Gulirath kicked the corpse of a small Arkanis beside him. His bulging eyes gleamed with something primal. He grabbed the body, lifted it like a doll, then opened his mouth.
Raine didn't move.
He clearly saw how Gulirath's teeth sank into the creature's flesh, how he sucked its bones and screams.
The skin tore. The veins convulsed. Then… Gulirath began to grow.
Horrifyingly.
Snapping sounds, muscular tension, bones stretching, his shoulders rising above the trees, his skin tightening like paper, cracking.
A faint light formed around him—not a glow, but as if the darkness was retreating from him.
Raine said calmly:
"…He started eating his own kind."
Then louder, as he stabbed his sword into the ground:
"Ikran Val Karsa… Dragon Fire."
His words came out as a command, not a plea.
The air trembled.
Nothing happened immediately.
Then… the fire began.