First Meeting with the Ancient One

"So this was what it felt like for the soul to leave the body."

Floating in the air, Dilos looked down at the body that belonged to him and murmured inwardly.

He instinctively tried to move his hands and feet, only to find that there was no sign of them moving at all. He could not even see them.

Dilos frowned, a deeply wrong feeling rising in his heart. He immediately summoned his mental power, trying to see what had happened to him.

The moment he did, Dilos's expression changed drastically.

The mental power he had always called upon did not appear. Instead, that strange energy fluctuation from before radiated from his body. Judging by the intensity of the fluctuations, it was clearly far stronger than before.

Recalling the destruction caused when that unknown energy fluctuation had spread out earlier, Dilos inwardly cursed. He hurriedly used the method for controlling mental power to draw the energy back in.

The energy fluctuation had barely emerged before Dilos forcibly pulled it back. Fortunately, he had reacted faster this time, and the fluctuation was withdrawn before it could even leave his private chamber. Otherwise, there was no telling what severe consequences it might have caused.

"What is going on? What exactly is this ability? And why is it so hard to control?"

As he pondered this, Dilos gathered his focus and once again summoned the energy from before. This time, however, he used every ounce of effort he had to control it.

He had to figure out what this unknown energy was and bring it under control. Otherwise, he would be like an uncontrollable nuclear weapon, capable of causing massive destruction for any inexplicable reason.

As he summoned the energy again, Dilos finally managed to call it forth steadily. At the same time,