Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, the three suns had just completed their cycle of extinction and rebirth, leaving blinding flares of light lingering on Lin Mo’s retinas. He looked down at the infant sleeping in his arms and noticed several threads of anti-matter inscriptions, yet to dissipate, coiling around his daughter’s delicate wrists.
"Has the quantum coming-of-age ceremony been completed?" Su Yuqing’s voice came from the other side of the Quantum Shield, her fingertips still shimmering with residual quantum nutrient particles from nursing.
Lin Mo was about to answer when he suddenly felt a searing heat in his chest. The System Spirit core had seeped out from beneath his skin at some unknown moment, condensing into a warm, lustrous jade pendant in his palm. Inside the pendant, nebula-like fluids swirled slowly; every heartbeat triggered a faint supernova explosion.
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