The instant the system completed the transfer, Alex realized that everything he had previously considered pain had been nothing more than a pale imitation of the real thing.
The suffering did not originate from his body. His nerves were not burning, and his muscles were not tearing apart. Instead, the agony manifested at a far deeper level. It erupted directly from the foundation of his existence. The immense feedback energy left behind by Vorkoth poured into him without restraint, carrying with it an unimaginable amount of power, information, and conceptual authority.
It felt as though an entire higher reality had been compressed into a single moment and forced into his soul.
Alex's body became completely still.
