The moment Merciless returned to the Sea of Correspondence, the remnants of Faust's dagger, which had once embedded itself in his heart, flickered in a final blaze of heat before dissolving into nothingness.
The very surroundings around him crackled with the aftershocks of that power, an intense warmth that faded rapidly as if the dagger's essence had been consumed entirely by the sins it represented—Pride and Vanity.
From there the fading heat swirled around him, echoing the loss of Faust's presence, creating a sensation akin to the ashes of a dying star dissipating into the cosmos, in hopes of creating another.
