Her voice had been so faint. So desperate.
Help me…
Those two words had pierced through Adam.
He had seen death before. He had seen people butchered, bodies mutilated, and blood spilled in quantities that would make an ordinary person vomit.
But this was different.
There was something deeply wrong about what he was witnessing. The girl was suffering. He could see it in her weak and trembling body, her bloodied fingers, and the tears running down her cheeks.
And yet, there was something else.
A malicious and terrifying aura radiating from the helpless little girl. No, not her. The baby. The thing trying to crawl its way out of her womb.
It made Adam's instincts scream at him to flee.
His Sphere of Resonance remained spread around him. He feared spreading it toward the girl and her… child. He feared what his senses would see when they touched upon the evil spawn. His fingers were still locked in the hand seal for [Blink]. Every nerve in his body was tense.
