“I finally did it! I finally shut down all those stupid voices in my head claiming that doing the same thing and expecting a different result was the very definition of madness.

“I crafted the pseudo cores of one of the most powerful artifacts of this time and implanted them in myself with Forbidden Magic. I have gained a unique kind of equipment that even Awakened can only dream of, and that no one can steal from me.

“Forgemastery shapes energy into a permanent form, and an Eldritch is made of pure energy. Forbidden Magic is the key to bringing order to the living Chaos of my body by turning it into powerful pseudo cores bound to my life force.

“Just like an Awakened has to develop auxiliary cores to overcome the bottleneck of the bright blue core and reach the violet, I’m creating auxiliary cores in my body to overcome the bottleneck of my condition as Eldritch and reach whatever lies beyond.

“Unlike a foolish Awakened, however, my cores are not mere lumps of accumulated mana. They don’t form runes as I move. They are runes, and each one of them grants me new powers I can activate with a single thought.

“I was right, and Mogar was wrong. I’m not a failure, and soon this whole world will learn the truth.”

“Year 12,914 Day 216 supplementary notes