193 A little invisible shadow 2 (1/2)

Though it was not visible to her eye, An Fei knew exactly where the diagram was located.

Directly level with her chest, separated by a distance of seventy-three centimeters.

If she were to lean forward for a bit and stretch her arms forwards in the direction of her heart, her fingers would make contact with the mystical pattern remaining stable in the air.

Unlike before, the invisible diagram continued to release fluctuations of spiritual essence even after the prescribed half-life period of three breaths of time had long since passed.

An Fei counted in her heart that two minutes had passed, yet her heart gently resonated with the fluctuations of spiritual essence emitted from the invisible chart before her chest.

Truly… a mystery.

”I wonder…”

An Fei murmured as she lightly lifted her body from the ground, crawling forward with the index finger of her right hand serving as the pathfinder.

Twenty centimeters, thirty centimeters… all the way until the distance of seventy-three centimeters had been crossed, and the finger poked against the surface of the diagram hovering in the air.

And the moment her fingertip made contact, the digit vanished from the air.

”…oh?”

The young girl gasped as she carefully glanced at her right hand, for a portion of it was missing.

The joints of her palm that connected with the index finger was not present along with the digit itself, but there were no marks of harm or injury.

She couldn't find any blood, nor did she experience any sensation of pain.

An Fei stared dumbly for a brief moment, her mind grinding to a halt.

The next instant, she withdrew her hand from its original position, only to discover that the index finger of her right hand had been recovered without inhibition.

”That's… quite odd,” the young girl pouted in dissatisfaction.

”I couldn't even feel my finger when it was missing… could it have something to do with the diagram?”

The young girl attempted with another finger, then her right palm.

Sure enough, regardless of whatever object she placed against the invisible diagram hovering in the air, it would vanish from the area.

She couldn't see or hear movements generated by the object after it had become invisible, and the body parts she extended couldn't relay any sensation of feedback.

Her senses were so finely blocked by the subtle implications of the phenomenon that An Fei didn't even realize that she couldn't feel anything from the vanished limb until she moved another.

At the end, An Fei sank back onto the sky-blue crystal, her mind running constant blanks in her frustration.

The young girl utilized a thicker book as an effective pillow, her eyes gazing upon the crystalline ceiling as she attempted to sort out her thoughts.

The diagram manifested upon the phenomenon induced by combining spiritual essence of similar sources had to possess some relation to the tome's principles.

Regardless of how she viewed it, An Fei deeply believed that the mystery of her limbs and nearby objects becoming invisible upon contacting the stabilized chart was connected with the latter half of the .

”Everyone, be it inanimate or animate existence, possesses a unique fluctuation that emanates from their soul.”

The young girl whispered in the silent Sanctum, her body gently bathed in the sea of golden light arising from the floor.

An Fei closed her eyes, her mind plummeting into the depths of the sea of perception as she sifted through her memory for a second iteration.

”The fluctuation of the soul grants influence over others, through direct interaction. This constant influence coalesces into a static field that revolves around the soul, permitting individual existences to recognize, interact, and assimilate other creatures of existence.”

The functional roots of the fluctuations belonging to a soul are transferred onto the field of influence of an individual creature, to maximize and solidify a domain of temporal influence to exert authority over other individual creatures.

The static field, upon collision or infiltration of another similarly attuned field, possesses the potential to generate multiple phenomena.

”First, the field of influence that possesses a greater momentum can effectively isolate and assimilate the opposing soul without resistance if their fluctuation is disrupted. Thus, consumption and eradication are permissible to creatures of existence.”

Second, the field of influence of both souls disintegrate upon impact, eradicating all hopes for both souls in interacting with the surrounding environment.

In such a circumstance, it would be impossible for such a soul to recover its unique fluctuation, for the foundational root has been damaged.