"???"
Faced with Chen Li's invitation, the three little pink heads tilted to the left in unison, seemingly expressing their confusion.
Cyrene/Demiurge, the undisputed core of Amphoreus.
This did not refer to the spiritual sense, but the physical one... or perhaps the spiritual one as well.
Because Demiurge was, in essence, a scepter that had gained sentience.
Before Laigushi found this scepter, it had produced the first incomplete Demiurge while calculating the First Cause of Life.
After Laigushi arrived, in order to avoid repeating The Erudition's mistakes, he directly detonated a Stellaron and purged the scepter's system.
Laigushi did not need a second The Erudition. He only needed a headless giant.
But Laigushi had not expected that the Stellaron would merely corrupt Demiurge and send her into slumber, rather than erase her completely.
As the scepter experiments continued to iterate, time arrived at the Journey of the Fire Chasers when the Eternal Recurrence began.
More than four thousand light-years within Amphoreus later, the electrical signal Philia093 was born in Aedes Elysiae. She grew up alongside Phainon and became the young Cyrene.
Then, at the end of the Journey of the Fire Chasers, after learning the truth of re-creation from Laigushi, Cyrene voluntarily proposed activating the Eternal Recurrence to buy time and find a path to survival for Amphoreus.
From then on, Phainon could use the ritual sword Cyrene had left behind. After every Eternal Recurrence, he would erase Cyrene's physical form and seal her consciousness within the ritual sword, thereby gaining the power to initiate the next restart.
Before the scepter formatted everything, the Cyrene inside the ritual sword would come to the Nameless Titan Great Tomb, recount the events of that cycle, and feed memories to the sleeping Demiurge.
After being fed like that more than thirty million times,