The body of Elric died at three minutes and eleven seconds past the hour.
Cardiac cessation, sternum split from the interior, channels stretched to their tolerance limit in approximately eleven hundred places. Current Anima was zero, and the Celestial Marrow was also zero.
Blood volume was insufficient for consciousness for the last forty seconds prior; he was operating on habit and refusal.
I took the body; at this point, it was already standard procedure. When the operator stops and the last of his soul power is exhausted, I would be the one to take over.
I inventoried what was left, including the threat. The Soul Flayer is four feet ahead, its body is prone, and still burning from being baptized in the celestial essence inside Elric.
Its motor function is suspended by damage sustained inside our channels, and the recovery estimate is ninety to two hundred seconds.
The demon was making a sound of shock and fear. I filed the sound as non-tactical.
