This figure was slightly higher than his estimate from the side hall test. The difference came from the giant beast's chaos core resisting on its own.
As the core was converted, it continuously released interference waves outward, and those waves consumed part of the Divine Art's output.
He noted down this expenditure and stored the efficiency value in the reference table within his sea of consciousness.
He issued the third definition command.
This time, the content was the most complex: reconstruct the giant beast's remaining body into a law specimen and seal it within the Chaos Wasteland.
When the command departed from Return to Source, it was merely a foundational wave. After passing through the first nine bones of the Ten-Bone Ring, it had already been woven into a multilayered reprogramming protocol. Material composition, law encoding, and spatial positioning were all packed into the same command.
After receiving the protocol, the tenth bone initiated redefinition. It retrieved an experiential template for "specimenization" from its definition memory—a method of solidifying remains observed in the Boundary Ruins—and embedded that solidification logic into the structural gaps of the protocol, changing the underlying logic of the entire command from "conversion" to "solidification."
All three hundred and sixty lenses of the Focusing Ring lit up at once, converging this command, far more complex than the previous two, into a narrow beam less than a finger's width wide and firing it at the giant beast.
When the thin beam struck the middle segment of the giant beast, its body began to contract.
The contraction differed from the second conversion. The second conversion had dispersed from within outward, while this reconstruction compressed from without inward. The beast's surface deformed first at the point of contact, transitioning from its writhing chaotic form into orderly planes, like clay flattened