Chapter: 690

[- Grasp the intangible]

[- Offend life and death at your own risk]

“Grasp the intangible…”

Jay sighed, “Surely if I use it on myself it won’t be an offence to a higher power… right?”

“BURN KILL DESTROY STEAL!” the voices continued screaming in his mind – right up until the point Jay activated the skill.

As soon as he did, Jay himself felt a sense of fear, though he someone could tell it wasn’t coming from himself. Somehow, he could tell that the voices in his head were trembling.

When Jay used the ability on himself he felt his own soul, nursed above his heart as if it were sitting on a throne.

Apparently his mana was too oppressive as he felt like what he was doing was simply wrong. There was no pain, but more of a sense of utter emptiness and aloneness when he applied too much pressure to his own soul.

Relieving it, he felt much better again.

Next, though, he sensed… other things. Something which he couldn’t describe, though compared to souls they felt different. They felt wrong.

As his mana wrapped around each of them, the voices said nothing but he could still sense their fear.

He was just glad they were finally quiet. It felt peaceful. He even just stared into the forest for a moment not thinking anything.

“I bet people take their quiet minds for granted.” he nodded, “I probably do too.”

Three of these invisible and intangible entities were attached to Jay; Each having bodies like snakes which were aligned along his spine, their long bodies coling upwards around his head and then entering his mind through the middle of his forehead.

“Eugh, right into my damn head” he thought, feeling disgusted.

“What are these… things.”

Jay paused for a moment but realised he didn’t have time to be flustered.

He focused and began the removal process before whatever these things were could hope to harm his mind… or even his soul.

First he detached the tail of one of them from his spine, as it seemed to stick to different parts of his body. Almost like it was plugged in.

As he went up, it required more mana to pull away but it was manageable.

Compared to wrestling a soul from whatever higher powers were above though, it was much easier and used much less mana, so he wasn’t worried about running out of mana before the process was over.

The first of three snake-like creatures had its body removed, and now it only attached to Jay through his forehead.

Taking some inspiration from the parasites in his arm, he rolled its body up into a ball and then thrust his mana out with it, away from his head.

It took a second attempt, but after adding enough mana he pulled it out.

Thankfully it was painless.