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Arc 2: Let's Climb a Site!
Adam emerged from the caverns onto the moss with... excessive caution.

It took a week or so, but... this should work? Right?

Momentum Redirection.

Not the automatic, reaction instantiated version. A deliberate, more focused application of the theory, while using his Domain to spread his weight out over the dull moss...

With hesitant steps...

Solid!

Alright, so far so good!

Adam walked a bit, keeping his senses on the footing. With a slightly malformed Domain shape that emphasized a wide, low 'foot print'... this should be safe, right?

The ongoing theory was that both prior monsters had tracked him by his previous, more obvious footsteps. So... hopefully NOW, nothing in the black water will suddenly pop up to say 'Hello!' and 'How do YOU taste today?'.

His steps became more confidant as he continued to practice the technique.

So far, the biggest issue? Using this ability required constant Spirit Energy movement around his body and into the lower part of the domain to be sufficiently stable... Which meant Rockette's Energy Shroud technique had issues fully hiding her spiritual impact on the area.

Thus when walking on tissue paper or whatever, Adam would clearly feel like a Cultivator.

Which was fine. Theoretically 'Research' thought that Rockette would EVENTUALLY be able to hide his energies even when attacking or using abilities... but not for a while. Maybe after a few more cultivation levels? For now though, his 'cultivation base' would vary based on how well she was hiding the excess energy resonance.

Step... Yes, this should be fine.

Rapidly, his speed reached an ever higher peak... just had to push a bit harder on the moving surface and redirect his speed vectors forward! So easy!

As his steps began to drift over the material, he had a sudden thought.

...He hadn't practiced stopping.

Glancing down... he was basically floating several feet above the surface now.

...Hadn't practiced landing either.

Uh.

