The tremendous impact brought tremendous pain.
It felt as though someone had smashed my soul to pieces, and my consciousness grew hazy.
After breaking through the limits of my body once, my soul seemed to collide with something. It was squeezed, slowly forced out of that object. My soul itself changed, too. Something grew out of my body and pierced through my skin.
I shouldn't have any skin now. I was nothing but a pure soul. Yet the stinging, tearing sensation was so vivid.
When I came to and all the pain faded, a sense of exhilaration welled up within my consciousness.
Something had been set free.
But what came next was an instinct that made me shudder.
The urge to destroy, the urge to kill... A voice seemed to echo endlessly in my mind, ordering me to do something.
Boom!
A heavy sound. I didn't know what massive object had hit the ground.
It definitely wasn't a sack of rice, a barrel of oil, or even a human body. Something heavier... A lion, an elephant, a dinosaur... I couldn't say.
The ground seemed to tremble.
I heard screams, too.
Screams of terror, desperate shouts, and furious howls from people who had lost their heads in panic.
Something struck my body. It didn't hurt, but I could feel it touching me.
At last, I opened my eyes and saw the sky, right in front of me.
The sky above the city was gray. It seemed to be a gloomy day, with smog, dark clouds... or something else.
The tops of the skyscrapers resembled the tips of giant swords, stabbing into the sky.
Above the clouds, lightning seemed to flash, then vanished at once.
There was no sun, and so no sunlight. The whole world was dimly lit, and I couldn't