Beyond the Flesh
The Price of Transcendence
Copying a mind to the stars wasn't a simple process; flesh and bone could never withstand such pure energy. As the last agonizing scream of humanity spilled from his lips, his glowing skull melted in a cosmic furnace. The cold eyes around him offered no help, they only watched. Because the price of touching the universal truth and attaining divinity was first burning alive in one's own hell.