Inside the Meditation Room of the Eternal Tower.
Ian sat cross-legged at the center of the magic array, his eyes half closed.
Deep within his soul, a fist-sized orb of light slowly revolved. This was his degenerate stellar core in its neutron star state.
Since advancing to the middle stage of Level Six, Bright Moon, and completing the collapse from a white dwarf into a neutron star, the stellar core had continued to evolve. Its density had risen another order of magnitude over the past three months.
The energy and matter accumulated each day continued to be compressed. Neutron degeneracy pressure had begun showing signs of instability, and the gravitational field kept strengthening.
At the edge of his vision, information appeared clearly:
[Name: Ian Marcus] [Realm: Peak Level Six, Bright Moon (Child of Chaos)] [Core rule: Chaos balance (a symbiotic state of order and chaos)] [True form: Degenerate stellar core (neutron star state)] [Stellar core density: Continuously rising; has reached 72% of the theoretical upper limit of the neutron star state] [Advancement requirements assessment: A massive infusion of higher-dimensional energy is required to push stellar core density beyond the upper limit of the neutron star state (Tolman-Op- penheimer-Volkoff limit) and trigger a second collapse]
Ian slowly opened his eyes. His gravitational field was now several times stronger than when he had first advanced, and the range of his Chaos Domain had expanded just as much.
Soon, he would undergo the greatest transformation of his life: advancement to a level-seven true spirit, the black hole event horizon.
The Abyssal World's world origin was also the ultimate goal of his journey into the Abyss. Devouring two layers of the Abyssal World would be enough to push his stellar core beyond that theoretical limit.
But before taking action, he still needed