Chapter 23: Serpent tattoo
Chapter 23
Ronan stopped keeping track of the days.
They all felt the same, wake up, train, eat, train again, go home and pass out. The clock ticked, but for him, time just. Nothing real was happening, and he was beginning to wonder what harbingers actually did, afterall...he had never heard of them until he met Nathaniel.
The most annoying thing was, even with all the training drills, his body never ached. His muscles never trembled. No soreness, no exhaustion. No limits. He no longer felt human.
It should've been a good thing.
But it was terrifying.
While the others groaned and limped after drills, Ronan stood still, not even out of breath. While they rotated in and out of the medbay for bruised ribs and torn ligaments, Ronan kept going, unaffected. It wasn't even that he was stronger. He was just different from the rest.
Unnaturally different
Ever since the upgrade, something inside him had changed. The system hadn't given a full explanation—just a boost in stats and some vague message about "evolution." But this wasn't just evolution. This felt like a quiet mutation. Like his body was also evolving into something he didn't recognize anymore. Good part is, at least he still looked human.
He tried to hide it from the other team members. Trained harder, made mistakes on purpose, forced himself to grunt and pant even when he didn't need to.
But hell, it didn't work.