He suddenly looked down, then recoiled in shock as he saw that tiny flesh tentacles had somehow already connected to his body, their other ends attached to Lynn's fingers.
"What did you do?!" His face turned livid, and the immense pain made his entire body tremble.
With his eyes closed, Lynn controlled the tiny tentacles and said slowly:
"Stimulated your nerves."
"Although Flesh Creatures come in very different shapes and species, the basic nerve tissues that respond to external stimuli are much the same. And pain, as a warning signal, is also the easiest feedback to exploit."
"As it happens, I possess a few abilities that can inflict pain. So with a slight adjustment to your nerves, I can amplify the pain you feel a hundredfold, a thousandfold. This process can last a very long time, and I'll keep you precisely on the brink of death, so you can savor the sensation."
He delivered those spine-chilling words in a very calm tone.
But to Ryan, they sounded like a chant calling for his death, making his hair stand on end and his entire body tremble.
The mutation was spreading!
The pain was rising!
And with every second, it increased by an order of magnitude.
Agony!
Bone-piercing agony!
At first, he could still endure it, but after only a few seconds, the pain had already risen beyond his limits.
"Aaaah!!!"
He could not help throwing his head back and screaming in agony.
It brought back memories of the almost sanity-shattering screams those Flesh Creatures had let out when he experimented on them.
He had always regarded those cries as a delightful pleasure.
Their suffering had been his drug.
But now, having become a test subject himself, he finally understood what it meant to be better off dead, what the greatest torment