Chapter 1233 - Weakness of the Flesh (Part 1) (1/2)
'No, I'm not okay. The odd thing is that using a mind link is supposed to make me feel worse, but I feel better instead. Where's Phloria?' Lith said via the mind link.
The answer came in the form of what looked like a vintage convertible that landed right next to them. The controls were so easy that it had taken her just a minute to learn how to drive it.
One button marked with an arrow pointing up made it take off, another with an arrow pointing down made it land, and a control yoke allowed it to steer and change altitude. A vertical lever regulated the speed, making the car go faster the lower it was pulled.
'What's wrong with you?' Phloria asked, giving him more relief.
'I don't know. It feels like a stream of cold electricity is coursing through my body, giving me the shivers.' He replied.
'Could this be a sign of the tribulation you feared?'
'No. Whatever it is, I never experienced something like this, not even in Kulah.' He said.
Normally, Lith would have cursed at every second that traffic and finding a parking spot made them lose while Phloria drove following his directions, but flying made his conditions even worse.
His body seemed to have turned into a block of ice and his eyes burned so bad that he was forced to blink often to see through the blur clouding them.
'F.u.c.k me sideways.' Lith thought after keeping his eyes open for as long as he could. He was now able to understand why he felt so bad and why going up only made things worse.
With Solus gone, Death Vision had returned stronger and stranger than ever.
In front of his eyes, Phloria and Tista died several times in the span of a few seconds due to mana poisoning or because their bodies couldn't hold the life force coming from the Forbidden Sun any longer.
The former manifested by making them seemingly fall asleep and then shapeshift back into their human form, with their skin tainted by the pallor of death. The latter, instead, filled them with blisters that made their flesh rot at a speed visible to the n.a.k.e.d eye.
And that was the only normal thing he saw.
The city of Kolga was filled with so many dead souls that they blotted the Forbidden Sun to Lith. Many of them clawed, punched, and bit at the energy mass trying to get back what they had lost, but to no avail.
Others followed the tendrils that went from the sun to all those inside Kolga, Lith and the girls included. The cold sensation he experienced was due to the constant stream of shades passing through him and somehow feeding on his mana.
Using Spirit Magic was akin to throwing chum into shark-infested waters. The shades would temporarily ignore him and swarm the unprotected mana tendril. The blurred vision Lith experienced was simply caused by the number of shadows moving in front of his eyes.
Despite the city lights and the l.u.s.ter of its modern buildings, Kolga was filled with more death than Lith had ever seen before. The dead whose life force was being consumed, haunted the living who fed upon it like parasites, while the others flew aimlessly, trying to escape the city borders.
'As long as Solus was with me, she drained the foreign mana while the energy flooding the cracks in my human life force suppressed Death Vision. Without her, however, I'm being injected with more than just mana, I'm also receiving the thoughts and feeling that it carries.