[: 3rd :]
"But mister…I can't endure any longer and it hurts so much," the girl said as her voice cracked completely.
Tears began falling one after another,
dropping softly onto the ground beneath her feet.
Each drop carried exhaustion, pain, and the weight of a world that had suffered far too long.
"If Erika had a little bit more lifeforce…"
She whispered shakily, her small hands trembling as she clutched Daniel's clothes even tighter.
"Then Erika would have been happy…"
Her breathing grew uneven again as another wave of pain surged through her corrupted body.
"But now…" she continued with a pained expression that no child should ever have to wear.
"Erika can't endure any longer…"
Silence followed her words.
The surrounding space felt heavier, as though even the world itself was listening to her fragile confession.
Mika's expression tightened painfully as she looked away for a moment, unable to bear seeing it directly.
Daniel, however, remained still.
He slowly lowered his gaze toward the girl named Erika.
There was no hesitation in his eyes, there was only quiet understanding.
"Don't worry, little planet," Daniel said gently.
He placed his hand softly on her head.
The moment he did, Erika's entire body froze.
Her breath caught.
Because warmth spread through her instantly.
Not physical warmth.
But something deeper.
Something that reached directly into her core existence.
Erika's eyes widened in shock.
It felt like something broken inside her was being held together again.
Something she had long accepted as irreparably damaged was suddenly being repaired.
And then she felt it.
Her lifeforce, it began rising rapidly.
The corrupted veins across her body flickered violently as if resisting the sudden restoration.
"W What…?" Erika whispered in disbelief.
Her trembling stopped for a moment as she looked up at Daniel.
Her tearful eyes reflected confusion and shock.
"Mister…?"
Daniel was smiling at her gently.
Not a forced smile.
But a calm, reassuring one.
A smile that made her feel safe without explanation.
"It is fine," Daniel said softly.
"With me here, nothing can harm you."
Erika stared at him blankly.
The sensation inside her body continued to surge.
Her lifeforce kept increasing at a pace she could not comprehend.
It was not a slow recovery.
It was something far beyond natural limits.
As though an unseen authority was rewriting her existence itself.
"W Why is Erika…?" she tried to speak, but her voice faltered.
Mika took a small step forward, her eyes widening slightly as she sensed what was happening.
"Daniel…" she muttered under her breath, clearly surprised.
But before either of them could question further, Daniel calmly removed his hand from Erika's head.
His expression remained composed.
"Just watch me," he said quietly.
For a brief instant, silence returned.
Then, without warning Daniel disappeared.
Erika's eyes widened instantly.
"M Mister—!"
Mika reacted a split second later.
"Daniel!"
But he was already gone.
The space where he once stood rippled faintly before stabilizing again.
Erika stood frozen in place, still feeling the lingering warmth on her head.
Her lifeforce continued to stabilize, but her attention was no longer on that.
Her eyes darted around frantically.
"Where did he go…?"
Mika's gaze sharpened as she extended her senses outward.
And then, far above, beyond the corrupted skies.
Above the broken atmosphere.
Above the endless storms of black energy twisting around the world.
Daniel reappeared.
He stood high above the clouds.
Completely alone in the sky.
The wind howled violently around him, yet none of it touched his body.
His eyes opened slowly as they looked down upon the entire world beneath him.
Virexia Minor.
A world still drowning in corruption.
Crimson fractures spread across the sky like open wounds.
Black Meridians' remnants still lingered in distant regions like scars that refused to fade.
Entire continents still carried traces of decay and infection.
Daniel's expression remained calm.
But his presence changed.
As though something within him was acknowledging the full scale of what remained to be done.
Below, Erika and Mika could no longer see him clearly.
Only a faint silhouette against the endless sky.
Mika whispered softly, almost to herself.
"What is he planning…?"
And high above the world, Daniel raised his hand slightly.
As if preparing to reach across the entire planet itself.
With the help of the Codex of Origin, Daniel's eyes shifted subtly as ancient patterns of existence unfolded before his vision.
Lines of reality appeared across the world like invisible threads, stretching through every continent, ocean, and sky.
He saw everything.
Each and every flow of corruption, the decay of mana, the instability of life force and the weakening structure of the planet itself.
And without hesitation, he reached a conclusion.
This world was beyond critical condition.
It was not merely injured.
It was dying.
If left alone for even a short moment longer,
it would collapse entirely into nothingness.
Yet Daniel's expression remained calm.
Because now, he was here.
And that alone changed everything.
"Such vile corruption," Daniel said quietly, his voice carrying a cold finality, "and for that…it shall cease to exist."
