Azel's eyes gradually opened.
For a moment, everything was dark.
Then, slowly, he inhaled… his lungs expanded and his chest rose.
Air filled him again.
"Damn… it feels strange to breathe again," Azel muttered with a hoarse voice, he could guess that was what happened when you had been dead for a while.
He sat up slowly in what looked like a dark stone cell.
The walls were cracked and the floor beneath him was cold.
But inside his body, something warm began forming… multiple somethings.
His cores reformed, his aura circuits knitted back together and his soul felt whole again.
But most importantly… something new glowed inside him.
Divinity.
"It was small before…" he whispered, feeling it circulate through him, "but now it's overflowing."
His hand moved down instinctively and he froze.
"…Damn. I'm naked."
He sighed, then touched his chest.
