Although this notification had sounded in Daneel's mind, he had no way of being aware of it due to the fact that he had fainted the moment his hand had touched Faxul's, allowing the system to confine the entity to his friend's body.
Although the entire experience had only taken place in the span of a few seconds in the real world, it felt as if Daneel had been tortured for a few years inside his mind due to the unendurable pain that had almost driven him crazy.
Due to the overload of having to manage it while also doing everything he could to find a solution, he had had no choice but to give up and lose consciousness as soon as it faded.
After an unknown amount of time had passed, Daneel found himself getting up with an ache in his head.
Finding himself parched, he tried to conjure a globe of water to swallow seeing that there was no cup on the bedside.
Yet, to his horror, it felt as if he had no Mageroot to control the elemental particles in order to cast the spell.
"System, why can't I feel my Mageroot?!"
The answer made him calm down and crash back onto the bed, feeling relieved that nothing dire had happened as he had feared.
[Mageroot temporarily disabled due to overload. Time to reactivation: three hours].
This was something which had never happened before, making him understand just how perilous of a situation he had been in which had led to the Mageroot actually being disabled and closing down in order to heal due to everything it had been through.
Sending a message to Kellor through the Oathstone, Daneel got up and went to the bathroom before realizing that it was actually the next day.
He had actually been unconscious for an entire day!
Freshening himself up, Daneel changed the rumpled clothes which he had been wearing during the meeting before and wore a different green robe that also had a dragon on its shoulders which had bee his unofficial crest.
As Kellor knocked and entered the door on Daneel's order, the King finally asked the question he had been slightly dreading to ask since waking from his slumber.
"How's Faxul?"
"His breathing is steady, but he has yet to regain consciousness."
With an expression of relief, Daneel said, "All right. Let's go to him."
On reaching a room near the King's Chambers, Daneel was surprised to see that Faxul was actually chained to a bed while being overseen by Robert and Luther.
Seeing him enter the door, Robert only smiled once feeling glad that his son was safe.
Being the King was indeed a perilous job, he mused, before nodding at Daneel and walking out the door to reassure his wife.
Seeing his father leave, Daneel raised an eyebrow at the shackles before ordering both Luther and Kellor to leave the room.
Sensing their hesitation as they tried to say something, he said, "Don't worry. The threat has been mitigated. It was because of a technique that the Eldest Prince practiced, but I have managed to subdue it for now."
Hearing the King's reassurance, the two also nodded before leaving the room and closing the door behind them.
Having the room to himself, Daneel first ripped open the shirt of his friend before sighing on seeing the grotesque sight in front of him.
On Faxul's chest, a patch of differently colored skin could be seen with veins throbbing all around it as if it were being pushed out by his friend's body.
Different from Faxul's ivory colored skin, this patch was darker, reminding him of the exact shade of the face which had been on the Eldest Prince's chest.
Indeed, this was the physical link which tied the entity to Faxul.
On the way over, Daneel had already asked the system about what could be done in this situation because it had already gotten the chance to analyse the entity again.
Thankfully, the option was present to directly remove it from his friend's body to allow him to get back to normal.
Without any hesitation, Daneel ordered the system to carry out this process.
A transparent blade of wind appeared at the edge where the inch wide patch of skin seemed to be grafted onto Faxul's chest.
Yet, the moment the blade came into contact with him, Faxul's eyes flew open as he immediately tried to get up and found himself shackled to the bed.
"Stop.
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