1049 The Finest! (1)

A bold declaration had been made.

"...I am an alternate progenitor of all controlled, harmonised, chaotic and structured energies. Where everything related to such is concerned, I am your guide, and should I desire, I will gift you what you seek."

Replicus froze again. 

A progenitor of energies?

No, an alternate progenitor of energies?

What did that mean?

Just what was standing before him?

Also, did it just interfere with the guidance field? He saw the text on the illusory guide get scrambled when the entity spoke.

How in the world did it do that?

Replicus' thought phantoms seemed to have been waiting to debate about all the capabilities of this new version of the Ember, because right when the introduction was made, they went ballistic. 

"Bro! [Unbound] gave a crystal a consciousness! A consciousness! Wait, did it already have one? Strong and old artefacts are supposed to be able to talk, right?"