Once the process stopped, Orion was still alive and he was now a violet-cored Awakened.
"What's wrong with me?" His body was stronger than ever but as he weaved his first tier four spell with true magic, he noticed there was something wrong with his mana core.
"I'm sorry. There was no way to completely stop your mana from leaking out of your body. As I told you, your core was overloaded. The worst case scenario was you going back to bright blue and the best was retaining the bright violet.
"The arrays and Nandi slowed down the bleed as much as they could, but we are no gods. You've been losing mana from the moment the procedure started until you began forming the auxiliary cores." Vastor and the others dried themselves before putting their clothes back on.
"I don't care. I'm alive. It's all that matters." Orion sat on the bed, still completely naked.
