The moment those words left his lips, the air around him grew immensely heavy and chaotic. The atmosphere itself seemed to buckle under an unseen pressure. The very next instant, Valentine's lips parted as he spoke, his voice calm, cold, and resolute.
Shadow Art: Bane Form
In the same breath, Astra energy surged violently through his Astra veins, erupting outward and towering into the sky like a colossal pillar of night. For a fleeting moment, it dominated the sky, then it collapsed back into him in the very next split second. Shadows and darkness rose in response, coiling around his body in an eerie, almost ritualistic manner. They slithered across his form as though something ancient and monstrous was being born, something long restrained finally clawing its way into existence.