This should be fine.

~~~Broken Adventure~~~

Adam blinked at the black mist floating everywhere.

Eww.

So, lessons learned. Once you reached a certain speed, his new technique just got... super efficient. And with so few trees, bushes, or... anything to judge his own speed against?

He had been going DAMN fast.

A chunk of bone landed with a 'gloomp' nearby, instantly piercing the moss and sinking away.

Eww.

Adam had like... two seconds or less to see the WHATEVER it was trying to surface from the bog. Plus, not really paying attention to that in the first place, so it caught him off guard.

Then he had hit it... and ALL of his velocity vanished into the now spreading cloud of poisonous meat mist. Momentum Redirection had used his Domain to just... keep shoving all that force into the monster.

And when the impact tried to exit the other side? Momentum Redirection was like "Oh! Free Energy in Adam's Domain! Here, have another sample!"

...In the end, the entire creature was now a cloud of former flesh. Even the portions below the water had been within his Domain reach, and the entire Spirit Beast had acted like a balloon full of explosions and surprise.

EWW.

Like... he was consuming all the air nearby into Rockette for conversion just to prevent monster gas from getting in his mouth. The few chunks still falling down? It wasn't even the creature he hit, it was the OTHER Spirit Beast that his unfortunate target had been trying to pounce on!

Rockette formed on his shoulder and vibrated. "Young Sage?"

Ah, the lead guard. "Yes?"

Her voice was... fascinated. "Is THAT ability on these jade slips?"

Another chunk of skull landed a bit further away.

Eww. "Yes. Check 'Momentum Redirection' under the bludgeoning slip... but if you want a similar effect, it may be easier to learn the 'Explosive Tackle' technique instead. Less complicated to use, less energy needed... I only got this result from running for a few hours and accelerating so much."

As it was, he had ended up frantically redirecting the damage inward to the conceptual Adams within... otherwise this mist might have just kept being smashed by power. Or attracted more creatures from nearby.

He wasn't entirely sure HOW fast he had been traveling, but the momentum gathered was NOT to be underestimated. Stung like hell too.

Next time, just shove the extra power straight up and let it do whatever it wants! Why should HE suffer just become some massive wall of flesh wanted to eat some smaller mound of flesh in the middle of nowhere?

Rockette wiggled on his shoulder as he began running again. "Which version of the tackle should we attempt to learn then?"

Adam twisted slightly as his speed slowly picked up again. "For the same results, the Explosive variation would work... but if you get it wrong your own body will get damaged to a lesser extent. Maybe try the Knock Back Tackle option? Things won't explode on impact, but in exchange all that energy is dedicated to clearing the area. Great for crowd control."

Seriously, run mindlessly for literal hours at high speed... and smack into the ONE OBSTACLE in the area. Sure he hadn't really been paying attention to his path, more on optimising his energy use and speed... but yeah, that had been a shock.

Run. Run. Run.

A slide to the side... wait, what?

Stopping instantly, shoving the excess momentum inside a spiral pattern for temporary storage, Adam checked the white tower he nearly smacked into. It was easily thick enough that a dozen people couldn't work together to hug the thing, and massively tall!

Tapping the surface... it seemed oddly soft? Or just fragile, like how balsa wood felt like foam rather than actual lumber. Yet the material, whatever it was, could easily resist his few attempts at damaging it.

Not a shell, or a tube... The surface was obviously worn from exposure, but at the same time the strength displayed clearly showed that a MASSIVE amount of energy would be required to make even a minor amount of change to this stuff.

Yet... even though Adam was not near the source of the Curse Tattoo call, this object...

A thought had his energies tap into the white tower... and it was as if there was a void. He couldn't quite connect with it. Not repelled, not a true void... just a slight miss?

Glancing at the black marks on his hands... They seemed to react to this column, though faintly. But he didn't want to try further examination while sitting in this muck, exposed to the waters below...

Blinking, Adam looked up at the SOLID pillar. And up. It should stop at some point, right? And he could probably sit up there, far from the goo and gross stuff down here...

Well, why not?

Using the stored energies from his run, he forced his body to hurl upward. Following the pure white surface, he left his hand touching lightly as he moved faster, the black curse marks tingling at the contact.

There were a few pits and small openings, though tiny, that made it easy to redirect his path as he continued to fly along the white vertical trail... But how tall WAS this thing?

He really hadn't bothered to measure the distance covered so far, but this was easily taller than any building he had seen up to this point. Not sure if it was taller than the trees he absorbed... but at the very least, this was turning into something of a journey.

Rockette formed on his shoulder again. "Adam, why is the observation platform showing everything sideways?"

Twisting so that he was flying upwards back first, he hummed. "Good... morning? I think? Did you sleep well, Sister Quan?"

This area wasn't affected by the massive volcanic eruption from the wastes of the Ash Forest, but the Corpse Bog had its own dim mists that made it hard to see. Hopefully at the top of this... thing... there would be some bright clear skies.

Her voice was still confused. "Little Tianshi has been making some plant based structures and stuff for the last day or so, and I've been helping her shift stuff around, set up furniture, use Qi Forms to make more oddly shaped stuff."

Hmm? Lucky. When HE tried to make stuff, it formed with Blue Flames or his Curse Marks. Neither one felt good as a sofa or whatever. "I heard she was making a clubhouse?"

The woman chuckled. "If you can call a fifty floor structure a 'clubhouse', then sure. Rockette just kept opening up more space for little Tianshi to build into... it is basically a nature themed mansion at this point. Even has tiny fountains of Soul Water and all kinds of berry bushes and fruit trees."

He grinned, ignoring how his stored momentum kept hurling him backwards. "Good for her! I can't wait to check it out later."

Sister Quan seemed to refocus. "Now... are you floating?" Oops, there was some annoyance in her voice now. "Did you break through to Saint level already!? I swear, I leave you alone for just five minutes..."

Adam chuckled. "No, I decided to take some time on that. Maybe a year or two." He blinked. Was that a growl? "This is just an odd use to my defensive bludgeoning technique. I can store up momentum, including the stuff generated from my heavy runs, and just release it in specific directions and at desired rates."

He spun slightly. "If I match the rate at which I am falling, I float. If I get it low, I sink. If I overshoot, I fly upwards."

Her voice paused. "Adam, is the view NOT messed up, and you are traveling vertically rather than floating horizontally?"

A glance... good, he wasn't drifting away from the stupid tall tower. "Pretty much. Found this odd object in the swamp... it is far away from whatever is calling my tattoos, but still reacts the same way. Decided to climb to the top, find a comfortable place to meditate, and find out why."

They both went silent, Adam listening to the wind as his body continued to fly upward. Thankfully, his 'defensive trick' built up huge momentum when running... his reserves of velocity was fine for now, even with how tall this thing was.

Sister Quan seemed hesitant. "What... IS that thing?"

Adam hummed. "Not entirely sure. Not wood or any mineral. If I didn't know better... Well."

...It WAS a conceptual world. Things impossible to exist elsewhere MIGHT exist here. No, they probably HAD to exist in places like this, where the shear inconceivable wouldn't self destruct just from trying to form substance.

He frowned. "I... think this might be a bone."

He continued to zoom upwards along the white road, Sister Quan equally silent.

Adam's frown turned into a grimace. "Worse... it might actually be a tooth."

Aside from the wind, they both contemplated how large such a creature would have to be.

...Damn, he really, REALLY hoped it was dead.

