By IMERPUS RELUR
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> [Legacy Domain Activated – Eye Root Protocol: Online]
Linking Swarm Consciousness…
Warning: No records exist. You are the first Lord to access this Subsystem.
The cavern trembled.
Lin Shen's hand remained on the crystal, his eyes unblinking as ancient data surged into his mind—not as text, but as living patterns.
Spirals. Geometries. Memories not of the past, but of possibility.
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He saw a swarm that had once consumed stars.
Ants that glided on solar winds.
Queens larger than moons.
A will that stretched across timelines.
But then—
a purge.
Something came.
Something beyond logic.
A being that erased memory itself.
The Old Swarm collapsed into silence…
…and was buried under the code of the current Lord System.
> [Legacy Trait Integration in Progress]
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Back in the physical realm, Lin Shen's Hive Core cracked slightly—
not from damage,
but from change.
> [Hive Mutation Event – Irregular Pattern Detected]
Trait Seed Generated: Memory Cell – Forbidden Layer
Function: Allows ants to inherit ancestral variants locked behind timeline collapse.
Requirement: Swarm Instinct Sync 55%
Progress: 50.2%
His vision blurred.
The Eye spoke.
Not in words, but in echoes.
> "You remember… therefore, you become."
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Suddenly, three of his evolved ants within the nest froze. Their bodies twitched violently.
> [Ancestral Instinct Activated – Unit Morph Triggered]
Spiked Worker Ant → Variant: Thornback Burrower (Tier 3.5 – Semi-Evolutionary)
Trait: Tremor Sense, Retain Memory Logs of Previous Units
Acid Spitter Ant → Variant: Plague Gland Viper Ant (Tier 3 – Bio-Acid + Infection Chance)
Trait: [Viral Enzyme]
Soldier Ant → Variant: Sun-Forged Legionnaire (Tier 4)
Trait: [Solar Carapace – Resistant to Heat / Light Attacks]
Lin Shen stumbled, clutching the stone walls.
His Hive wasn't just evolving.
It was awakening its forgotten future.
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Then came a final message:
> [New Fusion Tree Branch – Root of Memory – Unlocked]
Trait: Fusion Memory Core
All future fusions now inherit partial traits from ancestor types. Mutations may stack.
His thoughts slowed.
He had just broken the Swarm Evolution Limit.
He turned and walked away from the Eye.
It did not follow.
It simply pulsed… once… and sealed itself again.
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> [Legacy Protocol Stored]
Access may be attempted again upon reaching Lord Level 7.
Lin Shen opened his eyes back in the Echo Chamber. His body was soaked with sweat.
The Hive was silent for once—processing the download, adjusting, adapting.
He sat down, back against the wall.
"Three days left until the Beast Tide… and I just unlocked a path that shouldn't even exist."
His lips curled into a rare smile.
"Good. Let them come."