"T-this… how?" Eira muttered, blinking blankly, taking a few seconds to register his words.
Swallowing deeply, she took another step back, her eyes scanning the figure before her once more, reevaluating him in the back of her mind. An anomaly by all standards, proof of that being the monstrous strength he'd wielded just a few days after his awakening. Strength that now eclipsed what she had struggled to acquire in three years. That was just how wide the gap in their talents was.
But all that had changed the day a figure appeared...one who promised the unthinkable: to alter their talents. The one constant in the universe that was said to be unchangeable. Yet he did it. He had a way to evolve talents, by a full tier.
And that was all the proof they needed. He asked for only one thing in return. Even that, they had now failed to deliver, because of a single miscalculation.
