[You have been bestowed a true name: Feather of Twilight]
"Huh?"
Sunny did not know how to react. just moments ago he was basking in the feeling of almost limitless power.
"Did I clear the nightmare."
It was a rhetorical question. He saw the runes from the nightmare spell right in fron of him.
For a moment he thought he died. It was a surreal feeling. He felt free. Free from everything, unrestraint from mortal limits.
'Is this what gods feel like?'
Sunny still did not understand the severity of his situation.
'I survived the attack of of an unholy creature. But it doesnt feel real, more like a dream, like a story I just witnessed, not one I took part in.'
the last moments of the nightmare were still stuck inside his mind. Remembering the bliss he felt, the bliss he will never experience again.
Then he remembered the spell.
"WHAT?"
"I recieved a true name?"
He was breathless. Only a small amount of awakened got true names, only the elite of elites did. Not even every saint has one. And now he also got one.
To be fair, he would have been enraged if he did not.
He was pretty sure he had the worst nightmare in history. Anything less would have been insulting.
'Feather of Twilight?' He thought. Looking back at everything that happened it was fitting.
He had absorbed part of the beast. Or part of his soul to be exact. Or was it the other way around. 'The the egg absorb me?' He thought in panic.
'Am I really me, I mean Sunless. Or am I just the egg taking controll of his body?'
After a few momets of hesitation he could confidently say he is Sunless.
"If I am the egg, how would my rank still stay at aspirant instead of unholy"
[Your Aspect is ready to transforming. Transforming Aspect?]
'was it not supposed to say evolving?' Sunny asked himself with suspicion.
But why would that matter.
'What kind of a question is that?!'
Sunny crossed his fingers and said "yes".
[Dormant Aspect Prophet is transforming…]
[New Aspect acquired.]
[Aspect Rank: Divine.]
Sunny fell over.
[Aspect Name: Feather of Apocalyps]
'Divine… it's Divine.'
Sunny was standing on his knees, stupefied. The shock was so great that for a second there he lost all control over his limbs and fell.
'It said "divine"... right?'
He raised a trembling hand and rubbed his eyes, making sure that he was awake. Or rather conscious, since, technically, he was still sleeping in the underground vault of the police station.
Confused by all this terminology, Sunny silently summoned the runes and found the lines describing his aspect.
Aspect: [Feather of Apocalyps].
Aspect Rank: Divine.
Aspect Description: [You are the first feather of the incarnation of annihilation. The Monster of the dark forest, once composed out of three noble birds, split its soul to prevent his destuction. As a being just below the gods and unknown, it storys caused fear across all realms. Each part of his split soul, each of his feathers posesses a fragment his power. ]
Innate Ability: [Strengh of being].
Ability Description: [Having aquired his split soul is not easy. Not everyone can hadle its pressure. Absorbing it has streghened every aspect of you.
That was… a lot to digest.
First of all, Sunny felt his heart beating faster. He heard it right! All the suffering and horror he had experienced in the First Nightmare paid off in the end. A divine Aspect, he had received a divine Aspect! Anything above Awakened was rare and immensely valuable!
People with Ascended Aspects were rare enough to be fought over by various factions. The factions themselves were built around singular powerhouses with Transcendent or Supreme Aspects. And he had never, ever heard of anyone acquiring a Divine one. Never!
[The First Seal is broken.]
[Awakening dormant powers…]
Sunny felt something waking up inside of him. The feeling was not painful or unpleasant, It was as though his soul was being shaken awake, infused with strange new energy.
Even that felt dissapointing. It was not even close to the sensation at th end of his nightmare.
This time however the energy of the process came from him. It bloomed from the deepest dephts of him. Not from an outside source like the egg.
Under that heat, his bones, muscles, organs and blood vessels were being purified. Sunny felt like every poisen he inhaled inside the outskirts was leaving him, he felt healthier.
His body had already been streghened enough. He doubted that the spell ,after being rebuid by the river of a daemon, whatever a daemon was, could make his body any stronger.
With each second, his transformation was becoming more profound. He also noticed some of the changes said river had caused.
He was not a weak, frail street kid anymore. He was not as vulnerable against anyone who would wish to bully him as he was in the past.
After some time had passed, the star burning in his chest finally cooled down. The heat was replaced with a soothing coldness. That coldness washed over Sunny's body, taking away all the aches and discomforts that had been accumulated there over the years. Then it moved up, reaching his brain and, finally, his eyes.
His vision changed.
instead of the net of starlight, his vision was filled with a dark sky, filled with numerous white dots.
It was his soul sea. Sunny knew what a soul sea was supposed to looked like, and his didnt fit any of those criteria.
For starters, it was supposed to be much more lively. The star hanging above — the visual representation of his soul core was supposed to be burning with bright light, filling the Soul Sea with a warm, blinding shining.
He had the stars hanging above. But nothing else. There was no representation of his soul core. None at all.
Instead the surface of his soul sea was glowing.
Looking down, Sunny saw a pale, blue sun reflecting in the surface.
The Spell's voice suddenly pulled him out of the Sea of Soul.
[Awakening Aspect Ability…]
[Aspect Ability acquired.]
[Aspect Ability Name: Eyes of transcendence.]
Sunny hurriedly summoned the runes. He wanted to go to the description of his new ability right away.
Name: Sunless.
True Name: Feather of Twilight
Rank: Dreamer.
Twilight Core: Dormant.
Soul Power: [12/1000].
'What is that?'
Sunny had never heard of a Twilight core. Or of anyone not having soul fragments.
"What the spell is Soul Power even supposed to mean?"
Looking for his ability desription, Sunny looked further.
Memories: [puppet string]
Echoes: —
Attributes: [Fated], [Feather of Sight], [Fledgeling of the Sky].
Aspect: [Feather of Apocalyps].
Aspect Rank: Divine.
Aspect Abilities: [Eyes of transcendence].
Aspect Ability Description: [Your eyes are able to see more and farther then those of normal people]
[All power has a price.]
[You have received a Flaw.]
[Your Flaw is: ...]