Expecting to have landed a brutal strike with the high-tier daggers, Kyle was stunned to find himself kneeling on the ground several metres away from the being, a cut slashed across his chest and dripping with blood. Fortunately for him, it was not deep enough to be life-threatening. However, what truly endangered his life were the multiple shards of a certain orb that had shattered into fragments, drifting before his eyes where only he could see them, before finally dispersing.
***
[The Abyssal Orb has been destroyed]
[You have been severed from the Thread of Eternal Life]
***
Kyle's eyes widened in shock. Never had he thought it possible — to destroy an Item that was not even in his physical possession but secured within the Manual itself.
How could this being annihilate it without ever laying a hand upon it?
No, how did it even know he possessed it, and why did it target it first?
