The borrowed eternity inside Phei Ryujin Tiamat was beginning to burn through him.
He could feel it from the strange place where his consciousness now rested, seated somewhere behind his own senses while another presence wore his body with terrifying ease. Eira had entered first, slipping into him through the bond between Familiar and Master and pouring enough of her hidden cultivation into his pitiful Master Stage foundation to force open a path that should never have existed.
Through her, the slumbering depth beneath his Void had been given just enough of a foundation to awaken, and from that moment onward Phei's body had ceased belonging entirely to just Phei but him, Eira and something older that had opened its eyes through him that regarded World Transcendents as troublesome insects and the laws surrounding Earth as little more than curtains someone had hung in the wrong place.
For a short while, Phei had enjoyed watching.
It was difficult not to.
