Kill the Sun - Chapter 687

Nick's Zephyx recovered, and he returned to his human form as he kept looking at the water-like substance.

After Nick had almost died, he had naturally dropped the scale with the substance on it.

Right now, the substance just lay on the ground, doing nothing.

It was just like water.

Nick furrowed his brows as he looked at it from a distance.

He would not touch that thing barehanded again.

'This is obviously the energy source of the membranes and the machine. This is the very thing that makes all of this work and move.'

Nick looked for a while at the membranes.

'It isn't being used up very quickly, but it also isn't being used up very slowly. Moving these plates with a certain amount of power naturally requires a certain amount of energy.'

'Based on the power and how much liquid is being used up, this liquid is not very energy-dense.'

'The little drop I had on the scale probably only equates to about a gram of Zephyx. My body has over ten kilos of Zephyx, making it over 10,000 times more energy-rich than the liquid.'

'Even if the liquid had some kind of extremely destructive potential, there just wouldn't be enough to damage my body to this extent.'

'And yet, I can't deny that is exactly what happened.'

'Even more, as far as I can tell, the liquid didn't even lose any of its energy. It has just as much energy as before it came into contact with me.'

'This means there is not some kind of equalization effect going on.'

Nick silently looked at the liquid.

'It's like the liquid has infected me.'

'It's like it's a little flame, and I am a long rope.'

'A little burning match obviously doesn't have as much stored energy as one kilometer of rope, but if the match manages to ignite the rope, that doesn't matter. The little match will be the reason why the rope burns to ashes.'

'Then, there's also the matter with the white dust. Whenever a Specter dies, they turn into black dust,which represents their Zephyx being converted back into Prephyx.'

'Yet, when this liquid touched me, my body turned into white dust.'

'Does that mean it didn't convert back to Prephyx but into something else?'

'But in that case, what did it turn into?'

'I only know of Prephyx and Zephyx. Sure, Zephyx can be categorized into a couple of different categories, but none of them seem to be applicable in this case.'

'So, did it turn into something that is neither of those?'

Nick furrowed his brows.

'I don't know. It's difficult to accept something like that.'

'One thing is certain. I should not touch the liquid barehanded again.'

Nick approached the liquid and retrieved his syringe again.

Then, he pulled the liquid into the syringe and looked at it.

It acted just like water.

Nick extended his arm and slowly turned into mist again.

As long as Nick wore things and had them under control, he could transform them into mist, too, which was an important aspect of this ability since he would otherwise become naked every time he turned into mist.

Nick wanted to see if he could turn the syringe with the liquid into mist together with his body or if that would destroy him again.

Eventually, the syringe turned into mist as well.

CRRR!

Nick immediately cut his body off as it started to turn into white mist again.

A moment later, Nick turned into mist again and approached the machine.

'I want to look through this area some more. I just have to be careful not to touch anything.'

While a human wouldn't be able to fit through any of the tiny holes here, a bit of mist had no issues passing through the gaps.

Nick entered a world of chaotic movement.

Everything around him was loud and in constant motion.

Luckily, the constructor of this machine was very efficient, which meant that none of the liquid spilled out of the machine.

So, even if parts of the machine touched Nick, he wasn't turned into white dust.

Nick flew through the machine for several minutes.

A normal human would have long since lost all orientation, but Nick's mind was powerful enough that he could create an accurate map in his head.

'It's quite big,' Nick thought as he looked at the map in his head.

By now, he had reached the other side of the machine, which was around 1.5 kilometers away.

Naturally, the other side also only had walls and tiny holes.

Eventually, Nick decided to travel along the walls of the machine.

'It's egg-shaped,' Nick realized.

'Based on the dimensions, I am at the thick bottom of the egg, which has a diameter of 1.5 kilometers.The height of the egg should be about three kilometers.'

'I've never seen such a gigantic machine. How difficult is it to conceptualize and construct such a dense machine with such insane dimensions? The Technician's machine is a toy compared to this thing.'

After a while, Nick decided to check the top of the machine.

He flew up for a bit but slowed down.

Something worrisome was occurring.

'The density of Prephyx is drastically going down. In fact, the density here is even lower than outside.'

At the same time, Nick also started to become nervous.

Yet, there was no real reason to become nervous.

He wouldn't immediately die without Prephyx, and he could go back to any area with Prephyx without any issues.

This was way less dangerous than the Force Specter trap.

And yet, for some reason, Nick felt more nervous here than when he had been trapped.

However, Nick had a lot of willpower and just forced himself to continue flying forward.

All the Prephyx vanished, and Nick could see a big gap in the machine.

Nick felt like he had to breathe deeply and quickly, even though he wasn't even breathing.

Nick felt that this feeling was familiar, but he only realized what this feeling was a couple of seconds later.

'It feels like I'm drowning,' Nick thought.

'It feels like I'm breathing in water.'

'It feels like I'm ingesting something that I can't use.'

Nick decided to glance past the big gap and return immediately.

He quickly approached the gap and looked through.

And then, his eyes widened in shock and horror.

'What?!'