Chapter 261: Hypnosis
Elias had always treated Pain Conversion as close to invincible.
A broken bone, a cut, a dislocated joint, the clean agony of a blade, the ugly burn of a bruise, none of it could reach him the way it reached other people. Pain came in, got turned inside out, and returned as something else. In theory, he could probably stand in the center of a radiation zone smiling all the way to the afterlife.
Unfortunately, the skill had finally met something it could not convert.
Sedatives.
It was an irritating limitation. Pain Conversion could reinterpret injury, but it could not stop chemistry from doing what chemistry did. There was no sharp sensation for the system to seize and reshape. The sedative slid through his bloodstream without resistance, turned his muscles heavy, dulled the connection between thought and movement, and put him under.
No amount of determination helped. He could not even cling to consciousness long enough to curse the woman who had taken him.
