Diru let out a low growl—a sound more akin to the roar of a wild beast. Beneath his dark skin, his Dragon Prana churned violently, reaching a boiling point. Diru fell to his knees. His thigh bones forcibly elongated, while his shins and ankles snapped, shifted, and fused back together to form the digitigrade rear-leg structure characteristic of a quadrupedal animal. His toes retracted and hardened; his nails thickened drastically and merged into hooves as hard as obsidian steel.
His boots shattered, and his already melting armor sloughed off completely. His spine cracked, lengthening and arching until it was parallel with the ground. His shoulder blades shifted to the sides of his chest, carving out space for a pair of forelegs. The radius and ulna bones in his arms twisted and fused. His palms elongated, and his fingers snapped and drew together; like his feet, the digits receded into thickening flesh, hardening into a pair of sturdy front hooves.
