Chapter 124: Ex 124. Ten Steps Ahead
Dark energy exploded from Eleanor’s body like a dam shattered by divine wrath. It flooded the cavern in a wave of suffocating pressure, turning the air thick, heavy, and almost unbreathable.
Leon stood still, his eyes wide with genuine bafflement. His senses screamed as he watched her transform, but even his instincts couldn’t quite wrap themselves around what he was witnessing.
A voice boomed from within her, no longer hers, it was deeper, ancient, and warped with reverence and rage.
"Yes... offer your body and soul to me, so I may fulfill the wish of our GOD!"
The ground cracked beneath Eleanor’s feet. All around the cavern, demons shrieked, not in fury, but in agony. Their bodies convulsed as the life essence was ripped from their cores, siphoned away in thick streams of black mist, all of it surging toward her like a tidal wave.
Leon could feel it. Her presence, her very existence, growing stronger by the second.
F-rank... E... D... B... A... S...
And then it hit SS-rank.
The pressure swallowed the entire cave. Even the stalactites above began to tremble.
But Leon just blinked, his expression showing boredom at the transformation occurring.
Eleanor’s hair, once golden, now shimmered with oily black. Her eyes, once clear and blue, had turned a piercing, haunting violet. Her uniform was gone, replaced by a flowing shadow-dress that bled black mist into the air around her. The change wasn’t just physical. She didn’t even feel human anymore.
Then, the voice inside her body returned, colder than before.