I, Matou Sakura, Third of the Flame-Chasers!

Pernor vanished, but after she disappeared, a voice suddenly rang out.

"I'm sorry, Akiko."

It was not Pernor's voice, yet it was familiar and similar.

It seemed to possess something different from the person she had once been.

What was it?

Even the smiling girl did not know, but she wanted to feel it from her the next time they met.

She would wait!

She knew her love was somewhat ridiculous, impossible to understand.

But wasn't love supposed to be like that?

Perhaps I am a little different from ordinary people, but I will wait—wait until she returns to this world and comes before me.

There was a knock on the door, followed by a familiar voice from outside.

"Akiko, are you all right?"

"Lujia, you don't need to worry. I'm fine."

She patted her skirt, clasped her hands behind her back, and smiled brilliantly.

The Aozaki Akiko of the past had returned.

AllSpark

Root.

Matou Sakura had once imagined what the space within the Root might contain.

Yet all she could see with her eyes was an endless expanse of pure white.

There was nothing here. As far as the eye could see, it was merely a space stretching infinitely onward.

Nothing but a world so pure white it was almost nonexistent.

This was the world visible to her eyes, but her mind perceived a completely different scene from what her eyes saw.

If the endless white seen by the naked eye was the nothingness born of emptiness, then the world perceived by her mind was one of infinite colors.

That was knowledge—the history of this world from desolation to the present.

Or rather, data. Information.

A massive torrent of information crashed into her mind without any pattern.

Even though her brain had evolved many times, it had vaguely reached its limit, yet the surging tide of information showed no signs of stopping.

Matou Sakura understood that the space visible to the naked eye was the Root, and what her mind perceived was also the Root.

What the eye saw was merely the vessel, while what the mind perceived was the world stored within this pure white body.

It was the record of everything across countless Parallel Worlds of the Nasuverse.

Knowledge, information, history—every life, even every single object!

Her repeatedly enhanced brain had instead become a burden at this moment.

Her brain could store vast quantities of information and analyze and filter it at speeds surpassing those of a computer.

It was precisely this power that allowed her to contain information beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

The current situation was that the Root was continuously transmitting all kinds of information to her, while her brain frantically processed it at an overloaded rate.

The moment one batch of information was processed, another followed right after, without the slightest pause, leaving her brain constantly operating under overload.

The situation caused her intense pain, while the information transmitted by the Root continued to increase. Her brain's overloaded processing speed was gradually unable to keep up with the incoming data.

Blood flowed from her nose, staining this pure white space with vivid color.

She had to leave. Continuing to accept such massive amounts of information would cause her brain to die!

If she were inside the sun, she could accept this incomparably vast amount of information in both pain and joy. But this was the Root, where Solar Energy simply did not exist. Her body lacked sufficient energy to provide her brain with what it needed to evolve.

The infinite energy brought by the King of Wrath could not possibly be used for the evolution of her brain and body!

She wanted to leave, but the Side Effect of her overloaded brain made her body incredibly heavy, leaving her unable to move at all!

No!

I can't die here!

System!

Use all my lottery draws!

At this moment, the system had become her only hope!

More than fifty system notifications continuously appeared before her eyes. Matou Sakura forcibly squeezed out a portion of her thoughts to determine whether any of the items she had obtained could help her!

That's the one!

AllSpark!

At this moment, Matou Sakura felt none of the joy of drawing the AllSpark. All she wanted now was to rely on the AllSpark to escape her predicament!

The instant the pitch-black cube, its surface engraved with endless genetic codes, appeared before her, the entire Root seemed to freeze!

Then, the black cube—or rather, the AllSpark—flew straight into Matou Sakura's heart.

Her flesh-and-blood heart was instantly obliterated, replaced by the AllSpark, which contained terrifying vitality and spiritual power.

The imprint belonging to the King of Wrath transformed into crimson code, occupying one segment among the countless memory codes on the AllSpark's surface.

The Light of Trigger also became a dark-golden segment of code, engraved within the AllSpark!

The moment the AllSpark replaced her heart, her body let out a silent howl. Her body, exhausted from her brain's overload, craved abundant energy!

It was a hunger that even the King of Wrath's infinite energy could not satisfy!

And as the AllSpark, capable of turning any machine, metal, or even a single screw into an intelligent lifeform, it possessed terrifyingly immense life force and spiritual power.

As the core of Cybertron, the AllSpark was a creation infinitely close to the Multiversal Level!

Although the vitality brought by the AllSpark was far less effective for Kryptonian Bloodline than Solar Energy, its high-grade quality and infinite quantity instantly filled her starving body.

