I Can Assimilate Everything

The most terrifying stage of Astral Core Ascension.

Here, it was no longer just the blood or bones that held starlight.

It was the mind.

The neurons, synapses, capillaries, meridians…everything!

A Neuronova being became a living stellar conduit. Every thought crackled with the speed of starlight spinning. Every motion they made carried stellar preemption- as if reality bent just slightly forward for them to arrive first.

Their thoughts raced faster than authority.

Their senses, if strong enough, could see seconds ahead!

To a Neuronova being, most others, even powerful Celestbone warriors, moved like they were dragging quicksand or syrup.

Unbearably slow!

And Solmyron… was pure Neuronova.

Achilles could feel it the instant he looked directly at him.

Solmyron's fury was not only radiating, it was calculated, processed, and executed faster than Achilles could blink.

And in that blink…

Achilles' senses briefly burned with Destiny Perception III as he saw.

For one millisecond, just one, he glimpsed it.

Inside Solmyron's skull… rivers of starlight surged across his neural pathways.

His synapses lit up with molten light, cascading from lobe to lobe faster than any mortal thought could process.

Each flare of starlight was a decision. Each branch was execution.

Each neuron held celestial destruction.

And in the next instant…

HUUM!

Tornadoes and rain of stellar flame descended.

Not from the sky- from Solmyron himself.

From every wing feather, every blazing eye, from the golden core of his Astral Heart.

Thousands of solar cyclones, each wide enough to devour cities, converged towards him.

The air around Achilles bent and hissed as if the very laws of thermodynamics screamed.

The air superheated into light. The winds incinerated!

Solmyron's Neuronova mind calculated all outcomes, every trajectory, every potential dodge in the attack as all sides were covered with no potential escape.

In a single burst, he unleashed an execution sequence that would have overwhelmed entire battlefields!

And yet.

Amid that converging apocalypse…

Achilles raised his hand.

And breathed out as if he was getting ready.

He then called out lightly, in a voice only he could hear.

"Osteo Aegiron."

HUUM!

He called out a name that felt foreign even to his lips. It was the name…of an item he forged from the inheritence of his Great Grandfather!

A Living Cataclysmic Star Item!

He called it out as above, the flames screamed.

Dozens of tornadoes of golden stellar wrath spun toward him, turning the sky above the Cenotaph Wild Lands into a flaring maw of solar obliteration.

Selamira narrowed her eyes. Solmyron was not holding back. He was declaring execution.

But Achilles…did not move.

He raised his right hand, and from the space between flame and time, it answered.

DUM!

A pulse.

No.

A heartbeat.

And from his side, the air bent as something glorious appeared.

It looked…like a crimson gold javelin or halberd, and yet it had something with the shape of a shield blooming around it as it looked like an umbrella!

It grew like a blazing flower, its spine formed of radiant gold, the head of the halberd burned with a triple-pronged crescent.

And Achilles raised it as if a lone human- a nornal human, was taking out their umbrella to withstand heavy rain.

His motion was not even all that hurried as this alone showed something terrifying.

He…was able to react and move in real time as speeds equaling those at the Neuronova Stage of Astral Core Ascension.

One may ask how…if they did not know the terrifying concentration of starlight within him due to the Imperium Vitae Ascension Codex!

Due to his bloodline Refinement.

And so, a lone human king opened an umbrella against tornadoes of stellar fire and rain.

And…

A ring of silence echoed outward.

After that, glorious wonder bloomed.

BOOOOOOM!!!

Solmyron's solar cyclones crashed.

The sky erupted.

Mountains around Achilles cracked. The land melted as thousands of Draconic Hybrids were reduced to skeletons as if hit by nuclear radiation, even their bones begunning to melt!

Some Celestbone Ancient Ones in the skies moved back with caution.

But at the center of that hell…

Was a shield.

No, an umbrella!

A sovereign's umbrella, spinning outward as a ring of petaled bone and golden fire absorbed the solar cyclones with silent grace.

The counltess waves of scorching tornadoes…seeemd to be drawn it and devoured into this umbrella rapidly!

The heat dissipated.

And in its place stood…

Achilles.

Unburned. Unbroken.

His weapon held steady as the six flaming bone petals slowly closed inward like a flower ending bloom. Like an umbrella closing.

His gaze rose.

The other Ancient Ones- Mythical Dragons, Royal Panthera Lions, Lunaris Throne forces- became stern.

Something was wrong.

Not because Solmyron's attack had failed…

But because of the ease in how it had failed!

They did not understand.

Achilles knew this as he looked at them.

And how could they understand when he was using a weapon…forged from his own blood, bones and starlight?!

The weapon did more than defend as it took in all those flames and contained them while he whispered silently.

'Assimilate.'

WAA!

Contained in the undeen space of the umbrella, all the terrifying stellar flames from the enraged Phoenix Ruler began to surge into his skin as he absorbed it all!

While he did, the details of this terrifying weapon flowed before his eyes- a product of himself and multiple seas of Assimilations.

|Living Cataclysmic Stellar Star Armament – "Osteo Aegiron, the Sovereign Flameshield"|

Type: Dual-Form Halberd & Shield Hybrid (Living Weapon/Armor)

Origin: Forged by the Ninth Adrastia Emperor King from his own Femur, Humerus, Primordial Blood, and compressed Astral Starlight under Nirvanic Forgefire.

Rarity: Unique (Mythic, Emperor-Grade)

Damage:

Halberd Form: [2,000,000 – 2,700,000] Base Stellar and Piercing Damage

Shield Form: Absorbs and redirects up to [5,000,000] Damage per defense phase

Qualities:

Bone-Soul Flame Tempering:

Forged with conscious bone-marrow extraction, giving the weapon sentient defensive instincts and a living hunger- it will devour and contain attacks thrown towards it for the ease of Assimilation.

Solar Phalanx Bloom:

Activates a six-winged radiant barrier of flaming bone-petals around the wielder. Can absorb incoming celestial or starlight-based energy and explode outward in a retaliatory burst with 300% Damage.

Spine of the Tyrant Flame:

Allows transformation between Halberd and Tower Shield at will. Shield mode can anchor into ground, creating a radius of Adrastia Blood Domain, rendering area-of-effect displacements and attacks null.

Sanguine Sovereign Bond:

As the weapon was born of your own body and will, it responds faster than thought, shifting to block or strike based on subconscious threats.

Note:

A Living Cataclysmic Star Armament like no other—forged not from a beast or guardian, but from the Emperor King himself. It holds the record of his sacrifice and the fire of his destiny. It cannot be taken. It cannot be imitated. It answers only to Achilles Adrastia Maxwell.

…!

A preliminary weapon.

Achilles breathed out while unveiling it as at the same time, his mind felt interconnected to all his current Assimilations and their qualities as Solmyron…was a test.

A singular attack from a single Ancient One.

After he did this…

HUUM!

The skies cried and wept as authority from multiple Lineages of Ancient Ones bloomed and now began to strike…towards a lone king!