[His fingers come up to his chest to absently trace where his Cruxis Crystal would have been, should be, before clenching into a fist and falling to his side again.]

With stones called Exspheres. They can transform the body...and the body can transform them in return, to create more powerful stones called Cruxis Crystals.

With a Cruxis Crystal you can push your strength beyond normal limitations. You no longer need food or sleep. You don't have to feel pain anymore - you don't have to feel anything anymore. You can be a god. Everyone can. [His tone has been eerily placid until the end, when the strange quiet started to tear under the strain of a violent sort of desperation.]