Chapter 629: Chapter 629: Adaptation

As soon as he clicked on the button, he felt his heartbeat increase to what seemed like a thousand beats per second. His GodForge pieces worked overtime, glowing hotter and hotter than it had ever been before. He clutched his chest, feeling the discomfort of having his heart overwork like an engine. His entire body felt hot, as if lava was pumping through his veins. Steam started to rise up from his skin as the water molecules around his body started to immediately boil into a gaseous state. His adolescent body couldn’t take the power generated by the GodForge pieces. It was starting to destroy it. With blood circulating through his body a thousand times per second, his cells started to accelerate their multiplication. His bones, under intense pressure and energy from the Aubility Power given off by his GodForge pieces, started to have microscopic fractures. However, the accelerated cell reproduction in his body healed them immediately, making them stronger, bigger, better. This happened throughout all of his organs and his physical structure, breaking them down and growing them into an advanced version of his body. In a few moments, his height started to grow, inch by inch as his body experienced an accelerated growth. His jaws turned sharper. His golden hair grew past his ears. And his juvenile muscles started to mature and take shape into one of an adult’s. His body aged five years in an instant, turning him into an eighteen year old. With his mature body, he could finally manage the toll of power that his GodForge pieces created. Everyone watching this from above couldn’t help but gasp as they witnessed an impossible transformation right in front of their very eyes. As the steam around Michael’s body dissipated, they finally laid their eyes on Michael The childish and cute Michael that they were so familiar with had turned into an adonis, with his undersized clothes fitting around his muscles tightly. Reena and Beau’s cheeks flushed with flusteredness as they saw Michael in the same age group as them. He’s. he’s handsome! Just then, a golden aura manifested throughout Michael’s body, engulfing him with pure Aubility Power coming straight from his heart. It was at this moment that Harbinger’s hands manifested above him. And as his GodForge pieces pumped more and more AP his body no longer rejected it. It absorbed it like a sponge, retaining all of the power it generated, causing his Diva’s projection to become more and more real as if it was starting to merge into reality. He raised his hands, moving it towards the futuristic mechanical limbs of Harbinger. The robot arms descended down towards his body, phasing through him until it locked into place with his own arms. Large, stainless steel metal shoulder pads latched onto his skin, finishing its transformation as a real object as it made contact with his body. Synthetic fibers weaved itself through his upper arm, forming his biceps and triceps. Glowing white lights pulsated throughout his skin, giving a glimpse of the complicated circuitry now in his veins. After that, an unknown metal as stretchy as rubber but as hard as iron formed around the joint of his elbows, with mechanisms hiding underneath it. Then, sleek metal guards latched onto his forearm, with unknown symbols flashing on its surface like a screen. And finally, he grabbed at the robotic hands, forming around him like a glove. Every inch of his arm was covered in some kind of metal, with flashing lights and complicated mechatronics whirring from underneath all the armor. Finally, he fused with his Diva. He achieved something impossible, something that shouldn’t have happened until much later in his cultivation. He fast forwarded to the point in his life when he achieved the Nascent Spirit cultivation! And as his fusion with his Diva finished, the golden aura around him exploded out and created a shockwave almost as powerful as a bomb. The ground underneath his feet tapered off, reduced to mere dust in the wind. The trees around him broke off from their roots, splintering into hundreds of pieces. The air created a furious wind, one that even made Alaric stop in his tracks and look back at Michael. Alaric’s compound butterfly eyes focused on him, seeing through his body like an x - ray and seeing the abnormality in his GodForge pieces. It was emanating the same intensity of strength he had. Michael’s matured body confused Alaric at first, thinking that he was a different person. But the golden hair on his head basically confirmed his identity. But that wasn’t the surprising thing about him. Alaric’s eyes panned over to the part of Michael’s body where his Aubility Power was most concentrated. He noticed the mechanical arms around Michael, with his face morphing into one of shock and confusion as he realized what he was seeing. He had merged with his Diva! It was incomplete, with only his arms fully merged together, but that was undoubtedly the same Diva that Michael manifested earlier before! "Impossible." Alaric muttered. Even the crowd watching from the auction couldn’t believe their eyes. Michael, the boy who had a 4th stage Body Formation cultivation, had turned into a full - fledged man who merged with his Diva. Everyone was speechless. Even the female merman had to get up from her seat to realize that what she was seeing was the real thing. "This can’t be," Alaric muttered in disbelief. Just then, Michael opened his eyes, showing a glowing light. He smiled, with a hint of arrogance and assuredness. "Nothing’s impossible with me"