63 Coming Out In One Piece (1/2)
”...” Godking? Transcendental? Various preposterous terms were chucked at Elizabeth but before she could stop to think things through, she once more found herself paralyzed in the world outside her Soul Land.
Well… she ”found” herself back in the real world for the slightest moment before the cumulative damage and pain she'd accumulated during the time she spent in her Soul Land crashed onto her body like a meteor.
Elizabeth practically turned into a lava lamp as various red and blue neon-like lights started sparking all around her body. The pain… it was so extreme that even in her immobile state, her body started twitching and spasming out of control!
DANGER!!! Elizabeth's mind, though completely devoid of anything intelligible, could sense how dangerous a state she'd just entered. If not from the pain and apparent lack of ability to just go into shock and sleep the trama away, then certainly because of her currently uncontrollable flailing.
There were still several needles embedded around her navel and most of them if carelessly disturbed could kill her. Moreover, even though a relatively short amount of time had passed, she could tell that the pain would only get worse. Soon it wouldn't be a matter of whether she'd accidentally hurt herself, rather, when the pain would cross her absolute threshold for tolerance and suicide would cross her mind.
Fortunately, upon coming out her Soul Land's tribulation, though she'd instantly been hit with that initial wave of pain, the paralysis seemed to have stopped and through the pain and flailing, Elizabeth could move with some semblance of control over her actions. Thus, at the fastest speed she could muster in her current horrid circumstances, Elizabeth started to ”carefully” rip out the needles still on her person.
Naturally, with the pain and energy shuttling through her body with reckless abandon, her usually precise and impeccable ability to insert and retrive needles was ”slightly” impacted. So, almost all the needles she extracted drew blood, in one way or another. Still, compared to the massive amounts of damage she could've accidentally inflicted on herself, drawing a ”little bit” of blood wasn't anything worth crying over.
Alas, Elizabeth had only completed half of what she set out to do to survive this ordeal and what remained would test how and if she had the willpower to preserve her life at all costs. Not one to waste time, especially at a time of crisis like now, Elizabeth glared at the pile of needles she'd taken out of her body and actually started to reinserted them…
She was planning to shut off her ability to move altogether through the application of her Acupoint Skill to stop any potential suicidal attempts. But to get there, a different kind of hardship would befall poor Elizabeth… Her arms, hands, fingers, everything quaking without any semblance of control… Through attempting the move to shut off her movement, it was likely that she'd only wish for death to come faster.
Every single needle without fail was inserted at least dozens of times over with each attempt either scraping and tearing at her muscles, ripping through the medians, overshooting and piercing through her acupoints, and on several attempts, Elizabeth's shaky hands moved so erratically that she'd fractured and chipped pieces of her bones.
Eventually though, Elizabeth managed to reconfigure the acupoint formation on her body to match the schematic in her mind. She didn't waste a second to start channeling her energy and after completing the task on hand, Elizabeth scrambled to rip out the needles embedded in her once more.
After she cycled her energy, all the muscles in her body would be temporarily relaxed to the absolute max her body could sustain. She would have one more minute of mobility before the effects completely kicked in, thereafter being completely unable to move for the next couple hours.
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