Renjiro walked through the castle corridors, everywhere was deathly silent still. Virtually everyone was knocked out, the ones who were still conscious groaned lacking any sense of orientation.
He took the stairs leading back to the corridor where he Finnegan had previously brought him, he put his hands where he saw Finnegan put his and luckily the system admitted him in after scanning him, immediately he got access into the cave like corridors he began sprinting like a mad man as he sensed that the energy had become more turbulent.
He managed to reach the huge doors of the Laboratory in a few seconds, he faced no issues while trying to gain access into the Laboratory.
Caelia felt like she was being stabbed countlessly and continuously and at the same time she felt both hot and cold, see wanted to scream so as to express her pain but she was incapable of making a sound, it was like she was an observer in her own body, only able to feel but unable to do anything else, she wished the pain would stop but the energy stream seemed nigh infinite.
The energy entering her body was enough to cause even an elite of legend status to explode if they couldn't find a way to channel it out but her body was serving as the perfect container and was adapting with every energy influx, through the haze of pain she could deduce that the energy was pseudo sentient, like she could communicate with it at some base level.
Renjiro was dumbfounded by what he saw the moment he entered into the Laboratory, he saw numerous cracks on the different equipment in the lab and like virtually everyone he ha seen on his way here, all the laboratory technicians an scientists were knocked out.
He now had a clearer sense of the energy that awoke him, he traced it to his mother's private laboratory and saw Finnegan and elysandra lying on the floor knocked out, and there were lots of cracks everywhere including the floors, various plants were beginning to grow from those cracks closest to the energy source at an accelerated rate, he saw caelia suspended mid air with tendrils of energy shooting into her body, her skin now had a golden hue to it and it seemed to sparkle with every reflection of light.
He tried kicking the doors open using force but he was repelled, even though the energy felt homely and welcoming it still rejected him violently, flinging him about ten meters till a solid object halted his fall, renjiro groaned and shook his head trying to stabilize himself and gain back his orientation.
"I actually thought that energy source would recognize me considering the pulses I am feeling from it but it looks like it lashes out indiscriminately regardless of who it is"
Renjiro scratched the back of his head and walked around the area, trying to think of the next best line of action so he could salvage the situation, caelia was the only form of protection he had right now in this world and he knew that if she died here all his immunity will be gone with her death, Elysia might be generous enough to take him in but that was it, in a few months he would be done with school and he'll be pushed into the brutal world and from memory he was very aware of how brutal it could get.
He tried approaching the door again, this time using subtler means but he was met with the same result. He tried over and over again, testing out new things but whatever he did the outcome remained the same.
The was a ding in his head and from the notification he got, he was made aware of the fact that his HP was already below 50, at this point he felt something dribbling down his nose. He reached out and touched it, his hand coming away with a red smear
"blood!!" he groaned in frustration "with all the flinging and tossing around I might have suffered a few cuts and slight fractures, but I suffered all this for nothing"
At that point an idea struck his mind, if this energy felt familiar to him then maybe the energy would recognize his own, having no prior understanding of energy flow and pathways he had no idea where to start from but figured that he could begin by visualizing it, and it worked like magic he saw his energy seep out of his body like a fog, meshing with energy that was quickly being absorbed by caelia. He tried making contact with the door and this time he wasn't repelled.
He managed to force the door open and gain access inside, but at this point there was nothing else he could do, a cocoon of light surrounded caelia completely blocking her out from the rest of the world.
"from one problem to another" renjiro thought in frustration
He prodded the cocoon but if felt rubbery bouncing his finger back anytime he made contact, feeling hopeless renjiro walked towards a chair that had been flung to one end of the lab and set it up to sit.
Caelia had noticed renjiro's presence right from the moment he stepped into the laboratory and she saw him reach out to the foreign energy invading her body with his own energy after so many failed attempts, from what she understood the energy considered him as friend or family since the energy's intelligence was crude at best this was all she could grasp.
She didn't understand why the energy would consider her son in such a manner but at least she was happy that it had stopped flinging him across the room like a rag doll, at that point she also notice that the last of the energy was entering her body, the mere though alleviated the pain she had been feeling since the whole process began.
Renjiro saw that the strong gold light at the center of the whole thing was dimming, and this meant that soon enough the energy influx would end , he could even feel the strength of the energy Depleting with each passing second and some of the people who were knocked unconscious were beginning to rise.