[An Awakened Will: A sprout of defiance. Your authority over the world increases.]
Kallen stared at the notification for a while, trying to pinpoint why it felt unfamiliar, despite having seen something almost identical before.
And then it clicked.
He scrolled through his records and found the discrepancy.
The first had read: "A seed of defiance."
This one read: "A sprout of defiance."
Just a subtle shift in phrasing, but the difference felt as vast as heaven and earth.
When he had first awakened his Will, it made him feel omnipotent—as if he could split the seas down to their bedrock or command the mountains to soar into the skies. In that moment, he had felt like a god.
That illusion hadn't lasted long.
Reality had soon stripped him of such egoistic fantasies, leaving him bare and broken. He hadn't even had time to wallow in that delusion... life had only gotten worse since.
But this evolution... this was different.
