Cassius ignored the System.
Leaning his head against a large boulder, the occasional embers flickering from the withering campfire reflected within his lifeless pupils.
Then, with one final crackle, time seemed to freeze. The whole world turned black and gray. Only the playfully whistling Idle Evolution System emoticon retained any color. And with a subtle yet all-encompassing snap from the same emoticon, everything—from the Azura Flame to the incinerated continents to time itself—was sucked into a vortex.
Extremely complex and esoteric elements swirled together in incomprehensibly vast quantities. They moved in ways that would awe even the most powerful and ancient Ancestors of the Ascension Tower—methods casually employed by the one and only Idle Evolution System.
Finally, once everything that was Challenge #99,999 had been swirled together into the vortex, it condensed. The mesmerizing vortex became smaller and smaller at a rapid pace until it was no larger than a pea.
