Lucien's body reformed near the place where he had fallen.
He stood again in human form, bare and unbroken. His flesh reformed with a terrifying smoothness that felt less like healing and more like being rewritten from the point where death had failed to finish the soul.
Even the backlash from the collapse of his domain was gone.
The trembling ruin that should have followed the destruction of so much authority—
None of it remained.
Lucien understood why at once.
Eternal Soul Core – As long as the user's soul is intact, it can grant a second life upon death. It reforms their body near where they fell.
And Alanthuriel's last gift had mattered there too.
A small portion of the dark radiance that Alanthuriel had pressed into him had shielded the deepest parts of him when Severance came down. His spirit, his soul, even the Divine Energy Core had been wrapped just enough to keep the Eternal Soul Core from failing at the most important threshold.
Lucien acted immediately.
