[PARTIAL AWAKENING – 30% OUTPUT – ACTIVATED!]
Energy exploded.
Not like before.
Uncontrolled. Unmeasured.
Absolute.
Alex's body arched, his spine bending impossibly.
His skin glowing with black veins.
His eyes… completely crimson now.
No white. No pupil.
Just deep red.
The white streak expanded—spreading like inverted fire.
Covering more hair.
The Fragment mark on his chest BURNED through his robe.
Visible. Pulsing. Alive.
[ALEX – PARTIAL AWAKENING 30%]
HP: 120/1,110 → 120/1,720 (Max HP +55%)
Strength: 120 → 186
Agility: 127 → 197
Intelligence: 77 → 119
[CORRUPTION: 77.5% → 80.5%]
[WARNING! LOSS OF CONTROL IN PROGRESS]
But it wasn't just his physical power.
It was his… presence.
The air around Alex changed.
Dense. Suffocating. Dark.
As if death itself had entered the world.
Matthias, still kneeling beside him, froze.
His hand still on the Fragment mark.
But the extraction process… stopped.
"What…?" he began.
Alex grabbed his wrist.
CRACK.
