Chapter Eight Hundred And Sixteen – 816
Congratulations!
You Have Absorbed The Essence of [Clarion]!
The stars froze.
They fell.
Great streaks of blue, green, and crimson light dropped from the sky—a rainfall of incandescent starlight. They pelted the copper-domed palace, tearing holes through its shrouded structure where they didn’t ricochet like oil upon a heated pan. Yet the greater portion struck him.
Blast after blast, streak after streak, hurtled into Felix, each bolt from the purpled dark a tonic of power that his flesh drank up like parched earth. Heavenly comets and congealing nebulae swirled around him—through him—until he was suffused with a brimming radiance.
With that illumination…came the song.
Harmony and Dissonance rang out within him, a rousing melody and counter-melody that drew up hidden depths within him as Astrum Ascendance ignited within his chest. The cold flame of amplification burned bright, rolling across his shoulders and down his arms until Felix's hands were pillars of cold flame, distant like the stars themselves.
The night sky opened up before him, even as it fell atop his chest. A distant starfire sang in the dark, a blazing heat surrounded by infinite cold—and something else. A presence…watching from beyond the dark. Felix's feet left the copper dome, his body lifted by a swell of power and music, held aloft upon a raging gale of Harmonics, while Dissonance tore at his clothes and flesh like iron teeth.