Five-Ring Great Wizard

"This feeling... really is awful."

The shattering of his life core sent a tingling sensation through Richard's entire body, while its reconstruction drove that feeling deep into his soul.

Evolution was not suicide. The life core's shattering was certainly not total destruction.

The main body of the life core remained, as did the core that maintained Richard's humanity. As long as he endured until the life core was reconstructed, his evolution would be half complete.

After the World Tree fruit took effect, the Spring of Life and the Spring of Souls began to display their effects as well.

An almost inexhaustible stream of Life Force poured into Richard's body, providing energy for the vitality of his cells. The spiritual power transformed from the Spring of Souls flowed ceaselessly into Richard's soul, helping him control the Rule Body, which was growing ever more Frenzied from the influx of energy.

As Richard's body reconstructed itself, his Rule Body was also undergoing changes akin to reconstruction.

The two rules integrated into the Rule Body had begun to take effect. If the Composite Rule Body were compared to a newly opened world, then these two rules were like the heavenly laws of that world.

Under the influence of the rules, runes as countless as stars began to tremble, then shift positions.

One, two, three... The movement of the runes triggered a chain reaction like falling dominoes. Before long, every rune in the Rule Body began to move.

The Rule Body was now swaying in the wind and rain.

But before long, a change occurred. Once the storm-tossed Rule Body had scattered to a certain extent, its changes actually stopped. Upon closer inspection, the runes that had been constantly shifting seemed to be moving along a particular path.

The rune model of the Rule Body