Spiral
"Yup, looks like energy depletion to me."
Osho felt the warm current stop moving through his body as Veronica took a step back and looked at him with a small frown.
She stared at him for a few seconds before speaking again.
"Strange. Normally, having such intense energy depletion should leave you either dead, crippled, or comatose. And if I understood what you said properly, it happened within a short span of time. Quite frankly, your body's ability to absorb Mana should be severely impaired, if not completely gone. But from the test I just performed, you should still be able to absorb Mana just fine, it's just pretty slow at the moment." Hearing this, Osho cringed.
'I nearly went over the line, huh?' He thought as he allowed her statement to wash over him.
Dead, crippled, or comatose.
The consequences of his reckless action were revealed once more, and Osho felt even worse now.
