One Step Until Absolution

Intense pain assaulted Asura's body, causing his mind to turn blank.

The bones of his hands cracked into pieces the moment he chose the evolution for claws. He endured each nail being torn from his fingertips. Then replaced by another nail that grew from the bloody mess with a dark red tint.

"Argh... What the f...!"

Despite enduring this process many times before. The constantly sharp stabbing and tearing pains spread from his hands throughout his entire body. 

He never realised how much Helliana helped him in the past.

'It hurts.... my body is being destroyed... I can't feel my arms...'

Seconds became minutes, hours turned to days, and the days transformed into years. Asura's sense of time collapsed. 

When he thought the punishment ended, taking a breath of relief, his bones, muscles and flesh would suddenly tear, convulse or shatter again.

This process, in reality, lasted ten minutes.