The heavy piano chord hung in the air like a physical weight. Seraphina opened her mouth.
She expected the familiar agony of torn tissue. She braced her mind for the taste of copper blood in the back of her throat.
She drew a massive breath into her expanded lungs.
The oxygen hit her vocal cords. She released the first note of the aria.
It did not sound like a human woman. It sounded like divine judgment.
The sound ripped through the Royal Grand Opera House. It bypassed the expensive microphones. The raw acoustic power of her voice struck the mahogany walls and magnified tenfold.
A golden System notification flared in Ryan dark vision.
[Biological Enhancement Confirmed: SSS Rank Soprano Unlocked.]
Seraphina did not just sing the sheet music. She unleashed three years of trapped ago
