Chapter 272: The Thief and the Seventh_3
He tried to allow that immortal consciousness to sleep eternally, letting something else cling to it.
If Amon had been to Chaos, he would have likely realized at a glance that this shared a subtle affinity with the way mortals utilized the Divine Fragments of the fallen Ancient Sun God.
However, the consciousness within this crystal stone was indeed complete and intact; it was only slumbering, not in chaos.
Thus, the task that Hermes had set for himself was destined to face many difficulties.
"But this is his, not mine..."
Silently, even without Hermes' notice, just before his sliver of soul touched the crystal stone, a formless mist had already enshrouded the stone's exterior.
And as the rune made contact with the crystal, without any trace, the mist had replaced that strand of soul, penetrating deeply into the interior of the crystal stone.