At that moment.
Even his vision fractured into massive overlapping images. He looked down at his hand. At some point, his palm had begun reacting just like Eve's, as though every cell were boiling, on the verge of disintegration.
Along with the tremendous changes in matter came an intense resonance within his soul.
It was as though his mind and soul had also been affected by that powerful resonance, about to be dismembered and forcibly merged by some mighty power into a concept on the verge of being born.
Crack-
His body gave out first. His leg bone abruptly snapped, and he collapsed onto one knee.
His flesh had lost its ability to heal!
It was as though the matter composing him had forgotten its original blueprint.
His psionics danced wildly out of control, as though caught in a carnival of utter chaos.
He heard Ether's footsteps, but Ether's figure was now entirely shrouded in densely overlapping images. His smile seemed to split into countless copies before Lynn's eyes. That piercing tone rang frantically in his eardrums, like a shrill buzzing coming from within his own soul.
Ether's voice seemed to sound softly beside his ear.
"I supplied the technology for the atomic revolution. Did you really think, so naively, that the atomic revolution was merely turning the entire Mechanical Church into a civilization of the microscopic realm?"
"Don't make me laugh."
"The atomic revolution is also an ascension, and its birth requires sacrifices. Just like the collective ascension of the Machine Intelligence Civilization back then, countless trillions of living beings turned to ash and became part of it. The same goes for you. In this grand hymn, every atom of yours will become a component of this revolution. Unfortunately, there will be no place for you in it."
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