After activating Markings, one's combat abilities could be greatly enhanced, and patterns symbolizing the activation of the Markings would appear on the user's body. Different Marked swordsmen bore different patterns.
For ordinary people, the Markings covered roughly less than half a face. Yoru Machi's Markings, however, were astonishingly large.
Most Marking patterns consisted of simple geometric shapes, but Yoru Machi's were exceptionally intricate: a demon god holding a long blade in one hand and a Higanbana in the other.
Not only was the design complex, but its area was outrageously vast. The black Markings spread across half of Yoru Machi's upper body like tattoos, even extending over part of his face.
The Markings appearing on Yoru Machi's face formed the pattern of a Higanbana.
And that was not the end, because the changes occurring to Yoru Machi's body had yet to stop.
For an ordinary person to activate Markings, their body temperature needed to reach 39 degrees Celsius, while their heart rate had to exceed 200 beats per minute.
But Yoru Machi's temperature had risen above 43 degrees, and his heart rate had surpassed 300.
An ordinary person's body naturally could not bear such a burden, but Yoru Machi was no ordinary person. He was a Soul Reaper!
Even though he was no longer a Spirit Body, his physical constitution was still far from that of an ordinary human.
After surging forth like floodwaters bursting through a broken dam, his erupting Reiryoku rapidly began to converge again.
Yet the calmed Reiryoku did not return directly to Yoru Machi's body. Instead, it began flowing into the Markings on his skin.
The originally black Markings, infused with Reiryoku, seemed to have finished charging. Blue light began to shine through their former darkness.
Because the battle had been so intense, Yoru Machi was