Unholy Player

"The guys definitely deserve every raise," Adyr chuckled, eyeing the final state of the uniform.

It was more than tailor-made—it was an engineering marvel.

The fact that he no longer had to strip off his gear and jacket every time he wanted to use his wings was a major step forward.

Once everything was in place, he didn’t bother using the locked door to leave his room. Instead, he stepped into the sealed private garden adjacent to it. Summoning his wings, a single powerful beat lifted him into the air, and he departed the mansion.

Avoiding the crowd outside was both easier and faster this way.

As he glided toward the market district, he decided it was time to test another feature—one he hadn’t yet had the chance to explore. His Spark’s skill.

He activated Crystal Husk, one of the two skills of Duskrend, which he originally acquired to complete the second step of his evolution but had only subdued. Normally, Duskrend had two skills, like most Rank 2 Sparks: Crystal Husk and Wraith Glide. However, when a Spark was subdued, its owner could only access one skill, and for Adyr, that skill was Crystal Husk.

The moment he activated the skill, his snow-white wings began to change.

They rapidly lost their brightness, becoming translucent and dark, like jagged shards of blackened crystal. The setting sun, already draining the world of its color and shifting into monochrome, made the wings appear nearly invisible, camouflaged against the fading light.

To a distant observer, it would seem as if Adyr’s body alone was gliding through the sky, the wings imperceptible.

But concealment wasn’t the skill’s only advantage.