AWB Chapter 1021 - 885: The Reason
Chapter 1021 - 885: The Reason
After sitting up, Kane first looked at his body, then checked whether there was any residue of the deep light in his soul, spirit, or body.
Faced with such an existence, there’s no room for any careless emotions, even if it’s just a will descending into a corpse.
He only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming there was no issue. Meizike indeed didn’t disappoint.
At that moment, Meizike, who was standing nearby, was also waiting for Kane’s self-examination, even though he was very confident in his skills now.
But some things ultimately require personal feeling to be perceived.
"How is it? Is there any problem or discomfort?"
Upon hearing Meizike’s question, Kane shook his hand.
"No problem, nothing major..."
At this point, Kane paused, looking at the vacant spot on his left.
He shrugged helplessly: "Well, can’t say there’s no major problem."
As his words fell, layers upon layers of mechanical structures began to extend from the gap in his hand outward.
In just a moment’s time.
A pure arm constructed of intricate machinery grew out.
Blue universal energy began to flow through the conduit of the mechanical arm, with various magic runes attaching themselves to it.
Kane observed his mechanical arm, pinching it to feel the sensation it brought.
He couldn’t help but laugh and said: "I’ve wanted to do this for a long time, haha."
Hearing Kane’s carefree joking, Kreya couldn’t help but reach out and pinch Kane’s thigh hard.
"Hiss... okay, okay."
"Why don’t you reattach your hand, also why is your arm sealed like this, did you face the deep light?..."
Kreya began to voice her doubts, throwing a bunch of questions at once.
Kane quickly reached out and covered Kreya’s mouth.
"Stop, stop, slow down, slow down."
Then he released his hand, speaking softly: "Calm down, I’m okay."
After saying this, Kane then turned around and got off the mechanical treatment table.
From the shelf next to the mechanical table, he picked up his clothes and equipment and put them back on.
His movements were neither hurried nor slow.
The group quietly waited beside him, not urging him, while calming their own emotions.
Once all the equipment was donned, Kane then reached into his space equipment, pulled out a glove, and put it on the mechanical palm of his left hand.
This way, outsiders wouldn’t be able to tell that Kane’s left arm was already severed.
He turned around, cleared his throat.
"Ahem, the situation earlier Kreya must have told you all about, so I’ll talk about what happened after Kreya disappeared."
Kane then moved to the chair beside the treatment room and sat down, while the others also found seats, waiting for Kane’s story.
"At that time, I took out that brother, spending considerable effort for a quick resolution.
However, just after he died, before his soul completely dispersed, another force invaded his body."
"That silver-gray glowing force making my body feel uncomfortable and extremely nauseous, I’m very familiar with, that’s the deep light."
At this point, Kane reclined back on the chair, leaning against the wall behind him.
"It must have been due to the enemy’s state at the time, combined with the statue in the advance camp and various forces, giving him enough chance to break through the mist’s defenses, temporarily descended onto that corpse."
The statue in the advance camp could guide the force of the deep light, used to drive away the surrounding mist and that chaotic space state.
Through the presence of the statue, plus the fact the enemy was already nearly united with the deep light at the time.
It indeed made his will easily descend.
"Why at this time? Why you in particular, just because of the Platinum Country?" Kreya couldn’t help but ask.
Upon hearing Kreya’s voice, Kane shook his head.
"Not just the Platinum Country, he wants... to recruit me. It seems I have something he’s very interested in..."
At this point, Kane pondered over his choice of words.
"Something."
"Okay, don’t ask me what he’s interested in with me, because I don’t know either."
After all, he said he was special, but Kane felt the special parts of himself couldn’t be casually spoken of.
Quickly interrupting the questions everyone wanted to raise, Kane continued:
"He was very aware that I wouldn’t join him, so when he spoke, he used his force combined with voice to tempt me on a spiritual and soul level."
At this point, Kane frowned, voice tinged with a slight uncertainty: "For some reason, perhaps because I already lived once under his power 20 years ago, having a slight resistance, or perhaps the power descending through this corpse was insufficient."
"Overall, his temptation wasn’t entirely successful, halfway through I developed vigilance, but he seemed very confident, assuming I’d already been tempted by him.
According to the scenario then, I waited for him to approach me, then stabbed into the corpse with a special dagger mixed with illusion and punishment energy."
"Successfully driving him away."
This was basically the detailed situation Kane experienced.
Upon hearing this, everyone couldn’t help but fall into reflection.
No matter what, the deep light didn’t seem like how it was presented 20 years ago.
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At that time, the first appearance of Deep Light gave Kane a profound lesson. If the Northern Spirit Monarch hadn’t been right above them, Kane might have died there instantly.
