As the sun disappeared from the sky and the city turned dark a shadow could be seen sneking towards a mansion.
'This is stupid, so fucking stupid.' I thought and activated [Aura Vision] and I can see a dome of golden aura surround the mansion, I also noticed that it seemed wider than yesterday stretching past the wall a bit which was perfect for me. I walked over to the dome and hesitantly stuck my hand in it. Almost immediately I could feel an excruciating pain spread throughout my hand and black smoke rose from my hand. I resisted the urge to scream and pulled back my hand but I kept my eyes wide open and observed what was happening to my hand. I could see my skin become red and start peel off, it felt like it was on fire. I soon withdrew my hand as the pain became too much to bare.
When I removed my hand it was red like heated metal. I shook my hand and it soo returned back to normal. Seeing what happened to my skin I contemplated how I could protect my self from that or at the very least lessen the pain in some way. As I wracked my brain on what to do I came up with a few ideas so now it's time to experiment.
First test, let's see the reaction of the [Holy Territory] to demonic energy. I used the knowledge of demonic energy provided by [Demonic Energy Manipulation] and covered my hand in a layer of red demonic energy. I then put my hand in the dome of holy energy and the reaction was instant. A large amount of black smoke rose from my hand instantly and the territory reacted more violently than before and I quickly removed my hand hoping that Synthia didn't notice anything wrong with the territory. I guess that won't work.
For the next test I'll try and stop the demonic energy from leaking from my body. I placed my hand into the territory and tried to block out the excruciating pain but that was virtually impossible. So instead I tried to concentrate on the task, I focused on the black smoke leaving my hand and tried to pull it back into my body but it wouldn't stop and continue to float into the barrier and dissipate. I quickly retracted my hand and thus the experiment could be considered a failure.
The last idea I had was to try and get a trait for it. So far whenever I got a trait I always experienced something akin to a revelation so in theory I should be able to get something to help with holy energy...in theory. So I revised what I knew or rather the few assumptions I had about holy energy. One of them was that it seemed to react more violently when it comes into contact with demonic energy. The fact that it only affects demons makes me think that it has something to do with the demonic energy in our body which makes it react so if I were to hide the demonic aura in my body it shouldn't hurt me....in theory. For the first time in a while I focused my [Aura Vision] onto myself and what I saw was very different from last time. The last time I did this my aura was purple but now it was a dark red colour that surrounded me like a flame. I concentrated and tried to retract my aura and it started to become smaller and smaller retracting into my body but when only around half of the aura was left I felt an increasing headache but it was nothing compared to what I felt when I came into contact with holy energy.
When it only reached a quarter of it's original size I instinctively knew I couldn't retract it any more. I put my hand into the holy dome and I felt pain in my hand but it was a lot less than before but still painful nonetheless. Now comes the hard part. I stepped into the holy domain.
[You have entered a [Holy Territory].]
[Your power has decreased by 50%.]
To get the trait I had to commit to what I was doing just like I did before.
[-10 LP]
[-10 LP]
[- 10 LP]
......
This notification continued to appear infront of my eyes for who knows how long but as I lost LP the [Regeneration] skill regenerated it and thus a cycle began. That is until a new problem occurred.
[15/31 DP left]
[14/31 DP left]
[13/31 DP left]
This was the first time I got notifications about my DP even when I knew I exhausted a lot of it. I didn't even know what would happen if my DP dropped to 0 and to be honest I didn't want to find out. My mind and body suddenly felt exhausted and I could feel my grip on my aura slipping but I gritted my teeth and kept my grip.
[5/31 DP left]
[4/31 DP left]
I started to panic and I could swear my vision was going black.
[3/31 DP left]
I felt my skin burning and my vision has become completely black and I could feel my thoughts become slower.
[2/31 DP left]
I could feel my consciousness floating in a dark empty space and I felt like I was losing control of my body and my instincts were taking over and I could feel my self slowly crawling out of the dome.
[1/31 DP left]
[Congratulations you have unlocked the Trait, [Holy Resistance]. ]
When I saw this notification, although my mind felt blank, I subconsciously let go of all resistance and my body climbed out of the territory with surprising speed and I quickly lost conciousness.