~~~Broken Adventure~~~

The armored woman turned to the others. "No one beside us can travel with the Young Sage."

The other guards nodded. One of the men sighed. "Aside from how dangerous it is, you need a strong mind not to just fall into depression from how amazing the things he accomplishes are."

Another nod. "He also is either attracted to, or is actively attracting, impossible things. Either that, or no investigation found these 'White Towers' suspicious enough to report, or died before they could submit their findings."

One of the guards who had been cultivating in her cave recently blinked. "So... there ARE more than one tower? It isn't just some massive horn or something from a single creature?"

The leader grimaced. "I had Adam use his domain to search outward in a thin disk, showing the results in here thanks to Rockette. It is distant, but there are at LEAST ten 'White Towers'... and they are in the form of a small arc. Quite possibly, if we could see it all... in the shape of a large circle."

A few curses. "It is going to be some giant mouth, isn't it? Can't just be some religious stones used in a ritual that condemned a kingdom, or a strange series of limbless trees that summon zombies and stuff as fertilizer, or a fancy structure left by a cultivator who ran out of room for some random mountain sized junk..."

Another slapped his shoulder. "Well, if it IS a mouth, we are probably safe. This thing biting down would create a world impact that NO one would miss, at least none of the many surrounding Sects. And Rockette is now able to 'Shroud' her stupid power levels... Adam would feel far less 'delicious' than the many monsters we already passed, monsters this massive 'mouth' also ignored."

One of the gloomier guards wasn't having it. "Then Adam will accidentally awaken it. Or summon it as a zombie, if it's dead. Or sneak into its stomach voluntarily just to 'have a quick look', and find out whatever the hell it is has a baby or something."

The conversation... paused a little. Before another smacked the guy in the head. "We DON'T need to give the world ideas. Especially considering the things that happen around the Young Sage NORMALLY."

The lead guard nodded in agreement. "Our job is currently to protect the two mortal Sect members and be helpful as possible to the Young Sage. Things like this... whatever it is?" A quick wave at the massive white pillar the boy was STILL flying along. "That is beyond our jurisdiction. Not our problem."

A weight seemed to lift from the group. The lead smiled. "Now, I need you to all explore the 'Tree House' little Tianshi set up over there, verify that it is structurally sound, and for delta group to prepare for another taste testing session with Sister Quan."

She ignored the groans. "Rockette has just finished a MASSIVE round of testing with the Soil Grid gardens, and I am sure we will all be thankful after finding any successes discovered along the way."

Seriously, they needed more training. SHE was used to guard details with no food, limited water, no appreciation, and no time to self improve or cultivate. Problems included, this was a DREAM gig compared to past work.

She held back a giggle while powerful men and women grumbled like children as they left to eat free food.

And if SHE got to avoid the gross 'Surprise Snacks' along the way?

Well... That was just a benefit to leadership, really.
 
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He pulled a Wile E. Coyote! He has learned to accidentally run on air. And when he mulched that critter the energy loop almost became self perpetuating? I love his glorious nonsense. Swamp Charybdis is a freaking terrify image though, so thanks for that.
 
I think from the description there are more likely to be ribs than teeth.
Oh, then it is just the last guy who tried to internalize the swamp they are in. Sorry for your loss dude, but I will surely learn from your body of work.

Seriously, with the tower being straight up I lean toward it not being bone, but celestial mushrooms. The poison will be in the cap...
 
Oh, then it is just the last guy who tried to internalize the swamp they are in. Sorry for your loss dude, but I will surely learn from your body of work.

Seriously, with the tower being straight up I lean toward it not being bone, but celestial mushrooms. The poison will be in the cap...
He did say that the tower is made from something that yields to pressure so I think it's more likely to be mushrooms. In fact I was very confused as to why it said "teeth", at best I could get that it could be bones as the marrow IS spongy, but teeth are solid all the way through.

Interesting thought would be HOW a mushroom grew to be that big, perhaps it's a mushroom that attracts prey by making an Angler Fish type trap that kills beasts that try to eat it, it then feasts on their corpses and gains immense energy boosts from that. It also explains huge ambush predators that aren't billion years old in a swamp where most cultivators won't go as it's pointless for them, those mushrooms primarily hunt beasts.

