Chapter 786 Waking Up

Chapter 786 Waking Up

Inside Alexander, in the white room that was his soul, only two things were present.

The soul orb that contained all of Psyche, or rather Geminae's power, and Alexander's consciousness.

Both floated peacefully in the room, tethered to each other.

In the last month, the orb had shrunk considerably as it kept Alexander's soul in the mortal realm. This had been an instinctual reaction from the orb, as it felt it was connected to this man.

It had reached out through the gaps of its cage and tethered to the unmoving consciousness to feed it and keep it alive.

Suddenly, his body shook. It was only benign, at first, until I devolved into convulsions.

Alexander's eyes suddenly burst open as he took his first breath in weeks.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

His body stopped floating as the tether between him and the orb disconnected, and he dropped to his back on the floor, gasping for air.

Taking a few minutes to settle down his breathing, Alexander looked at the ceiling of the white room, recognizing it and wondering why he was still there.

Last he remembered, he was here, listening to the imp and Geminae argue.

But now, looking around himself, he couldn't see either of them.

Then he remembered the painful memory of being forced to swallow the imp and getting stabbed in the chest by Geminae.

"How am I still alive?" he exclaimed.

He sat up, looking at the considerably smaller orb, and wondered if it had been the reason for his survival.

He rose to his feet, trying to find the imp and Geminae with his eyes, but couldn't see them anywhere.

"Where are you guys?!" he shouted, hoping for an answer.

But instead of seeing them appear before him, he instead heard them in his head.

"He's awake! Alright, you little devil! Time's up; we are going back inside. Let him deal with this."

"Aww. But I'm not done eating! Let me at least taste this flesh one more time be—"

The voice cut out as he felt his vision swim for a second and was now out of the white room.

It took him a moment, as the dizziness of being snapped out like this was assaulting his mind before he could move his head without throwing up.

Some of this blood might be the people's blood.

He had killed people... Taken innocent lives...

His mind reeled for a moment before the voice of Geminae rose in his head.

'I'm sorry. I wasn't always able to contain the demon. But rest assured, these were the only ones. You won't find more...'

"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Alexander shouted, anger filling him.

"You let him kill innocent people! How dare you say 'rest assured'?! These people probably died of fright before he even tore into them! This is not okay!"

'I can assure you, they died to him, but it was quick. They didn't suffer,' Geminae said, his voice impassive.

"You... You fucking idiot!" he shouted.

His mind snapped back to the white room as his body went still, his face contorted with rage.

He immediately saw the imp and charged at him.

"You!" he shouted at it, grabbing its throat.

The imp was surprised, as it was whining in a corner, complaining about being unable to eat flesh anymore.

"You killed innocent people! No! Worse than that! You made ME kill innocent people!"

The imp punched at Alexander's forearm, trying to free himself, but in vain.

The air was no longer passing in his throat, as Alex was squeezing the literal life out of him.

Geminae ran next to them and shouted, "Stop! You can't kill him!"

"Tell me why I shouldn't!" Alex shouted back in anger.

"You should, but you can't! Not anymore! Not if you want to live!"

The words hit his mind like a hammer.

"What? Explain yourself," he growled, only slightly releasing the imp throat to allow him to breathe.

"Because you'll be killing yourself..."