Chapitre 169: Palace of Ice (3)

The darkness that rested against his back previously was ephemeral, it had no physical weight, but he could feel its touch on his soul, but as the limit for the bloodline continued to increase the sensation changed from only sensing the shadow on a spiritual level, he began feeling its weight in the physical.

The Soul Reaver bloodline was not supposed to be able to touch the material world at will. The implications for the bloodline to be able to freely exist and interact with the material world was beyond what he had first expected.

The weight grew, slowly as the color of the black and purple smoke condensed, until it began as black as coal, and the purple dotting its skin became like countless burning stars that glinted in that darkness.

From it touch on his back, Rowan began to sense a chilling cold that penetrated his Empyrean body, and indeed around him, frost began to spread as black ice grew under him.