First cultivating plants, carnivorous at that, our hero encounters are possible not human-eaters? Maybe he'll recruit their help for his internal garden accidentally too. More plant stuff for the plant kiddy!
 
You used "backwards" once in the post while the rest of the time you used "upwards". Up might be backwards depending on orientation but when one has gravity and a ground up will always be up. Only when you have no gravity will which way is which doesn't matter.
He rotates once to better talk to Sister Quan, but the force of his propulsion does not come from his back. Instead, the spiral of energy that surrounds his entire body is being released in the direction, rate, an angle that he has mentally chosen.

This is why it doesn't matter what angle, speed, direction, etc, that his main body undergoes... Since his actual propulsion is being controlled by his technique.

He is always traveling upwards, but for a time his BODY was traveling backwards in an upwards direction! Woo!
 
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I started reading it, but I think I missed something.
Is this an SI, main hero is a ROB with memory loss or is this an SI who somehow merged with broken ROB?
 
Arc 2: Vision Forward!
The idle conversation at the table was interrupted by Adam's stunned voice. "Wow."

Everyone was currently eating lunch, but looked up at... well nothing really, as this third level didn't have an observation window.

Sister Quan wiped her mouth. "What is it, Adam?"

He seemed... distracted? "I... well, I guess I have good news. Sort of."

The lead guard focused. "What is the situation?"

Adam's voice was a little dull for some reason. "I am entirely positive that the 'White Tower' is not a tooth, though I think it may be confirmed to be some form of bone now. Though one with a VERY odd texture."

Considering that he had lost all stored momentum hours ago and had to craft new propulsion by gripping the tiny openings in the tower to generate thrust... well, he had been climbing for over a day now. Something with a tooth that long would be beyond monstrous.

One of the other guards just didn't care. "As long as we aren't climbing INTO A DAMN MOUTH I consider today to be nothing but pure victory."

Adam hummed. "Might want to hold off on the celebration for now. I was planning on reaching the top of the White Tower to hopefully find a safe spot to meditate and examine this thing... But uh."

Rockette popped open a sheet of Crystal, showing the outside to a listening crowd.

"Based on the second, angled white column connected to it? I think this is a skeletal leg."

...It was beautiful.

At some point, Adam had passed the lowest level of cloud coverage... below, the odd gray mist from the corpse bog bubbled and rolled like a strange potion, or a cursed sea. Here, clear blue skies made the white columns glisten!

...All of them.

Adam stood on a marble white surface, as if the vertical nature and rules about gravity were annoyances for other people. Near his side, connected with white fragments... a SECOND, equally massive white pillar was connected, and angled away to vanish into the distance...

And farther in the background? Several dozen white 'threads', likely more of these bone pillars, reached into the heavens... and angled in towards some unknown center.

The lead guard was stunned. "How... how tall IS this thing? It can't be man made, it just can't be!"

Little Tianshi blinked. "Mr. Whiskers says it might be something called a 'Bone Walker'. And that they shouldn't exist here."

Everyone turned to stare at the tiny whiskered lizard... who was idly chewing on a blue and yellow berry.

Sister Quan glanced at the thin white spokes leading off... somewhere. "Does he know anything about these... 'Bone Walkers'? Are we in danger?"

The little girl shrugged. "According to him, he only heard tales of these things from his parents. They are SUPER old stories, and most just talk about how they show up in places doomed to die." She took another bite of her sandwich. "No one is sure if they are called to places of death or if they CAUSE the disasters."

She shrugged. "We should be fine though, Master can do anything."

Adam hummed. "I... I guess I could consume this thing." He frowned, the high winds making it a tad hard to hear. "But then I would have a giant whatever this is inside Rockette, and that sounds gross. Can't eat it, and it is WAY too big for most fights or whatever."

With a nod, he lunged toward the second, tilted white pillar that headed towards the Cursed Mark's call... and began to pick up speed. "I'll decide what to do when we get to the main body. For all we know, it may have died already."

Tianshi hummed. "Mr. Whiskers says that in the legends, 'Bone Walkers' absorb the energy and body parts of the dead to grow in size. So he isn't sure they were ever alive to begin with."

Adam winced. "Gross. Yeah, not going to bring this thing inside, that is just icky."

One of the... less courageous guards was close to fainting. "Can we NOT climb the legs of a giant zombie multi-limbed monster from legend!? We were farming and stuff a few days ago, let's go back to that!"

