Pain.
The moment Seth absorbed the fragments, he felt an immediate pain.
It was sharp and stronger than anything he had ever felt before.
For a moment, his mind blanked, and darkness took over his mind. But amidst the darkness, he realized something else. His Cognitive Shard... It was pulsing and squirming wildly, wrestling control back from the external force that was trying to dig its claw into it.
He didn't fully understand what was going on, but he knew that this was better than whatever had been happening to him.
RATTLE! RATTLE!
The room shook more fiercely.
"Stop...!"
"What have you done?!"
The shrieks of the cultists echoed loudly within the room, each one more panicked than the other.
Seth stared at the woman in front of him, her face aghast.
And yet, for some reason, his lips curled.
And soon—
"He... he..."
He began to chuckle.
It was soft at first, almost inaudible amidst the rattling.
But it didn't take long before the chuckles grew louder.
