Chapter 146
Once again leaning against the cave wall, Alexander observed Michelle, a sigh leaving his lips. He knew she wanted to get Mare back, but she looked terrible. If before her rest she looked deathly pale, then, at the moment, she looked like a ghost. And it was concerning.
But Alexander knew better than to disturb her. He could feel her progress. She was close to attaining her goal, so he just silently stayed back.
With the walls of the tunnel so thin, Michelle’s memory manipulation skill could seep through them into Mare’s soul to make some changes. That was because the tunnel was made of Michelle’s soul energy, and the memory manipulation skill had half of it made of the same soul energy.
And because the soul energy within the memory manipulation skill was at its densest concentration, in the state of void, the void within the tunnels clung to the memory manipulation skill and seeped out of the tunnel along with it. But unlike before, it didn’t cause any damage. It just flowed together with the skill along Mare’s soul.
Michelle didn’t insert any memories into the skill, so it didn’t really do anything. But as the skill worked by seeping into the soul to pass on or retrieve memories, along with the void, the skill entered the parts of the soul the void could never access by itself.
If the void got there by itself, it would have just caused more damage and most probably even killed the soul, but connected to the skill, it couldn’t do anything and just got absorbed by the soul.
It took quite a while, but as Mare’s soul slowly absorbed the memory manipulation skill, it pulled in the void too, and, with it being the cause of all the damage, the soul quickly sent it to the damaged areas and the void was forced to repair them.
So as not to interfere with the repairs, Michelle quickly pulled her soul energy back and retreated a few steps, only to realize that her body was so weak and exhausted that she couldn’t keep standing. She ended up falling on her butt.
Just as Michelle landed on the ground, she heard a chuckle coming from behind her, but she didn’t even glance back to look at Alexander and just kept her gaze on Mare. The Venom Jade Serpent still had its eyes open, staring at her warily, but slowly, something was stirring within the pair of slit pupils.
And after a while, the snake’s eyes closed. At the same time, Michelle felt her contract with Mare get repaired and strengthened.
"Finally..." Michelle’s lips arched into a small smile as she let her back fall behind, laying down on the ground.