Around half an hour passed by. Veronica could detect an increasing buildup of spiritual energies. She discovered that most of it consisted of spiritual energy that had originally been drawn from the Golden Laurel Wreath Crown!
So much energy had accumulated that Ves grew a bit concerned. The Throne of Light could easily blow up if his mother lost control!
"It will be fine, brother." Helena said in a reassuring tone as she stroked Veronica's back. "Mother is an expert at this. She knows more about this than you ever will. You cannot imagine how much power she used to wield. She may have lost her body, but she has retained enough of her knowledge to piece together this grand ritual."
Veronica's tail flicked in concern. "I hope you are right, sister."
Cynthia Larkinson's energy manifestation grew more solid as the energy building up below the deck reached a threshold.
She began to tap into those energies.
A purple corona began to surround her form. Her eyes burned like purple stars!
"FATE HAS CONVERGED ON THIS DAY."
Her empowered words seemed to bend the fabric of reality around her! The ritual chamber became more and more active as the spiritual energies coursed through the markings, causing them to generate many different effects!
At the same time she began to channel the ritual, the subjects of the Oblivion Empire outside had stopped what they were doing and prostrated themselves in the direction of their sovereign!
Every person in the main fleet of the Oblivion Navy fell to their knees and began to devote their hearts and minds to the Lady of the Night.
No matter their backgrounds and no matter their motives for entering the dangerous Nyxian Gap, each of these humans managed to find salvation within the Oblivion Empire!
Now, the time had come for them to pay back the favor. Each of them were willing to do so, no matter whether they were ordinary spacers or powerful expert pilots.
As the citizens of the Oblivion Empire began to pray to their leader who they considered to be a goddess, Cynthia began to gain a mysterious boost that enabled her to exert more control over the powerful energies coursing through the ritual chamber!
A trickle of potent energies began to channel into the primordial human skeleton that Ves had brought back from the Red Ocean!
This caused the extraordinary bones to suck in everything that was sent in their direction!
Just like how Ves had once filled up David's skull with different kinds of spiritual energies, now the entire set of bones began to store a rapidly increasing quantity of energies derived from the stolen crown, Cynthia, Helena and other sources!
The bones began to glow with power and potential. They shone in a predominantly purple light, though hints of blue occasionally flickered from their surface.
Slowly but surely, the skeleton became more saturated. Cynthia did not seem to show any signs of struggle at all despite the immense amount of energy that she was currently harnessing!
As the ritual began to approach a peak, Veronica felt more and more charged by the incredibly high concentration of spiritual energy flowing to the center of the chamber!
Once the bones almost became saturated, Cynthia issued another declaration
"I SHALL SPILL THEIR BLOOD ACROSS THE STARS ONCE AGAIN!"
"Wait, what?" Veronica asked.
A bright flash of light exploded from the center!
The cyborg cat was too well-built to get blinded by this flash. Veronica could clearly see that the glowing bones no longer looked as bare as before.
Instead, the crown spike that the Oblivion Empress had previously snapped from the Golden Laurel Wreath Crown had absorbed a huge amount of spiritual energy that somehow caused it to devolve into a single drop of blood.
It was this drop of blood that released the flash of light.
Time and space itself bent around this extremely vivid drop of blood!
Ves immediately felt an overwhelming desire to fly forward and swallow it no matter the cost!
"Stay put, brother." Helena said as her translucent form became more solid and kept a tighter grip on the cyborg cat.
"Myaow!"
That single potent drop of godblood only hovered in the air for a few seconds before falling onto the skeleton.
What happened resembled pure magic.
From that single drop of lifeblood, flesh and other organic tissue began to unfold and fill up the empty spaces between the primordial human bones.
The drop also generated liters of a less potent form of blood, allowing the newly-formed body to gain all of the elements necessary to turn it alive. Before Ves knew it, a complete human body had formed!
No, it was more than that. The body felt so much stronger and more filled with energy that Ves could not mistake it for anything less than the physical form of a pure-blooded primordial human!
A set of elegant dark robes dropped from above and quickly wrapped around the female body. The spiritually-reactive materials and the exquisite design caused the garments to amplify the sense of nobility and divinity of this empty but extremely potent shell!
The most important part had arrived.
Cynthia's expression was filled with glee as she gazed upon her perfect body.
"LIFE IS AT MY COMMAND!"
With that, her energy manifestation dove into the empty physical body and began to merge with it in full.
This was not as easy as it sounded. The primordial human body was an incredibly powerful container, and it took serious effort for a spiritual entity of Cynthia's current level to wrest control over all of the flesh and bones.
Still, her willpower was great and her mastery over energy was too good.
From her heart to her limbs, more and more of the fleshy body began to fall under her control.
As Cynthia began to take possession of her head and brain, she briefly paused when she encountered an unexpected bump.
"AH! YOU! I KNEW YOU WERE HIDING THERE! DID YOU THINK I WOULD MISS YOUR PRESENCE?"
A second entity that felt vaguely familiar to Ves spiked with power. Despite this new presence's relative weakness, it had managed to put up a surprisingly strong fight against Cynthia!
Nonetheless, what little fight the unwelcome intruder managed to put became irrelevant due to the enormous difference in might.
"I SHALL ABSORB YOUR POWER!"
After taking care of this little hurdle, Cynthia finally completed her takeover and fully inhabited her new body!