Dimensional Descent

Chapter 3269 No Longer

Blood red lightning sparked, the nails they formed discharging through Loryth's body.

Aina could remember the effects of Black Wood like the back of her hand.

She was a Force Pill Crafter. Her knowledge of Force Herbs and various natural remedies, both toxic and not, were likely what very few could compare to.

But even in relation to her usual knowledge, she had come to understand Black Wood more intimately than anything else in her life.

It was a curse. It would slowly peel into your skin, eating away at you layer by layer. It would burn you slowly, making you sizzle and crack, from each layer of your skin, down to the fat beneath, and the muscle beneath that.

It would take you down one cell by one cell, eating into your very soul and radiating the pain step by step, until you were nothing more than a husk of bleeding flesh.

Then it would rip even that flesh apart.

But the truly sickening ability of Black Wood wasn't this. Instead... it was the scent of rotting flesh.

This scent served two purposes. Not only did it keep you awake, forcing lucidity, it also maintained one's life, constantly nourishing the soul and stopping it from dissipating.