Chapter 9: More Than Human
At this moment, Dane was sleeping soundly in the crib Priscilla had crafted for him. Morning had already arrived in the Monster Realm, but as he slept, his mind slowly began to register the sounds that had been echoing through the room for some time. Eventually, the noise was enough to stir him from his rest.
'Ha?!...
Dane said inwardly to himself, his eyes still blurry, and the sudden influx of various lights did not help him one bit.
However, there was also a weird charging sound coming from all around him. Because of this, his eyelids began to flutter open... slowly, stubbornly, to a room bathed in pulsing violet light coming from all directions of the room all at once.
The crib trembled.
And around him, the air crackled with an insane amount of magical energy. At the intense sight of this, Dane blinked, trying to focus.
Confusion hit him like a bat to the head, causing him to question the current situation.
"What the hell?!...
He cried out, a little scared.
Layers upon layers: massive outer rings etched with jagged runes, smaller circles nested inside them like Russian dolls, each humming at a different pitch. Some glowed blood-red, others seafoam green, all spinning in different directions.
But soon all this will further change when all the complex magic circles begin to shrink, collapsing inward toward the crib... or rather towards Dane.