Sign In to Reality! Knowhere's New Master!

The moment Link closed his hand around the roiling Aether, which was trying to eat into his body, a terrifying power unlike anything he had ever felt surged up his arm and into his body and soul. It could twist cause and effect, create something from nothing.

The power was far more violent than Krypton's solar energy and more mysterious than Olympian Divinity. It tried to rewrite Link's genes, break him down into his most basic particles, then turn him into a flower—or a stone.

But Link's body was already a perfect ecosystem built from several powers of the highest order.

His Man of Steel physique formed an unbreakable barrier. Olympian Divinity became chains of Laws that bound the raging power fast. The Chaos Force acted as a perfect mediator, allowing the new power to be tamed, absorbed, and fully integrated into Link's body.

At the same time, the system's voice rang through his mind like a final declaration of victory.

[Sign-in at the Reality Stone successful!]

[Congratulations, Host! SSS-rank reward obtained: Reality Warping (Beginner)!]

In an instant, the world before Link's eyes changed completely.

He no longer merely "saw" matter. He could see the underlying code that made it. He could see how space was defined and how time flowed. He could even see that, if he wished, he could turn a stone into bread or air into gold.

This was power bordering on that of a creator!

"No... no! My Stone!"

The Collector, Taneleer Tivan, stared at Link holding the Aether without a scratch on him, his face full of horror and bitter disbelief. He knew he had lost. Utterly.

His last hope was to run.

He scrambled toward the far end of the hall, where his final contingency lay hidden—a small, blindingly fast private shuttle