Had Rosad not known that his opponent could not wield his mental power, he would never have stepped forward to stop him directly. He would have chosen another tactic instead.
"What exactly is this..."
While he remained pinned in place, the gaping hole blasted through Cawington's body was rapidly healing.
During this process, an extremely strange domain field emanated from Cawington, making Rosad's mutated tissue feel as though it were burning.
His pupils suddenly dilated.
Before Central City had been established, he had taken part in many operations to hunt down beings from the other side. Those were bloody, unforgettable days, and he could never mistake this sensation. It came from something on the other side!
In that instant, he understood. He raised his head, his gaze locked on his opponent.
He could not speak, for his entire body was numb and rigid, but his eyes conveyed his meaning.
You let that being attach itself to you!
"So you understand?"
Cawington's eyes shifted, and he gave Rosad a strange, stiff smile. Then he added meaningfully, "No, you still don't."
The three imprisoned individuals had appeared to be breaking out in different directions, but they had actually been communicating with one another. He knew nothing about the Old Emperor, who had given him no response.
But because he had once swallowed a certain forbidden object, he could communicate directly with that being through their domain fields.
That being had shared some of its power with him, which he had absorbed and assimilated. Even though his mind still could not connect to the Other Side World, this power had reactivated his dried-up mutated tissue, restoring some of his former abilities.
Rosad suddenly realized that Cawington could draw the being's power into his own body and use it, seemingly without being controlled at