When the Amber Egg was fully activated, Iver could barely look directly at it.
Just looking at it caused countless fragmented visions to appear involuntarily in Iver's mind.
Laughter, tears, singing...
It was just like dreaming—likewise, after a moment of absolute reality, they would be completely forgotten again.
Iver could not even determine whether these were truly his hallucinations.
Were they the whispers of the void? Or the lingering memories of his previous previous previous life? Or perhaps... the past "solidified" and "engraved" by the amber?
And just as Iver was stunned by the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Adil had already stuffed the writhing Amber Egg into his hollow chest cavity.
—Thump, thump!
The instant it was stuffed into his chest, everyone heard the same alien, hurried heartbeat.
It was a massive heartbeat mixed with the scraping of metal and some kind of wet, sticky smacking sound.
It did not sound human... It sounded more like some enormous monster that was about to awaken.
"This monster has a bit of premature ventricular contraction."
Iver instinctively remarked.
Before his voice had even faded, the Amber Heart suddenly drilled out countless golden threads resembling parasites, piercing through Adil's entire body in an instant.
After emerging from his body, those golden threads immediately turned around and wrapped tightly around Adil... like countless fine chains.
It was as if they were desperately restraining something, sealing something away—
Immediately afterward, Adil suddenly let out a painful roar:
"Ugh, ugh, aaahhhhhhh—"
He abruptly fell to his knees, clutching his chest tightly with both hands.
Adil had remained utterly calm even when his heart was pierced, but now countless writhing veins bulged across his forehead.
No... They were not veins. They were worms crawling beneath his skin!
His muscles began to mutate, and his entire body