Agni Igris smiled faintly at the two sleeping siblings before disappearing, letting them sleep.
The next day, Rudra was the first to wake up.
His eyes opened with a snap as he examined everything around him.
Everything felt sharper.
His heartbeat no longer echoed just in his chest—it radiated through his entire body, pulsing like a drum across an open battlefield.
His skin tingled as though fire threads danced just beneath it. For a few long seconds, he simply lay there on the stone slab, letting the feeling of new power settle.
Then, slowly, he sat up. His torso cracked and adjusted with each movement, his body freshly refined from the step into the Astral Ki Formation Realm!
The air shimmered slightly around him. Fire Ki curled off his shoulders in gentle wisps.
He tried moving his Ki and it moved so fast and powerfully that he almost lost control of it.
