章 182: Volume IV - Chapter 27: A City in the Embrace of War

"This is the last time, and if this doesn't work... you don't have to come back here. Do you understand, Aiden?"

I nodded meekly, a little nervous to be honest.

I held my breath, closed my eyes, and then waited.

Seconds passed, yet I couldn't help feeling like minutes had passed because of the tension. Silence surrounded me. Then a tremor and finally a sound, the sound of a machine working. I felt something warm coming from the devices attached to my arm, injecting a liquid into my vein.

I gritted my teeth as the warm liquid slowly spread throughout my body.

It was actually relaxing, certainly not something a first-timer would grit their teeth about. At least… it was until the liquid coursing through my veins began to literally burn my body from the inside.

My eyes opened wide. I tried to struggle away, but nothing worked. I screamed as if it wasn't my body that was melting, but my mind itself.