Ever since the sealing process began, Evan had been struggling.
Years of training and practicing his skills could not have fully prepared him for this moment. The priests had warned him about the effects of the sealing ritual, and he had expected the same.
But they were wrong. In fact, the effects were much worse than he had been told. It was just excruciating pain all over and nothing else.
Was this the result of the fusion of all the Spirits in his body?
There was a reason why each Guardian only harbored one Spirit inside of them. That Spirit was like the embodiment of their magic, a part of their essence. Sucking out that essence meant taking away a fraction of their power.
It did not mean that they would become powerless once the Spirit was extracted from them by their Summoner, but the merging process was a necessary step in order to summon the Final Spirit, the Deiridh.