Everything from Lith’s features to his muscles now bordered on perfection, making it hard for the guests to take their eyes off him.
Yet when the same change happened to Kamila, Elysia, and Tista, they succeeded.
The baby girl only had two eyes like her mother, but they shone with prismatic light. The Verhens’ hair color hadn’t changed, yet under the magical lights of the Ball Room, they now gleamed with a reddish sheen like polished metal.
"I assume that you have all watched the recordings of the fight against Ruugat of the Earth." Lith said, and everyone nodded for him to continue. "Back then, I experienced a change that hinted at the possibility that my Tiamat bloodline held the secret of human evolution.
"I’m happy to tell you that the possibility turned into a certainty. When the Dead King attacked the Kingdom, he also sent his troops to the Blood Desert to keep me away. As you can see, my fight with his Upyrs ended with more than my victory.
"When their Frost Soul sealed my equipment, arrays, and elemental magic, my survival instinct awakened the dormant power of my human side. On that day, this aspect of my life force manifested itself for the first time.
"To prove to you this is not just a trick, allow me to introduce our honored guests from Zelex to you."
On his cue, Urhen the Balor and Ryla the Fomor joined the Verhens.
"I apologize in advance if my words offend anyone, but I’m going to put this in terms that are easy to understand even for laymen. You, or rather, most of you, are the foundation of humanity. The evolutionary equivalent of regular animals."
Death Vision showed more than one undead disguised as a noble among the guests. One of them was a Lich.
"Urhen and all Balors like her are the equivalent of magical beasts. Ryla and Fomors are Emperor Beasts. My wife, daughter, sister, and I are Indeches, the equivalent of Divine Beasts."
Under any other circumstance, the ballroom would have burst into an uproar. Everyone had something to say, objections to make, and questions to ask, but their mouths refused to open.
Moreover, the guests could feel in their guts that Lith was telling the truth. The humans, in particular, had no doubts about it.
While Urhen’s figure exuded beauty and strength, Ryla was beautiful, strong, and imposing. The Indeches were all that, but they also exuded an aura of majesty that would have brought the humans to their knees if they weren’t already sitting.
Lith and the other Indeches were releasing none of their power. Their presence itself exerted a pressure that primed the guests’ instinct to bow and cower. They couldn’t tell whether it was an instinct akin to a prey recognizing its predator or a commoner his king, only that the instinct was there.
"Please, believe me when I say I didn’t hide this form out of malice." Lith said. "I discovered it only recently, and I’ve devoted this time to understanding what it can do and how it can help us to defeat the Dead King.
"I still have much to learn, but this I can already show you." He took a deep breath, activating his yellow eye and turning one-sixth of his feathers yellow.
Lith’s relentless training paid off, a golden lightning sparked from his eye and arched across his body before focusing on his hands. Lith chose two nobles with weak cores and bodies, avoiding Awakened and undead alike.
The audience gasped as Vital Storm struck, then gasped again when its targets yelled in ecstasy instead of pain.



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