The enhancement's effects stabilized after those initial moments of pure agony, Shade's screaming subsiding into gasping breaths as their body adapted to the impossible power flooding through their system. The cultivation aura that had exploded outward with devastating force compressed slightly, becoming more controlled despite maintaining Sovereign rank intensity that made the air itself feel oppressive.
Everyone on the presentation platform remained frozen, thousands of spectators watching in horrified confusion as they tried to process what was occurring. Raze's instincts were screaming danger with intensity that transcended anything he'd experienced since reincarnating into this world, recognition that whatever Shade had consumed had transformed them into a threat operating at levels far beyond what the tournament should have produced.
