Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

Chapter 223: The Dark Sentience

A second later, D, who was the control panel of these tiny robots, reported the discovery.

[A sliver of the Fallen's ink-like body was hiding inside your body, and now it is in the run. Brace for sting.]

Without giving a moment to ready himself, a sharp pain erupted on his shoulder. With pain and agony, Lee saw something pitch black running down his blood vessels. As the hostile substance moved, it destroyed most of his nerve tissues and gave a scorching sensation.

Lee grabbed his wrist as it entered his palm. The pain was simply unbearable, but something empowered Lee to struggle to the end. It was then he felt a predator's eyes falling on his hand.

It was quick, but Lee clearly saw Perrafin's eyes changing colour from green to bloodred. The next instant, the array of sharp teeth had gone down into his palm and Lee's surprise was over the roof!

The fierce beast had Lee's palm bit and jammed between it's jaws. After sucking a lot of blood from his wound, the Perrafin let his hand go. Lee cautiously took a step back, but the beast had reverted to its normal self.

[Lee, the Fallen's body is inside the Perrafin's stomach!]

The sudden disappearance of the pain and the inkling gave Lee a gist of what had happened. The supercomputer compiled all the details he had seen, heard and felt, and prepared a set of conclusions.

'Guys, tell me whether my assumptions are right or wrong.'

The Perrafin licked the trace of blood it had on its lips, and showed no reaction of eating a Fallen's squishy body. As the Foresight displayed the metabolism of the Perrafin, Lee saw the sentient ink substance vaporising from the lightning energy running through its body. The amorphous being disintegrated into nothing and it's signature completely dissipated.

The reaction was from the prison jar in which the Fallen was contained. It vigorously rampaged inside the glass construct, but that was all it could do. Hudson reported that what Lee concluded is indeed true.

[The Fallen had left a tiny fragment of its body inside your shoulder bone, when it was pierced. It was slowly corrupting your bone, without even raising an alarm. The silent feeding on your life was comfortable for it. But when you began to feed the Perrafin with Lightning, it became hostile.

As suspected, the stimulated Lightning energy in your body was the factor that disturbed it's stability. Then it began to run rampage in your body, in hope of distracting you from feeding the Perrafin, and thus stopping you from voluntarily stimulating the element.

When it moved towards your palm, Perrafin had an instantaneous change in its attitude. This is directly related to the Fallen's concealed elemental affinity. The sudden and uncontrollable urge to bite your palm stemmed from the perception of Fallen's mysterious energy from its vicinity.

When the Perrafin digested it completely, the element was confirmed to be the opposite of the lightning, and weaker in defense. From its property to manipulate and control dead beings, it can be confirmed to have a puppeting behaviour. When it reacted against the purifying particles, it was as if it was the very incarnate of unholiness.

The equal hostility against both Lightning and Life was proven. Thus the Fallen can be finalized as the Tubian of Dark Sentience!]

Lee had guessed the properties of the entity, but the correct term was unknown to him. The word 'Dark Sentience' resonated in his ears with a tinge of amazement, as it was a variant of Life affinity, but with evil property.

But he still had his doubts.

'So the Dark Sentience is the polar opposite of Lightning?'

[Nope. Life affinity is the actual opposite of Dark Sentience. But Lightning is the most powerful affinity that can disrupt the Dark Sentience. The difference is in its energy distribution method.

Life affinity is not offensive or defensive, and thus have literally no means to ward off the Dark Sentience. But due to the energizing property, Lightning manages to create a misalignment in the structure of the sinister energy, which also has tiny impulses in it.

Due to the fiery temper, Lightning is chaotic. This is also a problem to the silent evil. Thus, Dark Sentience easily shows disapproval to the presence of Lightning.

Do not forget that Lightning was one of the components that made the concept of life a reality.]

Lee sat on the floor and Fero came to him wagging his tail. After producing 2 kilos of pork meat for both beasts, Lee asked-

'Then, is it possible to purify the Fallen's Dark Sentience, like how we did with Hudson?'

[The Dark Sentience is an affinity itself. So an act of purifying or reversing an affinity is impossible.

But I would not declare it as virtually impossible.]

'Then give it a try.'

Lee asked Hudson to give a try because he had a hunch that it was reversible. Since the Tubian corrupts the organisms, there exists a miniscule chance to get itself corrupted too.

Lee was talking about this probability. If the Dark Sentience was the result of a corruption, then the purification might be a trick worth pulling off.

Not that D or Hudson forgot about it, but they did not give much emphasis to this sliver of probability.

[We shall give it a try a week or two later. Since the Wyverns are currently going on their reconstruction, we cannot have any kind of mishaps. We both are well aware of the power of Dark Sentience. So.]

'I understand.'

The duo of beasts had finished their meal. After having something in their tummy, their energy skyrocketed. Without wasting any time, they began to run around inside the stadium. When the noise became too much, Lee shushed them to quiet down.

Since he was also sitting simply, Lee got up and joined them. He displayed a sample of his unnatural agility, and the beasts admitted defeat within no time.

While playing with the beasts, Lee noticed two things. One, the Perrafin's agility had been increased by a slight margin. Not only that it became fast, but it also developed in its endurance. He assumed that this change might have some connection with the digestion of the Fallen's ink body.

The second detail was more surprising. Fero seems to have an affinity with Darkness!