'What.was.that?'
The dull growling had fallen in the ears of Lee. He was unaware of its effects as he leaned onto the wall, inside the crevice. His eyes were barely open, and Lee can tell that the stacked influence of poison and physical attacks were taking effect. Lee raised his head, which was drooping down, and glanced forward. The wall across the path was visible to him.
A second later, his vision began to falter. He does not know whether the chaos outside had subsided or not, but his ears were getting insensitive to noise. A sensation of being severed from his body slowly crept up his senses, and his memories flashed in front of him. Slowly, his consciousness faded away.
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18 HOURS TO COMPLETION.
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*ping*
A sharp 'ping' noise woke Lee up and he was in a different space. The whiteness surrounding him was visibly boundless. The ground under his feet was stable and had blended into the brightness. A feel of familiarity arose in his mind.
Looking at his body, Lee found himself in some strange wrappings. Those 2 inches wide thin paper wrapping ran over his body, covering his torso and limbs. His face was excluded and the tightly wound bandages were uncomfortable to him.
There were no visible blood marks on the bandages. But as soon as he tried to move his body, an unexpected eruption of pain embraced him, and he twitched in response. Sensing the pain emerging from each bone and joint of his body, Lee switched to minimal movements, and scanned the surroundings.
There was none other than him in the bright boundless area. Lee, who was lying on the ground on his back, was not in a state to make even his pinky move. It was after a dozen of seconds that he sensed the pain creeping over his body from the back of his body.
The origin of the pain were numerous sting marks and Lee concluded the current situation. He was now in his consciousness chamber, which is no longer a chamber, due to the absence of D and the system. As a resident of his consciousness, Dnekewy had crafted Lee's inner world into his comfortable home.
After relaxing his body, Lee laid down while biting down the ever existing pain. He closed his eyes and slowly slipped into a calm state of mind.
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Almost an hour later, Lee slowly raised his hands and inspected the wrappers. The thin bandage wrappings had an off-white colour with a very faint hue of yellow. The craftsmanship of the bandage was clearly visible from the flawless arrangement of the thread. As he shifted his eyes from his right palm to his left, his heart skipped a beat by what he saw!
The turbulence in his heart was audible to his ears. The beats had a sense of conveyance of his last time. And it was exactly what had happened. His left palm was slowly evaporating!
He never thought of something like this to happen. Never did he feel an anomaly in his body like this. He was able to feel his body to every individual cell, but this was beyond his perception. The steadily rising smoke was slowly erasing his palm from existence!
The wrappings on his thumb fell off and a sense of unstoppable and impending danger crept up his figure. Lee twitched at the sight, but the accumulated pain reminded him that there is nothing he could have done about it.
The wildly beating heart could not calm down no matter how many times he tried to meditate. Something was disrupting his rhythm. Was it the sight of evaporation, or was it the helplessness surrounding him?
If D was here, things would not have turned out like these. The sovereign would have already stopped this invasion. But now that D cannot come online for the next 18 hours, Lee was a sitting duck.
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17 HOURS TO COMPLETION.
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Unknown to him, his body outside in the reality, placed inside the crevice, was slowly losing its temperature. His higher value of vitality and health may have been lessened to a great extent, but they still tried to resist the invading consequences of the poison and sufferings.
Though it was futile, they were greatly able to slow down the devouring dangers. As Lee began to meditate through the chaotic tribulations in his mind, his vitality was slowly battling against the gifts of the dungeon beasts.
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Lee had lost his track of time, as a wave of serenity came rippling in his being. This gave him a boost to focus on his meditation, and calm down his troubled heart. The drumming slowed down, but was yet above an average rate.
A notification came up with another 'ding' noise and Lee slowly opened his eyes.
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60 MINUTES TO COMPLETION.
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16 hours had passed by, after Lee went into a composed manner. He was unaware of his surroundings, which was empty. Lee averted his eyes to his torso from the panel. Lee was not surprised by the sight, as it was as he had expected.
Wrapping laid on the floor, and this sight did not waver his mind. Lee had calculated that this would be the ending, and had been preparing for it. But there was a sliver of hope that D would come and save him. Obviously, anyone who had lost all hopes of life, would still preserve that glimmer of hope.
Bringing his eyes back to the panel, Lee felt that each minute was as long as a year. Every minute that passed, the steady evaporation came crawling upwards his neck. A sense of confusion and curiosity made a slight frown on his face.
Lee was rather intrigued by another matter. Though his body was no more and the bandages falling off had signified the erased existence of his torso and limbs, He could still feel a connection with his body. It was as if they were not severed, but unable to interact.
Lee made an attempt to move the 'invisible' limbs, and a flood of ache rushed to his head. His face immediately became distorted and expressed his agony.