Caven looked at the potion before him.
He had just received it from Captain Rayleigh, the reward for all the contributions he had accumulated since joining the Explorer.
He was finally about to become a Faceless!
The potion was entirely blackish-green and looked utterly unappetizing. Bubbles occasionally rose from within, bursting when they reached the surface. As they drifted upward, they caught the light and reflected a variety of colors.
Those colors shifted without pattern, outlining faces of different shapes that corresponded to the essence of a Faceless.
Caven took a deep breath, removed the crystal pendant from his wrist, and divined the potion, receiving an omen that the danger was acceptable.
Without further hesitation, he picked up the glass bottle and drained the potion in one gulp!
The moment the potion entered his mouth, he felt a slight prickling numbness. It rapidly developed into paralysis that robbed him of sensation. Unsteady on his feet, he staggered to a mirror and saw himself melting within it, like a candle tossed into a furnace. His entire face was melting!
Immediately afterward, Caven felt as if his bones and skin were dissolving as well. He suddenly realized that he could not allow this to continue, or he would suffer Loss of Control.
Fortunately, he had ample experience with this. He began to meditate, doing his utmost to envision his figure and appearance over and over again, resisting and wrestling with that feeling of nearing Loss of Control.
Who knew how long passed before he regained the sensation of having a body and confirmed that he was still himself.
Thus, he knew that he had become Sequence 6, a Faceless.
When he opened his eyes and looked into the mirror, he was so frightened that he nearly suffered Loss of Control. The features