Another month passed.
And the thing Lucien had asked for was finally finished.
A simulation facility.
At first, the idea had sounded simple.
Then, as usual, simple became offensive once Lucien touched it.
The facility stood near the academy district of the Middle branch. From the outside, it resembled a tower folded into a coliseum.
The idea had come from Lucien's experiments with the merged Origin Core fragments.
He already knew the Origin Core could record.
But Lucien had push that function further.
Record experience.
And then manifest it.
That was where things became difficult.
Memories were not clean objects. A battle remembered by one person was not the same as the battle itself.
Fear exaggerated. Pride edited. Pain blurred. Instinct filled gaps. Perception missed things. Even Lucien's own memories were not perfect.
But the Origin Core did something terrifying.
It did not merely preserve what Lucien remembered.
