Temporal Pearls

The next was, he felt disconnected from various things.

Something he didn't even care to understand how they were connected to him and that was his Attire's Pockets.

[Azure Attire's Pockets Filled]

An understanding came to him; due to his overwhelming Mental Energy, he was able to push the limits of his pockets and store a lot of things in them.

Glass Shield and his Greenhood Cloak all were able to act on their own because he was able to nurture them for a long time with his mental energy and make them achieve some semblance of independence.

Now he can feel that it was being halted since the connection was cut off by the seal.

Seth snapped and looked at his Staff, embedded in a crack that suddenly became silent. Their connection halted.

The red stream outside that was moving in a neverending vortex swayed and then collapsed immediately; Gawee Land sucked away the water like a hungry beast.

The feeling of bloating increased in Seth after that, and his feeling due to Conscious Deliberation made him able to see that numerous streams of fluid that were different from his blood had increased in his blood vessels.

Apart from Aspectos that flowed within his blood, there was now red energy that merged with his red blood and became part of it.

Then tiny streams that he can't identify.

His heartbeat increased in power.

When it beat, the two halves of Pure Stone Heart separated and slammed at each other, creating a Gam sound.

Then the Pure Stone Heart rotated against each other creating Guru sound.

Guru Gam

This action created a function of grinding, and the energies in him felt like a hard substance passing through his heart and causing him discomfort.

[Aura Tome Sealed]

[Your path on having Aura Authority halted]

"DAMN IT!" Seth shouted in anger; his veins bulged as he stared at the prompt; he still couldn't move his body because the Shifting Armour had become very rigid.

Shatter!

A sound like glass breaking reached his ears.

[Your halo collapsed]

Seth felt a rush of complex feelings that felt like a thousand ants crawling on his skin and face.

Each ant was different and searching for something.

Seth's eyes flooded with dust, which wasn't dust because they were intangible; his lungs felt constricted as if he were breathing poison.

The only good thing was the feeling vanished the moment the air flowed through the blood. He felt a hidden wind was also grabbing him and feeling him menacingly.

Seth knew what this meant. Halo protected him from various things such as intangible senses, from Intents to Gawee Forces and many more, but now that was no more.

At that moment, he smelled a stench that he could only attribute to the rotten dragon carcass.

He has never seen one but his mind just told him it was one.

But there wasn't only one stenchy rot but many of them, and they converged into something that was heart-wrenching.

If not, because he has Pristine Lungs that clean away impurities in the air, he will have suffocated just now.

That wasn't the only stench; there was also the stench of other things; one of them was ME 25, then three of the players from Navy Blue Soldier, specifically Magic Binder, Blast Hands and then Captain Navy.

"Damn it!" Seth was frustrated by the halo he lost as the stench of the Gawee Land itself was overwhelming his senses.

[Health: Pristine Lung is failing]

Seth stopped breathing and he managed to regain his senses. But he was blind; there were just too many things before his eyes at the same time, and the dust accumulating in his eyes was too much.

He wished he could bring his Soothing Gourd and drink from it while also washing his eyes.

[Health: Pristine Lung recover]

[Health: Eye rashes]

[Health: Eye has swollen]

[Health: Eye temporary blindness]

Seth closed his eyes as it began to water, trying to wash away whatever was inside but there was nothing there. It wasn't tangible.

Because his face was more sensitive, he felt it becoming red due to the lack of a halo, but his hand had swollen red and was about to burst.

There was also an insane itch, one that would drive one insane till one began tearing away his skin.

It was after he closed his eyes that he noticed all that.

The Gawee Land Aura was gradually seeping inside his Shifting Armour attire until it reached its buttocks and found its way into his body.

It was like being possessed by ethereal aberration.

The attire has a natural defence against that, but because, at these short moments, the attire was just solid mass, the aura found its way in.

It has long been known that just touching the ground will make one disintegrate and be one with it.

When the aura found its way, Seth's immune system, which included Gawee Dots, kicked start and began to convert the aura.

Seth was already being contaminated, and if that was completed, who knew what sort of monster he would become?

Though that was impossible due to other defences he had but what if?

When the ground aura reached his Stone Heart, the slamming and grinding of the heart shattered them, and they wisped away, making Seth's Aura pure and more refined than before.

In a way, his aura was becoming better with the invasion of the Gawee Aura.

The problem was there was a flood of the Gawee Aura to be processed.

The bloating Seth was feeling increased with the added phenomena.

The Gawee Wind itself contained its poison, which was why his eyes, face and hand that were exposed were in worse condition.

[You have been inflicted with Gawee Disease]

[Health: Gawee Disease]

To think that his Halo was doing so much without his knowledge made him feel sorrow.

This continued for 30 minutes; by now, Seth suspected those that were watching him would have come to him now, but that wasn't the case.

On his lap was his Womb, which he removed before Body Arms were sealed in him. And he had set it, if something showed up, Little Cub should come out.

[Congratulations]

[Your body is developing immunity]

Due to the fact that his Aspectos, Aura, Will, and Gawee Dots were sealed inside him made his body bloated, but also anything that entered will have to face them in their concentrated form. That led to the development of his body extremely fast.

A warm sweat poured out of him, and brown tears flowed out of his eyes, and all those ailments began to heal.

[All attributes +5]

[You have developed Gawee Element Minor Immunity]

[Health: Optimum]

[Pristine Lung +1]

[Pristine Lung +1]

That continued until the Lung reached +10 and then began to evolve. Because the Aura was inside and his Aspecto too, its growth was fast.

In under 10 minutes…

[Pristine Lungs (Breath Of Purity)]

[Your lungs can take in harmful substances and purify them]n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

As he breathed in, he could sense the stench but they weren't as bad as before.

He opened his eyes and his eyes landed on someone by the cave entrance. A small baby, standing watching him with black iris and white scalers.

His skin was charcoal black and his hair the same. The boy was well clothed and carried a play toy of a wooden train.

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Seth's heart skipped a beat as he realised the boy had been here for very long.

He was the reason Seth wasn't disturbed by the beasts and monsters and by the humans far away trying to take advantage of the situation.

But that was not all. Before him, Womb was floating and Little Cub was out a bit distance from him.

She wasn't glaring at the baby but at Seth himself.

That wasn't all; on his neck was the spider; she had snuck her teeth in his veins, drinking his blood.

She has consumed gallons by now, but her body hasn't changed at all, and neither has her weight.

What did change was her presence, which was improving continuously and exponentially.

'Betrayal!'

Seth barely managed to admit what was happening now to him. It's understandable if the baby did it, but the spider and little Cub.

The sorrows of being sealed and losing Aura Authority exponentially expanded. If not his internal willpower was strong, he would have collapsed.

Seth watched them, the baby fell to his knees and crawled toward him before sitting by his left.

The baby's eyes stared at his face before he grabbed his left hand constricted by the Shifting Armour and bit where the armour was.

The white teeth of the baby munched through the armoured hand, biting away a chunk of flesh and bones along the way.

He swallowed and then breathed in with relish, as if it was a delicacy.

The pain was great but the pain in Seth's heart was greater.

The baby was nice enough to wait for Seth to heal and then munch again.

A shadow walked toward him. Little Cub didn't bite the armoured part of the right hand, but from wrist to rest of the fingers.

Sue the spider never took a rest as it drank his blood endlessly.

Seth took a deep breath and muttered,

"Interesting turn of events!"