Lucivar sucked in a deep breath through his nose and exhale through his mouth.
His golden eyes gazed at the ceiling, there was a deep tinge of pain behind his eyes as the process of absorbing hundreds of bronze spheres annihilated his willpower. It was too painful, almost as if he was killed and resurrected countless times in the span of a minute.
Though the pain was already gone, his mind was cloudy—stuck between the border of life and death.
If anyone else experienced that painful minute, they would go insane.
Not even experts who had gone through a thousand battles could endure such excruciating pain.
Lucivar was able to retain his sanity simply because he had something to cling to, his burning desire to fix—and destroy karma. Even then, he was barely able to retain his mind—Sutekh's way to power was extremely brutal.
'Where am I?' He pondered, his vision hard to focus. "Oh, right, I was absorbing the bronze spheres"