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'What…?' Adam found the dreamworld had shifted into that of a memory. One that he found… familiar.

He couldn't remember it, but…

["P-please…! Spare me… I don't want to die!"] The voice in his head felt like nails cutting into his heart.

'Save… him.' The landowner was a little confused.

He turned to see a much more well-kept version of himself running away from what looked to be…

…Red Rabbit?

'But why?' This emotion was shared between him and Adamanthea. The memories were flowing in.

Returning to their rightful owner.

Adam knelt to the ground with a twisting face. His eyes were all over while screaming in silent agony.

"Ugh-Aaaaugghh…!" Rumbling noises occurred inside his body when looking at the smiling mask.

One that seemed to be crying all of a sudden…

Even though its face was still unchanged.

["I'm awake…! I'M AwaKE!!!"]

'He… Stop! No! NO NO NO NO NO!!!' Adam tried to stop what was happening within the memory, but it was just an illusion. He could feel it… Adamanthea was fully fading from existence at that moment.

He… died…

["D-don't… don't kill us! DoN't!"] A new, feminine voice replaced that one that was screaming earlier.

His teary red eyes turned to the Lumina Sword…

["SpaRe uS! AAAARRRRRGHTRYXDFRTYK!!!!"]

["StOp iT! I'M REAL!! I'M R-rEaL!!!]

["W-wHAT… aRE yOu?! TELL ME!!"]

["We're… real…"]

["You think… that you're not killing me? That I'm not dying?"] The pitiful scene of a woman facing her own demise was showed to him. Even though he had never met her, he knew her intimately.

She was… definitely a part of him.

But she was killed?

His eyes turned to the Solaris Sword, which had hovered closer to his body without him noticing.

["You can't do this! Are you going to leave me alone so easily? Didn't you want to live? Stop! You can't leave me! Don't go like this! DON'T!!!"] The fog-like world overlaid with a translucent memory.

He watched from an outside point of view as Solaris saw his other half drop into the ocean.

The place that was once in front in front of his feet.

["Take care of my kids."] The last thing spoke before thanking her counterpart could be heard.

His heartbeat started to become faster as the memories flowed into him. Lumina's memories…

He remembered…

He remembered…

Her… His… 'children'… He… remembered…

'Where are my kids?' Adam grabbed the Lumina Sword, and the automatons manifested before him.

All of them still expressionless…

They had frowns on those masked faces, but there was no emotions. Sentience without true hearts.

"K-kids…! It's me!" He ran up to many of them and put his hand on that cold, metallic faces of theirs.

They didn't react one bit…

They definitely had souls, so why were they not reacting to him? Didn't they recognise him?

"It's me… Mama… Look, Mama is here now. You can talk now. Please…" He looked into their beady camera-like eyes. There nothing in them. No joy or sadness. There wasn't even a hint of confusion.

As if they were merely tracking his moments and speech, but not reacting unless it was an order.

They had become… artificial intelligences.

["MAMA!"] Adam remembered their cries. The way they were with him even when fate was decided.

His hand stroked one particular automatons cheek.

He remembered the faces of his daughters. The way they acted like spoilt kids within his body.

["Come back…"] The longing Solaris felt after losing Lumina, and the end his kids experienced.

["Waaaa! Mama!! MAMAAA!"] They cried when Lumina- 'he' was gone. They truly loved… him.

Then came the memory of the one who had taken everything from him. Who had killed his insides.

This wasn't the same as emptying himself.

Someone had forced him to forget 'them' and become empty. To lose the people he cared for.

How ironic… that those people were also himself.

["Don't ask me for forgiveness."] The last emotion that was left pointed towards the Sword Goddess.

A deep, unfathomable fury…

It was different from Simon.

Although he had offended him in the past, Adam was aware the youthful hero saved Lumina once.

But Red Rabbit was different.

'And you…' As Solaris, he also remembered the words that had been spoken to him by her.

["You have to die."] Instead of saving him, Gaia killed Solaris in cold blood. She also lied to him.

'Liars… Why does everyone always lie to me?' He immediately figured out the truth of the situation.

That the 'door back to his home' was just a lie…

If he was in his physical body, the landowner might have have wretched stomach acid upon realisation.

These people… These 'Gods'… They kept him in the dark… Tricked him… They made a fool out of him.

For the first time in his entire life, Adam Graham felt a homicidal rage so deep… he wanted to slaughter.

Kill everyone in his vicinity regardless of their past.

*Chomp* In order to stay sane, he kept his madness at bay by biting off his left hand's nerves.

The pain was sharp, but it let him keep some reason. He started to laugh. Becoming 'happy'.

'Who am I now…?' Adam wasn't sure what his own identity anymore- No, did that even matter now?

He had the perfect opportunity to kill his killer.

Red Rabbit would let him fight against her again as long as he spoke up. He just needed strength now.

Then… he'd kill her with all his might.

'Calm… Calm…' Delirious thoughts of a man who had gone to the extremity of hate were rising.

He looked at the 'House' Semblance next to him.

Then at the sheath of the Solaris Sword that Hephaestus Terran had separated from the Tao Heart. He remembered the forging process the divine blacksmith went through to create the blade.

"So you remember everything." These words came from the sword- No, from the new form of 'Solaris'.