So, whether it was Kane himself, or Kreya, or the other monarchs present.
Everyone there believed that Deep Light merely saw Kane as an offender, a little bug that dared to offend him.
To such a powerful being, crushing a tiny bug that offended him was a normal thing to do.
However, reality and this current event were telling them otherwise.
Deep Light had long been eyeing Kane.
All these years, the only and first time Kane entered a moment where it was enough for his will to descend.
He descended without hesitation.
This was something worth pondering and being wary of.
At this moment, Liu Lu pointed at the severed arm beside her.
"What about this thing? What’s with all the seals on it?"
"You haven’t told us yet why this arm of yours ended up severed."
Upon hearing Liu Lu’s words, everyone finally reacted, lifting their heads to stare at Kane.
Kane looked at the metal arm on the table and gestured with his hand.
The severed arm, covered in a layer of metal, flew into Kane’s hand. It indeed looked like a seamlessly crafted metal limb.
Kane even had the leisure to admire his severed arm.
However, looking at the clearly dream-like fairy-tale runes engraved on it, he couldn’t help but grimace.
It looked too strange and abstract.
But looking at his arm, Kane still explained: "After all, it is Deep Light, even if it’s just a thread of will and power descending onto a corpse.
Facing such an existence, there must be a price to pay; wishing to escape unscathed without any cost would be disrespectful."
Having said this, Kane slightly raised both hands, making the arm float at the center.
Countless peculiar lines formed a hexagonal, sphere-like container, with the arm floating inside.
More lines inside the container formed various strange runes, floating randomly.
The external, sphere-like lines began to condense into a solid form, made of translucent hexagonal modules.
At this point, the metal covering on the arm began to slowly peel off.
Seeing this, Liu Lu waved her hand as well, and the fairy-tale-like dream runes turned into colorful threads, flying out following her motion.
With the outer metal fading away.
Kane’s severed arm appeared inside.
The arm, cut off from the shoulder, had completely turned into a silver-grey energy arm.
The silver-grey light was without a doubt the familiar glow of Deep Light.
Seeing the appearance of the arm, the group immediately understood the situation back then without needing further explanation from Kane.
It must have been at some point that Deep Light left power on Kane’s left arm, beginning to contaminate him.
The contamination speed was either extremely fast or incredibly dominant, thus Kane decisively severed the entire arm to cut off the path of contamination.
However, at this moment, Meizike was somewhat confused.
Gazing at the arm inside the sphere, he asked with strong bewilderment, "Then why didn’t you just sever it completely? Why maintain any connection with this arm?"
"The instant I decided to sever my arm, my eyes gave me foresight."
Saying this, Kane pointed to his own eyes.
Upon hearing this, Kreya couldn’t help but scold from the side: "How can you be so reckless? The enemy is Deep Light, a being capable of suppressing the Mist. Why trust your foresight? It could very well be influence from the enemy, and..."
Kreya wanted to continue but hesitated, realizing Kane wasn’t someone that reckless and irrational.
She slowly closed her mouth, her eyes fixed on Kane.
Seeing Kreya calm down, Kane nodded, reaching into his space equipment and pulling out a completely transparent crystal stone.
"What is this?"
"It’s a shard of the Wishing Stone, which I used to strengthen my foresight back then."
Saying this, Kane couldn’t help but smile and said: "Moreover, using the strengthened Wishing Stone, I didn’t dare to prophesy about Deep Light but foresaw myself instead."
"That’s why I kept a connection with my arm, but I also took a final precaution."
"I modified the final connection, so if any non-my power influences it even slightly, the connection will automatically sever as a small insurance measure."
Hearing that Kane left a connection but sensibly made enough precautions, everyone nodded.
At this moment, a smile appeared on Kane’s face as he looked at them and said, "But in this short time, I’ve already gained some rewards."
Saying this, universal energy surged from Kane’s hands, immediately transforming.
The silver-grey light began to emit, and a nauseating aura filled the entire treatment room.
"Did you steal Deep Light’s power?"
"No, no, I wouldn’t dare to steal his power. I merely used universal energy to simulate this power, ensuring a 100% restoration; I can’t say it’s high-level, but a regular bishop or archbishop can achieve it."
The technique Kane used was once a method he devised to obtain divine power from praying to other deities and then simulating it for use.
But reaching this stage, many processes could be simplified.
At this point, a silver-grey energy tentacle emerged from the silver-grey light in Kane’s hands, dancing in the air under his control.
Gazing at this tentacle, Kane turned his head toward the group: "So, how does it look, is it similar?"