Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1511: Torment
Chapter 1511: Torment
The vacuum of space began to tremble after Arel’s words... before long, Rain slowly began to feel a pull on his body. The pull began to get stronger as he felt the heat also increasing in the area... and Rain slowly began to be pulled toward the Red Star.
"Hehehe, I guess I am also fairly good at predicting things," Rain said while showing a nervous smile. "I predict your end soon enough as well. I diagnose you with dead."
Rain tried to fight back and even teleported a few times... but all the energy that he was obtaining wasn’t enough to make him escape... the other suns were also affecting the effectiveness of his abilities, after all.
Before long, Rain’s body began to burn and combust, and his skin began to melt as he tried to protect himself from the flames... before long, he turned into a sphere of flames that kept burning endlessly and trying to repair itself agaisnt the flames... his body stopped moving altogether at some point, but it never stopped healing.
"Did he pass out, but is his mind still forcing him to heal?"
Rain’s body started to get dangerously close to the solar eruptions, but Arel suddenly stopped her spell and prevented him from being hit by those. Solar eruptions, also known as solar flares or solar storms, are sudden releases of energy in a Sun’s atmosphere. These eruptions are typically associated with regions of intense magnetic activity on a Sun’s surface, such as sunspots or active regions.
Solar flares are intense bursts of energy and radiation that occur near sunspots or areas of strong magnetic fields on a Sun’s surface. They are often accompanied by the sudden release of electromagnetic radiation across the entire spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. Solar flares can produce significant increases in X-ray and ultraviolet radiation levels, and they can disrupt radio communications and satellite operations. It wouldn’t be weird to assume that they can affect the brain waves of someone...
Arel moved Rain’s body away from the red Star, and then he began to show his real appearance once more... all of a sudden, he woke up and looked around in shock as if he had woken up from a nightmare... Arel already knew that, but he wasn’t faking passing out. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
"Are you ready to talk now?"
"Haha... why? I was just enjoying the sauna," Rain said after a forced laugh. "There is nothing to talk about. We are enemies, remember? Besides, violence isn’t the answer; violence is a question, and the answer is yes. When violence doesn’t solve your problems, you simply aren’t using enough of it."
"I know that you are becoming better at receiving fire damage and absorbing energy, but as a being of your size and your composition, you will never survive my power and my capabilities."
"Is that so?" Rain asked. "If we are declaring things to make ourselves look cool, then I declare myself as the most handsome man in the universe, and you can’t contest that."
"... All right, let’s do things as you want then."
Rain felt the pull of the red Star on him as well... and he couldn’t help but gulp. If he could at least attack Arel, then perhaps he could shorten his torment a bit. However, he was certain that Arel was inside the massive Star, and Rain barely could survive getting closer to it... somehow, he didn’t die on the first attempt, so he was going to become a bit resistant to it. However, would that be enough?
The whole process repeated itself again... Rain was burned until almost only his bones were left... his flesh was being repaired even in that state, and that only worked further to fuel the flames on his body. Despite all that, his bones remained intact, at least agaisnt the flames... they could break and bend agaisnt powerful enough attacks, but they were enduring that hell...
In the end, Arel stopped after Rain was hit by those solar eruptions like someone who had been whipped. This time, his body was shaking even when he woke up. His body was repaired, but it looked like his bones absorbed too much heat, and they were burning him inside out.
"Hey, it is just me, or are things pretty hot in here?" Rain asked. "Can you turn on the AC?"
As Arel watched Rain’s unwavering defiance, a realization began to take place within her mind. She began to understand why Fortus, the machine god of probability, had struggled to anticipate the full extent of Rain’s actions.
Rain’s unprecedented willingness to confront the machine gods head-on, to stand his ground against insurmountable odds even when escape seemed impossible, set him apart from all who had come before him. In his reckless determination to survive, he defied the very fabric of reality itself, challenging the established order in ways that confounded them.
In his madness, she saw a spark of something primal and untamed, an indomitable spirit that refused to yield in the face of overwhelming adversity. As she gazed upon Rain amidst the blazing inferno that consumed him time and time again, Arel realized that he was more than just another adversary to overcome. He was a force of nature unto himself, a wild card in the game of destiny, whose actions defied prediction and whose will could not be quenched by the fires of her wrath.
Rain lost count of how many times he woke up while he was being burned alive to the point where nothing was left aside from his bones... he also didn’t even know why he was trying so hard... it seemed that the pain made him forget everything... he also couldn’t explain how he could regenerate back to normal when he was completely burned to cinders...
At that point in time, Arel also realized that even if Rain had planned for all that, it was impossible for him to endure for that long without external help... and she wasn’t completely wrong about that.