As if suddenly awakening from a deep slumber, the hostile Reiki that Charlie had generated with hand seals and had been unable to control sprang to life, instantly engulfing Charlie's own normal Reiki and gushing out of him like a raging tide.

Charlie was as surprised as he was delighted. Presuming this to be a good opportunity for taking control over the hostile Reiki, he willed his own Reiki to bring the hostile Reiki to bear, so that both sets of Reiki would be infused into the ring.

But to his shock, the hostile Reiki was still beyond his control, while his control over his own Reiki was gone too!

Charlie's fingertips tightened ever so slightly around the ring.

His plan had been to send his own Reiki through his fingers and into the ring, but both portions of Reiki were now combining. After leaving his elixir field, the Reiki wasn't moving up his arm at all as he wanted, instead rushing directly into Charlie's brain—into his sea of consciousness.

Though shocked by the dramati