The sky split apart in violet fury.
Selene's scream tore through the battlefield — raw, distorted, and inhuman. Her once-obsidian wings had fractured into shards of light and shadow, their edges dripping with black Shinrei that burned the ground beneath her. The Dark Core pulsed from within her chest, each beat warping her aura further until even the Voidborn hesitated to approach.
Her eyes, once cold yet human, now glowed crimson veins of darkness crawling across her skin.
"S-Selene!" Ceyla cried, shielding her face as the shockwave flared outward. The very air screamed as Selene's Shinrei energy twisted the world around her. Trees were uprooted, stones shattered, and even light itself seemed to bend under her presence.
Khael staggered back, his dragon's essence roaring in resistance. He gritted his teeth, his mind racing. The woman before him, she wasn't Selene anymore. She was becoming something else.
Something the Hollow Nine would call a hollow voidborn
