Oh, change!

In the vast weavings of existence, where countless threads wove patterns across immeasurable distances and incomprehensible durations, change remained the singular constant amidst circumstances that otherwise demonstrated remarkable persistence in maintaining their fundamental character.

Existence would always manifest brutality…the strong consuming the weak, the fortunate trampling the unlucky, power concentrating in hands already capable of wielding it while those without capability struggled merely to survive another day.

This pattern had persisted across eons, had remained consistent through the rise and fall of empires, had proven itself immune to the objections of entities who thought compassion should override pragmatism.

Existence would always demonstrate unfairness…resources distributed according to accidents of birth rather than merit, opportunities granted to those who needed them least while being withheld from those whose desperation made them most appreciative.

The cosmos possessed no inherent justice, no cosmic balancing mechanism that ensured virtue was rewarded or vice punished.

Things simply were, without moral dimension beyond what conscious beings chose to impose through their own limited perspectives.

But change…oh, change always occurred regardless of how permanent circumstances appeared, regardless of how absolute certain truths seemed to those experiencing them!

Nothing remained set in stone across sufficient temporal distances.

Empires that had endured millennia eventually crumbled. Lineages that seemed destined for extinction sometimes produced descendants capable of rewriting their entire trajectory.

Limitations that had constrained countless trillions suddenly proved negotiable.

Change was the fire that refused to be extinguished, the tide that couldn't be permanently held back, the principle that guaranteed today's absolute truths would become tomorrow's outdated assumptions given sufficient time!

And in depths of the Void where a collection of beings existed in isolation, change was manifesting with intensity!

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At this time, within the lands under the influence of the Ninth Adrastia Emperor King, within the radiant stellar waters of the Sea of Thalassara.

The Seventh Adrastia Emperor King floated in those clear blue waters. Thalsian's form, powerful by most standards, elevated through centuries of cultivation and conflict…trembled with barely contained anticipation.

Before him, his grandson floated with ease of confidence.

Achilles's purple-gold eyes tracked Thalsian's features.

"Are you ready?"

Was he ready?

The question echoed through Thalsian's consciousness.

How could anyone truly be prepared for something like this?

Thalsian nodded with determination that overrode uncertainty.

"Go on, boy. Give it your best shot."

...!

Give it his best shot.

The words seemed almost absurd given the magnitude of what those words referred to…the process of Achilles forcefully breaking the Shackles of Limitations that bound existences to the Null Scale!

Now, it was Thalsian's turn to experience that impossible elevation as The Eighth Adrastia Emperor King had already undergone this change! And after him, all other Adrastia Emperor Kings would follow.

The weaker one's existence, the farther removed from Tier 9 Null Scale someone operated, the more difficult this process theoretically became.

The chains bound more tightly to those with less inherent power.

But Thalsian approached Tier 9.

At this moment, as Achilles's power surged outward with intent.

CRACK!

Thalsian's existence buzzed as he felt the first chain fracture!

The sensation was simultaneously painful and euphoric, as if crucial infrastructure had been damaged while simultaneously revealing that the damage permitted capabilities previously locked away.

A surge of immense power flooded through aspects of his existence that had been dormant or constrained, pathways opening that he hadn't known were blocked, potentials manifesting that seemed to have been waiting for exactly this moment to emerge!

And then, following that initial breakthrough like thunder after lightning...

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

The sounds of multiple chains breaking echoed through the stellar waters.

Thalsian felt his existence surging upward in power with acceleration that defied everything he'd understood about advancement!

He felt as if this whole time,across all his centuries of existence, through all his struggles and accomplishments…he had actually been chained down by countless invisible constraints that prevented his true potential from manifesting!

He raised his head with effort, barely managing to perceive through waters that had become turbulent with released energies...

A glimmer of radiant chains flashing all around him.

Hundreds of them…possibly thousands, each one composed of light. The chains were simultaneously beautiful and terrifying, elegant in their construction while conveying overwhelming authority that declared them absolute in their function.

And his grandson…Achilles, the Ninth and Last Adrastia Emperor King, was waving his hands with grand gestures that shattered these terrifying constraints by the hundreds.

His movements possessed rhythm and precision, each gesture targeting specific chains in sequence.

Purple-gold authority erupted from his form with intensity that made Thalsian's own considerable power seem like candlelight compared to stellar fire!

After Achilles shattered each chain, his existence would tug on the fragments with force…commanding them through means that made resistance meaningless.

The broken constraints flowed toward him to be assimilated, consumed and integrated into the boundless ocean of his power with efficiency that suggested he'd refined this process to near perfection.

...!

Thalsian felt his existence tremble as he observed those massive broken chains flowing past him toward his grandson's waiting presence.

For him, even in their shattered state, the chains seemed unbearably heavy and grand…artifacts of reality's fundamental architecture that shouldn't be movable by individual entities regardless of their power.

Even while broken, when his own existence contemplated assimilating them, he felt immediate certainty that he would not succeed no matter how intensely he tried.

The chains were simply too large, too fundamental, too deeply woven into principles governing advancement itself for someone at his scale to consume and integrate.

So…how was his grandson accomplishing what seemed impossible?

How was the Last Adrastia Emperor King able to not merely break these constraints but casually assimilate them, adding their essence to his already staggering reserves?!

They all possessed the same lineage, the same fundamental gift of Assimilation that defined what it meant to be an Adrastia Emperor King.

Why, then, did it seem that his grandson was such a monster?

The question burned through Thalsian's consciousness even as immense waves of pride surged alongside bewilderment.

This was his grandson, his own bloodline!

OOOH!

Thalsian bellowed with triumphant satisfaction as he felt his existence completing its transition, jumping from one scale to another as Achilles shattered the final clusters of chains while assimilating their fragments with efficiency!

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