CHAPTER 82 — BIRTH OF THE UNWORD
Darkness.
That was all Leylin knew.
It pressed in from every direction, thick and unyielding. Limbs that were not his twitched beneath him. Eyes that resisted opening strained against the void. Every movement, every attempt to breathe or reach, felt alien. He did not know where he was, and he did not know why his body fought him.
A low hum,cold, ancient...echoed across the emptiness. Strange symbols swirled before his mind's eye, gibberish and untranslatable, yet commanding.
§€#¥£€₹₱¥#
##¥₹₹¥€§#
He tried to understand. But Could not. Heck,he Could not even grasp the meaning let alone the sound.
Then, suddenly, a flash of light.
Then came that familiar sensation again...Pain.
Not subtle. Not this time. It was a Pain that tore through his consciousness and body as if fire and ice were fused into a single, screaming entity. Muscles contracted against him, sinews stretched beyond their limits, and bones ached as if being rewritten. His mouth opened, and a scream tore free, raw and untrained:
"Ahh…ahh…ahh!"
The light intensified, blinding, burning into him, But just as if it felt like he was about to lose consciousness again due to the pain...a familiar blue light flashed across his vision..status prompts. Alive and gleaming as if mocking his futile efforts to stay conscious
[RECALCULATING]
[CRITICAL..HOST ESSENSE DISINTEGRATING]
Leylin barely even had time to register the prompts as the pain flooded him from all direction,this wasn't like anything he had experienced before..it was as if someone was stitching his lungs together with a hot scalding thread as the pain rendered his mind unable to form other thoughts..
But just as it seemed like his consciousness was about to dissolve with the formation... something strange happened.
An unfamiliar warmth enveloped his skin as his fizzling consciousness felt a warmth it hadn't felt in a long time,and as if confirming his thoughts...the systems prompts followed soon after
[POST-ESSENCE STABILIZING]
[CONSCIOUSNESS BEING OVERRIDDEN]
[UNKNOWN AUTHORITY INTERFERENCE]
[FUSION: STABLE…STABLE]
Leylin barely had time to register the prompts that flashed through his vision as an. Energy he did not know he possessed rose within him.., collapsing into him and then rebounding, as if fortifying the body he now inhabited
It was A sensation unlike anything he expected..sharp, tearing, agonizing...yet warm. His form felt as if it were liquefying, flowing like molten metal. Threads of existence he had thought were stable began to crack. Something inside him fractured, then splintered, then reassembled violently. He screamed again, and the sound echoed, swallowed by the void, swallowed by the surge of energy.
Then, warmth. Again
And so the process continued as he did it know how long he had been in this strange state of death and rebirth...but when he finally opened his eyes..a strange message hovered before him
[Energy level stabilised,critical state neutralise]
He did not yet see, but he felt it.
The laboratory came into awareness not through sight, but through sensation. Silence. Absolute, broken only by the low hum of dormant machinery. Pods...empty. Clones..gone. The formation itself had collapsed, folded, absorbed. Energy, knowledge, life streams from thousands of beings..every trace drawn into him. The seven cores, once brilliant, vanished. All that remained..was raven black hair streaked with silver,smooth skin...too smooth for someone just born mortal,
But just as he was begining to take in the new scenery around him...
just as he was about to spread his senses around ..the machinery and remnants of the formation quivered.
Rocks falling of the ceiling as a blazing aura filled with wrath unlike anything he had experienced before loomed into view before he could process what just happened
"What… have you done!!?"