"What I’m going to do, instead, is to keep focusing on Accumulation to-"
A golden pillar descended from the sky, engulfing Tista and pushing everyone away from her as her bright cyan core released a powerful mana flow to get rid of the impurities that kept it from reaching the blue.
"What the fuck?" The Ernas sisters said.
"Quylla’s death hit Tista really hard." Solus said while activating the tower’s Immortal Body array to ensure her friend’s survival. "She spent the last four days either training or using Accumulation, taking breaks only to eat."
Contrary to everyone’s expectations, Tista didn’t scream and her breakthrough didn’t last long. Just like a human Awakened, she lost her hair, her nails fell, and her flesh and bones got turned inside out to let the impurities come out.
At the same time, like an Emperor Beast, the pillar nurtured her body that instead of restructuring itself as that of a human, it turned into something else. Everything that Tista shed would immediately be recycled to form scales, claws, and wings.
With every blue pulse that her core released, she grew in both height and mass until no trace of the beautiful young woman she had been until a minute back remained.
Once the golden pillar disappeared, Tista was glad that her armor was designed for Lith, otherwise the transformation would have left her stark naked.
"What the heck is that?" Lith took the words out of everyone’s mind.
Tista was now about 2 meters (6’7") meters tall and her body was a deep blue slate covered in thin scales that resembled those of a big fish. She had no horns, a small tail came out the small of her back, and she only had two eyes.
The left eye had now a pupil of the same hue of blue of her hair streaks while the right had the silver pupil of light magic. Both of them shone with the power of the elements.
Two majestic silver-veined blue feathered wings came out of her back, yet there was no trace on her hips of a second set.
"Wof m I? Hod I tn bk?" Tista said in a panic.
"You still have a mouth, Tista, but your voice is muffled by the scales. Opening them is akin to moving your lips. All you have to do is to imagine that you are baring your teeth to someone." Lith said.
"What am I? How do I turn back?" The blue scales slid back, revealing two rows of fangs and a panicked throat filled with deep blue flames.
"Definitely not a Tiamat." Lith shapeshifted and stood in front of his sister to show her the many differences between them. "A Demon, I’d say. And since I suck at naming, I dub thee the Blue Demon."
"I don’t give a fuck about how you call me! How do I get back being a human?" Tista said in outrage as the blue flames seeped out, engulfing her body without harming either her or the Scalewalker.
The phenomenon gave have her an intoxicating feeling as if she was high on pure mana.
"How did I do that? I never saw you doing that before. Why do I feel like stretching my wings and flying away?" Tista forgot everything about her worries while the power of the flames burning inside of her made her feel as if she was taking the best hot bath ever.
"You are a woman and according to Salaark, you took more from Raaz than Lith did. Everything you are feeling and doing is probably due to your Phoenix blood talking." Solus said.
"It feels amazing!" Tista said, making the flames burn higher and higher.
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