Chapter 278 – Everything.
Kaden didn't expect this scenario to happen.
He had simply entered this mind space to find out what that black rune was, and who had given it to Luke. After all, he needed that information if he wanted to save Eliot.
But instead of answers, he found himself in a place where his chest was being shredded by emotions so foreign and overwhelming they froze him in place, leaving him ready to watch his existence devoured by something unknown.
No, if it were only that, it wouldn't have been this bad. But Kaden knew he wouldn't die even if that monstrous head swallowed him. He knew it instinctively.
Luke was the proof.
So this wasn't about death. It was about something else…his mind being trapped somewhere, or worse… corrupted. Either outcome was one he would rather avoid.
So…
"Synthesis." Kaden managed to utter the word, thanks to Reditha's intervention, her voice reminding him of where he was.