The instant my palm touched the fragment, something inside my body responded.
The dim golden rune trembled once before suddenly collapsing into a stream of light that passed through my palm and rushed directly toward my chest. I barely had time to understand what was happening before the fragment appeared inside my heart.
Then it merged.
A tearing pain ripped through my entire body.
My back arched violently as though something had driven a blade straight through my chest, and an agonized roar escaped my throat. The Generator Core, which had transformed my heart, began changing at a terrifying speed as the newly recovered fragment fused with it.
The old God saw it happen.
His expression twisted with disbelief.
"No!"
The single word erupted from him with enough force to shake the surrounding space.
