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The Split soul's main bodies quickly felt the presence of several gods awakening within Future Kritias, now named as Midgard.

They were mostly resting as of now, as they were weakened, except Qadall, who was just being given a nice time because the phantom clones felt happy that they would finally have a coworker that could lift some of their responsibility in the transmigration cycle.

They were sure that with some more time, more Gods would be found and awakened from their seals and slumber, however, the split souls had suddenly reached a special place within Future Kritias.

Aside from restoring the world from fragmenting and reconstructing it back into a bubble, a pseudo divine realm of its own, there was also a certain treasure left which they had yet to find.

Until now.

This treasure was nothing else than the world's Origin Core, the crystallization of the world's source energy, all of its power, and also the center of their laws. Now that the world became part of their divine realm, the purpose of the origin core was gone, and it was only left in the underground like a giant crystal with immense quantities of power that would slowly leak into the outside world over a million years until dissipating into nothingness.

However, the split souls didn't want that, not at all! Due to this, they looked over it many times, until they finally found it, at long last..

The immense crystal, lying inside a large dark cave.

They had dug underground with the help of the powerful and gigantic Nidhogg until they finally reached the

"center of the world

", a gigantic and empty cave that opened up to an enormous, green-colored crystal glowing faintly.

It was as immense as a mountain, and it was honestly a majestic sight to behold! The crystal itself resonated with a beautiful gleam, making the split minds desire it even more

"Here it is, we finally found it… Good boy,

" said Veronica, petting the monstrous worm-dragon divine beast king, Nidhogg, who had grown to an unprecedented size, his enormous, elongated body was covered by divine silver scales, and his crimson-red eyes spread around his head were looking at Veronica rather lovingly. He even waved his tail around like a puppy.

"Grooooaaarr…

"

"It's impressive how much we ended digging… Now, we should bring the main bodies here,

" said Ervas.

"Yep…

"

FLASH!

Ervas and Veronica quickly deposited the divine realm into space and traversed inside it, reaching the area where their phantoms were with Nidhogg through Aurora's teleportation.

Appearing above Nidhogg, the two split souls ordered it to move downwards, as it reached the vast cave.

"Let's illuminate this a bit…

"

Veronica and Ervas conjured a giant sphere of pure light, which they threw into the air. The sphere started to rotate slowly as it floated in midair above the cave, working as a giant lamp. It was useful even when the split souls could see through the confines of darkness, but it was better if things were illuminated.

The entire cave was revealed to the group, which included Aurora who was silently spectating things. The large cave was filled with many runes inscribed in the walls, each one seemed to contain large amounts of mana, and overflowed the area with essence.

And of course, the large crystal!

"This treasure is… really a world's core… Not even my main body has absorbed one yet,

" said Aurora, referring to Kireina.

"I see. Well, we are about to win over her in the race then!

" said Veronica.

"Let's just devour it,

" said Ervas.

"Alright!

" said Veronica. Both split souls merged together into the beautiful four-armed lady they could become, as they flew down below and touched the crystal, receiving a large quantity of information and power into their brain the moment they touched it.

Of course, they resisted all of this power and information, which contained some of the origin of the world, secrets they had yet to see…

"By just touching it for a second, we received a large amount of info… Well, let's get to it…

"

The fusion merged several abilities at the same time, as they shapeshifted into a large mantle of chaos and void divinity, covering the entire crystal, and slowly devouring it while resisting all the information flowing into them.

FLAAAASH!

By devouring it, enormous shockwaves were released by the crystal, as it seemed to be resisting.

However, the split souls had no issue at all with this, and continued to slowly consume this crystal, the Future Kritias world Origin Core!

BOOOOM!

The entire Midgard started to tremble before the split souls, however, they relentlessly continued to consume the crystal, slowly absorbing all of its immense knowledge, which it had accumulated over the years as if it were like a computer.

The amount of energy it possessed was also incredibly rich, this power was what they needed to grow even stronger, and to finally break through their progression wall.

Although they were not in a hurry or anything, they were required to hurry up!

They rushed into it as they felt the immense quantities of power making them feel like they were about to explode!

CRUNCH.

The last bit of the crystal was devoured by the fusion, as countless memories and information filled their combined minds!

FLAAASH!

All of this information seemed messy at first, but it was all finely achieved together, and they were slowly assessing it all!

And through this information… they also learned something important, something crucial, even!

This information was the origins of this world, somehow, the crystal had even gathered such a thing.

What was this crystal even, and how was it formed?

Didn't it form when the world was already made? But…

The imagery the split souls saw were two titanic giants moving through the endless cosmos.

Their size was so immense they were as big as entire planets and stars that floated around them.

One titan was made of darkness, and the other was made of light.

Both battled against each other, slashing, kicking, punching, and even biting each other.

Countless planets and stars around them were devastated…

These titans were… Anir and Kelsus!

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