It was a feeling difficult to describe in words.
Sean felt as though every cell in his body was ascending. And in the deeper reaches of those cells, in corners so deep they did not belong to reality, something entirely new emerged.
Something was slowly filling the void that had always existed within him. His soul underwent a complete cleansing and purification.
On Sean's Soul Floating Island, everything that had once been familiar was undergoing earth-shaking changes.
The Sky Island expanded outward by another vast circle. The classical villa belonging to the Wallop family, which also represented Sean's inner sanctuary, collapsed like sand.
In its place rose a towering temple steeped in ancient grandeur.
All manner of ringing bells and the sounds of clock hands turning emerged from every corner of the temple.
An unknown golden bird leaped out of the temple. Before it had flown halfway, it began to age. Its beautiful feathers shriveled, and as it desperately flapped its wings, more feathers fell away.
Then it rapidly grew old, until it became a skeleton still desperately flapping its wings.
The skeleton finally turned to dust and fell. Immediately afterward, the temple emitted a faint glow, gathering the scattered feathers and dust together.
A new golden bird appeared above the temple once more, continuing toward the sky before shedding its feathers, turning into bones, and becoming dust.
The scene repeated itself over and over, without end.
Pride, who witnessed all this, revealed a stunned expression. The hands supporting Robin's temple on his shoulders did not waver, yet disbelief appeared faintly on his face.
"This is... a temple... How is that possible... How could his Soul Floating Island suddenly transform into a temple?"
"Has he already become a god? No, impossible. He has only been gone for so long, and