The cruel goddess' dismissal was all of the delay Frankie needed.  His jaws extended audibly as he pulled the fallen soldier to his mouth, biting into him with an audible crunch.  He bit through the fallen man's bones, sucked out the marrow, and devoured his heart, sucking down his internal organs like an evil toddler drinking ice cream from a straw.  Having swallowed the essence of his former comrade, Frankie kicked another corpse into the air, devouring its organs at an even faster rate.  In a few seconds, he was surrounded by parts of entrails and dismembered skeletons.  More importantly, several Zeus arcs had clattered to the ground next to him.<br/><br/>Frankie leaned down and slammed into the arc projectors with the stumps of his arms, his entire body projecting alchemical sigils as they discharged energy into him, the metal twisting and embedding itself into his flesh.  With a sound even more horrible than the sound of internal organs being slurped up, Frankie rose to his feet, his body glowing even further, the metal of the arc projectors having been twisted into makeshift claws.  He was covered in blood, lit by his sigils, and his chest heaved up and down as he transmuted the flesh of the soldiers of the DPDS into black ichor.<br/><br/>His muscles flexed and expanded as his dark lifeblood began to flow withing them, and he began to laugh; a deep, sinister laugh punctuated by a sharp crack of electricity between his metal claws.  His jaws retracted back into the depths of his skull, and his body began to shine with an inner light, casting curiously Latin shadows throughout the cavern.  His blind face turned towards Sayuri, as he opened up a claw.  "Now you know... my secret."  He said simply, barely able to speak coherently for the rush of power that flowed through him.  For so many years, he had sustained himself on animal organs and donated human blood, but for once he actually had occasion to go all out and fuel himself with true human meat.<br/><br/>He surged forward, raising his claws at the scent of ozone clustered around the sword princess so that he could avenge his compatriots who had so generously donated their organs to help him.  A bellow of rage, like that of a devil being thrown into a pit of black fire, echoed through the cavern, shaking the very depths of the tunnel.