Dark Magus Returns

The artifact that Raze was using this time wasn't exactly a magical item, so it wasn't easy for him to see the effects of the chalice or know how to really use it. As a researcher in the magic field, he had his ways, as mages had to learn about enchantments before they could ask them to reveal their information to themselves.

That though was a process that would take some time, and Raze had been focusing on much larger things. Truthfully, he never thought he would be using the chalice so early on, due to the chance of what would appear.

Only when he felt he was strong enough to take on someone from the Divine Realm and reach the Divine stages did he think he would use such a thing, so he never fully went into detail about learning how to activate the chalice.

However, he did remember the details that had occurred in the Lethal Bite Clan, and how a mage from back then was used as well.

"Mages' blood is different from regular blood; even that is infused with our mana, because our core surrounds our heart, and it affects the blood that runs through our veins," Raze said as he watched his blood dripping into the chalice until finally it had reached an indented line in the chalice itself.

The whole chalice started to light up, glowing in a yellow energy. No longer could the metal of the chalice be seen because it was shining so bright. Raze held it steady with both hands on either side; he could feel a large amount of energy from it, but he wasn't going to let it go.

'What is going on, what even is that artifact?' Murkel thought. The energy was felt through his own body, and he had a gut feeling that whatever was to come would be dangerous. Hardening the whole of his body, he started to charge toward Raze.

Before he could reach him, right out of the chalice the energy beamed up, it shot up to the sky. It was shining incredibly bright and had ripped through the clouds above. When it had hit a certain point, all of the energy was condensing into a circle which was growing larger and larger in the sky.

It somewhat looked like the dimensional portals the others went in.

'This is it, this is opening up the dimension between the realm the Divine beings are in, and the world of Pagna. Whatever comes through next, we have to deal with it,' Raze thought.

Everything felt like it was in slow motion in Raze's mind because he could see Murkel chasing after him, he had extended out his hand, and the crystal was enlarging, aiming right for the chalice.

Looking at the sky, Raze just wanted it to hurry up, he just wanted whatever being that was going to come, to come through, and when looking up that's when something odd had occurred. The portal above was reversing.

It started to close up, and completely sealed, then the beam of energy came shooting back down. It looked like it was aiming right back for the chalice. However, it didn't hit the chalice; as it continued coming down it hit Raze's entire body.

The energy burst out from Raze, going in every direction. When it hit Murkel, it caused great pain in his body which had caused him to stop. For a moment his red crystallized hand retracted and he fell to his knees as he winced in pain.

The beam of energy had surrounded Raze and now his entire body was lighting up with the energy instead.

"What happened, did something go wrong?" Simyon asked. "Did his plan not work?"

Everyone watching thought the same thing, they were unsure, and little did they know, Raze had no idea himself what was happening.

As the energy continued to hit him, he could feel a massive amount of Qi building up from within. It was daunting, and it was clouding his mind. His vision was going in and out. Seconds felt like minutes to him as well.

Although Raze had no clue what was happening to him, the others that were watching had a picture of what was going on because they could see changes happening to Raze's body. For one, his white hair was extending in length, it was growing.

It continued to grow until it reached halfway down his back. On top of that, his eyes, blood was starting to pour down them, running down his cheek, but when they reached the bottom, they didn't fall off or drop to the ground.

Raze's fingernails then started to grow in length, turning longer than they did before, and finally, the last change that was occurring to him, was his bright white hair, it was changing, as it was becoming a dark soaked red from the top to the very tips that were shining even brighter, as bright as blood.

Raze's thoughts were that the chalice was meant to summon a being for a short moment, but then he remembered, the chalice from the Lethal Bite Clan had done the same, it hadn't summoned a Divine being, one had taken over the body, it had used it as a host.

It was then that Raze's mind was no longer in his body.

The pain that Murkel felt was no longer there, but when he looked up at Raze, looked up at the student that was once there, whatever he was looking at now, a different feeling took over Murkel.

The crystals on his back, the crystals all across his body, even the back of his arms, all of them were shaking, clashing against each other making a small chime. It sounded as if Murkel's very own body was scared of what he could see in front of him.

"What's happened to Raze? Is he okay… why did the item change him, and there's blood coming out of his eyes, he can't be okay, right? No one can be okay after blood comes out of your eyes!" Simyon erratically said.

Safa had tapped the side of her head, activating her god eyes, and she could see it, the energy surrounding Raze soaking in dark red color.

"That's… that's… that's not Raze," Safa said, her bottom lip trembling… "That's the woman in blood!"