A scorched black figure covered in flames arose…

['Parallel Consciousness' and 'Astrallisation' have combined. A new Unique Skill has been formed.]

['Soul Fragmentation' has been formed. All parts of your spiritual being can contain parallel thoughts.]

Did he just make himself a pretty strange entity?

If he combined this with his immortal body, then wouldn't it be possible for him to split apart mid battle and clone himself? If each part of his soul has independent thought, then wouldn't the body?

Like each cell existing independently from each other. Being able to become their own 'self'.

It was a strange existence…

Even though Solaris was now an 'arm', he didn't find it strange to be sharing thoughts so easily.

Adam remembered how his offshoot was 'reborn'.

The Imaginary Spirit of Typhon may have been embedded into him, but that was window dressing.

The form of the sword Solaris now possessed was smithed using the forging method of a myth.

It was an admirable sword based off the weapon the Dwarf, Regin, crafted for Seigfried, the Germanic hero of old myths. The dragon slayer who obtained unbreakable skin through its blood.

This sounded like an amazing form to have. To be based of the first sword of a legendary hero…

However, all who knew anything about mythology that the first sword of a legend usually breaks.

Even King Arthur's great Caliburn was the same.

He decided to call this sword the 'Prototype Superior Mortality Sword'. It was indeed a great blade, but only to the extent that it could hurt mortals. Not creatures of legends like a dragon.

"What are your plans now?" The masked yet nicely dressed figure that formed out of the Lumina Sword asked. Indeed, there was no way he could forget the price they had to pay for this outcome.

Although Lumina too felt pain for her children, she was able to grab ahold of herself after some time.

Maybe it was because her 'Demonic Qi' had been separated from her Dao Weapon, becoming a sheath with demonic spirituality. It was a good thing these armaments didn't share any sentience.

Adam turned to see that the weapon she was forged out of was the second creation of Regin.

Which he decided to call the 'Perfected Superior Mortality Sword'… Better, but not by much.

'Why did Hephaestus give me this opportunity?' He could only think that he probably had his reasons.

If Terran hadn't let him hold the hammer, then he wouldn't have known Lumina and Solaris were purposefully reformed into swords that could be broken. That way, the two of them would be lost.

This was definitely a request given by Gaia.

Adam wasn't sure what kind of restriction the man was put under, but this seemed to be the only way for him to 'tell him' without actually saying anything to him. Just allowing him to stumble upon secrets.

Rather than focusing on new Skills, the first thing he had to do was obvious. Reform their 'bodies'.

For now, he needed a hot enough flame to do so.

When the landowner's eyes turned to the 'House' Semblance, he thought about what it meant to him.

This Innate Gift was a manifestation of desires, but he no longer needed a 'House' for his new ideals.

'Burn…' The Semblance that has been housing an endless pool of Ether was ignited by his will.

A new ideal had been added to his Semblance.

[You have reformed your Semblance.]

[Its new name has become 'House Fire'.]

Adam looked at the Solaris Sword… Also called the Prototype Superior Mortality Sword by his decision.

Then threw it into the blazing flames.

[You are processing the techniques that created the legendary sword: 'Gram'. You may add effects.]

[The 'Nightmare of the Gods' slumbering within its host has been awakened. It is following your will.]

The landowner watched as the insides of the house were being destroyed when a rampaging monster had awoken. It's 200 hands and 100 snake heads could barely be seen peeking out the windows.

Perhaps due to the resonance between it and the Python constellation, he felt a connection from it.

Blood seeped out of the 'House' and formed a river beneath its creator. Perhaps due to its great fury.

Though this anger wasn't directed towards him.

Gram itself could be translated as 'Wrath', and it was the third sword made from reforging a broken divine blade broken by a God. The perpetrator for giving and breaking the weapon was Odin himself.

The supreme god king of Norse Mythology.

It was a blade made from elf gold and was made to be uncontested. Unable to be broken by anyone.

Only the original creator could break the sword.

And although Adam didn't have gold on him, he had enough substitutes to sacrifice to forge it.

'Elf Gold' may be a material he couldn't get his hands on, but he DID have Bloodwood Immortality.

The land owner swung his hammer and shattered the immortality Intrinsic Skill into two pieces.

[You have split the 'Deity Rank Bloodwood Immorality'. Two new Skills have been created.]

['Deity Rank Wood Immortality' of the elves has been created. You now have eternal True Breath.]

['Deity Rank Blood Immortality' of the vampires has been created. You gained infinite Blood Essence.]

[Deity Rank is the limit of their progression.]

He grabbed the former status window and threw it into the flames. The 'House' itself was also sacrificed. He no longer needed a home. The only thing left in his heart was the sweet craze to kill.

Vengeance will be HIS!

"…" Lumina wanted to say something, but couldn't do anything but watch the Adam smile in fury.

Tree branches and vegetation swallowed the 'House' Semblance, and then engulfed in flames.

A new semblance and weapon were formed…

*Boom!*

Above the remains of what used to be an apartment complex was sword as heavy as Typhon himself, who was also known as a monstrous creature so large his head 'brushed the stars'.

The new blade shone a luxurious gold radiance…

[Your Innate Semblance 'House' has been demolished. Your ideals had bled into emotions.]

[You have gained the Innate Semblance: 'Full'.]