Reincarnation

Ultimus had poured all his origin power into the ritual from the very beginning.

As a result, not much power remained in his true origin body.

At this time, the universe had also entered its final entropic silence.

Starting from its outermost edges, the universe began to collapse without end.

The void was annihilated, and everything shattered.

The Omniscient Brain continued to corrupt, and the knowledge it should have possessed slowly dwindled as well.

The trace of time that had merged from Charles's consciousness now gave the Omniscient Brain a special ability.

It allowed it to travel through time.

Yet the corruption continued, and within the corrupted Omniscient Brain, a special existence was born.

The Omniscient Carbuncle was officially born!

But the universe's entropic silence had arrived. Whether it was the Omniscient Carbuncle or the Omniscient Brain, both were limited in their ability to see time and glimpse the future.

The universe was being destroyed.

Ultimus's broken body was slowly collapsing.

Using its last thread of strength, the headless body propelled his head, sending it leaping into time.

"Go. Find a solution!"

His head leapt into the river of time.

His body, meanwhile, rapidly collapsed until it vanished completely.

The head that had entered the river of time swiftly began to change.

The universe's final origin power transformed the head's shape at this moment.

That head gradually changed toward the form of the Shadow Nightmare Realm...

Upon the boundless sea.

A seagoing vessel was cleaving through the waves.

Within the lower cabin, a young noble wizard stood at the center of a bloody ritual.

As he chanted the spell, black mist filled the surroundings.

Charles seized the Book of Causal Paths and fled the Bansler Kingdom, which was being destroyed.

As Sage Webster's portal closed, Charles left this