Alex felt his knuckles buckle and turn white under the hilt of Virtue's Edge, even though he knew – felt – that the sword wouldn't release him even if he wanted it to.
It wasn't his will keeping him there.
It was Virtue's Edge itself…
In conjunction with Soulforge.
The instant Mikhail's light vanished, his life extinguished, the power buried deep within Alex roared to life.
He gasped, as if struck by lightning.
There was no visual guide provided by the System to guide him, no details about how his unsealed Soulforge worked, no status prompts, requirements, no anything.
It was all gone the moment he stepped into this sealed fragment of space, hence he only had his own instincts to rely on.
But Alex trusted fully in his instincts. That was what Mikhail advised him to do anyway, and since it was the advise of someone at the Universal God level, Alex wasn't going to doubt or question it one bit!
