Elias could feel a haze of bloodlust beginning to rise inside his heart. It was worthy to note that while he had killed at least a hundred and fifty people, these killings were spaced out over years, but with the time he had spent inside the Fragment, and the last few hours, Elias had killed thousands.
The statues of Asulon he had shattered with the surprising eruption from his Ascendant Swarm, in addition to the monstrous mother and her children he had killed below, was just the spark that was igniting a fire inside him, and if he had been allowed to rest so he could process these changes slowly, perhaps this fire would have died down, but he was thrown into combat once again, and all of these accumulated killings were awakening something inside of him.
