A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6280

Jared caught the pull of an irresistible force tearing at his awareness, trying to strip his soul out of this body.

It felt like an invisible hand had closed around his throat. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't fight back. He could only watch as he was dragged, little by little, down into the abyss.

"Give it up, child," the phantom said, with a thin note of pity in his voice. "Your body is mine."

Then the Aureate Codex suddenly flared.

Not that soft glow from before. This was blinding, scorching golden radiance, fierce as the sun itself.

That radiance turned into golden pillars of light and shot straight at the ice-blue phantom hanging above the consciousness field.

The phantom's face changed on the spot, and he threw open his ice-wings to block it.

But the force inside those golden pillars of light was far too terrifying.

The ice-wings melted away the instant they touched the golden radiance.

Several holes were blasted straight through the phantom's body by the pillar of flame, and the icy blue radiance around him dimmed at once.

"Ah!"

The phantom let out a shrill, ragged scream.

Every bit of it came out packed with refusal and naked dread.

"The Aureate Codex... how could it have power like this... impossible... impossible!"

The Aureate Codex blazed brighter and brighter.

Before long, the entire consciousness field was swallowed under golden radiance.

Inside that light, the icy blue phantom shrank and dissolved as fast as snow thrown under a blazing sun.

It struggled with everything it had to escape Jared's consciousness field.

But the golden radiance had already sealed into an invisible barrier and trapped it inside so tightly it couldn't break free.

In no more than a few breaths, that phantom had shrunk from a human shape into an icy blue sphere no bigger than a fist.

It floated above the consciousness field, trembling nonstop.

Its glow had faded to the edge of extinction, like an oil lamp that could go out at any second.

The light from the Aureate Codex slowly drew back and returned to the same soft state it had before.

But it had not completely loosened its hold.

Around the icy blue sphere, a faint golden halo still circled like a cage, locking it down tight.

Jared dragged in great, rough breaths as his consciousness took control of his body again.

He opened his eyes and saw Gwendolyn staring at him.

Sweat covered her forehead.

"How are you?" Her voice shook.

Jared parted his lips, trying to answer.

But when he finally pushed sound out, his voice came rough and hoarse, barely sounding like his own.

"I... I'm fine."

Jared pushed himself up and closed his eyes.

He reached back into his consciousness field to check what was happening inside.

The icy blue sphere was still hanging above his consciousness field, locked in place by that ring of golden light.

It wasn't trying to snatch his body anymore.

It just stayed there in silence, like a trapped beast shoved into a cage.

A weak ripple of spiritual intent came from inside the sphere.

"I... give up."

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