More collusion happens, and with it, the energy released from them becomes denser and more powerful.
I am terrified and running with everything I have.
These people are crazy.
They have come to this dangerous place to search for me. Even I am crazy to be following Carter here despite knowing this place is a dead land.
The energy becomes denser every second, and more of it comes inside me.
Passing through the layers of the armor, which is getting better every second as it collects more data on it, but not enough to stop it.
The only thing that is stopping it is the layer covering me.
The layer was made of elements I had extracted from the origin drop with the help of that disc. Essences of precious plants, like stainless lotus a lot of forbidden power, and honey.
I used prime-grade honey.
Including five drops of that precious honey made from the nectar of the world of tree flowers.
I have a limited amount of it, and I use every drop carefully, but here, my life is on the line. I cannot think about the preciousness of resources.
They are for me, and right now, they are serving their purpose by keeping me alive. The layer is working better than I had imagined. It absorbs everything coming through the armor. That, not even a speck is passing through it into me.
I could see the things happening inside it, and it was a marvel that I wanted to observe carefully.
I didn't focus on it more than I needed to and would have sealed it from my observation. If not for it being the only thing that stops these killing energies of the storm from entering my body.
The storm is dangerous, but it's beautiful.
The energies coming out of the collusion are golden in color. Making everything glitter: the rocks, the water, and even the moss, which is still standing.
I thought it would get burned down by now, but it had not.
The moss is still standing when the most High-Primes would have died by now. It is one resilient thing.
It shouldn't surprise me. It had borne the storms hundreds of thousands of times. It had evolved so that it died in only high density.
Even then, its seeds survive, and within days, they cover the caves with moss like nothing had ever happened to them.
I entered another cavern and crossed it a few seconds later. Choosing one of six paths inside it.
My clones are doing all the choosing and seeing there is no visible change other than the energy that is getting denser. I couldn't help but wonder whether I had made a mistake by not following Carter.
He had been in this place. He had survived it.
I pushed the thought away as it came and kept moving with everything I had, with the storm making the whole caves and caverns golden.
A minute passed, and the energies had become really dense.
My armor was barely able to stop anything. If I didn't have a layer covering me, I would have died already.
The layer is still absorbing the energies without letting a speck come into the other side.
I am really glad. I have these amazing resources, or I would have been a dead man.
I pushed those thoughts away and kept running while thinking about every option I had.
Including my shiny new abode.
One of my clones is testing it, and right now, all the tests prove it.
That it could provide me with safety in the current density, but the question is whether it will provide me with projection in the highest density.
This is the question that kept me from bringing it out.
It is my last option. If I wasn't able to outrun the storm. It is where I will hide.
There is no other option.
I kept running, and soon, the whole cave was filled with golden energy. I could see it everywhere, and the thing, the greater its density becomes, the more it will restrict my soul sense.
Another minute passed, and finally, the energy started to affect the moss.
A faint burning-like smell begins to come out of it.
Even the color of the layer covering me began to change from yellowish green. It begins to turn bluish green.
Over a minute passed when something I had been fearing had happened.
The layer reached its limit, and it released the energy.
For a fraction of a moment, I thought it was the golden energy and nearly took out my abode, but I realized it was not.
It is yellowish-red energy, and it is thick, thicker than even honey.
It entered inside me, and I screamed as I felt it burning me. not only my body but also my soul.
It scared me, but soon I realized. It is not burning me but seeping into my cells and particles of my soul very slowly.
I don't know what effects it will bring, but seeing it is not stopping or restricting my strength.
Seconds passed, and more of this energy came inside me. Faster than I could absorb, filling the capacity of what I could hold rapidly.
In a minute, it had filled over half of it and filled it even faster.
I don't know what this energy is and what it will do, but I know one thing. I could not
let it go beyond the capacity.
It is extremely powerful and feels very delicate. If it is realized, it will turn me into ashes fast, but I don't know what I could do other than hide in my abode. Chapters first released on novel⸺fire.net
Time passed, and I was ready to take out my abode as it filled 90% of my body's capacity when I sensed something.
For a moment, I didn't believe it. I thought I was hallucinating, but my clones confirmed as I asked.
I had sensed the jump pad.
I only need to cross a couple of caves to reach it.