The third stage merging. It is the most dangerous. Far more than the first two and more than even the fourth one, consolidation. I am scared and hope that Lotus will help me with it. The instructions are clear on what it needs to do. It is at this stage that my breakthrough formation plays a large part. The lotus is also famous for it as well. However, it uses a different approach than my breakthrough formation. Twenty-eight seconds passed when the third stage began. The merging of body and soul. At that same moment, I felt the lotus acting just the way I instructed. The approach my breakthrough formation uses is gentle. It sent waves into body and soul. So, they would merge smoothly. While the lotus is like a humongous press, it will use its massive power to merge those. This approach could only be possible here because of the power of the realm behind the lotus. Though it doesn’t use this power brutally, it does with surgical efficiency, which requires far more complex formation than I could create. Within a few seconds, the pain begins to increase, and by the end of the minute, I am gritting my teeth. There is a pain in my face but joy in my eyes. I could see what the lotus was doing. While it is painful, it is far more than my last breakthrough. It is a happening. The problems are occurring. The problems would have scared me, but the formation is crushing them with its sheer weight. I am managing the third stage better than others. My body and soul are infused with the forbidden power. It makes merging hard, but here it is happening smoothly than I had expected. Minutes passed, and the pain increased further, that I had felt like I would crush my teeth, but I bore. Hun! It was going through smoothly when the problem appeared, and it is a minor problem. It had been crushed through before. It is big and the one I had been expecting. My constitution, which is connected to both my body and soul, is now in front of me. The problem is the size of the mountain, instead of the pebbles earlier. Talaras had truly strengthened my constitution beyond what is possible. It shouldn’t have been possible or stable, but it is. Though, not without a problem. The problem is now in front of me, and the lotus will have to deal with it. My heart is beating wildly, seeing that as I am worried. It is the biggest problem. If I pass it, there will be no problem with the breakthrough further. If it did, I would die or suffer a fate worse than death. The power of the lotus reaches the mountain, and the force intensifies hundreds of times. "Ahhhhhhhhh…." I screamed loudly as the lotus began to crush the mountain, and there was a massive resistance. The pain I had to begin to feel I had never felt before. I felt like my soul was getting torn apart. It is kind of happening as elements of the mountain merge with body and soul. I could feel the power of the mountain and was aware that if I succeeded. It will provide me with a massive increase in strength. I screamed and screamed while the mountain got crushed under the weight of a lotus. I wanted to close my eyes to bear the pain, but I didn’t. I kept them open. I am watching the screen. The data flashing on it. I could see the data after the breakthrough, but it won’t be a live one and deduced from the traces left behind while this is live. It will help me tremendously with my breakthroughs and breakthrough formation. I don’t know how long it had lasted. It felt like days had passed when I felt the weight of the mountain lowering and, with it, the pain. Soon, the pain returned to normal. I am still gritting my teeth, but I didn’t feel like it would break me. Minutes passed, and the process continued before it was finally over. Seeing that, I wanted to collapse, but. I simply begin to take the deep breaths. I was on my seventeenth breath when the fourth stage, the consolidation, began. As it did, the massive weight of the lotus covered the core. I do not think there would be a problem, but I am glad Lotus is acting on the instructions I had added. The thin solid layer appeared on the core before it began to solidify deeper. I watched it, and it sat in front of me with bated breath. Crack, Crack, Crack! For a few minutes, nothing happened when suddenly the cracks began to appear on the core, and the culprit was a constitution. Immediately, the massive weight that was covering the core fell on it. Within seconds, the cracks begin to slow down. They are still spreading, but at a much slower speed. They continued to spread for twelve seconds before stopping. They stayed like that for nearly a minute before starting to heal slowly. Two and a half minutes later, there were no cracks in my core. Making me take a breath of relief. Minutes passed, and finally, the consolidation finished. Buzz! I looked at my core and saw it getting even more lifelike. I wanted to keep staring at it, and I did, till I heard the buzzing sound. The runes came out and spread through my body. The ancient runes are visible; they are now made of a large part of my inheritance. Buzz! They spread to my deepest, and when they are done. The core released the flood of breakthrough energy that spread into every part of me. My body is like a desert that hadn’t seen rain for a thousand years, beginning to see it suck it hard. I felt my strength rising, and the speed at which made my eyes widen before a grin flashed on my face. The time is going to be hard for me. I would need all the strength I could get to survive. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚 The flood lasted for over twenty-two minutes before it finally stopped. As it, I become a Sky Sovereign with a power of mighty Prime coursing through my veins. Hun! I was feeling the strength when suddenly, I sensed something. That froze the smile on my face and stopped my heart. ’I can’t believe it!’