Monster Integration

"I like your confidence, and I would watch it shatter," It said with a toothy smile, "Once your artifact is spent, the psychedelic energy will seep into every speck of your soul that you would never be able to get out of those hallucinations," It added cruelly.

I do not doubt its words, especially since it uses the monster core and supportive materials that will send the psychedelic energy deep inside me. The formation is very thought out; whoever designed it is very good.

I have been circulating soul-cleansing energy so fast that I had never before, but still, I could see despite that, once the protection of the purple brick is gone. The psychedelic energy will come at me like a storm, and the soul-cleansing energy and soul-washing formation wouldn't be enough.

"Why wait for psychedelic to crush me? You are powerful enough to kill me with your raw strength. Just deactivate the formation and kill me," I asked, which again stumped it for a moment.

It is a genuine question; it is extremly strong, strong enough to crush me in a single attack if I wasn't defending. If I were to go by the general nature of Grimms, which belief in their strength most than other things, it should have already tried to attack me, especially when I am the only one here, but it did not.

"Nice try, human, but I will not deactivate this formation till the psychedelic seeped into every part of you," It said, shaking its head, to which I shrugged too.

This bastard is more crafty than I had released; even though it is a vidette, I am confident that I would have been able to defend against it, at least for a few minutes, before trying to walk into that door, which does not have any runes.

"Though, if you want to die early, you can turn off that protective artifact and enjoy these heavenly psychedelics. In a few minutes, I will close the formation and will you to true heaven, probably hell, considering the deeds you have done," It added with a teasing smile.

"You are really a coward as they Rses, hiding behind the formation to kill even a small weak human like me," I said back, and it made it really, far angrier than I had thought it would be; those huge eyes of its are blazing.

"You really have a sharp tongue Zaar, and when I deactivate this formation, I will make sure to give you the pain so great that it will torture you even in the psychedelic wonderland," It said with gritted teeth and blazing eyes.

"I am looking forward to it," I replied while putting my sweetest smile on my face; while inside, I was panicking.

I am producing any result, and when the protection is gone, it is gone to fuck me up bad. So bad that only death will be the only release, and I don't want to due, especially not in the hands of this bastard Rsas, who is one of biggest cowards of Grimms.

'It seemed like I had no choice but to do that,' I said to myself and shuddered. That thing is really painful, and even after experiencing so many pains, I shuddered at the thought of doing that.

I am talking about circulating the energy of the purple brick; currently, I am covering my soul with energy like a shield, not circulating inside it.

This brick artifact is a kind of talisman that stores a very powerful herbal energy; like most of the artifacts that came to our worlds, this one too is thousands of years old and lost most of its power, but still capable of protecting me against the psychedelic energy.

The thing I was trying to say is that artifacts contain a very powerful herbal energy, which could be circulated. This energy used to be very powerful but lost most of its power, and now, it is weak enough that I could circulate in my core.

I have done the tests earlier, and what I found in the short test was shocking. The thing is that it is very effective in circulation; if I circulated, I would be able to get rid of these hallucinations, which are feeling more and more real than reality.

The most important this is that I will be able to make it last much, much longer; one-tenth of its energy in circulations would be more than enough; better protection I am having, which will make purple brick easily last up to ten minutes.

There are many pros to circulating it, including saving my life, but one con, and that con is making me shudder.

The circulation of it is extremly painful; it is like I am scratching sandpaper against my delicate soul. It was so painful that half circulation had left me bathing in sweat and shaking legs; if not for the clone handling the stealth method earlier, the monster would have definitely detected me.

Now, I don't have a choice, and I don't plan on dillydallying either when it is my life on the line. So, I took some of my purple energy into the soul-washing waves and began to circulate.

"Ehhhh…"

I immediately screamed like last time, and this time, I did not create a sound around me, nor did I want to consider there was a powerful suppressive formation weaved in the psychedelic formation, which would suppress even absolute peak High-Grandmaster to a puny Grandmaster.

"The hallucinations should send you to the wonderland, not give you the nightmare," said the Grimm viddet with a deep frown on its face, which made it even more cautious as it reinforced the boundary of the formation and took a step back.

I did not have a second to listen to its mumble currently; I am facing a pain that is making me claw my own skin out.

The pain was so extreme that I could not think of anything other than stopping. Every moment is fighting with oneself as this sandpaper-like energy scratching against my soul, and the more I circulate it, the greater pain it would be.

If I hadn't been focusing on the pain, I would have noticed the hallucinations were disappearing fast; even fast, even when my clone had removed the protection of purple energy, which was covering my soul and was now only being used in the circulations.

My clone had also monitored the changes in the soul as I had asked it. I know very little about this energy, and though I do not think it is harmful, I will have to be cautious, especially against such powerful energies.

These energies had been made from the level of resources that are extremly high level; they are not only powerful but also contain imprints inside them. While time seemed to have destroyed the imprints, I still did not want to take risks.

If I had any other options, I wouldn't have circulated the foreign energy which I barely know, but I do not have a choice; it is either this or die, and I don't want to die, not yet. 

Not till I wiped out each and every vermin that had infested my world. Till I achieve this dream, I will continue to struggle with every speck of my life.