Chapter 46: Losing Humanity (1/2)
He didn't expect the Queen Jawfiend to kill him so soon. He didn't even feel any pain, or it was that his shock had numbed his pain or his nerves were too worn out to even transmit the pain.
All he knew was that his vision was getting darker and a weird feeling in his heart before everything went dark for him.
*KREEE!!*
The Queen Jawfiend suddenly stumbled back, letting out a screech of distress and pain while pulling out its stinger from Arion's heart.
It was as if it ingested some poison instead of blood when it tried to suck Arion's blood from its heart.
It wanted Arion alive all this time since it smelled how tasty Arion's heart was, especially when he possessed the Darkness Aspect, and it coincidentally had the Darkness Aspect as well.
Thus to develop its aspect, it was looking for pranic hearts with the Darkness Aspect and told its children to immobilize Arion instead of killing him.
And the most effective way was to eat the pranic heart while the victim was alive. If dead, the gains would be significantly less.
When its children Jawfiends attacked Arion, they were all connected and communicated to each other through a hive mind. Thus, the Queen Jawfiend was able to stop them from killing Arion by giving out orders.
The normal Jawfiends had no Aspect at all nor much intelligence. All they had were basic instincts and to follow the orders of their Queen Jawfiend.
Arion had already guessed that the Queen Jawfiend wanted him alive, but he had no idea that it was looking forward to eating him alive all because he possessed the Darkness Aspect.
If he knew, he wouldn't know if he should consider himself lucky for buying himself some more time before getting his heart punctured through by the huge and sharp stinger of the Queen Jawfiend.
*KREEE!!*
The Queen Jawfiend continued to screech in pain and confusion, even stumbling onto some of its children Jawfiend who were even more confused, wondering why their Queen Jawfiend was acting so weird.
Meanwhile, Arion's pulse was becoming weaker and weaker till his punctured heart completely stopped beating.
However, suddenly his blood started to emit a dark glow that seemed to spread throughout his body in an instant, covering every part of his system, including his heart.
The gaping hole in his heart quickly seemed to stitch itself up till the tissues rejoined together, and the hole became smaller and smaller till there was no hole or injury at all.
Meanwhile, the Queen Jawfiend was crashing onto the walls and even accidentally killed some of its children in its crazed state while the other Jawfiends stood rooted to their spots, not daring to make any move without her orders.
Finally, the Queen Jawfiend stopped screeching, and its pincer fangs kept on moving in a creepy way as it came to a stop. It seemed as if it found a way to suppress whatever was causing pain inside its body and stayed in a stationary position.
Arion's heart which had stopped beating before, now started to slowly pump again, his heartbeat increasing as seconds passed.
But this time, his heart was pumping black blood instead of the usual red color of blood!
On Arion's mind, a screen of information popped up,
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[ INNER PERCEPTION AWAKENED ]
Name: Arion Elsar
Strength: 1.5
Defense: 2.0
Agility: 1.9
Pranic Force: 1