With that, she starts chanting rapidly, and what can only be called a huge droplet of blood splashes down upon you, causing you to accidentally swallow some of the blood as you are surrounded by the highly magical substance. Your entire body starts to tingle as you are fully submersed in the blood of the dragon, and you begin to run out of breath, you try to emerge from the blood, only to find yourself... frozen in place. The tingling sensation fades and is replaced by... something different entirely. You close your eyes, and envision...

You keep focusing on the image forming in your head until it becomes clear to you. The image of a dragon. No, the Essence of a Dragon. The image fully takes shape as the roaring form of a dragon as it infuses into your very being, changing you irreversibly. The ludicrously powerful blood of your daughter changes you rapidly. You can feel your body changing, your strength increasing. Your magic circuits burning as they melt and fuse together in order to take a new form within your body. All of your circuits, you can feel all of them burning like somebody had set fire to your entire body, if you weren't submerged in blood, you'd scream out in pain, but you instead simply grit your teeth as you undergo the change, no matter how painful it might be, you can withstand it. You can withstand any sort of pain, no matter how great. You have the willpower, trained thanks to Touko's insight. Your pain tolerance is pretty incredible, really. Even a missing limb or a hole pierced through your entire body won't cause you to stop being able to function unless an internal organ like your heart or both of your lungs are destroyed.

Finally, the pain of the transformation subsides a few minutes after the actual changes stop, and you burst out of the tub, splattering the surroundings with Alítheia's blood and taking deep gasps for air as you do. As much as it pained you to go through with the ritual, it's... done now. You've become far more powerful, you can already feel it even without activating your brand new reactor core. You simply have too much magical energy available to you as you are now.

[Status Updated]

Part 43