After overcoming his dejection, Phil attentively listens to Ferox's explanation of how to properly control his violent urges.
"Okay boy, first things first. Do not be overwhelmed by your cruel urges. No matter what the voices inside your head whisper, do not do it. Even if the sigil is not activated, the urge to do violent things is magnified because of its presence. One more thing, this does not apply just to those that are around you, but to you as well, your body to be specific. For example, if you are in a situation where you want to scratch yourself because of a minor inconvenience and the sigil activates, you might end up with heavy injuries due to not being able to control yourself and scratch your skin off. Or a minor headache and you activate the sigil accidentally, you might find yourself bashing your head against a wall."
Phil gulped as the mere thought of the circumstances which Ferox presented to him made him equally terrified.
"Uhm, Ferox sir. I'm having second thoughts about having this power. Is there any way to get rid of this power?"
"Lucky for you. Of course, there is."
Phil smiled after hearing there was a solution to his problem.
"It is simple, boy. Gouge your left eye out and the sigil will disappear with it. Isn't that easy?"
Phil could picture Ferox's wide smile inside his head but he did not bother to rebuke him since he had already shivered from fright.
"GAHAHA! Now stop thinking you can easily get rid of the sigil without losing a part of you. You might feel that it has a lot of demerits right now, but trust me, this will help you in the long run."
Dangit, what did I find myself into.
Phil's thoughts could not help but regret, the burden of having to control yourself for the sake of not hurting those around you and yourself made him sigh in despair.
"Second, you need to master how to activate the sigil once you are in the real world. It might be easy for you to control the sigil here since you could openly communicate with me, but once you return to the real world both I and Enthymema will be in a state of hibernation."
"Wait, so you're telling me that my energy will be reduced again once I return to the real world?"
"Not reduced, boy, but simply it would return to a single point of energy."
"Why?! What's the point of accepting the sigil if it won't add to my energy bar when I am in the real world. And most of all you are telling me that even if I am in the real world the sigil would still be constantly whispering violent thoughts inside my head? Isn't that too much of a disadvantage?"
"That is so boy. Ever since you had accepted the power of the being, the seed inside you had awakened but because you are too young the awakening is only partial."
"Dangit, can someone tell me when I will be fully awakened then? How could this shitty power be so disadvantageous in the real world."
Phil's left eye started to glow red, the rage from the feeling of being cheated had accidentally activated his sigil.
Unbeknownst to Phil and Ferox, at the time Phil had accidentally activated his sigil of cruelty, the prisoner outside of the cave who was left face down inside the black goo could not help but twitch a little, his unfocused eyes started to stop in attention and after a few moments began to frantically look for something. But only the prisoner knows what it was looking for.
"Calm down yourself boy!"
"Calm down? Calm down?! Are you for real?! You want me to carry a burden that has a lot of disadvantages for me and might turn me into a mass murderer!"
Phil's left eye began to glow even brighter, the once circular pupils began to morph into an X-shaped pattern, his energy bar soared to the 200 mark. Phil proceeded to make a fist and punch at the cavern wall, and sadly for the cavern wall, it was turned to dust by the strength that Phil had demonstrated.
"Enthymema calm this boy down. Any more than this and the prisoner might be unto us."
As Ferox called for Enthymema's assistance, his worst fears came to light. Phil who was still raging could not help but freeze as he felt like someone has poured cold water on his head. The prisoner woke from his slumber, the sound of the prisoner's heavy breathing was clearly audible inside the cave, and if one could see what was happening outside, one could, excuse me, shit his pants.
The prisoner slowly stood up, black goo ran over its massive body as more poured out from the mouth located in its abdomen. It heaved labouriously like a cat trying to throw out a furball, only this time it was a massive abomination.
After a few minutes of heaving, a massive amount of black goo began to spray out of its mouth. Chunks of its decomposing innards could be seen flying with a large amount of black goo that was slowly painting the cylindrical prison walls black. Its eyes that were located all over its body stopped squirming and finally locked on the cave where Phil was taking refuge. it was as if the prisoner could see Phil inside it
"Enthymema, I have a bad feeling about this."
Ferox could not help but utter. Phil was still keeping still, trying to listen to what was happening outside.
After a few minutes of silence, Phil could not help but sigh in relief, he thought that the prisoner has quieted down, but he was mistaken, oh so mistaken.
Phil wanted to sit down and relax and digest what had Ferox once said to him when moments later a large boom could be heard. The cave shook as small rocks started falling down from the ceiling. The prisoner started to madly scream. An arm could be seen growing from its back punching the entrance towards Phil's cavern. It was not there before since all the limbs of the prisoner were clearly bound by the chains and one could see the limb quickly decomposing as the chains binding its body started to glow. the prisoner squealed like a farm animal that was being cauterized by a hot rod, the inexplicable force that was trying to make it kneel down, started to occur again. But the prisoner this time was equally persistent. It disregarded the chains that were binding its main arms and punched the cavern wall once more, arms started to grow on its back as well as it tried to hasten the process.
The cavern walls were being quickly pulverized as the prisoner with its massive strength madly punched it. It may be screaming in pain and vomiting black goo but the prisoner madly attacked the prison walls.
"LASS, quickly now. Stick yourself towards Phil. And you boy, hurry up and get us out of here."
Phil who was previously stunned by what had happened quickly woke up. Eclaireuse who was floating near Phil swiftly swam underneath his shirt. Seeing that Eclaireuse was inside his shirt, Phil did not dally and quickly activated his shadow form, his figure then sank towards the cavern floor and floated inside the shadow space.
Inside the shadow space, is like looking inside a game where you no clipped. Phil could see the prisoner madly punching the entrance of the cavern where he was just at, and it only needed a couple more swings to reveal where he had been staying. Phil watched as moments later the prisoner successfully punched a large hole towards the place where he was minutes ago. The prisoner then used the arm that was manifested on his back and tried to reach inside the hole. Phil saw as an eye popped out in the prisoner's extended hand and proceeded to search inside the cave. It was meticulous in doing so, the fingers of the extended arm started to split, first in two, then to four, from four to eight, until it reached hundreds, suddenly the large cavern was filled with wriggling tentacles as it felt every nook and cranny of the cavern. The eye could be seen gliding through the tentacle-like fingers as it further investigated the area. And only after searching for almost a minute did the prisoner scream in anger. It was sure that something revolting could be seen there, the presence of its sworn enemy could be felt inside the cave.
The tentacles started to melt into black goo as the eye squirmed and fell on the floor, the hand slowly collapsed and turned into black goo as well since the prisoner could no longer endure the strong force that was pulling it down. The prisoner, exhausted, collapsed face down towards the black goo once more.
Phil stayed inside the shadow space and watched it all, he shuddered in fear and in disgust after seeing the means of the prisoner. Phil wanted to enter the cavern once more to hide and rest but Ferox suddenly stopped him and pointed Phil towards the place where the eye had fallen off.
Phil looked in puzzlement, confused about what Ferox wanted to do. But after waiting for a minute, Phil saw the eye suddenly woke up, its pupils became erratic as it surveyed every crevice of the cavern, and only after seeing that no one was really there, did it bloat and suddenly explode into black goo.