Vegis spent what felt like three days in the room. The metal he peeled from the wall was on the floor, covered in bite marks. Vegis would chew on the metal when he felt hunger, and when it was many pieces, he would melt it with a small fire between his hands and shape it into a rod. After the first he touched the wall, every other time he got near the wall, it lit up with an ominous color Vegis couldn’t quite describe other than how it made him feel. Pain. Vegis tried to touch the ceiling, but it immediately shot out electricity that arched off and hit his arm, causing immense pain to fill Vegis. No food or water ever came to the room but Vegis knew people were watching since the cameras would occasionally spasm at random times. Vegis passed the time by forming objects out of his mana. He made bouncing balls that he would juggle and hit things but as soon as it touched the walls, it would instantly disintegrate. Anything he made with the mana got destroyed when it touched the walls. Vegis also tried to make a throwing needle with some of the metal he accidentally scooped out the wall. When it struck the wall, it stabbed a couple of centimeters into the wall before stopping, and disappearing into the wall, refilling part of the dent. Seeing this, Vegis decided to not use the rest of the metal against the wall. A strange property Vegis noticed about the metal was that while spells could affect it, raw mana could not seep into it or even cover it. This was strange since it was a MSM (Mana Saturated Metal). This led to Vegis doing more tests on it as this puzzled him.

  Vegis tried to force the ambient lifeforce that was slowly passing through the walls into the metal but it just passed through it like the walls. Vegis then tried to force an exorbitant amount of mana into it, but all that did was cause a blinding light to shine from the dense ball of mana and a bolt of lighting to be released from the ceiling to strike him, leaving him paralyzed for what felt like minutes. During this paralysis, Vegis took a moment to feel the connections inside of him. He noticed that the connection he had with the clones were gone, or at the very least, heavily constricted. In their place were 2 connections that felt familiar but were things he had never seen before. He sat up after a while and made a chair so he could ponder on what exactly could have happened before he was in this room. After some time, the chair dissolved under him as he slowly floated to the floor in a laying position. Vegis closed his eyes and started to focus on the connections. He could sense that Boreal and Mitra were incredibly far away but that was all. The connection also seemed to be muddled by the materials of the walls. Vegis had to decide which of the unfamiliar connections should he look into first, and decided on the one that felt the most familiar to him.

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  His mind floated through the line that connected them together, and the longer he was in it, the pieces started to click together. It was something relating to the clone V1, V2, and V3. As he passed through, he was hit with hints and fragments of memories from the clones, blended and distorted, but still them nevertheless. When he finally arrived in their mind, they were very different. Like the soul fragments that made them up were fused together into a new thing. It was a mind similar to the old clones, but stronger and more distinct. It held all their memories and skills, but only some of the connections. All these memories were theirs, but when they were a different thing. “Hello there, aaaaa, clones?”(Vegis) “Hello origin.”(???) “What do I call you? You are not the old clones and you are way too conscious for me to not name.”(Vegis). This made the mental mass of shapes and material to pause, before answering. “I would like the name Dawn”. Vegis nodded at this and replied with, “That a good name. Can I ask you what your surroundings are like?”