Every single one of them felt the primordial energy flood their mana-biological systems.
It was not merely a surge of raw power. It was not just the chaotic, overwhelming amalgamation of ten distinct elemental affinities, two of which remained an absolute, unfathomable mystery, completely alien to them.
It was something different…
The energy was profoundly, terrifyingly intoxicating.
It bypassed their muscles and their mana cores entirely, seeping deep into the foundational architecture of their souls. It triggered a profound sensation of limitless expansion. It was a suffocating, euphoric high that whispered directly into their minds, promising that the physical limitations of flesh and blood no longer applied to them.
King Dragarion had given his life feeling this absolutely, undeniably invincible.