The moment those words were spoken, the world reacted
.
Not metaphorically.
Not symbolically.
But literally.
Reality itself trembled.
A decree had been issued.
And a decree from Daniel was not a suggestion.
It was an absolute law.
[: Principles of Absolute: Absolute Existence Arbitration :]
The instant the authority activated, the entire planet convulsed violently.
Far below, Mika's eyes widened in shock.
Erika's small body trembled as she felt something unimaginable occur across existence itself.
The skies twisted and the oceans stilled.
The corrupted crimson fractures in the atmosphere began breaking apart like shattered glass suspended in time.
Every trace of Black Meridian contamination started dissolving at its root.
As though it had never existed within the concept of reality.
Erika's breath caught.
"W What is happening…" she whispered, staring at her own hands as the dark veins slowly faded from her skin.
Mika stepped forward instinctively, her voice shaken.
"Daniel is…rewriting the entire planet…"
Above the world, Daniel remained unmoving.
His gaze stayed fixed on the planet beneath him.
But the process had not ended.
Because even after corruption was removed, the damage it left behind remained.
The broken structure of the world still lingered.
The weakened foundations of existence still trembled.
The world was clean.
But it was still collapsing.
Daniel exhaled softly.
Then spoke once more.
"Then I will restore it as well."
His eyes dimmed slightly.
And another authority awakened.
[: Principles of Absolute: Absolute Principles of Genesis :]
The moment this power activated, reality bent in response.
Three primordial Embodiments manifested simultaneously within Daniel's control.
Time, space and Mana.
He didn't borrowed forces from them nor was it an external concepts that was formed, but it was the absolute embodiments of existence itself.
The sky darkened momentarily as unimaginable pressure spread across the planet.
But instead of destruction, there was silence.
Perfect silence.
As if the world itself was holding its breath.
Daniel's primordial mana expanded outward.
At first, it was restrained.
But the moment it touched the planet's surface, it spread like an infinite tide.
If uncontrolled, it would have erased everything in existence.
Nearby planets would have shattered instantly under its weight.
But Daniel controlled it perfectly.
And then the miracle began.
From the Embodiment of Time, existence across the entire planet shifted simultaneously.
Every living being, every river, every mountain, every tree, every fragment of land and sky.
All of it began to rewind to a singular point in time.
A moment before corruption had ever touched this world.
Erika gasped softly as she felt it happen inside her own body.
The pain faded.
The corruption reversed.
Even her lifeforce stabilized as if it had never been damaged in the first place.
"Mister…" she whispered in disbelief.
Her voice no longer carried weakness.
From the Embodiment of Space, reality itself was rewritten.
Invisible barriers formed across the world.
No foreign corruption could enter again.
No external invasion could penetrate its boundaries.
The planet was sealed under absolute protection.
Even existence-level contamination was denied entry.
Mika felt it immediately.
Her eyes widened further.
"An absolute isolation field over an entire world…"
She whispered in disbelief.
"This is impossible…"
But Daniel continued without pause.
From the Embodiment of Mana, everything changed again.
The very density of energy within the world was rewritten.
Mana surged through the planet like a newly awakened heartbeat.
The purity increased beyond comprehension.
The flow accelerated violently.
What once took decades of cultivation now condensed into moments of natural growth.
If the world once held a mana value of one...it now held one hundred thousand.
The atmosphere itself shimmered faintly as invisible energy currents stabilized across continents.
Entire ecosystems reacted instantly.
Plants grew stronger.
Beasts evolved.
Laws of magic restructured themselves at a fundamental level.
The planet itself was ascending.
From a mid tier world…to a high tier existence.
Mika's voice trembled slightly.
"This level of transformation…"
She could barely finish her sentence.
Meanwhile, Erika slowly looked around in stunned silence.
The pain in her body was gone.
The darkness inside her had disappeared.
Even the heaviness in her breathing had vanished completely.
She touched her chest carefully.
Then whispered softly.
"…Erika feels better…"
Above everything, Daniel remained suspended in the sky.
His expression did not change.
There was no exhaustion, strain or backlash because there were none.
Such consequences did not apply to him.
What would have destroyed any other existence was nothing more than controlled effort in his hands.
And somewhere far beyond the world itself...something was watching.
A presence older than time.
A consciousness that governed existence beyond mortal comprehension.
The Will of the Universe.
For the first time in countless eras...it observed something it could not interfere with.
It did not speak.
It did not act.
It simply witnessed.
Because what stood before it now…was no longer within the category of things that could be governed.
