Lucien did not leave the Origin Core Shrine.
After studying his own system, he committed everything to memory.
Photographic Memory caught every visible layer, every structure, every function path, every permission filter, and every safety mechanism he could bear to understand.
Now Lucien turned toward the real reason he had entered so deeply.
Deadman's system.
In the vastness of the Origin Core's authority, Lucien searched for the systems of the True Liberators.
Once he knew how to look, the connections appeared.
Seran.
Aurelia.
Cassian.
Seraphine.
The elemental women.
The others who had once received systems from the Primordial Slime.
Each system carried a different shape, different rhythm, different answer to survival.
Then Lucien found Deadman's system.
He became still.
The system was not like his own.
Lucien's system felt like reward, extraction, record, distribution, and impossible convenience wrapped around victory.
