Just as i ingested the shard, all hell got unleashed.
I was screaming before I hit the ground.
It wasn't fear.
It wasn't panic.
It was something deeper—the kind of scream that comes from marrow, from instinct, from some animal part of you that knows this is not natural.
The shard dug into my chest like it was hungry. It didn't pierce skin—it melted through it, burrowing into my sternum, searing through flesh and bone like molten hatred.
And that's when it started.
My body snapped.
Not metaphorically.
Bones literally shattered.
I could hear them—crack crack crack—as my spine bent the wrong way and then coiled back like a whip. Ribs tore open from the inside, forced wider, sharper. My throat split as I screamed again, raw and wet, blood pouring down my neck like spilled ink.
Muscle peeled like bark stripped from a tree.
Tendons snapped, then grew back wrong, tighter, wired, more violent.
My skull fractured with a sound like glass under pressure, and my jaw unhinged—literally unhinged—before reforming into a new, more perfect bite.
> [Limit Core Destroyed.]
[Potential Barrier: Obliterated.]
[Warning: Subject Body Entering Critical Phase.]
I didn't even know I could make those sounds.
That scream—I don't know how to describe it. It didn't feel human. It didn't feel like mine.
It felt like it belonged to something dragged out of a pit, something buried deep in the void screaming because it knew it was being reborn into a world that would fear it.
And underneath it all—
I felt it.
Something was ripping away inside me.
Not pain.
Not fear.
Me.
The part that smiled at bad jokes. The part that laughed when I tripped. The part that got scared before a test. The part that remembered what it felt like to be a kid.
It was gone.
Burned out.
Like fat melting off a bone.
> [Void Vault Unlocked]
Memory Partitioning Active. Emotional dampening engaged.
The worst part?
The screaming stopped.
Not because the pain ended—hell no—it never ended.
But because I couldn't feel it anymore.
It was like someone took a blade and cut my emotions out.
I was bleeding, broken, reshaped… and I felt nothing.
I stood up—slowly, shaking, twitching—and saw myself in the dark metal of the ruin's wall.
I didn't recognize the thing looking back.
White hair matted in blood. Eyes like collapsed stars—purple and gold swirling like they'd swallowed something divine and cursed at once.
Jaw sharp, face too still. Too quiet.
And the body… forged. Sharpened. Like violence was designed into my silhouette.
> [Vector ]
[Spatial Disruption law: Activated.]
I clenched my fist.
The air bent around it.
It didn't make me feel powerful.
It made me feel wrong.
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I should've cried.
Should've laughed like it was a joke.
Should've screamed again.
Should've been human.
But I just stood there.
Silent.
Breathing.
Watching blood drip from my fingertips.
And all I could think was—
"I'll never be the same again."
Something died here.
And whatever took its place…
Isn't scared of the dark anymore.
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(third person)
While Nex was undergoing his awakening , mana beast attracted to the intensity of the bright light came to find the disturbance,
As soon as they even entered near 50m of his proximity, their bodies would be mutilated as if the night itself was trying to keep him safe.
The beasts all ranged from B to D ranks
and their bodies which could not be identified were eventually erased and their blood remained on the ground.
The remainder of what occurred here.