You walk all the way to the center of the theater, and find a single rose laying on the floor. This. This is the conceptual core of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, not anything else. A single rose, fleeting and ephemeral. A true beauty that has yet to be blemished.

You pick the rose up gently, and begin to infuse it with the concept of... Salvation. You begin to imbue the concept into the rose, bolstering it a great deal even before the concept is completely done. The single rose rapidly grows into an entire bush of roses, consuming your arm and then your body and surrounding you with stems and flowers. Strangely, there don't seem to be any thorns digging into your skin, and you're thankful for that. Your conceptual manifestation of yourself seems to correspond to your surroundings, and you'd really rather not find out if this version of your body is capable of feeling pain.

It takes a tremendous amount of your magical energy to provide the power needed to form something like "Salvation" into a concept, yet you manage it, and immediately after fully imbuing the concept into the now rose bush, the world around you fades to white.

You open your eyes to see a woman in a white dress standing over you, all traces of armor have been removed from Nero's dress, and her outfit is... just as skimpy as you would expect from Nero. "You! You are the one I have to thank for granting this form to me, aren't you?" There's a happy smile on the woman's face as she towers over you, despite being... well, tiny. It's only because you've fallen onto the floor that she's capable of such a thing at all.

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Part 32