Fortunately, with two Saints on hand, they began treating Frey the moment he fell. Within minutes, his skin returned to normal and his body looked as it had before the purification rites began.
This time, though, the cursed darkness infesting him was gone. Color returned to his flesh, and power stirred through his veins again. And then something else drew his eye .. a new line on his system interface:
Shadow Adaptation: 4/7
At last, after a long grind, Frey had reached the next stage of his strongest ability .. one that would grant him the extra power he desperately needed to survive what was coming.
"That shadow shows only a glimpse of its master," Liora said once she'd finished healing him. She knew Wisker's strength surpassed her own by a terrifying margin, but she hadn't expected the gap to be this wide. Even that fragment alone had given her no end of trouble, despite being nothing like the full might of its owner.
