Chapter 63: Nightmare’s conqueror
The Echoes of Ruin Apostate’s body lay broken in the tram hub, her Heartseed Core pierced by Vex’s Null Blade, 25 Genesis Embers consumed by the Verdant Warden Behemorph’s spores.
Yet her Protocol Bearer rank Aspect, memory-wielding, near-divine endured, her spirit a spectral storm of malice and psychic threads.
The Aspect was the core of an Awakened. It’s a manifestation of the core powers, personality, traits, and attributes of a human in the age of the Genesis Protocols.
During Aspect awakening, it’s not just an ethereal or illusory phenomenon.
During Aspect awakening, the Aspect changes each and every Awakened warrior, aligning them to better embrace their core values and principles... their inherent nature.
Clayton’s Aspect was what enabled him to exist in 2 forms at the same time, living as a Verdant monster plant, and his humanoid form, giving him 2 lives.
It is also the reason why his humanoid form looked a bit alien. After all, his skin was dark green, bark-like, altered to fit his true nature.
Just like his Aspect changed him, every other Awakened warrior in the world experience the same chances after awakening their Aspect.
Just like the Apostate heat-kin’s Aspect gave him great resistance and affinity to fire, and the cold-kin’s Aspect gave her great resistance and affinity to ice, so also did it change every other Awakened warrior.
The same rule applied to the Echoes of Ruin Apostate.
During her Aspect awakening, her body was altered, but the physical body was not the fore focus of her Aspect.