Darkness materialized from Kim's fingertips... it spread over the bones of his hands, then ascended to his forearms, coiling like a snake around his skin until black, distorted gloves formed, breathing like a living creature.
From his chest and legs, dark layers emerged, wrapping around his body, forming a complete armor, topped by a half-face mask that covered his neck up to the middle of his features.
Kim... was no longer fully human.
He said in a faint voice:
"Amun... which one of them controls Time?"
He answered him:
"It's Kara... but I didn't think Lithia would come with her."
Kim raised his hands, and darkness clustered between his fingers... then the air split open to reveal two daggers:
The first dripped poisonous blackness, droplets evaporating before they touched the ground.
The second was steeped in a faint darkness that pulsed with his heartbeats.
Lithia looked at him cautiously.
Is he... like me? Does he use poisons?
But the truth was more terrifying:
Kim was no longer controlling the darkness... the darkness was starting to control him.
The first dagger was the harbinger of ill omen; everything it touched vanished or died.
And the second, the Corrupt Blade, paralyzed the body and induced a deadly hallucination in the enemy.
Kim's choice of them... was no coincidence.
Kara raised the Scepter of Time, time sparks flying around it.
Lithia said with contempt, clenching her fist:
"You wretched being... are you going to stand before me like that? Ask the one inside you who I am."
But Kim interrupted her without letting her finish:
"Yes... he said you were annoying. And strong... but I see you as nothing more than a whore."
Her gaze froze... and rage exploded