SS Awakening: My Monster Merging System!

The next instant, a sudden transformation erupted!

BOOM!

The silent Myriad Beast Soul Spring exploded without warning.

It was not the spring water that scattered outward. Instead, every trace of soul power remaining within the underground world broke free of its restraints at the same moment, transforming into thousands upon thousands of differently colored streams of light that surged madly toward Tiamant.

Her bone dragon body, originally only several meters long, suddenly tensed.

Each pale dragon bone began to tremble violently, while a deep rumbling echoed from within her skeleton, as though an ancient heart that had slumbered for countless ages was beginning to beat once more.

Thump!

With the first beat, the entire Myriad Beast Burial Ground trembled.

Thump!

With the second beat, countless colossal beast remains scattered across the black plains slowly lowered their heads.

Thump!

With the third beat, two masses of dark golden soul fire suddenly ignited within Tiamant’s hollow eye sockets!

The dark golden patterns covering her bones spread wildly, racing along her spine toward her wings, limbs, and tailbone. Immediately afterward, her body began growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ten meters!

Twenty meters!

Thirty meters!

Sharp, pale bone spikes erupted one after another from her spine, while her damaged skeletal wings unfolded once again within the raging torrent of soul energy. Every wing bone seemed to have been forged from some ancient divine metal far beyond anything understood on the First Layer, while gray white currents of death energy coiled around their surfaces.

But the most astonishing transformation appeared upon her skull.

Crack!

With a crisp shattering sound, the bone at the center of Tiamant’s forehead suddenly split open.

A vertical golden marking emerged from the crack forming an incomplete crown mark!

The instant that mark appeared, all three hundred and eighty seven beast souls surrounding her stopped moving.

Regardless of what races they had belonged to in life, and regardless of how powerful they had once been, the moment that incomplete crown appeared, every beast soul instinctively lowered its head.

Worship!

It was worship originating from the deepest depths of their souls!

Zich stood at the center of the raging soul storm, his black clothes snapping violently in the wind as his silver white hair swept backward.

He did not retreat. His pale golden eyes remained fixed on Tiamant.

Through the Contract, he could clearly feel her soul being repeatedly torn apart and reconstructed by an unimaginably vast power. The agony would have been enough to instantly shatter the consciousness of an ordinary living being, yet from beginning to end, Tiamant never released a single scream.

She held her head high. It was as though, across the endless passage of time, she was staring at an existence lost at the very end of history.

Suddenly, an ancient will beyond description awakened from the depths of her soul.

At that instant, what Zich saw before him was no longer the Myriad Beast Burial Ground.

He saw a vast world countless times greater than the First Layer.

Endless mountain ranges floated across the sky. Divine birds spread wings large enough to cover a thousand miles, colossal beasts shattered the earth with a single step, and at the very center of that world stood an ancient city stretching endlessly between heaven and earth.

Hundreds of millions of powerful beast races prostrated themselves outside the city.

Nine colossal bone dragons coiled above the royal capital.

And at the center of those nine bone dragons, a blurry dragon silhouette wearing a dark golden crown slowly opened its eyes.

Just that single glance sent tearing agony through Zich’s consciousness.

The entire vision instantly shattered.

At the same time, cold system notifications appeared one after another.

[High level bloodline awakening detected.]

[The soul of Summon "Tiamant" is undergoing a fundamental transformation.]

[All remaining power of the Myriad Beast Soul Spring has been infused.]

[Three hundred and eighty seven rescued beast souls have voluntarily contributed a portion of their soul origins.]

[Dormant bloodline successfully awakened.]

[Race Evolution beginning.]

[Evolution successful.]

[Your Summon "Tiamant" has evolved from Supreme Bone Dragon to Ancient Bone Dragon.]

[Warning: Current evolution is incomplete.]

The next second, a completely new summon panel unfolded before Zich.

[Name: Tiamant]

[Race: Ancient Bone Dragon (Incomplete)]

[Level Growth Record: Lv.1 → Lv.12]

[Myriad Beast Royal Blood: 8.3%]

[Existing Abilities: Crown of the Dead, Chain Dominion, Domain of Death, Final Edict]

[New Ability: Dragon Might]

[Dragon Might: Actively releases the pressure of the Ancient Dragon Race, inflicting soul suppression upon beasts, dragons, and undead lifeforms whose bloodline rank is lower than Tiamant’s. The greater the bloodline disparity between the target and Tiamant, the stronger the suppression effect. Weaker targets may completely lose the ability to resist.]

[New Ability: Ancestral Command (Incomplete)]

[Ancestral Command (Incomplete): Uses the Myriad Beast Royal Blood as a medium to issue a command containing ancestral binding authority toward beasts or beast souls whose bloodline rank is lower than Tiamant’s. The effectiveness of the command is influenced by the difference in level, bloodline strength, and soul integrity between both parties. The current ability cannot impose absolute domination upon targets possessing a complete royal bloodline.]

[Warning: Myriad Beast Royal Blood does not belong to a power system that the First Layer can fully contain.]

[Due to the restrictions of the First Layer’s world laws, this bloodline cannot be completely unsealed within the current region.]

[Attempting to forcibly break the seal may cause the Summon’s soul to collapse and may also provoke expulsion by the First Layer’s Will.]

Even after absorbing the entire Myriad Beast Soul Spring and integrating the soul origins voluntarily offered by three hundred and eighty seven beast souls, the Myriad Beast Royal Blood within Tiamant had recovered to only 8.3%.

However, that mere 8.3% had already transformed her from a Supreme Bone Dragon into an Ancient Bone Dragon.

Although she remained incomplete, the aura emanating from her body was now on an entirely different level from before her evolution.

ROAR!

Tiamant finally raised her head and released her first dragon roar after completing her evolution.

The sound was incomplete. Halfway through the roar, it seemed to encounter the suppression of some invisible law, causing the latter half to be forcibly cut off.

But even that incomplete roar caused the entire Myriad Beast Burial Ground to tremble violently.

The distant black plains cracked apart and the ancient barrier surrounding this space became covered in countless fractures beneath the force of her Dragon Might.

Tiamant lowered her head. Her hollow eye sockets, burning with dark golden soul fire, stared at Zich as her enormous body slowly lowered itself.

Zich raised his hand and gently placed his palm against the incomplete crown mark on her forehead.

The soul flames within Tiamant’s eyes flickered gently.

"Roar."

This time, her voice was no longer as hollow as it had been when she was first born.