With the pressure from the mountain above him increasing with each second, Daneel could only scream this mand at the system before collapsing on the ground.
As he did so, Faxul who had just been staring at him with an expression of rage and fury also fell down after his face became listless.
It had all happened so fast that even Luther who had been standing right beside had had no time to react. One second, the King had raised his hand to take Faxul's in his like he had with all the others before.
The next, he had fallen to the floor, as if he had been struck by some sort of attack.
As for Faxul, that moment of rage had been so sudden and momentary that no one else in the room had even noticed it.
Pain wracked Daneel, making him feel as if that mountain was actually some sort of substance which was trying to absorb him into it by applying pressure from all directions.
The system which had gone silent on hearing Daneel's mand spoke again at this moment.
[Host consciousness under attack. Attack level exceeds parameters of what host can handle. It is remended to proceed with counter-attack.]
Gathering all the energy he could while resisting the excruciating pain, Daneel squeezed out a question.
"Can a counter-attack be made without killing Faxul?"
As the one who had stuck with him the longest apart from his parents, Faxul held a special place in Daneel's heart which made him want to ensure that this wasn't the case no matter what situation he was in.
[Negative. Entity's host must be killed for the attack to stop.]
Indeed, it turned out that it was actually the worst case which Daneel had envisioned.
The "Two Minds, One Body" technique manual hadn't been present in the library that he had gone through in the headquarters of the Withering Leaf Sect, making him believe that certain core techniques might have been stored along with the Spell Technique inside the unbreachable Core Formation.
Hence, he had had very little information going into this engagement. Still, he had envisioned certain scenarios, of which he could find the correct one only when he got attacked by the entity, which would allow the system to analyze it.
Daneel had been hoping that it wouldn't be so malignant as to needing its host to be killed in order for its attacks to stop, but alas, this was the case.
Regardless, this was his closest friend whom he couldn't kill with his own hands.
"What other way do I have to stop the attack?
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