"This won't take long. It will be over soon."
He said this casually. As he spoke, the Artifice Sage's prosthetic fingers began to deconstruct and separate as he extended them, revealing the precision instruments beneath the flesh-like shell—a needle containing countless nanoscale filaments.
Flexing his finger, the Artifice Sage seemed to inspect the sharpness of the needle on his fingertip. Then, with a quiet POP, he calmly inserted the needle directly into the Spirit Summoner's brain.
Then, his Spiritual Power activated. The needle began to deploy the stored nano-filaments, which spread inside the skull to entangle and envelop the Spirit Summoner's brain tissue.
HUMMM— A light glowed, shining from the Spirit Summoner's eyes, ears, and nostrils.
Behind the Artifice Sage's helmet, which resembled a pair of VR goggles, an identical icy-blue radiance shone.
