These two really are something else, I thought, watching Jack and Lucifer as we circled each other across the broken floor.
The protagonist and the antagonist of the Saga of the Divine Swordsman. Both of them growing in ways that had no business being possible.
Ren was gone. The spot where his Shard had broken was still glittering faintly on the stone. Nothing held. I'd have to find him afterwards and tell him it had been the best punch anyone had thrown at me all day. He'd hate that. He'd be pleased anyway.
I flexed my fingers and felt Luna's sigils pulse under my skin, and Erebus's armour shift like liquid across my body. My Soul Resonance was doing exactly what it was meant to do, giving me power that should have taken years to earn. And still the gap wasn't what it should have been.
I beat Lucifer easily enough last time. Now? The thought sat badly. Even with Soul Resonance, the gap's closing.
