This core would not dissolve across the body. It would remain in the heart, dense and concentrated, and its geometric binding would radiate outward in controlled pulses.
Each pulse would convert a small volume of tissue into the new channel architecture. Each pulse would be more efficient than the last, because the core would learn from each pulse.
And across loops, the core would grow. Each kill of the Narghul Sorcerer would provide new materials, new crystals, new cubes, and new flame essence, and each loop, I would feed those materials into the core.
The core would become denser, the pulses would become stronger, and the transformation would accelerate.
Until, eventually, the core would be dense enough to convert the entire body in a single loop. Thousands of channels, creating a body that could carry lightning from the highest heights of heaven and shoulder the weight of mountains and seas.
A shell that exceeded all meaning.
