Kill the Sun

Chapter 772: Drowning

The Containment Unit was installed in Aegis' headquarters within the day.

Aegis' headquarters was probably the easiest location to set up a Containment Unit since the entire thing was designed by the most advanced people in the current era.

Nick looked at the entrance of the finished Containment Unit with some nervousness.

'I will be under the same torture as the people I am torturing. I would need to create some kind of contraption that connects me to the outside of the Containment Unit if I want to avoid the torture, and that would be bad.'@@@@

'I am a Specter, and I am not supposed to suffer from my own tortures.'

'While the Champion, the Left Arm, and the Technician know that I can't inflict my own torture on these people since they are much more powerful, the Protectors don't know. I need to keep my identity secret.'

"Left Arm," Nick said, contacting the Left Arm's Barrier via the network of Aegis' headquarters.

"Report," she demanded evenly.

"The Champion told me to become a Peak Demon as quickly as possible, and I need your help for that," Nick said.

"Be more specific," the Left Arm answered.

"I asked the Technician to create a Containment Unit that barely feeds enough Prephyx into its insides that two people can survive, but it will induce a feeling of permanent drowning in them. The more suffering I cause and the stronger the person is, the more Zephyx I produce."

"I suspect that I also need to increase the quality of the people I made suffer if I ever want to become a Fallen. Because of that, I need Protectors that volunteer to go through this torture."

Nick wanted to add that he didn't want to force them, but if the Champion of Light was listening, this would be too suspicious.

After all, he was a Specter.

Why would he care about humans?

The Left Arm didn't answer immediately.

She could already tell what was going on,and she could tell that Nick would be under the same torture as the people he was working with.

A normal Specter wouldn't mind. After all, they knew that they wouldn't die, and that would be it. As long as the Specter didn't have an unstable mind, logic and emotions were essentially the same thing to them. Řä₦oВĚʂ

After all, they didn't really feel emotions, which meant they only had logic to "feel".

But Nick wasn't a normal Specter, and she knew that.

While his emotions were stunted due to the presence of Specter Zephyx in his being, he could still feel like a human.

This included fear, pain, and panic.

A moment later, Nick changed his composition into an actual Specter, getting rid of the organs.

The human reflexes of pulling in air vanished, making things a bit easier.

Yet, he still felt like he was dying.

While the physical symptoms could be alleviated, the mental ones were still there.

'Calm. Stay calm,' Nick told himself in his mind.

His body wanted to break out of the costume and leave the Containment Unit, but Nick controlled its urges.

'You're not dying. At some point, the downward trajectory of Zephyx will end, and everything will level out.'

'Use your logic. You're a Specter, and Specters use their logic to feel their surroundings.'

Eventually, just as predicted, Nick's Zephyx stopped reducing when he had about 1% left.

Yet, compared to a human, he could still move.

That was because the process with which Specters produced Zephyx was different from how humans produced their Zephyx.

A human's body would slowly shut down a couple of processes that were very energy-consuming to save on energy.

Meanwhile,a Specter just reduced the energy output of all processes. None of them actually stopped.

Nick could still move, but much slower.

His mind still worked, but much slower.

He didn't grow tired or exhausted but just entered a kind of trance.

His brain was barely producing any thoughts and exclusively focused on what was immediately happening around him.

Getting used to this sensation was easier than expected.

And then, the employee entrance opened.

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