[Ding! New Element Awakened: PRIMORDIAL BLOOD.]
[Host — brace.]
His chest bloomed open like the throat of a furnace that had waited ten thousand years for its first taste of air.
An interior unfolding kindled beneath his ribs and surged outward through every fiber of his body in one single, merciless expansion.
The breath he had drawn a heartbeat earlier left him in one long, exsanguinated sigh as the new element seated itself inside him, heavy, wet, and ancient beyond reckoning.
It opened the way a flower opens, petals of raw sensation peeling outward from a single seeded point at the center of his being, each one carrying a different quality of the power now claiming him.
