Kaiden had not left the hammed he had hammered down alone. Unlike Lucas, he seemed to have expected a change. The dark water on his hands had been moved to cover the hammer as it hit the ground, and he made it explode, sending the shards of a different from the dark red ground flying away.
His voice reached beyond Lucas' brain and he understood the meaning of the words. Moreover, somewhere in the background, his brain too worked on archiving the words themselves, like he was learning a language on the fly.
He internalized the words as his eyes flashed at the words 'soul', 'Level 6' and 'Integration Stage'. That meant that Estrella had been right in her inference, and it might be the soul he was receiving and understanding Kaiden with, something he had touched long ago, it seemed.
Moreover, he suddenly found a category for his strength. Then what about Broomf, and the others he had met who had been or were stronger than Level 5 but weaker than Level 6?
