Ron slowly opened his eyes, feeling the last trace of the power of time in the depths of his consciousness.
The silver pocket watch clicked shut, emitting a slight "click" sound; those fragmented memories of contamination from the Apostle had been thoroughly cleansed.
At the moment the power of time cleansed his consciousness, Ron deliberately retained a strand of extremely weak spiritual thread.
This thread was as thin as a hair, hidden deep within his cleansed consciousness.
Like an almost invisible thin line in the vast ocean, it maintained the most basic perception link with the Stand-In Puppet.
"Such a level of connection won't bring much contamination risk, and it can be severed at any time."
He calmly analyzed the pros and cons of this decision in his mind:
"The more attempts at contact, like a vaccine, allow my spiritual structure to gradually adapt to the pressure of the Abyss environment."
This idea was not born out of thin air.
