Chapter 631: Overloaded Thoughts and Emotions - Cognitive Dormancy!!!
Black returned to the Gryffindor table with tremendous Luck, overwhelming Worth, an eldritch Title, and an empty heart.
The cheers didn't matter to him. He couldn't care less about who was getting sorted into which House. He could feel the Sorting Hat's presence in the Great Hall, but it wasn't the same Sorting Hat anymore.
The smiles on students' faces felt distorted.
The anticipation he was feeling in the students' hearts was as dry as desert.
All he had left now were the uncountable Lucky Intuitions and the feeling of... his heart coming out of his mouth.
The Ad Infinitum took control over everything, then. It programmed an Arlen Black Echo, much like Darcie's Echo, to take over Black's body right now temporarily.
Otherwise, if even a hint of mysteries seeped out, getting affected by Black's tumultuous thoughts, it could alert Professor Dumbledore and the Order of the Immortal Lotus at any moment.
Not to mention, the students wouldn't survive the fluctuations in Black's emotions, either.
Black didn't care what the AI did.
He felt lifeless.
His eyes welled up, tears welling up like a boundless sea. Before they could ooze out, the AI used Biokinesis to eradicate their existence.