Chapter 14: Samael, The First Soulmate
Samael's roar scraped the sky.
The flame devouring her form intensified, golden arcs surging through her enormous wings and jagged tail. Its size began to shrink, slowly at first, then rapidly—bones cracking, scales crumbling, horns bending inward. Its colossal figure spasmed, twisting under the unseen hand of divine transformation.
Kivas, still huddled near the tree, could only watch through wide, stunned eyes. Her body ached everywhere, blood crusting down her arms and neck, her weapon somewhere behind her. But curiosity overrode the pain, pushing through her fear with a surreal numbness.
This was the process of the Genesis Core imbuement.
That realization landed in her mind like thunder. Disjointed fragments of logic tumbled into a jagged puzzle.
The message she received said Soulmate.
She had a skill called Divine Soulmate Imbuer in her Well of the Soul.
And after answering the prompt, accidentally, a Genesis Core was being forcefully implanted into Samael—because Kivas had agreed to it. Her voice, her consent, had triggered this transformation.
Which meant...
Samael was her soulmate.
The so-called soul-forged connection. A universal pairing. Fated and immutable, of love and journey that many romanticize.