Chapter 606 – The Wait
Nick's body healed within a couple of seconds, and he stood up to look around.
He found himself in a fleshy room that was about three meters wide and long.
The walls were filled with miniature versions of the hole that had swallowed Nick.
The rims of the holes were filled with teeth and seemed to lead into another hole filled with teeth.
In a way, the smaller maws looked a bit like mouths, which reminded Nick of his old boss, Julian.
Nick was the only one inside the room.
After looking around the room, Nick quickly found his weapons lying around him.
His two blades had been torn off his body by the tongues, and they lay in front of him while all of his spears lay around the room.
While Nick rarely used his spears nowadays, he still carried ten around with him.
He quickly grabbed his two blades and put them back onto his arms.
This immediately alleviated Nick's distress.
Then, Nick looked at his scattered spears.
After looking at them for a while, he decided against picking them up.
Why?
Well, Nick was naked.
Where was he going to store them?
For the next several seconds, Nick just sat in the middle of the room.
The things that had happened to him went through his mind again and again.
He was used to many kinds of tortures, but this was a new one.
He had felt completely powerless, and he had not chosen to feel this way.
It was inevitable to feel powerless while working with some of the Specters, but before it happened, the Extractors had decided to go through with this.
Here, Nick hadn't had that luxury.
He had been forced to go through this experience.
Even more, Extractors generally knew that they would survive working with a Specter, while this hadn't been the case here.
The Maw could have killed him.
In fact, the Maw had come dangerously close to killing him.
If Nick's Specter Core had broken in a more unfortunate way, Nick would have become completely helpless for a long time.
Luckily, only a small crack appeared along one of the manipulation lines.
As long as Nick focused on fixing that manipulation line, his power wouldn't be impacted.
For the next couple of minutes, Nick focused on repairing his Specter Core and re-created the damaged manipulation line.
Within ten minutes, Nick's power had returned. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
And then, Nick waited.
There was nothing else he could do.
He couldn't possibly break through any of the walls, and there were no openings except for the tiny maws.
Well, Nick could turn into mist and go through them, but that would be suicide.
The Maw would probably just kill him.
Despite having the power to resist, resisting was often not the most intelligent thing to do.
'I guess I have to wait for it to gather everyone,' Nick thought as he looked at one of the maws on the wall.
'This should be what the Technician told me about, a battle between people that have the Maw's power.'
Nick moved his hand over one of his blades.
'Luckily, that shouldn't be much of an issue.'
'The other Extractors will most likely also not have Barriers, which means that escape abilities are much more valuable than normal.'
'Humans can take a lot of punishment with their Barriers, but without Barriers, we die easily.'
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