At the last moment before the torrent of data completely overwhelmed his consciousness, Link instinctively seized this "lifeline."
He accepted the connection.
In an instant, a stream of information far vaster and older than the energy unleashed at the universe's birth poured into the core of his consciousness.
This time, he was no longer a detached observer. It was an immersive "experience."
Link "saw" the end of another universe.
It was a world utterly unlike his own. Life existed not in carbon-based or silicon-based forms, but as beings of pure emotional spectrum energy, roaming the universe. They were born artists, composing magnificent epics of civilization through joy, sorrow, anger, and hope.
But they, too, ultimately met their destruction.
When the [Eradicator] descended, all resistance in this universe of emotion proved utterly futile.
In the final thousandth of a second before the entire universe underwent "formatting," that universe's "Gaia consciousness," the collective of all its emotional energy beings, made a decision of heartbreaking resolve.
She compressed all her civilization's hopes, all its knowledge, all its understanding of "existence," and its fear of the next "formatting," condensing them into a "seed" that transcended every law.
Carrying that civilization's final words and mission, the seed pierced the barriers between dimensions. The instant "formatting" was complete, it was cast into the next newborn, blank universe.
That seed was the [God-Level Check-In System].
In essence, it was not a cheat that made you stronger, but a tragic "universe repair tool" and "civilization continuity plan."
Its mission was to find an "anchor" in this new universe: someone with a powerful enough will, a resilient enough soul, and boundless potential. In other words, a host.
Then, through "check-ins," it would "guide" and "train" this host step by step, allowing him to encounter, adapt to, and ultimately master