Omega of the Horizon.
Almond’s consciousness stood before it, his entire focus on it, his mind still.
The fear was churning, but he now had absolute control over his consciousness. No deepest instincts could drive him away from this.
At the moment, Almond had completely forgotten how much time was left until this phenomenon ended for him.
All he wanted to do was understand this Omega of the Horizon—something, anything, even a little bit about its fundamentals.
The absolute darkness and the golden Ω gate. What did they entail? What did they mean?
Almond had suppressed the fear after who knows how long, and now he was receiving and perceiving the phenomenon.
He was accepting it, whatever it was, and as he did that, other things started leaving. The first to vanish was his name and then everyone else’s names in his memories.
The more he accepted this, the more he lost everything else, but Almond’s will was stubbornly clinging onto this.
The churning fear was crying at the bay of his soul as his consciousness stayed still and fearless, watching the Omega of the Horizon.
Only the will remained his, and his desire to overcome this Omega of the Horizon and make it his.
But then…everything went blank.
The memories returned, and the state in which his consciousness stilled broke. His eyes opened as he saw a bright sky with clouds above a shining ocean.
26th December, 8:23 a.m. 24 hours passed by since he and Lily used their Insight Stone.
“It’s over…” Almond sighed and fell back on the mattress as he blinked, remembering the phenomenon. “Omega of the Horizon…”
Nearby, Lily opened her eyes and also heard his words.
“You got a phenomenon of that name, eh? Sounds interesting. I got into a dimension called Twilight Star Canopy. I wanted something related to Blood, but welp,” Lily wryly smiled.
“Did you gain anything from it? Like any insight that awakened something new or progress in your existing powers’ aspects?”
“Not directly, but I did get some ideas, and I feel like I’ll be able to make a powerful skill and progress in Darkness elemental mastery,” Lily smiled.
“I see…” Almond nodded. “You did manage to get insight into some stuff and understand it.”
“What about you?” Lily curiously asked. “Omega of the Horizon sounds sick. What type of dimension it was?”
Almond weakly smiled, “The moment I arrived there, my consciousness was scattered. It took me six hours to find my sense of self and complete my consciousness. I did find something interesting regarding my past as well. I’ll tell you later.”
“As for the phenomenon,” Almond looked ahead in the sky. “It was a symbol of hazy yet glowing and slick gate omega.”
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Almond created the symbol with his Mana.
“This symbol was the only bright thing. Everything else in the dimension was absolute darkness. Pitch black darkness.”
Lily blinked as she imagined and muttered with a nod, “Damn, that’s a crazy phenomenon dimension, alright.”
“I feel like whatever I perceived is gone. All I feel is emptiness.” Almond sighed. “I wonder what kind of phenomenon it is?”
[Omega of the Horizon is an X-rated phenomenon.]
Almond blinked upon seeing the notification. “Lily, I just got a notification from the Grimworld Tutorial…it says Omega of the Horizon is an X-rank phenomenon.”
“Eh?” Lily was surprised. “Let me ask.”
Lily asked, and she also got the notification!
“So Twilight Star Canopy is a Mythical-rank phenomenon…”
Almond was thrilled and asked, “How can I see the Omege of the Horizon again?”
[There’s a very low chance of getting the same phenomenon from an Insight Stone, especially an X-rank one. To see the Omega of the Horizon again, you must complete the Grimworld Tutorial and get access to #### Shop.]
“Holy shit…” Almond was dumbfounded as he actually got an answer.
“What does it say?” Lily asked, her eyes sparkling as it was clear that Almond had an answer.
“Here, take a look.”
Almond directly shared the notification with her.
“Sigh, I feel sad I didn’t gain anything,” Almond wryly smiled. “Tomorrow, we are going for our 6th Floor’s heroic challenge. I can either use one more Insight Stone, hoping to increase my chances of comprehending Sand of Vibrant Waves later, or directly use the Elemental Slab to comprehend Sand of Vibrant Waves, which, if I succeed, will make me powerful and increase our chances to complete the heroic challenge more safely.”
“Mhmmm, we can still take a break of 1 hour, so let’s cool out,” Lily said after thinking for a moment and smiled. “Let’s eat something. Natalia and Mira are not here, so they must be in the castle’s living hall. Hopefully, they got some food since they must have woken up roughly half an hour earlier than us.”
Almond nodded and got up, “Alright.”
Lily also got up as Almond grabbed her hand and used Espada Ad Grimveil to teleport down in the hall, but the moment he activated the domain, he was shocked.
“T-This…”
His golden eyes flickered rapidly, his pupils enlarged as they covered over half of his irises.
The things he was perceiving in his domain were entirely different than before!
It was as if an entirely new layer had appeared, pitch-black darkness, an absolute void, and everything else was on its surface.
Moreover, the range of his domain before he used Insight Stone was at 400 meters radius maximum due to his current Perception stat, but at the moment…it was a whopping 4000 meters!
He could sense and see everything within 4 4-kilometer radius!
Almond saw the layer of void in his domain and felt control over it like never before.
He made a slash in the sky with a flicker of his eyes as he consumed Mana, and it appeared—ten meters wide, a pitch-black void rift.
It was only one. He didn’t make another one to make them connected because, usually, creating a single void rift would produce a powerful suction force that could be dangerous.
However, he only produced one this time, and it was within his absolute control!
‘Something in me has changed. I have a new kind of perception, but I can’t pinpoint it. However, I have it, so my skills are affected, and I can see the result…’
“This…Almond, you only created one voidbound rift,” Lily was startled. She knew about Almond’s powers, so she was surprised and then overjoyed. “So you did benefit from Omega of the Horizon! Congrats, darling~”