The final absorption did not feel like the slow, heavy process Runar remembered from the Void-Devouring Dragon.
Back then, the sheer volume of a true Multiversal existence had forced him to spend days carefully sorting, refining, and internalizing every fragment so that nothing would be wasted or rejected by his foundation. Every memory had needed to be separated from residual instinct. Every principle had needed to be stripped of foreign will. Every scrap of power had needed to be tempered before it could settle into his soul without causing backlash. That process had been painstaking, dangerous, and necessary, because a mortal foundation could not simply swallow the remains of a Multiversal creature without paying a heavy price.
This time was completely different.
