Within the absolute seclusion of his pavilion, Sunny collapsed onto his spine-throne.
He was entirely drained, his civilian mind struggling to process the sheer volume of slaughter he had just navigated. He explicitly dedicated this brief respite to analyzing the brutal mechanics of the Supreme Merge System.
Through his recent extortion of Commander Vile, Sunny had verified a horrifying reality regarding demonic ascension. Forcing a fiend to break through its genetic ceiling demanded an astronomical influx of dark essence.
If the raw materials were insufficient, the violent restructuring of the beast's core would cannibalize its own innate potential, permanently degrading its grade from Elite to Normal. The higher the tier, the more catastrophic the material cost became.
