Monster Integration

’What is happening?' screamed the ghostly skull, and a moment later, it saw the answer to its question and me too.

Though, I was not shocked as it was; there were only things that could save me, and both of them are in the core.

’The strange core; I was going to deal with after I finished taking control over the body, but it seemed like I have to deal with it first, before taking control over the body,' It said in a very angry voice and turned toward my core.

’Come!' It shouted and opened its skull mouth even wider, and I felt all the pull concentrating toward my core, and it was stronger than what it had used against me.

I watch with bated breath as the pull gets stronger and stronger, but there is not much of a shake from my core. Forget the core; the moon orbiting it did not have any change despite the strong pull coming from the skull.

Seconds passed, and there was no change; even when the pull continued to get stronger and stronger, every second and even after a minute passed, there was no change, and it must be really frustrating for the ghostly skull.

Another minute and a half passed when it suddenly stopped.

’I will deal with you after I got the body; by then, I will see if you still dare resist me,' It said and came back to me like a looser. Once again, I felt the pull against my soul, but it stopped just as it began.

’You fucking thing, I will end yo' its voice cut off immediately as the core acted; it started to pull of its own and is hundreds of times stronger.

Crack crack crack

The runes begin to crack and fly up into the small swirl created on the core, and with passing seconds, the pull got so strong that it began to swallow thousands of runes at once, and it targetting not the only runes it had placed inside me, but outside too.

The skull is trying its all to collect the ghostly flames from the runes, but its attempts are unsuccessful; the swirl on the core is swallowing it all.

In less than ten seconds, it had already swallowed more than half of the runes, and it won’t take long before it swallowed the other half.

’It seemed like someone had already claimed this body; my apologies for intruding then,' said the skull and tried to get away when the pull focused on it, stopping it in its tracks.

’Don’t go overboard, you bastard; I will burn this body apart if you did not release me!' threatened the skull and blazed brightly as it told it would really do it.

Seeing what was happening, I wanted to laugh loudly; just a few minutes ago, it was a high and mighty being that could easily swallow me, but now it had fallen so low that it was forced to use threats to get away, which would not help it.

It shouldn’t have targeted my body; as it had said, there is already someone here, and that someone who not to share my body with those it did not like.

Like I had expected, the threats have made only things worse for it, as the pull suddenly grew in power, so much that it began to pull the skull toward it.

’I have offered you the choice, but since you are willing to throw it all away, then I will burn this body and even self-destruct if you dared to stop me,' said the skull and even looked at the core in expectation, thinking it would listen to it, but it was gravely disappointing by the answer it got.

The pull from the swirl had got even stronger; it began to move toward the swirl even faster.

’Since it the mutual destruction you choose, I will give that to you,' screamed the deathly skull and blazed.

I couldn’t help but feel the horror as it revealed its aura, and that ghostly flame began to spread; it wouldn’t take an even second for it to cover my whole body and burn me into the ashes.

I was horrified at the thought of being burned alive when my core blazed and began to suck it all with the power that not even my deathly skull could resist.

’Nooooo!' It screamed loudly as it began to move toward the skull, without the power to resit before getting completely swallowed, leaving not a single proof behind.

Just as it got swallowed, I got my mobility back, and I turned back toward Jim and Lester and couldn’t help but be shocked at their state. Their condition is bad; they have fractured nearly all the bones of their body and bleeding from everywhere.

Their breathing is low, and if they do not receive medical attention soon, they will die.

Hun!

I immediately appeared beside them, and my strings went inside them; a second later, I couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief.

Their conditions are bad without a doubt, but it was due to the physical attack; there is not the slightest bit of energy involved in it, which is great news because if there had been the slightest amount of energy from that thing, I don’t think I would have been able to heal them.

I started to heal them and immediately noticed a small problem; it was not from them but from me. I could not access my core, which is not surprising after what happened, but it will make things a little harder; those formations make things quite easy.

Now, I have to use my own healing power, which is also quite powerful.

Within a few minutes, Jim and Lester’s eyes begin to flutter open as I have brought out from unconsciousness.

“Micheal,” he said before his eyes wide open in shock, “What happened? How do you survive?” he asked, “I will tell you, but later,” I said, and he nodded and let me heal him.

Hun!

A few minutes passed, and I was still healing them when suddenly, I noticed something. In healing these two, I had completely forgotten about this place, which had now begun to crack apart spatially.

“Fuck, let’s get out of here,” I said to them; they were healed enough to walk and use their energy, which I hoped would be enough for all of us to get out of this place safely.

They also saw what was happening and got up immediately, and we ran toward the door; on the way, I touched the coffin, and to my surprise, it went inside my storage.

“Micheal!” Jim admonished, but I only smiled and avoided the spatial crack coming toward me by jumping before moving even faster toward the door.

It took us a couple of seconds to reach the door, and on the way, we jumped through the hundreds of spatial cracks, which increased exponentially.

Thud Thud Thud!

As we reached the door, I pulled it open and threw Jim and Lestor in it before jumping out, and a moment later, I crashed against something hard, but I did not mind; as we got out safely, priscilas shocked face is proof of that.