Element Awakening

Element Awakening.

At that moment, Brando felt as if he had lit a spark in a pitch-black world of the soul. Golden flames burned in his pupils, and the world had changed in his eyes. The crystallized trees that were gradually collapsing and turning to ash, the paths through the woods, the rocks, and the snow all seemed to be covered with a layer of silver lines. The lines bound energy and matter below them—Law Lines intertwined, and in those blank, weak places, matter seemed so fragile that it would collapse at the slightest touch.

He picked up a pebble and gently pressed it against a certain spot. The stone crumbled into powder in his hand like moldy bread.

This was a world governed by laws.

He had known this secret for a long time, but without awakening an Element, it was difficult for mortals to truly understand what those words meant. Just as ordinary people could never comprehend the truth of the world, only after they crossed that threshold—when time, space, laws, energy, and randomness were born one by one within the spark and presented themselves before their eyes—could they understand that the essence of this world, even the magic bound by Tiamat's laws, and the profound intricacies of all things, held far fewer secrets than people imagined.

Everything visible was formed by laws binding magic. This was the most fundamental rule of Vonder.

Brando narrowed his eyes. The sensation of that power quietly flowing through him was exactly the same as in his previous life. He raised his hand, which was also covered by a faint layer of Law Lines, but all those strange sights gradually vanished. In an instant, the world seemed to return to its original state.

Then Brando saw his status panel begin to change: