Chapter 262
Asel was staring at the stars with his eyes closed.
He couldn’t tell how much time had passed. All he vaguely remembered was that he had activated the magic circle to stop Adren’s descent. His body remained still, but his mind did not.
His soul was thrown into a storm of stars, dust, and shadows. The strange colors of the nebula licked his skin, and the swirling star clusters whispered incomprehensible languages in his ears.
‘Ahhh… Ahhh…!’
Asel twisted his body and screamed, but his voice echoed only inside his head, unable to escape his lips. The pain was like his brain was being wrung out like a rag. As his consciousness sank deeper into an unseen world…
『Duaryu has perished.』
『The soul bodies that composed his form have all vanished.』
He heard a conversation. The voices, unbearably loud, reached his soul directly, bypassing his eardrums. Asel couldn’t block out the voices and was forced to focus on their conversation.
『That’s impossible. I will pursue immediately.』