Aiden tried to get up to intervene, but was stopped by the arm by the brown-haired boy. In the middle of uttering a complaint to Acke, the little flame person jumped on the unconscious girl, as if to give her a hug, and, in the blink of an eye, she was covered in flames. Powerful flames. Aiden and Acke could feel their intensity from where they stood. They had no choice but to move a few steps away, and even then, it was still unbearable.
Mina Neri woke up in the worst possible way, soaked in flames, covered from head to toe. She spun around on the floor, stood up, and ran until she crashed into the wall to then continued to spin around. The flames would not go out for nothing.
—Did it work? —Said Benjamin—. Haha, yes, of course it worked. Whatever you do, you can't put out that flame.
She looked like a witch at the stake. The image, creepy, was an understatement. Her hair was reduced to ashes, her skin looked no more human than a lump of coal. In the orifice of the mouth the teeth could still be distinguished, such was the only thing that resisted the fire.
Among the screams could be distinguished the anguish of a girl, begging the world of injustice she was forced to go through. Then, there was a moment of silence. Everyone present held their breath unconsciously as the suffering voice stopped. Expectant, they just watched. The body continued to burn motionless for several seconds.
—Why did you stop me? —Aiden grabbed Acke's shirt collar.
—Why did I do that? Are you an idiot or what! Just look what happened to her —he replied, facing the ungrateful youth.
—No… If you hadn't stopped me, maybe, there would have been waiting. Now not only did the spell interrupt her, but she did too…
Aiden swallowed his words before he could even conjugate them. A sharp howl froze everyone present on the spot. It was no exception. All three men froze and experienced a sense of stupor. It buried all sense of security that had gripped the priest Benjamin.
From the same monstrous scream, she broke the chains of flame that had held her prisoner until that moment. The only liquid that had not been completely evaporated from her body was the warm blood that gushed from the orifices of her eyes and ears. Cascades of the liquid, which had taken on a muddy texture that until recently had been stamped on the floor, began to flow in reverse. The liquid, which now looked more like Play-Doh than a liquid, as if it were called by an unknown force, returned through the same orifices into the girl's interior.
The bizarre did not end there. The hallway, the very floor where they stood, the walls and the ceiling. In all directions, and at the same time, strange phenomena occurred. The floor gave way to their weight, as if they were slowly sinking into quicksand. In the distance, down the corridor, the walls, it was as if they were coming towards them, as if they were in a paper tunnel and someone was studying it by squeezing it from the end and coming towards them.
—What the hell is going on?
It was the wizard wearing the modified habit who spoke. He held his head in both hands, he felt that it would explore if he didn't do it.
—Space… It's distorting too much. Something's happening with the barrier. This is my first time seeing this.
The youth forgot they were human for a moment, their mental qualities reduced to post level. The wizard, on the other hand, experienced a rude bombardment of information directly into his skull. The spell, contrary to Aiden's fear, had not been nullified, but it had been interrupted. What happens when there is a glitch halfway through a software installation, the computer is forced to shut down? The whole system fails.
—#601, stop. Don't try to compete the interference —the damage could well become total and permanent, Benjamin knew this, so he ordered his partner to stop—. Disconnect the spell now! Nooow!
The sensation of being injected with thoughts of another did not stop. Somewhere in the building, #601 refused to stop.
—Damn it. Then, I'll go straight to the source!