His neighbor snorted. "STILL better than directly climbing into something's mouth. I swear I have been having visions of... and the teeth just... drool everywhere..."

Adam chuckled. "Well, let's not rule it out until we get to see what there is to see first!"

The arguments continued, but as the boy flew along a white road in the sky over a gray ocean of chaos, the sky shone bright and the wind was crisp. Which was good.

Based on how long it took to REACH this level so far, they likely had a long journey to traverse.

~~~Broken Adventure~~~

Sister Quan was meditating.

Unlike Tianshi, who was new to this whole cultivation scene, THIS Sister had experience!

...Which was all the more galling to be behind the child in practicing the 'Gentle Rebirth Body Cultivation Technique' (Version 3.5322). Each new revision of the jade slip increased her conversion rate and reduced the pain and strain to the body... but Little Tianshi was just so talented at this!

Still, there was nothing better to do.

Adam's trip had lost its audience fairly quickly. He was endlessly running on a white pillar of bone, no background or audio to listen to, no changes... even existential terror at being so near such an impossible beast got boring over time.

So SHE was focusing on her own improvements.

Working for so long with Adam, he had long ago mapped a cultivation technique or two to modify her own path, to simplify it, remove issues or bottlenecks that would have been expected... and after a long time, she would eventually be able to swap over to the (ever popular) 'Houtian Realm Seventh Order Essential Cultivation Method.'

You know, AFTER Adam got around to designing it. He hadn't reached Seventh Order yet, after all.

And while she would LOVE to just give up her cultivation progress and swap to his amazing 'Houtian Realm Fourth Order Essential Cultivation Method' NOW, the complex issues of her past cultivation methods made it too dangerous.

There were too many weaknesses, uneven enhancements... so Adam had made a series of techniques that would, one after another, address and fix those problems. And she WAS using them.

But for now, she meditated.

Within her thoughts, her Martial Spirit, the Three Eye Crow, was flying through her meridian routes. Unlike Adam, who could control his internal energies individually and on the most basic level, SHE had to cheat a little by using visualization tricks like this to guide the heaven and earth spiritual energy down each correct path.

At the same time, she forced herself to address an internal concern... a personal doubt that had begun to bother her at night.

Her spirit... just felt so lifeless compared to Rockette. When not directed, her Martial Spirit would, at best, fly around her during meditation and open its beak to consume spiritual power.

That was it.

It didn't hum with crystal tunes at night, or offer a warm drink on a cold day, or grant absolute dominion of reality within a modifiable radius to the user.

And that had never been an issue before. She had seen THOUSANDS of Martial Spirits, from bushes to beasts to swords... any intelligence was low level, reactionary, or even near a comatose state. They would breathe, or the limbs would wiggle... but nothing more.

And that had been fine.

Now?

Her Three Eye Crow was not just some meditation tool, or useful attack method.

It was a reflection of herself... and it felt so dull. So lifeless.

Thus, while she didn't slack in training each method Adam gave, while she didn't stop working and practicing to use both her new and old abilities, to gain ever more control and precision... she also spent some time each session like this.

Just... meditating.

These birds, while being made mostly of flames, were known for one thing more than simple attack damage.

It was their vision.

The third eye was unable to see light, but possibilities. It improved concept contemplation, could theoretically see seconds into the future to help avoid damage in a fight, detect discrepancies in a situation or conversation. Maybe more... they were hard to study.

She just... hadn't bothered to spend time attempting this.

It took time.

Just normal cultivation took years, simple abilities took months if you were a prodigy, each step was agonizing... so who would spend decades examining their own Martial Spirit for no gain?

But Rockette showed that her Crow could be... more. Tianshi showed that a Martial Spirit could improve, or even shift form without a full 'Evolution' at the various cultivation stages.

And... in the end, it was a reflection of herself. And she expected more from herself.

Time drifted.

She watched her flame fly with wings of determination through her meridian route, not trying to add more spiritual energy than was arbitrarily collected, not trying to strengthen her system... just, watching her Crow fly.

As the path became more and more traveled... she encouraged the spirit to fly free. To shift a tad farther around this bend, to swirl in that area... to just explore her spiritual network, without forcing change or improvement.

Sister Quan was unaware of how much time passed this way, but the sudden call of the guards broke her from her meditative state with a shock!

Adam was nearing ANOTHER white column, another section of that impossible limb they were climbing!

As she left her cultivation cave, she failed to notice the faint eyes following her exit... Three flames closed back to slumber as her Martial Spirit returned to her system.

It would support her like always. Together.

