[System Alert]
New compound detected.
Commencing assimilation.
Converted into Essence Compound.
Status: Fusion State.
The notification didn't vanish right away.
Xavier blinked once, then again, expecting it to collapse like every other time. But it didn't. A thin progress ring appeared beneath the alert, rotating slowly, as if the system itself was still figuring out what it had just swallowed.
"What?" Xavier muttered, voice still rough. "
The surgeon glanced up from her console. "Talking to yourself already? That's either confidence or brain damage."
The alert shifted.
[Assimilation ongoing]
Essence stabilization in progress.
Host parameters updating.
A sharp pressure bloomed behind his eyes, not pain, more like information trying to force its way through a space that wasn't ready. Xavier sucked in a breath through the working side of his nose and clenched his fingers against the chair.
