Reaching out past their out-stretched hands, Snow grasped the contrasting black and white crowns.

There was no outward reaction to his treachery in the formless faces of the figures, but the moment he pulled the crowns from above their heads, a final chaotic ripple shook the black and white world surrounding them.

And just as fast as the structures had appeared, they disappeared. And this world once again pulled forward.

But this time it didn’t pull his formless body. Instead, it pulled his mind and expelled him from this hallucination.

Opening his eyes Snow was standing, now surrounded by bright white motes. He felt drowsy, his mind blurry and yet fully aware at the same time.

His now completely naked body felt stronger and healthier than it ever did in his whole life. It… felt amazing.

Focusing his vision, he started taking in his surroundings once more, he recognized the inside of the cathedral.

The sight calmed his heart

he moved his arms, clenching and unclutching his fist.

He couldn't explain the way his body felt, the strength that flowed through him was unnatural. un him, but it also felt right as though this was his life's goal, all the way up until now,

To become this version of himself.

Noticing, the white motes around him start to dissipate,

He was left in darkness.

But now his eyes peered through it with as much ease as looking through clear water.

He could see every detail inside the abandoned cathedral. But there wasn't much to see; it was all just destroyed wood and rubble.

Which was still a surprise. Since this catastrophic event couldn't be called a battle nor could it even be called a bloody massacre… it was just extinction…

But Snow had no mental space to ponder these things further, Or he didn’t want too…

He needed to know what had changed about him, what he had gained from using the shard.

And how this dream he’d had played into his awakening. He’d never heard about people having dreams when they awakened.

Most likely it was something he would’ve learned had he been an academy student.

The healing of his body and perception were obvious confirmations that he had awakened.

But there was an easier, more efficient way to get the information he was looking for.

It was common that upon awakening, people had some sort of sixth sense that allowed them to decipher various things about themselves, and their magical abilities.

It was some kinda of sorcery the priestess put on every shard, or at least that’s what he’d been told…

Snow wondered for a second why that could be so wildly known but not that an awakened had some sort of dream when they consumed a white shard. Moving that line of thought elsewhere.

He consider how exactly he was supposed to access this “6th sense” he had no knowledge of how exactly to do this. But he thought if it was some kind of sense, then he could find and use it just like his other 5 senses.

Closing his eyes, he searched for some… other sense.

But to his disappointment, it wouldn’t be as simple as just closing his eyes and feeling for some image. Letting out a sigh, he asked himself;

if I was a sixth sense that contained some kind of information.

“How would I be used?”

the memories of his time in the dream-like place surfaced in his mind. The way he could move, touch and feel but was formless.

Felt like a different kind of sense in a way, giving him all the actions of a body while not actually having one.

Closing his eyes once more, he reached in his mind for the formless feeling he had in the dream-like place.

After about 5 seconds in the back of his mind, golden strings began to form letters in an unfamiliar language.

The image was hazy and unclear, so he drug the image to the forefront of his mind. With invisible hands

And soon the golden words were as clear as water in his mind.

The language was unfamiliar but somehow he understood it. There were only 2 columns of information. The first one read,

(abilities: descendent of light and darkness).

Snow smiled outside of the darkness of his mind; His answer to the beings of light and darkness didn’t go unrewarded. Moving his mind down, he read

(darkness: To use the darkness ability the user , or the part of the user’s body summoning the element has to be submerged in the element, to use outside of the element the user needs to suffuses the element continuously with magical essence.)

(Light: the “light” ability can only be used while submerged in the element, to use outside of the element constant magical essence is needed.)

They both read virtually the same thing, but were worded differently, almost as though they were 2 different abilities and not one.

Noting that in the back of his mind Snow read the last section,

(magical affinities: fire, water).

Snow had no particular reaction to this information. He knew so little about magic and the elements he had no idea of the usefulness of those specific elements outside of heat and hydration.

Sighing, he opened his eyes. The information given to him left galaxies of information to be interpreted.

What exactly could he do with the

“descendent of light and darkness” ability?

How exactly did it work?… other than he could only use it in its respective element.

But this didn’t surprise him; not many people spoke of this ability given to the magically awakened, By the priestesses sorcery.

It was merely a starter for a person's growth, a bit of insight to their personal ability.

And that’s all he had expected it to be.