Chapter 88: Silver control
Even after the betrayal, Devina decided to grant me what I was after this whole time. She would let me nab Sekito and take her to Zerstörer. I felt there was no reason to go against that idea because he would lift the curse on Emovi after I handed over Sekito.
But here came Devina's plan: She wanted me to use the power I had been blessed by the Silver Saint to freeze the Aeon of Breakage after I had handed over Sekito, and then we would quickly resecure Sekito.
I could either finish off Zerstörer or run away after freezing him. That would mean that Emovi's curse would be gone plus we would get Sekito back.
But after hearing Devina's plan, I asked her how I was supposed to use the silver sword inside me.
Sighing she took out a razorblade out of her pocket dimension. The cold edge of the blade ran across my finger and I felt blood drop. She told me to hover my finger over this glass of water.
Emovi and Oslovi approached us in curiosity, they both had their faces close to the glass as more blood accumulated on the tip of my finger.
As the drop descended and hit the water I heard a cling sound as my blood touched the surface of the water. The glass of water had been turned into silver. Devina took up the glass of silver and poured it onto the table, it is still a liquid, but it isn't warm at all.
"Looks like the loxes in your blood are making the silver stay as a liquid. How about we test out something else…"
Both Oslovi and Emovi's eyes widened as if they had witnessed a magic trick. She gave out a quiet wow as she poked the silver on the table. Putting its nose against the liquid Oslovi scrambled as it got a whiff of silver.
Devina placed an apple on the table and told me to hold it. I held up the apple in my hand but nothing happened to it.
"Maybe try imagining something travelling from the core of your body, towards your arm, up to your hand."
As instructed, I imagined how my energy flowed from my inner core towards my arm, up my hand. The feeling of something travelling through my blood and congregating in my hand grew, until my hand couldn't take it anymore and expelled the pressure, resulting in silver coating the apple.
"Well look at that, you did it, you managed to freeze the apple."
Emovi picked up the apple stared at her own reflection through the silver and smiled.
"It is kinda weird knowing that you can freeze me just like this apple."
As Emovi said that, an idea popped into my head, turning towards Devina I excitedly asked her what happens to the inside of the apple when it got frozen.
"Good question, let us see."
She poked her hand through her pocket dimension and grabbed some tools. She used a laser to cut the apple in half.
Both me and Devina stared at the insides and saw that the insides were completely made of silver.
"Can this be converted back to normal once turned into Silver?"
If I remember properly, the Silver Saint froze my lips and legs once. But the insides of my mouth didn't turn into silver, nor did my legs.
"AHHHH! My head hurts! I can't understand." I rubbed my head as the thought circulated through my brain.
Pondering my question, Devina sat down hunched over with her hand supporting her head.
She placed another apple on the table, but this time, she asked me to throw my blood at it, instead of wanting to freeze the apple, try freezing your blood.
"How am I supposed to sense my blood outside my body?"
"As an Aeon, you should be able to sense loxes better than normal humans, so try to detect the loxes in your blood, and try to activate the silver in it."
My brain was honestly almost fried at that point, but I tested out her hypothesis. With a drop of blood coming again, I flicked it towards the apple. I focused intently, trying to detect the loxes in my blood, but in the end, the blood hit the apple without anything happening to it.
Devina's cheek glowed yellow, her roots grew down into her index finger. She then poked my eyes with her index finger.
"MY EYES!!!"
I covered my eyes with my hands trying to shield them, thinking Devina was going to go after them again. I didn't feel any pain or discomfort because of the Aeon of Freedom nullifying the pain.
Slowly opening my eyes, I saw a whole different world, there were like colors in the air. I looked at Devina, she was completely red, before shifting my gaze towards Aylin who was trying to give treats to Oslovi, both of them were glowing green.
"Why are there colors around everything?."
Devina told me what I was seeing was loxes. Loxes that were emitted by living creatures are shown through color, even the air has loxes in it, therefore, it has color.
It was a weird sight to see but when I looked at my hand, the silverine aura was there! It was very faint but I could see the silver aura emitting from my body.
"Try detecting the loxes in your blood now."
Once again, I gathered enough blood in the droplet before flicking it towards the apple. I could see it! The energy in my blood.
"Freeze."
Just as it hit the apple and spread around, it froze. The blood that had just been converted to silver started to spread across the apple's surface until the whole apple was covered.
"I did it!" I jumped for joy as I finally replicated the same thing the Silver Saint did to me.
"Now let's try removing the silver from the apple."
I could see the loxes inside the silver being completely still, not moving at all.
"The loxes in the silver should be dormant, if you force them to move, for example back into your body, the silver should explode, because there is nothing left holding them there."
"But wouldn't it just leave silver there?"
"Technically yes, but as the loxes are ripped from the silver, it is so violent that the silver shatters when the loxes exit the silver."
I focused and gave it the order.
"Shatter."