Soul

Chapter 446: Soul

Time crawled by under extreme tension, every second stretched into an agonizing tick.

In the control room, Benjamin stared fixedly at the torrent of data cascading across the light screen.

Beyond the porthole, Viola's figure looked exceptionally small atop the core node of the scarlet array. Dark crimson radiance intertwined with the energy flow of the Restraint Array as she struggled to resist the endless energy tides pouring from the Starfall Plane.

The bad news was that the consciousness of that newborn Living Plane remained in a state of extreme stress.

The various consciousness indicators representing its agitation and resistance no longer surged madly as they had at the start, but they stubbornly remained at a dangerously high plateau, like a spring stretched to its limit, ready to snap completely at any moment.

The good news was that after Viola followed Benjamin's suggestion and changed her restraint strategy from forceful suppression to energy intervention focused more on guidance, buffering, and soothing, those fluctuating peaks miraculously stopped rising.

This delicate balance was like walking a tightrope over a bottomless abyss.

Judging by the initial violent trend, the outer Restraint Array should have overloaded and collapsed completely several minutes ago.

Yet now, relying on Viola's control precise down to the finest hair and her use of another relatively "gentle" aspect of the Law of pain, the Restraint Array, though dimmed, covered in cracks, and emitting a low hum of unbearable strain, continued to hold on miraculously, barely trapping that "green beast" within its net.

"It's adapting... or rather, it's 'feeling'?" Benjamin stared at the subtle changes on the spectrum graph.

The change in restraint method seemed to have shifted this newborn consciousness slightly away from a pure "being attacked—resist" pattern, toward some kind of confused "probing."

But balance was