Achilles put the Eridarch Ore against his existence and assimilated it right away!
He had been wanting to do it since the crystal first touched his palm, and there was no reason to wait. The obsidian-blue ore sank into THE Primordial Realm of Assimilation, and his Prime Cause closed around it the way it closed around everything now, but the process that followed was not the simple consumption he had grown used to.
The ore resisted at first. Inside it, the Infinity and the Primordial Source were bound together in one lattice, and his foundations gave the familiar warning about the Infinity, the same refusal they always gave. He expected to lose that part the way he had lost the Infinity of the Gilded Ones on the beach, drinking everything around it and letting the rest disperse.
That was not what happened.
