Transmigrated into a Novel as the Female Lead's Ex-Husband

ted within the soul st

r second awak

creation, treasures. He'd known them the way you know a fire escape route - a

planned

nd total certainty of something that had never been wrong about anything. He felt it t

g... origin

t the debris caught in his soul during the crossing between worlds, debris he h

traction of or

d - and the Time fragment began to warm. Not physical warmth. The warmth of proce

ment... ex

be

.10

. Remaining 90% will be sealed within the soul

per

room whose door has just been shut. What remained was a thread of silver, thin enough to miss if he h

ment... ext

ured pull. Th

.10

. Remaining 90% will be sealed within the soul

rely a whisper, curling at the edges of his awareness. The rest seal

mind and thought: sixty-two point

n't enough to open what he was carrying more than a crack. But it was there - l

give him time t

core sou

pa

ent identi

al's foundation; this was just the

ities linked t

use was

ies fou

oughts we

w

meant to matter. One element, one ability. That was how it worked; the novel had said as much. Dual abilities from a single awakening were s

: Ice Mani

that one

y 2: Ic

step onto ice that tu

arly and paid off late: Ice Seal. The ability to permanently inscribe ice runes onto another person's soul, binding their power at it

had never kno

walked to work in the cold that felt like his own skin - and the whole time this thing

Family had

even the original himself had had no sense of it - then how had they known to look? What instrument had they used? What did they

question sat in his chest like

ice co

Abilities: Ice Man

ences available: Time

y assessment.

nated as the

e integrated into existing abil

g second a

eg

dn't build.

received the same signal at the same moment and responded as one. His muscles locked. His knees hit the floor before he

ouched during the first test, the frozen ocean he'd felt waiting

the space where something whole had been. And into those gaps the two threads came - silver and dark violet, Time and Space -

-white, vast, built from three years of power accumulating in a body that hadn't known what it was building - but threaded now with silver lines that wound thr

ers layered o

r with t

ir - not from cold but from stillness, from time pooling around it, and it hung there, a perfect sphere caught between one moment and the next. The frost spreading across the floor didn't radiate outward in a fl

into frozen stone, and he was holding onto the s

onds. A mi

longer any seam between cold and time or boundary between frost and spa

e pain

ly. The han

e absolute weight of its attention lifted all at once, leaving him in a silence so complete he could hear t

wakening

soul powe

ety

h. The number arrived in his awareness the way sensation returns to a limb that's b

awakening alone. More than tri

two external essences integrated. The soul power cost of what ha

ng the arithmetic whe

ility u

or active ability within lock-on range. Targets are suspended in temporal stasis

onds - less, accounting for anything he'd already spent. Nin

ng a room. A fist completing its arc. An ability that h

g. Against the right pr

ability u

to a marked location. A frozen phantom clone will remain at the original position, perfectly replicating the user's s

ad it

moment something killed him, the ability would move him somewhere he'd alread

on a frozen floor in a cold apartment, with the silver and violet threads settled and q

s his again - ordinary, small, the snow still piled on the windowsil

as it had. No one knew. No

ame person sitting

, and there was no version of tonight where he c