86 Ritual II (2/2)
The crown shivered multiple times as it hungrily sucked the ritual waters like a starved beast. As for his soul, it also absorbed some but not as intense as the crown did. Minutes passed and slowly the crown was visibly changing. From it's tattered and old appearance, it now posses that majestic aura and golden brilliance just like what it did in the past.
As for his soul, it's body shine with a pure bright light and it's no longer curled up like a ball. Once it absorbed enough energies, it awoken from it's slumber. The crown jumped from his hands and placed itself on top of his soul's head. As the crown and the soul merged, his whole sea of consciousness brightened and became like a crystal sea. Untainted with impurities and still like a calm lake. His consciousness form merged with his own soul, afterwards the soul looked up and swam up towards the surface of the water.
It stood on top of the calm sea and carefully took in the endless view of the skies. With a wave of it's hand, the sky warped. It's hands tightened and the sky folded in like a crumpled paper with it's might. With another swipe of it's hand, the fake skies disappeared and the true skies on the Sea of Consciousness appeared.
An endless starry space filled with multiple constellations. A vague outline of different images and arrangement was displayed right before it's bright eyes. It roamed it's gaze on the skies and looked for the brightest constellation that it could find.
It didn't take long before the soul managed to located the brightest constellation, it looked at it carefully and branded the image on it's brain.
The constellation was the Myriad Limb, a creature that has multiple arms and legs with a single body and head. The Soul raised it's hand and made a grasping motion. The Myriad Limb brightened even further and sent a pillar of light towards the soul.
When the pillar of light touched the soul. The Sea of Consciousness shook and golden altar emerged, the soul was in the middle of that altar and watched it form. A smile of satisfaction emerged on it's space, it sat down and Raven's consciousness returned to his body.
His soul was now awake and communed with the Starry Skies of the Spirit World. His job was done here and the ritual was about to end so he needed to return,
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While all of this was happening, all that the audience could see was a resplendent brilliance covering each of students' bodies.
The people who were used to seeing strange phenomenas were greatly surprised since there has never been a case like this before. They knew that the ritual is good for an individual and the results were amazing, causing their bodies to emit a bright light but these kids took that onto the next level.
Their bodies shone like miniature suns. Each of them looked incredibly sacred and holy as of the moment that one can't just look away from them. The ritual waters even helped with the refraction of light, making the scene more majestic.
Under their dumbstruck expressions, the light gradually faded. The ritual waters gently went back to it's space and the kids slowly floated down. Even though there were soaked in the water for so long, there were no traces of wetness on their clothes or their bodies. They appeared just like how they looked before but one could tell that their auras are no longer similar.
On one look, they might appear extremely normal but it one sensed closely, they would find out that there is a majestic and suppressing force hiding inside their bodies. If one of them chose to flared their aura on a Soldier-level enemy, then their aura's alone could greatly suppress them, even though they just stepped into the realm themselves.
One by one, the team woke up from their meditation. It started with the girls, and then the boys ending with Raven. As he opened his eyes, a faint mark of a star emerged on his forehead before retreating back like it wasn't there in the first place.
Briefly sensing their auras, Old Lee and Korra can't hide their astonishment. They stared at them for a good while before eventually shaking their heads...
”Congratulations on safely traversing the Ritual.” They both greeted which made the kids smile.