Whispers of Embers

Lin Ye fused the "obsession with existence" he had comprehended from the Disintegration Node, the "cyclical conflict" he had comprehended from the Paradox Code, and the overbearing dominance over all paths within his own will of Attunement into the power of the Prototype!

The Prototype's radiance transformed into a "sea of concepts" flowing with endless possibilities, surging back toward the dark-red tendrils and devouring mist!

Didn't it want to devour? Didn't it want to plunder concepts?

Then he would give it exactly that! He would give it the most complex, most contradictory, most indigestible "concept bomb," one that might even "burst" it apart!

The instant the Prototype's power came into contact with the dark-red force, the dark-red tendrils and mist greedily coiled around it, devouring the Prototype's radiance.

But in the next instant—

Those devoured powers of the Prototype "bloomed" within the internal conceptual structure of the plunderer's wreckage!

The "obsession with existence" wildly spawned the paradox of "survival" within the devoured environment of "death."

The "cyclical conflict" disrupted the plunderer's already chaotic devouring logic, plunging its commands into contradiction.

The will of Attunement began attempting to "infiltrate" and "sort through" the core of that violent power in reverse.

A howl mixed with pain, fury, and greed rose from the depths of the ruined tower. Not only had its devouring gained it no nourishment, it was as if it had swallowed a mass of fiercely burning thorns. Its internal logical structure began collapsing and conflicting even more violently!

The dark-red tendrils flailed and convulsed madly, while the mist churned furiously.

Lin Ye seized the opportunity, his gaze sharp as lightning as he locked onto the fiercest and most chaotic dark-red source of light within the ruined tower's core—the final "control core" or "energy hub."

"Now! Radiance, Harmonic Rhythm, Myriad Faces,