Even among all matrices, taking into account every specialized requirement, variant, and outright bizarre design, Pacifier still ranked among the most unusual of them all. 

As a tool painstakingly devised by the scheming Onyxists, its very existence was like a gun aimed at the heart of the Empire, a shovel meant to undermine its foundations, and a guillotine built to sever the Emperor’s head. 

Across the four realms of Resonance, Metamorphosis, Rebirth, and Transcendence, each realm possessed a chain formed from three distinct blessings. Once the Transcendence Realm was complete, all four blessing chains could merge into one, which would trigger yet another qualitative transformation. 

Even more terrifying, it could interact with and complete the matrix known as Universal Love. And that was without even mentioning Divine Creations such as Celestial Ghost, Universal Harmony, and Fatebreaker, which had been created specifically to complement it.

The smaller the workshop, the more recklessly they tended to pile on the good stuff. And the Onyxists were madmen who had staked their lives on opposing the Emperor. They crammed ‌every potent material they could get their hands on into Pacifier, and whatever would not fit was simply made into Blessed Creations, sacred artifact matrices, or even artifacts of the Supreme Benevolences to be used alongside it. 

The tools and weapons created specifically for Pacifier...