Chapter 185: Never again.
It hurt, and it hurt a lot.
Lee guessed that his first impulse might be to vomit the spark out, or even try to cut it from his chest directly from how much pain he might find himself in. That is why he didn’t bring along anything that he could hurt himself with. And now he regretted that.
The moment he swallowed the spark, scorching pain paralyzed him, and he convulsed on the floor in agony, feeling how he was getting burnt alive. Lee felt every cell in his body burning and the worst part was that there was no going back.
Before attempting this ridiculous plan, his idea was that he could use the elemental particles of the earth spark to mostly neutralize the effect of fire, kind of subjugate it, but the water spark would heal him up, soothing the potential pain.
Turns out he couldn’t do shit. Not only he couldn’t concentrate because of the scorching agony, he felt he barely maintained bits of sanity. And the worst of all was that he couldn’t pass out no matter how hard he tried.
He couldn’t control his extremities, and not even fingers. He couldn’t blink or breathe for that matter, but at the same time he had no ways to lose consciousness. He couldn’t even scream to alleviate the pain a bit, and the best thing he could manage was to make gurgling sounds that more resembled those of a person dying.
It was terrifying to realize he was about to burn to death like this, and even witness the whole process no matter how long it lasted.
And it seemed eternal. Lee had no clue how long he convulsed in agony, but those seemed to be the longest days of his life. Until he couldn’t finally move, but he was still conscious and, as it turns out, it began to hurt even more.
He was in too much pain and too tired to curse himself or the retarded idea. He couldn’t even force out a thought of that carried a tinge of regret. His revenge or his ambitions didn’t become laughable at the face of a larger struggle – he didn’t have anything besides the agony. For a while it became his world.