Liam settled into a lotus position on his bed, his spine straightening naturally as the Abyssal Dragon Constitution adjusted his posture without conscious thought.
The galaxy-colored pupils in his eyes began to swirl faster, the runes around them rotating in patterns that grew more complex with each passing second, as he activated the Dao Array Eyes fully, pushing past the surface level of perception he'd been using since the transformation.
The world around him changed.
It wasn't a gradual shift. One moment he was looking at the familiar interior of his quarters, and the next, reality itself peeled back like layers of paper being torn away. The walls, the bed, even the air around him became translucent, revealing something beneath that he'd never seen before.
Gears.
