[A/N: This bonus chapter is thanks to OfcSoccer4]
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The ground beneath Simon's cheek kept sinking.
He could hear it breaking beside his ear, layer after layer, without a single fragment rising from the ground. Even the blood he had spat out lay flattened against the rock.
Lilith remained standing.
But her shoulders had stiffened, and her lips were pressed tightly together. Being a spirit had not spared her. The gaze reached something in her that the absence of flesh could not protect.
Simon's eyes widened further.
He had never encountered such pressure, or an aura that made his soul recoil so violently.
Not in this life. Not in the one before it.
Sweat streamed down his forehead and soaked his body. Veins rose across his temples, neck, and arms, spreading over muscles that strained so hard they began to spasm.
He drove demonic energy through his shoulders.
'Get up.'
His Prime Forged Heart hammered.
'GET UP!'
The cube flashed again.
