Matter Reorganization, Controlling Space

"No!!!"

Lucy looked at her bloody arms and screamed in absolute terror.

She scrambled up from the ground in a panic...

Right after that, the skin on her body began peeling off in large sheets.

Before long, she shed all her outer skin and turned into a crimson human figure.

The excessive body temperature caused blistering waves of heat to continuously steam from her form.

Lucy stood in place, trembling and filled with utter despair.

Yet under the mighty force of accelerated time, her body temperature continued to climb at an astonishing speed.

"No!!!"

Lucy let out a shrill scream as her entire body was quickly burned to charcoal by the overloaded temperature.

Crack~

Lucy's corpse instantly collapsed, hitting the ground as a puff of fly ash.

Richard frowned and muttered, "Did it fail...?"

Yet immediately after, he suddenly felt a trace of excitement transmitted from the True Spirit.

That puff of fly ash moved without wind, swirling as it flew upward.

Hum~

An inexplicable fluctuation suddenly appeared.

The fly ash converged, re-forming a human figure once again.

Next, the bones reorganized... flesh coalesced... skin covered the surface...

Lucy was resurrected!

Her long eyelashes fluttered, and she slowly opened her eyes.

"I'm... alive again?!!!"

Lucy raised her arms, looking in pleasant surprise at her skin, which had recovered to pristine condition.

"God! What on earth is going on?!"

Acting on instinct, she tried to recreate that moment of her 'resurrection'...

Bang~

Lucy's right arm directly exploded into a patch of fly ash.

Seeing this, not only was she unafraid, but her eyes grew even brighter instead.

[Condense!]

The fly ash quickly converged, turning back into her arm.

Lucy turned her wrist over and muttered, "I can actually control matter reconstruction..."

A thought arose in her mind, and she