Chapter 264 - Changes

Nick was thankful that the pain was over or at the very least hoped it was. nick frowned deeply when he heard an audible "crack" ring out from where the seed sat in his abdomen. more and more cracking sounds came from that area until finally the seed exploded sending the largest wave of pain yet through nicks body along with a boated sensation. this bloating was from the new dantian that came out of the seed expanding to fill the void the previous one left and then some. the remnants of the seed spread all over nicks body like grains of sand until the entirety of it was covered. the grains of the seed then did something odd , each one of them began to draw in the eclipse qi and expand. this process of continued until the pieces of the seed came into contact with each other making expansion impossible. at this point the seed pieces stopped expanding and began to draw in the eclipse qi before causing it to undergo a transformation into some unknown type if qi that was then flooded into nicks body.

As the eclipse qi grew denser and denser so to did the unknown qi in nicks body until the eclipse was over and all the eclipse qi vanished. at this point the seed fragment dissolved entirely removing the only thing keeping the unknown qi in check. immediately the unknown qi began to eat away nicks body cell by cell while replacing them with new cells that shined in a black and white light. this transformation of his body continued even when nick fell into unconsciousness until the entirety of nicks body was replaced. at this point the rest of the energy flooded into nicks new dantian were it tempered it repeatedly until even that was shining in a black and white light. the remaining qi then condensed into a small puddle inside the dantian where it finally turned inactive. tyrion watched this entire process worried about his partner until nick began in what he could only describe as the most regal lights before all activity ceased. tyrion continued to watch over nick for the next four days in which time he noticed that the qi in the surroundings naturally gravitated towards nick before being absorbed.at first tyrion thought that nick was waking up but soon realized this was not the case as no matter the what he did nick wasn't stirring.

Tyrion just watched over nick while ignoring the odd phenomena of the qi around nick until the day nick actually began to stir. nick felt the qi flowing through him as he awoke which brought a smile to his face. sitting up nick immediately realized something was different with his body but he couldn't quite figure out what it was until he went to flex his fiend energy only to find it gone. 'system status!' he mentally commanded.