Chapter 8: Spirit Transformation
Pain shot through Shido's body as the energies of the crystal wreck inside him, both destructive and harmonious. He fell to his knees, shouting as his entire body began to radiate an alternating glow of black and white.
Phantom watched silently, her gaze showing neither fear nor worry but a strange sense of joy, as if witnessing something long anticipated.
Shido was like a black hole that begun to devour the Reiryoku on the surroundings. Even Phantom is not spared as her Reiryoku was leaking out of her body.
The very fabric of Shido's Inner World began to tremble and crack, the energies clashing with such force that fissures of black and white light spread rapidly across the landscape.
Shido's cries reverberated through the expanse as his very form continued to glow, alternating with blinding brilliance.
The intense turmoil within his body reached the peak, and the world around him froze. The ground turned to pure white, while the sky swallowed by a complete darkness.
There was no more room for conflict within him, nothing but the sheer weight of the forces forcing his body to accept the coming transformation.
Then, it happened.
A cocoon of Reiryoku formed around him, dense and nearly impenetrable.
The spiraling light wrapped him like an unbreakable shell, sealing Shido inside.
The constant twisting of light and dark pulsed in waves, creating a perfect seal that left no escape.