Awakening
Chapter 32
[SNAP!!]
"Hm-"
The elder's voice suddenly stopped.
Not just him.
Everyone.
The entire arena fell into a suffocating silence.
Hundreds of eyes were locked onto a single figure standing in the center of the coliseum.
Eidolon.
Moments ago, he had been lying on the ground like a corpse.
But now-
He was standing.
Perfectly still.
The hooded warriors surrounding him tightened their grip on their weapons, their gazes filled with bloodlust... and curiosity.
The elders leaned forward from their grand seats, their sharp eyes scanning the boy carefully.
Then-
Something changed.
The elders' expressions froze.
One by one, they slowly rose from their royal seats.
Shock spread across their faces.
No.
Not shock.
Horror.
Eidolon stood silently in the middle of the arena.
But he was no longer the same.
His clothes were gone, torn apart by the earlier explosion. His entire body was covered in blood, streaks running down his skin like dark rivers.
Yet that wasn't what made the elders stand in fear.
Something else was wrong.
Very wrong.
Eidolon slowly lifted his head.
And when the crowd saw his eyes-
Their hearts stopped.
"Yes..."
A whisper escaped his lips.
But the voice didn't belong to a human.
BOOOOM!!
A violent pressure exploded from Eidolon's body.
Dark energy burst outward like a storm, shaking the ground beneath his feet.
A thick haze began pouring from his body.
Black.
Heavy.
Sinister.
It moved like living smoke, twisting around him as if the darkness itself had come alive.
The air trembled.
The sand beneath him cracked.
And the longer it continued-
The more it looked like Eidolon himself was burning.
Burning in black flames.
Just like the entity.
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