Her previously overloaded brain began operating at a speed hundreds of times greater than before!

At that moment, the situation changed instantly.

The speed of her brain's operation directly surpassed the Root's transmission of information.

At that moment, the relationship between Matou Sakura and the Root was completely reversed!

Her brain was no longer passively absorbing that vast body of knowledge. Instead, it began forcibly reading it!

Seventy-eight Parallel Worlds, ninety-two Parallel Worlds, one hundred and seven Parallel Worlds.

Relying on the immense vitality and spiritual power provided by the AllSpark, Matou Sakura greedily and frantically seized the information contained within the Nasuverse's vast cluster of Parallel Worlds.

Although many Parallel Worlds contained highly repetitive information, her hyperactive brain classified it in an instant and distributed it accordingly.

Useful information was retained. Repeated information was cross-referenced, and the highly redundant portions were discarded.

At that moment, Matou Sakura stood above the Root!

Yet Matou Sakura, immersed in the information, failed to notice the system notifications quietly sounding one after another.

Third Magic successfully acquired! Debt repaid! System officially activated.

Upgrade complete!

Character template online!

Lottery module updated!

Space Gate template online!

Scanning host information... Scan complete. Power requirements met. Space Gate activating...

By the time Matou Sakura noticed the system's changes, a two-meter-tall Space Gate had already appeared before her. An ancient aura rushed toward her. Her rapidly operating brain instinctively tried to analyze the Space Gate before her, but even more intense pain swept over her.

Before Matou Sakura could react, a terrifying suction force erupted from the Space Gate and swallowed her whole. The gate then shuddered violently before vanishing in an instant.

The Root, however, continued to tremble from the disturbance!

Hall of Heroes.

Gaia and Alaya clung tightly to each other. At this moment, the Hall of Heroes had fallen into violent turmoil because of the Root.

Countless Heroic Spirits were forcibly awakened by the intense tremors, staring at the space around them in terror.

Most of the Heroic Spirits here were heroes, legends from history. Even gods slumbered here.

They had lived lives filled with upheavals beyond ordinary imagination, yet the drastic changes in the Hall of Heroes had terrified them all.

At that moment, it was as though Steel Earth and Moon Coral—the endpoints recorded by the Root—had both descended upon the space that housed the Hall of Heroes.

Gaia and Alaya knew something had happened. Though they could not see what was occurring within the Root, they knew that this sudden change had originated from it.

And at this moment, the only one within the Root was Matou Sakura, who had entered it through the void opened by the Holy Grail!

In Gaia and Alaya's eyes, only that person could make the Root tremble like this!

Gaia and Alaya held each other tightly for warmth. As Counter Forces, they were now filled with fear!

The Ancient One

The gradually awakening consciousness in those dark-golden eyes carried the bewilderment of a newborn entering the world.

But the warm current continuously rising from her chest gradually cleared that confused consciousness.

Where was this?

And I am... right, I'm a transmigrator, a member of the Flame-Chasers, one of the Fourteen Flame-Chasers, Mu... No, that's not right. I am Matou Sakura now.

A transmigrator who had transmigrated for the second time.

So where was this now?

Her memories rewound, finally stopping at the system notification.

Right, the Space Gate. A third transmigration?

She instinctively checked her body. With the rise and fall of her breathing, that familiar softness swayed along with it.

That expanse of snowy white looked especially glaring at this moment. Was she completely naked?

She instinctively covered her body with her hands, then quickly looked around.

This was a bedroom. The curtains were tightly drawn, and it was exceptionally quiet.

Her abilities were still there. Her Kryptonian Bloodline, the King of Wrath and Light of Trigger engraved upon the AllSpark at her chest—all of them were functioning normally.

Aside from her Kryptonian Bloodline, most of her abilities were based on the AllSpark and had fused together perfectly.

The greatest change was in the Light of Trigger.

She could feel that this light had become incomparably powerful.

She had already unlocked Power Type and Agility Type back when she was in the Nasuverse. By relying on her Kryptonian Bloodline to absorb Solar Energy, she had naturally unlocked those two forms. As for Dark Triga Form, that had been unlocked as well.

It had been unlocked by absorbing All the World's Evils from the Holy Grail.

However, because the powers of light and darkness were uneven after unlocking Dark Triga Form, Dark Triga Form had been extremely weak.

Now that it had fused with the AllSpark, the Composite Form representing light had grown even stronger, further widening the gap between her dark and light forms.

Although her dark form had grown as well, the gap between it and her light form was still rather large.

However, her dark form could now grow on its own by relying on the immense energy provided by the AllSpark, though the process was relatively slow.

The same was true for her light form.