Ieyasu had warned him.
Even his clone had warned him.
Both of them had warned him, and he didn't fully consider the gravity of what their words meant.
Perhaps it was because it was too horrifying.
But both of them had told him.
"It is everywhere."
Why did he ignore the full meaning of their words?
BADUMP!
BADUMP!
BADUMP!
BADUMP!
BADUMP!
His heart began racing, pounding against his ribcage like a detonating explosive. His breathing began growing labored as he began sweating through the gaps in his invintium layer.
He grew paralyzed with Fear.
It was an existential terror.
The kind that only came when one realized that everything was a threat.
Their enemy was everywhere.
In the past, he had only been able to experience this fear during Gigabrain. But for the first time in his life, he could experience the Fear itself. Not out of an elevated state of mind like when he was in Gigabrain, where his Martial Path seemed to possess him.
