Even as time slowed down in Rui's eyes, the paralyzing fear shackled his heart with an unfathomable terror.
It came from nowhere.
He couldn't sense any distinct source of the fear.
And yet… it was everywhere.
His attention shifted around him.
The bright dawn that cracked at the horizon.
The forests that exploded with power.
The ravaged land beneath his feet.
Despite the unfathomable amount of terror he felt, he was unable to understand.
He was unable to understand what he was feeling.
And yet, while he feared the fear, he also knew that it wasn't acute.
It wasn't going to kill immediately.
The attacks of the Mothers of Nature, on the other hand, had come pretty close to killing him in his unwillingness to admit 'defeat' by using this power. A power that made him lose control of himself in a trance where he simply adaptively evolved to any and everything.
That was exactly what he was going to do now.
