Valkorath Realm, Soraya City.
Inside the Purification Tower, beams of brilliant blue energy lanced out, striking Orion's mirrored avatar. The light pulsed with an intense, scouring power, as if trying to burn some deep, malevolent substance from his very being. Faint runes of a bloodline curse flared across his skin before being suppressed and vanishing once more.
Within the metaphysical space of his bloodline, a colossal predator bird took flight, its shadow covering the psychic landscape below. A thrill of pure ecstasy shot through Orion. Through the creature's eyes, he could finally see the end of the endless swarm of curse monsters.
The cursed blood-chrysalis sealed within him was almost fully refined.
A new, unique avatar was about to be born from its ashes.
A silent, piercing cry echoed in his mind as he gazed down upon his inner world, his soul filled with a bottomless, predatory greed.
Almost there. This victory is mine.
