Yongye's grin stretched wider than ever before.
He looked down at Mera beneath him. Her eyes were completely unfocused, her face flushed and warm. He gently patted her chin, his voice lazy and satisfied afterward, like a cat licking its paws after a meal.
"Not bad. What you contributed was worth far more than I expected."
"Keep up the good work. Don't get cocky!"
Mera did not answer. Her eyes stayed shut, her chest heaving, her breathing as scattered as sheet music caught in the wind.
Yongye straightened and turned toward the Water Dragon still coiled above the sea, with Arthur pinned beneath it in the sand. He gave a leisurely command in his mind.
"Open them all."
[Ding—Ultimate Blind Box ×1 opened!] [Congratulations, host! Reward obtained: DC Universe · World Origin Power (Beginner Speed Force).] [Ding—Ultimate Blind Box ×1 opened!] [Congratulations, host! Reward obtained: DC Universe · Fundamental Force of Willpower (Emotional Spectrum Fragment · Enhanced Version).] [Ding—Supreme Blind Box opened!] [Congratulations, host! Reward obtained: DC Universe · Speed Force (Intermediate Jump Level) + Emotional Spectrum (complete set of seven color fragments).]
In that instant, Yongye's soul felt as though a galaxy had poured into it from the far edge of the heavens.
Memories of the Speed Force's leap flooded him—the laws that let speed transcend the timeline itself and move freely through any dimension.
They washed through his consciousness like a waterfall, resonating at once with the Intermediate Law of Time, Intermediate Spatial Law, Causality and Fate Law, Power of Connection, Wind of Nothingness, and Emotional Spectrum fragments he had already obtained. They fused and intertwined into a network of laws spanning the foundations of the entire multidimensional universe.
He could feel the reef beneath his feet slowly "freezing" in increments of one ten-millionth of a