He turned to the egg, and to his shock, the little grey roots coming out of the egg dug deep in the ground and then mana again started flowing into the egg.
The moment the mana flow started, the upper part of the egg started blinking.
Yunyun shouted to him, "Yay master, you succeed in the experiment."
Grave, on the other hand, had a frown on his face. Through his mana zone, he sensed there were many energies rumbling in the egg, fighting against one another.
He was not able to sense any embryo in the cracked eggs. For him, the egg looked like a bomb that would explode to release those energies in it. 'sigh' The root was proof that the tree gene dominated the snake genes. He still looked at those roots. They were grey and had some weird symbols on them.
He found those intriguing and want to inspect them, but the blinking egg stopped him. He waited on the side to let the egg explode and then examine those roots.
While waiting on the side, and focused on the roots, he regained the fire in his eyes. He wanted to get something out of this experiment.
After all the roots of the egg attached to the ground, he moved back a little. 'now those things absorb some energy that would make this end. ' he wondered to himself, but to his surprise egg stopped blinking.
"What the hell?" he sensed all the different energies moved out of the egg to the roots. The moment all this energy left, he sensed a life force from the egg.
"Waaa how?" not able to control himself, he rushed to the egg to inspect it. 'what is it?'
He placed his hand on the egg, concentrated his mana zone, and focused on the egg. 'Wow, this thing is not dead.' he thought that the world around him became black. He found himself in a black void.
"What the hell?" he tried to wiggle around, but he was not able to move. He tried looking around, but there was nothing but an empty void. It was so dark that he could not even able to see his body but only able to feel it.
'how I am here? Let me out. Is this related to the egg?'
In this darkness, he just stared at the emptiness waiting for some change. Time passes but nothing happened. He tried to open his mouth to shout, but no sound came out. To get himself out, he tried controlling his hand to pinch himself, but to his dismay, he was unable to make any movement at all.
He tried using the system but nothing happened. He realized he was now trapped in this void. With no control, he waited for some change...
' 1128..1129..1130…1389…4319..' he counted for some time in his mind but stooped after 10,000 and stared blankly. Slowly he started losing the feeling of having a body, then lost the feeling of time passing and finally, he lost the power to even think. He became the part of void…
…
Yunyun looked at the island in confusion. "Master! Master!" She shouted to Grave, who was standing there with his one hand touching the egg. She saw the master walking to the egg and then touching it, and then the master froze in his place.
She tried calling him multiple times, but the master did not respond to her. She wanted to move to the island to check on the master but did not do that as the master said not to come to the island.
She stared at the island for some time and then moved back away. She sensed weird power started coming out of the egg and then all the cracks in the island started shaking and then started shrinking.
Canals collapsed, the poison lake shrunk in and the island became plain with only a single hole at the base. At that time it stopped shrinking and then she saw the roots of the egg start shining in distinct colors.
The weird power slowly started increasing on the island. She saw Grave not moving an inch during all this.
Zap!
The gene machine teleported to the lab.
"It's better to not go there." Mumbling to herself, she teleported to the lab to check the machine.
…."Uaaaaa," Roan opened his eye.
Rzzz Rzzzzz!
He heard the warning sound and then find a red light blinking on his face.
He looked puzzled for some time and tried to move, but found himself in the gaming pod.
'What going on here? Where I am,'
Rzz zzz!
He heard this warning sound again. This helped him gain clarity back.
'Fck, this is a forced log out.'
Cursing, he pushed the game pod open and turned off the warning. After that, he dragged himself out to the bed and lay on it.
'Urrr wrr!' his stomach growled. He checked his phone and there were 10 s of calls for Aria and Dhruv.
He looked at the date and got stunned to see 2 and a half days passed. "Fck," not wasting any time he dragged himself out of the room. As he reached the stairs, he heard a loud shout.
"Sir, you are out!" he looked up and saw Aria rushing to him.
"Idiot, you are out," he heard Dhruv's voice. Not caring about that, he dragged himself down the stairs.
Aria tried to help him but he mumbled to her, "food."
"Yes sir…." she was saying something but to him, it was random noise. He focused on moving down, and after spending all the power, he reached the table.
After some time, food appeared in front of him and he started stuffing it in his mouth without care. 'Food Food food..' that was all going to his mind.
On the table, Dhruv looked at Roan with concern. He asked Aria while pointing to Roan, "Big sis, is this normal?"
Aria shook her head, "Lil sir, this is definitely not normal."
He stared at Roan's face and nodded his head, "No things can not go on like this."
Aria looked at Dhruv and said, "Lil sir, you should scold master this time. Playing games to this point will harm sir in the long term."
Dhruv nodded to her, and then turned to look at her, "But sis, why the hell brother is an idiot." he had tears in his eyes.
He pointed to Roan, "Why brother is doing this? Why mff mff." Tears fell down from his eyes.
Aria froze in shock seeing Dhruv crying and with panic looked she rushed to him and hugged him. "Lil sir, please don't cry."
"Mmmf mmfff I am not crying mfff mfff." Dhruv tried wiping his tears, but more tears started coming out of his eyes.
Aria patted his head, "lil sir, crying will solve nothing." A few tears also formed in her eyes.
Dhruv nodded his head, trying to stop his tears, and Aria also rubbed her eyes. Both of them trying to control themselves.
Chom! Chom!
They turned toward the sound, seeing Roan chomping at his food.
Peeuu! "This is good." Roan licked his fingers with a satisfied smile on his face.
Dhruv and Aria looked at him dumbly.
Dhruv said, "Big sis, don't you think brother needed to punish?"
Aria nodded at him frowning, "Yup, forget about convincing sir. He needs to be punished. "
"How to punish him?"
"We should…."
Dhruv and Aria started their planning.
…
After eating to the fullest.
"Pwaaaa pwaaaa!" Roan burped and then relaxed in the chair. His mind started to function normally. He remembered how he moved to the egg and then moved to that void.
This experience was a little familiar. He felt these things when he got lost staring at the 6 gates.
It was the same experience of him losing himself and then walking up by force logged out, but this time he remembered he did struggle at the start. So this was not those gate related.
In all his last life, whenever he was lost in the gates, it was always like him staring at the pattern and blacking out and the next moment forced to log out. He never sensed time passing at that time.
He never experienced that empty void, 'what is that place? How do I go there?' he started thinking about all these questions.
The feeling of slowly losing yourself really shook him. It was like that void was devouring him and it even succeed in that.
He lost his identity in the void, the thought of him being permanently lost in the void shook him. He placed his hand on his chest and felt his heartbeat.
Dhuk Dhuk! Dhuk! Dhuk!
The beating of his heart helped him to organize his mind. This heartbeat sent a message to his mind 'I am not dead.'
In his last life, losing himself with those gates changed the tuning of his mind.
He remembered the first time lost at the gate he was so shaken mentally and physically that he could not even able to walk properly in real life. Even the other dungeon master went through the same thing.
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