Chapter 69: A Growth-type Blood Essence and Selene
The changes Kai had been going through weren’t for the eyes of mortals to see.
Kai felt himself transcending what was life and ascending to the realms of death. Deeper and deeper into his emotions, he fell, reexamining them one by one from an eye he previously had lacked.
A forgotten silhouette and laugh of his father. His mother’s cries and her warnings. The love of having a brother, and then ruing the same love for eons to come. Slaughter, and the pleasure within it he sought for himself. The satisfaction of revenge, but the remorse of not having it again.
The thrill of sex.
The changes of myriad emotions.
Kai opened his eyes and the world wasn’t the same anymore. Nor was he.
A dark hooded cloak of long ripped black cloth had covered his body, making him look like a wraith. His body was shriveled, graying, decaying, looking like a decomposed corpse. Kai lifted his skeletal hands. They were grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed. But even then, on his right forearm, he could see the distinct imprints of ten long claw-like fingers.
Even the previously devoured Misdreavus had failed to cause such thorough changes about him.
Kai could feel himself more clearly now. There was a hellish cold around him, and it could freeze not only physical bodies but also the very thoughts. When he breathed, his breath was rattling as if he wanted to suck something more than air.
Even though Kai was a squib, with his Correspondence just above an average Contestant, he could feel Mana around him. If not his own, then of others. It was a cooling, soothing sensation.
Now Kai could feel another presence. Equally vast, but more apparent and different. If Mana was ice, then this other presence was boiled water returned to the room temperature.