Seal

Chapter 31

Kaizen didn't reply.

Instead, the veins on his arms glowed again. His nails darkened, his bones cracked. His body trembled like it was adjusting to something far too powerful for it to hold.

"You look like you're being eaten from the inside out," she said.

Still no reply.

Kaizen's fingers twitched, then he was gone again. In a flash, he appeared behind her, and before she could react, he drove his fist into her ribs, sending her flying across the realm like a bullet. She smashed through a massive pillar, tumbled through two other pillars and finally crashed onto the marbled floor, the floor cracking from the impact.

Velmaria stood slowly, hand on her ribs as she coughed. She was bleeding.

For the first time in years, she actually bled.