The whole place was swallowed by an overwhelming aura. The air felt like it was freezing and burning at the same time. People started trembling, paralyzed — they couldn't move anymore.
The natives stared in horror at those two massive pairs of eyes. There was no doubt. The blessing inside them screamed it. Their instincts screamed it. That was... the two Divine Phoenixes of the twin universes.
But... Darian saw deeper.
His curse exploded like never before. His body and soul trembled, suffocated by an absurd concentration of black karma. It wasn't coming from those eyes — the eyes were just fake shadows, curtains hiding the real evil behind.
Behind them... two tiny soul fragments were controlling everything.
Darian understood it thanks to that book. No mortal could ever pull something like this off. This only happened when someone reached immortality — when their soul transcended the laws of the world.
