Assimilation.
August's words plunged Huai Shi into silence.
He couldn't help but feel a chill under the dim light of the setting sun.
More terrifying than petrification, it was the phenomenon that Sublimators feared the most.
After breaking away from the Sea of Silver, the Sublimators' source-material transformed into souls, granting them resistance to the Abyss, but they lost the protection of the Sea of Silver. Like water vapor evaporating from the ocean to form clouds, they were helpless before the gales. Even when blessed by the Stigma, a Disaster Miracle, they were sometimes defenseless against the ever-present catastrophes in Hell.
Aside from the one-in-a-million case of petrification, assimilation was often the fate of most Explorers.
