The pain was so terrible and unbearable that it made her screamed a piercing cry that shook shook the entire mountain. She was cursing in her mind silently due to the fact that ascending closer to rank VIII was such an even more painful process than the times she did in the lower ranks. Dark and vile thoughts swirled in while she kept on biting her lips until it bled while gripping hard of anything she grabbed, crushing it into fine powder.
"Arghhh! Why... is it... so painful?!" She managed to ask such a stupid question when she already knew the answer.
Since the power coursing through their souls wasn't natural and it especially came from a god's blessing, it was only natural that their bodies would feel pain every time they ascend closer to a higher rank, taking in more of the unnatural power that gradually changed the shape of their souls.
