within Angel's body once more.
Without a doubt, that was the mental imprint left within the Beyonder characteristic by the Original Creator, who created everything and would end everything. Compared to before, His spirit had weakened once more, resembling an illusory phantom that failed to cause Angel too much trouble.
This reason was multifaceted. First off, Angel was already accommodating the Apocalypse characteristic for the third time, and she had long since prepared herself mentally for the Creator's spirit contained within it. Moreover, her anchors, though few, were very stable, especially that entity who had grown alongside her and supported one another, firmly anchoring her consciousness like a lighthouse amid howling winds and torrential rain. Secondly, the majority of that Creator's residual spirit had already concentrated within the feminine and masculine aspects of the Mirrored Original Creator, and both had been cleverly separated and isolated, unable to aggregate into an activated, unified consciousness. This caused that portion of the imprint belonging to the Original within all