Lex was panting heavily, his appearance entirely unkempt as if someone had put him in a sack and had beaten him up. It couldn't be helped, for he could not spare any spare thoughts to maintain his appearance.
By now, he was already struggling to hold himself together. Despite constantly talking to countless characters, the rate of purification could not match his rate of absorption of the corruption.
If something did not change soon, he might really be unable to pass this tribulation! He either needed the tribulation to end, or he needed to figure out a way to use the obelisk more effectively. But with his spirit on the verge of collapsing, it was really hard for him to think.
He had tried everything he could think of, from trying to approach the obelisk itself, to asking all the characters various questions about themselves and the obelisk. Unfortunately, he could not find any pattern as to why their names would be on the thing, save that they were humans.
