Only two months earlier, Angel had absorbed her second "Apocalypse" potion and the Sequence 1 characteristic within it. She was no stranger to the sensation of accommodating additional characteristics of the same Sequence.
But unlike that occasion, when she had directly absorbed the Beyonder characteristic and auxiliary materials, Angel had chosen to prepare the potion beforehand this time. She drank it in the aftermath of killing Tolzna, the Chained God, and bringing an apocalyptic end to a King of Angels who approached the level of a true god. This would align as closely as possible with the principles of acting and digestion, improving her chances of success.
The liquid, as scorching as magma yet as smooth as skin, flowed into her stomach. Once again, that lofty psyche that looked down upon all things in the world appeared within Angel.
Without a doubt, it was the mental imprint left in the Beyonder characteristic by the Original Creator, who had created everything and would end everything. Compared with before, His psyche had weakened further, like an illusory bubble, and had little effect on Angel.
There were several reasons for this. First, this was Angel's third time accommodating an "Apocalypse" characteristic, so she was already mentally prepared for the Creator's psyche within it. Moreover, although she had few anchors, they were stable. In particular, the person who had grown alongside her, supporting her as she supported him, held her consciousness firmly in place like a lighthouse amid a raging storm. Second, most of the Creator's residual psyche had already gathered in the yin and yang aspects of the Mirrored Original Creator. Those two aspects had been cleverly separated and isolated, preventing them from converging into an awakened, unified consciousness. As a result, the portion of the Oldest One's imprint within all Beyonder characteristics