Tenth Tier

The process of achieving Soul Divinity was to use the [Knowledge Ring] around the soul flame as a vessel for his willpower and laws before fusing with the soul. Ian already had experience with fusion, but he still needed to nourish his willpower and laws through repeated experimentation.

Therefore, he started with willpower. The Empire's research into Haki had greatly improved its development and understanding of willpower, so this process was easier than expected. After several rounds of experimentation, Ian completed the fusion, and his soul flame changed.

Reaching Tier 9 required pale golden flames. During his previous breakthrough, his soul had turned golden after absorbing enough energy from the Soul Stone. Now, after fusing with his willpower, the gold deepened and seemed to be advancing toward the level required for Tier 11—dark gold.

The next step in this process was adding laws, but Ian ran into a minor problem. He did not meet the conditions required to use the laws of this universe.

Fortunately, he had prepared for this in advance and created law weapons containing every law he could use, except for soul and mind. He had only mastered those two laws in the Type-Moon Universe and had not yet had time to create weapons for them.

He summoned the items from his personal dimension and began fusing them with his soul flame. He watched in amazement as his soul flame turned dark gold before beginning to shift toward dark golden-black. However, the process stopped because the Soul Stone could not provide enough energy to complete it.

This is a problem, Ian thought. He guessed that he could continue with the transformation into Soul Divinity and upgrade it later, but he would rather push his soul flame to its limit before the fusion. However, even the Soul Stone