"I will live for myself after my mistakes are fixed."<br/><br/>He gathered his power into himself, and curled into a ball but hovered a couple of feet off the floor. Energy crackled along his skin, and he seemed to explode, a blast of raw energy saturating the room, and when it cleared, he was no longer in his human form, but a vaguely medium humanoid of balefire. He glanced at his fingers, idly checking as he ensured he had properly completed the form, before smiling at Verdelet. "Smile bitch. Its about time for you die."<br/><br/>He glanced at her, and gestured for her to release the counter spell, daring her to use it. He waited a second, before smiling, and lashing out with tiny strips of balefire that acted like whips, scarring the floor and runes as he tossed them backwards, where they hissed, and began slowly eating into the metal. "Might wanna hurry. No telling what will happen with my... modifications. After all, property damage IS something of a specialty of ours."