~~~Broken Adventure~~~

Adam crouched behind a bone spike.

It had taken half a month of high speed travel... but everyone in his Martial Spirit could see the main body of the Spirit Beast he was climbing. Assuming it WAS a Spirit Beast.

THOUSANDS of bone limbs stretched in every direction! It was less like standing on a stone beam and MORE like being stuck inside a bone funnel, with a squished sphere being held in the center.

It had no front, no back. It had no mouth or jaws, as far as Adam could see.

He was projecting his voice inside Rockette, and having her NOT repeat the responses out loud... stealth was key, here. [Holy. Crap.]

He could hear Sister Quan's stunned voice inside. [What... No, WHY is it covered in eyes!?]

It was true. The squished, potato shaped 'body' of the many limbed spider like beast was COVERED in sockets.

Eye Sockets.

Not just the bottom, which would make sense as the many limbs were in the way to easily see anything, but his Spiritual Sensing ability showed that the ENTIRE monster was either limbs or eye sockets.

And each eye was... odd.

Some were the size of a cat. Others, according to his sensing, smaller than a fingernail. Most were round orbs... others, shaped like barrels or cubes.

Some even seemed to be segmented like insects, or slit, or had hexagons or ovals to see through... it was chaotic.

But the most disturbing feature of the beast was... the blinking.

Every eye had SOME form of eyelid. If it was made of bone as well like the limbs, then it was some sort of shell shaped structure that was able to close the various eyes away from the world...

But when the blink was over, when the eye opened again?

The eyes shifted locations.

Hell, when an eye 'opened', the eye SOCKET was shifting shape too!

It wasn't a frantic movement.

Each individual eye seemed to be open for around five minutes to a half hour, with no easily determined pattern.

But this potato body was large enough to build a mansion on... so there were a LOT of eyes to examine, all blinking at odd moments that somehow always caught the viewer off guard.

Adam heard a weak voice pop up. [I am sorry. Can we go back to scary mouths again? I want to go back to scary mouths.]

He glanced to one of the larger orbs. [Well... if it helps, I think THAT eye IS a mouth. Hard to tell with it moving around, though. Pretty sure I saw a tongue made of eyes inside it though.]

Sister Quan seemed determined. [Tianshi, go work on your homework.]

A whine. [But... but look at all the cool gross stuff out there! I want to see more!]

Yeah, she seemed pretty determined indeed. [Go. Now. Or you have to taste new fruit with the sacrificial guard squad.]

An angry voice chipped in. [I KNEW we were getting odd labels! This is SO unfair!]

Adam tried to freeze. [Shit.]

Everyone went quiet.

Damn it.

The lead guard was hesitant. [Young Sage?]

Adam was having a hard time focusing. [I... I think an eye opened up UNDER my hand. The hand on the leg.]

Everyone's attention turned to his right hand... which was palming a glowing green orb, watching the boy curiously.

Several inside agreed. [Shit.]

The eye felt... hard. It clearly WASN'T a goo bag like with humans, but more a specialized stone or solidified material of some sort. It also wasn't sticky or gooey, which... which was good for Adam's mental stress, if nothing else.

...Based on the fact that nothing was trying to throw him off, attack, OR move him away... maybe these eyes didn't have nerve endings? Right?

Then again, what were the chances that an eye ball couldn't SEE him as well?

He felt tension rise as he prepared to dive off the beast... which would be a bit of an issue. The legs that branched off in every direction were so dense here, that it was a near solid mass in every direction unless he ran off a GOOD distance.

It... it couldn't be fast too, right? Something this big should move slowly or it would like... trip or something. And when a Spirit Beast with over a thousand legs trips, that would be a HUGE deal, right? Would have been a BIG story, everyone would know to avoid the 'tripping trees' or whatever.

Unless no one had survived such accidents...

Nope, not helping him stay calm!

Glancing at the... still motionless eye...

Shit.

Screw it!

With a quick jerk, Adam clenched his hand and YANKED out the orb from the socket!

[WHAT!?][MASTER!][BROTHER ADAM!][Of course he did.][YOUNG SAGE!]

And...

And.

Nothing happened.

Adam blinked at the green orb in his palm... and it blinked back.

Oh. The eyelid is PART of the eye.

...Also: Gross.
 
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