My heart began to absorb the pill, and I felt golden warmth spread from the organ into the surrounding tissue, and the Hollow Avatar's framework registered the transformation's intended architecture.
The pill's design was clear now that it was inside me. It was meant to grow outward from the heart, replacing the seven primary channels with a new circulatory system for Anima, not seven channels but thousands, a lattice of conduits that would thread through every muscle, every bone, every organ.
Any other shell would require more material and change the body in a way that would shift them closer to becoming Achon, but the oldest shells were made to fit the body of their host and not the other way around.
The shell of antiquity did not distinguish between primary and secondary channels. It made everything primary.
I had judged that this was the most important upgrade that this body would ever get, and I believe it was the ultimate template of what a Magus strived to be.
