184 Guilt [1] - Silas' Strength [2]
Silas landed on the floor without saying a single word, however, quite a few thoughts were going through his mind right now despite his face not showing it.
'Did I use too much power?'
He had tried to keep his strength to a minimum, yet, with his armor on, that became very difficult. Plus, he had just assimilated the giant's blood drop, and wasn't sure how strong her would be when he came out.
However, now that he was looking at the destruction before him, he realized that he might have used too much strength.
At the same time, his armor had changed over the years, and unlike all its previous users, he could use much more of its power. However, there was a problem when it came to restraining himself.
He wasn't used to having his armor on... Actually, he didn't like having it on. Instead of always wearing it, he usually kept it in its collapsed form that stuck to his back as a small thin semi-sphere between his shoulder blades.
It could be put in in less than a second whenever he needed it. That was one of the improvements he had made to it over the last couple of years.
Another one of the improvements was the cores that shone within the armor, as well as the circuit-like patterns that could be seen all over it.
They shone every now and as if the armor itself had a beating heart, and the circuits were simply its blood vessels.
However, in this case, its blood vessels carried mana rather than blood... Or at least that was the case most of the time...
Looking to the side, Silas looked at a certain part of the screen.
[Armor compatibility: 64%]
Right now, Silas could only use about 60% of the armor's power, but to him, that was more than enough to deal with small fries like the creature that lay before him.
Or, at least, what remained of it.
His armor itself wasn't significantly special. It was the sphere-like object in the middle of the chest piece that was significantly special.
Unlike before where it was a pitch-black object, now it was covered in a green crystal-like surface that pulsed with mana; however, instead of pulsing like the circuit-like patterns, instead it felt closer to a heart beating.
However, despite the red threads that would have indicated that the crystal-like surface was actually a core from a human that happened to be powering the entire suit, that was far from the case.
The suit was designed that way. To anyone on the outside, it looked like a normal emerald core in the middle of the suit of armor when in fact it was the extraterrestrial object that was funneling mana from the surroundings and powering the suit.
Over the last 6 years or so, Silas had been trying his best to understand what the thing was. He knew that it came from space, but back then, that was all he knew about it.
However, after many experiments and years passing by, Silas had come to the most accurate conclusion he could come up with. He didn't have all the information in the universe, so it was much harder for him to create theories, but he was certain that his current theory was the most correct one.
The sphere itself was alive.
All those years ago, when he pushed his mana into it, he hadn't just bonded with it using his mana signature the same way someone would do with an armor. Instead, he had bonded to it on a soul level. As if he had almost tamed it.
However, something changed between him and the thing after a while of having it around.
It communicated with him, but not the way humans did.
He felt it through his soul. It sent an emotion to him that pulsed through his entire consciousness. It seemed like it wanted to connect directly with his mind. However, there seemed to be some kind of barrier in place that made it extremely hard to do so.
"Hmm. You don't want it? Are you telling me I killed that thing for no reason?" Silas muttered to himself while looking at the armor with an annoyed gaze.
Looking back at what remained of the spider queen, he stared at the brown blood on the floor with an equally disgusted stare.
"It's disgusting, right? I can't believe she had something like that running through her veins. Ugh." Silas shivered with disgust.
What remained of the creature was a paste of blood that skidded across until it reached the end of the cavern... Or what was its end before it had been completely obliterated.
Looking forward with an aloof expression, Silas sighed.
"Maybe I did go a little too far this time." He muttered to himself as the view came into sight.
There was a new hole in the caver, if you could even call it that. That hole was so large that it could no longer be reasonably considered a hole. No one in their right mind would consider it as such.
"Well, that doesn't matter now, does it." he sighed and pointed his hand at the blood on the ground.
Instead of a magic circle appearing, Silas instantly created a rune on thin air. In the next moment, a blue flame appeared and dropped onto the blood silent.
It only took a few seconds, but the blood had been completely cleaned from the area... not because Silas had used a cleansing spell, but instead because of the fact that all of it had been burned up.
Looking back, Silas looked at the unconscious body of Nymira on the ground and could not help but make a grim expression.
She had done all this for him so that he could assimilate a drop of blood that he could have simply gotten another of. It annoyed him a little, but he wasn't upset at them. He was upset at himself.
Walking toward Nymira, Silas got down and grabbed her before carrying her like a princess. He looked at her face for a moment before a slight smile appeared on his face.
"At least she looks peaceful when she sleeps." He thought while remembering back to the days when she couldn't sleep at all.
Some things haunt a person for their entire lives, and Silas was certain that she had seen something that no child should have.
She lost people she cared for... Even Silas hadn't gone through something like that. He hadn't lost anyone he cared for because there wasn't a single person on Earth to whom he could shed a tear.
"Sometimes you just need the right people around you." He thought before letting out a sigh.
Without much thought, he carried Nymira in his arms and left the cavern.
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